Ascension Changelog

[Elune] Ambush Damage reduced by 15% in player v player combat.

[Elune] Divine Judgement Damage against players Reduced from 40% to 35%

[Elune] Prayers of the Penitent Damage reduced by 10% in player v player combat.

[Elune] Penance Damage reduced by 10% in player vs player combat.

[Elune] Explosive shot damage reduced by 15% in player v player Combat.

[Elune] Flashpoint Pyroblast damage reduced from 11% per stack to 6% in player vs player combat.

[Pending Restart] [The Black Temple] [Illidan Stormrage] Illidan Stormrage will now correctly be able to die while in Demon Form after his first Demon Phase in Phase 5 has been completed.

[Pending Restart] [The Black Temple] [Illidan Stormrage] Corrected several issues where Illidan could die at unintended times, eventually causing him to become stuck.

[Pending Restart] [The Black Temple] [Illidan Stormrage] Corrected several issues where Illidan could switch phases at uninteded times, eventually ending up in multiple phases at the same time.

[Pending Restart] [The Black Temple] [Illidan Stormrage] Illidan Stormrage will now trigger Maiev's traps correctly after leaving a Demon Phase if the raid failed to trap him in the previous normal phase.

[Pending Restart] [The Black Temple] [The Illidari Council] Corrected an issue where Gathios the Shatterer would cast the empowered version of his Consecration ability on Normal and Heroic difficulty if he held the Crown of Command.

[Pending Restart] [The Black Temple] [Sahde of Akama] Corrected an issue where Akama would take excessive healing from certain spells.

[Pending Restart] [The Black Temple] [Supremus] Corrected an issue where Supremus would not grant credit towards the Jugger-Not achievement.

[A52] There'll now be portals connecting Auberdine and Azuremyst Island to compensate the absence of the boat connecting the two places. These portals will be in the respective ports and usable by both factions.

Tomes e.g. (Tome of Lockpicking) that come from vendors Millhouse Manastorm and Harrison Jones didn't have any bindings on them, they were meant to be Bind on Pickup same as other items on the respective vendors. This fix is no live yet, but will be coming in the future, so you can still sell the extra ones you might have acquired in the meantime.

[Elune] Fixed an issue that was causing certain manastorm segments magic damage to scale higher than intended. This included the following dungeons: Scarlet Monastery, ZF, BFD, Uldaman, RFD and Maraudon.

[Pending Restart] [Elune] Crimson Initiate has had it's scripting modified, it will no longer spam cast renew if you purge the effect and instead adopt timed sequenced behaviour.

[Pending Restart] [Elune] Scarshield Acolyte has had it's scripting modified, it will no longer spam cast renew if you purge the effect and instead adopt timed sequenced behaviour.

[Both Realms] [Touched By the Light] Touched By the Light now triggers once every 2 seconds, up from once every 1 second.

[Both Realms] [Touched By the Light] While active, Touched by the Light will now cause Shroud of Light to heal you based on 25% of the damage taken, down from 30%.

[Both Realms] Increased the threat of Power Surge by 33%.

[Both Realms] Shield Mastery now increases the damage reduction of Shield Wall by 7/15%.

[Both Realms] [Mana-Forged Barrier] Increased the base threat of Mana-forged Barrier by 5%.

[Both Realms] [Crimson Champion] Power Word: Shield now reduces all damage taken by 30% down from 50% for 5 seconds.

[Both Realms] The Capstone Bonus of the Divinity talent now reduces the cooldown of Divine Protection by 1 second instead of 2 seconds when being healed by others.

[Both Realms] [New Capstone] [Elder Hide] Ironfur now increases your healing received by 4% per stack.

[Both Realms] Challenging Roar and Challenging Shout have had their cooldown reduced to 90 seconds from 180 seconds.

[Both Realms] [New Capstone] [Improved Bloodrage] Casting Bloodrage clears your current Stagger, this effect can only occur once every 30 seconds.

[Both Realms] Improved Bloodrage talent now makes Bloodrage reduce your damage taken while you are in Defensive Stance by 2/4%.

[Both Realms] Improved Defensive Stance talent now reduces your damage taken by 3/6% up from 2/4% and when you become enraged you gain 6/12% increased Physical damage up from 5/10%.

[Both Realms] [New Capstone] [Fracture] Triggering the talent also applies Fractured Defenses to the target lowering their armor by 5%, this does not stack with similar effects.

[Both Realms] The attack power reduction of the Fracture talent can now be triggered by any damaging Warrior ability.

[Area 52] [Debilitating Roar] The cooldown reduction of Challenging Roar has been adjusted to 30 seconds from 120 because the base cooldown has been changed, this still results in Challenging Roar being reduced to a 1 minute cooldown with the epic RE investment and not nerfed.

