Patch 6.1 Live This Week

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Patch 6.1 Live This Week
Patch 6.1 goes live this week, bringing us some systems changes and content. We will be updating this post as we wait for the patch to go live, so keep checking back!

• New Blood Elf Models - The updated models are finally here!
• New Character Model Tweaks - The Night Elf male run animation was finally changed.
• Heirloom Tab - The Heirloom tab is finally here!
• Heirloom Item Changes and Upgrades - Item upgrades are back for Heirlooms.
• New Neck Heirlooms - The new neck slot heirlooms provide a heal on a 2 minute cooldown.
• Heirloom Achievements and Mount - A new 60% mount usable from Level 1 and some achievements are part of the heirlooms update.
• Heirloom Prices - Heirloom prices have been adjusted and some new heirlooms added.
• Twitter Integration - Link a Twitter account and tweet selfies.
• S.E.L.F.I.E - The most useful garrison mission reward: A selfie camera that can be upgraded to add filters.
• Follower Changes - Harrison Jones, a new legendary follower, and more!
• Mission Changes - Profession missions, Archaeology missions, BRF missions, and Relic Hunter missions are just some of the new missions added.
• Garrison Resource Changes - Scavenger was nerfed, new items added to the vendor, and a new source of garrison resources were added.
• Work Order / Building Changes - Faster work order completion, more useful buildings, and other quality of life changes.
• Garrison UI Changes - The default UI has a few basic Master Plan features now.
• Garrison Jukebox - The ability to change your garrison's music and another collection minigame all in one.
• Misc Garrison Changes - Friends now have a reason to visit your garrison, including daily quest givers, platinum invasions, and raid bosses.
• New Apexis Gear - If you have the crystals, the vendors have some item level 670 armor for you!
• Profession Changes - Stage 4 crafted items, crafting spells that bypass the daily cooldown, and a Savage Blood transmute are a few of the changes.
• Graphical Updates - Better SSAO, MSAA is back, SSAA has been added, and nicer lighting.
• New Loading Screens - Garrisons finally get their own loading screens.
• Veteran Accounts - Your characters under level 20 can log in and join your guild even without an active subscription.
• New Toys - Along with the new toys, several items were flagged as toys so that they can be added to the Toy Box.
• Mystic Runesaber Mount - The Mystic Runesaber ground mount will be purchased from the in-game shop.
• Colorblind Support - Differentiating colors should be a little easier for those with colorblindness now.
• Addons - As always, we need your help collecting data from in game by installing the WoWDB addon.

Official PTR Patch Notes
The final notes aren't live just yet, but you can look at the PTR notes and all of the class changes right now.

New Blood Elf Models
New Blood Elf models are finally here!

Character Model Tweaks
Patch 6.1 applies many small tweaks to character models, as well as a change to the Night Elf male running animation. Some of the changes are pictured below.

Heirloom Tab
Patch 6.1 adds the long awaited Heirlooms Tab!

• The heirloom collection is sorted by slot and can be filtered by class and spec.
• Existing heirlooms are added to the collection as soon as you log in to the character with them.
• Most of your existing heirlooms will be added with a 1/2 upgrade level that scales them to Level 90. You will keep the existing heirloom item, so don't worry about losing existing enchants.
• Garrosh heirlooms don't show in the collection unless you already own them. If you own one, the most powerful version of it will show up in your collection, scaling to Level 100.
• Clicking on a heirloom in your collection will create a new copy of the heirloom. This copy can be enchanted like any other item, but it will only affect that item. If you want to use the enchanted item on another character, you will need to mail it to the other character.
• Bind on Account items from Archaeology are not added to this collection.
• Heirlooms with PvP Power or Resilience have had those stats converted into other, non-PvP secondary stats.
• Stats have been removed, added, or adjusted on many heirloom items.

Heirloom Item Changes and Upgrades
Patch 6.1 makes a few changes to how heirlooms work and how they are obtained.

• The heirloom vendors that take gold are Estelle Gendry in Undercity and Krom Stoutarm in Ironforge.
• These NPCs sell heirlooms that scale to Level 60.
• You can purchase items to upgrade your heirloom to scale to Level 90 and then Level 100.
• There is a quest chain which allows you to earn some upgrades:
  
  • A breadcrumb quest sends you to your faction's heirloom vendor, who gives a quest to collect Misprinted Draenic Coin.
  • Coins are found in Bounty Payouts, Relic Acquisition Compensatory Packages, and Garrison Resource Shipments.
  • The first quest rewards a Ancient Heirloom Armor Casing for 5 x Misprinted Draenic Coin.
  • The next quest rewards Timeworn Heirloom Armor Casing for 10 x Misprinted Draenic Coin.
  • The third quest rewards Ancient Heirloom Scabbard for 25 x Misprinted Draenic Coin.
  • A fourth quest hasn't show up yet, but if it exists, it may reward Timeworn Heirloom Scabbard for an increased coin cost.
• You can still purchase heirlooms for Honor, Darkmoon Faire Tickets, Argent Tournament seals, and many holiday currencies. There is a nice listing at the bottom of this post.

