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

Classes

Rogue
- Subtlety
  - Refreshing or expiring Ruptures, Garrotes, Crimson Tempest, and Hemorrhages should no longer incorrectly remove other Rogues' Sanguinary Veins.

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).
- 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
  - 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
  - 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.
- Operator Thogar
  - Enrage mechanic for the encounter is now more lethal.
- Iron Maidens
  - 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.
- Blackhand
  - 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.

February 12

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%.

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.
- Kromog
  - 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.
- Beastlord Darmac
  - 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.
- Operator Thogar
  - 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.
- Iron Maidens
  - 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.

February 10

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).

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).~~

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.

February 9

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.
- 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.
- Blackhand
  - [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.

February 6

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

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.
Upper Blackrock Spire
- 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.

February 5

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

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.

February 4

Classes

Druid
- General
  - [Hotfix in testing] Mangle's damage has increased by 27%.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

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.

February 3

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.

February 2

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.
Paladin
- Armor Sets
  - Tier-15 2-piece set bonus for Protection Paladins should no longer work for level-100 characters.

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.

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.

January 27

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.
Rogue
- 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.

January 21

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.

Monk

General
- Instant casting Surging Mist on self via Soothing Mist (Mistweaver) should no longer cause Surging Mist to not provide any healing.

Paladin

Glyphs
- Glyph of Illumination is obsolete and should no longer be incorrectly retained by some Paladins.

Shaman

Restoration
- Healing received through Spirit Link Totem redistributing player health to match each other should no longer be incorrectly affected by Dampening.

Warlock

Talents
- Demonbolt (Demonology) now deals 25% less damage against other players in PvP combat.

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.

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.
Shadowmoon Burial Grounds
- 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.

January 15

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).

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.
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.

January 13

Class

Death Knight
- Unholy
  - Festering Strike's damage has been increased by 28%.
  - Scourge Strike's damage has been increased by 28%.
Druid
- 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.
Monk
- 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.
Rogue
- 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.
Legacy
- 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

January 13

Class

Death Knight
- Unholy
  - Festering Strike's damage has been increased by 28%.
  - Scourge Strike's damage has been increased by 28%.
Druid
- 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.
Monk
- 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.
Rogue
- 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.
Legacy
- 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

January 12

Secondary Stats

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.
Druid
- 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.
- Balance
  - Mastery: Total Eclipse’s effects have been increased by 6.7%.
Hunter
- Beast Mastery
  - Mastery: Master of Beasts’ effects have been increased by 12.5%.
Mage
- 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%.
Paladin
- 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.
Priest
- General
  - Power Word: Shield’s absorption has been reduced by 15%.
Shaman
- Enhancement
  - Fire Nova now causes up to 6 novas (down from 7).
  - Stormstrike’s damage has been increased by 11.1%.
Warlock
- 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%.
Warrior
- 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%.
- Talents
  - Gladiator Stance (Protection) now increases damage by 5% (down from 20%).

January 9

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.

January 8

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.

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).
Paladin
- Armor Sets
  - Hotfix to change the PvP 4-piece set bonus for Retribution Paladins announced from January 5 has been deployed.
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.

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.

January 7

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.

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.
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.
Hunter
- Talents
  - Resolved a situation that could cause Binding Shot to not stun the target correctly.
Monk
- 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%).
Priest
- 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).
Rogue
- 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.
Shaman
- General
  - Lightning Shield should no longer expire prematurely when Cyclone is cast on an Elemental Shaman.
Warrior
- 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.

January 6

Class

Paladin
- Protection
  - Shield of the Righteous should no longer incorrectly provide a greater than intended reduction to physical damage taken after refreshing the ability.
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.

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.
Dungeons
- Shadowmoon Burial Grounds
  - Ner'zhul: Credit for Souls of the Lost achievement should no longer incorrectly reset between waves of Ritual of Bones.

Bug Fixes

Got My Mind On My Draenor Money should now correctly credit gold looted while in a Dungeon or Raid.

January 5

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).
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.
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).
Rogue
- 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.

PvP

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.

December 19

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

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.

December 18

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

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.
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.
Rogue
- 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.

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.

Premade Groups should no longer display a Scenarios category for characters that are above level 90.

December 17

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

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.
Warlock
- Destruction
  - [Hotfix currently in-testing] Havoc now has a base cooldown of 20 seconds (down from 25 seconds).

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.

December 16

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

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.

Professions

Enchanting
- [Hotfix currently in-testing] Mark of Blackrock can no longer trigger its effect for the first 40 seconds after equipping the weapon.

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.

December 15

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%.
Monk
- General
  - Stance of the Fierce Tiger now increases all damage dealt by 5% (down from 10%).
Rogue
- 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 damage in PvP combat.
  - [Hotfix in testing] Sunfall should no longer incorrectly have a chance to trigger Nature's Vigil.
Hunter
- Talents
  - Crouching Tiger, Hidden Chimera should now interact correctly with Glyph of Deterrence.
Mage
- Talents
  - Greater Invisibility should now correctly be counting as dispelling two damage over time effects instead of canceling them.
- Armor Sets
  - PvP 2-piece set bonus for Mages should now be correctly consuming stacks of the buff while casting Frostfire Bolt.
Paladin
- Talents
  - Hand of Purity should no longer incorrectly affect damage over time abilities that are immune from this damage reduction effect.
  - Selfless Healer should now be correctly dispelled instead of having only 1 stack dispelled at a time.
- Armor Sets
  - PvP 2-piece set bonus for Retribution Paladins, Righteous Determination should now be dispellable.

Quests

Frostfire Ridge
- Assault on Magnarok: Increased the spawn rates for creatures and NPCs for the quest.
- [Hotfix in testing] Flames of the Earth: Players are now able to free Magma Elementals without tap credit and completion credit for the quest is now shared amongst all characters in the party.
Nagrand
- [Hotfix in testing] Removing the Reinforcements: Resolved an issue where the quest could not be completed if the character had already completed And Justice for Thrall.
- THAELIN!: Resolved an issue where players may be able to complete the quest if they had already completed And Justice for Thrall.

World Environment

[Hotfix in testing] Resolved an issue that could cause The August Celestials daily quests to not match up in a cross-realm zone.

Creatures and NPCs

A large number of rare creatures and NPCs on Draenor can now be tapped by players on both factions.
Gorgrond
- [Hotfix in testing] Poundfist now has 40% more health and increased the upper limit on the number of players his health can scale to.
Spires of Arak
- [Hotfix in testing] Befuddled Relic-Seeker, Highmaul Relic-Seeker, and Highmaul Skullcrusher should no longer drop dead after being pickpocketed.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Raids
- Highmaul
  - [Hotfix in testing] Raid Finder difficulty Highmaul should now be creating raid groups comprised of 2 tanks, 5 healers, and 18 damage dealers (instead of forming raid groups with 6 healers).
  - Kargath Bladefist: Players should no longer be getting trapped in the tiger pit after defeating Kargath Bladefist.
  - [Hotfix in testing] Brackenspore: Creeping Moss' healing dealt to fungal spawn will now show up in the Combat Log.
  - Brackenspore: Burning Infusion now increases damage and healing dealt by 13% per stack (up from 10% per stack) and decays more slowly at a rate of 1 stack every 4 seconds (up from 1 stack every 2 seconds).
  - Ko'ragh: DPS caster trinkets should now correctly have a chance to trigger its effects on attacks that have been completely absorbed by Ko'ragh's Nullification Barrier.
  - Imperator Mar'gok's Mark of Chaos abilities should now be correctly applied to all characters regardless of range.

PvP

Ashran
- PvP vendors in Stormshield and Warspear now have Pre-Mixed Pot of Noodles for sale to Pandaren characters.
- Conquest Primal Gladiator trinkets have had their values adjusted proportionally to the Honor Primal Combatant trinkets.
- Players are now removed from a Dungeon Finder or Raid Finder group upon accepting the queue to enter Ashran.
- Addressed an additional issue that could cause faction Captains to stop spawning.
- Events in Ashran should now occurring more frequently.
- [Hotfix in testing] A Few Artifact Fragments should no longer be awarding more reputation than intended.

