World of Warcraft News and Raiding Strategies

We’ve just added a new reward to the Recruit-A-Friend (RAF) reward stables—the incendiary Cindermane Charger. Found on the remote fragmented islands of the Firelands, these smoldering steeds run with the fury of Ragnaros—perfect for blazing a trail across Azeroth and Draenor.

The Cindermane Charger is only available through the RAF program, so get to recruiting now to earn your new mount!


Learn more about the Recruit-A-Friend program here.

General

• Players are now able to whisper or send party invites to players on any realm.

Classes

• Death Knight (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • Blood
    
    • Shadow of Death should no longer be incorrectly canceled by Lichborne.
• Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • General
    
    • Movement speed bonuses from Stag Form combined with Stampeding Roar should now stack additively (previously, it did not and resulted in a loss of movement speed when both were combined).
  • Balance
    
    • Starfall and Sunfall should now correctly only hit enemies afflicted by the casting Druid's Moonfire or Sunfire without an active Glyph of Untamed Stars glyph.
  • Feral
    
    • Lunar Inspiration's Moonfire (Feral) now deals 20% more damage.Got it.
    • Initial attacks for Rake and Thrash should no longer be incorrectly benefitting from Bloodtalons twice.
  • Talents
    
    • Fixed an issue where Wild Charge in Aquatic Form was not working correctly.
• Hunter (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • General
    
    • Ice Trap trigger area should now match the visual.
  • Marksman
    
    • Chimaera Shot now deals 20% less damage in PvP combat.
• Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • General
    
    • Fixed an issue where Enhanced Roll was not correctly increasing the Monk's speed as much as it should.
  • Mistweaver
    
    • Mana Tea modified by Glyph of Mana Tea should now benefit correctly from Spirit.
• Paladin (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • General
    
    • Fixed an issue where Paladins had an extra spellbook tab for glyphs.
• Priest (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • Talents
    
    • Saving Grace (Discipline, Holy) now heals for 25% less in PvP combat.
• Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • Talents
    
    • Rogues with the Subterfuge talent no longer incorrectly break out of Stealth from Prayer of Mending (Priest).
    • Fixed an issue where Subterfuge and Vanish interacted incorrectly, resulting in the wrong action bar being displayed for a short time.
• Shaman (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • Enhancement
    
    • Fire Nova visuals should now be visible to the casting Shaman.
  • Restoration
    
    • Lava Burst no longer deals extra damage in PvP combat for Restoration Shaman.

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

• General
  
  • Music Roll: Totems of the Grizzlemaw should now play the correct Grizzly Hills track.
  • Increased the spawn rate for the chest containing Music Roll: Night Song in Darnassus.
• Garrison Campaign Quests
  
  • Scouting Missives can now be completed if the player has already completed the daily version of the quests.
  • Herbs Galore: Completing the quest should now award 25 Primal Spirits (up from 15).
  • Portable Portals (Horde version): Fixed an issue where Gez'la was not offering the quest to eligible players.
• Garrison Buildings
  
  • Dwarven Bunker / War Mill: Increased the chance for obtaining Follower armor and weaponry sets from work orders.
  • Mage Tower / Spirit Lodge, Level 1: It should now support up to 7 work orders (was incorrectly only able to support 1 work order).

Quests

• Gorgrond
  
  • Mossy Fate: Players should now be able to complete the quest if they receive Kaz the Shrieker as a Follower.

Classes
Creatures and NPCs

• Heirloom vendors Estelle Gendry (Horde) and Krom Stoutarm (Alliance) are now ensuring that they have a lot more personal space.

PvP

• Ashran
  
  • Being in a Premade Group should no longer prevent players from entering Ashran.
  • Fixed an issue where players in the same raid or party but in different instances of Ashran would still see each other's markers on the map.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

• Battlegrounds
  
  • [Requires a realm restart] Low-level items should no longer have an excessive amount of Bonus Armor.
  • War Games now should have a 25-second resurrection timer.
  • Temple of Kotmogu: Paladins can no longer use Divine Shield or Hand of Protection on players holding an orb in Temple of Kotmogu.
  • Temple of Kotmogu: Hunters can no longer use Camouflage to drop an orb in Temple of Kotmogu.

Collections

• Heirlooms
  
  • [Requires a realm restart] Musty Tome of the Lost should now correctly accept Heirloom armor upgrade tokens (was incorrectly using weapon upgrade tokens instead).
• Battle Pets
  
  • Battle Pet healing abilities should now heal for an amount much closer to the values stated in the tooltip.
• Toy Box
  
  • S.E.L.F.I.E. Cameras can now be used while under a stealth effect.
• Mounts
  
  • Chauffeured Chopper can no longer be driven by party members that are visiting another player's Garrison.

Classes
Items

• Increased the amount of Stamina granted from Draenor food.
  
  • Tier 1 Stamina food now gives a bonus of 112 Stamina (up from 75).
  • Tier 2 Stamina food received no change and remains at 150 Stamina.
  • Tier 3 Stamina food now gives a bonus of 187 Stamina (up from 125).
• The following glyphs are no longer bind on pickup.
  