Source	Level 90 Upgrade Cost	Level 100 Upgrade Cost
Normal Vendors (Gold)	(Armor) 1000 / (Weapon) 1200	(Armor) 2000 / (Weapon) 5000
Normal Vendors (Honor)	(Armor) 2000x / (Weapon) 2400x Honor Points	N/A
Argent Tournament	(Armor) 55x / (Weapon) 65x Champion's Seal	N/A
Darkmoon Faire	(Armor) 100x / (Weapon) 120x Darkmoon Prize Ticket	N/A
Love is in the Air	(Weapon) 200x Love Token	(Weapon) 450x Love Token
Lunar Festival	(Armor) 40x Coin of Ancestry	(Armor) 75x Coin of Ancestry
Midsummer Fire Festival*	350x Burning Blossom	600x Burning Blossom
Brewfest*	300x Brewfest Prize Token	500x Brewfest Prize Token
Hallow's End*	250x Tricky Treat	450x Tricky Treat

* While we can datamine prices ahead of the actual holiday occurring, we can't determine if the prices are for the weapon scabbard or for the armor casing if the event has not occurred since/during Patch 6.1.


New Neck Heirlooms
These neck items are sold by the heirloom vendors and give you a heal with a 2 minute cooldown that is shared with the potions and healthstone cooldowns.

Level	Type	Spec	Name	Cost
85	Neck	Melee	Eternal Talisman of Evasion	700
85	Neck	Melee	Eternal Emberfury Talisman	700
85	Neck	Spell Spirit	Eternal Amulet of the Redeemed	700
85	Neck	Physical DPS	Eternal Will of the Martyr	700
85	Neck	Physical DPS	Eternal Woven Ivy Necklace	700
85	Neck	Spell DPS	Eternal Horizon Choker	700

Heirloom Achievements and Mount
The addition of the Heirloom Tab means some new achievements to go along with it! Collecting 35 Heirlooms will reward you with the Chauffeured Chopper, which is a 60% speed mount driven by an NPC, allowing you to use it from Level 1 onwards.

Name	Points	Reward	Category
Where's the Mailbox? Collect a Heirloom item.	5		Collections
Alt-ernative Lifestyle Collect 5 Heirlooms.	10		Collections
Ready for Powerleveling Collect 15 Heirlooms.	10		Collections
Heirloom Hoarder Collect 35 Heirlooms.	10	Rewards: Chauffeured Chopper / Chauffeured Chopper	Collections

Twitter Integration
Patch 6.1 allows you to link a Twitter account to your World of Warcraft account and tweet screenshots, achievements, items, or whatever is on your mind directly from inside the game.

The game and addons cannot send tweets for you automatically and if you don't link a Twitter account, nothing will change for you. There are no achievements or rewards linked to this feature. You can't see your Twitter timeline in game, as this feature just allows for sending tweets.

S.E.L.F.I.E
Patch 6.1 adds S.E.L.F.I.E. Camera as a reward from the Field Photography garrison mission. It allows you to take selfies of your character. If you are lucky enough to get the Lens Some Hands mission, you can use the S.E.L.F.I.E. Lens Upgrade Kit to upgrade your camera to the S.E.L.F.I.E. Camera MkII. This camera has Black and White Filter, Death Filter, and Sketch Filter.

Legendary Quest and Follower
Patch 6.1 advances the legendary quest and will give you a new legendary follower, Garona Halforcen!

• You will be able to free Garona from Gul'dan
• Khadgar uses Orb of Dominion to break Gul'dan's mind control of Garona
• Cordana comes along for the event

Follower Changes
Patch 6.1 adds some new followers, traits, and items.

• Garrison Followers may now be upgraded to item level 675.
• Followers that are working or inactive can now be upgraded.
• Follower traits can now be rerolled with Follower Trait Retraining Guide, which can be purchased for 1500 x Garrison Resources or rewarded from two missions.
• Follower abilities can be rerolled with Follower Ability Retraining Manual, which can be purchased for 1500 x Garrison Resources or rewarded from three missions.
• Nalya Battlehorn and Deluwin Whisperfield sell Follower Contracts you may have missed for 50.
• Harrison Jones is a new follower, rewarded from Don't Call Me Junior.
• Treasure Hunter is a new trait. Harrison Jones comes with this trait and you can use the Inn to recruit new followers with it. Many Treasure missions had their gold reduced to compensate.
• Mentor is a new trait that only Harrison Jones has. You cannot recruit new followers with this trait at the Inn.
• Bodyguard Miniaturization Device will let you shrink your bodyguard and can be purchased for 250 x Garrison Resources.
• Scavenger was reduced to a 100% bonus, down from 200%. Some mission rewards were increased to compensate, but some missions require less followers now, allowing you to stack less Scavenger followers.

Mission Changes
Patch 6.1 adds new new missions, new mission types, and new rewards.

