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New Character Models: Blood Elf - Character models for Blood Elves have been overhauled with an increase to fidelity and texture resolution; while retaining the core look and feel of the originals.
- Some character models received additional tweaks and adjustments.
Twitter Integration - Characters can now send Tweets for items, achievements, and screenshots from within the game client using the /share command.
- This feature can be enabled by accessing a new social settings pane to add or remove a Twitter account.
New Heirloom Collections Tab - The Collections system now supports Heirloom items.
- Heirlooms have a tier system to denote the maximum level that the item scales up to.
- New neck slot Heirlooms are now available and allows the character to cast a heal once a minute. This heal shares a cooldown with potions and Gesundheitssteins.
- Vendors in Sturmwind (Alliance) and Unterstadt (Horde) now sells Heirlooms for gold.
- Alternate methods for obtaining Heirlooms are also available.
sells Heirlooms for Darkmoon Prize Tickets. - Argent Tournament sells tier-1 and tier-2 Heirlooms for Champion's Seals.
- Some world events now sell either tier-2 and tier-3 Heirlooms for currency obtained through the event.
Collecting all heirloom items awards a special mount usable by level 1 characters. (
Chopper mit Chauffeur)
Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts - New Garrison Visitors
One of five new visitors may visit each day offering a quest to anyone that visits the .
Defeat a dungeon boss: Awards a bag with a chance to contain a level 630, 645, or 655 item token. - Defeat a raid boss (weekly quest): Awards a bag with a chance to contain a level 645, or 655 item token.
- Bounty (intended for 3 or more players): Defeat a named elite NPC for a bag containing Apexis Crystals, and a chance to contain a level 645, or 655 item token.
- Relic: Complete a series of quests to recover a relic for a bag containing Apexis Crystals, and a chance to contain a level 645, or 655 item token. Completing a relic mission unlocks it as a potential mission for your followers. Completing all 6 relic missions will unlock Harrison Jones as a follower!
- Profession: Turn-in tradeskill reagents for Urgeists and work order tradeskill reagents.
For the Pet Battlers out there, there's a separate chance for an
additional visitor offering unique Pet Battles with a chance to award a bag containing Pet Battle items and new Battle Pets. (
Junger Talbuk,
Glitschschockaal,
Knochenschlange)
Summon a Raid or World Boss - Players may find an item while completing a Bounty, Relic, Dungeon, or Raid daily quest from the visitor that that allows them to summon one of six new raid or world boss in the .
- Summoned raid or world bosses have scaling health and is intended for 10-40 players.
New Garrison Music Box - Players can assemble a music box allowing them to play music in their s.
- Pieces for the music box can be found as a reward from new Bounty or Relic Missions.
- New songs can be collected from throughout the world to expand your music library.
New Garrison Vendor New Follower Trait: Treasure Hunter - Extremplünderer trait increases the amount of gold rewarded from a mission.
Follower Missions - New Profession Missions are now available on upgrading a profession building to level 3. Successfully completing these missions award an item that allows instant completion of work orders (Rush Orders).
- Players can unlock Relic and Bounty missions for their followers by completing the corresponding Relic or Bounty quest offered by one of the random daily new visitors to the .
- New exploration missions are available to players with a skill of at least 1 in Archeology. Successfully completing these missions can award Archeology fragments, keystones, or treasure maps for a Draenor zone. Treasure maps obtained in this manner does not require quest achievement completion for the Draenor zone.
- Archeology Vendors in Sturmschild and Kriegsspeer now sell an item that'll spawn a follower exploration mission for 5 Restauriertes Artefakts. (Notizbuch des Erkunders)
- New Level-100 Scouting missions to a Battlefield now awards an item that grants access to missions that award Apexiskristalles.
- New Raid missions to Schwarzfelsgießerei (click here for list) are now available for a cache that awards level 665, 680, or 695 items.
- New follower missions have been added that can award gold, Apexis Crystals, Savage Blood, or Augmentation runes.
- Missions that go over 100% completion chance now awards a bonus to the base EP.
- Level-100 Garrison resource missions now award more Garnisonsressourcen.
- Wiederverwertung trait for Followers now increases Garnisonsressourcen gained from a mission by 100% (down from 200%).
Follower Mission UI Improvements - List of missions available now displays the amount of bonus EP, gold, and resources awarded without having to mouse-over the mission tooltip.
- Improved tooltips displaying which followers that can counter threats on a mission.
Followers that can counter a threat and available show up with a green checkmark. - Followers that can counter a threat but are out on a mission displays the time remaining until the follower is available.