  • Glyph of the Solstice (Druid)
  • Glyph of Flying Fists (Monk)
  • Glyph of Cleanse (Paladin)
  • Glyph of Purification (Priest)
  • Glyph of Purify Spirit (Shaman)
• Primal Combatant's Medallion of Adaptation should now correctly count towards the PvP trinket set bonus, Gladiator's Distinction.

Bug Fixes

• General
  
  • Fixed an issue where Touch of the Naaru's visuals was not correctly attached to character models.
  • Primal Combatant's Medallion of Adaptation should now convert into the correct faction version for characters that had undergone a Paid Faction Transfer.
• Achievements
  
  • Don't Call Me Junior: Exploration Mission Master is no longer a requirement for completing the achievement.
  • [Requires a realm restart] Securing Draenor: Removed Challenge at the Ring of Blood as one of the requirements for completing the achievement.
  • What A Strange, Interdimensional Trip It's Been: Credit should now be correctly awarded for defeating Rukhmar with Pepe atop your head.

Garrison Visitor - Profession Traders
We've gone over the feedback regarding visiting profession traders. There's now a hotfix being worked on to remove the random element and have profession traders rotate out daily. The hotfix isn't ready yet, but it will be implemented as soon as possible. In short, no more fur traders visiting for multiple days in a row.

The hotfix has been implemented on the live realms. Visiting profession traders should now be on a daily rotation. *Crosses talons the fur trader isn't first in the rotation.* (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Flight Path Logic
One specific flight path that I notice from doing the jukebox quest is trying to fly from the piece you get at Pinchwhistle to Everbloom to get the piece there. The flight path connects through a series of points that goes in a western arc through the middle of Talador then up through Gorgrond when it could easily have gone through a straighter path north.
This one surprised me, and you don't have to point all the way to Everbloom. In recreating what you did, I went to Pinchwhistle and hovered over Beastwatch, and saw the issue.

Thank you for the good example. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Character / Items
Will heirlooms change primary stats similar to how gear in Draenor changes stats with the new system in 6.1
To add: it is something we’re keeping an eye on for the future as we see how players interact with the Heirloom system. (WarcraftDevs)

are Don Carlos's Famous Hat and the River Boat good candidates for the toy box?
Not at this time, but thank you for the suggestions. What other things would you like to see as toys? (WarcraftDevs)

- might've missed my last one - any chance of Illusion: Soulfrost and Illusion: Sunfire making it to the game ? Maybe in 6.1 ?
Not in 6.1. We’re excited by the potential of the Illusion system & always happy to hear which ones players might enjoy, though! (WarcraftDevs)

Reputation / Questing
Frostwolf Orcs and Council of Exarchs rep achievs are per-character, but show up on opposite faction, is this fixed in 6.1?
Not in 6.1, but we're aiming to have this fixed in 6.2. (WarcraftDevs)

World
Can you fix the female troll with a female orc voice in the dmf plz...She is the first troll juggler when you enter.
This is fixed in 6.1. (WarcraftDevs)

Garrisons
are the followers recruited via the Inn finite? eg will always picking Magic Debuff eventually exhaust that pool of followers?
Finite, but there are a whole lot of them. It would take you over a year of recruiting to get all of the Magic Debuff followers. (WarcraftDevs)

Why is my level 94 DK not getting Highmaul follower missions even though it has enough 645 ilevel followers?
Cache missions will join the rotation once you hit level 100. (WarcraftDevs)
Why cache missions but not all the other gear ones, though?
Cache missions are based upon your progress in the various raid instances. (WarcraftDevs)

Classes

• Tanking Specializations no longer generate threat from heals.
• Fixed an issue where threat dropping abilities were sometimes incorrectly removing crowd-control effects.
• Fixed an issue where images summoned by Spectral Guide (Priest Talent) or Mirror Image (Mage) would incorrectly retain threat when resummoned.
• Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • General
    
    • Shifting in-and-out of Cat Form should now correctly reapply Cat Form's speed bonus while Dash or Stampeding Roar is active.
    • Fixed an issue where various item effects that provides a buff based on the player's highest stat sometimes picked the wrong stat for Balance and Restoration Druids that were shapeshifted into Bear Form or Cat Form.
    • Fixed an issue where Ferocious Bite may consume more Energy than intended when the ability Multistrikes.
  • Talents
    
    • Bloodtalons (Feral) should no longer incorrectly consume a charge if the attack misses, is dodged, or parried.
• Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • Talents
    
    • Prismatic Crystal should no longer be incorrectly affected by friendly auras that reduces damage taken.
• Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • General
    
    • Tiger Strikes should no longer incorrectly activate on unsuccessful autoattacks, but will be able to activate from successful Multistrikes. Fixing this will result in an overall damage gain for all Monks, so there are a couple of additional adjustments (see below). Additionally, Tiger Strikes should now correctly provide the full 10% chance to trigger for Mistweavers in Crane Stance while equipping one-handed items in conjunction with off-hand items. For more details of this change, please visit the forum thread: Upcoming Tiger Strikes Hotfix.
      