• Two new Profession missions for each profession have been added. They reward 2 or 3 Rush Orders each, depending on duration. These missions require having a Level 3 version of the profession's building.
• New exploration missions are available to players with a skill of at least 1 in Archeology. Successfully completing these missions can award Archeology fragments (Arakkoa, Draenor Clans, Ogre), keystones, or treasure maps for a Draenor zone. Treasure maps obtained in this manner does not require quest achievement completion for the Draenor zone.
• Archeology Vendors in Stormshield and Warspear now sell an item that'll spawn a follower exploration mission for 5 Restored Artifacts.
• New Level-100 Scouting missions to a Battlefield now awards an item that grants access to missions that award Apexis Crystals.
• New Raid missions to Blackrock Foundry are now available for a cache that awards level 665, 680, or 695 items. These missions have already been added to the Master Plan addon.
• New follower missions have been added that can award gold, Apexis Crystals, Savage Blood, or Augmentation runes.
• New Relic Hunter missions have been added, including one that rewards a Seal of Tempered Fate.

Garrison Resource Changes
Scavenger was nerfed, new items added to the garrison resources vendor, and a new source of garrison resources were added.

• Scavenger was reduced to a 100% bonus, down from 200%. Some mission rewards were increased to compensate, but some missions require less followers now, allowing you to stack less Scavenger followers.
• Garrison Resource Vendor
  
  • Scouting Missives - These cost 200 x Garrison Resources each and grant access to an additional daily quest that rewards Apexis Crystals
  • Rush Order (Garden / Mine) - These cost 300 x Garrison Resources each and instantly complete 5 of your active work orders.
  • Rush Order (Barn / Gladiator's Sanctum / War Mill / Goblin Workshop) - These cost 1000 x Garrison Resources each and instantly complete 5 of your active work orders (1 for the Goblin Workshop).
  • Follower Trait Retraining Guide - This costs 1500 x Garrison Resources and will reroll follower traits.
  • Follower Ability Retraining Guide - This costs 1500 x Garrison Resources and will reroll follower abilities.
  • Invasion Assistance Items - 60 x Garrison Resources each: Enduring Vial of Swiftness, Enchanted Crystal of Freezing, Enchanted Crystal of Replenishment
• Bodyguard Miniaturization Device is sold by Garrison Resources / Moz'def for 250 x Garrison Resources.
• Garrison Resource Shipment is rewarded from dungeon daily quests.

Work Order / Building Changes
Faster work order completion, more useful buildings, and other quality of life changes.

• Rush Orders
  
  • Patch 6.1 adds Rush Orders to your garrison, allowing you to instantly complete 5 active work orders.
  • All of the profession rush orders are rewards of profession missions. Missions that reward 2 take 4 hours and require 2 followers, while missions that reward 3 take 6 hours and require 3 followers.
  • Other rush orders are purchased from the Garrison Resources vendor.
• Followers now earn experience for completing Work Orders.
• Work orders now check if a follower is assigned to the building every 4 hours when factoring in production bonuses.
• Alchemy Lab - Level 2: Followers working at the Alchemy Lab now offers a choice on the free potions you want to receive, but those potions are now soulbound.
• Dwarven Bunker - Level 3: A daily quest has been added to allow players to exchange 25 x Iron Horde Scraps for an armor or weapon enhancement token.
• Barn - Savage Blood now drops more frequently when a follower is assigned to the building (it didn’t affect the chance previously).
• The Lumber Mill and Trading Post no longer cost Garrison Resources to build or upgrade.
• Lumber Mill work orders now award 30 Garrison Resources (up from 20).
• 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.
• Mage Tower / Spirit Lodge now accepts Ogre Waystones as work orders awarding Apexis Crystals and a chance to receive Mission Completion Orders.
• Miner's Coffee and Preserved Mining Pick no longer have item stack limits. Up to 5 stacks of the Miner's Coffee can be applied by using multiple cups of coffee.
• Menagerie - Reduced the difficulty of quests to unlock the Menagerie, elite pet challenges, and pet battle daily quests
• Salvage Yard
  
  • Tier-3 salvage recovered from Follower missions no longer has an independent chance to drop an uncommon (green), rare (blue), or epic (purple) item and will instead always drop one of them. This change is intended to reduce overall item spam without affecting their value. Existing chance for Tier-3 salvage to potentially also contain an uncommon Tier-2 salvage item remains unchanged.
  • 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.

Garrison UI Changes
Some functionality from popular addons was added to the default UI, along with some quality of life changes.

• NPCs that accept Work Orders are now titled as such along with a new interaction cursor to make them easier to locate.
• Players now have an option to queue up all remaining work order slots through the building's work order UI.
• List of missions available now displays the amount of bonus XP, gold, and resources awarded without having to mouse-over the mission tooltip.
  
  • Improved tooltips displaying which followers that can counter threats on a mission.
  • Followers that can counter a threat and available show up with a green checkmark.
  • Followers that can counter a threat but are out on a mission displays the time remaining until the follower is available.
  • Followers that can counter a threat but assigned to a building will display a working icon.
• A new icon will notify the player when assigning a follower that'll receive less XP reward because they're below level or item level requirements.
• Garrisons with 10 or more followers now have access to a sortable list with a quick overview of how many followers can counter a particular threat or how long a follower will be out on a mission.

Garrison Jukebox
Patch 6.1 will allow you to change the music in your garrison, but it won't easy to collect all of the music! The fine folks at Wowpedia have been hunting down the music scrolls on the PTR.

You build the jukebox starting with the Bringing the Bass quest from an NPC near your garrison Town Hall. This rewards the jukebox and Stash of Dusty Music Rolls, which contains the default songs listed below.