Items

Everbloom Seed Pouch no longer affects other players.
Tome of the Clear Mind now stacks to 200 (up from 20).

December 11

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Garrison Buildings

[Still in testing.] Inn: Inn quests can now be completed on the spot without returning back to the Garrison.
[Still in testing.] Inn: The achievement, Stay Awhile and Listen now only requires the character to complete 10 of the 20 Inn quests (down from all 20).

Outposts

Note: The following changes to Outposts will take effect with next week's scheduled maintenance.

Reduced the cost for changing Garrison Outpost buildings in Nagrand to 500 gold.

Reduced the cost for changing Garrison Outpost buildings in Gorgrond, Talador, and Spires of Arak to 5,000 gold.

Changing Garrison Outpost buildings should now grant access to the building-specific questline for that zone, including building-specific follower(s).

Additional information on changes to Outposts can be found in the forum thread titled: Upcoming Garrison Outpost Hotfixes.
Garrison Missions
- It is now possible to continue to receive Level 95-99 missions even when all Followers are level 100.

Classes

Death Knight
- Armor Sets
  - PvP 4-piece set bonus for Blood Death Knights should no longer be incorrectly applied to other pets or guardians.
Druid
- Balance
  - Starfall now deals 33% less damage in PvP combat.
- Armor Sets
  - [Still in testing.] Tier-16 set bonuses no longer work for level 100 Feral Druids.
  - PvP 2-piece set bonus for Balance Druids can now only trigger once every 15 seconds.
  - PvP 4-piece set bonus for Guardian Druids should no longer be incorrectly applied to other pets or guardians.
Monk
- Armor Sets
  - PvP 2-piece set bonus for Brewmaster and Windwalker Monks should now correctly reduce the Energy cost of Jab.
  - PvP 2-piece set bonus for Mistweaver Monks should no longer incorrectly apply its effect to both the casting Monk and target at the same time.
  - PvP 4-piece set bonus for Brewmaster Monks should no longer be incorrectly applied to other pets or guardians.
Paladin
- Armor Sets
  - [Still in testing.] Tier-16 set bonuses no longer work for level 100 Holy Paladins.
  - PvP 2-piece set bonus for Retribution Paladins now reduces the duration of all incoming crowd control effects by 25% (down from 50%).
  - PvP 4-piece set bonus for Protection Paladins should no longer be incorrectly applied to other pets or guardians.
Priest
- General
  - Silence (Discipline) now prevents the target from casting spells for 2 seconds (down from 5 seconds). There is no change to the ability for Shadow Priests.
- Armor Sets
  - [Still in testing.] Tier-16 set bonuses no longer work for level 100 Holy Priests.
Rogue
- Talents
  - Resolved an issue where Death from Above could sometimes incorrectly be granting multiple combo points in conjunction with Ruthlessness.
Shaman
- General
  - Ghost Wolf modified by Glyph of Ghostly Speed no longer provides a movement speed increase while indoors.
  - [Still in testing.] Lava Burst (Elemental, Restoration) now deals 33% more damage in PvP combat.
- Armor Sets
  - PvP 2-piece set bonus for Enhancement Shaman now reduces the duration of all incoming crowd control effects by 25% (down from 50%).
Warlock
- Affliction
  - Nightfall should no longer fail to trigger if the most recent target of Corruption dies.
- Destruction
  - [Still in testing.] Chaos Bolt now deals 33% more damage in PvP combat.
Warrior
- Protection
  - Shield Slam modified by Glyph of Shield Slam now only dispels 1 magical effect while the Warrior is in Defensive Stance.
- Armor Sets
  - PvP 4-piece set bonus now generates 3 Rage for every 1% health lost (up from 1 Rage per 1%).

Quests

Frostfire Ridge
- A Song of Frost and Fire: Players can no longer accept this quest if The Home of the Frostwolves is already in their quest log.
- Winds of Change: Olin Umberhide should now return if he despawns for any reason.

Creatures and NPCs

Shadowmoon Valley
- Shadowspeaker Niir should now always be attackable.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Raids
- Highmaul
  - Brackenspore: Elements of the encounter should now still be visible from further away.
  - Twin Ogron: Pol's Arcane Ogron forms should now correctly use Arcane Charge based on the direction they're facing.
  - Imperator Mar'gok: Gorian Reavers now use their abilities more consistently, using Crush Armor every 6 seconds (instead of 5-8 seconds), and Kick to the Face every 20 seconds (instead of 15-30 seconds).
  - [Still in testing.] Imperator Mar'gok: Gorian Reavers now deal 15% less damage on all difficulty modes.
Dungeons
- Grimrail Depot
  - Core of Iron should now correctly only be available on Heroic difficulty.
  - Railmaster Rocketspark: Characters should no longer be taken out of stealth effects at the start of the encounter.
- Upper Blackrock Spire
  - Ragewing the Untamed: Blackhand Doomcutter should no longer be incorrectly dropping for characters that use Strength in Personal loot mode.

PvP

Ashran
- Fangraal and Kronus no longer scales their health based the number of players they're fighting. Each faction guardian's health now scales based on the number of enemy players active at the time when they're summoned.

Professions

Alchemy
- Based on player feedback, a number of adjustments have been made to Alchemy recipes. Combat potion recipes no longer requires Crescent Oil and meat/fish, and will require herbs instead. Flask recipes now use more herbs, increasing the number of herbs needed from one type of herb to two.
- Draenic Agility Potion now requires 3 Fireweed and 1 Crystal Vial.
- Draenic Armor Potion now requires 3 Frostweed and 1 Crystal Vial.
- Draenic Channeled Mana Potion now requires 3 Starflower and 1 Crystal Vial.
- Draenic Intellect Potion now requires 3 Talador Orchid and 1 Crystal Vial.
- Draenic Mana Potion now requires 3 Gorgrond Flytrap and 1 Crystal Vial.
- Draenic Strength Potion now requires 3 Nagrand Arrowbloom and 1 Crystal Vial.
- Draenic Agility Flask now requires 4 Fireweed, 4 Starflower, and 1 Crystal Vial.
- Draenic Intellect Flask now requires 4 Talador Orchid, 4 Starflower, and 1 Crystal Vial.
- Draenic Stamina Flask now requires 4 Talador Orchid, 4 Nagrand Arrowbloom, and 1 Crystal Vial.
- Draenic Strength Flask now requires 4 Gorgrond Flytrap, 4 Nagrand Arrowbloom, and 1 Crystal Vial.
Enchanting
- Enchant Boots - Mastery now increases Mastery by 9 (down from 11).
- [Still in testing.] Mark of Blackrock now triggers its effect more frequently, and can occur when the character is below 60% health (up from being below 50% health), and can also trigger from blocking an attack or absorbing damage.
- [Still in testing.] Mark of the Shattered Hand now triggers its bleed effect less frequently.
Jewelcrafting
- Based on player feedback, a number of adjustments have been made to Jewelcrafting recipes. Tier 1 gem recipes now requires more ore and less herbs. Tier 2 gem recipes will no longer requires herbs and instead require a tier 1 gem.
- Critical Strike Taladite now requires 10 True Iron Ore and 2 Fireweed.
- Haste Taladite now requires 10 Blackrock Ore and 2 Frostweed.
- Mastery Taladite take 10 True Iron Ore and 2 Starflower.
- Multistrike Taladite take 10 Blackrock Ore and 2 Nagrand Arrowbloom.
- Stamina Taladite now requires 10 True Iron Ore and 2 Talador Orchid.
- Versatility Taladite now requires 10 Blackrock Ore and 2 Gorgrond Flytrap.
- All Tier 2 gems now requires 50 Taladite Crystal, 10 Sorcerous Air, and one Tier 1 gem.

Bug Fixes

Resolved an issue where Druids that performed a Character Boost would be unable to learn the Incarnation talent until they have completed Tanaan Jungle.

