Ascension Changelog

Hydrospawn no longer elevates to the platform above.

Updated various spell descriptions to clarify use.

Warlock Summoning Circle will no longer be usable in instance (Medium/Hardcore only)

Searing Light now has five ranks with a separate modifier for Holy Nova.

Changed the way Shazzrah's, Lucifron's, and Gehennas' curses work.

Added a new Shazzrah mechanic.

Reins of the Winterspring Frostsaber now requires 150 Riding Skill and exalted with Wintersaber Trainers.

The quests "An Earnest Proposition" are now unobtainable and will remain so for the foreseeable future.

Seal of Righteousness now deals weapon damage, and will no longer incorrectly trigger weapon imbues. The proc now also has a 1 second internal cooldown.

Circle of Healing and Wild Growth now share a 6 second cooldown. This change will be reflected in their tooltips next patch update.

Lucifron can now make you his thrall.

Increased the frequency at which Shazzrah casts his curse.

Rogue and Druid 'Safe Fall' were both reduced to 1 Ability Essence in cost.

Applied a fix to Lucifron's Seed of Corruption skill, making it actually go off.

Reduced Shazzrah's health to 6.9 million HP (down from 7.7 million).

Shazzrah's channeled Arcane Explosion has been overhauled in that it is now cast more often and changes throughout the encounter.

Tuned up melee and spell damage in Molten Core across the board by about 16%.

Hemo will now deal 75% weapon damage with 2-handers.

Sinister strike will now deal 75% weapon damage with 2-handers.

Cat (Swipe) has been tuned to 110% weapon damage.

Protection Paladin 'Toughness' now gives % increased threat rather than reducing duration of movement slowing effects.

Fingers of Frost is now consumed on spell cast.

Maelstrom Weapon is now consumed on spell cast.

Added 1 Rank of 'Empowered Frostbolt'

Increased effect of 'Wrath of Cenarius' by 100%.

Crippling Poison is back to 50%. Plans to add bonus slow into 'Improved Poisons'

Feral Spirits duration has been reduced to 30 seconds.

Feral Spirits duration has been reduced to 30 seconds.

Buffed 'Rend and Tear' Talent

Lacerate is now on the Feral Druid Character Advancement.

Divine Shield now reduces healing by 50%

Free Action Potion effect can now be dispelled.

The following tomes can now be found on Trainers instead: Holy Paladin Tome: Holy Shock III, Protection Paladin Tome: Holy Shield III, Subtlety Tome: Hemorrhage III, Holy Tome: Lightwell III, Balance Tome: Insect Swarm V, Frost Tome: Ice Barrier IV, Shadow Tome: Mind Flay VI, Holy Tome: Lightwell III, Fire Tome: Blast Wave V, Fire Tome: Pyroblast VIII

Scroll of Mass Dispel is now 10 Gold, down from 18.

Phaseshift will now make imp unhealable

Crippling poison r1 is now 70% movement reduction as intended

Both ranks of Vindication reduced by 50% Real points per level

Cat Swipe lowered to level 20

Tier 2 feral talent Savage fury now Increases the damage caused by Claw, Rake, Mangle by 10%/20% and Bleed damage increased by 15/20%

Cleanse Spirit now costs 2 AE as intended

All of these abilities will now cost 1 Ability Essence: Soothe Animal, Eyes of the Beast, Beast Lore, Water walking, water breathing, unending breath, sense undead, all tracks except track hidden and track humanoids, Eagle eye mind soothe Eye of kilrogg(edited) Stance Mastery Detect Traps Disarm Traps

Expose Armor and Sunder Armor no longer stack

The global melee nerf has been removed

Firestarter (Fire) is now properly consumed on Flamestrike casts

Backdraft is now properly consumed on destruction spell casts

Arcane Potency is now once again consumed on spell casts.

Hot Streak! Is now properly consumed on Pyroblast casts.

NPCs have had their armor buffed by 35% (Global NPC buff)

Added Mechanics to various mobs in Blackrock Spire.

Added Music to Midsummer Fire Festival Event

Added Music to Darkmoon Faire Event.

NPC Webwood Spider should now be neutral.

Fixed offer reward text for quest Elanaria.

Marked Arcane Missiles aura as negative. Fixes Downranking the spell when targetting low level mobs due to effect 1 flagged as positive.

Fixed Grace proc with Penance

Added AI to Duggan Wildhammer

Quest - Defenders of Darrowshire: Added Spirit Particles

Quest - Defenders of Darrowshire: Implemented proper spell for summoning spirits.

Quest - Defenders of Darrowshire: Players no longer needs to make killing blow on ghouls for Darrowshire Spirit to spawn

Added SAI to Bloodscalp Beastmaster, Skullsplinter Beastmaster, and Skullsplitter Hunter

Fixed Gurubashi Arena Chest spawning position.

Fixed Skinning Loot for Mottled Boar and Scorpid Worker

Adjusted/Fixed Thistle Boar - Skinning Loot

Fixed pathfinding reset capability on respawn. This prevents evade chains on bosses.

Resolved authentication bypass issues.

Aspect of the Pack and Aspect of the Cheetah, now proc daze on damage only

Updated scripts to summon creatures with proper spells instead of AI.

Improved Auction house deposit handling.

Fixed Misdirection Exploit

Fixed conflicts between duration and cast time of channeled spells.

Patched Memory Leak in Trade Handler.

Fixed a Trading Spoof exploit.

Implemented serverside validation of reserved/profane names

Fixed async query crash when retrieving account data.

All Enslaved Demons now have proper Global Cooldowns on Abilities.

Fixed a crash happening when a corpse is added to a grid not fully loaded

Fixed map crash happening during map unload when there are corpses inside.

Improved spell category cooldown handling.

Added Onyxia's Lair Pathing

Added pathing for Booty Bay Bruiser

Certain Auras will no longer remove stealth per blizzlike.

Added missing spawns to Elune's Blessing

Fixed Pet Resistance exploit

Resolved issue with Lazy Peon AI.

Scripted Rajah Haghazed

Scripted Rot Hide Gnoll

Scripted and Implemented Coren Direbrew

Updated AI for John Turner

Updated AI for Teacher and Kids in Stormwind.

Fixed Loot issues with overabundant White Drops in world

Reworked Alterac Mounts Herb spawn and Pools

Reworked Herb Pool for Arathi Highlands.

Scripted 'Dekin'

Added waypoints to 'Swiftmane'

Reworked various miscellaneous pathing and creatures in Elwynn Forest.

Added Reputation on kill to Pyroguard Emberseer

Scripted 'Arcane Protector'

Optimized waypoint generation and allocation.

Resolved an issue where totems would spawn with improper placement.

Reworked Movement/Pathing in Deadmines.