Patch 6.2 on the Background Downloader
Patch 6.2 went on the Background Downloader this afternoon.



Patch 6.2 PTR - Build 20033
Build 20033 will be deployed to the PTR realms soon.

  • Mass Milling was added for Warlords herbs.
  • Hellfire Citadel Raid Finder gear is now item level 675 - 685. (The Apexis gear you can buy for gold is item level 675)
  • Many Naval missions now require 1 or 2 ships, down from 2 or 3.

New Icons



New Items

Level Type Name
100Junk Bejeweled "Egg"
100Other Iron Fleet Treasure Chest
100Inscription Technique Recipe: Mass Mill Frostweed
100Inscription Technique Recipe: Mass Mill Fireweed
100Inscription Technique Recipe: Mass Mill Gorgrond Flytrap
100Inscription Technique Recipe: Mass Mill Starflower
100Inscription Technique Recipe: Mass Mill Nagrand Arrowbloom
100Inscription Technique Recipe: Mass Mill Talador Orchid
100Food & Drink Elemental-Distilled Water


Achievement Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Cataclysm Raid
Dungeons & Raids
  • Chromatic Champion Destroy Deathwing in Dragon Soul on Normal or Heroic Difficulty after beginning the encounter on each Aspect's platform: 10 points. and allowing Deathwing to assault that Aspect: 10 points.

Draenor
Quests

Feats of Strength

Shipyard
Garrisons
  • Admiral (New) Complete 1000 Naval Missions. 10 points.
  • Charting a Course Complete all Complete three of the Rare Naval Missions listed below. Reward: Fleet Commander's Hat. 10 points.
  • Charting a Course Complete all Complete three of the Rare Naval Missions listed below. Reward: Fleet Commander's Hat. 10 points.
  • Fleet Commander (New) Complete 500 Naval Missions. 5 points.



Set Bonus Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Leather

Mage (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Item - Mage T18 Arcane 2P Bonus Each time you cast Arcane Blast, the cooldown of your Presence of Mind is reduced by 30 sec. Your Arcane Blast has a 40% chance to trigger Presence of Mind without triggering its cooldown.

Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

Warrior (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Item - Warrior T18 Protection 2P Bonus Reduces the cooldown of your Last Stand by 50%. While in Gladiator Stance, your Enrage generates 30 additional Rage. the damage bonus from being Enraged is increased by 20%.



Spell Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Druid (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Talents

Hunter (Forums, Talent Calculator)

Mage (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Frost

Monk (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Mistweaver
  • Revival now has a 40 yd range, down from 100.

Paladin (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Holy
  • Infusion of Light Your Holy Shock criticals reduce the cast time of your next Holy Light or Holy Radiance by 1.50 sec. or increase the healing of your next Flash of Light by 60%. Also increases your haste by 10%. Paladin - Holy Spec.

Priest (Forums, Talent Calculator)
  • Cascade Launch a Shadowy bolt that grows in power with distance, damaging an enemy for up to [ 183.6% of Spell Power 0;], and then bouncing to additional enemies 4 times. Each time it bounces, it splits into 2 bolts. 40 yd range. Instant.

Talents
  • Cascade Launch a Shadowy bolt that grows in power with distance, damaging an enemy for up to [ 183.6% of Spell Power 0;], and then bouncing to additional enemies 4 times. Each time it bounces, it splits into 2 bolts. Priest - LvL 90 Talent. 0.75% of Base Mana. 40 yd range. Instant. 25 sec cooldown.

