Ascension Changelog

[Karazhan] [Attumen the Huntsmen] Corrected an issue where Attumens Felfire would sometimes immediately despawn after being summoned.

[Alar] [Area 52] - All changes pending restart.

Shattrath is now instanced to improve realm performance.

[Launcher] Improved the captcha login process.

[Launcher] Changelog Module on the Launcher will now let you toggle between Classless and Conquest of Azeroth changelogs.

[Launcher] Adjusted Bugtracker column spacing for improved readability.

[Launcher] Bugtracker now properly displays reason behind closure similar as to what is done on the website.

[Requires Launcher Update] Added Suggested Talents. This new optional version of the talent tree will suggest up to 6 talents for you to learn. Talent suggestions are based on the spells and talents you currently know, and how popular a given talent choice is amongst players who have similar spells learned. [You can swap between suggested talents and all talents at any time].

Guards in Southshore vs Tarren Mill now give Score on death.

Fixed an issue where Tiger's Peak would teleport you out after queue.

Fixed an issue that would cause creatures to double update in some zones, causing dots to stop at half duration and sporadic creature movement, and the feeling of lag when fighting creatures.

Improved Hotreloading system to prevent data corruption issues and reduced bandwidth requirements for hotreloading.

Deathmatches can now be completed for the Call to Arms: Battleground daily

Added new functionality for Tutorials and improved tutorials to reduce spam.

Fixed a problem where people received Crows Rage in No risk and were flagged for PvP

Fixed an issue where people would be unable to receive the Prestige Bonus Daily

Fixed issues that caused 60-70 BG Exp to be significantly lower than intended.

Corrected the loot tables of a few of the new rare creatures.

[Draft] Adjusted how the Draft System determined which 3 cards to offer you after generating a potential pool of random cards while leveling. The system will now be more likely to select higher level quality spells to take into account the larger potential pool of spells you are selecting from, giving you a greater chance to see high level Epics and Legendaries spells while leveling.

[Draft] Adjusted how the Hand of Fate Draft System determined which 3 cards to offer you after generating a potential pool of random cards to select from. Higher quality spells that pass the check to be placed in the potential pool will now be more likely to be chosen from that possible pool. This means you will be more likely see higher quality spells in Hand of Fates.

[Pending restart] Fixed an issue where the cast time reductions to Prayer of Healing from Lights Grace and Serendipity did not stack properly.

[Pending restart] Empowered Touch now makes your Healing Touch casts reduce the cooldown of Tranquility (in addition to Natural Alacrity).

[Pending restart] Seal of Wisdom now restores 12% of base mana, up from 8%.

[Pending restart] Light's Grace will now properly reduce the cast time of your next Holy Light, as the tooltip states.

[Pending restart] Light's Grace can now also trigger from Prayer of Healing.

Fixed an issue where Lightwell would not be usable after the first charge.

Fixed an issue where the Sniper Training buff would be removed when moving.

[Pending Restart] Seal of Wisdom now regenerates 12% base mana, up from 8%.

Fixed an issue where some Zangarmarsh creatures were incorrectly dropping Twisted Living Essence, a level 60 High-Risk Material not used in TBC.

Fixed an issue where Thunder Slam did not deal Nature damage as intended.

[Pending restart] Holy Spirit now stacks up on the caster rather than the target, meaning you can Penance one target and Holy Shock another and still get the bonus. In addition, Penance now fires its four bolts in 2.5 seconds (down from 3) and both healing and dealing damage with Penance awards stacks.

[Pending restart] Flow of Life now reduces the cooldown of Tranquility by 20%, down from 30%, bringing its power when combined with Improved Tranquility to a more reasonable level. Its increase to the targets' Nature periodic healing taken now lasts for 8 seconds, up from 6.

Fixed an issue where Imposing Combo would not apply its buff.

[Pending Restart] Mind Flay is no longer interrupted when the target clears its slow effects. It will now continue dealing damage but no longer slow the target.

[Al'ar] Added Spelldraft Deck to Aurok (Draenai Starting Area) and Shara Sunwing (Blood Elf starting area) in the event that yours is lost.

Reduced gold cost of Temporal Contracts in the Burning Crusade by 25%

[Requires Launcher Update] Fixed an issue where immuning a ranged attack could leave a box in the air. Now the correct effect will appear.

