WoW Patch 6.2 PTR patch notes update for April 17

World of Warcraft Patch 6.2.0 PTR

Updated: April 17, 2015.

New Content

Zone Unlocked: The Invasion of Tanaan Jungle

• It’s time to take the fight back to The Iron Horde in Tanaan Jungle!
• Access to the zone is unlocked by constructing a Shipyard (available to characters with a level 3 Garrison). To begin your journey, report to your Garrison and accept the “War Council” quest.
• New daily quests are available in Tanaan to acquire shipyard resources and more.
• Open-world questing with rare creatures and hidden treasures scattered throughout the zone.
• More information will be added as development continues.

New Garrison Feature: Shipyard and Naval Missions

• Shipyard
  • Characters with a level 3 garrison can now construct a Shipyard.
  • To begin the path to construct a Shipyard, report to your Garrison and accept the “War Council” quest.
  • Build ships in your Shipyard and dispatch them on new Naval Missions.
  • More information will be added as development continues.
• Naval Missions
  • Naval Missions are still early in development. More information will be added as it becomes available.

New Raid: Hellfire Citadel

• Assault the Hellfire Citadel, mighty fortress of the Iron Horde, torn asunder by fel energies unleashed by Gul’dan, and stop the impending invasion of Azeroth!
• Hellfire Citadel stands at the heart of Tanaan Jungle, where 13 deadly bosses await you, including Kilrogg Deadeye, the monstrous Gorefiend, a reanimated Mannoroth, and Archimonde himself.
• Keep an eye out for more information on testing dates and times!

New Dungeon Difficulty: Mythic

• Draenor Dungeons now have a new difficulty level designed to challenge even the most hardened adventurers with a befitting increase in reward. Mythic difficulty is geared towards players that enjoy tackling difficult content in smaller groups and is designed to provide an alternate progression path.
• Mythic Dungeons are on a weekly lockout, and drop gear that’s item level 680 with a chance for boss at the end to drop loot that’s item level 700.
• More information will be added as development continues.

Timewalking

• Timewalking will be available during select weekend holiday events and allows characters to queue up for a randomly selected old-school dungeon with a twist: your character’s power and gear scales down to the dungeon’s level on Heroic difficulty. However, your character retains all of your skills and talents. Emerge victorious, and you will walk away with old loot that is scaled up to your character’s level!
• Additional rewards for Timewalking are still in-testing, such as a level 100 quest that rewards a Seal of Tempered Fate per weekend.
• Learn more about this new feature in our blog: Patch 6.2 Preview – Timewalking.
• Over the coming weeks, Timewalking for the following dungeons will be available for testing on the PTR.
  • The following Burning Crusade dungeons are available for characters level 71 and up.
    • The Arcatraz
    • Black Morass
    • Mana-Tombs
    • The Shattered Halls
    • The Slave Pens
  • The following Wrath of the Lich King dungeons are available for characters level 81 and up.
    • Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom
    • Gundrak
    • Halls of Lightning
    • The Nexus
    • Utgarde Pinnacle

Adventure Guide

• An evolution of the Dungeon Journal, the Adventure Guide provides a wealth of information on what to see or do for the character.
• More information will be added as development continues.

Legendary Ring Quest Line

• Finish the Legendary Ring!
• More information will be added as development continues.

General Changes

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

• Chroniclers in the Garrison now allow players that have completed An Inside Job to watch the cinematic again.

Garrison Buildings

• New Garrison Building: Shipyard

Creatures and NPCs

• Spirit of Harmony Vendors no longer offer Restored Artifacts for sale.

World Environment and Events

• New Zone Available: Tanaan Jungle

Darkmoon Faire

• New Darkmoon Potions: A new set of Darkmoon potions can be purchased for one Darkmoon Prize Ticket from the Draughts and Tinctures vendor, Faldar Willowshade at the refreshments table.
• Darkmoon Fishing: The elusive Darkmoon Daggermaw can now be caught off of the shores of Darkmoon Island. Return them to Galissa Sundew at the docks for a variety of prizes.
• New Achievement: Whack-a-gnoll has a new achievement that awards a battle pet, Hogs.