      • Keg Smash (Brewmaster) now deals 20% less damage.
      • Rising Sun Kick (Windwalker, Mistweaver) now causes enemies to take 20% increased damage from the Monk's abilities (up from 10%).
      • The tooltip for Tiger Strikes is incorrectly stating that the chance for it to activate is 6.25% while dual-wielding. The actual chance is 5% (and has been since Warlords of Draenor released). The tooltip will be corrected in a future patch.
  • Talents
    
    • Fixed an issue with Chi Torpedo that caused it to deal no damage unless the Glyph of Water Roll was applied.
• Paladin (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • Glyphs
    
    • Glyph of Holy Shock now decreases the healing of Holy Shock by 25% and increases its damage by 25% (down from a 50% decrease to healing and 50% increase to damage).
• Priest (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • Talents
    
    • Saving Grace (Discipline, Holy) should now correctly reduce absorbs done (was incorrectly reducing absorption taken).
  • Armor Sets
    
    • PvP 2-piece set bonus effect for Shadow Priests is now removed at the beginning of a boss encounter. The set bonus will still work during the encounter.
• Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • Armor Sets
    
    • PvP 4-piece set bonus for Combat Rogues should now provide the correct set bonus for Cold Blood. Note that the tooltip will incorrectly display text for the old set bonus and will be fixed in a future client-side patch.
  • Bug Fixes
    
    • Fixed an issue that could allow the effects of Master of Subtlety to persist longer than intended.
    • Attacking targets immediately after Vanish transitions to Stealth should now correctly remove Stealth and trigger Subterfuge.
• Shaman (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • Enhancement
    
    • Fire Nova should now work correctly with Flurry. Additionally, Fire Nova should have its global cooldown reduced by haste.
  • Armor Sets
    
    • PvP 2-piece set bonus for Elemental Shaman should now correctly provide immunity to silence and interrupt effects while Ascendance is active.

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

• Garrison Campaign Quests
  
  • Bringing the Bass: Lumbering Ancient can now be tapped by multiple players. Loot from the creature has been temporarily removed.
  • New Goods (Alliance version): Fixed an issue where Lieutenant Thorn was not offering this quest to eligible players.
• Garrison Buildings
  
  • Mine, Level 2 (Horde): Fixed an issue where some of the ore nodes were spawning in the air.

Quests

• Frostfire Ridge
  
  • The Battle of Thunder Pass: Fixed an issue where players dying during the battle may sometimes be unable to complete the quest.
• Nagrand
  
  • Shields Down!: Players should now receive credit for interacting with the Arkonite Crystal and be able to complete the quest.

Raids and Dungeons

• Blackrock Foundry
  
  • General
    
    • Ogron Hauler no longer hits targets while casting Overhead Smash and Overhead Smash now increase Physical damage taken by 100% (down from a 200% increase) on Raid Finder difficulty.
    • Slagshop Brute now pauses for 2-seconds after using Lumbering Strength.
  • The Blast Furnace
    
    • Phase 1
      
      • Adds in the encounter should now be more immediately responsive to threat generation upon jumping into the encounter space.
      • Furnace Engineer's Repair ability now heals Heat Regulators' health every 1.5 seconds (up from every 1 second). Additionally, Furnace Engineers should no longer instantly cast Repair if they're in the middle of casting Electrocution or Bomb.
    • Phase 2
      
      • Firecaller's Volatile Fire now hits up to a maximum of 2 targets on Raid Finder difficulty, and 3 targets on Normal and Heroic difficulty.
      • Slag Elemental's nameplates now go away when they are Dormant.
      • Multiple Slag Elementals should no longer Fixate on the same player.
  • Flamebender Ka'graz
    
    • The fight should now reset when a Cinder Wolf is moved outside the encounter area.
    • Flamebender Ka'graz's Charring Breath and Lava Slash should now be correctly removed after an encounter reset.
  • Kromog
    
    • Players under the effects of Rune of the Grasping Hand should no longer take damage or stunned by Rune of Crushing Earth.
  • Beastlord Darmac
    
    • Beastlord Darmac's Pin Down ability should now deal damage in a radius of 25 yards around the spear impacts rather than around Darmac. Additionally, visuals for the attack should no longer be sometimes hidden by the floor.
    • Visuals for Spirit of the Rylak's Superheated Shrapnel and Dreadwing's Inferno Breath should now more accurately display the abilities' area of effect.
  • Operator Thogar
    
    • Fixed an issue where the door leading to Operator Thogar may fail to open if the raid wipes shortly after starting the encounter.
  • Blackhand
    
    • Blackhand should now correctly create a Slag Crater beneath the target of his Massive Shattering Smash.
    • Visuals for Blackhand's Shattering Smash and Massive Shattering Smash should now be visible with Projected Textures disabled.
• Legacy
  
  • Throne of the Four Winds, Conclave of Wind: Fixed an issue where players may be unable to receive loot if their pet lands the killing blow on Conclave of Wind.