December 10

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Resolved a situation that could cause ore and mining carts in a player's Garrison to despawn.
Resolved an issue where players may sometimes not correctly accrue rested experience when entering their Garrisons.
Garrison Invasions
- Players defeating the final boss that pushes their invasion score to over 1000 should now correctly be able to receive credit for obtaining a gold rating.

Classes

Druid
- Balance
  - Shooting Stars should no longer fail to trigger if the most recent target of Moonfire or Sunfire dies.
Hunter
- General
  - Resolved a number of additional situations that could cause Kill Shot (Beast Mastery, Marksmanship) to not correctly reset its cooldown.
Monk
- General
  - Transcendence: Transfer should now continue to correctly reference new transfer locations after multiple uses.
Priest
- Talents
  - Insanity's (Shadow) snare should now be correctly affected by abilities that remove or reduces the duration of snare effects.
Rogue
- Subtlety
  - Honor Among Thieves should no longer cause Rogues with the Anticipation talent to stand up after receiving a Critical heal.

Creatures and NPCs

Citizens of Dalaran! Raise your eyes to the skies and observe! Rhonin, Leader of the Kirin Tor, should now be reciting their spoken lines to characters within a much smaller radius in the streets of the city of Dalaran. Note that his text... his text are still worth reading and continue to still be visible to those within the city.
Rare creatures and NPCs are now immune to the Enslave Demon and Control Undead effect.
Goren Protector, Orc Ancestor, Ancient Ogre, and Ghostly Arakkoa should now correctly scale to level 100.
World Bosses
- The world bosses Drov the Ruiner and Tarlna the Ageless in Gorgrond now share a single loot eligibility lockout.
- Both Drov the Ruiner and Tarlna the Ageless should no longer be available at the same time.
Talador
- Cordana Felsong should now be visible to characters that are at or above level 98.
- May Tirta and James Lamone located in Zangarra can no longer be attacked by characters.
Spires of Arak
- Solar Magnifier should no longer become untargetable if they are leashed while using the Excavation ability.
Nagrand
- Gordawg no longer uses Tectonic Slam.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Raids
- Credit for defeating bosses on Raid Finder difficulty should no longer incorrectly have a daily reset instead of a weekly one.
- Highmaul
  - Tectus: Motes of Tectus should now be properly tracked in the boss frames as intended.
  - Twin Ogron: Phemos' thrown weapons now persist for 16 seconds after Quake has finished casting.
  - Ko'ragh should no longer benefit from Critical Strike auras from players that are under the effects of Dominating Power.
  - Ko'ragh: Resolved an issue where players may be unable to use execute abilities against Ko'ragh when his health is low.
Dungeons
- Bloodmaul Slag Mines
  - Slave Watcher Crushto: After being defeated, the miners should no longer be attackable, and no longer cause Croman to chase them out of range.
- Grimrail Depot
  - Nitrogg Thundertower should no longer be able to get thrown off the train and wind up being stuck in evade mode.
  - Added a second location for Iron Autocannon, Iron Limbcleaver, and Huge Crate of Weapons to the Grimrail Crash Site.

PvP

Ashran
- Bonus objectives in Ashran now have a daily reset timer.
- Fortune Favors the Bold no longer provides a bonus to Honor Point gains.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Healers leaving an Arena match should no longer sometimes cause Dampening to reset.
Resolved an additional number of situations where players could incorrectly obtain items that require Vol'jin's Spear or Wrynn's Vanguard to equip from a Rated Battleground or The Coliseum.

Items

Healing effects from healing potions should no longer incorrectly be able to critically heal or Multistrike.
Raid buffs to Mastery no longer counts for food that provides a well fed buff to the highest secondary stat.
Personal Hologram's temporary hologram of yourself should now be easier to see.

Bug Fixes

Resolved an issue where dispelling Prayer of Mending was incorrectly only removing a single charge instead of the entire effect.

December 9

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Garrison Buildings
- Barn: Increased the drop rates for Savage Blood from work orders.
- Dwarven Bunker / War Mill: Work orders now award more Iron Horde Scraps and increased the drop rates for Follower Enhancements.
- Gladiator's Sanctum: Characters can now accumulate up to a maximum of 5000 Broken Bones at a time.
- Salvage Yard: Salvage recovered from a Garrison Mission should now always contain an item.
- Trading Post: The Savage Friends achievement now only requires the character to become Exalted with 1 Draenor reputation (down from 3).
- Trading Post (Alliance): The Sha'tari Defense quartermaster now correctly offers the Sky Fry Battle Pet for sale at Revered reputation.

Classes

Druid
- General
  - Resolved an issue where Druids may sometimes lose Flight Form (and fall) when logging in or exiting from a Battleground or Arena match.
Hunter
- General
  - Kill Shot should now correctly reset its cooldown when it fails to kill the target due to Cauterize (Mage) or Guardian Spirit (Priest).
Mage
- Armor Sets
  - Mage Tier-16's 4-piece set bonus is no longer guaranteed to trigger for characters above level 90.
Warlock
- General
  - Dark Soul's cooldown should now work correctly when used in conjunction with the talent Archimonde's Darkness and Glyph of Dark Soul.

Quests

Spires of Arak
- Orders, Commander?: Resolved an issue where characters that have performed a faction change may be unable to complete the quest.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Raids
- Highmaul
  - Iron Flame Technicians should no longer be incorrectly dropping Normal difficulty loot on Raid Finder difficulty.
  - The Butcher's Heavy Handed attack should now be correctly counted as an attack for abilities that require an attack to trigger its effects.
  - The Butcher should no longer become unresponsive if a Rogue in stealth gets too close.
  - Brackenspore: Unit frames for Living Mushrooms and Rejuvenating Mushrooms should now display properly.
  - Imperator Mar'gok: Arcane Aberrations that have been Banished should now continue to use Collapsing Entity.
  - Imperator Mar'gok: Added a portal transporting players back to The Coliseum from Throne of the Imperator after Imperator Mar'gok has been defeated.
Dungeons
- Shadowmoon Burial Grounds
  - The portal that appears after Ner'zhul has been defeated should now transport players back to the beginning of the Dungeon.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

The level 90 bracket has been merged into the level 91-99 bracket.
Priests should no longer be able to continue to hold onto the flag while in Spirit of Redemption form.
Rated Battleground flag carriers in a tanking specialization should no longer be taking more damage than flag carriers in a non-tanking specialization. Previously, flag carrying tanks took 50% more damage and that stacked with an additional 25% damage received while in RBGs (additional 75% damage received total). This change removes the 50% additional damage taken while carrying a flag in an RBG.

Professions

Enchanting
- Resolved an issue that could cause Enchanter's Illusions to be reverted from an item.

Items

General goods vendors across Draenor now offer Crystal Vials and Enchanting Vellums for sale.
Consumable items that summons a fast mount can no longer be used while in a Challenge Mode.
Elixir of Deep Earth now increases armor by 67 (down from 268).
Primal Spirit is now only eligible for Greed rolls in Need Before Greed loot mode.

December 8

Class Tuning Changes

Death Knight
- Frost
  - Frost Strike's damage has increased by 7%.
  - Howling Blast's damage has increased by 7%.
  - Obliterate's damage has increased by 7%.
Hunter
- General
  - Kill Shot's (Beast Mastery, Marksmanship) damage has been reduced by 10%.
- Marksmanship
  - Aimed Shot's damage has been reduced by 10%.
Mage
- Arcane
  - Arcane Barrage's damage has increased by 16%.
  - Arcane Blast's damage has increased by 16%.
  - Arcane Explosion's damage has increased by 10%.
  - Arcane Missiles' damage has increased by 16%.
- Fire
  - Enhanced Pyrotechnics now causes a stacking 10% increased critical strike chance (up from 5% per stack).
  - Molten Armor now increases spell critical strike chance by 15% (up from 5%).
- Frost
  - Frostbolt's damage has increased by 25%.
- Talents
  - Arcane Orb's (Arcane) damage has increased by 10%.
  - Comet Storm's (Frost) damage has increased by 25%.
  - Meteor’s (Fire) damage-over-time effect has increased by 25%.
  - Nether Tempest's (Arcane) damage has increased by 10%.
  - Supernova's (Arcane) damage has increased by 12%.
Monk
- General
  - Rising Sun Kick (Windwalker, Mistweaver) now causes enemies to take 10% increased damage from the Monk's abilities (down from 15% increased damage).
Shaman
- General
  - Chain Lightning's damage has increased by 10%.
  - Lava Burst's (Elemental, Restoration) damage has increased by 10%.
  - Lightning Bolt's damage has increased by 10%.
- Elemental
  - Earthquake's damage has increased by 10%.
  - Lava Beam's damage has increased by 10%.
- Enhancement
  - Lava Lash's damage has increased by 20%.
  - Stormstrike's damage has increased by 20%.
- Restoration
  - Restorative Waves now increases all healing done by 30% (up from 25%).
- Talents
  - Elemental Blast's damage has increased by 10%.
Warrior
- Fury
  - Bloodthirst's damage has increased by 20%, and has an additional 40% chance to be a critical strike (up from 30%).
  - Execute's (Fury) damage has increased by 10%.
  - Raging Blow's damage has increased by 33%.
  - Wild Strike's damage has increased by 32%.