Raids and Dungeons

Raids

• New Raid: Hellfire Citadel
  • A brand new raid, the Hellfire Citadel awaits you with 13 new bosses.

Dungeons

• New Dungeon Difficulty: Mythic
• New Dungeon Feature: Timewalking

Challenge Mode

• Completing a Challenge Mode daily quest now awards item level 680 gear (up from item level 660).
• Challenger’s Strongbox obtained before Patch 6.2 will all become rusted. Rusted strongboxes can no longer be opened and may be sold to a vendor for 50 gold.

PvP

• Level 100 characters engaging in PvP combat now have the following gear changes.
  • All gear between item levels 560 and 690 will now scale up to 690 in PvP combat.
  • Non-PvP gear above item level 715 will scale down to 715 in PvP combat.
  • PvP gear above item level 715 will not be capped in PvP combat.

Ashran

• New Area: Ashran Excavation and New Event: Apexis Marks
  • At certain times, spirits of fallen Arakkoa haunt the Ashran Excavation. Defeat them and bring proof of their demise to Rukmaz, the ghostly caretaker of the Apexis vault. First team to show Rulmaz 50 marks wins.
• Reward Changes
  • Winning an event now awards Honor instead of Conquest.
  • Defeating Grand Marshal Tremblade or High Warlord Volrath no longer awards a Gleaming Ashmaul Strongbox.
  • New Weekly Quest: Slay them All!
    • Defeat 300 enemy players. Awards Conquest.
  • New Weekly Quest: Ashran Dominance
    • Win each event in Ashran and defeat the enemy faction leader. Awards Conquest and a Gleaming Ashmaul Strongbox.
  • New Repeatable Quest: Continue the Dominance
    • Win each event in Ashran and defeat the enemy faction leader. Awards Conquest.
• General Ashran Changes
  • Players are now automatically placed in a raid when entering Ashran.

Collections

Heirlooms

• New Lightforge Heirloom plate armor pieces have been added for helm, chest, and legs to complete the Intellect plate set.
• Two new PvP-centered heirlooms have been added to the arena chests in Gurubashi Arena in Stranglethorn Vale and the Deathmatch Pavilion on Darkmoon Island. Master Pit Fighters or Arena Grand Masters, hop into the arena and defend your title for a chance to loot these new prizes!

Mounts

• Argent Warhorse should now display correctly in the Mount Journal.

Pet Battles

• Break out your traps and Safari Hat, new wild pets have been spotted in Tanaan Jungle and a few other places!
• Fel-corrupted legendary pets have been spotted in Tanaan Jungle! Each pet can be defeated once per day for a bag of Fel-Touched Pet Supplies, which can contain pet charms, Battle-Training stones to increase a battle pet’s level, and even rare pets.
• Expert Pet Trappers Giada Goldleash and Tiffy Trapspring have shown up at the Pet Menagerie with a variety of pets and toys for sale for Pet Charms.

Professions

General

• New Ranks for Warlords Crafted Items
  • Two new ranks of upgrades have been added to Warlords Crafted items, “Mighty” for rank 5 at item level 700, and “Savage” for rank 6 at item level 715.
  • Crafting the new upgrade items requires Felblood, a new reagent that can be obtained through the Barn.
  • The new recipes can be purchased from visiting Garrison traders.
• Upgrade Item Consolidation
  • “Greater” rank 3 and “Powerful” rank 4 upgrade items have been consolidated together. A rank 2 upgrade item can now be used to upgrade a Warlords Crafted item to rank 4.
    • For example, Burnished Essence can now upgrade a rank 1 leatherworking item to rank 2, a rank 2 item to rank 3, or a rank 3 item to rank 4.
  • Rank 3 and 4 upgrade items can no longer be crafted and existing items have become unstable. These unstable items can be used to create the appropriate rank 2 upgrade item and refund the materials used to craft it.
    • For example, Greater Burnished Essence can now be clicked to create a Burnished Essence, 50 Burnished Leather, and 10 Sorcerous Water.
• Warlords Crafting Material Changes
  • Greatly increased the output of the following crafting materials created through a daily cooldown.
    • Alchemical Catalyst
    • Burnished Leather
    • Gearspring Parts
    • Hexweave Cloth
    • Taladite Crystal
    • Temporal Crystal
    • Truesteel Ingot
    • War Paints
    • Sorcerous Air
    • Sorcerous Earth
    • Sorcerous Fire
    • Sorcerous Water
    • Savage Blood
  • A number of recipes that use crafting materials created through a daily cooldown now requires less materials.

