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
Classes
- Rogue
- Subtlety
- Refreshing or expiring Ruptures, Garrotes, Crimson Tempest, and Hemorrhages should no longer incorrectly remove other Rogues' Sanguinary Veins.
- Subtlety
Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
- Blackrock Foundry
- Oregorger
- Oregorger's health has been reduced by 10% on Normal difficulty.
- Oregorger's Rolling Fury ability now deals less damage on Normal difficulty (135,000 damage) and on Heroic difficulty (200,000 damage).
- Oregorger
- The Blast Furnace
- Heart of the Mountain should no longer spam raid warnings for Blast whenever it reaches 100 Energy.
- Mind Controlled Firecallers should no longer be able to cast Reactive Earth Shield on injured Primal Elementalists.
- Kromog's Reverberations should now be easier to dodge with a 3-second delay before the ability starts dealing damage (up from 1.75 seconds) and the effect's radius has been decreased.
- Beastlord Darmac's Call the Pack now has an increased cooldown of 40 seconds (up from 30 seconds) on Normal difficulty.
- Fixed an issue where the doors to Beastlord Darmac may not always reopen after the encounter has been reset.
- Enrage mechanic for the encounter is now more lethal.
- Admiral Gar'an: Dominator Turret's Dominator Blast no longer deals damage to player pets, minions or guardians.
- Enforcer Sorka's Convulsive and Lingering Shadows are no longer incorrectly removed when the targeted player dies.
- Marak the Blooded's Blood Ritual still only targets a player within 45 yards but the damage cone now has a range of 100 yards.
- Fixed an issue where Iron Maidens not on the Dreadnaught may instantly cast their spells and abilities at the end of the boat phase.
- Fixed an issue where Marak the Blooded was incorrectly gaining Sanguine Strikes at 75 Iron Fury on Mythic difficulty.
- Rubble Piles should no longer appear after the transition to stage two.
- Fixed an issue where a player may not be correctly protected from Blackhand's Impaling Throw when multiple players were taking cover behind the same Rubble Pile.
Classes
- Death Knight
- Armor Sets
- Tier-17 2-piece bonus for Unholy Death Knights in addition to its current effect also causes Dark Transformation to apply an additional 40% damage bonus to the ghoul, increasing total pet damage by roughly 20%.
- Armor Sets
Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
- Blackrock Foundry
- The Blast Furnace
- Reduced the health of Primal Elementalists on Mythic difficulty.
- Primal Elementalists are now immune to knockback effects.
- Fixed an issue in Phase 2 where Slag Pools may fail to heat up Heart of the Mountain.
- Fixed an issue where if the encounter is reset at the beginning of Phase 2, then Phase 2 adds would incorrectly spawn in during Phase 1 on the next attempt.
- The Blast Furnace
- Kromog’s Stone Pillars now persist for 60 seconds or if they are hit by Rippling Smash, whichever comes first.
- Kromog’s enrage timer is now at 9 minutes (up from 8 minutes) across all difficulties.
- Dreadwing's Inferno Breath and Spirit of the Rylak's Superheated Shrapnel no longer deals damage to player pets or guardians.
- Fixed an issue in Stage Two where Beastlord Darmac may sometimes be unaffected by Cruelfang's Savage Howl.
- Train schedules after the 7.5 minute mark have been adjusted to be less difficult on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
- [Requires a realm restart.] Fixed an issue that could cause reinforcements from trains to appear to be standing still while still moving around.
- Fixed an issue that could cause Enforcer Sorka to become stuck in the railing after using her Blade Dash ability.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the Iron Maidens encounter to reset prematurely.
- Fixed an issue where Iron Maidens were incorrectly only dropping Normal difficulty quest items for Sigil of the Black Hand on all difficulties.
Battlegrounds and Arenas
- Arathi Basin: Completion criteria for the Resilient Victory achievement should now be tracking correctly and be obtainable.
- Eye of the Storm (Rated): Fixed an issue where defending a capture point at Mage Tower and Blood Elf Tower displays the wrong tower in the chat window.
Classes
- Warrior
- Armor Sets
- Tier-17 4-piece set bonus should now be correctly generating 6% increase to both critical strike and attack speed (was incorrectly generating 6% attack speed and 5% critical strike).
- Armor Sets
Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
- Blackrock Foundry
- Beastlord Darmac
- Fixed an issue that could cause Faultline's Epicenter ability to persist in the environment after the raid has wiped.
- Iron Maidens
- Iron Will now increases damage dealt by 0.5% (down from 1%) every 10 seconds (up from every 20 seconds) after triggering on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
- Blackhand
- Blackhand's health has been reduced by 5% on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
- Iron Soldier's health has been reduced by 15% on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
- Blackhand's Massive Shattering Smash ability now deals 25% less damage on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
- Blaze should no longer be dealing increased damage to players with the Incendiary Shots debuff.
- Stage Three's Overheated effect should no longer incorrectly trigger player abilities that activate from being attacked.
- The following hotfix from yesterday, February 9 was reverted. Blackhand's Marked for Death is back to a 15 second recast during Stage Two.
In Stage Two, Blackhand now casts Marked for Death every 16 seconds (up from 15 seconds).
- Beastlord Darmac
Items
- Darmac's Unstable Talisman, Furyheart Talisman, and Goren Soul Repository can now trigger its effect from heals as well.