PvP

• Ashran
  
  • Gleaming Ashmaul Strongbox no longer contains Primal Aspirant's gear (item level 600). Gleaming Ashmaul Strongbox now contains only Primal Combatant's gear (item level 620) with a small chance for Primal Gladiator's gear (item level 660) and Flask of Conquest.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

• Battlegrounds
  
  • Warsong Gulch: Fixed an issue where players entering a match that's in-progress will cause the character to have 1 health and be displayed as dead.
• Arenas
  
  • Fixed an issue where players were incorrectly awarded two Steel Lockboxes for completing a 3v3 and 5v5 skirmish.

Items

• Blackrock Ham's well fed bonus should now correctly provide a buff to Critical Strike.
• Dread Pirate Ring should correctly provide a bonus to Stamina, Critical Strike, and Haste once more (was incorrectly set to Intelligence, Stamina, and Critical Strike).
• S.E.L.F.I.E. Cameras should now use the correct animation for Human Male and Female models.
• Savage Feast's well fed bonus should now work correctly with the Pandaren Epicurean racial ability.

Bug Fixes

• General
  
  • Resolved an issue where players that attempt to teleport back from a dungeon after having recently upgraded their Garrisons may receive an "Instance not found" error.
  • Fixed a server crash during the daily quest reset.
• Items
  
  • Fixed an issue where Alliance players were unable to purchase the Battle Pet, Clock'em.

This Friday, I’ll join Lead Game Designer Ion “Watcher” Hazzikostas to answer your questions live on Twitch. We’ll be focusing on the topic of Raids and Dungeons in Warlords of Draenor -- from Bloodmaul Slag Mines to Blackrock Foundry, and beyond!

When: Friday, February 27, 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM Pacific Standard Time (check here to convert that into your local time!)
Where: The World of Warcraft channel on Twitch.tv/WoW

You can submit your questions via Twitter by using the hashtag #WarlordsQA, or simply by replying to this forum thread. As we’d like to get to as many questions as possible, we’ll only consider forum questions that use 40 words or less, and all questions must be submitted before 12:01 AM PST on Friday, February 27. Keep in mind that we’re focusing on Raids and Dungeons for this Q&A session -- questions on other topics will not be answered.

See you there!

We understand there is a lot of confusion about the removal of conquest points from Grand Marshal Tremblade and High Warlord Volrath, so we’d like to explain the reasoning behind it.

Our primary goal with Ashran was to create a zone where two factions were competing against each other throughout the zone. The average visitor in Ashran has two motivations: earn 200 conquest to fulfill the Ashran bonus portion of their conquest cap, and kill the faction boss for their daily chance at loot from the Gleaming Ashmaul Strongbox. Prior to 6.1, players could earn that conquest by either killing the faction boss or by doing events. We were allowing the same reward to be earned at two different places at the same time.

This setup does not encourage competition. It encourages collusion. As a result, an implicit truce had emerged between the factions, where the Alliance claimed victory in the Road of Glory while Horde wandered the event areas unopposed for conquest. Both sides earned their reward in an efficient manner without any fighting. But Ashran is not a place for truces. Ashran is a place for killing. We removed conquest from the bosses knowing full well this meant the Alliance would be forced to compete against the Horde in events for conquest. Furthermore, we knew that facing new opposition at events, the Horde would once again engage in the central road.

Of course, we acknowledge that killing a faction boss only to receive Aspirant gear isn’t very motivating. As a result, we’ll be removing Aspirant gear from the Gleaming Ashmaul Strongbox. That means it will always award either Combatant (ilevel 620/675) or Gladiator (ilevel 660/690) gear.

We are already seeing increased competition between the two factions in both events and the main road. In every Ashran instance, the population of both factions is tightly controlled to maintain equal numbers. Your faction has the opportunity to compete, but it is up to you to earn victory. Good luck and have fun!

Ashran
So there's no reason to attack the enemy general anymore.
A lot of people would still like to collect Combatant and Gladiator gear. It's decent.

Why? For what reason is that important now?
It might not be important for you at this stage. And that's okay. You might be one of the people who should be focusing more on winning the events over the Horde for the Conquest Points.

I guess that's why the que times are down, nobody wants to go in there anymore!
There were fairly notable changes in 6.1 to how Ashran instances are populated, the goal being to reduce the unacceptable wait times.

But what about the people who have no need for Honor or Conquest points? Are we expected to avoid Ashran now to simply do arenas or rated bgs? Why should I, who have full conq gear, take another step into Ashran?
Perhaps it depends on whether you enjoy the experience you're having there. Ultimately that's important.

Hey Zarhym.... Heres a novel idea for your fail ashran pvp.
Stopped reading right at the end of your first sentence.

A lot of people in this community have opinions to share. You might consider whether your approach to sharing yours is in the least bit palatable.

