Patch 6.2 Hotfixes: July 6 – July 10
Here you'll find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to the recently released World of Warcraft Patch 6.2.0. Hotfixes are updates made without requiring a new client-side patch. Some of the hotfixes below take effect the moment they were implemented, while others may require a realm restarte to go into effect. Please keep in mind that some issues cannot be addressed without a client-side patch update. This list will be updated as additional hotfixes are applied.
July 10
Creatures and NPCs
Tanaan Jungle
- Savage Whale Shark should now drop 2 Fel-Corrupted Apexis Fragments once a day for players on the eligible quest.
- Varyx the Damned no longer requires the beams to be blocked to start the encounter.
Quests
Darkmoon Faire
- Silas' Secret Stash: Fixed an issue where Silas' Secret Stash could not be interacted with.
Raids and Dungeons
Hellfire Citadel
General- [Requires a realm restart] Sargerei Adjutant's Consuming Pain ability now deals 30% less damage.
- [Requires a realm restart] Construct Peacekeeper's Protocol: Crowd Control ability now deals 30% less damage.
- [Requires a realm restart] Sargerei Soul Cleaver's Devouring Spirit now scales with raid size.
- Archimonde's Doomfire now deals 40% less damage on Mythic difficulty.
- Hand of Purity now reduces the damage of Doomfire by 40% (down from 80%). Damage reduction against other abilities remain unchanged.
- Shadowfel Burst should no longer sometimes cause the player to be ineligible for Shadowfel Burst.
- Fixed an issue where players that were in the Twisting Nether when Archimonde is defeated would not see the cinematic.
- Fixed an issue where players that leave the Twisting Nether could be unable to target players that didn't enter into the Twisting Nether with them.
Timewalking
- Completing a Timewalking bonus event quest (A Frozen Path through Time and A Burning Path through Time) will now award a normal Iron Fleet Treasure Chest in addition to a Seal of Inevitable Fate.
Items
- Insignias of Dominance should now only trigger its effect while the character is in combat.
- Champion's Honor should no longer allow players to use it if it'll put them over the Honor or weekly Conquest cap.
- Cursed Feather of Ikzan is no longer Unique.
- Fel-Corrupted Apexis Fragments should now be slightly easier to obtain.
Class
Death Knight
Frost- Fixed an issue with Blood of the North that could cause Death Runes to incorrectly revert back into Blood Runes.
Paladin
General- Seal of Righteousness should no longer sometimes deal more damage than intended.
- Denounce now causes 20% less damage.
July 9
Raids and Dungeons
Hellfire Citadel
Kilrogg Deadeye- Players that die during the Vision of Death phase should no longer have Spirit of Redemption or Purgatory triggered once the phase has ended and result in the player actually dying.
- Fixed an issue where a player can travel slower than intended if they receive a buff to their movement speed while they are on route to the stomach phase.
- Fixed an issue where transitioning between phases multiple times could cause adds from phase 2 of the encounter to sometimes incorrectly spawn in phase 1.
- Archimonde's Shadowfel Burst now deals 900,000 damage (down from 1,500,000) on Mythic difficulty.
Items
- Chipped Soul Prism now has Strength and Agility in addition to Intellect, and is obtainable and usable by all classes.
- Mark of Supreme Doom now has Intellect in addition to Agility and Strength, and is obtainable and usable by all classes. Additionally, we've increased the amount of Avoidance, Speed, and Leech by 75%.
- Piccolo of the Flaming Fire should now be able to cause players to dance once more.
- Wild Gladiator's Medallion of Adaptation (Alliance) and Wild Gladiator's Medallion of Cruelty (Horde) are now available for purchase from a Conquest vendor.
Bug Fixes
Garrison
- Lieutenant Thorn should no longer be sitting without a chair after players have upgraded to a Level 3 Shipyard.
Creatures
- Fixed an issue where Nagrand Prowlers were not using Leap for the Kill correctly.
July 8
Creatures and NPCs
Tanaan Jungle
- Captain Ironbeard now has a guaranteed chance to drop Equipment Blueprint: Ghostly Spyglass.
- Varyx the Damned now returns to his spawn location instead of despawning if he drops out of combat. Additionally, only 1 beam needs to be blocked to restart the encounter.
Quests
Garrison Quests
- [Requires a realm restart] Fixed an issue where completing daily assault objectives in Tanaan Jungle was incorrectly also granting completion credit for daily assault objectives in the Garrison.
Spires of Arak
- Call of the Raven Mother: Fixed an issue where interacting with items during the ritual was causing player pets to use their abilities.
Raids and Dungeons
Hellfire Citadel
Tyrant Velhari- Fixed a timing issue that could cause Tyrant Velhari to use the incorrect finishing move just as a transition into the next stage happened.
- Adjusted scaling to reduce the amount of health by roughly 10% on Xhul'horac, Omnus, Unstable Voidfiend, and Vanguard Akkelion for a 10-player raid on Normal and Heroic difficulty. Health should remain the same as before for raids with 30 players.
- Mannoroth no longer transforms back into a skeleton after being defeated.
- Fixed an issue that could cause Gazing Shadows to sometimes not reduce movement speed.
PvP
Ashran
- Fixed a number of issues affecting Ashran events that could cause characters to drop out of stealth effects.
Items
- Increased stat bonuses for critical strike, Versatility, Stamina, and Spirit on Wild Gladiator's Medallions by 50%.
