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Heroes Hotfix Patch Notes - February 18th 2015

Iron Docks Quest Chain Delayed
Bashiok confirmed that we won't see the Iron Docks quests in Patch 6.1. Keep in mind that it was never actually announced for Patch 6.1, a sign of it just happened to show up in a PTR build.


Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
It's a one-time quest that leads you to Tanaan. Assumptions that this was a big quest hub, focused around Foundry content, or that it's a chunk of substantial content that we cut, are incorrect. It's a one-time quest chain that directly leads into events of 6.2, and that's the patch it's in.

Lunar Festival
This year adds a few new items and modifies some older items. Be sure to check out the full guide on Icy Veins.

The Armor Casings for heirloom upgrades aren't in just yet, but they should go in with Patch 6.1 next week, so be sure to start saving up Lunar Coins.

Level Type Name
90Consumable Ancient Heirloom Armor Casing
100Consumable Timeworn Heirloom Armor Casing
40Junk Elune's Lantern
1Other Perky Blaster
60Engineering Schematic Schematic: Alliance Firework
60Engineering Schematic Schematic: Horde Firework
60Engineering Schematic Schematic: Snake Firework
60Other Everlasting Alliance Firework
60Other Everlasting Horde Firework


Mythic Blackrock Foundry Progression
Method and Paragon both have 9/10 bosses down still, with no new guilds joining them yet. There are now 29 guilds at 8/10 bosses down. You can keep up with the latest progress on WoWProgress, our forum thread, and Manaflask.



Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
PvE
With 25m, we took 1000 hits from archers. With 27m, we took 1500 hits. # of archers didn't change.
Sounds like potential math fail on our end; thanks, will investigate. (WatcherDev)

Hello! We are having alot of problems with receiving 0 tokens from Blackhand kills. Ingame GM's say its RNG loot, what can we do?
(1) Blackhand currently offers a chance at universal set tokens-not a guarantee-with more chances as raid size increases. (WarcraftDevs)
(2) We’re discussing changing this, but not until next raid timer to avoid any advantage for kills later in the week. (WarcraftDevs)

Darkmoon Faire Race
with the shore strider if you mess up once it is impossible to get it done in 11 tolls & chances is it will come from the spring.
The races get progressively more advanced as time goes on. In months 2-4, you'll get more powers and more powerups. (Muffinus)

Reputation / Questing
some reps in WoD can't be increased from 0/1000 exalted to 999/1000. It's a minor thing but will we see it changed?
Appreciate the report! This bug is fixed in Patch 6.1. (WarcraftDevs)

Garrisons
Will Grand Master Draftsman achievement become account wide for 6.1?
No plans to make that account-wide at this time. (WarcraftDevs)

Hi! The Transmog-Ethereals in my Storehouse keeps moving around, interrupting my transmog-sessions. Could you make them stop?
They will be stationary in Patch 6.1. (WarcraftDevs)

Is there a reason my Tailoring Emporium vendors keep living in my salvage yard? Annoying to keep looking for them.
The Salvage Yard won't attract tailors anymore in 6.1. (WarcraftDevs)

Can we get some consistency with garrison mine carts? Horde respawn every 24 hours, Alliance respawn at 3 am.
This will be addressed in 6.1; mine carts will work the same for both Horde and Alliance once the patch goes live. (WarcraftDevs)

InstaDoom Mod
If you can't wait for the patch next week you can get your selfie fix with InstaDoom, a mod for Doom that adds a selfie stick and filters.

This article was originally published in forum thread: Iron Docks Quest Hub Delayed, Lunar Festival, Mythic BRF, Blue Tweets, InstaDoom started by chaud View original post
Comments 108 Comments
  1. oraz4000's Avatar
    I like WoW it's by far the best MMO i just don't understand why they struggle so much with patches/content i really dont.

    Why?
  1. mmocae040fe99f's Avatar
    Really disappointed in Blizzard, MoP was a bad expansion but this one simply takes the biscuit. Do they seriously think Highmaul and BRF on 4 separate difficulties is content, because it isn't and it gets old and boring fast when you do it on multiple difficulties.

