Ascension Changelog

Ravenholdt - Level 60 outlaws are now friendly with faction NPCs, but will be attacked by nearby guards when not in stealth. Neutral guards will not automatically attack outlaws.

Added a teleporter in Booty Bay to Lights Hope Chapel in Eastern Plaguelands.

Nerfed the damage of Shadow Flame on the three drakes by 25%

Resolved an issue where Nefarians Dark Volley was doing slightly more damage than intended.

The Bug Off quest in Silithus has now been re-enabled. (It will be available a while during the 60 cap as well due to it being disabled previously).

Bloodsail Mages will now do normal damage.

Elixir of Detect Undead will no longer last 1 second.

Fixed a bug where "Protect Kanati Greycloud" would not complete.

Corrupted Sabers has been fixed [Requires a restart].

Gnomish Death Ray will now properly damage the target.

Ravenholdt - The Bug Off quest in Silithus has been temporarily disabled due to a bug

Ravenholdt - Temporarily reduced the experience gained from LFD for level 45+ dungeons.

Ravenholdt - Temporarily reduced the experience gained from mobs in level 45+ instances by 50%.

Ravenholdt - Battlegrounds no longer reward experience.

Guards can now shoot again.

Players are now unable to gain or lose rep with the law for a few seconds after completing a duel.

Theramore NPCs are now friendly to pre-60 Alliance Outlaws.

Outlaws below level 60 can no longer be attacked in major cities.

Maxwells Mission will now be obtainable.

Ravenholdt - Arathi Highlands is now a 1v1 zone again.

Wand SP scaling has been reduced by 50%.

Path of Defense will now have a proper quest category. [Requires cleared Cache]

Coven Extermination will now have the correct NPC requirements. [Requires cleared Cache]

Ravenholdt - Criminal max duration lowered to 15 min, from 30 min.

Ravenholdt - Arathi Highlands is no longer a 1v1 zone.

Fixed an issue where Stitches would get spawned multiple times and not roam Duskwood.

Terenthis will no longer be stuck in an RP loop and is now able to once again speak to players.

Nizzle the Rebel Camp flight master is now only usable to alliance players as intended.

Ravenholdt - Scroll of Mass Dispel cost changed to a 2g cost and level 30 requirement but you can only carry 3 at a time. The horde and alliance pvp vendors now sell them as well.

Spirit healers in battlegrounds can now resurrect players that were filled cross-faction

Killing a player shortly after a duel no longer triggers rep loss/gain with The Law

Ravenholdt - Raid items will no longer drop from mobs in the world. (They will be reintroduced at a higher level cap)

Fixed a bug where Lock and Load wouldn't proc from Frost Trap.

Reduced the damage of Chromaggus and Nefarians auto attack by 10%

Fixed an issue with Broodlord Lashslayers aggro radius

Made Nefarians Shadow Clones able to be taunted

Added an emote to Nefarians Dark Volley spell

Reduced the damage of Nefarians Drakanoids by 15%

Removed the mind control ability from Nefarian.

Ravenholdt - If you have the Criminal debuff and get killed by a guard you will now drop loot as intended.

Decreased the respawn tiemr of Umpi from 5 minutes to 1 minute.

For Ravenholdt: If you have the Criminal debuff and get killed by a guard you will now drop loot. (If you're an Outlaw without the Criminal debuff you won't drop loot.)

Fixed an issue that caused low level players entering a battleground on Ravenholdt to be unattackable.

Fixed an issue that caused outlaws to be unable to attack each other.

Outlaws can now heal each other while grouped.

Swift Spectral Tiger has been disabled on Ravenholdt due to a bug.

You are no longer able to shapeshift while in a Polymorph effect. (You are still immune to Polymorph effects when already shapeshifted.)

Fireball base damage increased. About 10% for rank 1-4 and 10. About 20% for rank 5-9.

Scorch base damage increased. About 20% for rank 1-5. About 10% for rank 6.

Pyroblast base damage increased. About 10% for rank 1 and 7. About 20% for rank 2-6.

Shadow Bolt base damage increased. About 10% for rank 1-4 and 8. About 20% for rank 5-7.

Searing Pain base damage increased. About 10% for rank 1 and 5. About 20% for rank 2-4.

Lightning Bolt base damage increased. About 20% for rank 1-8. About 10% for rank 9.

Chain Lightning base damage increased. About 20% for rank 1 and 2. About 10% for rank 3.