Default Scrolls

These scrolls are given to you after building your jukebox. All of the scrolls are listed below, but you only earn the songs that belong to your faction.

Level	Type	Name	Source
100	Other	Music Roll: Stormwind	Stash of Dusty Music Rolls
100	Other	Music Roll: Ironforge	Stash of Dusty Music Rolls
100	Other	Music Roll: Night Song	Stash of Dusty Music Rolls
100	Other	Music Roll: Gnomeregan	Stash of Dusty Music Rolls
100	Other	Music Roll: Exodar	Stash of Dusty Music Rolls
100	Other	Music Roll: Curse of the Worgen	Stash of Dusty Music Rolls
100	Other	Music Roll: Orgrimmar	Stash of Dusty Music Rolls
100	Other	Music Roll: Undercity	Stash of Dusty Music Rolls
100	Other	Music Roll: Thunder Bluff	Stash of Dusty Music Rolls
100	Other	Music Roll: Zul'Gurub Voodoo	Stash of Dusty Music Rolls
100	Other	Music Roll: Silvermoon	Stash of Dusty Music Rolls
100	Other	Music Roll: Rescue the Warchief	Stash of Dusty Music Rolls
100	Other	Music Roll: Way of the Monk	Stash of Dusty Music Rolls

Earned Scrolls

Side	Name	Zone	Source
	Music Roll: Legends of Azeroth	Blackwing Descent	Nefarian
	Music Roll: The Burning Legion	The Black Temple	Illidan Stormrage
	Music Roll: Wrath of the Lich King	Naxxramas	Kel'Thuzad
	Music Roll: The Shattering	Dragon Soul	Madness of Deathwing
	Music Roll: Heart of Pandaria	Terrace of Eternal Spring	Sha of Fear
	Music Roll: A Siege of Worlds	Blackrock Foundry	Blackhand
Alliance	Music Roll: High Seas	Krasarang Wilds	Proveditor Grantley
Alliance	Music Roll: Cold Mountain	Ironforge	Fishing: Forlorn Cavern
Alliance	Music Roll: Tinkertown	Gnomeregan	Sparklematic-Wrapped Box
Horde	Music Roll: War March	Krasarang Wilds	Ongrom Black Tooth
Horde	Music Roll: Mulgore Plains	Thunder Bluff	Fishing: Pools of Vision
Horde	Music Roll: The Zandalari	Zul'Gurub	Jin'do the Godbreaker
	Music Roll: Song of Liu Lang	Vale of Eternal Blossoms	Tan Shin Tiao: 500
	Music Roll: Angelic	The Cape of Stranglethorn	Arena Treasure Chest
	Music Roll: Ghost	Duskwood	Forlorn Composer (must be dead)
	Music Roll: Mountains	Winterspring	Frozen Supplies
	Music Roll: Magic	Ashenvale	Lost Sentinel's Pouch
	Music Roll: The Black Temple	Shadowmoon Valley (Outland)	Warden's Scroll Case
	Music Roll: Invincible	Icecrown Citadel	The Lich King
	Music Roll: Karazhan Opera House	Karazhan	Opera event bosses
	Music Roll: The Argent Tournament	Icecrown	Vendors: 25 Champion's Seal
	Music Roll: Lament of the Highborne	Undercity	Sylvanas' Strongbox
	Music Roll: Faerie Dragon	Tirisfal Glades	Faerie Dragon Nest
	Music Roll: Totems of the Grizzlemaw	Grizzly Hills	Remington Brode
	Music Roll: Mountains of Thunder	Halls of Lightning	Loken
	Music Roll: Darkmoon Carousel	Darkmoon Island	Chester
	Music Roll: Shalandis Isle	Darnassus	High Priestess' Reliquary

Achievements
Finding the music scrolls grants achievements and a new toy.

Name	Side	Points	Reward	Category
Ten Hit Tunes Collect ten Music Rolls for your garrison's jukebox.	Alliance	5		Garrisons
Ten Hit Tunes Collect ten Music Rolls for your garrison's jukebox.	Horde	5		Garrisons
Azeroth's Top Twenty Tunes Collect twenty Music Rolls for your garrison's jukebox.	Alliance	5	Rewards: Portable Audiophone	Garrisons
Azeroth's Top Twenty Tunes Collect twenty Music Rolls for your garrison's jukebox.	Horde	5	Rewards: Portable Audiophone	Garrisons

Misc Garrison Changes
Many changes were made to give friends a reason to visit your garrison, including daily quest givers, platinum invasions, and raid bosses.

• Garrison Visitors - One of five new visitors may visit Tier 3 garrisons each day offering a quest to anyone that visits the Garrison.
  
