6.0.3 Hotfixes: November 12

Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to the recently released World of Warcraft patch 6.0.3. Hotfixes are updates we make on our end without requiring you to download a new patch. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require your realm to be restarted to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client- side patch update. We will continue to update this list as additional hotfixes are applied.

Hotfixes have been listed by the date they've been implemented.

Patch 6.0.x Information

• Patch 6.0.2 Now Live and Survival Guide
• The Iron Tide: 6.0.2 Patch Notes
• 6.0.2 Hotfixes
• Patch Installation & Troubleshooting

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.

• 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.

• 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%.

• 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.

UI

• 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.

UI

• 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).