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Season 4... Just old dungeons and new ilvl?
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January 28th Hotfixes, Legacy Gear 0Dogs, T6 Rift Speed Clear, 2.1.2 Lightning DH
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Beta Key Giveaway, Town Hall Heroes #48: Cloud9's RawJar, eSports, and the MetaPatch 6.1 - Twitter Integration
The latest PTR build activated Twitter integration. You can tweet screenshots, achievements, items, or whatever is on your mind. There is a small delay after sending a tweet before it is really sent and the system currently doesn't take clear achievement screenshots. You can see how the tweets below turned out here.
Patch 6.1 PTR Patch Notes Update - Jan 29
Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts
Itemization
Class Changes
Talent Balance
Classes
Quests
Creatures and NPCs
PvP
Professions
Items
UI
- Garrison Followers
- Garrison Followers may now be upgraded to item level 675.
- Garrison Buildings
- Salvage Yard
- Follower Weaponry and Armor Set tokens (War Ravaged, Blackrock, Goredrenched) no longer drops from salvage. Weapon and Armor enhancement tokens that can upgrade a Follower's weapon or armor item levels will continue to have a chance to drop from Salvage Crates.
- Trading Post
- Players trading Garrison Resources for tradeskill materials can now shift-click to specify the amount of items they want to purchase.
- Trading Post Parts that drop in Ashran now have a chance to drop from all creatures and NPCs that drop Artifact Fragments, with an increased drop chance based on the quality of the creature or NPCs.
- Salvage Yard
Itemization
- All rings, neck, cloak, and trinket items that can be acquired in Nagrand (A level 98+ zone) or later should now be better suited for the character's loot specialization. This means tanks should no longer receive items with no bonus Armor and healers should no longer receive items with no Spirit from quests or Personal loot mode for those item slots.
Class Changes
Talent Balance
Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
- Talents
- Evanesce should now provide protection against many more effects, and function more consistently.
- Ice Nova (Frost) now roots the target instead of stunning them, but the root is no longer affected by diminishing returns.
- Talents
Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
- Talents
- Chi Explosion (Mistweaver) healing while in Serpent Stance is increased by 40%, and is now usable while channeling Soothing Mist. Healing while in Crane Stance is reduced by 33.3%.
- Talents
Paladin (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
- Talents
- Empowered Seals (Protection, Retribution) has been improved. Liadrin’s Righteousness now increases haste by 20% (up from 15%). Uther’s Insight now heals the Paladin for 2% of maximum health every 3 seconds (up from 1% every 2 seconds).
- Talents
Classes
- Cosmetic transformation effects now have a higher priority than Druid combat forms.
- To retain and improve readability in rated PvP environments, cosmetic transformation effects are now suppressed for all classes inside a rated PvP environment (Arenas or Rated Battlegrounds).
Death Knight (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
- Armor Sets
- PvP 4-piece set bonus for Blood Death Knights now only applies Anti-Magic Shell to 1 additional ally within 15 yards (down from 2 allies).
- Armor Sets
Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
- General
- Mangle damage increased by 27%.
- General
- Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
- Frost
- Deep Freeze's stun effect now always breaks on damage from Ice Lance or Ice Nova, but no longer has a chance to break from other damage sources.
- Talents
- Blast Wave (Fire) now has a 3-second cooldown.
- Ice Nova (Frost) now has a 3-second cooldown.
- Supernova (Arcane) now has a 3-second cooldown.
- Armor Sets
- Tier-17 4-piece bonus for Fire Mages is now approximately 0.7 procs per minute (down from 1 procs per minute).
- Frost
- Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
- Armor Sets
- PvP 4-piece set bonus for Brewmaster Monks now only applies Guard to 1 additional ally within 15 yards (down from 2 allies).
- Armor Sets
- Paladin (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
- Glyphs
- Glyph of Immediate Truth is now only available to Retribution Paladins.
- Glyphs
Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
- Armor Sets
- PvP 4-piece set bonus for Combat Rogues has been redesigned. Using Vanish instantly generates 5 combo points and the next Ambush, Eviscerate, Revealing Strike, or Sinister Strike will be a critical strike.
- Armor Sets
Shaman (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
- Elemental
- Enhanced Chain Lightning now makes Earthquake instant cast, and increases the damage done by the next Earthquake by 300% when Chain Lightning or Lava Beam strikes 3 or more targets (instead of increasing Earthquake damage by 60% for each target struck).
- Enhancement
- Maelstrom Weapon no longer reduces the mana cost of spells.
- Armor Sets
- Tier-17 4-piece bonus for Elemental Shaman now requires the Shaman to consume 18 Lightning Shield charges to trigger (up from 15 charges).
- Elemental
Warrior (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
- Armor Sets
- Tier-17 4-piece bonus for Arms Warriors now causes Colossus Smash to generate 20 rage (down from 30 Rage).
- Armor Sets
Quests
- Players in a raid group will once again no longer be eligible for quest credit, except for specially-designated Raid quests. We are continuing to explore ways of allowing players who want to engage in solo or small-group questing while in a raid group (for example, while waiting for a Highmaul raid to form, or in a Rated Battleground queue), without also allowing raid groups to trivially complete quests that were never designed with groups of that size in mind.
- Legendary Ring Quest Line
- Characters can now select the version of the ring they want to receive when completing a step of the Legendary Ring Quest Line that provides an upgrade.
Creatures and NPCs
- Khadgar has decided to dismiss his remarkably realistic mirror images from capital cities across the land. Adventurers answering his summons and seeking to enter Draenor may once again only find him near the Dark Portal in Blasted Lands.
