6.0.3 Hotfixes: November 5

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 longner 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).

World of Warcraft Patch 6.0.3: Hotfixes

For Patch 6.0.2 pre-Warlords expansion patch notes, please see: The Iron Tide: 6.0.2 Patch Notes.
For Patch 6.0.2 Hotfixes, please see: 6.0.2 Hotfixes.

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.

Hallow's End

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

Racials

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

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
  • General
    • Outbreak modified by Glyph of Outbreak should no longer incorrectly consume Runic Power if the attack misses.
  • 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%).
    • 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.
  • Beast Mastery
    • Kill Command’s damage has been increased by 20%.
  • Marksmanship
    • Chimaera Shot’s damage has been reduced by 13%.
  • 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.
  • Talents
    • Damage from A Murder of Crows can no longer be dodged.
    • 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
    • Divine Aegis should now correctly factor in the increase from Might of the Mountain racial passive.
    • 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%).
  • Talents
    • Divine Star's healing or damage (depending on Specialization) has been increased by 15%.
    • Discipline: Spirit Shell's damage absorption shield should no longer be weaker than intended.
  • 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.
  • Talents
    • Burst of Speed should now be usable even if the Rogue is under the effects of other movement speed buffs.
• Shaman
  • General
    • Lava Burst's visuals should no longer be excessively large.
  • 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.
    • 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
  • General
    • Doomguards should no longer run out of energy from casting Doom Bolts.
  • 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%.
    • Sudden Death is now 2.5 RPPM (real procs per minute increased by Haste) instead of a 10% chance to activate from autoattacks.

Quests

• Blood of the Betrayer: Rogues should now be able to remove Arcane Infused Armor from Nalice, and be able to complete the quest.
• Breaking the Emperor's Shield: Nakk'rakas should no longer despawn, allowing players 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%.
• Just Around the Corner: Characters should now be able to interact with Sparksocket's Tools.
• Roll Club: Serpent's Spine should no longer cause players to float and allow them to complete the quest.
• 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.
• 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).
• 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.

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.
  • [Requires a realm restart.] Dark Winds debuff should no longer incorrectly persist on the character, preventing them from being able to use mounts.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
  • [Requires a realm restart.] Blackrock Caverns: Angered Earth should now spawn in when Rom'ogg Bonecrusher hits a player with Quake.
  • 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.
  • Razorfen Kraul: Groyat, the Blind Hunter's Drain Life ability should no longer damage or heal for an excessive amount.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Bonus Honor for winning a Battleground is now only awarded when queued for a Random Battleground (it was incorrectly awarding the bonus Honor for any Battleground win).
  • 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.
• Arenas
  • Priests entering an Arena match while in Spirit of Redemption form should no longer die during the Arena Preparation phase.
  • Tol'viron Arena should now correctly have Dampening.

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.
• Elixirs from the Cataclysm expansion should no longer be more powerful than their counterparts from Mists of Pandaria.
• Made a number of adjustments where lower level food items were providing a larger than intended buff.
• Crocolisk Au Gratin should now correctly provide a buff to Haste and Stamina instead of Expertise and Stamina.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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

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

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.
• 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.

World of Warcraft Patch 6.0.3

Updated: 10-28-2014

Note: For the rest of the pre-Warlords expansion patch notes, please see The Iron Tide: 6.0.2 Patch Notes.

World Event: Iron Horde Incursion

• Characters that have completed the Iron Horde Incursion event can now visit a vendor near their faction's respective beachhead to purchase replacement quest rewards.
• Report to the King/Warning the Warchief: Characters with a healing specialization should now be able to select Ironmender's Totem as a quest reward.
• Thrall received a reminder that he is currently still on Azeroth.

Character Models

• Resolved an issue where certain helmets could incorrectly cause an Undead's jaw to disappear.
• Resolved an issue where skin color for Human models were not matching up with their original counterparts.

Classes

• Resolved an issue that could cause characters to remain disarmed for an extended period of time.
• Death Knight
  • Talents
    • Breath of Sindragosa now deals reduced damage to secondary targets. Damage to the primary target remains unchanged.
• Druid
  • Feral
    • Savage Roar should no longer incorrectly consume Omen of Clarity's clearcasting effect.
    • Resolved an issue where Rip refreshed through Ferocious Bite was not extending its duration for the full amount against targets that were below 25% health.
• Paladin
  • Protection
    • The passive ability Sanctuary, is now learned at level 10.
• Priest
  • Shadow
    • Resolved an issue where Shadow Priests in Shadowform were not displaying a targeting outline.
• Shaman
  • General
    • Chain Lightning, Flame Shock, Frost Shock, Lava Burst, and Lightning Bolt now costs 50% less mana.
  • Elemental
    • Earth Shock and Earthquake now costs 50% less mana.
• Warlock
  • Glyphs
    • Glyph of Ember Tap was causing Ember Tap to heal for more than intended. Additionally, the glyph now increases the healing of Ember Tap by 2% (down from 5%).

Creatures

• Gulp Frog no longer drops the Wilted Lilypad.
• Kor'kron Butcher Cleave ability should no longer deal an excessive amount of damage.
• Kor'kron Commanders with the Hemorrhagic Shadowstep ability should no longer deal an excessive amount of damage.

Pet Battles

• Iron Starlette should no longer be excessively noisy when their owner is on a mount.

Quests

• A Villain Unmasked: Resolved an issue where Samuelson Unmasked was dying too quickly to grant quest credit.
• Basilisk Butcher: Basilisk Meat should be dropping again.
• Borrowed Brew: Resolved a number of audio issues with the quest.
• Get Kraken!: Resolved an issue where North Sea Kraken was dying too quickly to grant quest credit.
• Warforged Seal: Added a safeguard to prevent characters from completing the quest if they already have the maximum amount of Warforged Seals.

Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios

Raids

• Looting bind-on-equip items should no longer automatically bind it to the character on Personal Loot mode.
• Resolved an issue where Guild Raid groups were not receiving credit towards Guild challenges on Mythic difficulty.
• Dragon Soul
  • Spine of Deathwing: Blood of Deathwing should no longer deal an excessive amount of damage.
• Firelands
  • Shannox: Rageface's Face Rage ability should no longer deal an excessive amount of damage.
• Blackwing Lair
  • Razorgore the Untamed received a buff to increase his survivability.

Battlegrounds and Arenas

• Battlegrounds
  • For players queued for Random Battlegrounds, the losing team should be receiving 45 Honor again.

Professions

• Resolved an issue where Windwalker Monks were unable to craft more than one item at a time using the "Create All" button.

Items

• Fire-Watcher's Oath should correctly have a 100% chance to grant Bloody Coins on PvP kills once more.
• Living Root of the Wildheart's bonus armor provided by Ursine Blessing for Guardian Druids has been toned down to a more reasonable level.

UI

• PlayMusic API should now work correctly and be able to play MP3s once more.
• PlaySound API should now work correctly and be able to play MP3s once more.
• Resolved an issue where quest headers in the Quest Log may become stuck in a collapsed state.
• Game settings and macros for characters with names that contains an extended ASCII character should be saving correctly once more for users on Mac OS.
• Resolved a number of situations where the mouse cursor can disappear on Mac OS.

Bug Fixes

• Resolved an issue where multi-passenger vehicles entering your character's viewing area could cause them to be booted to the character selection screen.
• Resolved a client crash that can occur if a character logs out after copying a calendar event.
• Resolved a Lua error when selecting monitor 3 on systems with multiple video cards.
• Resolved a Lua error from using Command+M on the Credits screen on Mac OS.
• Resolved an issue with the skybox flashing on systems with multiple video cards.