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Thanks for all the feedback on these changes. As a team, we do prefer personal loot as a solution for Dungeon Finder groups, which is why we modified and extended the system we’ve had in place for Raid Finder. We heard from sources both within our team and the community that the experience of defeating a boss and no ceremony beyond three gold on its corpse, or the possibility of finishing an entire dungeon without seeing any items, felt flat and even a bit broken. Based on those concerns, we decided to roll back a system that had been in place for a week to a system that had been in use for years, while we continued to polish and refine the personal loot system to deliver an optimal experience to players. However, we underestimated the impact and positive elements of personal loot, in terms of reducing contention and drama in random match made groups.
We now have a hotfix in the works that will do two things:
We now have a hotfix in the works that will do two things:
- The default loot system for Dungeon Finder groups will once again be Personal, instead of Need Before Greed. Full premade groups that prefer the latter system will be able to select it manually, as always.
- We're increasing loot yield from the final boss of each dungeon.
- With Personal loot active, each player in a group will now always receive an item from the final boss.
- With Need Before Greed active, the boss will now drop 3 items to be shared among the group as desired, up from 2 previously.
Patch 6.0.3 Hotfixes - November 21
Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts
Quests
World Environment
Creatures and NPCs
Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios
Battlegrounds and Arenas
Professions
Items
Bug Fixes
- Characters are now guaranteed to have level 90-94 Garrison Missions available if they have Followers in the level 90-94 range and level 95-99 Garrison Missions available if they have Followers in the level 95-99 range.
- Work Orders should now also work with materials and reagents that are in the character's bank and reagent bank.
- Temporarily disabled Ashran as a daily quest choice while we continue to troubleshoot issues with some of the daily quests being offered.
- Followers
- Leeroy Jenkins: Resolved an issue where characters that were dead or in Spirit of Redemption form when completing the achievement Leeeeeeeeeeeeeroy...? may sometimes not receive Leeroy Jenkins as a follower.
Quests
- Shadowmoon Valley
- Assault on Darktide Roost: Increased the respawn rates of creatures and NPCs needed for the quest.
- Gorgrond
- Assault on the Pit: Blackrock Foundry Assaulted credit is no longer being awarded when using the Iron Troop Launcher.
- Shredder vs. Saberon: Resolved an issue where characters that leave the quest area immediately after receiving credit may be unable to turn-in the quest.
- Spires of Arak
- Assault on Skettis: The debuff Infected Talons placed by various creatures in the area for this quest no longer stacks.
- Bonus Objective: The Howling Crag: Defeating the ritualists Vile Siphonmaster, Crazed Obliterator, and Insane Nullifier now contributes credit towards completing the Pale Orcs Slain objective.
- Legendary Ring Quest Line
- Tarnished Bronze: Spirit of Kairozdormu's Time Bomb ability should no longer be hitting players that aren't in combat with him in a different phase.
World Environment
- [Requires a realm restart.] Portals leading to the Dark Portal in Blasted Lands have been added next to Archmage Khadgar in Stormwind and Orgrimmar.
- Removed an erroneous treasure marker displayed by using the Spires of Arak Treasure Map for a Reagent Pouch that did not actually exist.
Creatures and NPCs
- Increased the spawn rates for creatures and NPCs across a number of questing areas for level 100 daily quests.
- Reduced the spawn rate of creatures and NPCs laying siege in the areas around Shattrath City.
- Gruuk has moved to a new location where they can be seen by both Horde and Alliance players.
- High Warlord Volrath and Grand Marshal Tremblade now only award 50 Honor for defeating them (down from 500).
- Nagrand Prowler 's Leap for the Kill ability now has a shorter stun duration and smaller damage radius.
- Nok-Karosh's drop, Garn Nighthowl now only allows players in a party or Raid to roll greed.
Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios
- Molten Core
- Players should no longer be incorrectly placed into a Molten Core where Ragnaros has already been defeated.
- Shazzrah's area of effect damage has been reduced.
- Firelord now uses the Lava Spawn ability less frequently.
- Core Hound, Molten Destroyer, and Molten Giant's area-of-effect attacks now deals 50% less damage.
- Core Hound, Molten Destroyer, Molten Giant, Lava Annihilator, and Lava Surger now have 30% less health.
- In a departure from the original Molten Core, reduced aggro radius for most non-boss creatures from their original aggro radius from back in the day.
- Dungeons
- Reverted the change to the default loot mode for random matchmade groups in Dungeon Finder back to Personal loot.
- In Personal loot, each player in the group will now always receive an item from the final dungeon boss.
- In Need Before Greed, the dungeon boss will now drop 3 items to be shared among the group as desired, up from 2 previously.
- Full premade groups queuing in Dungeon Finder now defaults to Need Before Greed and they can change the loot mode if they want.