Are you ignoring feedback because it's negative? At the end of the day, there is a reason the feedback is so negative towards Ashran. Maybe you should be more open to all types of feedback, as it stands Ashran hasn't improved since launch.
We read plenty of negative feedback all the time. When it gets to an insulting level there's no point in wasting time on it. Many others can phrase their objections in reasonable and constructive ways. The less time we spend negotiating with the most hyperbolic and cynical people in the community, the more attention we can pay to the people making honest attempts to share their perspectives in civil fashion.

It's not a complicated, diabolical, or arrogant concept. There has to be a practicality to sifting through opinions in such a large community.

Given my previous post, I feel this is an opportune time to provide a simple example.

With the event timers as LONG as they are now, and often times watching groups or being in groups doing nothing but sit at a spot with nothing at all happening because they have no interest in doing a road push, the LONG wait for anything to happen at all with any kind of reward is very dull.

I did Ashran because I liked how it used to feel like old AV, and I don't like Arenas at all. For my PvP fix now I'm more likely to go to regular BGs for points, and Heroes of the Storm for FUN. (Yeah, I know it's still a Blizzard game, I play it anyway, but it goes with the fact there's nothing rewardingly fun about Ashran now if you're even half CP geared, the box drop rate is abysmal.)

What's worse is with the current state, the Gladiator's sanctum quests may never get done. I know my brother's been on the Pandaren one for months and has went into Ashran daily often to never find one at all on the Horde side.
This is negative feedback. It's also constructive feedback. I don't have anything particular to respond with right now and otherwise wouldn't be -- as is the case with many posts in this thread -- but this is the type of stuff we register, document, and discuss internally.

No response =\= ignored.

Frankly, we can't take the time to acknowledge all decent feedback or respond to it directly, but that makes it no less useful to us. In many cases honest, constructive feedback will spur a discussion of ideas within the community, until finer points are scrutinized, debated, and sometimes augmented to reflect popular feedback. We love to see it and will participate in the discussion if we feel it'll somehow enhance the conversation or clarify common misconceptions.

well that got stuffed up Zarhym. Oce servers have a 30 min + que atm because someone decided to join all of the OCE servers. It used to be insta entry on barth now I cant even get in, besides the fact I really don't want to. You broke your game even more
It was necessary to open the matchmaking pools more similar to how BG queues are handled. While we really prefer to have opponents fighting from the same realm, or at least from a small enough pool that opponents' names maybe familiar, many imbalanced and highly populated realms had extreme wait times, while low population realms had unfilled Ashran instances. Our 6.1 changes have leveled that out much more, though we'll continue to monitor the effects this has in each region.

Not like a constant update but more of "Hey, srry if patch *name* is taking a bit longer. We ran into a bad error" Something like that would kind of make me feel a bit happy.
We always try to provide as much insight and input as possible. The responsibility of crafting and relaying that info generally falls into the hands of us community managers though, as the developers are very busy taking in feedback, tackling bugs, designing new content, etc.

What aspects of Ashran gameplay do you enjoy most or think work well and why?

What aspects of Ashran gameplay do you dislike and why?

What changes would you like to see made and why?

Sincerely,
Zarhym and why? (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Twitter Integration
Real ID has to be enabled.
That's probably the cause if the Twitter options are just not there in-game for you, and our apologies as it was a fairly late change so not many people internally were aware of how it was implemented. Right now Twitter functionality is tied to Real ID being enabled, as it allows us to ensure parental controls can disable access to Twitter. We really wanted parental controls to be able to block Twitter access if a parent wants to do that, and to get that done and get it into the patch the best option was to attach it to the Real ID setting. We're looking into separating them into their own options in the future.

How can Real ID be enabled? I am not able to see the Twitter integration options either. I went to MENU --> INTERFACE --> BATTLE.NET , but none of the options enable it. So I'm missing something others might be unaware of as well. Help would be appreciated. Thanks.
It's under Social. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Flight Path Routes
Can we talk specifics?

I've just been checking out flight paths all over Draenor, looking at destinations that are three and four connections away, and they're noticeably direct. For example, from Horde Garrison to Pinchwhistle Gearworks (quite a long way), the flight path is almost perfectly straight.

Of course, while on the taxi, I noted that there was *some* deviating from the straight line, but that was always in accordance with the terrain. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

It won’t be long before you’ll be able to take the assault against the Iron Horde to the next level in new Raid content. To help you plan your attack, we’ve broken down the unlock schedule for Blackrock Foundry and the third Draenor world boss – Rukhmar. Will you be ready?
Those who plan to jump into the action in the Raid Finder will need a minimum item level of 635. Here's the rundown:

February 24, 2015:

• Raid Finder Wing 2: The Black Forge (Hans’gar and Franzok, Flamebender Ka’graz, and Kromog ) unlocks.

March 10, 2015:

• Raid Finder Wing 3: Iron Assembly (Beastlord Darmac, Operator Thogar, and The Iron Maidens) unlocks.

March 24, 2015:

• Raid Finder Wing 4: Blackhand’s Crucible (Blackhand) unlocks.

