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Patch 6.1 - Challenge Mode Leaderboards
One of the undocumented changes in Patch 6.1 was the removal of some shortcuts in dungeons. This means that it would be very difficult to beat the current best times, as they likely utilized these shortcuts.



Patch 6.1 Hotfixes: February 26
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
General
  • Players are now able to whisper or send party invites to players on any realm.

Classes

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts
  • General
  • Garrison Campaign Quests
    • Scouting Missives can now be completed if the player has already completed the daily version of the quests.
    • Herbs Galore: Completing the quest should now award 25 Primal Spirits (up from 15).
    • Portable Portals (Horde version): Fixed an issue where Gez'la was not offering the quest to eligible players.
  • Garrison Buildings
    • Dwarven Bunker / War Mill: Increased the chance for obtaining Follower armor and weaponry sets from work orders.
    • Mage Tower / Spirit Lodge, Level 1: It should now support up to 7 work orders (was incorrectly only able to support 1 work order).

Quests
  • Gorgrond
    • Mossy Fate: Players should now be able to complete the quest if they receive Kaz the Shrieker as a Follower.

Classes
Creatures and NPCs
  • Heirloom vendors Estelle Gendry (Horde) and Krom Stoutarm (Alliance) are now ensuring that they have a lot more personal space.

PvP
  • Ashran
    • Being in a Premade Group should no longer prevent players from entering Ashran.
    • Fixed an issue where players in the same raid or party but in different instances of Ashran would still see each other's markers on the map.

Battlegrounds and Arenas
  • Battlegrounds
    • [Requires a realm restart] Low-level items should no longer have an excessive amount of Bonus Armor.
    • War Games now should have a 25-second resurrection timer.
    • Temple of Kotmogu: Paladins can no longer use Divine Shield or Hand of Protection on players holding an orb in Temple of Kotmogu.
    • Temple of Kotmogu: Hunters can no longer use Camouflage to drop an orb in Temple of Kotmogu.

Collections
  • Heirlooms
    • [Requires a realm restart] Musty Tome of the Lost should now correctly accept Heirloom armor upgrade tokens (was incorrectly using weapon upgrade tokens instead).
  • Battle Pets
    • Battle Pet healing abilities should now heal for an amount much closer to the values stated in the tooltip.
  • Toy Box
    • S.E.L.F.I.E. Cameras can now be used while under a stealth effect.
  • Mounts
    • Chauffeured Chopper can no longer be driven by party members that are visiting another player's Garrison.

Classes
Items
  • Increased the amount of Stamina granted from Draenor food.
    • Tier 1 Stamina food now gives a bonus of 112 Stamina (up from 75).
    • Tier 2 Stamina food received no change and remains at 150 Stamina.
    • Tier 3 Stamina food now gives a bonus of 187 Stamina (up from 125).
  • The following glyphs are no longer bind on pickup.
    • Glyph of the Solstice (Druid)
    • Glyph of Flying Fists (Monk)
    • Glyph of Cleanse (Paladin)
    • Glyph of Purification (Priest)
    • Glyph of Purify Spirit (Shaman)
  • Primal Combatant's Medallion of Adaptation should now correctly count towards the PvP trinket set bonus, Gladiator's Distinction.

Bug Fixes
  • General
    • Fixed an issue where Touch of the Naaru's visuals was not correctly attached to character models.
    • Primal Combatant's Medallion of Adaptation should now convert into the correct faction version for characters that had undergone a Paid Faction Transfer.
  • Achievements

Method - Mythic Blast Furnace Video
Method posted their world first Blast Furnace kill video this week.



Blue Posts
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Garrison Visitor - Profession Traders
We've gone over the feedback regarding visiting profession traders. There's now a hotfix being worked on to remove the random element and have profession traders rotate out daily. The hotfix isn't ready yet, but it will be implemented as soon as possible. In short, no more fur traders visiting for multiple days in a row.