[Area 52] [Bundle of Shurikens] Weapon Scroll has been removed from the Bundle of Shurikens random enchantment.

[Area 52] [Bundle of Shurikens] Fixed a bug where Hidden Shuriken would get consumed when casting Glaive Toss at 3 stacks of Sharpened Glaive.

[Area 52] [Circle of Life] Circle of Healing and Prayer of Mending casts now grant 4 second cooldown reduction up from 3 seconds to Halo (Circle of Life).

[Area 52] [Circle of Life] Greater Heal and Flash heal casts now grant 5 second cooldown reduction up from 4 seconds to Halo (Circle of Life).

[Area 52] [Bloodsail Captain] Increased the Agility to Parry rating conversion from 20% to 30%.

[Area 52] [Bloodsail Captain] Fixed an issue causing Puncture to increase the cost of Hammer the Gap drastically instead of lowering it.

[Area 52] [Bloodsail Captain] Blurring Blade now restores 5 energy when you dodge or parry, with a one second internal cooldown.

[Area 52] [Bloodsail Captain] Blurring Blade can now trigger from dodges as well as parries.

[Area 52] [Bloodsail Captain] Increased the base threat mod of Captains Resolve from 25% to 50%.

[Area 52] [Bloodsail Captain] Hammer the Gap now generates 2 combo points.

[Area 52] [Bloodsail Captain] Increased the weapon damage of Hammer the Gap to 120% from 70% to match Devastate.

[Area 52] Fixed an issue causing the periodic damage of Ghostly Blow to trigger the 3 second cooldown reduction of Ghostly Strike in addition to its stated 1 second.

[Area 52] [Thermal Void] Arctic Bulwark refunds 3% max mana when triggered.

[Area 52] [Thermal Void] The duration of Arctic Bulwark is increased to 3 seconds from 2 seconds.

[Area 52] [Thermal Void] Increased the threat of Snowstorm and Ice Blast by a moderate amount.

[Area 52] [Thermal Void] Increase the Frost Threat increase from 30% to 50%

[Area 52] [Eldritch Knight] Increased the Threat of Eldritch Wrath by a moderate amount.

[Area 52] Increased the base damage and scaling of Frost Orb and Arcane Orb by 20%.

[Area 52] [Frost Bomb] Frost Bomb ending detonation on the main target got its base damage trippled and scaling increased 50%.

[Area 52] [Frost Bomb] Frost Bomb main target pulse got its base damage and scaling tripled.

[Area 52] [Frost Bomb] Frost Bomb ending detonation AoE got its base damage increased by 50% and scaling doubled.

[Area 52] [Frost Bomb] Frost Bomb AoE Splash Pulse got its base damage tripled and scaling increased 50%.

[Area 52] [Elemental Destruction] Elemental Destruction now increases the damage of your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning by 4% per stack.

[Area 52] [Elemental Destruction] Elemental Destruction now increases the damage of your Elemental Immolation and Flame Shock by 16% per stack.

[Area 52] [Elemental Destruction] Dealing damage with Energy Bolt now decreases the cooldown of Flame Ascendance by 6 seconds.

[Area 52] [Harbinger of Pestilence] Increased the scaling of Harbinger’s Bile by 33%.

[Area 52] [Harbinger of Pestilence] Increased the duration of the Harbinger of Pestilence Buff by 2 seconds.

[Area 52] [Harbinger of Pestilence] Harbinger of Pestilence now also reduces the cooldown of your Haunt by 0.2 sec per stack.

[Area 52] [Astral Bomber] The amount of stacks gained through Lunar Bomber, Lunar Flames, Solar Bomber and Solar Flames has been reduced to 3. The damage granted has been changed to 8% per stack of Lunar or Solar Flames. Previously, 5 stacks of Lunar or Solar Bomber would stack with 5 stacks of Lunar or Solar Flames, which at 3% damage per stack would result in 5 x 5 x 3 = 75% damage increase. Now it results in a 3 x 3 x 8 = 72% damage increase, although the damage has been decreased the compromise of a faster stack up to result in a less punishing playstyle overall will be a net buff.

[Area 52] [Midnight Flames] Casting Conflagrate will make your next Pyroblast chain to 2 additional targets.

[Area 52] [Hot Hands] Hitting a target affected by your Living Bomb with Fireball will increase the target's damage taken from your next Pyroblast by 5% and its chance to critically strike by 5%. Stacks up to 5.

[Area 52] [Righteous Flames] Holy Fire now grants 15 changers of Innerfire per target hit.