UI
- Clicking “Join Raid” in the Adventure Guide should now open the Premade Groups menu instead of Raid Finder.
Class
Monk
Armor Sets- Yesterday's hotfix on July 7 for Tier-18 4-piece set bonus for Mistweaver Monks should now be healing for the correct amount.
Paladin
Talents- Yesterday’s hotfix on July 7 that reduced the healing of Execution Sentence by 25% in PvP combat now only applies to Holy Paladins. It has been returned to its previous effectiveness for Retribution and Protection Paladins.
July 7
Garrison
Ships
- Pandaren Crew now increases success chance on naval missions that last more than 18 hours (was >1 day) and the degree of this success increase is now greater than a Human or Undead Crew.
Naval Missions
- Oil Rig: Pickup Location should no longer require players to complete the wrong blockade mission.
Raids and Dungeons
Hellfire Citadel
Hellfire Assault- Adjusted scaling to reduce the amount of health by roughly 10% on some Hellfire Reinforcements and some Felfire-Imbued Siege Vehicles for a 10-player raid on Heroic difficulty. Health should remain the same as before for raids with 30 players.
- Hellfire Reinforcements: Contracted Engineer, Gorebound Felcasters, Iron Dragoon, Hulking Berserker
- Felfire-Imbued Siege Vehicles: Felfire Artillery, Felfire Crusher, Felfire Demolisher, Felfire Flamebelcher
- Mannoroth should now have a chance to target Hunters with Shadowforce.
- Mannoroth should no longer use Shadowforce on players already affected by Mark of Doom.
- Doomfire now persists for 120 seconds (up from 90).
PvP
Ashran
- Fixed an issue where players that have died during an event may sometimes not receive quest credit after their faction wins the event.
Items
- Hunter's Seeking Crystal and Master Hunter's Seeking Crystal no longer seeks out Varyx the Damned.
Achievements
- Ironsides: Alliance characters should now be able to obtain credit for upgrading a transport to Epic quality and complete the achievement.
Class
Monk
Armor Sets- Tier-18 4-piece set bonus for Mistweaver Monks should no longer incorrectly benefit twice from critical strike chance and multistrike chance.
Paladin
Talents- Execution Sentence now heals for 25% less in PvP combat.
Priest
Talents- Cascade now deals 20% less damage in PvP combat.
Warrior
Armor Sets- Tier-18 2-piece set bonus for Protection Warriors should no longer incorrectly cause Shield Barrier to consume less rage and generate a weaker damage absorption shield than intended.
July 6
Garrisons
Garrison Buildings
Shipyard- Upgrading to a Level 3 Shipyard now unlocks an additional Fleet Command Table at the player's Garrison town hall.
Raids and Dungeons
Hellfire Citadel
General- Players should no longer be incorrectly saved to a Hellfire Citadel raid instance after defeating a Voracious Soulstalker.
Shadow-Lord Iskar
- Shadow-Lord Iskar's Fel Chakram ability no longer requires line-of-sight with the target.
- Sargerei Dominators should no longer immediately attack nearby players after spawning.
- Soulbound Construct should now be able to be damaged by the Warrior talents Dragon Roar and Siegebreaker.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the encounter to not restart correctly after a wipe.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the encounter to not restart correctly after a wipe.
- Xhul'horac now prefers to use Void Surge on players that aren't already affected by Feltouched, Chains of Fel, or Empowered Chains of Fel.
- Xhul'horac now prefers to use Chains of Fel, or Empowered Chains of Fel on players that aren't already affected by Void Surge or Voidtouched.
- Fixed an issue that could cause the encounter to not restart correctly after a wipe.
- Mannoroth should no longer use his Shadowforce ability on players already affected by Mannoroth's Gaze.
- Mannoroth's Empowered Massive Blast Wave should no longer hit the tank at the same time as Massive Blast.
- Using a bonus roll on Mannoroth should no longer have a chance to incorrectly award Tyrant's Decree (the trinket drops from Tyrant Velhari).
- Archimonde's Shackled Torment ability no longer requires line-of-sight with the target.
Dungeons
The Everbloom- Kirin Tor Battle-Mages should no longer continue to receive damage after Entanglement has been destroyed.
PvP
Ashran
- Captains should now be spawning correctly in the central lane once more.
- Ashmaul Burial Grounds event: Increased the spawn rate of Risen Spirits.
- The Ashmaul Strongbox that drops upon defeating Grand Marshal Tremblade or High Warlord Volrath is now rare (blue) quality to avoid confusion as to the qualify of its contents. There's been no change to the contents of the strongbox itself.
- The progressive buff implemented from June 25 now also counts defeating Grand Marshal Tremblade or High Warlord Volrath as winning an event.
- Grand Marshal Tremblade and High Warlord Volrath now only awards an Ashmaul Strongbox if they're defeated while their base is under attack.
Collections
Toy Box
- Darkmoon Ring-Flinger no longer works while in combat.
Items
- Pinchwhistle “Nitro Fuel” damage can no longer be absorbed.
- Soul Capacitor's Spirit Eruption effect should now correctly deal 50% damage to players (was incorrectly only dealing 25% damage).
- Throbbing Blood Orb's Blood Ritual transformation effect no longer allows players to leap while on a mount.
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a number of issues that incorrectly allowed buffs from outside a raid instance to be brought into a raid instance.
- Fixed an issue where credit for the Predator achievement was being awarded incorrectly.
