Patch 6.1 Release Date, Feb 17 Hotfixes, Patch 6.1 PTR - Build 19634

[Simca]

Update (9:10 PM EST): Added Patch 6.1 launch trailer.
Update (7:50 PM EST): Added today's hotfixes.

Patch 6.1 Launches Next Week!
Blizzard have announced that Patch 6.1 will launch next week and have released a patch trailer to go along with it:

Patch 6.0.3 Hotfixes - February 17

Classes

• Rogue (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  
  • Subtlety
    
    • Refreshing or expiring Ruptures, Garrotes, Crimson Tempest, and Hemorrhages should no longer incorrectly remove other Rogues' Sanguinary Veins.

Raids, Dungeons, and Scenarios

• Blackrock Foundry
  
  • Oregorger
    
    • Oregorger's health has been reduced by 10% on Normal difficulty.
    • Oregorger's Rolling Fury ability now deals less damage on Normal difficulty (135,000 damage) and on Heroic difficulty (200,000 damage).
  • The Blast Furnace
    
    • Heart of the Mountain should no longer spam raid warnings for Blast whenever it reaches 100 Energy.
    • Mind Controlled Firecallers should no longer be able to cast Reactive Earth Shield on injured Primal Elementalists.
  • Kromog
    
    • Kromog's Reverberations should now be easier to dodge with a 3-second delay before the ability starts dealing damage (up from 1.75 seconds) and the effect's radius has been decreased.
  • Beastlord Darmac
    
    • Beastlord Darmac's Call the Pack now has an increased cooldown of 40 seconds (up from 30 seconds) on Normal difficulty.
    • Fixed an issue where the doors to Beastlord Darmac may not always reopen after the encounter has been reset.
  • Operator Thogar
    
    • Enrage mechanic for the encounter is now more lethal.
  • Iron Maidens
    
    • Admiral Gar'an: Dominator Turret's Dominator Blast no longer deals damage to player pets, minions or guardians.
    • Enforcer Sorka's Convulsive and Lingering Shadows are no longer incorrectly removed when the targeted player dies.
    • Marak the Blooded's Blood Ritual still only targets a player within 45 yards but the damage cone now has a range of 100 yards.
    • Fixed an issue where Iron Maidens not on the Dreadnaught may instantly cast their spells and abilities at the end of the boat phase.
    • Fixed an issue where Marak the Blooded was incorrectly gaining Sanguine Strikes at 75 Iron Fury on Mythic difficulty.
  • Blackhand
    
    • Rubble Piles should no longer appear after the transition to stage two.
    • Fixed an issue where a player may not be correctly protected from Blackhand's Impaling Throw when multiple players were taking cover behind the same Rubble Pile.

Patch 6.1 PTR - Build 19634
Build 19634 will be deployed to the PTR realms soon.

Spell Changes

Druid (Forums, Talent Calculator)

• Ferocious Bite: Damage dealt increased by approximately 5.3%.
• Thrash: Initial damage dealt and additional damage dealt over time both increased by approximately 20%.

Balance

• Starfall: Damage dealt decreased by approximately 16.6%.
• Sunfall: Damage dealt decreased by approximately 16.6%.

Feral

• Rake: Initial damage dealt and additional damage dealt over time both increased by approximately 5%.
• Rip: Damage dealt over time increased by approximately 4.2%.
• Swipe: Damage dealt increased by approximately 20.5%.

Hunter (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Perks

• Improved Focus Fire: Now grants an 8% AP increase per stack consumed, up from 5% AP.

Marksmanship

• Careful Aim: Now increases the critical strike chance of your Steady Shot, Focusing Shot, and Aimed Shot on specific targets by 50%, down from 60%.
• Mastery: Sniper Training: Now increases your damage, shot range, and critical strike damage by 5%, up from 4%.

Monk (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Windwalker & Mistweaver

• Rising Sun Kick: Enemies now take 20% increased damage from your abilities, up from 10%.

