Ascension Changelog

Fixed an issue where the Ascension Store would not properly apply the users localization option. This fix will also apply to the Laucher following the next launcher update.

[Pending Restart] [Karazhan] [Shade of Aran] Medivh's Mana Wyrms once again cast Astral Bite.

[Pending Restart] [Karazhan] [Shade of Aran] The Shade of Aran now prefers to cast at a different target than his previous target when using his basic spells.

[Pending Restart] [Karazhan] [Shade of Aran] The Shade of Aran will now react to players wearing a Mythic version of Atiesh.

[Pending Restart] [Karazhan] [Terestian Illhoof] Corrected an issue where Kil'rek's corpse would not despawn when being resummoned.

[Pending Restart] [Karazhan] [Terestian Illhoof] Corrected an issue where the Soul Link debuff applied to his Soul Linked target was not visible on Mythic and Ascended difficulty.

[Pending Restart] [Karazhan] [Nightbane] Nightbane now uses a special set of Draconic Attacks instead of normal auto-attacks when attacking in melee. These attacks operate the same as normal auto-attacks and Fierce Blows but allow him to complete his attack animations instead of canceling them in between swings.

[Pending Restart] [Karazhan] [Nightbane] Nightbane no longer requires the quest "Kalynnas Request" to be completed or in the player's quest log to be summoned at any time. This restriction was previously removed with the release of Serpent Shrine Caverns.

[Pending Restart] [Karazhan] [The Opera] Players who completed the quest "The New Directive," awarding The Badge of the Violet Eye, are now able to talk to Barnes inside Karazhan before starting The Opera event and select which encounter they want to play.

[Pending Restart] [Karazhan] [The Opera] Players now have the option to kindly ask Barnes to skip his introduction of the show after he did it once.

[Pending Restart] [Karazhan] [Moroes] Corrected an issue where Moroes could summon duplicates of already defeated guests when reaching 20% health on Mythic and Ascended difficulty.

[Pending Restart] [Karazhan] [Attumen and Midnight] Corrected an issue where Shadow Fury, cast by Spectral Steeds, had a corrupted spell visual.

[Pending Restart] [Karazhan] [All Bosses] Updated all boss encounters to the latest raid standards.

[Pending Restart] [Karazhan] [General] Archmage Leryda in front of Karazhan will now offer recovery for the Violet Badge from the quest "The New Directive".

[Pending Restart] [Karazhan] [General] Corrected the ring recovery system on Archmage Leryda in front of Karazhan. Players can now correctly recover rings from the Violet Champion line.

[Verdant Convergence] Fixed an issue where Sunburst had higher scaling than intended.

[Verdant Convergence] Increased the duration of Earthpulse Agony by 2 seconds.

[Darkmaster] Ruptured Soul now makes your target take 25% increased damage from the casters Shadow damage over time effects. Up from 20%.

[Spell Shredder] Increased duration of Elemental Overpower buffs to 15 seconds. Up from 12.

[Temporal Blast] Eclipse (Lunar) now correctly increases the damage of your Starfire and now also increases the damage of your Starsurge by 15%. This effect was not working properly previously.

[White Walker] Frozen Blade (Passive): Your Eviscerate has a 20% chance per combo point to grant you Fingers of Frost and Blades of Ice.

[White Walker] New mechanic Blades of Ice: Your next 3 Sinister Strikes will deal 50% additional damage against monsters.

[Predator's Wrath] Wrathful Strikes now increases the damage of your Wrath by 50%. Up from 40%.

[Lava Sweep] Doomhammer's Fury increases the direct damage of your Pyroblast, Fire Blast, Flame Shock and Lava Burst by 25% and enables them to trigger your Maelstrom Weapon and replenish mana.

[Lava Sweep] Lava Sweep weapon damage contribution increased to 100% and additional 100% if your main hand is enchanted with Flametoungue Weapon.

[Lava Sweep] Lava Sweep is a learned spell now, instead of transform. Enabling players to ALSO play this with Titan’s Grip and utiliying Lava Lash as a twist on the build.