- Frostwolf Fishing Journal can no longer be sold to a vendor and no longer has a sell price.
World Event: Love is in the Air
- Crushing the Crown: Fixed an issue where the Crown Chemical Company Wagon in Darkshore was not granting quest completion credit.
Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
- Blackrock Foundry
- Gruul
- Gronnling Laborer's Gronnling Smash ability now deals less damage.
- Reduced the damage that Gruul’s Inferno Strike deals to 10-player raid groups on Normal and Heroic difficulties, but increased the rate at which damage scales with raid size. Larger raid groups should find the damage relatively unchanged; smaller groups will find that the ability now deals less damage.
- Gruul
- The Blast Furnace
- There's now a berserk timer for the encounter at the 13 minute mark.
- Iron Maidens
- Admiral Gar'an's Penetrating Shot no longer targets players who are riding a loading chain.
- Fixed a situation where Tricks of the Trade (Rogue) or Misdirection (Hunter) could cause the Deckhands to go into evade mode.
- [Requires a realm restart] Beginning with the new raid timer, Blackhand will consistently drop universal set tokens at the same consistent rates as other bosses in Blackrock Foundry.
- If the Siegemaker's Fixated target dies, it should now Fixate on the closest target.
- Cast time for Iron Soldier's Explosive Rounds ability should now be scaling smoothly with raid size and should no longer have breakpoints where the damage ramps up more than intended at 16 and 26 players.
- In Stage Two, Blackhand now casts Marked for Death every 16 seconds (up from 15 seconds).
- Players no longer take falling damage upon landing after receiving Blackhand's Massive Shattering Smash.
- In Stage Three, Blackhand's Attach Slag Bombs ability now prefers players that are not affected by the Impaled debuff.
Battleground and Arenas
- Druid's Starfall and Sunfall no longer targets players that are capturing a PvP point in Arathi Basin, Battle for Gilneas, and Eye of the Storm.
Bug Fixes
- Alliance characters that complete the Primal Combatant achievement are no longer being told to go to Orgrimmar to receive a reward.
- Fixed an issue where characters that log out on the Deeprun Tram may be unable to log back in.
- Blackrock Foundry
- Blackhand
- [Requires a realm restart.] Siegemaker's Black Iron Plating is now removed by Slag Bomb. Slag Bomb's damage dealt to Siegemakers now scales up based on the number of players in the Raid. To adjust for this change, damage dealt to Siegemakers has been reduced for Impaling Throw by 20% and Slag Bomb by 30% (but damage still scales up based on Raid size).
- Blackhand's Impaled effect should no longer be incorrectly removed by abilities that remove damage-over-time effects.
- Shaman's Searing Totem and Liquid Magma should now correctly target Iron Soldiers while on the balcony.
- Fixed an issue where Exploding Iron Star may sometimes not trigger or deal damage during the transition to Stage Two.
- Blackhand
- Sentry Cannons now self-destruct on Heroic difficulty when a player with Engineering uses Safety Protocols.
Battlegrounds and Arenas
- Eye of the Storm: Fixed an issue where Horde players were unable to capture the flag at Mage Tower.
- Blackrock Foundry
- Resolved an issue where Slagshop Brutes may sometimes not reset correctly if the raid wipes while they're casting Death Howl.
- Hans'gar & Franzok
- Hans’gar and Franzok’s Crippling Suplex now deals 30% less damage (200,000 damage on Raid Finder, 450,000 damage on Normal, 600,000 damage on Heroic, and 700,000 damage on Mythic).
- Blackhand
- Blackhand's Impaling Throw damage dealt to Siegemakers should now properly scale up based on the number of players in the Raid.
- Visuals for Marked for Death and Slag Eruptions should now be easier to see.
- Players should now only receive a single debuff that refreshes when running through Blazes created by Siegemaker Mortar attacks.
- Resolved an issue that could cause some Hunters or Warlocks to suffer fatal falling damage during the transition to Stage Three: Iron Crucible.
Battlegrounds and Arenas
- Faction flags should no longer appear for players in an Arena or Arena Skirmish match.
- Druid
- General
- [Hotfix in testing] Mangle's damage has increased by 27%.
- General
- Blackrock Foundry
- Gruul
- Gruul now uses Petrifying Slam against 5 targets in a 10-player raid, scaling up to 10 targets in a 30-player raid (used to be 8 targets for all raid sizes).
- Hans'gar & Franzok
- Mages should no longer be able to incorrectly Blink through the ramp at the end of the room.
- Beastlord Darmac
- Fixed an issue that could cause Beastlord Darmac despawn immediately once defeated.
- Operator Thogar
- Operator Thogar should now be immune to damage during the start of the encounter until he jumps down onto the tracks.
- Iron Maidens
- Admiral Gar'an should no longer interrupt herself while using Deploy Turret.
- Blackhand
- Players should no longer be able to avoid Incendiary Shot on the balconies in Stage Two.
- Gruul
World Event: Love is in the Air
- Lovely Card buffs no longer work while in a Challenge Mode dungeon, Normal, Heroic, or Mythic difficulty Draenor raid.
Creatures and NPCs
- World Boss: Rukhmar
- Energized Phoenixes should now only fixate on players that are in combat.
- Resolved an issue where Rukhmar could get stuck and not reset correctly.
Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
- Blackrock Foundry
- The Blast Furnace: Resolved an issue where if the encounter was reset during Phase 2 - The Heart Exposed, adds will spawn immediately the next time Phase 2 becomes active.
- The Blast Furnace: Firecaller's Lava Burst and Volatile Fire abilities should now correctly always hit a player even if they attempt to kite them.
World Event: Love is in the Air
- Players should now be able to complete the achievements Beacon of Love and They Really Love Me!
- Manufactured Love Prism now has a 60-second cooldown (up from 30 seconds).
Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts
- Garrison Campaign
- [Requires a realm restart] Socrethar's Demise: Resolved an issue that could cause the event to not reset correctly.
Classes
- Mage
- Armor Sets
- PvP 4-piece set bonus for Arcane Mages, Arcane Focus should now properly have its duration extended with Arcane Power by the Overpowered talent.
- Armor Sets
- Paladin
- Armor Sets
- Tier-15 2-piece set bonus for Protection Paladins should no longer work for level-100 characters.
- Armor Sets
Quests
- Gorgrond
- Ambushing the Enemy: Resolved an issue where characters that have completed The Giant Cauldron first may be unable to see Thisalee Crow.
- Legacy
- Zul'Drak
- Disclosure: Malmortis should no longer be getting stuck during a scripted event if the player was flagged for PvP combat and allow players to receive completion credit for the quest.
- Zul'Drak
Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
- Highmaul
- Resolved an issue where a number of abilities from Kargath Bladefist, The Butcher, and Brackenspore were not triggering player abilities that should trigger from taking damage.
- Twin Ogron: Resolved a situation where having the raid wipe just as the Twin Ogron are defeated with a raid leader that did not perform hostile action towards the bosses during the encounter could cause the raid to not be eligible for loot.
PvP
- Ashran
- Ashmaul Burial Grounds: Completing the event should now correctly grant credit towards the Tour of Duty achievement.
Battlegrounds and Arenas
- Roll or Flying Serpent Kick (Windwalker) should now work correctly for Monks while they're carrying a flag.
- Eye of the Storm
- Flag captures in both normal and Rated Eye of the Storm match should now be correctly registering on the scoreboard and grant credit towards achievements that have to do with capturing a flag.
- Flipping control of Draenei Ruins in a Rated Eye of the Storm match should now immediately teleport players waiting to be resurrected to the next available graveyard.
- Resolved an issue in a Rated Eye of the Storm match that could cause a capture point to not flip correctly and be unable to be captured.
Items
- Inscription-crafted Warlords trinkets should no longer be able to be upgraded using crystals meant for upgrading Inscription-crafted weapons as this could cause the trinket to end up in a broken state.
- Goren Disguise can no longer be used while in a Challenge Mode Dungeon.
Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts
- Tier 3 Garrisons: Dungeoneer's Training Dummy for healing and damage have swapped places so melee classes are less likely to trigger the tanking dummy by accident.
- Garrison Campaign Quests
- Assault on Skettis: Creatures and NPCs associated with Assault on Skettis now respawn more frequently and increased the amount of morale awarded for defeating them.
- Gladiator's Sanctum Level 3: Players can no longer be votekicked from the Coliseum scenario.
- Primal Fury: Players that have completed the quest before the hotfix from January 21 should now correctly receive Thisalee Crow (Alliance) or Choluna (Horde) as a Follower.
Classes
- Druid
- General
- Ferocious Bite no longer loses damage when cast with a low amount of Energy while Berserk is active. Berserk will still discount Cat Form abilities' Energy cost, but will include the bonus damage as if it weren't cast with Berserk active.
- Feral
- Leader of the Pack should now correctly trigger its heal for Druids that have learned the talent, Claws of Shirvallah.
- Talents
- Incarnation: Tree of Life's bonuses should no longer be incorrectly retained without having the talent learned.
- Nature's Vigil should no longer be dealing excessive damage to high level targets by healing low level NPCs.
- General
- Glyphs
- Glyph of Recovery should no longer make Recuperate heal for less than the intended amount.
Quests
- All quests should now still award experience even if the character is dead at the time of completion.
- Frostfire Ridge
- The Shadow Gate: Players who became stuck after completing "The Shadow Gate" will need to re-enter the cave within the Bloodmaul Stronghold in Frostfire Ridge if they were unable to see Orlana Strongbrow to continue their quest series.
- Gorgrond
- Ambushing the Enemy: Resolved an issue where players were unable to complete this quest if The Giant Cauldron has been completed first.
- Talador
- At Your Command: Horde characters who have faction changed to Alliance should now be able to complete the quest "At Your Command" if they have completed the Alliance version previously.
Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
- Auchindoun
- Grom'tash the Destructor and Gul'kosh should no longer force all party members into combat, including ones that aren't actively in combat with them.
- Shadowmoon Burial Grounds
- Ner'zhul: Resolved an issue where players may be unable to use the portal to re-enter the encounter area.
- Icecrown Citadel
- The Lich King: Resolved an issue where Val'kyr Shadowguards can prevent players from being able to complete the encounter if they pick the player up after Fury of Frostmourne has been cast.
PvP
- Ashran
- There's now a 30 minute delay between battles after Grand Marshal Tremblade or High Warlord Volrath has been defeated.
