Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to the recently released World of Warcraft patch 6.0.3. Hotfixes are updates we make on our end without requiring you to download a new patch. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require your realm to be restarted to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client- side patch update. We will continue to update this list as additional hotfixes are applied.
Hotfixes have been listed by the date they've been implemented.
Patch 6.0.x Information
- Patch 6.0.2 Now Live and Survival Guide
- The Iron Tide: 6.0.2 Patch Notes
- 6.0.2 Hotfixes
- Patch Installation & Troubleshooting
Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts
- Book of Garrison Blueprints should now be consumed when learned and can also be destroyed.
- Resolved a number of issues where players may sometimes be unable to enter their Garrisons.
- Garrison Buildings
- Gladiator's Sanctum Level 3: The building should now correctly provide the benefits from earlier levels 1 and 2.
- Inn: To encourage players to not leave in the middle of a run with a Dungeon Finder group, quests received from the Garrison Inn now requires the final boss of the Dungeon to be defeated.
- Inn: Millhouse Manastorm can now always be found on the second floor.
- Mage Tower/Spirit Lodge: Greatly increased the drop rates for Ogre Waystones.
- [Requires a realm restart.] Salvage Yard: Special transmogrification items obtained from crates of salvage are now Rare (blue) quality to help distinguish them. Additionally, these items are now able to be disenchanted.
- Tannery Level 2: Rorok Ironhide (Horde) should no longer incorrectly be selling tents.
- The Forge Level 2: Followers assigned to work at the building should now be able to correctly grant Solace of the Forge and Song of the Anvil buff.
- Botani Invasion: The Gnarled Ancient should no longer get stuck and be able to enter a Horde Garrison.
- Iron Horde Invasion: Made a number of adjustments to make Gold Victory more obtainable.
- Magister Krelas should now work correctly in a party for Followers with the Elvenkind trait.
- Magister Serena should now work correctly in a party for Followers with the Humanist trait.
Classes
- Death Knight
- Glyphs
- Glyph of Death and Decay should now also apply its effect for Death Knights with the Defile talent.
- Glyphs
- Druid
- Restoration
- Nature's Swiftness should now correctly increase the healing over time effect and duration of Regrowth.
- Talents
- Soul of the Forest (Restoration) should now interact and correctly apply its healing bonus while Nature's Swiftness is active.
- Restoration
- General
- Kill Shot (Beast Mastery, Marksmanship) should now correctly reset its cooldown if the target becomes immune, have abilities, or talents that trigger to prevent the target from dying.
- Mistweaver
- Life Cocoon's healing has been increased by 50%.
- Talents
- Chi Wave should now correctly bounce up to 7 times to targets within 25 yards.
- General
- Hand of Freedom modified by Glyph of Hand of Freedom should now correctly reduce the remaining duration of all loss of control effects when used on other players.
- General
- Mass Dispel modified by Glyph of Mass Dispel should no longer incorrectly dispel Cyclones cast by a friendly player.
- General
- Shaman totems should no longer be damaged by the Death Knight talent, Defile.
- Enhancement
- Maelstrom Weapon will no longer increase the damage or healing effects of spells that consume the Ancestral Swiftness buff.
- Restoration
- Riptide modified by Glyph of Riptide should no longer incorrectly consume Echo of the Elements when cast.
- Armor Sets
- Tier-15 2-piece set bonus should no longer be retained incorrectly when the set pieces are no longer equipped.
Quests
- Frostfire Ridge
- Karg Unchained: Players should now be able to complete or re-accept this quest after completing Return to the Pack.
- Gorgrond
- Assault on the Pit: Defeating Iron Horde NPCs in the middle of the pit should now correctly grant credit towards completion of the quest.
- Spires of Arak
- Hot Seat: The Apexis Turret should no longer be able to accidentally damage players.
World Environment
- Resolved issues that can occur for characters that retain the Time Travelling effect outside of Blasted Lands and Theramore.
- Players should no longer be unable to leave the tower after obtaining Steamwheedle Supplies in the Ring of Trials area in Nagrand.
Creatures and NPCs
- Frostfire Ridge
- Borrok the Devourer should now drop a Devourer's Gutstone that allows more than one player to loot it.
- Fernus is now immune to Enslave Demon and Banish.
- Krosnis is now immune to Enslave Demon and Banish.
- Tarlna the Ageless' Genesis ability now summons a maximum of 15 Giant Lashers and has a increased duration of 12 seconds (up from 6 seconds).
- Objects in the Mok'gul Watchpost area should no longer incorrectly cause the player to remain in combat and be unable to interact with those objects.
- Warsong Marauders should no longer attack Rogues that pickpocket them.
Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios
- Satchel of Savage Mysteries now have a chance to contain a mount, pet, pet consumable, Draenor consumable, or Follower upgrade token in addition to an Augment Rune.
- Raids
- The entire raid is no longer notified when a player loots an Elemental Rune or Abrogator Stone.
- Highmaul
- The Butcher's Heavy Handed ability now deals less damage if it's triggered by their off-hand weapon.
- Brackenspore should now correctly heal back up to full health at the start of the encounter.
- Tectus' Berserk timer is now 10 minutes on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
- Tectus: Resolved an issue where defeating Tectus just as he was going into Berserk mode could result in no loot.
- Tectus: It should now be possible to obtain the achievement, More Like Wrecked-us.
- Grimrail Depot
- Borka the Brute is now immune to taunts from player pets.
- Grom'kar Cinderseer's Lava Wreath ability should no longer hit pets.
- Ragewing the Untamed's Engulfing Fire ability should no longer incorrectly disorient Rogues with Cloak of Shadows active.
