Timewalking

• Timewalking will be available during select weekend holiday events and allows characters to queue up for a randomly selected old-school dungeon with a twist: your character’s power and gear scales down to the dungeon’s level on Heroic difficulty. However, your character retains all of your skills and talents. Emerge victorious, and you will walk away with old loot that is scaled up to your character’s level!
• Additional rewards for Timewalking are still in-testing, such as a level 100 quest that rewards a Seal of Tempered Fate per weekend.
• Learn more about this new feature in our blog: Patch 6.2 Preview – Timewalking.
• Over the coming weeks, Timewalking for the following dungeons will be available for testing on the PTR.
  • The following Burning Crusade dungeons are available for characters level 71 and up.
    • The Arcatraz
    • Black Morass
    • Mana-Tombs
    • The Shattered Halls
    • The Slave Pens
  • The following Wrath of the Lich King dungeons are available for characters level 81 and up.
    • Ahn’kahet: The Old Kingdom
    • Gundrak
    • Halls of Lightning
    • The Nexus
    • Utgarde Pinnacle

General Changes

Garrisons, Followers, and Outposts

• Chroniclers in the Garrison now allow players that have completed An Inside Job to watch the cinematic again.

Raids and Dungeons

• Challenger’s Strongbox obtained before Patch 6.2 will all become rusted. Rusted strongboxes can no longer be opened and may be sold to a vendor for 50 gold.

PvP

Ashran

• New Area: Ashran Excavation and New Event: Apexis Marks
  • At certain times, spirits of fallen Arakkoa haunt the Ashran Excavation. Defeat them and bring proof of their demise to Rukmaz, the ghostly caretaker of the Apexis vault. First team to show Rulmaz 50 marks wins.
• Reward Changes
  • Winning an event now awards Honor instead of Conquest.
  • Defeating Grand Marshal Tremblade or High Warlord Volrath no longer awards a Gleaming Ashmaul Strongbox.
  • New Weekly Quest: Slay them All!
    • Defeat 300 enemy players. Awards Conquest.
  • New Weekly Quest: Ashran Dominance
    • Win each event in Ashran and defeat the enemy faction leader. Awards Conquest and a Gleaming Ashmaul Strongbox.
  • New Repeatable Quest: Continue the Dominance
    • Win each event in Ashran and defeat the enemy faction leader. Awards Conquest.
• General Ashran Changes
  • Players are now automatically placed in a raid when entering Ashran.

Professions

General

• New Ranks for Warlords Crafted Items
  • Two new ranks of upgrades have been added to Warlords Crafted items, “Mighty” for rank 5 at item level 700, and “Savage” for rank 6 at item level 715.
  • Crafting the new upgrade items requires Felblood, a new reagent that can be obtained through the Barn.
  • The new recipes can be purchased from visiting Garrison traders.
• Upgrade Item Consolidation
  • “Greater” rank 3 and “Powerful” rank 4 upgrade items have been consolidated together. A rank 2 upgrade item can now be used to upgrade a Warlords Crafted item to rank 4.
    • For example, Burnished Essence can now upgrade a rank 1 leatherworking item to rank 2, a rank 2 item to rank 3, or a rank 3 item to rank 4.
  • Rank 3 and 4 upgrade items can no longer be crafted and existing items have become unstable. These unstable items can be used to create the appropriate rank 2 upgrade item and refund the materials used to craft it.
    • For example, Greater Burnished Essence can now be clicked to create a Burnished Essence, 50 Burnished Leather, and 10 Sorcerous Water.
• Warlords Crafting Material Changes
  • Greatly increased the output of the following crafting materials created through a daily cooldown.
    • Alchemical Catalyst
    • Burnished Leather
    • Gearspring Parts
    • Hexweave Cloth
    • Taladite Crystal
    • Temporal Crystal
    • Truesteel Ingot
    • War Paints
    • Sorcerous Air
    • Sorcerous Earth
    • Sorcerous Fire
    • Sorcerous Water
    • Savage Blood
  • A number of recipes that use crafting materials created through a daily cooldown now requires less materials.

Jewelcrafting

• Added a new Immaculate tier of gems of epic quality that provides +75 bonus to a given stat.
• Players can unlock the ability to craft the new gems by completing a short questline that starts at an Arakkoa encampment as soon as they enter Tanaan Jungle.
• After completing the questline, Jewelcrafters can craft Versatility gems. To unlock additional gem recipes, players must find or purchase Gemcutter Modules from various sources.
• Jewelcrafters also have a chance to learn one of the new recipes each time the Gemcutting Construct crafts a gem.

Class

Mage

General

• Frostfire Bolt now deals 30% more damage.

Frost

• Frostbolt now deals 30% more damage.

Paladin

Holy

• Holy Shock’s mana cost has increased by 50%.

Shaman

Armor Sets

• PvP 2-piece set bonus for Elemental Shaman is now the PvP 4-piece set bonus and has been replaced. New PvP 2-piece set bonus: Reduces the cooldown of Hex by 15 seconds.
• PvP 4-piece set bonus for Elemental Shaman has been replaced by the old PvP 2-piece set bonus. While Ascendance is active, the Shaman is immune to silence and interrupt effects.

Warlock

Armor Sets

• PvP 2-piece set bonus for Destruction Warlocks has been redesigned. Getting stunned, silenced, interrupted, or feared now generates 1 Burning Ember. Can only occur once every 15 seconds.