  • Defeat a dungeon boss (daily quest): Awards Garrison Resource Shipment with a chance to contain a level 630, 645, or 655 item token.
  • Defeat a raid boss (weekly quest): Awards a bag with a chance to contain a level 645, or 655 item token.
  • Bounty (3+ players): Defeat a named elite NPC for Bounty Payout containing Apexis Crystals, and a chance to contain a level 645, or 655 item token.
  • Relic: Complete a series of quests to recover a relic for Relic Acquisition Compensatory Package containing Apexis Crystals, and a chance to contain a level 645, or 655 item token. Completing a relic mission unlocks it as a potential mission for your followers. Completing all 6 relic missions is part of unlocking Harrison Jones as a follower!
  • Profession: Turn-in tradeskill reagents for Primal Spirits and work order tradeskill reagents. It isn't clear if all of the existing quests will make it live. These traders also sell some of the new profession recipes added in Patch 6.1.
• Garrison Invasions
  
  • You can now earn a Platinum score from an invasion.
  • Two new achievements were added for a Platinum score: Platinum Defender and Impervious Defender.
  • You can earn some new 660 armor from Routed Invader's Crate of Spoils.
  • A Platinum score also can reward an item used to summon a garrison Raid Boss.
• Raid Bosses
  
  • You can now summon six new raid bosses in your garrison. Defeating them all will reward Master and Commander.
• Pet Battles
  
  • If you haven't started doing pet battles, the Ultimate Battle-Training Stone should be helpful in getting started. These are rewarded from the one time quest Unearthed Magic and according to the patch notes, Level 100 characters with a Tier 3 garrison will also get one in the mail. This will let you purchase other Level 25 pets from the auction house, allowing you to avoid having to level pets!
  • Another pet battle quest has been added: Critters of Draenor (A) / Critters of Draenor (H) - It rewards Traveler's Pet Supplies and 3 x Flawless Battle-Training Stone. The bag can contain Young Talbuk, Bone Serpent, or Slithershock Elver.
• UI Changes
  
  • List of missions available now displays the amount of bonus XP, gold, and resources awarded without having to mouse-over the mission tooltip.
  • Improved tooltips displaying which followers that can counter threats on a mission.
    
    • Followers that can counter a threat and available show up with a green checkmark.
    • Followers that can counter a threat but are out on a mission displays the time remaining until the follower is available.
    • Followers that can counter a threat but assigned to a building will display a working icon.
  • A new icon will notify the player when assigning a follower that'll receive less XP reward because they're below level or item level requirements.
  • Garrisons with 10 or more followers now have access to a sortable list with a quick overview of how many followers can counter a particular threat or how long a follower will be out on a mission.

Profession Changes
The full list of profession changes can be found in the official patch notes.

• New recipes have been added to create items that boost the item levels of crafted armor pieces to 680 and weapons to 670.
• New spells have been added that bypass the daily cooldown of reagent crafting spells, such as Primal Weaving and Riddle of Truesteel.
• Stat reroll items such as Hexweave Embroidery no longer require daily cooldown reagents.
• Alchemy
  
  • Alchemists can now transmute for Savage Blood and various Sorcerous elements.
  • Alchemists can now craft an upgradable alchemy trinket that start at item level 640 and can be upgraded to item level 680.
• Cooking
  
  • New self-only cooking recipes have been added for food that gives 125 bonus to a stat.

Graphical Updates
Patch 6.1 adds some nice graphical upgrades to the game:

• A new version of SSAO for higher end cards: HBAO+
• New Anti-Aliasing options: MSAA 2x/4x/8x, SSAA 2x, SSAA 2x + CMAA
• Per-pixel deferred point lights means more realistic lighting from things that emit light, like campfires and lamps.
• Render scale control, allowing you to choose what scale the world is rendered at. The image is then resized to fit your screen, with higher render scales showing more detail at the cost of performance.

Lighting Quality - Low / Medium / High

Render Scale - 50% / 100% / 200%

New Loading Screens
The garrisons will finally have their own loading screens in Patch 6.1.

Veteran Accounts

We’ve always had this kind of weird limitation where if you’ve never played WoW we let you play as much as you want, albeit in a very restricted Starter Edition account. However, if you have ever had a subscription--but don’t currently have one--we don’t even let you log in. In 6.1 we’ll effectively revert lapsed accounts into a Starter Edition “mode”, with all of the same restrictions. The one difference being that your sub-level 20 characters will be able to join a guild if any of your other characters are still in that guild.

The label for this mode internally is “Veteran”, and those are the strings that were datamined, but it’s unlikely to be a term we use to any great degree externally. It will simply be the default state for accounts that don’t currently have an active subscription.

Would I be able to log into my characters that are level 21 and above?
No.

New Toys
Along with the new toys, several items were flagged as toys so that they can be added to the Toy Box in this patch.

Old Items Made Into Toys

• Sargerei Disguise
• Barrel of Bandanas
• Moroes' Famous Polish
• Mini Mana Bomb
• Personal Hologram
• Fandral's Seed Pouch
• Scroll of Storytelling
• Soul Inhaler
• Ruthers' Harness
• Piccolo of the Flaming Fire

Completely New Toys

• Trans-Dimensional Bird Whistle
• Rukhmar's Sacred Memory
• Fire-Eater's Vial
• Attraction Sign
• Gaze of the Darkmoon
• Darkmoon Tonk Controller
• Darkmoon Ring-Flinger
• S.E.L.F.I.E. Camera MkII
• Portable Audiophone
• Photo B.O.M.B.
• Everlasting Darkmoon Firework

Mystic Runesaber Mount
The Mystic Runesaber mount will be purchased from the in-game shop. Currently the mount is classified as a ground only mount, which would make it the only purchased mount to be ground only. However, the mount has flying animations and wings, so keep in mind that the content on the PTR can always change!