- Emberscale Adolescents and Emberscale Whelplings should now always be targetable while in combat.
PvP
- [Requires a realm restart.] New Honor and Conquest vendors have been added to Stormshield and Warspear.
- In Stormshield, Alliance players can find Bregg Coppercast (Honor) and Ingrid Blackingot (Conquest) standing in front of the Siege Tank near the exit to Ashran, across from the training dummies.
- In Warspear, Horde players can find Lieutenant Brokefist (Honor) and Lieutenant Axelash (Conquest) on the hill next to the exit to Ashran, just down the path from the inn.
- Faction balancing is now in effect if there are more than 5 players from each faction in Ashran.
- Fortune Favors the Bold has been increased to 100% additional Honor Points and Artifact Fragments (up from 25%).
- Artifact Fragment rewards from Ring of Conquest Ogre guards, or Ashran rares should no longer decrease based on the number of players engaging them.
- [Still in testing.] Turning in an Artifact Fragment now awards 3 Honor Points per fragment (up from 1 Honor Point).
- [Still in testing.] Increased reputation gains with Wrynn's Vanguard and Vol'jin's Spear.
- Turning in an Artifact Fragment now awards 5 reputation points per fragment (up from 1 reputation point).
- Turning in tokens recovered from a defeated player now awards 2500 reputation points when turned in (up from 350 reputation points).
- Completing a bonus objective now awards 500 reputation points.
- Defeating Grand Marshal Tremblade or High Warlord Volrath now awards 2500 reputation points.
Battlegrounds and Arenas
- Warsong Gulch: Players in a Wargame or Rated Battleground should no longer be sent to the wrong graveyard.
Items
- Draenor Treasure Maps are now bind on pickup.
- Bonemaw's Big Toe can now be Needed by Warriors.
- Ironmender's Totem can now also trigger its effect from healing spells.
- Moonfang’s Paw is no longer unique.
- Moonfang’s Shroud is no longer unique.
- Qian-Ying, Fortitude of Niuzao's Endurance of Niuzao effect should now trigger first if the ability is not on cooldown before triggering the Purgatory talent for Death Knights.
- Raw Riverbeast Meat should now correctly drop from Riverbeasts and no longer be incorrectly dropping from Basilisks.
- Tormented Armament, Munificent Armament, and Grandiose Armament tokens obtained from completing a Garrison Mission should no longer incorrectly create one-handed warmaces for Assassination and Subtlety Rogues.
UI
- Resolved an issue where Draenor PvP gear may display incorrect item levels and stats.
Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts
- Garrison Invasions
- Players should now be eligible to receive an Invader's Forgotten Treasure once a week if they complete the invasion with a Gold Victory.
- Corrected an issue that was causing progress towards a Garrison invasion to reset each week.
- Conquest Garrison Missions have been disabled temporarily from the pool of available missions for players that are eligible to receive them.
Classes
- Death Knight
- Armor Sets
- Death Knight PvP 2-piece set bonus from previous PvP Seasons should now grant 1 Runic Power when Chains of Ice is used (down from 10 Runic Power).
- Armor Sets
- Mage
- Armor Sets
- Mage Tier-12 2-piece set bonus' summoned Mirror Images should no longer be dealing an excessive amount of damage.
- Armor Sets
- Monk
- Mistweaver
- Enveloping Mist's healing has been increased by 50%.
- Mistweaver
- Paladin
- General
- Seal of Insight's healing effect should now be able to Multistrike or Critically Strike.
- General
- Priest
- Holy
- Lightwell's heal over time effect should now be able to Multistrike or Critically Strike.
- Binding Heal should now correctly heal both the Priest and friendly target.
- Holy
World Environment, Creatures, and NPCs
- Rare creatures and NPCs are now immune to the Dominate Mind ability.
- Frostfire Ridge
- Time-Warped Tower can now be looted by Alliance characters.
- Shadowmoon Valley
- Darktide Rylakinator-3000's attacks now deal more damage.
- Talador
- NPCs in the Aruuna area should no longer cause Horde characters to become stuck in combat.
- Burning Eye's Eye of the Legion ability now has a reduced range of 30 yards (down from 100).
Quests
- Shadowmoon Valley
- Downsizing the Darktide: Ra'ka Bloodspear should now correctly allow multiple players to receive tap credit.
- Shattering the Enemy: Increased the spawn rates for Felstorm Crystal.
- A Centurion Without a Cause: Defeating Woodfist far away from High Centurion Tormmok should no longer cause him to remain hostile to the character and allow players to complete the quest.
- Assault on the Pit: Increased the spawn rate of creatures and NPCs for this quest.
- Bonus Objective: The Forgotten Caves: Gorg the Host should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.
- [Requires a realm restart.] Strike While the Iron is Hot: Players joining a version of this quest that's already in-progress should now be able to receive completion credit.
- Daggerjaw Pridelord, Daggerjaw Raider, and Daggerjaw Hoarder now deal less damage.
- My Precious!: Resolved an issue where players may sometimes not receive completion credit for the quest. Additionally, players that have adandoned the quest should now be able to see Bazwix to reobtain the quest.
- Ring of Trials quests can no longer be completed while in a Siege Tank or Demolisher. Seriously, that's not even a fair fight.
- Goldmane the Skinner: Taking the cage key without opening the cage to let Goldmane out no longer prevents Bolkar the Cruel from respawning.
- Upgrading the ring should now correctly remove the old ring from the player's inventory.
Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios
- Raids
- Molten Core
- Trash mobs like Ancient Core Hounds and Lava Surgers no longer respawn.