- Stormshield Gladiators and Warspear Gladiators now respawn 3 minutes after Grand Marshal Tremblade or High Warlord Volrath has been defeated.
Items
- Goren Disguise no longer works in Areas or Rated Battlegrounds.
- Scabbard of Kyanos' on use effect, the Sword Technique buff is now reduced by 40% while players have Battle Fatigue.
- Swapblaster no longer works while in a Battleground.
Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts
- Garrison Campaign Quests
- A Stolen Heart: Azuka Bladefury should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode for Horde characters.
- Primal Fury: Completing the quest should now correctly award Thisalee Crow (Alliance) or Choluna (Horde) as a Follower. A fix to award the followers for players that have already completed the quest will be made at a later date.
- Socrethar's Demise: Resolved an issue that could cause the banner used to challenge Socrethar to not work correctly.
Classes
- Hunter
- Talents
- Hunter Talents should no longer incorrectly treat Lifelike Mechanical Frostboar as an active Hunter Pet.
- Talents
- Monk
- General
- Instant casting Surging Mist on self via Soothing Mist (Mistweaver) should no longer cause Surging Mist to not provide any healing.
- General
- Paladin
- Glyphs
- Glyph of Illumination is obsolete and should no longer be incorrectly retained by some Paladins.
- Glyphs
- Shaman
- Restoration
- Healing received through Spirit Link Totem redistributing player health to match each other should no longer be incorrectly affected by Dampening.
- Restoration
- Warlock
- Talents
- Demonbolt (Demonology) now deals 25% less damage against other players in PvP combat.
- Talents
- Warrior
- Arms
- Mastery: Weapons Master’s effects were overtuned and have been reduced in effectiveness by 18%. The mastery remains significantly stronger than before and is still 29% more powerful than prior to the hotfix from January 12.
- Armor Sets
- Tier-16 2-piece bonus for Protection Warriors now heals for 3% less for each character level above level 90.
- Arms
Quests
- Frostfire Ridge
- In the Shadow of Giants: Players should now correctly receive completion credit while interacting with Flamrog or Kindler.
- Legacy
- Trapping the Leader (Kun-Lai Summit): Killing Shan Kien quickly should no longer prevent him from respawning.
Creatures and NPCs
- Shadowmoon Valley
- Gorum should now correctly leash back to their spawn point.
- Gorgrond
- Laughing Skull guards at Beastwatch in Gorgrond should no longer attack Horde players.
Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
- Highmaul
- Tectus: Resolved an issue where several mobs during the encounter did not reset the cooldown on Marked for Death (Rogue Talent) when killed.
- Imperator Mar'gok: Volatile Anomaly's Destabilize ability should now correctly trigger player abilities that activate on taking damage.
- Bonemaw: Rogues should now be able to use the Death from Above talent against Carrion Worms and Bonemaw.
PvP
- Ashran
- Players should now correctly teleport into Ashran when accepting the queue from Stormshield or Warspear.
- Players leaving Ashran via mini-map are now teleported to a location just outside of Ashran instead of back to the bound Hearthstone location.
- Scroll of Touch of Death's effect should no longer be incorrectly retained outside of Ashran.
Battlegrounds and Arenas
- Resolved an issue where some items with Bonus Armor were scaling incorrectly in non-max level bracket Battlegrounds.
Items
- Potions and flasks from earlier expansions should no longer be more powerful than ones from later expansions.
- Cache of Highmaul Treasures should no longer incorrectly spawn items that can be upgraded.
Bug Fixes
- Resolved an issue where characters that log out while in another player's Garrison may be unable to log back in.
Class
- Paladin
- Protection
- Reduced the damage of Seal of Truth for Protection Paladins by 80%. Protection Paladins should primarily use Seal of Insight for defensive value.
- [Currently in Testing]Seraphim now grants 750 of each stat for Protection Paladins (down from 1000).
- Protection
Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts
- Garrison Campaign
- Garrison Campaign quests can now be found in the quest log under the "Garrison Campaign" category.
Bug Fixes
- Classes
- Warlock
- Fixed an issue in in which glyphs could cause crowd controlled (cc'd) targets to have Damage Over Time spells (DoTs) removed which would cause stored Soul Swap DoT's to be removed from Warlocks.
- Warlock
- Garrisons
- Invasions
- Corrected a bug in which Horde players weren't receiving credit toward the "It's an Invasion!" and "Invasion Specialist" Achievements for completing the introductory invasion quest.
- Buildings
- Mine
- Miners now continue working after midnight instead of taking an unscheduled coffee break.
- Mine
- Invasions
Class
- Death Knight
- Unholy
- Festering Strike's damage has been increased by 28%.
- Scourge Strike's damage has been increased by 28%.
- Unholy
- Balance
- Starfall's effect is now only suppressed when shapeshifting into a non-Moonkin form. Shifting back into the appropriate form will allow the effect to resume.
- Armor Sets
- Tier-17 4-piece set bonus for Brewmaster Monks now only triggers when you Purify Moderate or Heavy Stagger.
- PvP 2-piece set bonus for Brewmaster and Windwalker Monks now only triggers while in PvP combat.
- PvP 4-piece set bonus for Brewmaster Monks now confers 75% of the Guard effect to the 2 nearest allies.
- Combat
- Blade Flurry is now able to trigger from Multistrikes.
Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
- Highmaul
- Kargath Bladefist: Resolved an issue where players can incorrectly get locked to the instance after wiping to Kargath on Mythic difficulty.
- Imperator Mar'gok: Gorian Warmage's Fixate ability should now only cause the targeted player to drop out of stealth instead of incorrectly causing all steathed players in the raid to drop out of stealth.
- Blackrock Caverns
- Rom'ogg Bonecrusher's Skullcracker ability should now correctly deal damage to Angered Earth elementals, allowing the achievement Crushing Bones and Cracking Skulls to be completed.
PvP
- Alliance and Horde Conquest vendors should now offer non-set cloth gloves and non-set plate chest pieces for sale.
- Ashran
- Amphitheater of Annihilation: Mandragoraster's Fertile Spit ability now caps out at 6 nearby targets.
Battlegrounds and Arenas
- Arathi Basin: Players should now always have a fixed 25-second resurrection timer while in a Rated Battleground match.
- Deepwind Gorge: Using Ice Floes or Aspect of the Fox should no longer incorrectly allow players to capture a point while moving.
Items
- The following items can now stack up to 20.
- Crate of Salvage
- Big Crate of Salvage
- Excess Potion of Accelerated Learning
- Follower Re-training Certificate
- Hearthstone Strategy guide
- Supreme Manual of Dance
Class
- Death Knight
- Unholy
- Festering Strike's damage has been increased by 28%.
- Scourge Strike's damage has been increased by 28%.
- Unholy
- Balance
- Starfall's effect is now only suppressed when shapeshifting into a non-Moonkin form. Shifting back into the appropriate form will allow the effect to resume.
- Armor Sets
- Tier-17 4-piece set bonus for Brewmaster Monks now only triggers when you Purify Moderate or Heavy Stagger.
- PvP 2-piece set bonus for Brewmaster and Windwalker Monks now only triggers while in PvP combat.
- PvP 4-piece set bonus for Brewmaster Monks now confers 75% of the Guard effect to the 2 nearest allies.
- Combat
- Blade Flurry is now able to trigger from Multistrikes.
Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
- Highmaul
- Kargath Bladefist: Resolved an issue where players can incorrectly get locked to the instance after wiping to Kargath on Mythic difficulty.
- Imperator Mar'gok: Gorian Warmage's Fixate ability should now only cause the targeted player to drop out of stealth instead of incorrectly causing all steathed players in the raid to drop out of stealth.
- Blackrock Caverns
- Rom'ogg Bonecrusher's Skullcracker ability should now correctly deal damage to Angered Earth elementals, allowing the achievement Crushing Bones and Cracking Skulls to be completed.
PvP
- Alliance and Horde Conquest vendors should now offer non-set cloth gloves and non-set plate chest pieces for sale.
- Ashran
- Amphitheater of Annihilation: Mandragoraster's Fertile Spit ability now caps out at 6 nearby targets.
Battlegrounds and Arenas
- Arathi Basin: Players should now always have a fixed 25-second resurrection timer while in a Rated Battleground match.
- Deepwind Gorge: Using Ice Floes or Aspect of the Fox should no longer incorrectly allow players to capture a point while moving.
Items
- The following items can now stack up to 20.
- Crate of Salvage
- Big Crate of Salvage
- Excess Potion of Accelerated Learning
- Follower Re-training Certificate
- Hearthstone Strategy guide
- Supreme Manual of Dance
Secondary Stats
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The Haste stat is now 11.1% more effective. For example, characters at level 100 now receive a 1% increase per 90 Haste (up from 1% per 100 Haste).
Please note that the following class tuning hofixes are not active yet. These hotfixes are still undergoing testing and will be implemented as soon as possible.
Classes
- Death Knight
- General
- Blood Boil’s damage has been reduced by 33.3%.
- Frost
- Icy Talons now causes the Death Knight to gain 20% (up from 5%) more of the Haste stat from all sources.
- General
- General
- Rejuvenation’s healing has been reduced by 5%.
- Thrash (Bear Form)’s direct damage has been reduced by 50%. Its periodic damage remains unchanged.
- Mastery: Total Eclipse’s effects have been increased by 6.7%.
- Beast Mastery
- Mastery: Master of Beasts’ effects have been increased by 12.5%.
- Fire
- Incineration now causes the Mage to gain 15% (up from 5%) more of the Critical Strike stat from all sources.
- Pyroblast’s damage has been reduced by 5%.
- Protection
- Sacred Duty now causes the Paladin to gain 30% (up from 5%) more of the Haste stat from all sources.
- Glyphs
- Glyph of Alabaster Shield now increases Shield of the Righteous’ damage by 3% (down from 10%) per stack.
- General
- Power Word: Shield’s absorption has been reduced by 15%.
- Enhancement
- Fire Nova now causes up to 6 novas (down from 7).
- Stormstrike’s damage has been increased by 11.1%.
- Destruction
- Devastation now causes the Warlock to gain 15% (up from 5%) more of the Critical Strike stat from all sources.
- Demonology
- Mastery: Master Demonologist’s effects have been increased by 33%.
- General
- Thunder Clap’s damage has been increased by 40%.
- Arms
- Mastery: Weapons Master’s effects have been increased by 57.1%.
- Protection
- Deep Wounds’ damage has been increased by 40%.
- Devastate’s damage has been increased by 20%.