Death Recap UI
Patch 6.1 will give players a little bit more information about how they died in the default UI.

Misc Changes
New Apexis Crystal gear, flight path improvements, shapeshift and cosmetic effect improvements, and more!

• Ashran will have a regional queue, similar to battlegrounds.
• Apexis Crystals
  
  • Characters can now accrue up to a maximum of 60,000 Apexis Crystals (up from 20,000).
  • Dawn-Seeker Rilak (Alliance) and Dawn-Seeker Kirrik (Horde) have set up shop in Stormshield and Warspear offering powerful new items (item level 670) in exchange for Apexis Crystals.
• Flight Paths
  
  • Players are now able to fly through flight points that they have not discovered yet if it'll result in a more direct flight path to a destination point.
  • A button has been added for characters in the middle of a flight to get off at the next known flight point.
• Shapeshift and Cosmetic Effects
  
  • Many Druid and Shaman shapeshift forms now have attachment points on the head and back for cosmetic toy effects such as Blazing Wings or Pepe.
  • Cosmetic transformations that alter the character's appearance now have a higher priority than Druid combat forms. This means Druids can keep a transformation while shapeshifted.
  • Previously, using another transformation would overwrite or cancel an existing effect. Now, characters can retain multiple cosmetic transformations and the one with the highest priority will be visible. If a higher priority transformation is canceled or expires, the next highest priority transformation will then be visible.
  • Cosmetic transformation effects that do not have a mount riding animation are now temporarily suppressed when using a mount (previously, the effect is either canceled or prevented the use of mounts while active). Characters will regain the transformation once they dismount.
• Increased the item level of gear awarded from completing daily Challenge Mode quests to 660 (up from 640).
• Completing the first random Heroic Draenor Dungeon of the day no longer awards a reputation bonus with Pandarian factions.
• Tertiary Stats for Avoidance, Speed, and Leech now provide about four times as much benefit per stat point.
• Characters now receive a treasure maps in the mail for completing storyline achievements for a Draenor region.
• Griftah now sells a variety of transmogrification items for Dingy Iron Coins.
• 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.

Colorblind Support
Patch 6.1 adds some official colorblind support to the game.

In World of Warcraft patch 6.1, you’ll find a new user interface system that we’ve designed to assist players who have common visual issues related to colorblindness.

In the new ‘Accessibility’ interface configuration section, you’ll be able to enable both text and color enhancements that may improve your visual experience while playing WoW. ‘Enable UI Colorblind Mode’ (which was previously in the Help section) is now here. These text enhancements add certain words and phrases to the tooltips throughout the game—tooltips that, by default, use different colors to indicate useful information about objects, NPCs, and other players.

For example, when you move your mouse cursor over a piece of rare gear and then a piece of epic gear, the game colors the names of the items blue and then purple, respectively. With ‘UI Colorblind Mode’ enabled, the game will add the words “Rare” and “Epic” to the tooltips for those items. For players who find it difficult to discern between friendly, neutral, or hostile targets, additional indication text in the tooltip will now appear when you move your mouse cursor over other characters.

The game will now have three sets of colorblind filters to choose from: protanopia, deuteranopia, and tritanopia.

These are designed to assist players who have one of the three types of dichromacy, and should be useful to those who have one of the three kinds of anomalous trichromacy: protanomaly, deuteranomaly, and tritanomaly. Each set of color adjustments is available via a handy dropdown selector, and each comes with a ‘strength’ slider. The farther to the right you set the slider, the more the game removes potentially problematic wavelengths of color for each type.

To learn more about color vision deficiencies, check out the Wikipedia article on “Color blindness”. You can find a number of resources and free online color vision tests at colorvisiontesting.com.

New Apexsis Crystal Gear
Head to your faction's capital in Ashran to pick up these new items from the reorganized vendors.

Level	Type	Spec	Name	Model Viewer
670	Back		Ethereal Shard-Covered Dreadcloak	Modelviewer
670	Back	Melee	Ethereal Crystal Reinforced Doomcloak	Modelviewer
670	Back	Spell Spirit	Ethereal Refractory Heartcloak	Modelviewer
670	Back	Physical DPS	Ethereal Crystal-Edged Bladecloak	Modelviewer
670	Cloth	Spell DPS	Ethereal Windcrystal Hood	Modelviewer
670	Cloth	Spell DPS	Ethereal Windcrystal Cord	Modelviewer
670	Cloth	Spell DPS	Ethereal Windcrystal Leggings	Modelviewer
670	Cloth	Spell DPS	Ethereal Windcrystal Bracers	Modelviewer
670	Cloth	Spell DPS	Ethereal Windcrystal Wraps	Modelviewer
670	Back	Spell DPS	Ethereal Crystalclasp Stormcloak	Modelviewer
670	Leather		Ethereal Crystalhide Cowl	Modelviewer
670	Leather		Ethereal Crystalhide Belt	Modelviewer
670	Leather		Ethereal Crystalhide Legguards	Modelviewer
670	Leather		Ethereal Crystalhide Bracers	Modelviewer
670	Leather		Ethereal Crystalhide Grips	Modelviewer
670	Mail		Ethereal Crystal-Leaf Helm	Modelviewer
670	Mail		Ethereal Crystal-Leaf Chain	Modelviewer
670	Mail		Ethereal Crystal-Leaf Legguards	Modelviewer
670	Mail		Ethereal Crystal-Leaf Bracers	Modelviewer
670	Mail		Ethereal Crystal-Leaf Gloves	Modelviewer
670	Plate		Ethereal Crystal-Plated Greathelm	Modelviewer
670	Plate		Ethereal Crystal-Plated Greatbelt	Modelviewer
670	Plate		Ethereal Crystal-Plated Legplates	Modelviewer
670	Plate		Ethereal Crystal-Plated Bracers	Modelviewer
670	Plate		Ethereal Crystal-Plated Gauntlets	Modelviewer