Priest (Forums, Talent Calculator)

• Power Word: Shield: Absorb amount decreased by 10%.

Talents

• Psychic Scream: Cooldown decreased from 45 seconds to 30 seconds.

Shaman (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Restoration

• Restorative Waves: Now increases all healing done by 40%, up from 30%.

Warlock (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Talents

• Demonbolt: Damage dealt decreased by 25%.

Warrior (Forums, Talent Calculator)
Perks

• Improved Defensive Stance: Damage reduction increased from 5% to 10%.

Arms

• Execute: Normal damage dealt decreased by approximately 14.3%.

Arms & Fury

• Shield Barrier: Absorb amount increased by approximately 24.4%.

Fury & Protection

• Execute: Damage dealt decreased by approximately 11.4%.

Raid & Dungeon Abilities

• Sanguine Strikes Marak the Blooded's melee attacks become so powerful as to corrupt the life essence of her target, causing their blood to erupt, duplicating a portion of damage dealt to her primary target to all players as Shadow damage. 100 Energy / 75 Energy. Instant. Instant.

[Deleted]

Disc priest nerfs? wat? why?

[Deleted]

Disc priest nerfs? wat? why?

Not sure if serious...

But just in case you are...

https://www.warcraftlogs.com/statist...unt&dataset=80

And oh yeah they have one of the best healing CDs in game which does not even show up in that data.

[Thirstblood]

careful aimed nerfed... what the fuck blizzard? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!

[Ponkster]

Siege of ogrimar all over again, dragging our the PTR with class changes and no meaningful content.

what a joke.

[Friendlyimmolation]

so they are going ahead with that db nerf... woooohooo

[TrollShaman]

careful aimed nerfed... what the fuck blizzard? WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!

I think the intent behind the nerf is to make crit more meaningful in the long term. We're in the first tier of raiding and with BRF gear it's almost possible to hit 43% crit chance (crit depression vs bosses included, and past that would be useless or yield much less dps due to the careful aim crit bonus). Chimaera Shot got a giant buff at least.

[Deleted]

Not sure if serious...

But just in case you are...

https://www.warcraftlogs.com/statist...unt&dataset=80

And oh yeah they have one of the best healing CDs in game which does not even show up in that data.

Ahh yeah makes sense was just looking at the best priests best performance.. above 70% was just PW:shield

[proteen]

Yay feral buffs. AoE damage will still be shit though.

[razkaziel]

YEAH !!! i have one good aoe in balance druid and they nerf it !!

[Eazy]

It seems like someone from Blizzard noticed:

[Thyranne]

Weren't these changes announced a few days ago? I'm sure they had announced the 25% demon bolt nerf.

[Mizzet]

Chimaera Shot got a giant buff at least.

Which by the way doesn't seem to be listed there this time, what gives?

[anon5123]

It seems like someone from Blizzard noticed:

Why are people acting like 6.1 is the first time Blizzard has ever made a patch without raid content?

Because it's not.

[rcshaggy]

Blizzard just post it live already.
Getting really pissed off and mad.

[Thyranne]

Why are people acting like 6.1 is the first time Blizzard has ever made a patch without raid content?

Because it's not.

It's not the first time, however when they do that they add a quest hub, more stories,... and patch 6.1 adds nothing like that.

[Christhammer]

Some good changed here. I like it.

[PowerGamez]

So Arms doesn't get the Execute nerf if you're at 40 rage. Excellent!

[Alexanderjac]

I think it's retarded how Blizzard is trying to tone down Arm's burst damage in PvP but consquentially fucks over warriors in PvE, specifically Fury. It just seems ignorant how we're not being compesated for this loss considering Fury isn't overpowered at single target.

[styil]

Why are people acting like 6.1 is the first time Blizzard has ever made a patch without raid content?

Because it's not.

It's not the first time without raid content, it's the first time without content.