[Area 52] fixed an issue where winter maps were the only maps being selected

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Potion of Reputation would be removed when entering an arena.

Killing Spree now deals 30% reduced damage versus players, changed from 20%.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] Blind, Repentance and Wyvern Sting now shares cooldown.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] Blast Wave, Thunderstorm and Typhoon now shares cooldown.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] Disarm and Dismantle now shares cooldown.

Cloak of Shadows now shares a 30 sec cooldown with Deterrence, Divine Shield, Ice Block and Hand of Protection.

[Alar] [Area 52] Pending Restart - The items Bottled Nethergron Energy, Bottled Nethergron Vapor, Fel Armaments and Arcane Tome now have a 1 copper selling price and can be vendored.

[Alar] [Area 52] Pending Restart - Requires Cache clear to be displayed visually - corrected an issue where the Normal Version of the MokNathal Wildercloak still had Resilience and PvP Power instead of PvE Power.

[Alar] [Area 52] Pending Restart - Requires Cache clear to be displayed visually - Corrected an issue where MokNathal Clan Ring had PvP Power instead of PvE Power on its Mythic+ Versions and would apply the Blood Stained debuff.

Fixed an issue where Arc Aim did not have its PvP mod applied.

Fixed an issue where Tame Dragon, Tame Beast, Dominate Undead and Enslave Demon could sporadically fail and end halfway through their channel.

Removed some broken unusable Skill Cards for level 1 abilities.

Fixed an issue where Plagued Whelps were missing their Plague Cloud and Plague Blast spells.

Fixed an issue where Chromatic Scalebanes were missing their Reinforcement spell.

Fixed an issue where Chromatic Scalebanes were missing spell icons and descriptions.

Fixed an issue where Chromatic Drakonids were missing spell icons and descriptions.

Fixed an issue where Chromatic Drakes were missing spell icons and descriptions.

Fixed an issue where Chromatic Whelps were missing spell icons and descriptions.

Plagued Whelps can now be tamed.

[Requires Launcher Update] Fixed the "Relevant" and "Relevant (Popular)" categories for the Mystic Enchant Collection. These show enchants relevant to your current spells.

[Requires Launcher Update] Changed the look of the Stone of Retreat map markers and moved the toggle button to the bottom of the map frame. If you had previously turned these off you will need to do so again.

[Requires Launcher Update] Added world map markers for Raids and Dungeons

[Requires Launcher Update] Hit and Expertise rating on the character sheet now show the required amount to hit a raid boss with spells and abilities.

These changes will launch on June 2nd following a launcher update shortly after.

Fixed a bug where Power Surge could trigger even without the player hardcasting any spell.

Power Surge can now trigger from channeled effects such as Invocation and Hellfire in addition to casted spells.

The Capstone effect of Arcane Fortitude now properly increases armor contribution from Cloth items by 30% while Mana-forged Barrier is active.

Reduced the absorb effect of Mana-forged Barrier while at lower levels of mana. At 10% mana, Mana-forged Barrier will now absorb around 40% less damage than previous to this change.

Power Surge now restores 10/20/30% of your missing mana over 4 seconds, up from 12%. This change means that Power Surge will offer significantly more mana regen even if you only periodically cast spells.

Seal of Wisdom now regenerates 8% base mana instead of regenerating 4% of your total mana. This will make it slightly better for characters with low mana pools, but worse for those heavily invested into Intellect (such as casters or Intellect-stacked Mana-forged Barrier tanks).

Blessing of Sanctuary now restores 6% of Base mana when it triggers, up from 2% total mana. This change is aimed at leveling its regen, making it less powerful for Manaforged Barrier-tanks and stronger for other archetypes.

Aspect of the Viper no longer works while Mana-forged Barrier is active.

[Website] Fixed an issue causing Al'ar builder to cap out at level 60 as opposed to 70.

[Alar] [Area 52] [Gruuls Lair] [Magtheridons Lair] Trash Mobs inside Gruuls Lair and Magtheridons Lair can now drop items from Karazhan Trash Pools such as Zone Epics, World Drops, Recipes.

[Alar] [Area 52] [Karazhan] Pending Restart - Karazhan Zone Specific Epic Trash Items are now properly pooled and can drop from any creature inside Karazhan at a rate of 1 in 100 up from 1 in 1000.