- Followers that can counter a threat but assigned to a building will display a working icon.
A new icon will notify the player when assigning a follower that'll receive less
EP reward because they're below level or item level requirements.
s with 10 or more followers now have access to a sortable list with a quick overview of how many followers can counter a particular threat or how long a follower will be out on a mission.
Garrison Buildings - Garrison Work Order Changes
Work orders now check if a follower is assigned to the building every 4 hours when factoring in production bonuses. - Followers assigned to work at a building now receive EP for each work order that they provide a production bonus on.
- Players now have an option to queue up all remaining work order slots through the building's work order UI.
- NPCs that accept Work Orders are now titled as such along with a new interaction cursor to make them easier to locate.
Alchemielabor Stufe 3 - Level 2: Followers working at the Alchemielabor Stufe 3 now offers a choice on the free potions you want to receive, but those potions are now soulbound.
Arsenal (Zwergenbunker / Kriegswerkstatt Stufe 3 / Zwergenbunker / Kriegswerkstatt Stufe 3) Scheune Stufe 3 - Scheune Stufe 3 traps are no longer targetable, causes the cursor to be highlighted, or usable in Rated Battlegrounds, Arenas, or outside of Draenor.
- Wildblut now drops more frequently when a follower is assigned to the building (it didn't affect the chance previously).
- Caged creatures now stack to 1000 (up from 20).
Kaserne Stufe 3 Angelhütte Stufe 3 - You no longer catch bait in your . However, Nat Pagle (Level 3 Angelhütte Stufe 3) will give you any of the standard baits if you ask nicely.
- Lunkers can now be caught from fishing pools and have an improved catch rate with higher fishing skill.
- Summoned Cavedwellers now drops random fish flesh and drops less Extraordinärer Wurm.
- Fish Eggs used as turn-in for the Fishing Shack Daily quest are now bind on pickup and no longer have a sell value.
Sägewerk Stufe 3 Magierturm / Geisterhaus Stufe 3 / Magierturm / Geisterhaus Stufe 3 - The building now accepts Ogerportalsteins as work orders awarding Apexiskristalles and a chance to receive an item that allows instant completion of a mission that's in-progress.
Mine - Minenarbeiterin's Coffee no longer has a stack limit, is now bind on pickup, and has a sell price. It now has an exclusive category so it cannot be applied multiple times by splitting it into different stacks. However, the aura can now correctly stack up to 5 times.
- Gut erhaltene Spitzhacke no longer has a stack limit, is now bind on pickup, has a sell price, and offers a bonus even if you have the Peon's Spitzhacke.
Menagerie Stufe 3 - Reduced the difficulty of quests to unlock the Menagerie Stufe 3, elite pet challenges, and pet battle daily quests.
Wiederverwertung Stufe 3 - Tier-3 salvage recovered from Follower missions no longer has an independent chance to drop an uncommon (green), rare (blue), or epic (purple) item and will instead always drop one of them. This change is intended to reduce overall item spam without affecting their value. Existing chance for Tier-3 salvage to potentially also contain an uncommon Tier-2 salvage item remains unchanged.
- Follower Weaponry and Armor Set tokens (War Ravaged, Blackrock, Goredrenched) no longer drops from salvage.
Handelsposten Stufe 3 Garrison Invasions - Players that have performed above-and-beyond expectations for a Gold rating while defending their s from an invasion can now attain a Platinum rating. Platinum rating awards a level 660 item and a chance at obtaining an item that can be used to summon a raid or world boss.
Itemization - Tertiary Stats for Avoidance, Speed, and Leach now provide about four times as much benefit per stat point.
Racials - Zwerg
Steingestalt when used, now triggers a 30-second shared cooldown with other PvP trinkets that breaks crowd-control effects.
Class Changes Talent BalanceDeveloper Commentary: A primary focus for class changes in Patch 6.1 is improving overall talent balance. Not every talent needs to be useful in every situation; and in fact it's often better if they have strengths and weaknesses. But we do try to have each talent be useful in some situations, and make them close enough in value that if you really enjoy the gameplay of a talent you don't feel like you're dragging your group down by using it.For these changes we focused primarily on tuning (tweaking numbers), and nearly all changes are buffs to underperforming talents. The goal is to reach more variety of viable builds, without bringing down the existing popular choices.
Druide - Talents
Gesträubtes Fell (Guardian) now has a 30-second cooldown (down from 1 minute). - Force of Nature's Treants have been buffed with a 35% increase to their health and spellpower, and an 80% increase to their armor and attack power.
- Wächter von Elune (Guardian) now also reduces the rage cost of by the Druide's base dodge chance percentage.