New Heirloom Collections Tab

• The Collections system now supports Heirloom items.
• Heirlooms can be upgraded to increase the maximum level that the item scales up to.
  
  • Heirlooms with no upgrades can scale up to level 60.
  • Heirlooms with 1 upgrade level can scale up to level 90.
  • Heirlooms with 2 upgrade levels can scale up to level 100.
  • Old heirlooms that have been upgraded to scale to level 85 are grandfathered in with 1 upgrade level.
• New Heirlooms for the neck slot are now available and allows the character to cast a heal once a minute. This heal shares a cooldown with potions and Healthstones.
• Alternate methods for obtaining Heirlooms and Heirloom upgrade tokens are also available.
  
  • Argent Tournament sells Heirloom upgrade tokens for Champion's Seals.
  • Some world events now sell Heirloom upgrade tokens for currency obtained through the event.
• Collecting 35 heirloom items awards a special mount that's usable by level 1 characters.

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

• New Garrison Visitors
  
  • One of five new visitors may visit each day offering a quest to anyone that visits players with a Tier 3 Garrison.
    
    • Defeat a dungeon boss: Awards a bag with a chance to contain a level 630, 645, or 655 item token.
    • Defeat a raid boss (weekly quest): Awards a bag with a chance to contain a level 645, or 655 item token.
    • Bounty (intended for 3 or more players): Defeat a named elite NPC for gold with a chance (once a day) to obtain Bloody Stack of Invitations.
    • Relic: Complete a series of quests for gold or Garrison Resources. Completing a relic quest unlocks it as a potential mission for your followers. Complete all 6 relic missions to unlock Harrison Jones as a follower!
    • Profession: Turn-in tradeskill reagents for Primal Spirits and work order tradeskill reagents.
• Summon a Raid or World Boss
  
  • Players may find an item while completing a Garrison Invasion, Dungeon, or Raid daily quest from the Garrison visitor that that allows them to summon one of six new raid or world boss in the Garrison.
• New Garrison Vendor
  
  • There’s a new vendor coming to your Garrison who allows you to spend Garrison Resources on Follower Trait Retraining Guides or Follower Ability Retraining Manuals.

General

• Removed the requirement to have a character that's level 55 or higher to unlock the Death Knight as a playable class.

Pet Battle

• Level 100 characters with a Tier-3 Garrison will now receive an item in the mail that increases a single Battle Pet's level to 25.

PvP

• Ashran
  
  • Grand Marshal Tremblade and High Warlord Volrath no longer award Conquest Points when defeated.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

• A new queuing system is in place to help improve matchmaking for Oceanic arena teams hosted on Australian game servers. This new system will wait for a predetermined amount of time to match an Oceanic arena team against another Oceanic team before looking for opponents from the broader North American player pool. There's an expectation that queue times may be a slightly longer as a result but the increase should not be significant.
• Bonus Honor received from winning a Battleground should now correctly convert into XP for characters that are below level 100.
• Eye of the Storm: Icon for the flag should no longer be incorrectly displaying in the center of the map even though it's been picked up by another player.

Professions

• Cooking
  
  • New self-only cooking recipes have been added for food that gives 125 bonus to a stat.

UI

• Players now receive a banner notification after defeating a dungeon, raid, or world boss in Warlords of Draenor or Mists of Pandria.

Lumbering Ancients Spawn Rate
Lumbering Ancients have always been rare and there was no change to the spawn rate. Having said that, there's a hotfix underway to make Lumbering Ancients multi-tap to help with this potential bottleneck.

The hotfix to make Lumbering Ancient should now be live. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Heirloom Vendor Crowding
The hotfix to add collision around the Heirloom NPCs should now be live. Additionally, a dismount aura has been applied to Estelle Gendry (Horde Heirloom Vendor) via hotfix. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
Tiger Strikes Hotfix
We recently found a significant bug with Tiger Strikes for all Monks, and wanted to explain the incoming fixes that will resolve it.

The bug itself was twofold. First off, Tiger Strikes was incorrectly able to trigger from unsuccessful autoattacks (such as those that miss, or have been dodged or parried). However, it was NOT able to trigger from Multistrikes. We’ll be fixing Tiger Strikes to its intended behavior: it will no longer activate on unsuccessful autoattacks, but will be able to activate from successful Multistrikes.

Fixing those bugs will result in an overall damage gain for all Monks, so we’ll be making a couple other adjustments:

• For Brewmasters, we’re going to reduce the damage done by Keg Smash by 20%. We felt that Brewmaster DPS was too strong already, and the Tiger Strikes fix only pushes them further.
• Windwalkers and Mistweavers were a little weak, which is why we’re increasing Rising Sun Kick’s damage amplification debuff from 10% to 20% in 6.1. The Tiger Strikes fix will be a small damage increase on top of that, but we’re going to keep an eye on where Windwalkers and Mistweavers end up as a result of it before making any further adjustments if necessary.

These changes were not able to make it into the final 6.1 build, but will be hotfixed in shortly after 6.1 goes live.