[Alar] [Area 52] [Karazhan] Pending Restart - Pattern - Soulcloth Shoulders, Pattern - Soulcloth West and Formula - Surefooted are now pooled inside Karazhans trash loot and can drop from any creature inside Karazhan rather then being limited to specifically Phantom Valets, Phantom Attendants and Spectral Stagehands.

[Alar] [Area 52] [Karazhan] Pending Restart - Corrected an issue where Pattern - Soulcloth Shoulders could not be obtained.

[Alar] [Area 52] Pending Restart - Corrected an issue where The Mythic, Heroic and Ascended Version of Band of Domination could not be obtained.

[Pending Restart][Primordial Fury] Reduced scaling of Primordial Fury to address outlier performance issues. Spell Power scaling reduced from 20% to 13% and Attack Power scaling reduced from 16% to 12%. This change will allow Primordial Fury to remain competitive without pushing other similar specs out of viability.

[Pending Restart][Elemental Assassin] Elemental Assassin now increases Shocks duration by 7.5s, increased from 6s. This increases the max duration of Elemental Blades by 3 seconds, which will help maintain these buffs during boss encounters and improve the overall flow of the build during mechanics.

Added a 2nd instance to Orgrimmar and Stormwind on both Alar and Area 52 to deal with growing population. You can swap instances at Chromie!

Fixed an issue where alliance outrunners were unattackable

Boosted drop chance of Dragonhorns that drop from Dragons to tame pets.

Fixed an issue where Prestigious Rotating Bonuses and Quests were not applying on Prestige.

[Pending Restart] Combo points are no longer removed on the target as they die (they are still removed on respawn). This means Slice and Dice, Meditate and Recuperate are usable on dead targets. Also means that you can use Redirect to transfer combo points from a dead target.

Added a new feature to Wailing Caverns and Sunken Temple. The Caverns Cordyceps. These stimulating mushrooms help you traverse the long and windy dungeon by giving you big Out-of-Combat movement speed, health regeneration, and mana regeneration to your party when consumed.

Added Marks of Ascension to the last bosses of LFG leveling dungeons. These Marks will scale with to the size of the dungeon to improve the rewards for running some of the bigger dungeons. Things like escorts and events were also kept in mind for this.

[Draft] Pounce and Ravage will now only Draft if you know Prowl, and increased the chance to draft Pounce and Ravage if you know Prowl.

Fixed an issue in Some Dragonkin not getting the correct scaling. Dismissing and Resummoning your dragon before the restart will retroactively apply the scaling fixes.

[Pending Restart] Initiative no longer reduces the cooldown of Redirect.

[Pending Restart] Redirect now has a 20 sec cooldown, changed from 30.

Fixed an issue where Bash and Hammer of Justice shared cooldown.

[Alar] [Area 52] Pending Restart - Requires Cache clear to be displayed visually - Increased the item level of all 22 TBC BoE Epic World Drop Items and their Heroic and Ascended counter parts to better reflect their power in comparison to their Mythic counter parts. The Heroic and Ascended versions of the TBC BoE Epic World Drop Items that can be found inside Heroic and Ascended Raids are now upscaled from their normal version without penalty and now follow the same scaling rules as other Heroic and Ascended items. Items that had a special effect like Blinkstrike already had their effects upscaled with the Mythic+ release on Area 52 and remain unchanged.

[Alar] Silas Darkmoon has new pets available for Darkmoon tickets!

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where multiple Tainted Wound debuffs could not be active on the same target.

Lowered the mana cost of Starburst from the Starburst Barrage enchantment by 10%.

[TBC] - Updated the breadcrumb quests for all attunements to notify you that attunements for raids are only required for Ascended Raiding.

[TBC] - Since there are no longer reputation or quest chain completions or required keys to get into Heroic/Mythic dungeons in TBC. Updated the Descriptions of the Keys that used to be required to get into Heroic/Mythic Dungeons in TBC.

Spirit Bond will now also be activated while you have a Tamed Dragonkin, Dominated Undead, Tamed Beast, or Enslaved Demon.

Fixed an issue where Ferocity was not increasing the critical strike chance of your Dominated Undead or your Enslaved Demon. Additionally, Ferocity will now also affect your Tamed Dragonkin.

Frenzy now also also increases the attack speed of your Tamed Dragonkin in addition to its previous effects.

Unleashed Fury [Mystic Enchantment] now also increases the damage of your Tamed Dragonkin in addition to its previous effects.