Ascension Changelog

Fixed an issue where Spirit of the Forest was not functioning properly. [Pending restart]

Fixed an issue where lag could cause Heavyweight to stack up slower than intended. [Pending restart]

Fixed an issue where the effect of the Eye of Gruul trinket would benefit certain abilities in spite of the tooltip stating it should only work for spells. [Pending restart]

Fixed an issue where the proc from Gladiator's Thunderfist PvP 4 set would sometimes trigger from unintended sources.

Fixed an issue where the proc from World Breaker sometimes would trigger too frequently. [Pending restart]

Adjusted website timer to display in the proper time-zone. (-1 hour from time remaining.)

[Serpentshrine] [Lady Vashj] Corrected an issue where Lady Vashj would fail to select the correct number of targets for Parasitic Shot on Ascended 25 player difficulty and removed a temporal fix. Lady Vashj will now always select 3 targets for Parasitic Shot on Ascended 25 player difficulty.

Concussive Shot is no longer removed by Cloak of Shadows and is now classified as a physical ability.

Adjusted positioning of "Logged in as ..." text to avoid overlapping with header elements.

Significantly reduced launcher resource usage (tenfold on some systems.)

Added an option in the launcher settings to disable the background animation.

[Pending restart] Fixed an issue where the Shadow Bolt from Shadow Oil had higher spell power scaling than intended. In addition, the tooltip of Shadow Oil no longer specifies the rank of Shadow Bolt used, as it does not scale with Shadow Bolt modifiers or procs.

Fixed an issue with Righteous Flames and re-enabled it.

The launcher will continously keep your HD patches up-to-date if you install them through the launcher. This function will not be active if you manually installed the aforementioned patches.

Fixed an issue that would allow you to install addons when your game was NOT installed. 👍

Fixed an issue that would prevent you from installing addons through the launcher if your game was installed. 🤔

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Improved certain launcher transitions.

Removed "Renderer API" option from the Windows build of the launcher as it was prone to cause crashes.

[Addons] has now become [Addons & Mods]. You will be able to install our HD patches from here for existing installations.

Launcher will now let you select between Standard and Updated graphics upon installation.

Final preparations for official Linux launcher are underway.

Updated launcher aesthetics.

Fixed an issue where the launcher would sometimes fail to apply in-game settings on first launch.

Miscellaneous improvements to launcher.

Fixed an issue where the 2 piece set bonus from the Malorne Raiment did not trigger properly. Also increased its proc chance slightly. [Pending restart]

The Tentacles summoned by the Whispers of the Old Gods Legendary Enchantment should no longer attack targets affected by Crowd Control effects that break on damage such as Polymorph.

[Pending restart] Fixed an issue where Shiv was unable to be blocked, dodged, or parried.

Pending Restarts: Libram of Mending, purchasable from G'eras, now has a 100% proc chance. It still has a 30 seconds icd.

[Serpentshrine] [Leotheras the Blind] Pending Restarts: Corrected an issue where Victorious! would cancel itself if the effected player had no pet. Victorious! casted on the players pet is re enabled.

[Serpentshrine] [Leotheras the Blind] Temporary disabled the damage buff applied to players pets from Victorious! because of a bug where Victorious! would cancel itself if the player has no pet.

[Serpentshrine] [Leotheras the Blind] Pending Restarts: Leotheras the Blind will now repeat Whirlwind every 45 seconds up from 30 seconds during his final phase.

[Serpentshrine] [Leotheras the Blind] Pending Restarts: Leotheras (Demon Form) and the Shadow of Leotheras will now increase the two highest threat targets total threat by 100% whenever they cast Insidious Whispers.

[Serpentshrine] [Leotheras the Blind] Pending Restarts: Inner Demons will now despawn if their owning player dies.

Updated landing page.

[Wildhammer] [Serpentshrine] [General] Announced adjustments to health, damage dealt and healing done to all creatures within Ascended difficulty have been postponed and will not be live pending restarts.

[Area 52] [Serpentshrine] [General] Announced adjustments to health, damage dealt and healing done to all creatures within Ascended difficulty have been postponed and will not be live pending restarts.

[Serpentshrine] [Lady Vashj] Pending Restarts: Increased the initial cool-down timer of Summon Spore Bats by 1 second. This extends the time until Lady Vashj summons a Spore Bat per second to 5 minutes up from 4 Minutes and 30 seconds.

[Serpentshrine] [Morogrim Tidewalker] Pending Restarts: Bursting Bubble will no longer evade for any reason.

[Serpentshrine] [Leotheras the Blind] Pending Restarts: Pets will now profit from Victorious!