- Molten Core
- Dungeons
- Cloth chest pieces should now correctly have a chance of dropping on Personal loot mode.
- Bloodmaul Slagmines
- Slave Watcher Crushto's Ferocious Yell now deals 10% less damage.
- Slave Watcher Crushto: Captured Miner's Traumatic Strike now has a recast time of 6 seconds.
- Achievement Come With Me If You Want to Live: Croman should now be more forviging with how far apart he can remain from the player he's following before despawning.
- Grimrail Enforcers: Makogg Emberblade's Lava Sweep should now always deal damage to players.
- Credit for completing the achievement I Saw Solis should now be correctly awarded.
- Kyrak's Rejuvenating Serum now has a duration of 9 seconds (down from 12 seconds). On Heroic difficulty and Challenge Mode, the ability now heals for the 8% (down from 10%).
- Ragewing the Untamed's Engulfing Fire ability can now hit players that are not in line-of-sight.
PvP
- Conquest Points have been converted into Honor Points before the start of the season.
- [Requires a realm restart.] Conquest Quartermasters Marshal Gabriel (Alliance) and General Aevd (Horde) have reinstated to sell Conquest gear. This reverts the hotfix from November 17.
- Cross-realm groups are now able to enter Ashran together.
Battlegrounds and Arenas
- Strand of the Ancients should now correctly award players with a Gold Strongbox for winning.
Professions
- Level-up items created by professions no longer use reagents that required a daily cooldown to create and are no longer soulbound. To compensate for this change, basic reagent requirements have been increased and vendor buyback price for those items have been reduced now that they're less rare.
- Enchanting
- Mark of Blackrock now requires 3 Temporal Crystals (down from 15) and 5 Scorcerous Earth (down from 10).
- Mark of Shadowmoon now requires 3 Temporal Crystals (down from 15) and 5 Scorcerous Fire (down from 10).
- Blingtron 5000 should now correctly resume offering their daily quest after defeating another Blingtron.
- Ink Traders should now accept Warbinder's Ink in exchange for other inks.
Items
- Many epic trinkets in Draenor received a buff to ensure a proper progression path through the Raid tier. This change affects world-drop BoE epic trinkets, Inscription-crafted epic trinkets, and trinkets that drop from Highmaul and Blackrock Foundry. Further information on this change could be found in the forum thread titled: Trinket Hotfixes.
- Note that Scabbard of Kyanos was unintentionally buffed much more than intended and its stats will be reverted to a more reasonable level.
- Missing Class Glyphs
- The following Glyphs were not available to be crafted through Inscription and have been added to vendors in Stormshield and Warspear. Alliance players can purchase them from Joao Calhandro, and Horde players can purchase them from Maru'sa. The glyphs are unique and bind on acquire.
- Glyph of the Solstice (Druid)
- Glyph of Flying Fists (Monk)
- Glyph of Cleanse (Paladin)
- Glyph of Purification (Priest)
- Glyph of Purify Spirit (Shaman)
- Glyph of Frostbrand Weapon (Shaman) will be automatically learned at level 75.
- The following Glyphs were not available to be crafted through Inscription and have been added to vendors in Stormshield and Warspear. Alliance players can purchase them from Joao Calhandro, and Horde players can purchase them from Maru'sa. The glyphs are unique and bind on acquire.
UI
- Tooltips for players in Premade Groups should no longer incorrectly display their level 90 Proving Grounds achievements.
Update 2, Other Hotfixes
Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts
- Item rewards received from a Garrison invasion now have a chance to be Warforged, contain a socket, or tertiary stats.
- Barn: Iron Trap, Improved Iron Trap, and Deadly Iron Trap now have a 15-second cooldown (down from 30 seconds).
- Mine Levels 2-3: Mining Carts now contains more Primal Spirits and Archeology fragments. The amount of ore given by each mining node has been adjusted to a more appropriate level.
Classes
- Death Knight
- Talents
- Breath of Sindragosa should now work correctly with the Plaguebearer talent, extending the duration of diseases when used.
- Talents
- Monk
- Talents
- Chi Explosion's visuals should now be more visible and the ability's sound effects should no longer be too quiet.
- Talents
- Paladin
- Holy
- Beacon of Light's sound effects should no longer be excessively loud.
- Holy
Quests
- Shadowmoon Valley
- Assault on Socrethar's Rise: Sargerei Binders should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.
- Talador
- Dreadpiston: Dreadpiston should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.
- Nagrand
- Assault on the Gorian Proving Grounds: Increased the spawn rate of creatures and NPCs in the quest area.
- Challenge of the Masters: Warlord Dharl of the Thrice-Bloodied Blade really should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.
- Items obtained from Garrison Mission above level 615 now have a chance to be Warforged, contain a socket, or tertiary stats.
- Lumber Mill: Legacy of the Ancients has increased spawn rates of Medium Timber around the Botani Marsh area in Shadowmoon Valley.
Creatures and NPCs
- Shadowmoon Valley
- Increased the spawn rate of creatures and NPCs in the Mok'gol Watchpost area.
- Talador
- Brutag Grimblade should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.
- Nagrand
- Hallvalor Blademaster should no longer be chasing players for excessively long distances.
- Katsuo should no longer be incorrectly using Wind Walk to target players that they're not in combat with.
- Fangraal and Kronus now have 25% less health.
- Grand Marshal Tremblade and High Warlord Volrath now scales their health based on the number of players in the zone.
- Alliance captains should now be retreating in the correct direction.
- Resolved an issue where multiple captains dying at the same time could cause an incorrect number of captains to respawn.
Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios
- Dungeons
- After a lengthy discussion with the Postmaster regarding their mailing habits, the Postmaster should no longer be mailing back gray quality items and money that haven't been looted by characters.
- Resolved an issue where completing a Warlords of Draenor Dungeon was incorrectly being crediting progress towards the achievement, Queuing Spree.
- Grimrail Depot
- Fire effects for Slag Blast and Slag Tanker should now be visible across all graphics settings.
- Iron Docks
- Grimrail Enforcers: Resolved a looting issue that could occur depending on the order that Ahri'ok Dugru, Makogg Emberblade, and Neesa Nox are defeated in.
- Skulloc: Resolved a looting issue that could occur depending on the order that Skulloc, Koramar, and Zoggosh were defeated in.
- The Everbloom
- Mutagen can now stack up to 10 times (down from 20) and have a maximum duration of 1 minute.
- Ancient Protectors: Shaper's Fortitude has been removed on Heroic difficulty.
- Orebender Gor'ashan's visuals for his Electric Pulse should now correctly reflect the ability's area-of-effect.
- Items contained within the Challenger's Strongbox now have a chance to be Warforged, contain a socket, or tertiary stats.
PvP
- Ashran
- Class book abilities should now be correctly removed when leaving Ashran.
Professions
- [Still in testing] Crafted gear and weapons received an item level boost. Tooltips for the items will still display the incorrect (older) item level.
- Crafted Tier-2 weapons now have an item level of 645 (up from 640).
- Crafted Tier-3 weapons now have an item level of 660 (up from 655).
- Crafted Tier-3 gear now have an item level of 670 (up from 665).
- Rare (blue) quality items now have a greatly increased chance to disenchant into Draenic Dust instead of a Small Luminous Shard. Additionally, characters with the Enchanting profession should receive more Draenic Dust while disenchanting an item.
- [Still in testing] Mark of Blackrock now requires 3 Temporal Crystals (down from 15) and 5 Scorcerous Earth (down from 10).
- [Still in testing] Mark of Shadowmoon now requires 3 Temporal Crystals (down from 15) and 5 Scorcerous Fire (down from 10).
Items
- Swapblaster's visual effect should no longer persist indefinitely.
Bug Fix
- Resolved an issue where buffs received from a Shamanstone was incorrectly causing the character to travel much more slowly while on a flight path.
Update 1, Class Tuning Changes
Please note that some of the class tuning changes listed below are not yet live and are still in the process of being implemented.
Racials
- Orc
- Hardiness now reduces stun duration by 15% (up from 10%).
- Undead
- Will of the Forsaken has a 2-minute cooldown once more (down from 3 minutes).
Classes
- Death Knight
- General
- Blood Plague, when used in PvP combat now has a duration of 24 seconds and may no longer have its periodic duration extended past 30 seconds.
- Frost Fever, when used in PvP combat now has a duration of 24 seconds and may no longer have its periodic duration extended past 30 seconds.
- General
- Talents
- Necrotic Plague, when used in PvP combat now has a duration of 24 seconds and may no longer have its periodic duration extended past 30 seconds.
- Balance
- Moonfire, when used in PvP combat now has a duration of 24 seconds and may no longer have its periodic duration extended past 30 seconds.
- Sunfire, when used in PvP combat may no longer have its periodic duration extended past 30 seconds.
- Predatory Swiftness no longer increases the healing done by Healing Touch.
- Heart of the Wild's bonuses are now halved when used while in PvP combat.
- Pulverize (Guardian) now extends up to 130% of its normal duration when refreshed, similar to periodic effects.
- Arcane
- Arcane Blast's damage has been increased by 10%.
- Fire
- Pyroblast's damage has been increased by 35%.
- General
- Rising Sun Kick (Windwalker, Mistweaver) now causes enemies to take 15% increased damage (down from 20%).
- Tiger Palm (Brewmaster, Windwalker) now extends up to 130% of its normal duration when refreshed, similar to periodic effects.
- Guard's damage absorption shield now absorbs 100% more damage.
- Stance of the Sturdy Ox now defers 30% of damage taken to be divided over 10 seconds (up from 20%).
- Glyph of Keg Smash should now correctly increase the range of Keg Smash.
- Protection
- Mastery: Divine Bulwark now increases Shield of the Righteous' damage reduction by 0.5% per point, down from 0.75% per point.
- Grand Crusader now also has a 30% chance to trigger its effect from Crusader Strike and Hammer of the Righteous.
- Shield of the Righteous now reduces physical damage taken by 25% (up from 20%).
- General
- Chain Lightning's damage has been increased by 20%.
- Lava Burst's (Elemental, Restoration) damage has been increased by 35%.
- Lava Burst now has a chance equal to the character's Critical Strike chance to trigger an additional Multistrike. This is separate from the standard two chances for Lava Burst to Multistrike; one Lava Burst could trigger up to three Multistrikes (two standard Multistrikes, plus one more from Critical Strike chance).
- Lava Lash's damage has been increased by 20%.
- Stormstrike's damage has been increased by 20%.
- Affliction
- Agony's damage has been increased by 20%.
- Unstable Affliction's damage has been increased by 20%.
- Shadow Bolt's damage has been increased by 25%.
- Soul Fire's damage has been increased by 25%.
- Touch of Chaos' damage has been increased by 25%.
- Chaos Bolt's damage has been increased by 8%.
- Conflagrate's damage has been increased by 8%.
- Immolate's damage has been increased by 8%.
- Incinerate's damage has been increased by 8%.
- Rain of Fire's damage has been reduced by 60% and no longer generates Burning Embers.