Jewelcrafting

• Added a new Immaculate tier of gems of epic quality that provides +75 bonus to a given stat.
• Players can unlock the ability to craft the new gems by completing a short questline that starts at an Arakkoa encampment as soon as they enter Tanaan Jungle.
• After completing the questline, Jewelcrafters can craft Versatility gems. To unlock additional gem recipes, players must find or purchase Gemcutter Modules from various sources.
• Jewelcrafters also have a chance to learn one of the new recipes each time the Gemcutting Construct crafts a gem.

Items

• Apexis Crystals no longer have a cap.
• Sinister Spores now reduces healing taken by 50% (down from 90%).
• Super Sticky Glitter Bomb’s effect can now be dispelled and lasts for 15 seconds (down from 30 seconds).

Achievements

• Exploration Mission Master achievement no longer requires completing treasure map Garrison Missions.

Class

Death Knight

General

• Anti-Magic Shell now absorbs 100% of all magical damage (up from 75%). However, damage absorbed no longer causes Resolve.

Frost

• Frost Strike now deals 20% more damage.
• Howling Blast now deals 20% more damage.
• Obliterate’s damage has increased by 20%, but deals only 80% of normal damage against player-controlled targets.

Unholy

• Necrosis now deals 17% less damage.

Glyphs

• Glyph of Icy Runes has been removed.

Druid

General

• Frenzied Regeneration now refunds a proportional amount of excess healing dealt back to the Druid as Rage.
• Thrash now deals 10% more damage.

Balance

• Mastery: Total Eclipse has reduced in effectiveness by 5%.

Feral

• Rake now deals 10% more damage.
• Rip now deals 10% more damage.

Guardian

• Bear Form now increases armor by 285% (up from 250%) for Guardian Druids.
• Healing Touch no longer cancels Bear Form for Guardian Druids.
• Savage Defense now also reduces physical damage taken by 25%.

Talents

• Dream of Cenarius’ effect can now be stored for up to 40 seconds (up from 20 seconds) for Guardian Druids.
• Force of Nature’s summoned Treant now deals 100% more damage.

Glyphs

• Glyph of Untamed Stars is now automatically learned at level 75.

Hunter

General

• Aspect of the Fox has been removed.

Marksmanship

• Aimed Shot now deals 15% more damage.

Survival

• Mastery: Essence of the Viper has increased in effectiveness by 19%.
• Explosive Shot now deals 15% less damage.
• Serpent Sting no longer deals an initial “tick” of damage when the periodic effect is first applied.

Talents

• A Murder of Crows now deals only 80% of normal damage against player-controlled targets.
• Barrage now deals only 80% of normal damage against player-controlled targets. Additionally, the ability no longer hits invisible or stealthed targets.

Mage

General

• Amplify Magic has been removed.
• Frostfire Bolt now deals 30% more damage.

Arcane

• Mastery: Mana Adept has reduced in effectiveness by 6%.
• Arcane Missiles now deals 10% more damage.

Frost

• Mastery: Icicles is now 13% more effective.
• Brain Freeze now has a 15% increased chance to trigger on each multistrike (down from 25%).
• Frostbolt now deals 30% more damage.

Monk

General

• Blackout Kick now deals 5% 30% less damage.
• Provoke now has a 30 yard range (down from 40 yards).
• Rising Sun Kick (Windwalker, Mistweaver) now deals 5% less damage.
• Tiger Palm now deals 5% 30% less damage.
• Tiger Strikes no longer triggers from multistrikes, but now provides a 40% increase to Multistrike chance while active.