[Serpentshrine] [Leotheras the Blind] Pending Restarts: Inner Demons will now take damage from the owning players pets and guardians.

[Area 52] [Serpentshrine] [General] Pending Restarts: Reduced health, damage dealt and healing done of all creatures inside the Serpent Shrine Caverns on Ascended Difficulty.

[Wildhammer] [Serpentshrine] [General] Pending Restarts: Reduced health, damage dealt and healing done of all creatures inside the Serpent Shrine Cavern on Ascended Difficulty.

Reduced the damage from the Throw Weapon Mystic Enchant. [Pending restart]

Conflagrate now deals 25% reduced damage against players, from 20%. [Pending restart]

Pending Restarts: Stonebreakers Totem, purchasable from G'eras, will now also increase ranged attack power.

While the Consecrated Strikes RE is active, Seal of Command deals 10% less damage versus players. [Pending restart]

Consecrated Strikes can no longer trigger during Killing Spree and Bladestorm. [Pending restart]

Corrected an issue where level 8 creatures dealt more damage then level 9 and level 10 creatures.

fixed an issue where the enhancement shaman tier 5 gear would not have the correct stats, missing attack power on all pieces past flex normal.

[Serpentshrine] [Lady Vashj] Pending Restarts: The first Sporebat will now spawn 10 seconds into Phase 3 up from 5 seconds.

[Serpentshrine] [Lady Vashj] Pending Restarts: Reduced the height at wish Sporebats fly over the platform.

[Serpentshrine] [Lady Vashj] Corrected an issue where player would experience increasing FPS drops as more attempts they spend on Lady Vashj on Ascended difficulty.

[Serpentshrine] [Lady Vashj] Corrected an issue where Lady Vashj would repeat her intro every time a player moved into her line of sight after the fight reset.

[Serpentshrine] [Lady Vashj] Lady Vashj will now start casting Forked lightning immediately during Phase 3 when teleporting to her home location, preventing her from moving back towards her target.

[Serpentshrine] [Lady Vashj] Lady Vashj will now delay combat by 2 seconds when switching from Phase 2 to Phase 3, preventing her from immediately shooting her highest threat target.

[Serpentshrine] [Lady Vashj] Corrected an issue where Enchanted Elemental would update their movement speed on spawn to move up to Lady Vashj faster depending on Lady Vashjs current orientation.

[Serpentshrine] [Fathom-Lord Karathress] Spitfire Totem now casts its Attack ability every 1.5 seconds up from 2.2 seconds. Spitfire Totems Attack ability no longer has a target limit.

[Serpentshrine] [Fathom-Lord Karathress] Corrected the tooltipp of Power of Tidalvess to state that Fathom-Lord Karathress gains all Totem Abilities and not just Spitfire Totem.

[Serpentshrine] [Fathom-Lord Karathress] Improved the tooltipp of Blessing of the Tides to make it more clear how the mechanic works.

[Serpentshrine] [General] Pending Restarts: All bosses will now send an additional Boss Frame to the players clients.

[Serpentshrine] [Lady Vashj] Doubled the health of the Coilfang High-Priestess on all difficulties.

[Serpentshrine] [Leotheras the Blind] Reduced the total damage dealt by Chaos Blast on 25 player Ascended by ~20%. The damage dealt of Chaos Blast is now equal to 2.5 times the damage of 10 player down from 3.0 times.

[Serpentshrine] [Lady Vashj] Corrected an issue where the Coilfang High-Priestess got confused with the Coilfang Priestess (Trash Mob) and inherited the Coilfang Priestess health and damage on all difficulties. Coilfang High-Priestess spawned during the Lady Vashj encounter now has ~60% less health and melee damage on all difficulties.

[Serpentshrine] [Lady Vashj] Pending Restart: Corrected an issue where Lady Vashj would cast multiple Multi Shots at once during Phase 1 on Ascended difficulty.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where some items, such as ones that came from a container (Chest in Hellfire Ramparts) were not dropping their Bloodforged Variants in World

[Serpentshrine] [Leotheras the Blind] Pending Restarts: Corrected an issue where the Shadow of Leotheras would repeat to cast cosmetic spells (target indicator) once per second, causing the entire raid to permanently display target indicator for Chaos Blast on themselves.

[Serpentshrine] [Fathom-Lord Karathress] Pending Restarts: Fathom Stalker will now spawn with an Protective Water Bubble. Protective Water Bubble absorbs damage, and grants slow fall. Protective Water Bubbles can be spell stolen. Requires new Patch-S!.

