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Patch 6.2.2 Live This Week
This patch adds flying to Draenor, Mercenary Mode, legendary quest catch-up quests, Timewalking Rewards, art for upcoming mounts and pets, updates for Winter's Veil and Hallows End, and tooltip updates.



New Icons

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Flying
If you have earned Draenor Pathfinder, you will finally be able to fly in Draenor! Don't forget to take your Soaring Skyterror out for a spin.



Heavenly Azure Cloud Serpent Mount
A new achievement has been added for collecting 300 mounts, Lord of the Reins. Completing the achievement awards a mount, the Heavenly Azure Cloud Serpent.

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Upcoming Mounts and Pets
Keep in mind that the art is going in with this patch, but many of these aren't going to be available for some time.




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Legendary Quest Catch-Up
If you or your alts are still behind on the Legendary Quest, Patch 6.2.2 should help. In addition to the existing catch-up mechanics, you can trade Apexis Crystals each week for the legendary collection items.

Level Name Rewards Objective
Abrogator Arbitrator
Weekly
5
Kluk'kluk wants you to bring him 14958 Apexis Crystals.
Work Work Stoppage
Weekly
75
Bring 20000 Apexis Crystals to the Renegade Ironworker.


Mercenary Mode
If your faction has sufficiently long wait times, you can talk to a NPC in Ashran to queue as the opposite faction. When you enter the PvP instance, your race will be changed the one of the other faction. This should help to alleviate the long queue times.

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Originally Posted by Blizzard
Whenever your faction is experiencing a long wait time to get into Ashran or unrated Battlegrounds, agents of the enemy faction will appear in your base in Ashran (Stormshield for the Alliance, Warspear for the Horde). These agents will allow you to enter Ashran or Battlegrounds disguised as an enemy player, and actually fight as the opposite faction.

When you compete as a mercenary, you’ll still earn all the same rewards you would have by winning or losing as your own faction (with the exception of faction-specific achievements). You’ll also have your race automatically changed into one appropriate for the opposite faction while you’re still inside the Battleground or Ashran. Perhaps most importantly, however, you’ll experience much shorter queue times, as our matchmaking system will be able to fill up groups much quicker!

Our goal with Mercenary Mode is to allow players who want to participate in Ashran or unrated Battlegrounds the ability to do so without having to wait through long queues, while still maintaining the spirit of the core Alliance vs Horde fantasy.

On racials: The current intention is that the system swaps your race entirely, including your racial ability. We recognize that that puts Humans in a weird spot, so we're looking into some options there that aren't "spend your Honor/Conquest on a Medallion."

Only the faction that is currently experiencing a long queue will have the option to act as a Mercenary, and only when those queues reach a certain point. In the current environment, we expect that to generally be Alliance. Since queues have to reach that threshold before Mercenary Mode becomes available, we don't anticipate an increase in Horde queue times.

Using the Mercenary Mode system is completely opt-in. It's important to us that if you don't choose to participate in Mercenary Mode, it doesn't affect you. Should you be grouped with players who are using the system, they will not be identified to you as mercenaries -- they'll look like just another player from your faction.

Similarly, it's important to note that these are not creating "mixed-faction" scenarios. There will be no Humans fighting alongside Orcs. Again, our intent is that you are completely unaware that the person next to you is secretly a Night Elf.

We don't consider Mercenary Mode to be a replacement for racial balance. We just also don't think that perfectly balanced racials would instantly resolve queue time issues. We also don't think that players should feel forced to faction transfer (potentially away from friends and guildmates) in order to experience reasonable queue times.

Can I queue with my friends that are on horde this way or no?
No. Again, it's only intended to alleviate queue times.

Timewalking Rewards
Patch 6.2.2 adds more rewards to Timewalking! You can see Cupri in Shattrath (Outland) to purchase these items for Timewarped Badge, rewarded from running Timewalking dungeons.

We know the current cost of most items, but haven't had another Timewalking weekend to see what the drop rate is. Wrath of the Lich King Timewalking is this weekend, so we will know soon!