New Heirloom Prices
Heirloom prices have been adjusted and some new heirlooms have been added:

Type	Slot	Name	Price
Mail	Shoulders	Aged Pauldrons of The Five Thunders	1,000 Honor Points / 500
Back	Back	Ancient Bloodmoon Cloak	500
Dagger	One Hand	Balanced Heartseeker	50 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 25 Champion's Seal / 650
Sword	One Hand	Battleworn Thrash Blade	1,000 Honor Points / 650
Axe	Two Hand	Bloodied Arcanite Reaper	75 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 40 Champion's Seal / 750
Sword	One Hand	Bloodsoaked Skullforge Reaver	50 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 25 Champion's Seal / 650
Fist	One Hand	Brawler's Razor Claws	650
Plate	Chest	Burnished Breastplate of Might	50 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 25 Champion's Seal / 500
Plate	Head	Burnished Helm of Might	500
Plate	Legs	Burnished Legplates of Might	625
Plate	Shoulders	Burnished Pauldrons of Might	50 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 25 Champion's Seal / 500
Staff	Two Hand	Burnished Warden Staff	75 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 40 Champion's Seal / 750
Mail	Chest	Champion Herod's Shoulder	50 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 25 Champion's Seal / 500
Mail	Chest	Champion's Deathdealer Breastplate	50 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 25 Champion's Seal / 500
Bow	Ranged	Charmed Ancient Bone Bow	75 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 40 Champion's Seal / 750
Mace	One Hand	Devout Aurastone Hammer	50 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 25 Champion's Seal / 650
Staff	Two Hand	Dignified Headmaster's Charge	75 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 40 Champion's Seal / 750
Trinket	Trinket	Discerning Eye of the Beast	70 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 35 Champion's Seal / 700
Finger	Finger	Dread Pirate Ring	Not for Sale
Neck	Neck	Eternal Amulet of the Redeemed	700
Neck	Neck	Eternal Emberfury Talisman	700
Neck	Neck	Eternal Horizon Choker	700
Neck	Neck	Eternal Talisman of Evasion	700
Neck	Neck	Eternal Will of the Martyr	700
Neck	Neck	Eternal Woven Ivy Necklace	700
Leather	Shoulders	Exceptional Stormshroud Shoulders	1,000 Honor Points / 500
Cloth	Shoulders	Exquisite Sunderseer Mantle	1,000 Honor Points / 500
Shield	Off Hand	Flamescarred Draconian Deflector	50 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 25 Champion's Seal / 500
Staff	Two Hand	Grand Staff of Jordan	1,500 Honor Points / 750
Back	Back	Inherited Cape of the Black Baron	500
Trinket	Trinket	Inherited Insignia of the Allliance	1,250 Honor Points / 700
Trinket	Trinket	Inherited Insignia of the Horde	1,250 Honor Points / 700
Trinket	Trinket	Inherited Mark of Tyranny	1,250 Honor Points / 700
Leather	Shoulders	Lasting Feralheart Spaulders	1,000 Honor Points / 500
Off Hand	Off Hand	Musty Tome of the Lost	50 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 25 Champion's Seal / 500
Mail	Head	Mystical Coif of Elements	500
Mail	Legs	Mystical Kilt of Elements	625
Mail	Shoulders	Mystical Pauldrons of Elements	50 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 25 Champion's Seal / 500
Mail	Chest	Mystical Vest of Elements	50 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 25 Champion's Seal / 500
Plate	Chest	Polished Breastplate of Valor	50 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 25 Champion's Seal / 500
Plate	Head	Polished Helm of Valor	500
Plate	Legs	Polished Legplates of Valor	625
Plate	Shoulders	Polished Spaulders of Valor	50 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 25 Champion's Seal / 500
Leather	Chest	Preened Ironfeather Breastplate	50 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 25 Champion's Seal / 500
Leather	Shoulders	Preened Ironfeather Shoulders	50 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 25 Champion's Seal / 500
Leather	Head	Preened Tribal War Feathers	500
Leather	Legs	Preened Wildfeather Leggings	625
Plate	Shoulders	Pristine Lightforge Spaulders	1,000 Honor Points / 500
Mail	Shoulders	Prized Beastmaster's Mantle	1,000 Honor Points / 500
Sword	Two Hand	Reforged Truesilver Champion	1,500 Honor Points / 750
Mace	Two Hand	Repurposed Lava Dredger	75 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 40 Champion's Seal / 750
Back	Back	Ripped Sandstorm Cloak	500
Dagger	One Hand	Sharpened Scarlet Kris	1,000 Honor Points / 650
Leather	Head	Stained Shadowcraft Cap	500
Leather	Legs	Stained Shadowcraft Pants	625
Leather	Shoulders	Stained Shadowcraft Spaulders	50 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 25 Champion's Seal / 500
Leather	Chest	Stained Shadowcraft Tunic	50 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 25 Champion's Seal / 500
Plate	Shoulders	Strengthened Stockade Pauldrons	1,000 Honor Points / 500
Trinket	Trinket	Swift Hand of Justice	70 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 35 Champion's Seal / 700
Mail	Legs	Tarnished Leggings of Destruction	625
Mail	Head	Tarnished Raging Berserker's Helm	500
Cloth	Legs	Tattered Dreadmist Leggings	625
Cloth	Shoulders	Tattered Dreadmist Mantle	50 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 25 Champion's Seal / 500
Cloth	Head	Tattered Dreadmist Mask	500
Cloth	Chest	Tattered Dreadmist Robe	50 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 25 Champion's Seal / 500
Mace	One Hand	The Blessed Hammer of Grace	1,000 Honor Points / 650
Gun	Ranged	Upgraded Dwarven Hand Cannon	1,500 Honor Points / 750
Sword	One Hand	Venerable Dal'Rend's Sacred Charge	50 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 25 Champion's Seal / 650
Mace	One Hand	Venerable Mass of McGowan	50 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 25 Champion's Seal / 650
Shield	Off Hand	Weathered Observer's Shield	50 Darkmoon Prize Ticket / 25 Champion's Seal / 500
Back	Back	Worn Stoneskin Gargoyle Cape	500