- Revenge’s damage has been increased by 40%.
- Shield Slam’s damage has been increased by 20%.
- Gladiator Stance (Protection) now increases damage by 5% (down from 20%).
Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts
- Garrison Buildings
- [Requires a realm restart] Barn: Trapping now awards a caged beast for each nearby party member with an appropriate level barn. More information regarding the change can be found on the forums.
Creatures
- Shadowmoon Valley
- Bahameye should no longer be incorrectly phased in some instances.
- Gorgrond
- Poundfist is now immune to crowd-control effects.
Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios
- Highmaul
- Imperator Mar'gok: Councilor Gorluk's Phantasmal Weapons should no longer cause all players in the zone to go into combat.
PvP
- Ashran
- Grand Marshal Tremblade and High Warlord Volrath should no longer be able to be pulled through the side gates.
Battlegrounds and Arenas
- Arathi Basin: Using Ice Floes or Aspect of the Fox should no longer incorrectly allow players to capture a point while moving.
- Silvershard Mines: The northern track switch should now work correctly.
Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts
- Garrison Buildings
- Barn
- [Requires a realm restart] Increased the spawn rate and number of spawn points for Direfang Alpha, Ironhide Bull, and Wetland Trampler. This hotfix will be deployed in combination with the hotfix from January 7 to increase spawn rates slightly.
- Barn
Class
- Abilities that heal based on a percentage of total/maximum health should now be able to be correctly modified by healing debuff modifiers.
- Hunter
- General
- [Currently in testing] Freezing Trap now has a trigger radius of 3 yards (down from 5 yards).
- General
- Paladin
- Armor Sets
- Hotfix to change the PvP 4-piece set bonus for Retribution Paladins announced from January 5 has been deployed.
- Armor Sets
- Priest
- Glyphs
- Glyph of Reflective Shield should now correctly only reflect damage on self-cast Power Word: Shields and not when it's cast on other players.
- Glyphs
Quests
- Gorgrond
- Reagents from Rakthoth: This quest can now be completed if another quest, Plant Pruning has already been completed.
- Seeking the Scout: This quest can now be completed if another quest, Plant Pruning has already been completed.
- [Requires a realm restart] The Giant Cauldron: Players should now be able to reacquire or complete the quest if they disconnect or log out during the flight after speaking with Choluna.
Raids and Dungeons
- Highmaul
- Kargath Bladefist: Defeating Iron Grunts before the start of the encounter no longer grants favor with Roar of the Crowd on Mythic difficulty.
- The Butcher: Pale Vitriol should now correctly be reapplied to Hunters under the effects of Deterrence on Mythic difficulty.
PvP
- Ashran
- Bonus Objectives in Ashran now restart every 30-40 minutes after completion (up from 20-30 minutes).
Battlegrounds and Arenas
- Capturing a point in Arathi Basin, The Battle for Gilneas City, and the Rated Battlegrounds version for Eye of the Storm should now take 7 seconds (down from 8 seconds). This change restores time to capture a point back to what it was for these Battlegrounds in pre-6.0.2.
Items
- All Follower contracts are now bind-on-pickup.
Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts
- Garrison Buildings
- Barn
- Deadly Iron Trap now only traps an elite creature (Direfang Alpha, Ironhide Bull, and Wetland Trampler) that the player or party has tap credit on.
- [Require a realm restart] Spawn rates for Direfang Alpha, Ironhide Bull, and Wetland Trampler has increased slightly.
- Barn
Class
- Death Knight
- Talents
- Conversion for Frost Death Knights should now correctly count as 15 Runic Power spent toward other abilities that trigger based on Runic Power spent.
- Talents
- Druid
- Restoration
- Wild Growth's healing should now smoothly increase with Haste instead of having breakpoints. Total healing for the ability will vary slightly depending how much Haste the Druid had previously; with healing increasing slightly for most Druids.
- Armor Sets
- PvP 2-piece set bonus for Restoration Druids should no longer incorrectly consume Nature's Swiftness when the root effect is triggered.
- Restoration
- Talents
- Resolved a situation that could cause Binding Shot to not stun the target correctly.
- General
- Way of the Monk now increases the Monk's autoattack damage with one-handed weapons by 25% (down from 40%), and increases the attack speed of two-handed weapons by 55% (up from 40%).
- Talents
- Clarity of Will's (Discipline) damage absorption shield can now stack up to a maximum of 75% of the casting Priest's health (instead of up to 50% of the target's health).
- Subtlety
- Honor Among Thieves now only triggers its effect in combat.
- Sinister Calling's triggered Bleed effects should now be able to Crit or Multistrike if the source Bleed effect could Crit or Multistrike.
- General
- Lightning Shield should no longer expire prematurely when Cyclone is cast on an Elemental Shaman.
- Fury
- Wild Strike should now be correctly crediting the full amount of Rage that had been spent towards the talent, Anger Management.
PvP
- Ashran
- Players should now receive advanced notification when the Bonus Objective: Brute's Rise will become active.
- Fangraal no longer uses the Soul of the Forest ability.
- Alliance PvP vendors Bregg Coppercast and Ingrid Blackingot now have collision boxes.
- Horde PvP vendors Lieutenant Axelash and Lieutenant Brokefist have moved closer to the road leading into Ashran, and now have collision boxes.
