Ascension Changelog

[Pending Restart] - Increased the drop chance of Bijous from Zul'Gurub by 40%. Additionally, Bijous will now always drop in combinations of 3 (like previous seasons).

[Pending Restart] Issue where the Adorned effect from the Champion of Justice LRE was very quiet has been resolved.

Raider Commendation vendors will now offer the Tier Token instead of the individual pieces, this is in preparation for the new Horizontal Progression Tier Unlock system coming in a future update.

Clarified the tooltip of Arcane Concentration and Clearcasting to make it more clear that it reduces the mana, rage or energy cost of your next ability by 100%.

Clarified the tooltip of Precision to make it more clear that it increases the hit chance of all spells and abilities, not just Mage spells.

You can now apply Curse of Tongues and Slow on the same target, but the increased casting time effects will not stack.

Omen of Clarity will no longer immediately consume the buff if you gain it while channeling a spell. For example, if your first Penance missile procs Omen of Clarity, your 2nd or 3rd Penance missile channelled will no longer consume Omen of Clarity.

Omen of Clarity will now properly proc from damaging melee spells.

Crimson Tempest will now properly benefit from the Malice Capstone.

Fixed an issue where the Ice Shards Capstone bonus damage against frozen targets was not working with Fingers of Frost. Fingers of Frost will now properly allow your mage spells to gain the capstone bonus damage against frozen targets.

[Pending Restart] - Improved Blessing of Wisdom increases the effect of Blessing of Wisdom by 15/30% up from 10/20%.

[Pending Restart] - Benediction (Retribution Paladin - level 10 talent) now restores 10/20/30 (up from 7/14/20%) base mana when you kill a target that gives experience or honor. This effect cannot occur more than once every 5 seconds.

"Spear", the new level 1 Polearm, has been added to Weaponsmiths in starting zones. Especially useful for those who prefer to fight in the shade.

Issue where Holy Hammer Nova Epic RE was only healing party members, and not all allies has been fixed.

Rupture Now deals 3% Less damage to players

Night Slaughter (Nightslayer 8 set) Now deals 20% Less damage to players

Garrote Now deals 3% Less damage to players

Shadow Dagger (Forbidden technique) Now deals 5% less damage to players

Reviewed several typos in vanity collection's item descriptions.

Fixed an issue where Sanguine Meat drop rates were lower than intended. The drop chance has been more than doubled.

Updated the tooltip of Seal of Righteousness to clarify that slower weapons will deal increased damage accordingly.

Fixed an issue where Mass Dispel would remove friendly targets from stealth. It will still remove enemies from stealth.

[Ascension DB] Fixed an issue where adding/posting a comment would sometimes result in a 'not found' page.

[Ascension DB] Added a new column to Items and Itemsets called 'Difficulty' this allows for sorting on item difficulty.

[Ascension DB] Conquest of Azeroth talents are now properly displayed as Talents, additionally added the menu entries for all CoA classes to the Spells>Talents menu.

[Ascension DB] Fixed an issue where the item Unstable Trigger (and similar named items) were inaccessible.

Pending Restart: The following item types now have a 1 copper sell price and can be sold to vendors: Ahn'Quiraj Scarabs, Ahn'Quiraj Idols, High Risk Profession Recipes.

[Pending Restart] - The Seal of Ascension (Upper Blackrock Spire Key) will now be a vanity item, claimable on alternate characters, and saved to your collection.

[Pending Restart] - Bloodfang 8 Set will now scale off of your Melee Critical and Hit Chance (see bug above that was fixed where it could stack up to 3 times).

Clarified the tooltip for Cauterizing Flames to indicate that Cauterizing Fire cannot penetrate immunities on allies. No mechanics were changed.

Issue where it was difficult to target different targets while a party member had Consecration (Emanate) active has been fixed (Pending Restart)

Arcane Thunderseer proccing Incanter's Thunder and causing a very loud noise has been fixed (Pending Restart)

Pious Strikes Epic RE Damage is now consistent with your Holy Nova damage (Pending Restart)

Glacial Companion RE visual has been changed due to the old visual being massive

Issue where Blood Craze was not proccing from some critical strikes has been fixed, and is now proccing from all critical strikes as intended (Pending Restart)

[Swift Justice] Empowerment of Light will no longer be consumed by non-instant cast smites. What this means is that if you cast Fireball, then start casting Smite before the fireball hits your target, if that Fireball triggers Empowerment of Light the Smite you are currently hard casting will not consume the buff, allowing you to still cast an instant cast smite when your hard casted smite completes.