The hotfix has been implemented on the live realms. Visiting profession traders should now be on a daily rotation. *Crosses talons the fur trader isn't first in the rotation.* (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Flight Path Logic
One specific flight path that I notice from doing the jukebox quest is trying to fly from the piece you get at Pinchwhistle to Everbloom to get the piece there. The flight path connects through a series of points that goes in a western arc through the middle of Talador then up through Gorgrond when it could easily have gone through a straighter path north.
This one surprised me, and you don't have to point all the way to Everbloom. In recreating what you did, I went to Pinchwhistle and hovered over Beastwatch, and saw the issue.

Thank you for the good example. (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)

Blue Tweets
Originally Posted by Blizzard Entertainment
Character / Items
Will heirlooms change primary stats similar to how gear in Draenor changes stats with the new system in 6.1
To add: it is something we’re keeping an eye on for the future as we see how players interact with the Heirloom system. (WarcraftDevs)

are Don Carlos's Famous Hat and the River Boat good candidates for the toy box?
Not at this time, but thank you for the suggestions. What other things would you like to see as toys? (WarcraftDevs)

- might've missed my last one - any chance of Illusion: Soulfrost and Illusion: Sunfire making it to the game ? Maybe in 6.1 ?
Not in 6.1. We’re excited by the potential of the Illusion system & always happy to hear which ones players might enjoy, though! (WarcraftDevs)

Reputation / Questing
Frostwolf Orcs and Council of Exarchs rep achievs are per-character, but show up on opposite faction, is this fixed in 6.1?
Not in 6.1, but we're aiming to have this fixed in 6.2. (WarcraftDevs)

World
Can you fix the female troll with a female orc voice in the dmf plz...She is the first troll juggler when you enter.
This is fixed in 6.1. (WarcraftDevs)

Garrisons
are the followers recruited via the Inn finite? eg will always picking Magic Debuff eventually exhaust that pool of followers?
Finite, but there are a whole lot of them. It would take you over a year of recruiting to get all of the Magic Debuff followers. (WarcraftDevs)

Why is my level 94 DK not getting Highmaul follower missions even though it has enough 645 ilevel followers?
Cache missions will join the rotation once you hit level 100. (WarcraftDevs)
Why cache missions but not all the other gear ones, though?
Cache missions are based upon your progress in the various raid instances. (WarcraftDevs)

Fan Art Update
The World of Warcraft Fan Art Section has been updated with two new pieces of fan artwork.

This article was originally published in forum thread: CM Leaderboards, Feb 26 Hotfixes, Mythic Blast Furnace Video, Blue Posts, Fan Art started by chaud View original post
Published on 2015-02-27 04:01 AM
23 Comments
Comments 23 Comments
  1. mmoc248e43d934's Avatar
    well this is mildly interesting
  1. Shudder's Avatar
    Still no fix for ferals. They should test stuff on some kind of public test realm. Could call it ptr for short.
  1. Zabatakis's Avatar
    Paladin (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

    General
    Fixed an issue where Paladins had an extra spellbook tab for glyphs.


    This bugged me sooooooooooooo much I thought it was just one of my addons honestly
  1. Manhands's Avatar
    "Lunar Inspiration's Moonfire (Feral) now deals 20% more damage.Got it."

    Actually in the blue post. Wtf?
  1. ttak82's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Manhands View Post
    "Lunar Inspiration's Moonfire (Feral) now deals 20% more damage.Got it."

    Actually in the blue post. Wtf?
    Yeah, lol'd. "We need to buff ferals a bit more."
  1. mmocecbefcd692's Avatar
    So embarrassing... If I worked at Blizzard as a developer and I allowed the game and the patches I work on to be released and then need so much hotfixing, I don't think I would be able to look people in the eyes without dying inside... Seeing a Hotfixes post almost every day makes me very sad and pessimistic..
  1. Kourvith's Avatar
    This is such a mess of a development ...

    - having to separate pvp from pve in a spell damage, instead of correctly designing it ...
    - reverting some major patch changes into a hotfix one week after, instead of testing said patch extensively ...
    - having to rely on Live feedback to detect some obvious bugs ...