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Ashran has been re-enabled as a potential daily strategic assault choice. This reverts a change from November 21.
Garrison Buildings
- [Requires a realm restart.] Work orders for the following Horde buildings (Mine, Herb Garden, Goblin Workshop, War Mill, and Trading Post) and Alliance buildings (Dwarven Bunker, Gnomish Gearworks, Trading Post) should now correctly contribute credit towards the achievements for Working Some Orders and Working More Orders.
- Gem Boutique: Followers assigned to the building should now always offer a daily quest.
- Gladiator's Sanctum: Highmaul Coliseum gladiator tournament should no longer incorrectly be awarding PvP gear and items that require reputation with Vol'jin's Spear or Wrynn's Vanguard to equip.
- Gladiator's Sanctum: Work orders were awarding much more gold and items than intended. The amount of items and gold awarded has been reduced to be more comparable to other buildings.
- Herb Garden: Visitors can no longer harvest the player's Frostweed.
- Salvage Yard: Awards for salvage have been split into 3 tiers based on the level of the Garrison Mission (Levels 90-94, Levels 95-99, and Level 100). Additionally, the mission needs to be successful for a chance to receive salvage with Level 100 missions having a guaranteed chance on success.
Garrison Invasions
- Shadow Council Invasion: Concubine of Sin no longer awards points when defeated.

Quests

Shadowmoon Valley
- The Fate of Karabor: Yrel should now always assist the player with Krull. Additionally, Krull's Brutal Smash now has a reduced range of 6 yards.
Talador
- Not In Your House: Fort Wrynn Laborers should now always flee after defeating Ripgut.
- Send Them Running: Peons should now always flee after defeating Vicegnaw.

Creatures and NPCs

Grom'kar NPCs in the Frostfire Iron Siegeworks and Gorgrond Blackrock Foundry areas should now correctly have a chance to drop Iron Horde scraps for characters with a Dwarven Bunker / War Mill in their Garrisons.
Shadowmoon Valley
- Shinri should no longer be getting stuck in evade mode.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Raids
- Highmaul
  - Tectus: Visual markers for Earthen Pillar, Fracture, Meteoric Earthspire, and Radiating Poison should now be easier to see.
  - Tectus: Meteoric Earthspire now deals less damage on Normal and Heroic difficulties.
  - Tectus' targeting circle for Crystalline Barrage should now still be visible for users with projected textures disabled.
  - Twin Ogron's Fierce Disposition, Savage Disposition, and Aggressive Disposition should now be showing up in combat logs.
  - Imperator Mar'gok's Arcane mines for Destructive Resonance should now be easier to see for users with projected textures disabled.
  - Imperator Mar'gok: Visuals for Destructive Resonance should now be visible from anywhere in the Throne of the Imperator area.
  - Imperator Mar'gok's Arcane Wrath ability should no longer incorrectly jump to a player that has been Branded during Phase 4 with the Power of Replication.
Dungeons
- Auchindoun
  - Disabled the cutscene for Teron'gor that plays after defeating Azzakel on Challenge Mode.
- Skyreach
  - Ranjit should no longer occasionally target the tank with Lens Flare and Windwall.

PvP

Ashran
- Honor and reputation increases for turning in Artifact Fragments first noted on December 3, are now out of testing and have been implemented.
- Disabled health regeneration for Kronus, Fangraal, Grand Marshal Tremblade, and High Warlord Volrath when they leash or drop out of combat.
- Creatures outside of Ashran should no longer incorrectly have a chance to drop Artifact Fragments.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Rated Battlegrounds should no longer incorrectly be awarding PvP gear and items that require reputation with Vol'jin's Spear or Wrynn's Vanguard to equip.

Professions

Archeology
- Pristine Ancestral Talisman and Pristine Cracked Ivory Idol should no longer be incorrectly awarded again if the character has already obtained the item.

Items

Follower Weapon and Armor enhancements can now stack up to 20.
Temporary buffs that increase Critical Strike should now correctly increase Parry through Riposte for tanking specializations.
Cracked Potion Vials should no longer drop for non-Alchemists.
Everburning Candle was buffed much more than intended. The amount of mana granted has been reduced to 10,456 (down from 20,916). Additional information on the reasoning for this change can be found in the forum thread: Everburning Candle Changes.
Gently Squeezed Toad is no longer usable while in a Challenge Mode Dungeon.

Achievements

[Requires a realm restart.] Got My Mind On My Draenor Money now only requires looting 2,500 gold in Draenor (down from 10,000).

December 6

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Garrison Buildings
- Fishing Shack: Completing a daily Fishing quest now awards 15 skill points to Fishing (up from 1).
- Gnomish Gearworks / Goblin Workshop: Overcharged Demolisher should now be usable only in the areas it was intended for.
- Gnomish Gearworks / Goblin Workshop: "Skyterror" Personal Delivery System should now be usable only in the areas it was intended for.

Quests

[Requires a realm restart.] Corrected an issue that could cause Bloodmaul Stronghold, Shattrath City, and the Pit to sometimes not drop Apexis Crystals despite being an active quest area for the day.

Creatures and NPCs

Fate-Twister Tiklal has relocated to a more prominent location closer to the Apexis Traders in Warspear.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Raids
- Highmaul
  - [Requires a realm restart.] The Butcher: The boars Krush and Smash now deals less damage with their Boar's Rush ability and should no longer kill players in one hit.
  - Tectus: Players should no longer be able to use their bonus rolls twice after defeating Tectus.

PvP

Ashran
- To address a potential pathing issue, Fangraal, Kronus, and faction Captains now continuously push towards the enemy faction's base.
- Players entering Ashran from a PvE realm should now be correctly flagged for PvP.
- Characters should no longer be able to resurrect at the King's Road graveyard if their faction isn't in control of that point.
- Resolved an issue where faction Captains may not be spawning correctly.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Resolved an issue where if a Flag Carrier was standing in the area where their team's flag would be when it is returned, they'd be unable to capture the flag until they leave and return to the area again.
Arathi Basin: Characters on the Alliance team in a Rated Battleground should now be able to be resurrected by their Spirit Healer at the Blacksmith graveyard if their team is in control of it.
[Requires a realm restart.] Eye of the Storm: Characters in a Rated Battleground will now return to their team's starting position when releasing, regardless of what bases their team controls.
The Battle for Gilneas: Resolved issues where Spirit Healers may sometimes not spawn in correctly when a point has been captured.

Professions

First Aid
- Antiseptic Bandage no longer requires Sea Scorpion Segments to craft.
Jewelcrafting
- Critical Strike Taladite should no longer incorrectly require a Taladite Crystal to craft.

Items

Consuming a Draenor potion, elixir, or flask should no longer cause the character to break out of stealth.
Mantid Elixir now provides a more reasonable increase to armor.
Primal Combatant's Drape of Contemplation now provide a bonus to Multistrike instead of Critical Strike to differentiate it from the Drape of Meditation.
Primal Gladiator's Drape of Contemplation now provide a bonus to Multistrike instead of Critical Strike to differentiate it from the Drape of Meditation.