- (Restoration) now lasts 7 seconds (up from 5 seconds).
- (Restoration) now also increases the healing of Rasche Heilung by 20%.
- Erneuerung now instantly heals for 30% of max health (up from 22%).
- (Balance) damage has been increased by 16%, and now has a duration of 24 seconds (up from 20 seconds).
Jäger - Talents
Sperrfeuer damage has been increased by 21%. - Freudentaumel now instantly heals for 30% of max health (up from 22%).
- damage has been increased by 25%.
- damage has been increased by 62%.
- Stampede now lasts 40 seconds (up from 20 seconds).
Magier Mönch - Talents
Aszendenz now increases Spirit by 10% instead of increasing maximum mana by 20%. - (Mistweaver) healing increased by 50%.
- Chistoß damage has been increased by 51%. Also fixed a bug that caused its damage and healing to vary based on specialization.
- (Mistweaver) healing while in Serpent Stance is increased by 40%, and is now usable while channeling Beruhigender Nebel.
- Chitorpedo damage has increased by 150% and healing has increased by 42%.
- Wirbelnder Drachenschlag (Windwalker) damage increased by 25%.
- Ring des Friedens now incapacitates all enemies for 5 seconds (up from 3 seconds).
- Zenimpuls has been improved. Its detonation damage has increased by 97%, detonation healing has increased by 70%, but periodic healing has been reduced by 39%. Also fixed a bug that caused its damage and healing to vary based on specialization.
Paladin Glyphs - Glyph of Alabaster Shield has been removed.
- is now only available to Holy Paladins.
Priester - Talents
Verheißungsvolle Geister (Shadow) no longer cause Shadowy Apparitions to not deal damage. Instead, it now increases Schattenhafte Erscheinung damage by 100% in addition to still granting 1 . - 's (Holy) healing has increased by 20%.
- Göttlicher Stern (Shadow) damage increased by 20%.
- Geistbeuger lasts for 20 seconds (up from 15 seconds).
- 's (Discipline, Holy) healing has increased by 50%, but now reduces future healing dealt by 15% (up from 10%). Additionally, the talent is now Instant, but its effectiveness is reduced while in PvP combat.
- now has a 12% chance to trigger (up from 10%).
- (Shadow) damage increased by 80%.
- Leerententakel' health has increased by 30%.
Schurke - Talents
Geschwindigkeitsschub now has a 3-second cooldown. - Tod von oben's damage has increased by 25%. For Assassination Rogues, the talent now also increases the duration of Vergiften.
- Egelgift has been redesigned. It now grants 10% Lebensraub while active, and no longer applies a poison effect to the target. Its Shiv effect remains unchanged.
Schamane - Talents
Führung der Ahnen now triggers from all damage or healing dealt, including Multistrikes, instead of only direct damage or healing. - damage and healing has increased by 30%.
Hexenmeister Krieger - Talents
Avatar now lasts 20 seconds with a 1.5-minute cooldown (up from lasting 24 seconds with a 3-minute cooldown). - Kräfte sammeln now increases Leech by 25% (up from 10%).
- Siegebreaker (Arms, Fury) damage and knockback distance has increased by 50%.
- Zerschmettern (Arms) damage has increased by 43%.
Healer DamageDeveloper Commentary: Another change being made for Patch 6.1 is to bring the damage potential of healers up to a level that is sufficient and balanced. Healers' damage potential will still pale compared to that of a dedicated damage dealer or tank, but it should no longer feel like you're totally ineffective when attempting to do some outdoor content.
- Druide
Restoration
now also increases the damage of Druide spells and abilities by 15%.
Talents Paladin Schamane - Glyphs
(Restoration) causes , Lavaeruption, and Lightning Bolt to cost no mana and deal 100% more damage.
Classes - Todesritter
Glyphs
now generates 2 Runic Power every second for 5 seconds when struck by a movement-impairing effect (down from 3 Runic Power).
Druide - General
no longer heals for 50% more when cast-on-self for Balance Druids.
Balance and
now only hits targets affected with
Mondfeuer or
Sonnenfeuer by default.
- has been renamed to Glyph of Untamed Stars and is now a Minor glyph. Glyph of Untamed Stars expands and Sunfall to hit all targets within range.
Restoration - now affects all targets within 60 yards of the Druide and no longer requires a target.
- Heilung der Natur is now classified as a Nature School ability.
Talents - Phasenbestie is now classified as an Arcane School ability and can no longer be used while silenced.
Armor Sets - PvP 2-piece set bonus for Balance Druids now has a visual effect to indicate when the Druide is unable to generate a Sternensog charge from Wucherwurzeln.