Level Type Slot Spec Name Cost
80Mount Bridle of the Ironbound Wraithcharger??
70Mount Reins of the Eclipse Dragonhawk5000 ×
Level Type Slot Spec Name Cost
90Consumable Ancient Heirloom Armor Casing750 ×
90Consumable Ancient Heirloom Scabbard900 ×
100Consumable Timeworn Heirloom Armor Casing1000 ×
100Consumable Timeworn Heirloom Scabbard1200 ×
Level Type Slot Spec Name Cost
1Quest Commendation of the Kirin Tor50 ×
1Quest Commendation of the Ebon Blade50 ×
1Quest Commendation of the Argent Crusade50 ×
1Quest Commendation of the Sons of Hodir50 ×
1Quest Commendation of the Wyrmrest Accord50 ×
1Quest Commendation of The Consortium50 ×
1Quest Commendation of The Sha'tar50 ×
1Quest Commendation of Thrallmar50 ×
1Quest Commendation of Honor Hold50 ×
1Quest Commendation of the Cenarion Expedition50 ×
1Quest Commendation of the Keepers of Time50 ×
1Quest Commendation of Lower City50 ×
1Quest Commendation of the Horde Expedition50 ×
1Quest Commendation of the Alliance Vanguard50 ×
Level Type Slot Spec Name Cost
226NeckNeck Shard of the Crystal Forest??
213FingerFinger Signet of the Impregnable Fortress??
200TrinketTrinket Sundial of the Exiled??
200TrinketTrinket Valor Medal of the First War??
200TrinketTrinket Mirror of Truth??
245TrinketTrinket Mark of Supremacy??
110TrinketTrinket Emblem of Fury35 ×
110TrinketTrinket Icon of the Silver Crescent35 ×
110TrinketTrinket Bloodlust Brooch35 ×
226NeckNeckAll Strength Spiked Battleguard Choker??
245FingerFingerAll Strength Bloodshed Band??
110TrinketTrinketAll Strength Gnomeregan Auto-Blocker 60135 ×
226NeckNeckHealer Frozen Tear of Elune??
213FingerFingerHealer Renewal of Life??
226NeckNeckAll Agility Broach of the Wailing Night??
213FingerFingerAll Agility Ring of Invincibility??
226NeckNeckAll Intellect Evoker's Charm??
213FingerFingerAll Intellect Band of Channeled Magic??
200TrinketTrinketAll Intellect The Egg of Mortal Essence??
110TrinketTrinketAll Intellect Essence of the Martyr35 ×
110Off HandOff HandAll Intellect Talisman of Kalecgos25 ×
110BackBack Farstrider Defender's Cloak50 ×
136BackBackAll Strength Dory's Embrace50 ×
110BackBackHealer Bishop's Cloak50 ×
110BackBackAll Agility Blood Knight War Cloak50 ×
110ClothHeadAll Intellect Cowl of Naaru Blessings35 ×
264ClothChestAll Intellect Meteor Chaser's Raiment??
128ClothWaistAll Intellect Voodoo-Woven Belt35 ×
141ClothLegsAll Intellect Corrupted Soulcloth Pantaloons2250 ×
213ClothFeetAll Intellect Xintor's Expeditionary Boots??
264ClothHandsAll Intellect Gloves of False Gestures??
110BackBackAll Intellect Shawl of Shifting Probabilities50 ×
110LeatherHead Mask of the Deceiver35 ×
264LeatherChest Shadow Seeker's Tunic??
141LeatherWaist Belt of the Silent Path35 ×
141LeatherLegs Trousers of the Scryers' Retainer25 ×
213LeatherFeet Boots of Captain Ellis??
264LeatherHands Cat Burglar's Grips??
110MailHead Storm Master's Helmet35 ×
264MailChest Longstrider's Vest??
141MailWaist Aftershock Waistguard35 ×
141MailLegs Rushing Storm Kilt25 ×
213MailFeet Pack-Ice Striders??
264MailHands Logsplitters??
110PlateHead Faceguard of Determination35 ×
264PlateChest Castle Breaker's Battleplate??
141PlateWaist Girdle of Seething Rage35 ×
141PlateLegs Legplates of Unending Fury25 ×
213PlateFeet Kyzoc's Ground Stompers??
264PlateHands Gauntlets of the Kraken??
110ShieldOff HandAll Strength Azure-Shield of Coldarra25 ×
110ShieldOff HandAll Intellect Mazthoril Honor Shield25 ×
146Two-handed AxeTwo HandAll Strength The Blade of Harbingers100 ×
146One-handed MaceOne HandAll Intellect Gavel of Naaru Blessings35 ×
115One-handed SwordOne HandAll Strength Sword of Unyielding Force35 ×
146StaffTwo HandAll Agility Staff of the Forest Lord100 ×
141StaffTwo HandAll Intellect Staff of the Soul-Eater100 ×
146Fist WeaponOne HandAll Agility Vanir's Fist of Brutality35 ×
146DaggerOne HandAll Agility The Mutilator35 ×
146DaggerOne HandAll Intellect Scryer's Blade of Focus35 ×
146CrossbowRangedAll Agility Crossbow of Relentless Strikes100 ×
Level Type Slot Spec Name Cost
65Junk Barrel of Fish25 ×
1Junk Crate of Meat25 ×
70Junk Bag of Fishing Treasures150 ×
70Junk Mark of the Ashtongue1250 ×
1Holiday Timeless Mirror500 ×