Professions
Inscription



Strings Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
  • AJ_LFG_REWARD_DEFAULT_IRANGE_TEXT - %s drops item level %i to %i gear.
  • AJ_LFG_REWARD_DIFFICULTY_IRANGE_TEXT - %s (%s) drops item level %i to %i gear.
  • AJ_PRIMARY_REWARD_TEXT - Reward:
  • GARRISON_NO_SELECTED_SHIP - Select a ship from the list
  • GARRISON_SHIPYARD_MISSION_TUTORIAL_AREABUFF - Completing Missions like this unlock Area Buffs on the map.
  • GARRISON_SHIPYARD_MISSION_TUTORIAL_BLOCKADE - You must defeat this Blockade mission in order to run other missions in the area.
  • GARRISON_SHIPYARD_MISSION_TUTORIAL_FIRST - Click to view Mission Details.
  • LIST_DELIMITER - %s, %s
  • SPELL_FAILED_CUSTOM_ERROR_263 - You must be at your shipyard.
  • SPELL_FAILED_CUSTOM_ERROR_264 - Requires a level 3 Mage Tower.
  • SPELL_FAILED_CUSTOM_ERROR_265 - Requires a level 3 Spirit Lodge.
  • VAS_APPEARANCE_CHANGE_CONFIRMATION - %s, %s
  • VAS_FACTION_CHANGE_CONFIRMATION - %s, %s|nFaction change to %s
  • VAS_FACTION_CHANGE_VALIDATION_DESCRIPTION - This character's faction will be changed to:|n|c%s%s|r.|nYou will customize your character on the character select screen.
  • VAS_NAME_CHANGE_CONFIRMATION - Old Name: %s|nNew Name: %s
  • VAS_RACE_CHANGE_CONFIRMATION - %s, %s
  • VAS_RACE_CHANGE_INELIGIBLE - |cffff2020This character does not have any eligible races to change to.|r
  • VAS_RACE_CHANGE_VALIDATION_DESCRIPTION - This character can be changed to:|n|c%s%s|r. You will select your new race on the character select screen.



Garrison Ability Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Ability

Trait



WoW Selfie Scavenger Sweepstakes
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Hunt down the weekly location, take a screenshot of yourself there, submit it on our sweepstakes site, and you could win big prizes!

The WoW Selfie Scavenger Hunt sweepstakes has begun, and every week you have a chance to win Blizzard gear, Battle.net Balance codes, or an iPhone 6—and every week you enter it increases your chances to win the Grand Prize: a trip for two to BlizzCon 2015!




Visit the WoW Selfie Scavenger Hunt site now to enter, and come back each week for a new challenge.

Awesome! Now, if only that camera would come up...
Per the rules and posted "How to take a screenshot..." section of the site, use of the S.E.L.F.I.E. camera is encouraged but in no way required. A normal screenshot works too.

how close to replicated do you want it? Clearly the person in the picture for week 1 is missing some clothes and is getting attacked. Are those required as well? Or just the location?
Really just location and direction of the camera. We'll only disqualify entries that clearly were not replicating the weekly image.

Not available in my country. great, thanks, 10/10.
I'm sorry to hear that. It's a sweepstakes which does limit the number of countries and states that can participate due to their local laws and regulations regarding "games of chance." We try to run a wide array of contests, and include as many countries and states as possible for the type of contest we want to run, in accordance with their local laws.

The picture on the scavenger hunt website is way too small. I can barely see what's in the background. Can you make it a higher-res larger image? Thanks.
Thanks for the feedback, we'll look into that. In the meantime if you right click it and open it in a new tab/window you'll get a bigger version to look at.

Raid Testing Schedule - May 20
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
We will be continuing our Hellfire Citadel raid testing in the new PTR build. As is always the case with PTR raid testing, it is quite possible that there will be technical or gameplay issues that disrupt our plans. Thank you in advance for your patience and understanding.

Remember that Heroic difficulty scales for any group size between 10 and 30 players, so feel free to assemble and bring a group of any size within that range. Mythic difficulty requires a fixed 20 players. Our general plan is to test every encounter on Heroic difficulty first, and then test sections of the raid on Normal and Raid Finder, alongside targeted Mythic tests.

Each encounter should be available at approximately the listed times below on all PTR servers.

Wednesday, May 20
  • Mannoroth - Mythic Hellfire Citadel - 13:30 PDT (16:30 EDT, 22:30 CEST)
  • Xhul'horac - Mythic Hellfire Citadel - 15:00 PDT (18:00 EDT, 24:00 CEST)

We may have additional scheduled testing later in the week, and will update the schedule accordingly if so. We will also be opening the Destructor's Rise Raid Finder wing over the weekend (Zakuun, Xhul'horac, and Mannoroth).

As always, this testing schedule is very fluid and subject to the realities of a PTR environment. We might have to change the time of a testing session, change the boss being tested, or cancel a test entirely, due to bugs, server hardware issues, etc. Keep an eye on this forum for the latest information, and thank you in advance for testing and providing feedback.
This article was originally published in forum thread: Patch 6.2 PTR - Build 20033, WoW Selfie Scavenger Sweepstakes started by chaud View original post
Comments 63 Comments
  1. Karadros's Avatar
    *is tauren
    *uses SELFIE camera