[Area 52] [Zandalari Windreaver] Reduced the damage of Loa’s Assault and Zandalari Glaive by 15%.

[Area 52] [Darkmaster] The execute damage from Drain Soul is now decreased by 25% up from 50% decrease.

[Area 52] [Shadow Visions] Vampiric Embrace now has 50% reduced effectiveness while the Shadow Visions Mystic Enchantment is active.

[Area 52] [Shadow Visions] Mind Blast empowerment now increases damage of Mind Blast by 30% down from 60%.

[Area 52] [Lava Sweep] Reduced the damage of Lava Sweep by 15%.

[Area 52] [Shadow Visions] Vampiric touch empowerment now increases damage of Vampiric Touch by 10% down from 20%.

[Area 52] [Forbidden Technique] Meditate now grants you a stack of Forbidden Chants every 3 seconds, increasing your Ranged and Melee attack power by 1% per stack stacking 5 times, the stacks are reset whenever you cast Meditate.

[Area 52] [Forbidden Technique] Added new mechanics called Dusk Blade and Dusk Shot. When you are affected by Forbidden Dance your Ambush casts have a chance at increasing the damage of your Hunter Shots by 5% per stack, stacking up to 5 times. When you are affected by Shadow Powers your Hunter Shots have a chance at increasing your Ambush damage by 5% per stack, stacking up to 5 times.

[Area 52] [Forbidden Technique] Increased the weapon damage of Shadow dagger from 36% weapon damage to 75%.

[Area 52] [Forbidden Technique] Forbidden Technique now deals 300% weapon damage from 230%.

[Area 52] [Forbidden Technique] Renamed the Shadow Daggers, Dusk Dagger is cast when you cast Ambush, Shadow Dagger is cast when you cast any Hunter Shot.

[Area 52] [Frozen Chaos] Frozen Chaos now increases the damage of your next Chaos Bolt by 35% up from 30%.

[Area 52] [Burning Darkness] Flame Born now also increases the damage of your next Conflagrate by 3% per stack.

[Area 52] [Hydromancer] Increased base damage and scaling of Electrocute by 20%.

[Area 52] [Evoker] Evoker now increases the damage of your Fireball and Arcane Missiles by 5% per stack up from 3%.

[Area 52] [Hydromancer] Conductor now increases the damage of your Electrocute by 100% per stack. Up from 60%.

[Area 52] [Fury of the Titans] Titanic Fury now also increases your melee haste by 10%.

[Area 52] [Fingers of death] Dark Winter now stacks up to 4 stacks. Up from 3.

[Area 52] [Ice Lash] Solid Ice now increases the damage of your Deep Freeze and Frostbolt by 16% per stack. Down from 20%.

[Area 52] [Overflow] Flowing now only requires 3 stacks to apply Overflowing down from 4.

[Area 52] [Titanic Mutilate] Damage of Bloodthirst is now increased by 10% per combo point. Up from 5%.

[Area 52] [Overflow] Increased the range of Overflow's heal to 12 Yards from 8 Yards.

[Area 52] [Titanic Mutilate] Titanic Mutilate now has a warrior global cooldown type (1.5 sec). Changed from rogue one (1 sec). To make the rotation timing consistent.

[Area 52] [Titanic Mutilate] Titanic Mutilate now deals 150% weapon damage per weapon hit. Up from 120%.

[Area 52] [Titanic Mutilate] Now increases cooldown reduction for Whirlwind given by Unending Fury by an additional second.

[Area 52] [Titanic Mutilate] Now increases the damage of your Whirlwind by 25%.

[Area 52] [Ice Barrage] The 5th Icicle will now trigger Brain Freeze if the final rank of Brain Freeze is known.

[Area 52] [Ice Barrage] Increase the scaling of the direct damage and dot portion of Frostflame Shock by 30%.

[Area 52] [Ice Barrage] Increased duration of Frostflame shock to 18 seconds from 12 seconds.

[Area 52] [Ice Barrage] Increase the scaling of all Icicles by 30%.

[Area 52] [Stormborn] Stormborn no longer reduces the cooldown of Shamanistic Rage; it now instead reduces the cooldown of Air Ascendance by 6 seconds.

[Area 52] [Stormborn] Stormborn now increases the damage of Lightning Shield by 75%, from 100%.

[Area 52] [Gurubashi Berserker] Gurubashi Bloodsurge now grants 25% Armor Penetration down from 50%.

[Area 52] [Stormborn] Maelstrom Weapon now increases the damage of Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning by 10% per stack against monsters.

[Area 52] [Gurubashi Berserker] Gurubashi Rage now grants 20% increased rage generation down from 50%.