Battlegrounds and Arenas
- Hand of Protection should now interrupt players that are in the process of capturing a point in the Battlegrounds.
- Paladin
- Protection
- Shield of the Righteous should no longer incorrectly provide a greater than intended reduction to physical damage taken after refreshing the ability.
- Protection
- Rogue
- General
- Kidney Shot's stun effect is now capped at 6 seconds while in PvP combat. Revealing Strike can still increase the stun duration, but not beyond 6 seconds.
- General
Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios
- Raids
- Highmaul
- Ko'ragh's Expel Magic: Arcane ability should no longer incorrectly damage players that are under an effect that grants immunity to damage.
- Highmaul
- Dungeons
- Shadowmoon Burial Grounds
- Ner'zhul: Credit for Souls of the Lost achievement should no longer incorrectly reset between waves of Ritual of Bones.
- Shadowmoon Burial Grounds
Bug Fixes
- Got My Mind On My Draenor Money should now correctly credit gold looted while in a Dungeon or Raid.
WoW's 10th Anniversary
- [Requires a realm restart] WoW's 10th Anniversary event has received an extension! The event will begin again at 10AM PST on Tuesday, January 6 and ends at 10AM PST on Tuesday, January 13.
Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts
- Garrison Buildings
- Dwarven Bunker/War Mill: Players can now accrue as many Iron Horde Scraps as they want.
- Lumber Mill: Players can now accrue as much Timber as they want.
Class
- Death Knight
- Talent
- Conversion now costs 15 Runic Power per second for Frost Death Knights (up from 10 Runic Power).
- Talent
- Hunter
- Armor Sets
- PvP 2-piece set bonus for Hunters should no longer incorrectly trigger its effect when Freezing Trap activates on a target that is immune.
- Armor Sets
- Paladin
- Talents
- Empowered Seals (Protection, Retribution) should no longer incorrectly be providing a 30% increase to attack speed on top of its intended benefits.
- Armor Sets
- [Currently in testing] PvP 4-piece set bonus for Retribution Paladins now increases damage and healing by 2% per Holy Power spent (down from 3%) for 4 seconds (down from 8 seconds).
- Talents
- Assassination
- Assassin's Resolve now increases damage by 22% (up from 15%)
- Combat
- Vitality now grants 50% additional Attack Power (up from 40%).
- Subtlety
- Sanguinary Vein now increases damage dealt by 25% (up from 20%).
World Environment
- Nagrand
- Resolved an issue where players that die in the areas around Highmaul may be unable to resurrect at their corpse.
Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios
- Dungeons
- Grimrail Depot
- [Requires a realm restart] Nitrogg Thundertower: Assault Cannon's Suppressive Fire now deals less damage.
- [Requires a realm restart] Nitrogg Thundertower: Grom'kar Gunner's Shrapnel Blast now deals less damage.
- [Requires a realm restart] Nitrogg Thundertower: Iron Infantry now has less health.
- Grimrail Depot
- Ashran
- [Requires a realm restart] Players now have 60 seconds to accept the prompt to enter Ashran (up from 20 seconds).
Bug Fixes
- Resolved an issue that could cause Quest achievements for Draenor zones to not be awarded correctly to characters below level 100.
- Garrison Buildings
- Gladiator's Sanctum: Resolved a situation that could cause players to be unable to receive new Nemesis quests.
Quests
- Frostfire Ridge
- The Cure: Frostwolf Gladiators can no longer be killed by Alliance players.
- Guild Bank Money Logs should now be able to correctly display records of transactions greater than 215,000 gold.
- Outposts
- [Requires a realm restart.] Completing a quest for a newly swapped Outpost building should no longer cause it to incorrectly revert back to a pre-swapped state.
Classes
- Hunter
- Talents
- Crouching Tiger, Hidden Chimera should now work correctly with the Glyph of Mirrored Blades.
- Talents
- Priest
- Talents
- Clarity of Will's (Discipline) protective ward on a critical effect should now be correctly reduced by Battle Fatigue in PvP combat.
- Glyphs
- Glyph of the Inquisitor should now correctly be dealing self-damage against the Priest (with a chance to break crowd control effects) in PvP combat against enemy players with glyphed crowd control abilities that removes damage over time effects on the target.
- Talents
- Assassination
- Envenom should no longer incorrectly consume all of the Rogue's combo points if the ability misses or was dodged.
- Subtlety
- Hemorrhage's periodic effect should now be able to critically strike.
Quests
- Talador
- [Requires a realm restart.] Socrethar's Demise: Resolved an issue that could cause Socrethar to become unattackable.
- Legacy
- Report to the King: Resolved an issue where completing this quest was incorrectly causing Hero's Call: Redridge Mountains! and My Son, the Prince to become unavailable
- Warning the Warchief: Resolved an issue where completing this quest was incorrectly causing Machines of War and Enemies Below to become unavailable.
Creatures and NPCs
- Frostfire Ridge
- Iron Cannoneers no longer drop Iron Horde Scraps.
- Gorgrond
- Iron Banshee should now correctly award credit towards completing Assault on the Pit.
Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios
- Dungeons
- The Everbloom
- Xeri'tac: Resolved an issue that could cause Venom-Crazed Pale One to not spawn in correctly.
- The Everbloom
PvP
- Ashran
- Fangraal and Kronus now costs 3000 Artifact Fragments to summon (up from 1000).