December 4

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Resolved an issue where players may become stuck or be disconnected while attempting to visit other Garrisons.
Garrison Buildings
- Gladiator's Sanctum Level 3: The Coliseum scenario now requires 15 players to start (up from 10).
- Herb Garden Level 3: The Draenor fruit tree should now always bear fruit even if no Followers are assigned to work there.

Classes

Player pets should now correctly rejoin the player after taking a flight path or using a vehicle.
Paladin
- General
  - Eternal Flame's initial healing has been increased by 25% for Protection and Retribution Paladins.
  - Flash of Light's healing has been reduced by 20% for Protection and Retribution Paladins.
  - Word of Glory's healing has been increased by 25% for Protection and Retribution Paladins.
Priest
- General
  - Mass Dispel should no longer be incorrectly dispelling Cyclone without a Glyph of Mass Dispel equipped.
  - Power Word: Shield critical hits should now correctly absorb only 150% of normal in PvP.
- Discipline
  - Divine Aegis' should now correctly absorb only 50% as much in PvP.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Raids
- Highmaul
  - Tectus: If Tectus enters Berserk mode while in the process of shattering, the resulting Shards of Tectus and Motes of Tectus should now correctly enter Beserk mode as well.
  - Tectus: Resolved an issue where Tectus could have no loot if the entire raid dies before his death event was complete.
  - Twin Ogron: Resolved an issue where credit for completing the achievement Brothers in Arms was being incorrectly awarded.

PvP

Critical Heals should now correctly heal for 150% of normal in PvP (they were incorrectly healing for 175% of normal).
Gladiator's Distinction, the 2-piece set bonus now reduces damage taken from players by 15% (up from 10%).
Being attacked in PvP combat and triggering the secondary item level on PvP gear should no longer cause the player's health to decrease by more than intended.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Battleground Flag Carriers should now correctly have a 45-second delay before their location is revealed to the enemy team (was incorrectly revealing their location immediately).
Resurrection times in Rated Battlegrounds has been corrected to be 25 seconds (was 15 seconds).

Guild news should no longer be displaying (and getting spammed with) entries for characters looting items for the Legendary Ring Quest Line.

Bug Fixes

Recruit-a-Friend characters should now be correctly receiving a 300% bonus to the experience awarded for completing a Dungeon (was incorrectly awarding 900% instead).
New Pandaren Hunters that use the Level 90 Character Boost should now start with a turtle pet.

World of Warcraft Patch 6.0.3, Build 19243

Released: 12-03-2014

Bug Fixes

Resolved an issue where the experience reward for a quest may display incorrectly.
Resolved a display issue for quest objectives that have received a hotfix to sometimes not update properly.
Resolved an issue where players may be unable to connect to another realm if they attempt to switch to a different realm after being in a server queue.
Resolved an issue where the Mac OS game client may sometimes crash on launch or close improperly.
Resolved an issue where adding or removing a friend may cause the player to be unable to whisper to any BattleTag friends.

December 3

World of Warcraft Patch 6.0.3, Build 19243

Released: 12-03-2014

Visit the Warlords of Draenor: Feature Overview blog for more information on 6.0.2 patch notes and hotfixes.

Bug Fixes

Resolved an issue where the experience reward for a quest may display incorrectly.
Resolved a display issue for quest objectives that have received a hotfix to sometimes not update properly.
Resolved an issue where players may be unable to connect to another realm if they attempt to switch to a different realm after being in a server queue.
Resolved an issue where the Mac OS game client may sometimes crash on launch or close improperly.
Resolved an issue where adding or removing a friend may cause the player to be unable to whisper to any BattleTag friends.

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.
Garrison Invasions
- 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.
Followers
- 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.
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.
Hunter
- 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.
Monk
- 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.
Paladin
- 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.
Priest
- General
  - Mass Dispel modified by Glyph of Mass Dispel should no longer incorrectly dispel Cyclones cast by a friendly player.
Shaman
- 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.
Warlock
- 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.
Shadowmoon Valley
- Krosnis is now immune to Enslave Demon and Banish.
Gorgrond
- 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).
Nagrand
- 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.
Dungeons
- 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.
- Upper Blackrock Spire
  - 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.
[Requires a realm restart.] Honor and Conquest PvP gear without a set bonus no longer provides the same secondary stats as PvP gear with set piece bonuses.
Ashran
- 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.
- Resolved a pathing issue for Fangraal, Kronus, and faction Captains.

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.

Resolved an issue where Draenor PvP gear may display incorrect item levels and stats.

December 2

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.
Disturbed Podlings and Goren Protectors that spawns inside of the Garrison should now be lootable if they're killed by an NPC (like a Bodyguard). An additional hotfix is being worked on that will also apply this while encountering Disturbed Podlings and Goren Protectors outside of the Garrison as well.
Barn: Iron Trap, Improved Iron Trap, and Deadly Iron Trap should no longer be incorrectly triggering when other players run over it.
Dwarven Bunker / War Mill Level 2: Added a 2 hour grace period for cosmetic gear purchases from this building, allowing characters to sell the item back for a full refund. Note that utilizing the item for transmogrification will remove this grace period.
Gladiator's Sanctum Level 3: Fight, Kill, Salute! now awards 500 Conquest Points (down from 1500).
Menagerie Level 3: Reduced the number of pet battle wins needed for the Draenic Pet Battler achievement from 500 to 150.
Stables Level 3: Completely The Stable Master achievement should now correctly award the Stable Master title.
Garrison Missions
- 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).
Mage
- Armor Sets
  - Mage Tier-12 2-piece set bonus' summoned Mirror Images should no longer be dealing an excessive amount of damage.
Monk
- Mistweaver
  - Enveloping Mist's healing has been increased by 50%.
Paladin
- General
  - Seal of Insight's healing effect should now be able to Multistrike or Critically Strike.
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.

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.
Gorgrond
- 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.
Talador
- Daggerjaw Pridelord, Daggerjaw Raider, and Daggerjaw Hoarder now deal less damage.
Nagrand
- 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.
Legendary Ring Quest Line
- 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.
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.
- Iron Docks
  - Grimrail Enforcers: Makogg Emberblade's Lava Sweep should now always deal damage to players.
- Skyreach
  - Credit for completing the achievement I Saw Solis should now be correctly awarded.
- Upper Blackrock Spire
  - 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).
Engineering
- Blingtron 5000 should now correctly resume offering their daily quest after defeating another Blingtron.
Inscription
- 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.
A number of items with no function are now listed as gray/junk quality item.
Alchemical Catalyst is now an Uncommon quality item.
Aviana's Feather now only works in outdoor Draenor areas, and other outdoor areas that allow flight.
Metamorphic Crystal has no function is now listed as gray/junk quality item.
N.U.K.U.L.A.R. Target Painter no longer works during a Brawler's Guild match.
Oralius' Whispering Crystal no longer provides a buff to Spirit.
Ultimate Gnomish Army Knife can no longer be used while in an Arena or Battleground.

Tooltips for players in Premade Groups should no longer incorrectly display their level 90 Proving Grounds achievements.

November 25

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.
Monk
- Talents
  - Chi Explosion's visuals should now be more visible and the ability's sound effects should no longer be too quiet.
Paladin
- Holy
  - Beacon of Light's sound effects should no longer be excessively loud.

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.
Garrison
- 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.
Ashran
- 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.
- Upper Blackrock Spire
  - Orebender Gor'ashan's visuals for his Electric Pulse should now correctly reflect the ability's area-of-effect.
Challenge Mode
- 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).
Enchanting
- 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.
- 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.
Druid
- 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.
- Feral
  - Predatory Swiftness no longer increases the healing done by Healing Touch.
- Talents
  - 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.
Mage
- Arcane
  - Arcane Blast's damage has been increased by 10%.
- Fire
  - Pyroblast's damage has been increased by 35%.
Monk
- 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.
- Brewmaster
  - 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%).
- Glyphs
  - Glyph of Keg Smash should now correctly increase the range of Keg Smash.
Paladin
- 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%).
Shaman
- 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).
- Enhancement
  - Lava Lash's damage has been increased by 20%.
  - Stormstrike's damage has been increased by 20%.
Warlock
- Affliction
  - Agony's damage has been increased by 20%.
  - Unstable Affliction's damage has been increased by 20%.
- Demonology
  - 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%.
- Destruction
  - 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%.
- Talents
  - 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.
Warrior
- Protection
  - Revenge's damage has been reduced by 20%.
  - Shield Slam's damage has been reduced by 20%.

