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Patch 6.2.2 arrives Tuesday, September 1. Once live, players with the Draenor Pathfinder achievement will be able to take to the skies of Draenor. Learn more about earning this achievement in our blog post –
Draenor Pathfinder: Prepare for Flying.
Read on for the current 6.2.2 PTR notes.
Patch 6.2.2 is now available for testing on the Public Test Realms (PTR)! Participating on the Public Test Realms lets you test a patch before it has been released on live realms. If you'd like to help test and provide feedback, you can start by
copying your character and downloading the PTR client. Once you've had a chance to try things out, visit the
PTR Discussion forum to discuss the patch. To report issues or errors, use the in-game Submit Bug feature (found under Game Menu -> Help -> Submit Bug) or by visiting the
PTR Bug Report forum.
- Text in red means it's newly added or has changed since the last update.
Crossed out means the change has been reverted since the last update.
PTR Disclaimer- Please keep in mind that the notes below are not final, and details may be subject to change before the release of Patch 6.2.2.
- New information for features that are still in-development will be added as it becomes available.
- Not all content listed in the PTR Patch Notes may be available for testing or may have a limited test window.
World of Warcraft Patch 6.2.2 PTR
Updated: August 19, 2015Flying on Draenor
Flying has been enabled on Draenor for characters that have attained the account-wide achievement, Draenor Pathfinder. To help facilitate testing of this feature, accounts that have not yet obtained the achievement will be able to purchase a Manual of Rapid Pathfinding from Flaskataur in their Garrisons on the PTR.
- Please note there may still be areas or pockets on Draenor where flying has not yet been fully implemented. These areas will be tracked and listed in a forum thread titled "Flight in Draenor – Reported Bugs Thread" on the PTR Discussion forum.
PvP Mercenary Mode
Players will be 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 in 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).
- This feature is still in development and is not available initially on the PTR. Mercenary Mode will be enabled later in the PTR process.
- See the blog “In Development: PvP Mercenary Mode” for more information.
Raids and Dungeons
New Timewalking Rewards
Timewalking Loot Changes
Dungeon Finder Changes
- Completing a Random Warlords of Draenor Heroic dungeon after the first one now awards 50 Garrison Resources (up from 0).
PvP
- Ашран now has a deserter mechanic. Upon entering, players receive a 10-minute buff called Долг на Ашране. If the player leaves an Ашран match before this buff expires, a 15-minute debuff called Трусость will be applied that prevents entry into another Ашран match.
Quests
Legendary Ring Quest Line
- New weekly quests (such as Аннулирование споров) have been added to help players catch-up in earlier stages of the Legendary Ring Quest Line for Highmaul and Blackrock Foundry.
Zones, Creatures, and NPCs
- The interior of the Armory at Преграда Ветров should now be correctly furnished.
- Removed a stack of objects floating outside of the Armory at Преграда Ветров.
- Cartographers have been notified and corrected a spelling error on the world map.
Collections
- 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.
- Гибельный аксессуарs should now always create an item that has Bonus Armor for Tanking loot specializations, and Spirit for Healing loot specializations.
- Жаровня пробуждения should no longer despawn at the end of a raid encounter without resurrecting a raid or party member.
- Декорхан's Tusk and Тек'ког's Коготь are now bound to the account rather than Battle.net account.
- Медальон Легиона is now only usable on Draenor.
- Поводья грозового рубинового облачного змея no longer has a reputation requirement with The August Celestials to learn.
- Знак господства дикого гладиатора should now provide the correct amount of bonus Intellect when it's effect is triggered.
Garrisons
Followers
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.
Achievements
Морская механика: Credit for obtaining
Чертеж оборудования: горнило should now be tracking properly and players should now be able to complete this achievement.
Racial Abilities (New Section)
- Волшебный поток now Silences all enemies in an 8 yard radius for 3 seconds (up from 2 seconds), and cooldown has been reduced to 1.5 minutes (down from 2 minutes).
Goblin
- Твердость now reduces the duration of Stun effects by an additional 20% (up from 15%).
- Изворотливость вуду now reduces the duration of all movement impairing effects by 20% (up from 15%). Тролльs still be flippin' out mon!
- Громовая поступь now stuns enemies for 3 seconds (up from 2 seconds), and cooldown has been reduced to 1.5 minutes (down from 2 minutes).
Class (New Section)
Please note that tooltip description for the following Монах abilities will be inaccurate. This will be corrected in a future patch.Windwalker Armor Sets - Tier-18 4-piece set bonus for Fury Warriors now reduces the cooldown of Безрассудство by 30 seconds (up from 25 seconds).