    I mean you can't really say a twitter integration, color-blindness options, selfie cam, heirloom tab, garrison and legendary follow-up quests and a follower is real content and worthy of a patch on its own because it's not. These are features that should of been in launch.
  1. mmoca1f309ca84's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by bmjclark View Post
    On the bright side, 6.2 is looking pretty good. Iron docks quests and tanaan (right?). Too bad 6.1 still looks boring :P
    Nope 6.2 will bring iron docks quests and fixed human models, Tanaan will get delayed because of iron docks quests and moved to 6.3 and will also bring fixed orc (no hunchback anymore - with a trailer where you can see many orcs walking upright) models ... and so on ... just spreading rumors ... the only fun one can have nowadays with WoW ...
  1. Idoru's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Epsi View Post
    Hahaha.. The only content Blizzard is able to deliver these days is making it easier to make fun of their fan boys and die-hard defenders.

    I'm laughing my ass off currently...
    And what makes you think they aren't laughing right back at you and the rest of the hate squad?

    If me still enjoying a game even though you think I shouldn't makes me a fan boy, then by all means laugh away. It won't have any impact on my enjoyment.
  1. Gilian's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Wyrt View Post
    What are we even going to do at the Iron Docks after Blackrock Foundry is beaten? At least in 6.1 it would have been somewhat concurrent with the raid, but 6.2 will be after the raid's done.
    Two weeks before 6.2: "We tossed the Iron Docks quest hub because it didn't really make sense after Blackrock Foundry. BUT you will all be surprised with our awesome content in patch 6.3."
  1. La's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by zer View Post
    Nope 6.2 will bring iron docks quests and fixed human models, Tanaan will get delayed because of iron docks quests and moved to 6.3 and will also bring fixed orc (no hunchback anymore - with a trailer where you can see many orcs walking upright) models ... and so on ... just spreading rumors ... the only fun one can have nowadays with WoW ...
    What better what to give the illusion of content than delaying 6.2 to 6.3 and giving us another shitty, but slightly better, 6.1 as 6.2? That way when 6.3 comes out we'll have a new raid, they can give us another horrible 6.1 patch and another 14 months wait, failing on their promise of faster content and expansions.
  1. Muxtar's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by KillAllTheOgres View Post
    So i take for granted that you all are Mythic raides with all achievments you can get in WOD atm.
    WoW is NOT Diablo, with its 100500 levels of difficulty. We need ORIGINAL content, and not just the same stale raid for as I guess next 4 months the least, with +5 (hc)/+10M (myth) hp on bosses and few additional abilities.
  1. mmoc2c82f72dbd's Avatar
    Bit of a joke. I suspected Iron Docks wasn't coming in 6.1 when it didn't show on the PTR. I'd love to know what Blizzard is actually doing with the increased dev team. I bet most of them are working in the next expansion already. They are really dropping the ball on delivering content. I don't even care about no flying anymore because the content isn't there to need it. I login, do my garrison and log off. On raid days I raid and log off. I'm spending more time playing other games than playing WoW. I've never felt less engaged in WoW than now. It has no world. It's just a good raid.
  1. mmoc22ed96abf2's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by OneSent View Post
    Twitter integration cost us real content.

    GG.
    To be fair, I doubt that. Twitter is completely a UI thing, the people working on that aren't working on quest design or art. From what I gather, pet battle is also done by the UI team in their spare time so same thing.
    HOWEVER: If they have nothing really useful to do, those people should rather be assigned to help out the actual content teams in any way possible, even if that just means getting lunch orders and replacing the Monster/Red Bull IVs.
  1. MasterHamster's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by madindehead View Post
    Bit of a joke. I suspected Iron Docks wasn't coming in 6.1 when it didn't show on the PTR. I'd love to know what Blizzard is actually doing with the increased dev team. I bet most of them are working in the next expansion already. They are really dropping the ball on delivering content. I don't even care about no flying anymore because the content isn't there to need it. I login, do my garrison and log off. On raid days I raid and log off. I'm spending more time playing other games than playing WoW. I've never felt less engaged in WoW than now. It has no world. It's just a good raid.
    I don't think we've ever had a major content patch less than 4 months from release...
    WotLK had us running three ridiculously easy raids for 5 months before they dropped Ulduar in 3.1

    People have no sense of perspective. However, it's still a fact that currently WoD isn't keeping players sufficiently busy. Garrisons are self-sufficient and once you've cleared Nagrand after hitting 100 there's nothing rewarding.