The Surge of Light buff that grants you instant cast Smite should no longer be consumed if you gain the buff while in the process of hard casting smite. The casted smite will cast normally without consuming the buff, allowing you to still use your instant cast Smite. (Pending Restart)

[Pending Restart] Fixed a bug where Restorative Totem increased the mana restored by Mana Tide Totem by too much, it will now properly increase the mana restored by Mana Tide Totem by 40/80/120%.

[Pending Restart] - Corrected the description of the Master Dragonslayer items on Mythic. It will now properly show as Mythic Items.

[Pending Restart] - Fixed an issue with Judgement, Dragonstalker sets would sometimes lose their ability to proc their 5 & 8 set until you re-equipped the gear. (This was a very rare bug, but is now properly fixed).

[Pending Restart] - Fixed an issue where the Shadow Priest Styled DPS spirit set was granting the wrong effects at different set break points

[Pending Restart] - Fixed an issue where the Warrior T2 (strength DPS) set had the old 5 set.

[Pending Restart] - Fixed an issue where Bloodfang DoT (From the 8 Set) was able to stack up to 3 times.

Fixed Focused and Calibrated Precision Scope recipes. You should now be able to see correct names on both recipes and their respective crafts. (Pending restart)

Worldforged Keys now stack to 100.

The new sets (available for Chromatic Tokens) have been added to Romus the Redeemer for Raider Commendations

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] Corrected an issue where Nefarian would not drop his Head on Mythic difficulty.

Fixed the tooltip of Endless Agony to state the new reduced stack cap of 40.

Sanctity of Battle Rare Enchant was not increasing the damage of Divine Storm as stated. It will now properly grant 2% damage to Divine Storm per stack. (pending restart)

[Pending Restart] Increased the duration of the Gurubashi Berserker buff from 12 to 14 seconds.

[Area52] Fixed an issue where Mind Flay was resetting stacks of Endless Agony instead of adding stacks. (pending restart)

Fixed an issue where applying Fel Charge to an Untarnished Mystic Scroll would apply Felborne instead. It will now properly apply Fel Charge to the scroll. (Pending restart and patch)

The daily quest Prestige: Open World, will now award 6,000 Marks of Ascension, up from 3,500.

Fixed an issue where the Charged Sizzling Roast consumable provided less stats than those mentioned in their tooltip.

Fixed an issue that would sometimes cause Curse of Agony to not apply it's damage increase per tick while not in line of sight.

Fixed an issue where the damage increased by Fanaticism (Talent) when using Execution Sentence was not affecting Paladin Judgements.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Blackwing Lair] Updated Blackwing Lair. Blackwing Lair can be entered once again.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Nefarian] Corrected an issue where player would loose the protective aura from Onyxias Scale Cloak and the Royal Cloak of Lord Victor Nefarius upon death, requiring them to reequip the items.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Nefarian] Fallen Heroes no longer periodically reset threat. Fallen Heroes will now periodically increase their marching speed, becoming faster and faster. Marching speed is reset whenever the Fallen Hero dies.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Nefarian] Fallen Heroes can now be killed, however they arise once more shortly after, resetting their threat.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Nefarian] Reduced the duration of Blackwing Commanders Bladestorm ability to 6 seconds down from 12.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Nefarian] Reduced the damage inflicted by The Shadow Flame on Heroic difficulty by 50%.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Nefarian] Reduced the potency of Nefarius Intent by 50%.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Nefarian] Nefarian now grants player an additional 10 seconds to enter the main battlefield when starting Phase Three before he starts applying the Coward debuff.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Nefarian] Dispelling Draconic Regeneration now removes all stacks from the target Drakonide.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Nefarian] Corrected an issue where Draconic Regeneration could stack higher than intended.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Nefarian] Corrected an issue where Stupid, Incompetent and Disappointing Minion would not apply the standard damage reduction and healing effects for Ascension Mind Controls.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Nefarian] Corrected an issue where Nefarian would not teleport to his selected target when casting Shadow Blink during Phase One.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Chromaggus] Corrected an issue where Chromaggus would not cast Chromatic Adaptation.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Chromaggus] Reduced damage inflicted by Acidic Pus impact damage by 50%.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Chromaggus] Reduced damage inflicted by Incinerate Eruption's persistent ground effect by 50%.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Chromaggus] Brood Affliction: Green no longer reduces attack power and instead now reduces attack speed by 100%.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Chromaggus] Brood Affliction: Black now reduces healing received by 30% down from 50%