Can we get an eta on the zen sphere detonate fix?
That's fixed in patch 6.1.

We did also find that Tiger Strikes was incorrectly using the lower dual-wield proc chance when Mistweavers were equipping one-handed items in conjunction with off-hand items. We’ll be fixing that to give the full 10% chance while in Crane Stance when these hotfixes go live.

We’ve also discovered that the tooltip for Tiger Strikes is incorrectly stating that the chance for it to activate is 6.25% while dual-wielding. The actual chance is 5% (and has been since Warlords of Draenor released). The tooltip will be updated in a future patch.

If you don't mind me asking, is there anything you're going to do to address the Roll Perk bug? It increases the speed you roll by 25%, but also unintentionally reduces the distance traveled by 25% as well.
That should also be fixed in this round of hotfixes. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
Combat Rogue's PvP 4-piece Set Bonus
The hotfix for Combat Rogue's PvP 4-piece set bonus was implemented and will now provide the Cold Blood effect after using Vanish. Note that the tooltip will incorrectly display text for the old set bonus. This will be fixed in a future client-side patch.

Cold Blood - Combat Rogue PvP 4-piece set bonus

• When you use Vanish, you gain 5 Combo Points and the critical strike chance of your next Sinister Strike, Eviscerate, Revealing Strike, or Ambush is increased by 100%.

(Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Follower Work Order Bonus
Is your Follower assigned to the building for each work order as it's completed? We closed a loophole that would allow you to assign a Follower to a building right before collecting the work orders, and gain all the bonus even though they weren't assigned to the building the whole time. The intended functionality (and the one active in 6.1) is that the Follower needs to be assigned to the building as each work order completion ticks for their bonus to be applied. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Blackrock Foundry Missions
This is stupid, if you really need normal kills to get your mythic box.
You do not need to go back to a lower difficulty to be eligible for higher difficulty Raid Missions for followers.

Example: You don't need any Normal difficulty raid kills for your followers to qualify for Mythic Raid Missions.

Don't be stupid. We're told the way the system is supposed to work, and it's not working as advertised.
Source? The system is working correctly.

All information I've read up until today has been that you clear LFR enough you get normal. You clear normal enough you get heroic. You clear heroic enough you get mythic. You clear mythic enough you get mythic and some coin.
Without the source of what led the quoted poster to believe the system was working incorrectly I'm unable to investigate if the info they got was correct or not.

For the sake of further clarification, Highmaul progression is not required to unlock Blackrock Foundry Raid Missions. Progressing in Highmaul provides an alternate way to unlock Blackrock Foundry Raid Missions, but it's not required.

people with 30 BRF heroic kills, including blackhand, ARE NOT GETTING THE MYTHIC CACHE. how many heroic kills do we need. can some of these kills be in the same lockout.

I've not seen a SINGLE report of ANYONE getting the mythic cache who also didn't have 8 highmaul mythic kills.
Were the kills loot eligible? Killing the same boss multiple times in the same week does not count as a loot eligible kill. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Fur Trader: No other Traders Available Today?
Intended?
Yes, and it's region-wide.

Of the new Garrison visitors who is at your Garrison is random, and what they offer is randomly selected each day, but that same selection applies to that NPC regardless of whose Garrison they're at for the day. So for example, you have the raid quest NPC, and it's for Brackenspore, and anyone else who has the raid NPC for the day also has that same quest. Tomorrow the raid NPC will have a new random quest, and anyone who has the raid NPC will all have the same quest.

The idea is that you're visiting your friends and guildies Garrisons to get access to each of the 5 types of NPC's each day, but that you're not needing to visit a hundred Garrisons to complete all of their potential quests. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Patch Note Changes
"A new vendor has been added allowing players to use Garrison Resource to purchase items to upgrade Followers"

They don't mean the guy that starts invasions, right?
He sells nothing that is a guaranteed upgrade for your follower whatsoever.

Maybe I'm missing something.
The note was updated to the following:

"There’s a new vendor coming to your Garrison who allows you to spend Garrison Resources on Follower Trait Retraining Guides or Follower Ability Retraining Manuals."

So, no. It wasn't a lie. Patch notes are an ongoing effort and we update them as quickly as possible when changes come in. This one was updated this morning to reflect the correct functionality.

Sorry for any confusion the note may have caused.

See, Blizzard never lies. They just tell you something then change the information when needed.
A lie would be with intent to deceive. There was no intent to deceive. I understand the frustration. As with any development cycle, things can change relatively fast and miscommunications can happen. We do our best to minimize those and when they do occur, we try to correct them right away. I also didn't try to deny that it had been different before. Yes, it was worded differently. Yes, the note had been incorrect. Yes, it's been since corrected. We'll keep working to make sure these errors don't happen in the future, but there's no guarantee they'll never happen again.