- Shadowburn's damage has been increased by 8%.
- Demonbolt's (Demonology) damage has been increased by 10%.
- Soulburn: Haunt (Affliction) now extends up to 130% of its normal duration when refreshed, similar to periodic effects.
- Protection
- Revenge's damage has been reduced by 20%.
- Shield Slam's damage has been reduced by 20%.
World Environment
- [Requires a realm restart.] The time that corpses persist in the world has been restored back to their former durations.
Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios
- Dungeons
- [Requires a realm restart.] Resolved an issue where players were unable to queue through Dungeon Finder while in Warspear or Stormshield.
- Upper Blackrock Spire
- During the Commander Tharbek encounter, Black Iron Guards no longer join in the fight when he is at 10% health.
- Commander Tharbek should no longer be using Iron Axe, Imbued Iron Axe, and Iron Reaver within 4 seconds of each other.
- Orebender Gor'ashan's Electric Pulse should now correctly hit players that are standing on a Rune Conduit.
- Son of the Beast's Fiery Trail should no longer persist and continue to damaging pets after being defeated.
Items
- Miner’s Coffee should no longer be incorrectly applying its speed buff outside of the Garrison's mine.
- Swapblaster should no longer be incorrectly swapping locations with targets other than another party member.
Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts
- Characters are now guaranteed to have level 90-94 Garrison Missions available if they have Followers in the level 90-94 range and level 95-99 Garrison Missions available if they have Followers in the level 95-99 range.
- Work Orders should now also work with materials and reagents that are in the character's bank and reagent bank.
- Temporarily disabled Ashran as a daily quest choice while we continue to troubleshoot issues with some of the daily quests being offered.
- Followers
- Leeroy Jenkins: Resolved an issue where characters that were dead or in Spirit of Redemption form when completing the achievement Leeeeeeeeeeeeeroy...? may sometimes not receive Leeroy Jenkins as a follower.
Quests
- Shadowmoon Valley
- Assault on Darktide Roost: Increased the respawn rates of creatures and NPCs needed for the quest.
- Gorgrond
- Assault on the Pit: Blackrock Foundry Assaulted credit is no longer being awarded when using the Iron Troop Launcher.
- Shredder vs. Saberon: Resolved an issue where characters that leave the quest area immediately after receiving credit may be unable to turn-in the quest.
- Assault on Skettis: The debuff Infected Talons placed by various creatures in the area for this quest no longer stacks.
- Bonus Objective: The Howling Crag: Defeating the ritualists Vile Siphonmaster, Crazed Obliterator, and Insane Nullifier now contributes credit towards completing the Pale Orcs Slain objective.
- Tarnished Bronze: Spirit of Kairozdormu's Time Bomb ability should no longer be hitting players that aren't in combat with him in a different phase.
World Environment
- [Requires a realm restart.] Portals leading to the Dark Portal in Blasted Lands have been added next to Archmage Khadgar in Stormwind and Orgrimmar.
- Removed an erroneous treasure marker displayed by using the Spires of Arak Treasure Map for a Reagent Pouch that did not actually exist.
Creatures and NPCs
- Increased the spawn rates for creatures and NPCs across a number of questing areas for level 100 daily quests.
- Reduced the spawn rate of creatures and NPCs laying siege in the areas around Shattrath City.
- Gruuk has moved to a new location where they can be seen by both Horde and Alliance players.
- High Warlord Volrath and Grand Marshal Tremblade now only award 50 Honor for defeating them (down from 500).
- Nagrand Prowler 's Leap for the Kill ability now has a shorter stun duration and smaller damage radius.
- Nok-Karosh's drop, Garn Nighthowl now only allows players in a party or Raid to roll greed.
Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios
- Dungeons
- Reverted the change to the default loot mode for random matchmade groups in Dungeon Finder back to Personal loot.
- In Personal loot, each player in the group will now always receive an item from the final dungeon boss.
- In Need Before Greed, the dungeon boss will now drop 3 items to be shared among the group as desired, up from 2 previously.
- Full premade groups queuing in Dungeon Finder now defaults to Need Before Greed and they can change the loot mode if they want.
- Reverted the change to the default loot mode for random matchmade groups in Dungeon Finder back to Personal loot.
- Railmaster Rocketspark's X21-01A Missile Barrage now deals 20% less damage.
- Araknath: Rogues using Vanish should no longer cause Araknath to become non-interactive.
- High Sage Viryx's Cast Down ability should no longer cause Druids to drop out of their shapeshifted form.
- Solar Flares are now able to correctly Fixate on a target even while stunned.
- Putrid Pyromancer should no longer continue to track the player when using their Dragon's Breath ability.
- Kyrak's Debilitating Fixation ability can now target players up to 50 yards away (up from 30 yards).
- Ragewing the Untamed's indicator for Fire Storm should now correctly display the ability's area of effect.
- Black Iron Leadbelcher should no longer incorrectly activate a Sentry Cannon while polymorphed or hexed.
- Players should no longer be incorrectly placed into a Molten Core where Ragnaros has already been defeated.
- Shazzrah's area of effect damage has been reduced.
- Firelord now uses the Lava Spawn ability less frequently.
- Core Hound, Molten Destroyer, and Molten Giant's area-of-effect attacks now deals 50% less damage.
- Core Hound, Molten Destroyer, Molten Giant, Lava Annihilator, and Lava Surger now have 30% less health.
- In a departure from the original Molten Core, reduced the aggro radius for most non-boss creatures from their original aggro radius from back in the day.
Battlegrounds and Arenas
- Tarren Mill vs Southshore
- Victory conditions are now for the first side to reach 300 points or the match results in a tie after 30 minutes.