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Chromaggus] Brood Affliction: Bronze now also increases Movement Speed by 30%.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Chromaggus] Brood Affliction: Time Stop now lasts for 1 second down from 3.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Chromaggus] Mythic and Ascended: Both Freezing Fog fields now rotate in the same direction at the same speed rate rather then rotating into each other with one field moving at half speed.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Chromaggus] Chromatic Mutation now also restores the targets health to full upon application.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Chromaggus] Chromatic Mutation now also reduces the costs of Spells and Abilities by 100% for its duration.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Chromaggus] Unstable Mutation now also reduces the costs of Spells and Abilities by 10% per stack.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Chromaggus] Corrected an issue where Unstable Mutation would not increase damage dealt.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Chromaggus] Hourglass Sand once again can be stacked up to 200 times and traded to other player. Hourglass Sand still gets deleted if the owner leaves Black Wing Lair. Hourglass Sand still doesn't consume even if used from a stack.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Chromaggus] Player are now able to ask for any number of Dragonflight Blessings from Dragonflight Whekps inside Chromaggus room to prevent other player from removing Afflictions from them if they wish to do so.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Firemaw] Renamed Ebonroc's Shadow Flame Breath to Dark Breath to make it more clear the ability does not apply Shadow Flame and that the encounter does not require or make it beneficial to wear a cloak made from black dragon scales. Cloaks made from black dragon scales being Onyxia Scale Cloak and Royal Cloak of Lord Victor Nefarius.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Firemaw] Doubled the damage inflicted by Flame Buffet.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Firemaw] Reduced the % damage taken increase from Flame Buffet to 2% down from 5% per stack.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Firemaw] Reduced the radius of Flame Buffet to 45 yards down from 50.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Razorgore the Untamed] All adds summoned during Razorgores encounter are no longer able to Daze their targets.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Razorgore the Untamed] All adds summoned during Razorgores encounter, except Grethok the Controller and Blackwing Warlords, are no longer immune to knock-back effects.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Razorgore the Untamed] Hatch Eggs casted by Ragetalon Dragon Spawn now has a 1.5 sec cast time down from 5.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Razorgore the Untamed] Improved Ragetalon Dragon Spawn movement. Dragon Spawns now rejoin combat when they run out of Eggs to hatch.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Razorgore the Untamed] Player can now force Razorgore to cast Conflagrate on his own adds while he is under the effect of Orb of Domination.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Razorgore the Untamed] Corrected an issue where the targets of Conflagration have been selected on cast start rather than on spell hit.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Razorgore the Untamed] Razorgore will now remove all player buffs and debuffs on him when regaining control.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Razorgore the Untamed] Razorgore will now cast Fireball Storm more often after entering phase two.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Razorgore the Untamed] Razorgore now summons his first wave of adds 15 seconds later.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Razorgore the Untamed] Corrected an issue where player would leave combat if no adds are currently alive and Razorgore was under the control of the Orb of Domination.

[Pending Restart] [Blackwing Lair] [Razorgore the Untamed] Corrected multiple issues where Razorgore would attempt to start Phase Two over and over, causing him to cast Conflagration every second.

Haunt will now increase the damage of the Waste DoT from Shadow Waste Bolt.

Impending Doom will now increase the damage of the Waste DoT from Shadow Waste Bolt.

Fixed an issue where Arcanist's Explosion (Arcane Explosion variant) could not be triggered by blink when using War Mage (Mystic Enchant).