New Items
This is only a small selection of the new items in the patch. For the full list of items coming in the patch, check out the 6.2.1 and 6.2.2 list on the PTR site.

Level Type Name
1Companion Pets A Tiny Infernal Collar
1Companion Pets Vibrating Arcane Crystal
1Companion Pets Warm Arcane Crystal
1Companion Pets Glittering Arcane Crystal
1Companion Pets Zeradar
1Companion Pets Brightpaw
1Companion Pets Nibbles
1Companion Pets Murkidan
1Companion Pets Grumpling
1Holiday Exquisite Costume Set: "Edwin VanCleef"
1Holiday Exquisite Costume Set: "Deathwing"
100Holiday Ever-Shifting Mirror
1Other Spike-Toed Booterang
80Other Grizzlesnout's Fang
1Other Anniversary Gift
1Other Ghoulish Guises
1Other Hallow's Glow
1Other Seer's Invitation
1Other Witch's Brew
1Other Creepy Crawlers
1Other Ball of Tangled Lights
1Other Imported Trees
1Other Little Helpers
1Other Festive Outfits
1Other Old Box of Decorations
1Other Inflatable Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker
1Other Snow Blower
1Other Sack of Spectral Spiders
100Other Coin of Many Faces
1Other A Tiny Scarecrow Costume
1Other "Merry Munchkin" Costume
40Mount Minion of Grumpus
20Mount Reins of the Illidari Felstalker
20Mount Grove Warden
80Mount Bridle of the Ironbound Wraithcharger
70Mount Reins of the Eclipse Dragonhawk
600Trinket Mercenary's Medallion of Adaptation
1Consumable Sack of Spiders
40Item Enhancement Winter's Grasp


Official PTR Notes
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker
/ Official Forums
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Flying on Draenor
Flying has been enabled on Draenor for characters that have attained the account-wide achievement, Draenor Pathfinder.

PvP Mercenary Mode
Players are now able to act as a mercenary for the opposite faction in PvP whenever your faction is experiencing a long wait time to get into Ashran or unrated Battlegrounds. Agents of the enemy faction will appear at your base in Ashran (Stormshield for the Alliance, Warspear for the Horde) and allow you to enter Ashran or Battlegrounds disguised as an enemy player, and actually fight as the opposite faction.

While competing as a mercenary, players will automatically have their race changed into one appropriate for the opposite faction. Players will still be able to earn all the same rewards as winning or losing as their original faction (with the exception of faction-specific achievements).

Raids and Dungeons
New Timewalking Rewards
  • Players now receive a Timewarped Badge when they complete a Timewalking dungeon. These badges can be redeemed at new vendors that appear during a Timewalking bonus event. The new vendors sell new toys, new mounts, heirloom and reputation tokens, in addition to gear that scales up to the character's level at the time of purchase.
Timewalking Loot Changes
  • Timewalking bosses who had unusual drops, such as Reins of the Blue Proto-Drake, now have a chance to drop those items when defeated while Timewalking.
Hellfire Citadel
  • Fixed an issue where players are not added back to the threat list after dropping out of combat and accepting a battle resurrection.
  • Fixed an issue where Hellfire Assault: Spoils of the Assault chest could incorrectly appear to be already open.
  • Fixed an issue where Tyrant Velhari could not be clicked on if there is an Ancient Enforcer, Ancient Harbinger, or Ancient Sovereign near her.
Dungeon Finder Changes
  • Completing additional Random Warlords of Draenor Heroic dungeon after the first one now awards 50 Garrison Resources (up from 0).

