Ascension Changelog

Ny'Alotha' Allseer will be sent out to players once they hit the max level of the server instead of level 70. Text is pending patch update.

Twin Peaks is now available on Alar as well!

Path to Ascension quests will now appear at the top of the callboard.

Fixed an issue where the Netherwind 8 Set Bonus could affect blizzard.

Reduced time for MMR expansion during queue from 10 seconds to 5 seconds.

[Pending restart] Fixed an issue where the +15% damage buffs from Metamorphosis and The Beast Within could be active simultaneously. All of these temporary +15% damage buffs, also including Death Wish, Avenging Wrath and Arcane Power, are exclusive and do not stack with each other.

[Pending restart] Fixed an issue where Filthy Tricks could trigger from using Meditate.

[Pending restart] Frostbolt now reduces movement speed by 30%, changed from 40%.

[Pending restart] Furious Attacks is now a 2 point talent changed from 3. Now gives your melee attacks a chance to reduce healing by 5/10%, stacking to 3. (The new rank 2 gives the same value as the previous rank 3).

[Pending restart] [Area 52] Judgement of Righteousness now deals 40% less damage versus players, changed from 35%.

[Pending restart] [Area 52] Judgement of Command now deals 35% less damage versus players, changed from 30%.

[Pending restart] [Alar] Judgement of Righteousness now deals 50% less damage versus players, changed from 45%.

[Pending restart] [Alar] Judgement of Command now deals 50% less damage versus players, changed from 45%.

[Pending restart] Healing Wave now heals for 10% less while in a 2v2 arena, 3v3 arena or in a battleground.

[Pending restart] Bloodthirst now deals 5% less damage vs players in 2v2 and 3v3 arena.

[Pending restart] Ice Floes Capstone now heals for 5% base health per second, down from 6%.

[Pending restart] Deterrence now triggers a 30 second debuff called Dulled Blades, which prevents you from using Deterrence.

[Pending restart] Guardian's Favour now increases the duration of Hand of Freedom by 1/2/3 sec, changed from 2/4/6 sec.

[Pending restart] The Capstone of Nature's Guardian now heals for 30% more. It also has a new visual for when the heal is triggered.

[Pending restart] Spellsteal now has a 10 second cooldown, changed from 12.

[Pending restart] Purge now has a 10 second cooldown, changed from 12.

[Pending restart] Fixed an issue where using Silencing Shot would not break stealth.

[Pending restart] Fixed an issue where some PvP bloodforged sets would not have the same set bonuses as the pristine versions.

[Pending restart] Blazing Barrier absorb amount increased by 10%.

[Pending restart] While Dragon Warrior is active, your Slam now does 30% less damage vs players, changed from 20%.

[Pending restart] Dominant Word: Shield is now 25% less effective while the Crow's Rage debuff is active.

[Pending restart] Fixed an issue where the damage from Shield Block - Bulwark could trigger certain procs from your weapon.

[Pending restart] Fixed an issue where Massacre could trigger from Killing Spree without having the mystic enchant active.

[Pending restart] Blazing Barrier is now learned if you have Combustion, rather than transformed from Combustion. (Meaning you can use both Combustion and Blazing Barrier at the same time.)

[Pending restart] The Righteous Flame buff now increase Holy Fire damage per stack vs players by 6%, changed from 8%.

[Pending restart] The buff from Amal'thazad's Curse now lasts for 12 sec, changed from 8.

Applied an overhaul to AQR items because these items are found later within the release schedule, most items have received a huge facelift in terms of stats, new item identity & usability.

Edrim Skysong will now have the option to downgrade your current Keystone. [Pending Restart]

Doubled the Mystic Orbs gained from helping newer players in dungeons.

Clarified the tooltip of the Mystic Draughts to show that these are an alternative method of obtaining mystic extracts and are NOT recommended unless you have a very high mystic enchanting level.

Arena Teams will no longer be renamed to characters name when changing name.

[Area-52] Prestige Daily Bonus Quests will now reward 50 orbs up from 0.

Scourgestones (whose primary use is for argent dawn rep) is now mailable to alt characters. [Pending Restart]

Fixed an issue where patterns like: Persuader could not be dropped from creatures, lootboxes or lockboxes.

Fixed an issue where patterns like: Lionheart Helmet could not be dropped from creatures, lootboxes or lockboxes.

Fixed a bug where damage from Fierce Blow would pierce through Ardent Defender.

Totem Mastery: Fire will now work as intended when having other summons active.

Multi segment flight paths will now use "shortcuts" when connecting nodes. For example going from Menethil Harbor to Stormwind will no cause flying partially into Ironforge.

Fixed an exploit allowing to switch equipment while encounter was in progress.

[Area-52] [Pending Launcher Update] Reduced the Marks of Ascension price by 50% for Mystic Runes.

[Area-52] Reduced the Marks of Ascension price by 50% for Mystic Orbs.

[Requires Launcher Update] Added a button to the death recap frame to link the recap in chat.

[Requires Launcher Update] You can now mouseover the spell icon(s) in a death recap to view the tooltip for that spell

[Requires Launcher Update] [Pending Restart] Death Recaps can be shared with other players through chat by shift-clicking the [You died.] hyperlink.

[Requires Launcher Update] Death Recaps can now be viewed after reviving by clicking the [You died.] hyperlink in your chat.

[Requires Launcher Update] Fixed Death Recaps being unavailable in certain situations.

Decreased initial rating range where arena teams would be matched by A LOT.