- Tarren Mill Deathguards and Alliance Guards now have more health.
Professions
- Archeology
- Moved some Archeology nodes in the area around Icewind Drifts in Frostfire Ridge to no longer be in inaccessible locations.
Items
- Epic quality Bind on Equip world drops are no longer eligible for a Need roll.
- Many Warlords of Draenor trinkets received an adjustment to their stats to provide a bonus that's more appropriate for the trinket's item level.
- Turbulent Cloak contained in Satchel of Helpful Goods should no longer result in creating an invalid item for Guardian Druids.
Bug Fixes
- Resolved an issue that could cause characters to become stuck on a flight path.
Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts
- Stables Level 2: Characters should now be immune to being dazed while riding their mounts.
- The Forge Level 2: Solace of the Forge should now correctly only be usable while outdoors in Draenor.
- Trading Post Level 2: Players should now be able to gain reputation with the Sha'tari Defense or Laughing Skull Orcs.
- Outposts
- Nagrand Tankworks: Wor'var Demolisher and Telaari Siege Engine now deals less damage against other players.
Classes
- Hunter
- General
- Camouflage's stealth effect should now be reapplying correctly when the Hunter and their pet are stationary.
- General
- Mage
- Talents
- Prismatic Crystal when conjured, should now correctly last for its full duration.
- Talents
- Shaman
- General
- Totemic Recall should now correctly refund the mana cost back when used.
- Elemental
- Earthquake can now only Stun a target once per cast.
- General
- General
- Resolved an issue where Glyph of Eye of Kilrogg was incorrectly allowing Eye of Kilrogg to fly while on Draenor.
Quests
- Frostfire Ridge
- [Requires a realm restart.] Tricks of the Trade: Characters that have undergone a faction change can now complete this quest if they had already completed it on the opposite faction.
- Spires of Arak
- Assault on Skettis: Increased the drop rates for Talon Key. Additionally, Apexis Sol-Mender, Glowing Energizer and, Stalwart Warden should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.
- [Requires a realm restart.] Bonus Objective: Bladefist Hold: Increased the spawn rates for Brood Mother Xylax, Bagdoth Goredrinker, and Val'dune Fleshcrafter.
- Sol Sisters: Sol-Shaper Veoryx should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.
- Characters visiting someone else's Garrison should no longer be incorrectly seeing another player's daily quests.
- Gladiator's Sanctum: Nemesis quests should no longer be incorrectly removed from the player's quest log if they log out while the building is under construction.
- Goren Invasion!: Adjusted a number of spawn points so the invaders should no longer get stuck in Garrison buildings.
- Scraps of Iron (Dwarven Bunker/War Mill): Completing the quest should no longer remove more Iron Horde Scraps than needed.
World Environment
- Increased the number of situations where items and abilities slowing the player's falling speed could be used while in outdoor environments.
Creatures and NPCs
- Graveltooth should now be using their inside voice to shout at players in the area instead of shouting at the entirety of Nagrand.
Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios
- Reduced the item level requirement to queue for Normal difficulty Grimrail Depot, Shadowmoon Burial Grounds, The Everbloom, and Upper Blackrock Spire to 595 (down from 600).
- Upper Blackrock Spire
- Orebender Gor'ashan: Mobs from other parts of the Dungeon should no longer be joining the fight during the encounter.
- Challenge Mode
- Aviana's Feather should no longer be usable while in a Challenge Mode dungeon.
- Proving Grounds
- Statistics for Basic Healer (Endless) should no longer be incorrectly displaying under Basic Tank (Endless).
PvP
- Increased the amount of players that can be in Ashran to 150.
- [Requires a realm restart.] Primal Combatant PvP trinkets awarded from Gold Strongboxes should now contain stats that are more appropriate for the character's specialization.
- Primal PvP trinkets should now be eligible to grant players the Gladiator's Distinction set bonus.
- Primal Honor PvP gear should now correctly have a set bonus.
Items
- Gnomish Net Launcher now has a level 91 requirement to equip and provides a more appropriate bonus to Versatility.
- Invisibility Field's effect is now on a shared cooldown with other invisibility effects.
Bug Fixes
- Resolved an issue where Draenor Perks for characters may sometimes not be saving correctly.
Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts
- Fishing Shack: The building should now correctly still provide a bonus while it's under construction.
- Frostwall Mine: Fixed a number of True Iron Deposits that were spawning inside of pillars and terrain.
- Mage Tower/Spirit Lodge: Characters under a shapeshifting effect should now be able to use an Ogre Waygate to return to their Garrisons.
- Outpost, Nagrand: The building bonus for having a Corral should no longer incorrectly dismount Herbalists while harvesting resource nodes.
- [Requires a realm restart.] Outpost, Spires of Arak: Bonus for the building should now switch correctly when changing buildings for the outpost.
- Salvage Yard: The building should now correctly still provide a bonus while it's under construction.
- Followers
- Followers that are 3 or more levels below the mission level now receive 10% of the mission XP and bonus XP (up from 0%). Additional information on how Followers and mission level affects their XP gain can be found in a forum thread titled Followers and Garrison Missions XP.
Classes
- Druid
- Balance
- Empowered Moonkin's clearcasting effect should no longer be incorrectly consumed if it's triggered while the Moonkin is in the middle of casting a spell.
- Balance
- Mage
- Talents
- Comet Storm should now correctly belong to the Frost school and is no longer usable if that school is locked.
- Talents
- Paladin
- Talents
- [Requires a realm restart.] Holy Shield should now correctly deal damage when blocking normal attacks as well.