Mind Blast base damage increased. About 10% for ranks 1-8.

Holy Fire base damage increased. About 10% for ranks 2-7.

Exorcism base damage increased. About 10% for ranks 2-5.

Smite base damage increased. About 20% for ranks 1-6. About 10% for rank 7.

Immolate base damage increased. About 20% for ranks 1-3.

Mind Flay base damage increased. About 20% for ranks 1-3.

Arcane Missiles base damage increased. About 20% for rank 2-5. About 10% for rank 6.

Frost Shock rank 1 damage reduced by 10% and slow duration (for only rank 1) changed to 4 seconds, down from 6.

Rockbiter rank 1 attack power changed to 18, from 24. Rank 2 changed to 32, from 40.

Mongoose Bite rank 1 base damage changed to 15, from 25. Rank 2 changed to 30, from 45.

Arcane Shot base damage reduced for lower level ranks. Rank 1 changed to 10, from 15. Rank 2 changed to 16, from 23. Rank 3 changed to 27, from 36. Rank 4 changed to 55, from 65.

Corruption rank 2 damage changed to 100, up from 90.

Shadow Word: Pain rank 2 damage changed to 72, up from 60.

Shadow Word: Pain rank 3 and above base mana changed to 14%, down from 22.

Rejuvenation rank 1, rank 2 and rank 3 base mana changed to 16%, down from 18%.

Moonfire damage has been increased at ranks 1 through 9 by around 10%.

Wrath base damage increased. About 10% for rank 1-3 and 7. About 20% for rank 4-6

Starfire base damage increased. About 10% for rank 1 and 5. About 20% for rank 2-4.

Frostbolt base damage increased. About 10% for rank 1-4 and 9. About 20% for rank 5-8.

Voidwalker Sacrifice shield has been reduced for lower level ranks. Rank 1 changed to 203, from 305. Rank 2 changed to 360 from 510. Rank 3 changed to 570 from 770. Rank 4 to 950 from 1095.

Immolation Trap base damage has been reduced for lower level ranks. Rank 1 changed to 30 damage per tick, from 42. Rank 2 changed to 68 from 85. Rank 3 changed to 120 from 135. Rank 4 changed to 183, from 203.

Ice Block and Divine Shield now share a 30 second cooldown.

Fixed a bug where the Shamanistic Rage mana proc wouldn??™t trigger from some abilities.

Fixed a bug where Drain Soul would be able to do damage through immunities like Divine Shield and Ice Block.

Molten Core now has 2 ranks. The Immolate effects remain unchanged, but rank 2 provides the effects that rank 3 did previously. (Rank 1 gives half of rank 2.).

Arcane Concentration tooltip updated to reflect it affects the next spell, not next damaging spell.

Retaliation now lasts 8 seconds, down from 12.

The Killer Instinct buff which makes Counterattack usable lasts 6 sec, down from 10 sec, and Counterattacks used this way will root for 3 seconds, down from 5. (Counterattack root from parry remains unchanged.)

Unleashed Rage damage bonus while Shamanistic Rage is active will no longer affect holy damage.

Soul Link now shares 6% of your damage taken with your demon, down from 10%.

Demonic Embrace now increases the shared Soul Link damage by 2/4/6%, down from 4/7/10%.

Blood Pact, Phase Shift and Fel Intelligence now has an ICD.

Swift Retribution buff will no longer be consumed on melee attacks

Bloodthirst now only applies 1 healing stack, down from 3.

Improved Shadowform now gives 3/6% damage reduction, down from 5/10%.

Expose Weakness now only increases your ranged attack power.

Cone of Cold base mana reduced to 17%, down from 25%.

Travel Form base mana increased from 26%, up from 13%.

Curse of Exhaustion slow reduced to 50%, down from 60%.

Improved Eviscerate increases Eviscerate damage again, instead of Eviscerate critical strike chance.

Healing Prayer now gives 5/10% crit chance, down from 10/20%.

Charge is now usable in combat. (It still requires Battle Stance.)

Improved Devotion Aura rank 3 was providing more bonus armor and healing than was stated on the item tooltip. The altar tooltip and its effect have been changed to match the item tooltip.

Savage Strikes now gives 5/6% crit, down from 8/10%.

Updated the Frost Lich tooltip to reflect its current effect.

Nurturing Instinct now gives 8/10% of your Agility in healing, down from 10/12%, and also reduces all damage you deal by 2%.