November 24

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.

November 21

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.
Spires of Arak
- 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.
Legendary Ring Quest Line
- 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.
- Call to Arms for in-demand roles have been reeanabled for Dungeon Finder. Completing the dungeon awards a Satchel of Savage Mysteries with a chance to contain new treasures and it will always contain an Augment Rune, a tradeable item that provides a consumable buff that is ordinarily only available through Raid Finder.
- An award of 50 Garrison Resources has been added for completing the first Random Warlords of Draenor Heroic Dungeon of the day.
- Grimrail Depot
  - Railmaster Rocketspark's X21-01A Missile Barrage now deals 20% less damage.
- Skyreach
  - 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.
- The Everbloom
  - Putrid Pyromancer should no longer continue to track the player when using their Dragon's Breath ability.
- Upper Blackrock Spire
  - 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.
Molten Core
- 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.

November 19

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.
Mage
- Talents
  - Prismatic Crystal when conjured, should now correctly last for its full duration.
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.
Warlock
- 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.
Garrisons
- 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.

November 18

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.
Mage
- Talents
  - Comet Storm should now correctly belong to the Frost school and is no longer usable if that school is locked.
Paladin
- Talents
  - [Requires a realm restart.] Holy Shield should now correctly deal damage when blocking normal attacks as well.

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).

November 17

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.

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.
Challenge Mode
- 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
Blackfire Scepter now grants a more modest increase to Intellect.
Bloodwood Wand now grants a less astronomical bonus to Spell Power.
Oralius' Whispering Crystal now increases all stats by 100 (down from 200).
Shieldtronic Shield should now correctly create a damage absorption shield instead of reflecting the damage back at an attacker.

Bug Fix

Resolved an issue where boosting characters that have XP disabled could wind up being unable to level.

November 15

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

Coliseum Champion's Spoils and Gleaming Ashmaul Strongboxes should no longer incorrectly have a chance to contain Epic quality PvP weapons.
Bonus Objective: Kill Warspear Priests no longer awards a Gleaming Ashmaul Strongbox.

Professions

Characters with over 600 skill should no longer continue to find catch-up items for the respective profession.

Items

Excavated Highmaul Thingamabob, Fungus-Infected Hydra Lung, Pulsating Brain of No'losh, and Thornmother Eye can now trigger its effect from non-healing spells as well.
Resolved an issue causing the Mists of Pandaria Legendary Cloaks and Metagems to remain effective for level 100 characters.

November 14

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

Mine Level 2: Mining carts should now be easier to spot and should contain more than 1 piece of ore.
Followers
- Artificer Romuul: Resolved an issue where characters were not receiving the quest.

Classes

Druid
- Balance
  - Resolved an issue where the balance cycle may incorrectly force the Druid to stand up.

Quests

Defense of Karabor: Resolved an issue where characters may not receive completion credit for the quest.
I See Dead People: Resolved an issue where Bryan Finn may become unresponsive.
Kaelynara Sunchaser: Resolved an issue where characters were unable to return to their bodies in Spirit Form if they die inside the Jorune Mines.
Leave Nothing Behind!: Kur'ak the Binder now spawns more frequently.
Mulverick's Plight: Increased the drop rate for Mulverick's Axe.
Ogre Diplomacy: Increased the spawn rates of the Ango'rosh Ogres.
Save Wolf Home: Gronnstalker Korhol, Beastmaster Trokar, and Giantslayer Zhakta should now spawn more frequently. Additionally, resolved an issue where characters may be unable to complete profession quests while this quest is active.
The Defense of Karabor: Resolved an issue where completing this quest may cause characters to be unable to progress if they're also on the quest for The Righteous March.

Creatures

Echo of Murmur now spawns more frequently.
Made a pass on a number of rare creatures to allow multiple players to receive credit for personal loot if they helped defeat them.
Reduced the density of Squirrels in Nagrand and, critters and Icespine Hatchlings in Frostfire Ridge.

November 13

Classes

Monk
- Brewmaster
  - Resolved an issue where Keg Smash may sometimes not generate Chi when used.

Quests

Artificer Romuul: Resolved an issue where players may sometimes not receive this quest after completing the Embaari Defense Crystal event.
Book Burning: Shadowborne Dementor should now always drop a Shadow Council Spellbook.
Shivertail's Den: Made a change to make it easier to receive credit for "Find Shivertail's Mother".
The Great Salvation: Draenei prisoners should spawn more frequently now.
The Warlord's Guard: Increased the spawn rates for Thunk, Gullok, and Splorg.
These Colors Don't Run: Characters now receive credit towards planting a Frostwolf Banner when they defeat or help in defeating a Bladespire Ogre with the exception of Bladespire Mauler, Chef, Boarbuster, Ogron, and Goresnout.
Wrath of Gronn: Increased the spawn rate for Captive Gronns.

Creatures and NPCs

Collision geometry has been added to Drek'Thar, Thrall, and Gazlowe in Frostfire Ridge.
Gorg the Host should now allow multiple players to receive credit for defeating it.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Resolved an issue where item levels for Battlegrounds, Arenas, and Skirmishes brackets below level 100 were not scaling correctly.

Items

Epic rings that are a part of the Legendary quest line can no longer be disenchanted.

Quests

Adherents of the Sun God: Increased spawn rates for Adherent Bladewing.
Dark Enemies: Increased spawn rates for Shadowmoon Voidmancer.
Escape from Shaz'gul: Players can now receive completion credit for the quest by defeating Terrorfang at the end.
[Requires a realm restart.] Gormaul Tower: (Temporary) Completion credit for the quest is automatically awarded once players reach the top of the hill.
Great Balls of Fire!: To address an issue where some players were unable to destroy the barricade, players now receive quest completition credit once they get to the top of the ramp.
Quakefist: Quakefist's health now scales based on the number of players fighting it.
These Colors Don't Run: Multiple players can now place a banner on a Bladespire Ogre if they had tap rights.

Creatures

Various Kaliri in the Spires of Arak area should no longer be too high off the ground to be attacked.
Various creatures should now correctly have a chance to drop fur that could be used for tailoring.

Items

Abberant's Paw, Gnarled Goren Jaw, and Redclaw's Gutripper now give a bonus to Spell Power.
Toy Train Set has been temporarily disabled.

Classes

Druid
- Balance
  - Resolved an issue where the Eclipse indicator in the UI can sometimes not match the Druid's current Balance power.

Quests

Back to Work / Looking for Lumber: Greatly increased the number of trees available to mark for both Horde and Alliance versions of the quest. Additionally, Lunarfall Ravens respawn much more quickly now.
Closing the Door: Resolved an issue where Void Portals may sometimes not close correctly.
Honor Has Its Rewards: The Shamanstone no longer requires characters to interact with it and will grant its blessing to players that are nearby.
Quakefist: Quakefist now spawns outside of the cave, making it easier to locate.
Ship Salvage / What We Need: Drudgeboat Salvage should now respawn more quickly.
The Clarity Elixir: Pristine Star Lily can now be looted by multiple players at the same time.
These Colors Don't Run: Greatly increased the spawn rates for Bladespire Ogres and made them share tap credit.
Vengeance for the Fallen: Bleeding Hollow orcs respawn much more quickly now.

Creatures

Durotan at Beastwatch in Gorgrond is now significantly tougher.
Gorum can now be tapped by multiple characters. All players who contributed to defeating Gorum will now become eligible for loot.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

Challenge Mode
- Characters can switch specializations once more after the Challenge Mode has started.