WoWDB Addon Data Collection
Quickly populating the database with 6.1 additions is done with the help of many players. The more people that contribute data, the more accurate and quickly we can update the database.

To help out, just click here if you have Curse Client already installed.

When you are playing the addon will gather data and save it. When you are done playing, Curse Client will see the game close and upload the collected data from the addon. You can see the last time data was uploaded by looking in the Plugins tab of the options, as well as making sure the addon is enabled there. Be sure you have Curse Client open before you close WoW so that the data will upload!

The addon now supports Live, Beta, and the PTR, so be sure to add all of your WoW installs to the client.

[Stacie]

Cant wait for this "hype hype" hairloom tab, twitter selfie, new running animations and SSAA!

[Deleted]

Cant wait for this "hype hype" hairloom tab, twitter selfie, new running animations and SSAA!

Can't wait for some real content.

[Deleted]

Wonderful. A patch-fix. Now, where is content?

[Nerfarien]

" Followers who are working or inactive can be upgraded. "

Yes, this has been like that since launch, what is new?

[Deleted]

We should thank Blizzard for this glorified hotfix patch! *cough*

Can we get a real content patch now?

[Finnio]

amusing ... what a way to say by blizzard : we've done nothing...

[Deleted]

https://twitter.com/WarcraftDevs/sta...71404623810560


yeah..

[Deleted]

Lumber Mill work orders now award 30 Garrison Resources (up from 20).

What happens when Phylarch the Evergreen is assigned to the Lumber Mill?

[Deleted]

What about the GameTimeToken? i saved all my Gold for them :P

[Deleted]

So the new quests are just Legendary pt 2, Harrison Jones and few new deafeat dungeon/raid boss?

and that's all we have new to do outside Garrisons?

[Caparzo]

What about the GameTimeToken? i saved all my Gold for them :P

Yea, they said it will come with 6.1 patch. Maybe they realised that on 1 server 30k gold for a month would be way too expensive when on another 60k would still be fine

[VladimirM]

Can't wait for some real content.

I guess you cleared current content?

[Eace]

They could've at least thrown in a rehashed dungeon or two à la 4.1.

[Yig]

I loved the original WOD NIght Elf male run animation and this change is depressing as FUCK as far as my first world problems go. I find the cartoony whimsy addictive as hell and it's had me swimming in endorphins for several months still.

This is fucking bullshit and I'm sad.

[MrExcelion]

What happens when Phylarch the Evergreen is assigned to the Lumber Mill?

You get 45, so it still retains a niche as the best GR generation building

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What about the GameTimeToken? i saved all my Gold for them :P

That was apart of the 2015 blog and won't be in until 6.2 at the earliest, and isn't for sure going to be in game, just being discussed internally.

[MrLoque]

Can anyone explain me this?

Tertiary Stats for Avoidance, Speed, and Leech now provide about four times as much benefit per stat point.

What does it exactly mean in your opinion...

[Mormolyce]

Can't wait for some real content.

Can't wait to hear the same goddamn killjoy whining every single time they add something that isn't a raid or dungeon.

Because 10 years of that shit just wasn't enough.

[Yig]

WOW is an MMO RPG, not a fucking raid game. All content is CONTENT.

[MrExcelion]

Can anyone explain me this?



What does it exactly mean in your opinion...

It gives 4x the percentage, making them quite potent. One high ilvl item with speed buffed 4x can provide 5% movement speed on its own in 6.1.