Proper etiquette when editing documents is to explain any revisions. Simply putting correction: or update: would have made all this a non-issue. Simply changing it smacks of deception and trying to fly under the radar. That's the problem I have, not that there was a mistake. Mistakes happen. Trying to hide them is another whole issue.
We document changes in the PTR notes this way as changes occur. These changes were made to the live notes which serve as a "new" document. It's a strange sort of beast in that, if we change things to show edits, it implies those edits came after publication vs. during which could confuse people who haven't been following along with the PTR notes. They just want to know how things work, not how they were documented before it went live. (If that makes sense.) There's no "hiding" anything, it's just a side effect of this sort of documentation and the anomalies that go with them. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Classes
In 6.0 you changed the cast animation of 'denounce' (pala) from directed to omni (heal).Intended?Looks strange as a dmg spell
In 6.0 we performed an audit of which animations each spell used. Some changed which can be jarring, but they were intended. (WarcraftDevs)
So the "buff" animation on Deep Freeze & Counterspell is intended? Looks awful..
What you're referring to as the "buff" animation is not for buffs, but for indirect spells, which includes buffs. (Celestalon)
Deep and CS seem pretty direct to me. /confused
Direct typically means something is coming out of your hands, like a Frostbolt. Comet Storm is very indirect. (Celestalon)

Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
Will Glyph of Guided Stars make Starfall now hit players capturing a flag if they're affected by moonfire/sunfire?
No. If a player is currently capturing a point, Starfall will not be cast on them. (WarcraftDevs)

Chance of having Glyph of Treant hide weapons? I feel less awesome tree with a staff attached to me.
You make a solid case and we appreciate the feedback! We'll consider this. (WarcraftDevs)

Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
Arcane PvP 4set buff can be purged. Intended? Why isn't Arcane Power immune to purge? Can't purge Dark Soul?
This is intended. Many PvP set bonuses that provide magical buffs can be purged. (WarcraftDevs)

Ice Floes(6.1) isn't working with Blizzard, Evo, Missles, & Frostfire Bolt(Probably more) Intentional?
No, these are just bugs, and will be resolved. Mounting with it was interesting, but it caused too many issues. (WarcraftDevs)

Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
Rogues ability Death from Above kicks players out of the pvp coliseum when used and treats it like we lost. Any word on a fix?
This will be addressed in 6.1. (WarcraftDevs)

Shaman (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
Are we ever going to get a fix for Liquid Magma attacking CC'd targets?
Liquid Magma is a spell that should be used at opportune moments, but it can intentionally hit CC’d targets. (WarcraftDevs)

Will instant EQ only trigger when Chain Lightning hits 3+ targets? In other words, will I benefit from this change in PvP?
Correct, as described in the Patch Notes, and we certainly hope you benefit from using it in PvP! (WarcraftDevs)
How can we benefit in PvP (arenas)? Useless in 2s, and good luck stacking a team in 3s. Sad face! Good for RBGs only...
Pets and such count. Many 3-target abilities get significant use, even in 2s. (Celestalon)

Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
learned greenfire, Dreadsteed with Glyph of Nightmares still leave red flames when cross water. it's a BUG?
This is a known bug that we hope to have addressed in the near future. (WarcraftDevs)

Art
any plans for fixing helm clipping issues with hoods for female humans in 6.1?
We constantly look to address clipping bugs, and we're always happy to get names of items that are acting up. (WarcraftDevs)

Will the guild cloak transmog to some cloaks now fully show instead of being transparent on the bottom 2/3?
We’ll look into it, thanks for the report! (WarcraftDevs)

Character / Items
Will [Automated Critter Defense Cannon] become a Toy in 6.1?
Consumables don’t go in the toybox, but we can consider creating a non-consumable version in the future. (WarcraftDevs)

Could we get the ability to downgrade token drops from older raids? Would be nice to have access to MoP LFR gear for transmog.
No, but you can queue into old LFR instances from Auridormi/Lorewalkers to get that gear. (WarcraftDevs)

Is the heirloom mount speed disabled in Battlegrounds without training? It would surely hurt the 19-10 twinks.
Yes, it is disabled in that bracket. (WarcraftDevs)

Stats
Are you planning to change the way versatility works atm? peeps say you dislike it and want to make it more viable.
(1) Versatility is working out well. It's a consistently good (albeit not the best) stat for everyone, which we're happy with. (WarcraftDevs)
(2) Based on what we've seen in the progression race, many guilds are sacrificing a tiny bit of DPS for damage reduction. (WarcraftDevs)

PvP
Would love to hear how people are making use of skirmishes. Mostly solo queue? 2s only? 3s only? Both? Low level? Max level? (holinka)

I pick up things in ashran I don't want because not picking them up puts them in my mailbox without being able to delete mail.
Thanks! We know this has been an issue for many and we’ve taken some steps to improve it in 6.1. (WarcraftDevs)

Specifically Cyclone being dispellable, because its basically uncounterable, or Cyclone sharing a DR with mage CC.
That DR change would just mean the complaints would shift from Mage Druid synergy to Lock Druid synergy. (holinka)
fear already drs with clone.
We're not going to put it on two DR categories. (holinka)