[Serpentshrine] [Fathom-Lord Karathress] Pending Restarts: Increased the time between Fathom Stalker spawns to 20 seconds up from 15. Fathom Stalker now spawn 10 seconds into the fight, down from 15.

[Serpentshrine] [Leotheras the Blind] Pending Restarts: Increased the duration of Victorious! to 20 seconds up from 15.

[Serpentshrine] [Leotheras the Blind] Pending Restarts: Slightly increased the minimum distance Creeping Fel Fire spawns from Leotheras during Demon Form and the Shadow of Leotheras on Ascended difficulty.

[Serpentshrine] [Leotheras the Blind] Pending Restarts: Improved the tooltipp of Insidious Whispers, explaining the function of the Inner Demon.

[Serpentshrine] [Leotheras the Blind] Pending Restarts: Inner Demons will now link themselves with their player with a permanent visual, that should make it easier to track what demon belongs to you.

[Serpentshrine] [The Lurker Below] Pending Restarts: Coilfang Ambusher will no longer select a target that is already under the effect of Focused Fire for their Focused Fire ability.

[Wildhammer] [Serpentshrine] [General] Pending Restart: Reduced health, damage dealt and healing done of all creatures on Ascended difficulty by 3.3%.

Corrected an issue where Wildfury Greatstaff (Ascended) had the same weapon damage as its Heroic Version.

Added 233 Beastmaster's Whistles to Vanity Items Collection.

Reworked Living Root of the Wildheart. Previously it either required no stance to get the generic proc effect, this means you could not use it while in berserker stance, molten mind, or shadowform, etc. Pending restart, the buff you get while outside of druid form will now carry over to non-druid form stances such as the stances listed above.

The counterattack from Retaliation can now only occur once every second.

Chain Lightning now deals 20% reduced damage against players, from 15%.

Lightning Bolt now deals 5% reduced damage against players. It previously did not have a PvP modifier.

Conflagrate now deals 20% reduced damage against players, from 10%.

Immolate no longer deals increased damage against players. It previously dealt 5% more damage versus players.

Rupture now deals 10% reduced damage against players, from 5%.

Garrote now deals 15% reduced damage against players, from 5%.

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

Mongoose Bite now deals 30% reduced damage against players, from 20%.

Seal of Command now deals 15% reduced damage against players, from 10%.

Pending Restart: Fixed an issue where Swift Nether Drake would not apply the mount correctly.

[Serpentshrine] [Fathom-Lord Karathress] Pending Restarts: Fathom-Guard Caribdis will no longer attempt to reposition if she is locked out of her nature spell school.

[Area 52] [Serpentshrine] [Fathom-Lord Karathress] Corrected an issue where Greater Resistance Totem and Greater Earthbind Totem would use unintended ability's.

[Serpentshrine] [Morogrim Tidewalker] Bursting Bubbles Masive Bubble Burst no longer knock-backs Morogrim and Murlocs.

Consecrated Strikes damage effect now deals 20% reduced damage against players. It previously did not have a PvP modifier.

Deathfrost - an enchant from Ahune in the midsummer event no longer requires a level 60 weapon to be enchanted with. It now requires a level 35 weapon to be enchanted. This means you can store the enchant on enchanting vellums and sell it. (Requires patch update and server restart)

[Serpentshrine] [Leotheras the Blind] Pending Restarts: Corrected an issue where the Shadow of Leotheras would not spawn Inner Demons, leaving no way to remove Insidious Whispers.

[Serpentshrine] [The Lurker Below] Pending Restarts: Corrected an issue where the Treasures from Below would not spawn on Ascended difficulty.

[Serpentshrine] [General] Extended explanation regarding Guard changes: A creature considered being a Guard will not remove a target using Feign Death, Vanish or any other form of Invisibility from its threat list. A Guardian will not interrupt a cast in progress on a player using one of this abilities. Debuffs applied by a Guard will not be removed from a player using Feign Death, Vanish or similar abilities. A Guard creature will still be effected by Feign Deaths, Vanishs or similar effects threat reduction.

[Serpentshrine] [The Lurker Below] Pending Restarts: Tentacle from Below now has a short grace period before casting its first Devastation.

[Serpentshrine] [The Lurker Below] Pending Restarts: Killing a Tentacle from Below now inflicts 5% maximum health damage to The Lurker Below.

[Serpentshrine] [All Bosses] All creatures, including invisible dummy creatures involved into Serpent Shrine Caverns boss encounters are now considered guardians. Guardians will ignore any form of Feign Death, Vanish, Stealth and Invisibility effects. Successful attempts to bypass this restrictions are now considered abuse of unintended behaviour.