Items
- Primal Spirits should now be dropping more frequently while harvesting mineral and herb nodes outside of the Garrison, from Skinning, and in a satchel obtained by completing the daily Fishing quest from the Garrison Fishing Shack.
- Potions purchased from the Brawler's Guild are now bind on pickup.
- Guide: Sharpshooting should now correctly have a chance to drop for Hunters from rare Ashran NPCs and creatures.
- Kowalski's Music Box should now correctly apply its soothing effect to targets that are not in combat.
- World Shrinker's effect is now removed when mounting up.
UI
- Premade Groups should no longer display a Scenarios category for characters that are above level 90.
- Garrison Buildings
- Frostwall Mines: Mine Guards should now scale with the player's character level.
- Frostwall Mines Level 3: Mine Guards now have significantly more health and damage.
Classes
- Mage
- Talents
- Prismatic Crystal now transfers only 75% of total damage on Critical Hits, and transfers only 50% of total damage on Multistrikes while in PvP combat.
- Talents
- Warlock
- Destruction
- [Hotfix currently in-testing] Havoc now has a base cooldown of 20 seconds (down from 25 seconds).
- Destruction
Creatures and NPCs
- Zidormi in Dustwallow Marsh should now correctly send players back in time to visit old Theramore.
Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios
- Satchel of Savage Mysteries now has a guaranteed chance to award a piece of Heroic Dungeon loot (item level 630 rare) appropriate for the character's loot specialization.
- Developer Commentary: We’re aware of excessive queue times for Heroic Dungeons. To help players have a better experience in Dungeon Finder, we’re expanding the rewards for Satchel of Savage Mysteries to award Heroic Dungeon loot in addition to the guaranteed Augment Rune, and a chance to contain a mount, Follower enhancement token, Battle Pet, or Battle-Stone. The satchel will remain Bind on Account and we'll continue to monitor Dungeon Finder queues and iterate as needed to ensure a great experience for everyone.
- Raids
- Highmaul
- The Butcher now has a chance to drop a Green Winter Hat.
- Brackenspore: Elements of the fight, such as hostile fungus and beneficial mushrooms should now be visible from further away during the encounter on Mythic difficulty.
- Twin Ogron: Resolved a situation where pulling Twin Ogron and having them despawn could cause the Imperator Mar'gok encounter to not work correctly on Mythic difficulty.
- Highmaul
- Garrison Buildings
- A hotfix in testing from December 11 has been implemented. Inn: The achievement, Stay Awhile and Listen now only requires the character to complete 10 of the 20 Inn quests (down from all 20).
Creatures and NPCs
- Shadowmoon Valley
- Yggdrel now deals less damage with the Entangling Vine ability.
Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios
- [Hotfix currently in-testing] Messages for obtaining an Augment Rune are no longer broadcasting to the party or raid group.
- Raids
- Highmaul
- Tectus' health has been reduced by about 15% when the raid is scaled to 10 players on Raid Finder, Normal, and Heroic difficulties. As the raid scales up to a maximum of 30 players, Tectus' health for 30 players remains roughly unchanged from before this hotfix.
- Highmaul
Professions
- Enchanting
- [Hotfix currently in-testing] Mark of Blackrock can no longer trigger its effect for the first 40 seconds after equipping the weapon.
UI
- Resolved an issue where having a player join the Dungeon Finder or Raid Finder group just as another player was leaving could cause the button to queue up for additional players to remain greyed out for the rest of the group.
- Resolved an issue where the Darkmoon Faire was not showing up in the in-game calendar past December 2014.
Class Tuning Changes
- Please note, the following class tuning changes are still undergoing testing and will be implemented as soon as possible.
- Hunter
- Beast Mastery
- Improved Focus Fire now grants a 5% increase (up from 2%) to attack power for every stack of Frenzy that had been consumed.
- Survival
- Serpent Sting's damage has increased by 60%.
- Beast Mastery
- General
- Stance of the Fierce Tiger now increases all damage dealt by 5% (down from 10%).
- Assassination
- Venomous Wounds' damage has increased by 20%.
- Combat
- Blade Flurry now also strikes up to 4 additional nearby opponents for 35% of normal damage (up from 30%).
- Subtlety
- Backstab's damage has increased by 20%.
- Hemorrhage's damage has increased by 30%.
Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts
- [Hotfix in testing] Map Icon for the Garrison should now appear correctly for characters that had undergone a faction change.
- [Hotfix in testing] Alliance Tier 3 Garrison: Dungeoneer's Training Dummy for healing and damage have swapped places so melee classes are less likely to trigger the tanking dummy by accident.
- Garrison Buildings
- [Hotfix in testing] Barn: Captured beasts can now stack to 20 (up from not being stackable).
- Dwarven Bunker/War Mill: Armor transmogrification items obtained from the Dwarven Bunker/War Mill are now truly account-bound and can be sent to other characters on the same Battle.net account.
- Gladiator's Sanctum: Corrected an issue that allowed a losing player to claim loot from victor's chest when multiple players died near-simultaneously.
- Stables: Corrected an issue where players could complete The Stable Master achievement without owning a Level 3 Stable.
Classes
- Druid
- Balance
- Sunfall (Starfall modified by Glyph of the Solstice) should now also be dealing 33% less d
- Balance