- Talents
Quests
- Bonus Objective: The Forgotten Caves: Gorg the Host should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.
- Bonus Objective: The Howling Crag: Further increased the spawn rates of Pale Orcs and Rylak Eggs.
- For the Children!: Manastorm's Duplicator should now be correctly awarded to characters that complete the quest.
- Moving In: Characters that abandon the quest should now have an easier time reacquiring the quest and resume their progress on the main quest line.
- Ogre Diplomacy: Players that have completed Into the Heart of Madness should no longer sometimes be placed into an incorrect phase and be unable to complete the quest.
- Safety Measures: Increased the spawn rate of bog denizens.
- Shadowmoon Invasion! is now automatically removed from the character's quest log if they upgrade to a Tier 3 Garrison as this quest is only available for Tier 2 Garrisons.
- Skimming Off The Top: Increased the drop rates for Volatile Oil.
- Strike While the Iron is Hot: Blocked off the entrance to the Iron Docks so players won't accidentally wander out of the quest area and wind up getting lost.
- The Defense of Karabor: Players resurrecting at a graveyard during this quest should no longer be immediately attacked by Iron Horde NPCs.
- The Iron Wolf: Players should now be able to receive completion credit if they've died and released during the quest.
- Thunderlord Invasion!: The quest is now automatically removed from the character's quest log if they upgrade to a Tier 3 Garrison as this quest is only available for Tier 2 Garrisons.
Creatures and NPCs
- Apexis Traders Dawn-Seeker Krek (Alliance) and Dawn-Seeker Alkset (Horde) are now offering Exceptional gear (item level 645) for sale.
- Developer Commentary: The vendors' offerings were previously tied to the Highmaul raid unlock, but we wanted to make sure that players have useful items to spend their Apexis Crystals on, rather than positioning them exclusively as a catch-up item vendor. The final tier of Flawless gear (item level 655) will now unlock when the Highmaul raid becomes available, rather than when Blackrock Foundry becomes available.
- Increased the spawn rates for creatures and NPCs in the Skettis Ruins area in Spires of Arak. [Requires a realm restart.] Additionally, resolved an issue where some creatures were incorrectly sharing loot with other players.
- Grizzled Frostwolf Veteran's icon should no longer persist on the mini map after being defeated.
- Rangari Jonaa now has a cooldown on their Scatter Shot ability.
- Rotcap's icon should no longer persist on the mini map after being defeated.
- Typhon's icon should no longer persist on the mini map after being defeated.
Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios
- Characters with Warlords PvP gear that had its secondary item level activated due to being in PvP combat temporarily disqualifies them from queuing for Dungeons and Raid Finder. It can take up to 20 seconds after ending PvP combat before the character will be eligible to queue up normally.
- Upper Blackrock Spire
- During the Commander Tharbek encounter, players should no longer be kept in a constant state of combat between waves.
PvP
- Reverted a hotfix from October 15 that reduced all PvP damage by 25%.
- Gnomes are now able to increase their reputation with Wrynn's Vanguard.
Items
- Coil of Sturdy Rope, a Horde quest item should no longer be incorrectly dropping for Alliance characters.
- Miner's Coffee movement speed buff should now stack correctly with other movement speed buffs.
- Solium Band rings can now be equipped at level 98 (down from level 100).
Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts
- Barracks: Training dummies have been temporarily removed from the Garrison.
- Barracks Level 2: Bodyguard followers accompanying the player are now more likely to assist with the player's current target.
- Mine Level 2: Preserved Mining Picks obtained from mining carts should now work correctly.
- Resolved an issue where players could get stuck on a flight path while attempting to fly into their Garrisons.
- Followers
- [Requires a realm restart.] Hulda Shadowblade should now be correctly awarded to players that have completed the quest, Standing United.
Classes
- Warlock
- Talents
- Grimoire of Supremacy's summoned Terrorguards and Abyssals should now correctly have the Avoidance ability.
- Talents
Quests
- Articles of the Fallen: Players that have already completed To the Garrison should now be able to see Kal'gor the Honorable to complete the quest.
- Battle in Ashran: The quest now requires players to obtain 100 Artifact Fragments and go to Shadow Hunter Ukambe (Horde) or Scout Valdez (Alliance) to complete the quest.
- Battle of Thunder Pass: Dying or leaving the area during the middle of the Battle of Thunder Pass event should no longer prevent players from completing the event.
- Bled Dry: Cages can now be opened by multiple players simultaneously.
- [Requires a realm restart.] Bushwhacker: Resolved an issue where players that have already completed A Heavy Helping Hand would be unable to turn in the quest.
- Challenge of the Masters: Warlord Dharl of the Thrice-Bloodied Blade should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.
- Draenor's Secret Power: Completion of this quest is now required before being able to move onto the next step of the Legendary quest chain.
- Fate of Karabor: Players joining a version of this quest that's already in-progress should now be able to receive completion credit.
- Honor Has Its Rewards: Resolved an issue where Farseer Drek'Thar may sometimes not accept quest turn-ins.
- Last Steps: Players joining a version of this quest that's already in-progress should now be able to receive completion credit.
- Sol Sisters: Sol-Shaper Krashyx should no longer get stuck in evade mode.
- The Battle for Shattrath: Players joining a version of this quest that's already in-progress should now be able to receive completion credit.
- The Debt We Share: Players that are mounted should now be able to receive completion credit for this quest.
- [Requires a realm restart.] The Infested: Resolved an issue where players that have already completed A Heavy Helping Hand would be unable to turn in the quest.