Brewmaster

• Blackout Kick no longer increases the Stagger amount for Brewmaster Monks.
• Stance of the Sturdy Ox now increases armor by 125% (up from 75%) and provides a 20% 10% base Stagger percentage. Additionally, the Stagger effect no longer works against attacks which ignore armor.

Windwalker

• Fists of Fury now deals 5% 30% less damage.
• Hurricane Strike now deals 5% 30% less damage.
• Tigereye Brew now increases damage dealt by 10% per charge consumed (up from 6%).

Talents

• Chi Explosion now deals 5% 30% less damage for Windwalker Monks.
• Serenity now lasts 5 seconds for Brewmaster Monks (down from 10 seconds).

Paladin

Holy

• Devotion Aura now reduces all damage taken, not just magical damage.
• Holy Shock’s mana cost has increased by 50%.

Retribution

• Mastery: Hand of Light has reduced in effectiveness by 6%.

Priest

Shadow

• Mastery: Mental Anguish has been reduced in effectiveness by 10%.
• Devouring Plague now deals 12% less damage.
• Shadowform no longer applies its visual effect to the Priest’s mount.

Glyphs

• Glyph of Shadowy Friends now extends Shadowform’s visual effect to the Priest’s mount in addition to non-combat pets.

Rogue

General

• Eviscerate now deals 10% more damage.
• Sinister Strike now deals 10% more damage.

Pickpocketing

• New items have been added to pickpocket from humanoids in Tanaan Jungle.
• Added a new weekly quest, Da Even Bigga Score.
• Dingy Iron Coins now have a cap of 20,000 (up from 10,000).
• Secretive Whistle now has a 15 minute cooldown (down from 1 hour).
• Updated tooltip descriptions for pickpocketed items of value to help distinguish them from other items.

Assassination

• Envenom now deals 30% 10% more damage.
• Mutilate now deals 30% 10% more damage.

Combat

• Mastery: Main Gauche has increased in effectiveness by 10%.
• Killing Spree now only grants immunity to root and snare effects and the effect is now cancelled if the Rogue is affected by other crowd-control effects.

Subtlety

• Mastery: Executioner has decreased in effectiveness by 8%.
• Backstab now deals 20% more damage.
• Sanguinary Vein now causes the Rogue to deal 30% more damage to targets affected by Rupture (up from 25%).

Talents

• Shuriken Toss now deals 53% more autoattack damage. Additionally, fixed a bug that caused hits made with offhand weapons to deal 15% more damage than intended.

Shaman

Elemental

• Elemental Overload now increases multistrike damage by 20% (down from 35%).

Restoration

• Chain Heal now heals for 25% more.
• Riptide no longer increases Chain Heal’s effectiveness by 25% on the primary target.

Armor Sets

• PvP 2-piece set bonus for Elemental Shaman is now the PvP 4-piece set bonus and has been replaced. New PvP 2-piece set bonus: Reduces the cooldown of Hex by 15 seconds.
• PvP 4-piece set bonus for Elemental Shaman has been replaced by the old PvP 2-piece set bonus. While Ascendance is active, the Shaman is immune to silence and interrupt effects.

Warlock

General

• Corruption now deals 12% more damage.
• Dark Soul should now have its cooldown reset at the end of a raid encounter for all Warlock specializations.
• Shadow Bolt now deals 25% less damage.

Affliction

• Agony now deals 12% more damage.
• Unstable Affliction now deals 12% more damage.

Demonology

• Mastery: Master Demonologist has decreased in effectiveness by 4%.
• Chaos Wave now deals 25% less damage.
• Doom now deals 25% less damage.
• Hand of Gul’dan now deals 25% less damage.
• Soul Fire now deals 25% less damage.
• Touch of Chaos now deals 25% less damage.

Armor Sets

• PvP 2-piece set bonus for Destruction Warlocks has been redesigned. Getting stunned, silenced, interrupted, or feared now generates 1 Burning Ember. Can only occur once every 15 seconds.

Warrior

General

• Defensive Stance now decreases damage taken by 25% (up from 20%).

Protection

• Improved Defensive Stance now also decreases damage taken by 5%.