- PvP 4-piece set bonus for Balance Druids has been redesigned. When Starsurge hits a player, the cast time of is reduced by 30%, and the damage of Zorn is increased by 30% for 6 seconds.
Jäger - Survival
no longer reduces the cooldown of all traps and by 6 seconds. - now has a cooldown of 24 seconds (down from 30 seconds).
- now reduces the cooldown on all traps by 33% (down from 50%).
Hunter Pets - Basilisks now have a pet family ability. Stone Scales reduces damage taken by the pet. Previously, Basilisks did not have a pet family ability.
- Hydra pets should no longer be excessively large.
- Spirit Beast's Spirit Beast Blessing now also provides a 5% increase to critical strike chance. Does not stack with other critical strike chance buffs. Previously, other exotic pet families provided buffs to 2 stats while Geisterbesties provided only 1.
Magier Fire Frost - 's stun effect now always breaks on damage from Eislanze, but no longer has a chance to break from other damage sources.
Talents - Druckwelle (Fire) now has a 3-second cooldown.
- Eisnova (Frost) now has a 3-second cooldown.
- Supernova (Arcane) now has a 3-second cooldown.
Glyphs - has been replaced with Glyph of Ignite. Glyph of Ignite causes Ignite to also reduce the target's movement speed by 40%.
Armor Sets - PvP 2-piece set bonus for Frost Mages has been redesigned. Kältekegel now leaves behind a patch of ice on the target area slowing any enemies caught within it by 50% for 6 seconds.
- PvP 4-piece set bonus for Frost Mages has been redesigned to increase Frostblitz damage by 30% against unsnared targets, and increases Frostblitz damage by 50% against snared targets.
Mönch Mistweaver - Manatee now restores mana equal to 3 times the Mönch's unbuffed Spirit (instead of 4% of maximum mana).
Glyphs - Glyph of Blackout Kick has returned.
Armor Sets - PvP 2-piece set bonus for Windwalker Monks has been replaced by the PvP 4-piece set bonus. Karmaberührung's redirected damage can now exceed 50% of the Mönch's maximum health.
- PvP 4-piece set bonus for Windwalker Monks is now the PvP 2-piece set bonus. The Monk now receives a 2% reduction to damage taken for each stack of consumed for 20 seconds.
Paladin - Protection
is no longer available to Protection Paladins. is now replaced by instead of .
Talents - (Holy) now increases healing received by the target by 40% (up from 30%) and moves to the next most injured ally when the target reaches 90% health (instead of full health).
Glyphs - Glyph of Alabaster Shield has been removed.
- is now only available to Holy Paladins.
- is now automatically learned at level 25.
Armor Sets - PvP 2-piece set bonus for Holy Paladins now lasts 12 seconds (up from 8 seconds).
- PvP 4-piece set bonus for Holy Paladins has been redesigned. or now also reduces damage taken by the target by 5% for each Holy Power consumed (maximum of 15%) for 6 seconds. This effect only works in PvP combat.
Priester - Holy
now increases damage done by Shadow and Holy spells by 80% (up from 50%).
Talents - Kaskade may now hit the same target twice, resulting in an increase to total healing. To compensate, Kaskade's healing has been reduced by 35%. However, total healing in a 20-player raid will still be slightly higher than before.
- (Shadow) now also affects .
Schamane - Elemental
now increases the damage of done by the next Erdbeben by 300% when or strikes 3 or more targets (instead of increasing Erdbeben damage by 60% for each target struck).
Enhancement - no longer reduces the mana cost of spells.
Talents Armor Sets - PvP 2-piece set bonus for Restoration Shaman now grants 975 Vielseitigkeit after dispelling a harmful Magisch or Curse effect from an ally (up from 780 Vielseitigkeit).
- PvP 4-piece set bonus for Restoration Shaman now triggers when the target of Erdschild drops below 50% health (up from 35%) and Erdschild will immediately consume up to 4 charges (up from 3 charges).
Krieger - General
Donnerknall's (Arms, Protection) snare effect now lasts for 10 seconds or 8 seconds while in PvP combat (up from 6 seconds).
Quests - Legendary Ring Quest Line
A new epic follower awaits those that complete the latest chapter in the Legendary Ring Quest Line!
World Environment and Events - Flight Path Improvements
Improved the logic used for connecting flight paths. Players are now able to fly through flight points that they have not discovered yet if it'll result in a more direct flight path to a destination point. - A button has been added for characters in the middle of a flight to get off at the next known flight point.