- The Iron Wolf: Added another way for characters to obtain The Iron Wolf invasion quest for characters that upgraded to a Tier 3 Garrison before completing the main Frostfire questline.
- [Requires a realm restart.] The Razorbloom: Resolved an issue where players that have already completed A Heavy Helping Hand would be unable to turn in the quest.
- [Requires a realm restart.] The Voice of Iyu: Resolved an issue where players that have already completed A Heavy Helping Hand would be unable to turn in the quest.
Creatures and NPCs
- Grand Marshal Tremblade should now drop a Gleaming Ashmaul Strongbox for Horde characters when they're defeated.
Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
- Dungeons
- Increased the amount of experience awarded for completing a Draenor level-up dungeon (Bloodmaul Slag Mines, Iron Docs, Auchindoun, and Skyreach) to be more rewarding.
- Items looted from normal Level-100 dungeons now have a level requirement of 100 instead of 97.
- Iron Docks
- Players should no longer be incorrectly receiving credit for completing the Take Cover! achievement without actually completing the achievement.
- Attempted to resolve an issue where Skulloc may sometimes not grant loot.
- Slag Mines
- Players that are dead should now correctly still receive credit for completing the achievement Come With Me If You Want to Live.
- The Everbloom
- Coagulated Genesaur Blood is now correctly flagged as a damage dealer trinket.
- Salyin Battle Banner is no longer eligible to be used during Challenge Modes.
- Resolved an issue where a realm may sometimes not have a Challenge Mode daily quest available.
- Auchindoun: Reduced the amount of enemies to kill to 48 (down from 50).
- Skyreach: Time needed to achieve a gold rating has been increased to 17 minutes (up from 15 minutes). Times for silver and bronze rating have been adjusted accordingly.
- Upper Blackrock Spire: Players receiving credit for Challenge Master: Upper Blackrock Spire achievement should no longer be incorrectly receiving credit for Challenge Master: Shadowmoon Burial Grounds as well.
PvP
- Honor Quartermasters have been added to Ashran. Austin Feeney (Alliance) and Shadow Hunter Gar'ant (Horde) now sell Honor gear.
- Conquest Quartermasters Marshal Gabriel (Alliance) and General Aevd (Horde) have temporarily stopped selling Conquest gear.
Battlegrounds and Arenas
- An item now needs to be at least item level 560 or above before being eligible to be scaled up to 650 in level 100 Battlegrounds and Arenas.
Items
- The following items are now uncommon quality (green) so there's less award pop-ups when retrieving the them from Garrison work orders. There's been no change to the item's functionality or availability.
- Primal Spirit
- Savage Blood
- Burnished Leather
- Gearspring Parts
- Hexweave Cloth
- Metamorphic Crystal
- Taladite Crystal
- Truesteel Ingot
- War Paints
Bug Fix
- Resolved an issue where boosting characters that have XP disabled could wind up being unable to level.
Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts
- Lunar Fall Inn/Frostwall Tavern: Improved the rewards for completing Budd's Gambit, Go Fetch, Ogre Ancestry, and Sky Dancers.
- Stables Level 2: Resolved an issue where characters were not remaining mounted while interacting with herb nodes.
- Trading Post Level 2: Multiple items for Auctioning for Parts should no longer be dropping at the same time.
Quests
- A Collection of Coils: Increased the drop rates for Coil of Sturdy Rope.
- A Feast of Shadows: Increased the spawn rate for Face-Stealers.
- Bonus Objective: The Howling Crag: Increased the number and rate of Rylak Egg spawns.
- Core of Iron: Core of Iron should now only be found on Heroic difficulty Grimrail Depot.
- Icespine Stinger: Increased the number of Icespine Stinger spawns.
- In Need Of A Hero: Completion credit for the quest is no longer shared amongst party members. This was causing other party members to be placed into an incorrect phase.
- Legacy of the Apexis: Increased the drop rates for Apexis Core.
- Ogre Diplomacy: Increased the spawn rate for Ango'rosh ogres.
- Strike While the Iron Is Hot: Resolved a situation where the Activate Primal Device button doesn't go away after completing the quest.
- The Battle of Thunder Pass: Players joining a party that have already completed the quest should now be able to complete the quest and should no longer get stuck in an incorrect phase.
- The Eldest: Players joining a party that have already completed the quest should now be able to complete the quest and should no longer get stuck in an incorrect phase.
- The Master Siegesmith: Master Siegesmith Uratok now scales his health based on the number of players engaging him.
- The Traitor's True Name: Resolved an issue that could cause players to be unable to complete the quest.
- Wanted: Maa'run's Hoof should no longer incorrectly reward the exact same rings as Engorged Goren.
Creatures and NPCs
- Increased the spawn rates for creatures in the Shivering Trench area in Frostfire Ridge.
- Felwrought Annihilator is now immune to the Warlock's Enslave Demon ability.
- Mandragora now spawns more frequently and can be tapped by multiple players.
- Mor the Dominator can now be tapped by multiple players.
- Xanatos the Defiler will never be a slave and is now immune to the Warlock's Enslave Demon ability.
- Resolved an issue where Thaelin Darkanvil may not be visible as a quest giver to players that have rescued him.
- Resolved an issue where Warriors using Charge against some Grimfrost Lavaslingers could become stuck in the world geometry.
Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
- Dungeons
- Increased the frequency of loot awards for Normal difficulty Auchindoun, Bloodmaul Slag Mines, Iron Docks, and Skyreach.
- Heroic Dungeons should correctly have a daily lockout once more.
- Auchindoun: Players should now be able to take a Soul Transporter to get back to Teron'gor if the entire party died after defeating him.
PvP
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