PvP
- Flask of Conquest has been added as a potential drop from Strongboxes awarded at the end of a Rated Battleground match. The flask increases Conquest Point gains from Arenas and Rated Battlegrounds by 25% for 2 hours and the effect persists through death. The flask does not affect the character's Conquest cap and the drop chance is in addition to the existing chance for Strongboxes to contain Conquest Points.
Professions
- Fishing
- Fishing vendors on Draenor now sell a consumable item that enables automatic filleting of fish caught in Draenor. Fish caught in Draenor are now automatically filleted.
- Draenor fishing bait now lasts for 10 minutes (up from 5 minutes) to match the duration of fishing lures. and needs to be used within 15 minutes of being caught or it'll spoil.
Items
- Toybox
Piccolo of the Flaming Fire has been rebuilt into a Toybox item. Players can channel for 30 seconds to cause those around them to dance with a 5-minute cooldown.
Ruthers' Harness has been added to the Toybox.
Moroes' Famous Polish now has a 30-minute cooldown (up from 10 minutes) to keep it consistent with our transformation cooldowns.
UI
- New Colorblind Options
- Players can now access a new suite of colorblind filter options under Accessibility settings in the Interface menu.
- Premade Group leaders can now automatically accept applicants via a new "Auto Accept" checkbox after the group has been listed.
- Improved the ordering for categories in the currency tab.
- Popup notifications such as those for completing an achievement or receiving a reward after a Battleground match can now be dismissed by right-clicking on it.
- Added an "Ignore this bag" option to Profession bags for bag clean up.
- All multi-page windows now supports mousewheel scrolling.
Blackrock Foundry Testing (Jan. 30)
Patch 6.1 PTR - Build 19551
Build 19551 will be deployed to the PTR realms soon.
New Item
| Level | Type | Name |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | Consumable |  Gaiju Pearl |
Achievement Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
DraenorQuests
- King of the Monsters Defeat each of the following creatures while evolved in the Lost Veil Anzu.10 points.
- Monster Mash Successfully complete both of the following evolutions within the Lost Veil Anzu:10 points.
Invasions
Garrisons
- Master and Commander
Summon and defeat the following bosses in your Garrison. 10 points.Defeat all of the summonable Garrison raid bosses. 10 points.
Spell Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Item Set Bonuses- Item - Death Knight T17 Unholy 2P Bonus: In addition to its previous effects, your pet now deals 40% additional damage while Dark Transformation is active.
- Item - Death Knight WoD PvP 2P Bonus: Wording changed from "increases the damage of your next special attack by 25%" to "increases the damage of your next weapon special attack by 25%".
- Item - Death Knight WoD PvP Blood 4P Bonus: Now only applies Anti-Magic Shell to the nearest ally, down from the nearest 2 allies.
- Item - Monk WoD PvP Brewmaster 4P Bonus: Now only applies Guard to the nearest ally, down from the nearest 2 allies.
- Item - Rogue WoD PvP Combat 4P Bonus (New): When you use Vanish, you gain 5 Combo Points and the critical strike chance of your next Mutilate, Dispatch, Envenom, or Ambush is increased by 100%.
- Item - Shaman T17 Elemental 4P Bonus: Number of Lightning Shield charges consumed to trigger the proc increased from 15 to 18.
- Item - Warrior T17 Arms 2P Bonus: Now causes Colossus Smash to generate 20 Rage, down from 30 Rage.
Druid (Forums, Talent Calculator)Talents
- Moment of Clarity: Now causes Omen of Clarity to last 7 seconds, up from 5 seconds.
Mage (Forums, Talent Calculator)Major Glyphs
- Glyph of Ignite: Slow applied by Ignite increased from 40% to 50%.
Monk (Forums, Talent Calculator)- Tiger Palm Damage dealt increased by roughly 66.7%.
Talents
- Charging Ox Wave: Tooltip now clarifies that the ability has a 40 yard range.
- Chi Burst (Brewmaster, Windwalker): Damage dealt increased from 134.4% of AP to 275% of AP. Healing done increased from 203% of AP to 275% of AP.
- Chi Burst (Mistweaver): Damage dealt increased from 134.4% of AP to 275% of AP. Healing done increased from 203% of AP to 330% of AP.
Paladin (Forums, Talent Calculator)- Hammer of Wrath: Damage dealt increased from 200% of SP to 240% of SP.
Protection
- Shining Protector: Now has two chances to trigger instead of one chance.
Rogue (Forums, Talent Calculator)- Crimson Tempest: Damage dealt over time decreased by 1.66%.
Shaman (Forums, Talent Calculator)Perks
- Enhanced Chain Lightning: When this procs, it now also causes your next Earthquake to be instant cast.
Enhancement
- Maelstrom Weapon: Instead of reducing cast time by 20% per stack, now reduces cast time and mana cost by 20% per stack.
Major Glyphs
- Glyph of Unstable Earth: Tooltip longer specifies the duration of the slow.
Raid & Dungeon Abilities
- Blast Wave The caster produces an intense wave of heat that travels outward, inflicting
100,000140,000 Fire damage to all targets in the area. Volcanic Bombs hit by the wave are destroyed; but provide protection from the blast. 100 yd range. 4 sec cast. 3 sec cooldown. - Reaping Whirl Whirl around, causing enemies to bleed for
20,00014,000 Physical damage every 1 sec, for 20 sec. Stacks. 3 sec cast.
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