Nagrand - Added two mailboxes in around the Black Market near Ring Of Blood in Nagrand.
- The Darkmoon Faire have added an exciting new racing event with opportunities to obtain new unique prizes!
- New achievements and rewards have been added to the Darkmoon Tonk Challenge and Darkmoon Ring Toss.
Creatures and NPCs Pet Battle Dungeons, Raids, and Scenarios - Personal loot mode received quality-of-life adjustments. Bosses that can be looted now have a custom graphical effect. Popup notifications from looting a boss have also been revamped.
- Dungeons
Completing the first random Heroic Draenor Dungeon of the day no longer awards a reputation bonus with Pandarian factions.
Challenge Mode - Increased the item level of gear awarded from completing daily Challenge Mode quests to 660 (up from 640).
PvP Battlegrounds and Arenas - Bonus Honor received from winning a Battleground should now correctly convert into EP for characters that are below level 100.
Professions - Abbauen from Draenor Mining and Herbalism nodes should now provide more experience points. Previously, only True Iron nodes were providing the correct amount of EP.
- New recipes have been added to create items that boost the item levels of crafted armor pieces to 680 and weapons to 670.
- Alchemie
Alchemists can now transmute for Wildblut and various Sorcerous elements. - Alchemists can now craft an upgradable alchemy trinket.
Archeology - Increased the maximum amount of Arakkoa, Draenor Clans, and Ogre archeology fragments that can be held at a time to 250 (up from 200).
- All rare Draenor archeology projects no longer cost more than 200 fragments to solve.
- Zerfallende Kartografieaufzeichnungen can now be dug up by characters with an Archeology skill of 1 (down from 575).
Schmiedekunst - Crafted shields no longer counts towards the limit on Unique-Equipped: Warlords Crafted items.
Kochkunst - New self-only cooking recipes have been added for food that gives 125 bonus to a stat.
Angeln - Fish caught in Draenor are now automatically filleted.
- Different sizes of have been consolidated into and can be consumed directly for the transformation effect.
- Players can now always catch enormous fish from pools, regardless of skill.
- Fish that have already been caught can be converted to the appropriate amount of flesh.
- Draenor fishing bait now lasts for 10 minutes (up from 5 minutes) and needs to be used within 15 minutes of being caught or it'll spoil.
Inschriftenkunde - The following glyphs now have recipes and are no longer sold by vendors.
- Glyphe 'Sonne'
Items Characters now receive a treasure maps in the mail for completing storyline achievements for a Draenor region.
Gaunah now sells a variety of transmogrification items for
Schäbige Eisenmünzen. In addition, he now sells a Rogue-specific toy,
Tonnenweise Tücher.
Tonnenweise Tücher spawns a barrel that gives players that use it a random visual bandana buff for 30 minutes.
Season 1 PvP boots and belts sold by Kezzik at Area 52 in
Nethersturm are now more comparably priced to their other Season 1 counterparts (1750 Honor).
Replica belts for
Blutgardist and
Hauptmann have been added to complete visual sets that were previously incomplete for transmogrification. These new items are sold by the vendors who sell the rest of the set,
Tini Erbse and
Krixel Quetschpfeife at Area 52 in
Nethersturm.
All Brawler's Guild shirts are now unique. Replacement Brawler's Guild shirts can be purchased from Quackenbrush or
Paul Norden if the character has defeated a boss that awarded it.
Several trinkets obtained from Draenor rares are now able to be disenchanted (previously, the items could not be disenchanted).
Apexiskristalles are now displaying as uncommon quality (green). There's been no change to the item's drop rate or availability.
Zauberfoliant der Vier Winde should now correctly able to be used by characters that are at least level 85.
Fass des Ehrenbraumeisters is now unique. A replacement
Fass des Ehrenbraumeisters can now be purchased from
Die Metalltatze in Binan Village in Binan Village for those who have completed the
Kneipenbummel achievement.
Minimanabombe has been added to the Toy Box for Horde characters that have completed the achievement,
Theramores Sturz.
Nat Pagle's Fishing Chair is now unique. A replacement chair can be purchased from
Nat Pagle if the character has completed the achievement
Beim Besten gelernt.
Wilder Kämpfer and Primal Gladiator trinkets have had their power increased.
Restauriertes Artefakt is now considered a trade good and can be placed in the Reagent Bank.
Okular des Plünderers's effect now persists through death.
Wappenrock von Theramore can now be re-obtained by Alliance characters that have completed the achievement,
Theramores Sturz at a tabard vendor.
UI - New Death Recap Screen
When a character is killed, a new screen now shows more information on what killed you.