Patch 6.2 Hotfixes and Class Tuning Changes Week of July 20 - 24

Posted 2015/07/20 at 9:23 PM by perculia

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Rygarius

PvP

PvP Reward Changes

Please note that the following PvP reward changes are currently still in-testing.

Conquest vendors now sell non-set PvP armor pieces that could be found in the Champion's Strongbox.
Removed the Ashran-only 200 Conquest Point bonus to the weekly Conquest cap. Total Conquest cap remains unchanged, but characters no longer need to go to Ashran to earn all of it.
For more information on these PvP reward changes, please visit the forum thread titled: Recent PvP Rewards Hotfix.

Creatures and NPCs

Shadowmoon Valley

Yggdrel's Entangling Vines should no longer continue to deal damage after the growth has been slain.

Quests

Kezan

Liberate the Kaja'mite: Fixed an issue where characters above level 20 were unable to loot Kaja'mite Chunks.

July 23

Creatures and NPCs

Tanaan Jungle

Supreme Lord Kazzak should now be immune to taunts from Bodyguard Followers.

Raids and Dungeons

Hellfire Citadel

General

Combat Rogues should no longer receive daggers via Personal Loot or Bonus Roll.
Affliction Warlocks should no longer receive Prophecy of Fear via Personal Loot or Bonus Roll.

Dragon Soul

Warmaster Blackhorn

Fixed a condition where damaging Warmaster Blackhorn and Goriona too quickly could cause players to unable to progress onto the next boss encounter.

PvP

All healing and damage absorption has been reduced by 15% in PvP combat.

Ashran

Players that accept the queue and teleport into Ashran should now correctly receive credit when their faction wins an event.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an internal bag error that could occur upon entering a seamless instance with the prospected ore window open.

Class

Druid

Balance

Starsurge now deals 15% less damage in PvP combat.

Warlock

Affliction

Haunt now deals 25% less damage in PvP combat.

Rygarius

July 22

Raids and Dungeons

Hellfire Citadel

Hellfire High Council

Fixed a situation where Mark of the Necromancer could stop dealing damage to players.

PvP

Ashran

Winning events in Ashran should now always award a Dented Ashmaul Strongbox.

Items

Class

Rogue

Talents

Fixed an issue where Venom Rush could incorrectly persist indefinitely.

Rygarius

July 21

Class

Paladin

General

Tier-18 2-piece set bonus for Protection Paladins' Avenger's Reprieve effect no longer stacks and will refresh the duration of the effect instead.
Fixed an issue that caused Hammer of the Righteous to often hit the primary target twice instead of damaging one of the secondary targets.

Priest

General

Fixed an issue where the damage increase in a hotfix from June 26 for Repudiation of War was not working correctly.

Warlock

General

Felhunter should now correctly require line-of-sight with its target to use the Spell Lock ability. Previously, it was incorrectly using line-of-sight with the Warlock instead.

Garrisons

Naval Missions

Black Market Journal: This naval mission should now have the correct blockade prerequisite for Barrier Sea.

Achievements

Filling the Ranks: Tracking for progress towards completing the achievement should now be working correctly.

Rygarius

Class Tuning Changes

Please note that the following class tuning changes are still in-testing.

Druid

Guardian

now lasts 15 seconds (down from 25 seconds).

Hunter

Beast Mastery

Bestial Wrath now lasts 15 seconds (up from 10 seconds).

Survival

, , and Serpent Sting damage increased by 25%.

Mage

Fire

Dragon's Breath damage increased by 150%.
Flamestrike damage increased by 50%.

Monk

Windwalker

Stance of the Fierce Tiger now increases all damage dealt by 10% (up from 5%).

Paladin

Retribution

now increases damage dealt with two-handed melee weapons by 30% (up from 25%).

Protection

Avenger's Shield damage increased by 30%.
now increases the healing received from by 8% per stack (up from 6%). Additionally, Mastery: Divine Bulwark now adds 8% to Bastion of Glory (up from 6%).
Tier-18 2-piece set bonus for Protection Paladins (Item - Paladin T18 Protection 2P Bonus) now grants an absorb effect equal to 5% of maximum health (up from 1.5%).
Tier-18 4-piece set bonus for Protection Paladins (Item - Paladin T18 Protection 4P Bonus) now triggers Grand Crusader.

Shaman

Elemental

Mastery: Earthen Rage damage has been increased by 11%.
Ascendance now has a 2-minute cooldown (down from 3 minutes) for Elemental Shaman.

Enhancement

Stormstrike damage has been increased by 30%

Warlock

Affliction

damage has been increased by 50%, and now causes all other damage over time spells to instantly deal 50% of their normal damage (up from 40%).
Haunt damage has been increased by 25%, and now increases periodic damage dealt by 35% (up from 30%).

Destruction

Chaos Bolt, Conflagrate, Immolate, Incinerate, and Shadowburn damage increased by 5%.

Warrior

Protection

Bastion of Defense now increases block chance by 15% (up from 10%).

Arms

Tier-18 4-piece set bonus for Arms Warriors (Item - Warrior T18 Arms 4P Bonus) now increases the tick rate of Rend by 33% (down from 50%), and fixed a bug where it was granting double the intended increase.