November 12

Classes

Death Knight
- Talents
  - Necrotic Plague now deals 20% more damage.
Druid
- Balance
  - Lunar Peak should no longer incorrectly display as having 2 charges (it was always only 1 charge). Additionally, the tooltip will be updated in a future patch to clarify the damage increase only applies to Moonfire's initial damage.
Hunter
- General
  - Explosive Trap now deals additional Fire damage over 10 seconds (down from 20 seconds). Total amount of damage dealt remains unchanged.
- Talents
  - Binding Shot should now correctly stun targets affected by silence when they move more than 5 yards from the arrow. Additionally, targets should no longer incorrectly break out of stealth on entering Binding Shot's area of effect.
Mage
- Fire
  - Combustion is now learned at level 80 (up from level 77).
Monk
- Brewmaster
  - Stance of the Sturdy Ox now increases armor by 75% (up from 50%), and reduces magic damage taken by 15% (up from 10%).
Priest
- General
  - Power Word: Shield now absorbs 20% more damage.
- Discipline
  - Holy Nova's healing has been reduced by 41%.
  - Penance's damage and healing has been increased by 20%.
Rogue
- Talents
  - Resolved an issue where Posthaste may sometimes not trigger correctly with Disengage.
Warlock
- Destruction
  - Fire and Brimstone should now correctly hit all secondary targets within 10 yards, regardless of whether they're in combat with the Warlock.
- Talents
  - Damage caused by Burning Rush while Soul Link is active should no longer incorrectly cause the Warlock to go into combat.
  - Stacks of Demonbolt debuff should no longer be incorrectly removed by Hand of Protection.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

The Postmaster received a talking to and should no longer be mailing large amounts of unimportant items to players.

Pet Battle

Grommloc, the delightfully dreadful baby murloc masquerading as Grommash Hellscream, legendary leader of the Warsong clan is now available. Players eligible to receive this pet will find it in their in-game mailbox. An Achievement for obtaining this battle pet will be added in a future patch.

Items

Darkmoon Top Hat can now only be used while the Darkmoon Faire is active.

November 5

Racials

Dwarven Stoneform ability should no longer cause the character to break out of stealth.

Classes

Death Knight
- General
  - Outbreak modified by Glyph of Outbreak should no longer incorrectly consume Runic Power if the attack misses.
Hunter
- General
  - Explosive Trap modified by Glyph of Explosive Trap should now correctly knock enemies away from the trap instead of away from the Hunter.
  - Freezing Trap should now trigger correctly when a stealthed character walks over it.
- Survival
  - Serpent Sting should now be correctly applied to targets even if they move more than 40 yards away when struck by Arcane Shot.
- Hunter Pets
  - Tenacity Pet Specialization: Blood of the Rhino now reduces the pet's physical damage taken by 15% instead of increasing armor by 20%.
  - Tenacity Pet Specialization: Great Stamina now increases the pet's health by 60% (up from 12%).
  - Carrion Bird: Bloody Screech can now be set to autocast.
Priest
- Discipline
  - Divine Aegis should now correctly factor in the increase from Might of the Mountain racial passive.
  - Holy Nova's healing has been decreased by 15%.
- Talents
  - Divine Star's healing or damage (depending on Specialization) has been increased by 15%.
Warlock
- General
  - Doomguards should no longer run out of energy from casting Doom Bolts.
Warrior
- Talents
  - Sudden Death is now 2.5 RPPM (real procs per minute increased by Haste) instead of a 10% chance to activate from autoattacks.

Quests

Just Around the Corner: Characters should now be able to interact with Sparksocket's Tools.
The Brothers Bronzebeard: Brann's Flying Machine has been made to be more sturdy and should no longer be destroyed too quickly.
The Fall of Neferset City: Dark Pharaoh Tekahn should now spawn in correctly, allowing players to complete the quest.
The Strength of Tortolla: The quest can now be completed by characters with the PvP flag enabled.
Truce?: Characters should now be able to interact with Dull Carving Knife.

World Environment

Fixed an issue where Zidormi may send players to an incorrect phase in the Blasted Lands.
Timeless Isle
- Resolved an issue where Mist-Covered Treasure Chest could sometimes be empty.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Terrace of Endless Spring
- Protectors of the Endless: Protector Kaolan's Defiled Ground ability now deals less damage.
Heart of Fear
- [Requires a realm restart.] Garalon: Destroying Garalon's Legs should now correctly damage Garalon and resolved a situation where players facing one of the legs may incorrectly receive an error message that they're not.
Dungeons
- Siege of Niuzao Temple: Players should now be able to complete the achievement, Where's My Air Support?
- Well of Eternity: Players should now be able to complete the achievement, That's Not Canon!
Challenge Mode
- Once a Challenge Mode has started, characters can no longer change specializations, talents, or glyphs.

PvP

Resolved an issue where some eligible characters did not receive a Prideful Gladiator's Cloud Serpent.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Battlegrounds
- [Requires a realm restart.] Characters should now receive a popup notifying them with the amount of bonus Honor that was awarded at the end of a Random Battleground match.
Arenas
- Priests entering an Arena match while in Spirit of Redemption form should no longer die during the Arena Preparation phase.

Professions

Mixology should be working correctly doubles the duration of flasks and elixirs once more.

Items

[Requires a realm restart.] Adjusted a number of item enhancements from earlier expansions that were providing a larger than intended bonus.
Adjusted a number of potions from the Cataclysm expansion that were providing a larger than intended bonus.
Crocolisk Au Gratin should now correctly provide a buff to Haste and Stamina instead of Expertise and Stamina.
Fisherman's Feast now provides a more reasonable buff to Stamina.
Formula: Enchant Ring - Striking no longer has a use effect as the formula it teaches no longer exists.
Haunted Memento's Haunted effect is now a buff that can be removed by the character.

Bug Fixes

Resolved an issue where items transmogrified into The Horseman's Horrific Hood or The Horseman's Sinister Slicer could revert back to their original state.
Resolved an issue where boosting characters could cause them to forget spells that have been taught by items.

November 3

Darkmoon Faire

Reduced the levels of Moonfang, Moonfang Packmate, Moonfang Dreadhowl, Moonfang Snarler, and Darkmoon Rabbit back to pre-Warlords expansion levels. The creatures needs to respawn for the changes to take effect.
Heirloom items sold at the Darkmoon Faire should no longer have a gold cost associated with them.
Firebird's Challenge: Blazing Rings are no longer shared with other players.
It's Hammer Time: Characters that have been flagged as PvP enabled should now be able to complete the quest.

Classes

Hunter
- Talents
  - Damage from A Murder of Crows can no longer be dodged.
Priest
- Talents
  - Discipline: Spirit Shell's damage absorption shield should no longer be weaker than intended.
Rogue
- Talents
  - Burst of Speed should now be usable even if the Rogue is under the effects of other movement speed buffs.
Shaman
- Elemental
  - Earthquake's knock down effect is no longer affected by diminishing returns, but the knock down effect now only has a duration of 1.5 seconds.

Quests

Blood of the Betrayer: Rogues should now be able to remove Arcane Infused Armor from Nalice, and be able to complete the quest.
Dah, Nunt... Dah, Nunt...: Players should no longer remain stunned indefinitely and be able to complete the quest.
Get Kraken!: Increased the health for North Sea Kraken by 1000%.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Raids
- Throne of Thunder
  - [Requires a realm restart.] Dark Winds debuff should no longer incorrectly persist on the character, preventing them from being able to use mounts.
- Ulduar
  - XT-002 Deconstructor's Searing Light ability should no longer deal an excessive amount of damage.
- The Obsidian Sanctum
  - Defeating Sartharion too quickly should no longer cause him to not drop a mount.
- Black Temple
  - Illidan Stormrage: Fixed an issue where defeating Flames of Azzinoth too quickly in phase 2 may cause Illidan to not land.
Dungeons
- Ahn'kahet: The Old Kingdom: Resolved an issue where players defeating multiple packs of creatures in the room too quickly could cause Jedoga Shadowseeker to remain not attackable.
- Hellfire Ramparts: Players should now be able to loot the Reinforced Fel Iron Chest after defeating Vazruden the Herald.
- Razorfen Downs: Resolved an issue where Amnennar the Coldbringer may sometimes fail to be summoned when Death Speaker Blackthorn is defeated.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Battlegrounds
- Increased Honor gains for Arathi Basin, Deepwind Gorge, Eye of the Storm, and The Battle for Gilneas. Honor is now awarded for every 150 resources gathered (up from Honor being awarded for every 250 resources gathered).
- Returning a flag in Battlegrounds should correctly play an appropriate sound once more.