PvP
Ashran
  • Ashran now has a deserter mechanic. Upon entering, players receive a 5-minute buff called Ashran Tour of Duty. If the player leaves an Ashran match before this buff expires, a 10-minute debuff called Recreant will be applied that prevents entry into another Ashran match.

Quests
Legendary Ring Quest Line
  • New weekly quests have been added to help players catch-up in earlier stages of the Legendary Ring Quest Line for Highmaul and Blackrock Foundry.

Events and World Environment
Bonus Events
  • Bonus Events now begin earlier in the week on Wednesday. End date remains the same so there's now more time to complete the bonus event! Check the in-game calendar for new start times of each bonus event.

In-Game World Events
  • A number of improvements and new additions have been made to the Hallow's End and Feast of Winter Veil world events.

Zones, Creatures, and NPCs
Tanaan Jungle
Nagrand
  • Soar above the skies of Nagrand and explore the outdoors version of Highmaul and battle with three new rare elite ogres for a chance at one of three arcane-infused Manafiend battle pets.
Ashran
  • Interior of the Armory at Stormshield should now be correctly furnished.
  • Removed a stack of objects floating outside of the Armory at Stormshield.
Frostfire Ridge
  • Cartographers have been notified and corrected a spelling error on the world map.
Shadowmoon Valley
Darkmoon Island
  • Darkmoon Rabbit should now correctly respect loot rules.

Collections
Toy Box

Mounts
  • The maximum size of a mount is now capped at 150% of base size for cosmetic effects.

Items
  • Tooltips for items that have been empowered or created by Baleful tokens now have a Baleful and/or Empowered tag.
  • Baleful rings, neck trinkets, and cloaks should now always create an item that has Bonus Armor for Tanking loot specializations, and Spirit for Healing loot specializations.
  • Brazier of Awakening should no longer despawn at the end of a raid encounter without resurrecting a raid or party member.
  • Medallion of the Legion is now only usable on Draenor to ensure players receives the appropriate reputation bonus from having a Level 3 Trading Post.
  • Reins of the Thundering Ruby Cloud Serpent no longer has a reputation requirement with The August Celestials to learn.
  • Fixed an issue with Wild Gladiator's Insignia of Dominance's tooltip.

Garrisons
General
  • A new events coordinator can now be found in level 3 garrisons. Visit the coordinator during Hallow’s End or Feast of Winter Veil to obtain garrison decorations that are usable all year round!
Followers
  • Pallas Apex Predator trait should now correctly counter Aberrations or Furies on garrison missions.
Shipyard and Naval Missions
  • Ship equipment items now have "Naval Equipment" in the item tooltip, enabling it to be searchable through the bag search UI.
  • Fixed an issue where completing a naval mission at the Naval Command Table did not cause the Garrison Report icon to stop blinking.

UI
  • Target marker icons have been disabled in public chat channels.
  • There is now an option to disable Adventure Guide alerts in the Interface options menu, under display settings.

Achievements

Racial Abilities
Blood Elf
  • Arcane Torrent now has a reduced cooldown of 1.5 minutes (down from 2 minutes).
Goblin
  • Rocket Barrage now has a 1.5-minute cooldown (down from 2 minutes).
  • Rocket Jump now has a 1.5-minute cooldown (down from 2 minutes).
Orc
  • Hardiness now reduces the duration of Stun effects by an additional 20% (up from 15%).
Troll
  • Da Voodoo Shuffle now reduces the duration of all movement impairing effects by 20% (up from 15%). Trolls still be flippin' out mon!
Tauren
  • War Stomp now has a reduced cooldown of 1.5 minutes (down from 2 minutes), and cast time is no longer increased by damage (via spell pushback).
Undead
  • Touch of the Grave now scales its damage based on 50% of the character's Attack Power or Spell Power, whichever is greater.

Class

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Druid (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • General
    • Thrash in Cat Form now deals 10% more damage.
  • Feral
    • Rake now deals 20% more damage. In PvP combat, Rake now deals 20% less damage.
    • Rip now deals 20% more damage. In PvP combat, Rip now deals 20% less damage.

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Monk (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
Please note that tooltip description for the following Monk abilities will be inaccurate. This will be corrected in a future patch.

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Priest (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • Shadow
    • Devouring Plague now deals 10% more damage. In PvP combat, Devouring Plague now deals 10% less damage.
    • Mind Blast now deals 10% more damage. In PvP combat, Mind Blast now deals 10% less damage.
    • Mind Flay now deals 20% more damage.
    • Mind Spike now deals 10% more damage. In PvP combat, Mind Spike now deals 10% less damage.