    I have made a terrible mistake.
  1. ChaosWolf's Avatar
    Wonder why they changed the Dragon Soul achieve?
  1. Padwarle's Avatar
    Mass milling built in is a nice change, I guess. Hope they roll it out to everything.
  1. Shangalar's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by ChaosWolf View Post
    Wonder why they changed the Dragon Soul achieve?
    Probs because people were one-shotting the tentacles and then complaining en masse that the achievement was bugged. Or they tried to split to multiple platforms thinking that it would be enough to just pull the boss from one specific place and then another aspect gets assaulted, even though the original criteria clearly says "X assaulted first", but people unfortunately don't read instructions.
  1. Kirsia's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Shangalar View Post
    Probs because people were one-shotting the tentacles and then complaining en masse that the achievement was bugged. Or they tried to split to multiple platforms thinking that it would be enough to just pull the boss from one specific place and then another aspect gets assaulted, even though the original criteria clearly says "X assaulted first", but people unfortunately don't read instructions.
    As someone who frequents the Bug Report forum and sees all those complaints about the achievement being bugged, I would have to agree with this assessment.
  1. Mementomori1993's Avatar
    Mass milling oh my god finally!!!!
  1. Nevcairiel's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Mementomori1993 View Post
    Mass milling oh my god finally!!!!
    More important is that you can just cast it out of the profession UI, and don't have to click every stack of herbs, yay!
  1. corg's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Mementomori1993 View Post
    Mass milling oh my god finally!!!!
    I understood why they couldn't do this prior to WoD (they didn't have the tech to make a profession spell proc outputs of multiple types). However the new WoD profession cooldowns can proc Sorcerous elements, so this should have been done 6 months ago.
  1. Filipse's Avatar
    .... Another PTR "changes", another snorefest of unimportant changes.
  1. Kritkin's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Nevcairiel View Post
    More important is that you can just cast it out of the profession UI, and don't have to click every stack of herbs, yay!
    Now just let me either craft in cat for or make starting to craft change me out of it. So sick of clicking craft whatever 20 times before I realize I'm still in cat for behind the crafting ui
  1. Cynon's Avatar
    I like the mass-milling, but here's another idea -- allow an add on to the inscription shop, similar to the disenchanting well that the enchanting shop has. Right-click the "milling machine," hover your cursor over the stack of herbs, and voila! Instant pigments.
  1. Goron24's Avatar
    Holy moly that holy paladin change...
  1. mmoc2526a559a9's Avatar
    That background downloader hype though.

    I'm going to download the hell out of this patch. In the background! Yeah.
  1. Adoxe's Avatar
    Told you it's coming mid-June. Well, actually, anyone with a brain said it's mid-June.
  1. thunderdragon2's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Adoxe View Post
    Told you it's coming mid-June. Well, actually, anyone with a brain said it's mid-June.
    erm your 1 month off usualy when its on the background down loader its complete or very close to it
  1. Kaneiac's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by thunderdragon2 View Post
    erm your 1 month off usualy when its on the background down loader its complete or very close to it
    5.4 hit the downloader on August 14th and came out September 10th. 5.2 was the 11th of Feb, released March 7th.

    Those were the last 2 raid tiers. 6.1 was very, very fast but there wasn't jack shit in that garbage excuse for a "patch." 6.0 was also in mid-September, came out early-mid October.

    He's right. It will 99.99% be mid-june. I predict either the 9th or the 16th.
  1. mmocf4bc6462bb's Avatar
    I don't play the game anymore, but i still look up this site daily.
    In every patchnotes, mage get's buffed and every other class get nerved (DPS classes). Or am i wrong? Maybe i feel this way because i hate mages really bad =P
  1. thunderdragon2's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Kaneiac View Post
    5.4 hit the downloader on August 14th and came out September 10th. 5.2 was the 11th of Feb, released March 7th.

    Those were the last 2 raid tiers. 6.1 was very, very fast but there wasn't jack shit in that garbage excuse for a "patch." 6.0 was also in mid-September, came out early-mid October.

    He's right. It will 99.99% be mid-june. I predict either the 9th or the 16th.
    ok fair enough, but if blizz want faster patches they cant wait that long really
  1. Kaneiac's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by thunderdragon2 View Post
    ok fair enough, but if blizz want faster patches they cant wait that long really
    I'd much rather have it tested and polished before it's released. I can deal with BRF for another month. 4 month for a raid is on the low-medium spectrum compared to the past.
  1. Nize's Avatar
    June 16th looking very likely. 2 weeks after HotS release, 2 weeks to build up subs for June 30th Q2 financial report deadline, 1 week head start over Final Fantasy XIV.

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