Items

Made a number of adjustments where lower level food items were providing a larger than intended buff.

Timeless Isle Tokens and legendary weapons looted during the fight with Kael'thas Sunstrider in Tempest Keep are no longer included in the guild news panel.
Bags set to "Ignore this bag" should now be saving the setting correctly when the character logs out or zones into a new area.
/console colorblindshader [0-8] has been re-enabled and replaced with /console colorblindsimulator [0-8].

Bug Fixes

Resolved a frame rate stuttering issue that was affecting some Mac OS clients.
[Requires a realm restart.] Mobile Armory's guild chat should be working once more.

October 30

Hallow's End

Exquisite Costume Set: "The Lich King" now allows the user to ride on a mount while transformed.

Classes

Resolved an issue where durations for periodic effects were not always being extended for the full amount when refreshed by another ability.
Death Knight
- Unholy
  - Necrosis’ damage has been increased by 67%.
  - Scourge Strike’s damage has been increased by 50%.
  - Unholy Might now increases Strength by 5% (down from 10%).
- Talents
  - Defile should no longer be growing in radius and damage by more than the intended amount.
Druid
- General
  - Druids are no longer able to switch specializations while in Flight Form.
  - Druid shapeshift forms should now override the transformation from Fire-Watcher's Oath.
  - Wrath’s damage has been increased by 25%.
- Balance
  - Starfall’s damage has been increased by 75%.
  - Starfire’s damage has been increased by 25%.
  - Starsurge’s damage has been increased by 25%. Additionally, resolved an issue where Starsurge may sometimes provide an incorrect Lunar or Solar Empowerment.
- Restoration
  - Nature's Swiftness should no longer incorrectly allow Cyclone to be cast while in any shapeshift form.
- Talents
  - [Requires a realm restart.] Nature's Vigil now heals nearby targets for 20% of the healing done (down from 30%), but can now trigger from Multistrikes.
Hunter
- General
  - Adaptation now increases Combat Experience’s damage increase to 70% (down from 85%).
- Beast Mastery
  - Kill Command’s damage has been increased by 20%.
- Marksmanship
  - Chimaera Shot’s damage has been reduced by 13%.
- Talents
  - Focusing Shot now has a 2.5 second cast time (down from 3 seconds), and its damage has been increased by 25%.
Mage
- General
  - Conjured food no longer has a level requirement to use.
- Arcane
  - Resolved an issue where notifications for Arcane Missiles charges may sometimes not display properly.
- Frost
  - Frostbolt’s damage has been reduced by 20%.
- Talents
  - Cauterize should no longer be dealing more damage than intended to the Mage.
  - Alter Time should now work correctly for characters below level 77.
Monk
- General
  - Resolved an issue where Stance of the Fierce Tiger's movement speed increase was not working correctly for newly created Monks.
- Brewmaster
  - Black Ox Statue should no longer be attacking targets.
- Talents
  - Chi Explosion now deals reduced damage to secondary targets. Damage to the primary target remains unchanged.
Priest
- Discipline
  - Smite critical hits should no longer incorrectly cause the target to be healed for a greater than intended amount through Atonement while also receiving a larger than intended damage shield that's granted through Divine Aegis.
- Shadow
  - Mastery: Mental Anguish now increases damage by 3.125% per point (up from 2.5%).
- Glyphs
  - [Requires a realm restart.] Glyph of Inner Fire and Glyph of Inner Sanctum should now be correctly removed as those glyphs no longer exist.
Rogue
- Combat
  - Killing Spree should no longer cancel or end prematurely if one of their targets is immune to damage.
Shaman
- General
  - Lava Burst's visuals should no longer be excessively large.
- Elemental
  - Earthquake's visuals are no longer visible for friendly players.
  - Shamanism now increases Lightning Bolt's damage by 70% (up from 36%).
- Enhancement
  - Fire Nova now has a maximum of 7 novas that can be triggered if more than 7 targets are affected by Flame Shock.
  - Maelstrom Weapon should no longer incorrectly persist after the Shaman has switched to a different specialization.
- Talents
  - Echo of the Elements effect should now be correctly consumed during Ascendance.
  - Elemental Blast's damage has been increased by 20%.
Warlock
- Demonology
  - Molten Core should no longer incorrectly trigger its effect based on the casting Warlock's health
  - Resolved an issue where Soul Fire's damage was reduced by a greater than intended amount.
- Destruction
  - Resolved a situation where interactions between Immolate, Fire and Brimstone, and Cataclysm could cause Immolate to deal less damage than intended.
- Talents
  - Cataclysm now has a slight visual which can be seen by the Warlock's allies when it's being cast.
Warrior
- General
  - Heroic Leap should no longer allow the Warrior to ignore vertical terrain restrictions while in a Dungeon, Raid, or Battleground.
  - Whirlwind’s damage has been reduced by 30%.
- Talents
  - Ravager’s damage has been reduced by 25%.
  - Slam’s damage has been reduced by 30%.

Quests

Breaking the Emperor's Shield: Nakk'rakas should no longer despawn, allowing players to complete the quest.

Creatures

Damp Shambler's Renewing Mists now heals for less.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Siege of Orgrimmar
- [Requires a realm restart.] Paragons of the Klaxxi: Resolved an issue where Kil'ruk the Wind-Reaver could not be looted.
- Downfall Wing 4: Resolved an issue where Gnomish Gyrocopters may not be destroying Thresher Turrets for Alliance players.
Throne of Thunder
- Jin'rokh the Breaker's Ionization effect should no longer deal an excessive amount of damage.
Icecrown Citadel
- [Requires a realm restart.] The Lich King's Harvest Soul ability should no longer deal an excessive amount of damage.
Trial of the Crusader
- Anub'arak's Leeching Swarm should no longer be healing Anub'arak for an excessive amount.
Dungeons
- [Requires a realm restart.] Blackrock Caverns: Angered Earth should now spawn in when Rom'ogg Bonecrusher hits a player with Quake.
- Razorfen Kraul: Groyat, the Blind Hunter's Drain Life ability should no longer damage or heal for an excessive amount.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Arenas
- Tol'viron Arena should now correctly have Dampening.
Battlegrounds
- Deepwind Gorge: Status of the mine cart should now be updating correctly.
- Isle of Conquest: Huge Seaforium Bombs no longer have a level requirement to interact with them.

Items

Elixirs from the Cataclysm expansion should no longer be more powerful than their counterparts from Mists of Pandaria.
Boiled Silkworm Pupa now provides a buff to Critical Strike instead of Hit.
[Requires a realm restart.] Claws of Agony and Claws of Torment's 2-piece set bonus now gives a more reasonable amount of Haste.
Manual Crowd Pummeler's on-use effect now grants a more reasonable increase to Haste.
Technique: Glyph of the Executor no longer has an effect as the Glyph it teaches no longer exists.
Zandalarian Hero Badge now provides a more reasonable amount of Armor.

Settings for SET ffxGlow should no longer be resetting when exiting the game client.

October 28

Quests

Roll Club: Serpent's Spine should no longer cause players to float and allow them to complete the quest.
Zarhym Altogether: Spirit Chests looted during the weekly quest no longer contains gold.

World Environment

World Defense chat channel should be joinable once again.
Alliance characters taking a flight path to Shattered Beachhead should now arrive safely at their destination (rather than falling through the world).

Battlegrounds and Arenas

Bonus Honor for winning a Battleground is now only awarded when queuing for a Random Battleground (it was incorrectly awarding the bonus Honor for any Battleground win).

6.0.3 Hotfixes: February 17