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Warlock (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)
  • General
    • Corruption now deals 10% less damage in PvP combat.
  • Affliction

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Warrior (Forums / Skills / Talent Calculator)

Achievement Changes
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
Children's Week
World Events

Darkmoon Faire
World Events
  • Darkmoon Race Enthusiast Successfully complete a Darkmoon Welcome to the Darkmoon Races or The Real Race with the Racing Strider. 5 points.

Draenor
Exploration
  • Draenor Pathfinder Complete the Draenor achievements listed below: Rewards: Soaring Skyterror (Draenor Flying in an upcoming patch). 25 points. Account Wide. and Draenor Flying. 25 points. Account Wide.
  • I Came, I Clawed, I Conquered Loot 500 Loot 5000 Blackfang Claws from saberon at Fang'rila in Tanaan Jungle. 10 points.

Feats of Strength

Hallow's End
World Events

Mounts
Collections

Shipyard
Garrisons
  • Naval Mechanics Obtain all of the naval equpment blueprints listed below. 5 points.Account Wide.

Toy Box
Collections

Winter Veil
World Events
  • Iron Armada (New) Collect all five toys that are part of the Crashin' Thrashin' "Iron Armada" set. 10 points. Account Wide.



New Strings
Originally Posted by MMO-Champion
  • BLIZZARD_STORE_BOOST_UNREVOKED_CONSUMPTION - Your %s was used on %s on %s.
  • BLIZZARD_STORE_CONFIRMATION_OTHER - Your purchase will be ready when processing has been completed.
  • BLIZZARD_STORE_CONFIRMATION_OTHER_EUR - Your purchase will be ready when processing has been completed. |HurlIndex:21|h|cff006995Change your payment method|r|h
  • CHARACTER_UPGRADE_100_FLOW_LABEL - LEVEL 100 CHARACTER BOOST
  • CHARACTER_UPGRADE_100_TOKEN_DESCRIPTION - Can be used on one character on your Battle.net account.
  • CHARACTER_UPGRADE_100_TOKEN_TITLE - Level 100 Character Boost
  • CHARACTER_UPGRADE_90_FLOW_LABEL - LEVEL 90 CHARACTER BOOST
  • CHARACTER_UPGRADE_90_TOKEN_DESCRIPTION - Can be used on one character on your Battle.net account.
  • CHARACTER_UPGRADE_90_TOKEN_TITLE - Level 90 Character Boost
  • CHARACTER_UPGRADE_FREE_100_POPUP_DESCRIPTION - Thank you for joining us!|nHere is the boost that comes with your purchase of Legion.
  • CHARACTER_UPGRADE_FREE_100_POPUP_TITLE - Level 100 Character Boost
  • CHARACTER_UPGRADE_FREE_90_POPUP_DESCRIPTION - Thank you for joining us!|nHere is the boost that comes with your purchase of Warlords of Draenor.
  • CHARACTER_UPGRADE_FREE_90_POPUP_TITLE - Level 90 Character Boost
  • ERR_BATTLEGROUND_JOIN_MERCENARY - Cannot join as a group unless all the members of your party are flagged as a mercenary.
  • OPTION_TOOLTIP_SHOW_ADVENTURE_JOURNAL_ALERTS - Display alerts for new adventure opportunities
  • PRE_PURCHASE_EXPANSION - Pre-purchase Now
  • SHADER_MODEL_TO_BE_UNSUPPORTED - Warning: Your graphics card will not be supported in future versions of World of Warcraft, which will require a Shader Model 3 capable graphics card or better.
  • SHOW_ADVENTURE_JOURNAL_ALERTS - Show Adventure Journal Alerts
  • SPELL_FAILED_CUSTOM_ERROR_272 - You must be a Mercenary to use this trinket.
  • SPELL_FAILED_NOT_WHILE_MERCENARY - You can't do that while you are a mercenary
  • UPGRADE_FEATURE_16 - Master the new Demon Hunter Class
  • UPGRADE_FEATURE_17 - Battle to level 110 on the Broken Isles
  • UPGRADE_FEATURE_18 - Boost a character to level 100
  • WORLD_PVP_DESERTER - You cannot enter %s until your deserter debuff wears off.

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