    At this point, I'm starting to suspect Blizzard might have externalized its gamedesign workforce.
  1. TrollShaman's Avatar
    that low-gear bonus armor nerf took a huge hit on my Herald of the Titans DK tank

    granted it's unintended but ah well I'm glad I kept original wotlk gear
  1. Slaman's Avatar
    Thanks for changing the requirements for Harrison Jones after I spent hours farming archaeology yesterday Blizz!

    What the fuck. Test your shit, make a decision and stay with it. Fuck the crybaby whiners.
  1. Foxhoundn's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kourvith View Post
    This is such a mess of a development ...

    - having to separate pvp from pve in a spell damage, instead of correctly designing it ...
    - reverting some major patch changes into a hotfix one week after, instead of testing said patch extensively ...
    - having to rely on Live feedback to detect some obvious bugs ...

    At this point, I'm starting to suspect Blizzard might have externalized its gamedesign workforce.
    Hello, my name is Gupta Patil and I am the game experience designer for Blizzard. I have no idea what I am doing, but it matters a little, because next week I will have a different position and a there will be a new Gupta to help you.

    ??

    - - - Updated - - -

    Also, the outcry there would be if they'd clear the leaderboards. Drowned in salty tears.
  1. Vikoloco's Avatar
    here's an idea ! instead of calling it "beta testing realm" call it "youtubers and streamers fun house" so they can show us the patch, but nobody has to fix anything or test things the 99% of the players play... oh but wait! 40 of the 7.7 million subscribers did defeated the last boss, that means the patch was succesful.. add more selfies and maybe a starbucks on the middle of nagrand!
  1. Kourvith's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Foxhoundn View Post
    Hello, my name is Gupta Patil and I am the game experience designer for Blizzard. I have no idea what I am doing, but it matters a little, because next week I will have a different position and a there will be a new Gupta to help you.

    ??
    hahaha
    Can't help but picture Raj from Big Bang theory
  1. ZeroWashu's Avatar
    FINALLY! They fixed that damn juggler. It was so immersion breaking I almost quit my RP server over it.
  1. TooMuch's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Marclar View Post
    So embarrassing... If I worked at Blizzard as a developer and I allowed the game and the patches I work on to be released and then need so much hotfixing, I don't think I would be able to look people in the eyes without dying inside... Seeing a Hotfixes post almost every day makes me very sad and pessimistic..
    Indeed, either just acknowledge you are using the players as testers or deliver a product that has been tested extensively.
  1. arcaneshot's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kourvith View Post
    - having to rely on Live feedback to detect some obvious bugs ...
    If the PTR were exactly the same as the Live realm you might have a point, but they even tell you that not everything on your character is copied over. That's how something 'obvious' on Live can get overlooked on the PTR.
  1. mmocecbefcd692's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by TooMuch View Post
    Indeed, either just acknowledge you are using the players as testers or deliver a product that has been tested extensively.
    I imagine it will take them next to no effort (like a month) to create an Internal Test Server where they employ one-two thousand people to play the game 8 hours a day (mandatory) and report and help out resolving all the errors in the game, run a statistic like Warcraftlogs for that server to help out balancing issues. To prevent unfinished content coming out to the real Live servers that test server should be set 2 months ahead in time, so 6.1 would have been on the ITS for 2 months, all the bugged achievements, spells, quests and items would have been revealed and fixed for the real release for the PAYING customers.

    - - - Updated - - -

    I just did a little counting... the game has been out for 106 days and they have had 43 hotfix patches... That is not normal.
  1. Rioo's Avatar
    Cool video by Method. But what's up with the feral patch notes lol?
  1. Scendera's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Marclar View Post
    So embarrassing... If I worked at Blizzard as a developer and I allowed the game and the patches I work on to be released and then need so much hotfixing, I don't think I would be able to look people in the eyes without dying inside... Seeing a Hotfixes post almost every day makes me very sad and pessimistic..
    Fixes are a good thing. Hush and be glad for em.
  1. Gilian's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Scendera View Post
    Fixes are a good thing. Hush and be glad for em.
    Every cloud has a silver lining. lol :'/
  1. Kourvith's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Scendera View Post
    Fixes are a good thing. Hush and be glad for em.
    While fixes are better than bugs, they still are a sign of bad workflow/production.
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