Class

Monk

Mistweaver

Fixed a number of issues with Sacred Draenic Incense for Mistweavers where it would benefit twice from effects which increase healing taken, and could bypass area-of-effect healing caps.

Priest

Armor Sets

Tier-18 4-piece set bonus for Discipline Priests (Item - Priest T18 Discipline 4P Bonus) now targets friendly targets to heal with the greatest % of missing health instead of current health. For example, the heal now prioritizes a player with 350k/500k instead of a player with 300k/300k health.

Shaman

Enhancement

Fixed an issue with that caused Healing Surge combined with the Tier-18 4-piece set bonus (Item - Shaman T18 Enhancement 4P Bonus) to heal for more than the intended amount.

Quests

Garrison Campaign

High Overlord Saurfang and Muradin Bronzebeard in the player's Garrisons now have chance to offer the Hellfire Citadel weekly raid quest when eligible.

Professions

Ruined Construct: Jewelcrafters in a raid group should no longer see an option to insert 1000 s into the Apexis Gemcutter Construct.

Creatures and NPCs

Tanaan Jungle

Fixed an issue that could cause the demon invasion leading to Painmistress Selora appearing to not work correctly.

Raids and Dungeons

Hellfire Citadel

Gorefiend

Gorefiend should no longer be using other abilities while channeling Feast of Souls.

Fel Lord Zakuun

Fixed an issue that could cause Fel Lord Zakuun to cast two Rumbling Fissures in rapid succession after bringing him depending on when he was brought below 30% health.

Xhul'horac

Xhul'horac's Overwhelming Chaos now increases damage dealt by 15% (down from 20%) per stack on Normal difficulty.
Combat rogues should now be able to correctly use Killing Spree again after receiving the Empowered Singularity debuff.

Archimonde

Dreadstalkers should no longer incorrectly spawn on players that are not on the platform.
Players should no longer be occasionally dropped off the platform when transitioning into the Twisting Nether.
Fixed an issue that could cause the portal leading to the Archimonde encounter to not reappear in the raid instance after a soft reset.
Fixed an issue that could cause Archimonde's Shadowfel Burst to not be removed correctly when the ability struck multiple targets.

PvP

Ashran

Ancient Artifact should now only appear when there are more than 20 players per team in the battle, and the item now has a respawn timer.

Items

Prophecy of Fear's visual effect for Doom Nova is now more subdued.

Bug Fixes

Fixed an issue that could occasionally cause the client to crash while loading into an Arena.
Fixed an issue where players were unable to queue for Pet Battles through the Pet Journal while in Tanaan Jungle.
Fixed an issue where players were unable to queue as a party for Timewalking dungeons if one of the party members had already completed the Timewalking Bonus Event quest.

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Comment by prinnygodSo excited about the 15 second Bestial Wrath!Comment by 328568suddenly buffs...Comment by SorrowseerRetribution Paladin got a buff? I am suspicious!Comment by mike0rrCool, buff Hunters, mini buff Pallys, send Druids a joke nerf and don't even look at Priests...Comment by baradielFinally SV gets love!Comment by InterestHunters definitely need more buffs, because they are still not oneshotin' everyone!So excited about the 15 second Bestial Wrath!Comment by stbashsuddenly buffs...Comment by 440634I'm jazzed on those Lock/BM buffs.Comment by pidethat shaman buff my goodnessComment by limaspFinally! I will feel more useful as BM hunter in this patch. Also, with the new tier it 'll be a nice damage boost!Comment by Trelani10Those hunter buffs..... *happy dance*Comment by oaninorso much hate against demo locks. since the 25% nerf to absolute everything, now I see those affli and destro buffs and I feel like I'm being kicked in the face while I'm laying in the floor. thanks for so much love Ion, you freaking #$%&/. I want to throw up in rage when I though that his family eats with my money.Comment by Malbioso much hate against demo locks. since the 25% nerf to absolute everything, now I see those affli and destro buffs and I feel like I'm being kicked in the face while I'm laying in the floor. thanks for so much love Ion, you freaking #$%&/. I want to throw up in rage when I though that his family eats with my money.Comment by iettloppAffli buffs and bm hunter buff.. so &*!@ing idiotic from a pvp perspective. they are already doing way to much damage atmComment by 1260608That ele shaman buff... /droolComment by VinealleHope they included a fix in the bug when completing Bloodthorn Cave Bonus Objective in Shadowmoon Valley. I'm treating going in and out of the cave one of my dailies to check if it's fixComment by mindthegap5Where's the demonology love? can they at least buff it slightly?Comment by remotettlpalas... gah, damn em :D
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http://$%^&*!/2Qjnv7Comment by stymWhere's the demonology love? can they at least buff it slightly?so much hate against demo locks. since the 25% nerf to absolute everything, now I see those affli and destro buffs and I feel like I'm being kicked in the face while I'm laying in the floor. thanks for so much love Ion, you freaking #$%&/. I want to throw up in rage when I though that his family eats with my money.Comment by NomaniCool, buff Hunters, mini buff Pallys, send Druids a joke nerf and don't even look at Priests...