- Call to Arms for in-demand roles have been reeanabled for Dungeon Finder. Completing the dungeon awards a Satchel of Savage Mysteries with a chance to contain new treasures and it will always contain an Augment Rune, a tradeable item that provides a consumable buff that is ordinarily only available through Raid Finder.
- An award of 50 Garrison Resources has been added for completing the first Random Warlords of Draenor Heroic Dungeon of the day.
- Grimrail Depot
- Railmaster Rocketspark's X21-01A Missile Barrage now deals 20% less damage.
- Skyreach
- Araknath: Rogues using Vanish should no longer cause Araknath to become non-interactive.
- High Sage Viryx's Cast Down ability should no longer cause Druids to drop out of their shapeshifted form.
- Solar Flares are now able to correctly Fixate on a target even while stunned.
- The Everbloom
- Putrid Pyromancer should no longer continue to track the player when using their Dragon's Breath ability.
- Upper Blackrock Spire
- Kyrak's Debilitating Fixation ability can now target players up to 50 yards away (up from 30 yards).
- Ragewing the Untamed's indicator for Fire Storm should now correctly display the ability's area of effect.
- Black Iron Leadbelcher should no longer incorrectly activate a Sentry Cannon while polymorphed or hexed.
- Reverted the change to the default loot mode for random matchmade groups in Dungeon Finder back to Personal loot.
Battlegrounds and Arenas
- Tarren Mill vs Southshore
- Victory conditions are now for the first side to reach 300 points or the match results in a tie after 30 minutes.
- Tarren Mill Deathguards and Alliance Guards now have more health.
Professions
- Archeology
- Moved some Archeology nodes in the area around Icewind Drifts in Frostfire Ridge to no longer be in inaccessible locations.
Items
- Epic quality Bind on Equip world drops are no longer eligible for a Need roll.
- Many Warlords of Draenor trinkets received an adjustment to their stats to provide a bonus that's more appropriate for the trinket's item level.
- Turbulent Cloak contained in Satchel of Helpful Goods should no longer result in creating an invalid item for Guardian Druids.
Bug Fixes
- Resolved an issue that could cause characters to become stuck on a flight path.
Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Followers and Garrison Missions XP
The hotfix to increase the amount of lower level Garrison Missions being offered to players that have lower leveled Followers is now active.
The result of this change is that characters are now guaranteed to have level 90-94 Garrison Missions available if they have Followers in the level 90-94 range and level 95-99 Garrison Missions available if they have Followers in the level 95-99 range. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Game Time Being Applied
The 5 days of free game time mentioned in the letter from J. Allen Brack is on its way out. As a reminder this is for players in the Americas, Oceania, and Europe who had active subscriptions as of Friday, November 14. We expect the process to take a full day to apply to all accounts that met the requirement. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Teaching Followers New Traits
There's been some confusion regarding the various items you can use that allow you to change a trait on one of your Garrisons followers, so we wanted to clarify how these items work.
If you use an item such as the Supreme Manual of Dance or the Hearthstone Strategy Guide, the targeted follower will gain the trait associated with the on-use item, and lose a random trait which cannot be selected or changed after the fact. Currently, the tooltips for these items are not specific enough about the randomness associated with their outcome, and we're working on getting them adjusted.
So if you're now missing a follower with a specific trait you want or need, remember that you can level your Inn or Tavern to tier 2 to gain access to an NPC who will hunt down new followers. When one becomes available, you can then limit your search based on the traits you desire. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
The hotfix to increase the amount of lower level Garrison Missions being offered to players that have lower leveled Followers is now active.
The result of this change is that characters are now guaranteed to have level 90-94 Garrison Missions available if they have Followers in the level 90-94 range and level 95-99 Garrison Missions available if they have Followers in the level 95-99 range. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Game Time Being Applied
The 5 days of free game time mentioned in the letter from J. Allen Brack is on its way out. As a reminder this is for players in the Americas, Oceania, and Europe who had active subscriptions as of Friday, November 14. We expect the process to take a full day to apply to all accounts that met the requirement. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Teaching Followers New Traits
There's been some confusion regarding the various items you can use that allow you to change a trait on one of your Garrisons followers, so we wanted to clarify how these items work.
If you use an item such as the Supreme Manual of Dance or the Hearthstone Strategy Guide, the targeted follower will gain the trait associated with the on-use item, and lose a random trait which cannot be selected or changed after the fact. Currently, the tooltips for these items are not specific enough about the randomness associated with their outcome, and we're working on getting them adjusted.
So if you're now missing a follower with a specific trait you want or need, remember that you can level your Inn or Tavern to tier 2 to gain access to an NPC who will hunt down new followers. When one becomes available, you can then limit your search based on the traits you desire. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
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