    The rewards for factions are completely atrocious, for one. That's what happens when devs listen too much to players. Players don't want to grind, players don't want gear behind dailies, players don't want attunements, players don't want daily quests, players don't want gear treadmills, players don't want to feel that they have to do anything...

    And then they ask why they have nothing to do?!
  1. Sabrescene's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Aritra View Post
    To be fair, I doubt that. Twitter is completely a UI thing, the people working on that aren't working on quest design or art. From what I gather, pet battle is also done by the UI team in their spare time so same thing.
    HOWEVER: If they have nothing really useful to do, those people should rather be assigned to help out the actual content teams in any way possible, even if that just means getting lunch orders and replacing the Monster/Red Bull IVs.
    When people asked why legacy raids still hadn't been added into the Dungeon Journal yet (this was near the end of WoD beta IIRC), Blizz's response was
    There's lots of things like that we'd love to work on but it all comes down to resources and priorities. People always say 'why not hire more staff?' but then if if we did that we'd still want to be allocating those resource and that time/effort on higher priority features and content.
    Yet now we get twitter integration and selfie cams while countless issues continue to go ignored and there's still no real post-launch content in sight... What happened to those priorities?

    Also in response to the people asking 'why keep play/writing if you hate the game so much?' obviously because I (and I assume others) don't hate the game. I love the game, which is exactly why it's so frustrating to see the current team ignore feedback and (seemingly) do as little work as possible while charging as much money as possible. Go back and look at all the .1 patches in the past (hell look at any major content patches in the past), there has never been one that's even half as pathetic as this.
    I was joking earlier about the name for this patch but I honestly don't know what they could call it that wouldn't be a joke - although the fact that it's the first major patch since Vanilla/TBC to not have a name is a bit of a joke too...
  1. mmocc4c5ae3643's Avatar
    So happy that I manage to break free from the game considering how crap it become to be..
  1. mmoce04a3b2ccc's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Idoru View Post
    And what makes you think they aren't laughing right back at you and the rest of the hate squad?

    If me still enjoying a game even though you think I shouldn't makes me a fan boy, then by all means laugh away. It won't have any impact on my enjoyment.
    Did you feel a need to justify your motives? Guess what, I'm not the person who cares.
  1. Mormolyce's Avatar
    Well played Doom mod.

    Well played.
  1. korvalos's Avatar
    Midwinter finally joins the club.
  1. mmoc2b968f23cc's Avatar
    Are some people even reading or just cherrypicking so they can rant about Blizzard like rabid dogs as usual?

    Bashiok confirmed that we won't see the Iron Docks quest hub in Patch 6.1. Keep in mind that it was never actually announced for Patch 6.1, a sign of it just happened to show up in a PTR build.
  1. mmoc32ac407789's Avatar
    i can't wait for next expansion
    we will get tannan jungle then for only 60€!
    also i love north plagelands
  1. Sabrescene's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Aegislash View Post
    Are some people even reading or just cherrypicking so they can rant about Blizzard like rabid dogs as usual?
    Yes we are reading, read the tweet again:
    it was moved to 6.2
    There is your announcement, you can't move something that was never planned to begin with.
  1. mmoce04a3b2ccc's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Shambulanced View Post
    Twitter integration would've been done by the UI team.

    Do not sit there and tell me the UI team doesn't have more important protects to work on, like the xmog overhaul (D3's system would be great, thanks), tabard tab, etc. I'm still using addons for many functions to make the game better. Why hasn't Postal's function been baked into standard UI? Etc. it's just more social media money grabbing
    The UI did actually the most work in the last year for WoW. They also are responsible for pet battles.
  1. Baneleaf's Avatar
    I love all of the rage right now. Iron Docks quest hub was NEVER ever announced as a feature in 6.1, it was tested in one build of the PTR and now people are going nuts. I can see the conversation int he office going like this.
    "Hey I need to test something with the Iron Docks hub that we have been working on. Can I drop it in a PTR build to see how the phasing works?"
    Boss "sure but you know the data miners will immediately assume that it is going to be released with this patch and they will nerd rage when they find out otherwise"
    "nah, it will just be up for a while, most of them wont even notice"

    And now we have 4+ pages of people raging over content that was not designed to come out with this patch. Get over yourselves and go outside for a bit and feel that thing called sunlight and air that does not reek of your own body odor covered by the smell of hot pockets.

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