[Requires Launcher Update] The task bar icon will now flash from important events if you do not have the WoW window focused. Some important events include: BG / Arena / LFG Queues, Ready Checks, Entering Combat, Whispers, Ticket Responses, & Summons.

Fixed arena matchmaking. You will now face enemies appropriated to your current matchmaking search range.

Fixed an issue where Arcane Spheres would have a buggy visual. [Requires Launcher update]

Fixed an issue where Combustion could still be used while having Blazing Barrier active.

[Pending restart] Fixed an issue where the triggered spells from Corrupted Bear, Fel Paw and Fel Hunter, could incorrectly trigger additional procs such as poisons.

[Requires Launcher Update] The max value for the "Max Camera Distance" slider in [Esc -> Interface -> Camera] is now 60, up from 30. This is the maximum possible distance. 60 is the same value achieved by the popular camera zoom macro / script.

Corrected the tooltip of Metamorphosis to state that it only allows Fire and Shadow spells. (It's currently intended that you can't use Fire and Shadow melee and ranged abilities but we are discussing options for allowing more.) [Requires Launcher update]

[Pending restart] Fixed an issue where Blazing Barrier was not usable while in Metamorphosis. [Requires Launcher update]

Fixed an issue where some ranks of Scorched Earth and Sunfire was not usable while in Metamorphosis. [Requires Launcher update]

[Pending restart] Fixed an issue where the Stagger passive gets removed when entering arena. (You can fix this by re-equipping your 2 handed weapon after joining the arena.)

[Pending restart] Fixed an issue where the Nature's Guardian capstone would heal for too little.

[Pending restart] Fixed an issue where the heal from Temporal Shield would be affected by some healing modifiers. It should now always restore the same amount of health as damage you received during it.

Impeccable Timing has been re-enabled!

[New Capstone] Nature's Guardian - Whenever a damaging attack brings you below 30% health, you're healed for a small amount, increased by your healing power. This effect has a 30 second cooldown.

Metamorphosis no longer limits the player to Warlock abilities, but to all Shadow and Fire abilities instead. Its overall damage increase has been changed from 15%, from 20%.

Stagger from the Tactical Mastery capstone no longer has a health threshold, can now trigger from magic damage taken, and is now able to trigger against players. The damage from Stagger no longer breaks crowd control effects.

Fear Ward now has a 25 second cooldown, changed from 30.

Tremor Totem now has a 45 second cooldown, changed from 50 sec.

Guardian's Favor now increases the duration of Hand of Freedom by 0.5 seconds, changed from 1 second.

Fixed an issue where the Despearate Prayer cooldown reduction from Blessed Recovery was not working.

Nature's Guardian from the Restoration Shaman tree has been reworked. It is now a 3 points talent, changed from 5, increases haste by 1/2/3%, and has a new capstone.

Increased the base armor of Demon Skin, Demon Armor, Frost Armor and Ice Armor by 20%.

Corrected an issue where Amal'thazad's Curse did not have its correct ICD nor spell power scaling. It now has a 4 second ICD and a 20% spell power scaling.

Shadow Embrace is now able to trigger from Drain Soul and Drain Life.

The Dance of Death Capstone no longer requires the player to be below 50% health to trigger.

Frozen core now increases the duration of Ice Block by 1/2/3 seconds, changed from 2/4/6.

The Brutal Pummel capstone has had its damage increased by 20%.

The Improved Kick capstone now grants 35% attack speed, changed from 30%.

Wyvern Sting now has a 50 second cooldown, changed from 45.

Repentance now has a 50 second cooldown, changed from 45.

Second Wind now generates 16% of base health, changed from 12%.

Winter's Chill now has 7% healing reduction per stack, changed from 8%. Its stacks now get dispelled simultaneously.

Furious Attacks has been reworked and is now a 3 points talent, changed from 2. It now reduces the healing done to the target by 4/7/10%, stacking up to 3 times.

Arcane Subtlety now increases the range of Arcane Missiles and Arcane Blast by 3/6 yards, but no longer gives dispel protection.

Cat Form, Bear Form and Dire Bear Form no longer make the player immune to Polymorph effects.

Arcane Flows is now a 3 points talent, changed from 5. It now reduces the cooldown of your Presence of Mind, Arcane Power and Invisibility spells by 10/20/30%, the cooldown of Evocation by 20/40/60 seconds, and the cooldown of Blink by 1/2/3 seconds.

Frostbolt now lasts for 7 seconds, changed from 9. Lower ranks of Frostbolt, which lasted shorter than 7 sec, have gotten their duration reduced by 1 second.

Increased the absorb values of Mana Shield and Ice Barrier by 10%.

[Alar] Serpent Sting now deals 10% reduced damage versus players, changed from 15%.

Multi-Shot (Focused Burst) now deals 50% reduced damage versus players, changed from 55%.

Titan's Grip now reduces damage done to players by 5%, changed from 10%.

Devastate now deals 15% reduced damage against players, changed from 20%.

Chain Lightning and Lightning Bolt now deal 5% reduced damage in battlegrounds.

Mutilate now deals 20% reduced damage versus players, changed from 15%.

Ambush now deals 20% reduced damage versus players, changed from 15%.

Heart of the Crusader now deals 65% reduced damage versus players, changed from 60%.

Mind Flay no longer has a PvP modifier, it previously did 5% increased damage versus players.

Fixed issue preventing FireFox from seeing tooltips, dropdown and certain other foldable options.