[Lava Sweep] Eruption now stacks up to 3 stacks and gives 15% critical chance increase to Pyroblast and Fire Blast per stack.

[Twilight Paragon] Increased base damage and scaling of Twilight Torment and Twilight Treason by 10%.

[Flame On!] Damage contribution of the Flame On! buff has been shifted to promote better endgame scaling. Now it reads: Your chance to criticaly strike with Fire Blast and Meteor is increased by 15%. In addition, your damage with Fire Blast and Meteor is increased by 35% (15% against players). Stacks up to 3 times.

[Booming Thunder] New mechanic: Effects of your Booming Echoes capstone are doubled.

[Arcane Thunder Seer] Arcane Thunder now increases the damage of your next Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning by 4% (it was 4/3% previously). The buff to Chain Lightning no longer increases damage of other abilities (like Forked Lightning). These changes are aimed to address the exponentiality of the AoE damage potential with this spec.

[Arcane Thunder Seer] Incanter's Thunder mechanic removed. Spellstorm Arcane Missiles will now fire off on enemies hit by your Chain Lightning. The damage of Spellstorm Arcane Missiles was increased to account for this.

[Evoker] Evoker buff now: Increases the damage of Fireball and Arcane Missiles by 2%. Down from 3%.

[Disciple of Arugal] Increased damage gain from Tainted by 30% and removed the 20% crit chance buff on both Unstable Affliction and Curse of Agony.

[Frost Bomb] Increased the damage of Frost Bomb Pulse on your main target by 20%.

Cataclysm (lucifer) damage reduced by 20% in pvp combat.

[Pending Restart] Book of Ascension will no longer have a nameplate. (Like other non-combat pets, to not clutter nameplates in PvP.)

Fixed an issue where Model F00D-R3PA1R (Battleground Bot) did not provide items to players above level 61, this NPC will now provide consumables from 61 to 65 and from 65 to 70.

[Pending Restart] Pets can no longer be affected by Angelic Feather.

[Area 52] Changed the cost of the Beast Mastery Talent from 2 Rares to 1 Epic Gem.

Incarnate Raiment (4) Increases your spell critical strike rating by 10% of your Spirit

Incarnate Raiment items were reitemized. Added more spell power and spirit while decreasing intellect and removing mp5.

Aldor Regalia (4) Increases your hit rating by 35.

Incarnate Raiment (2) Increases your healing power by 5% of your Spirit.

Aldor Regalia (2) Reduces spell pushback suffered from damaging attacks by 66%.

Demon Stalker Armor (4) Expose Weakness now grants additional attack power by 5% of your Agility.

Warbringer Battlegear (4) Shredding Blows now gains an additional 5% armor penetration.

Warbringer Battlegear (2) Increases the damage of your Deep Wounds by 15%.

Incarnate Regalia (2) Increases your spirit by 5%.

Incarnate Regalia (4) Increases your hit rating by 4% of your Spirit.

Malorne Raiment (2) proc made more consistent.

Malorne Harness (4) Now grants 50 attack power and no longer requires cat form.

Malorne Harness (2) now generates 15 energy and no longer requires cat form (proc chance was adjusted to reflect this)

Malorne Regalia (4) Increases your spirit by 50.

Cyclone Harness items were reitemized. MP5 and STR were removed in favour of more AGI, SP, AP

Malorne Regalia (2) proc made more consistent.

Cyclone Harness (4) Increases your physical damage done by 2% and your spell critical strike chance by 2%.

Cyclone Raiment items were reitemized, stats were shifted more towards crit to support itemization of current shaman-like specs.

Cyclone Harness (2) Increases your hit rating by 4% of your Agility.

Cyclone Raiment (2) Regenerate mana equal to 5% of your Intellect every 5 seconds. Even while casting.

Cyclone Raiment (4) Reduces the cooldown on your Nature's Swiftness ability 10 seconds.

Cyclone Regalia items were reitemized. MP5 was removed in favour of other stats.

Cyclone Regalia (4) proc made more consistent.

Justicar Raiment (2) Increases your Intellect by 5%.

Cyclone Regalia (2) Increases your spell power by 30.

Justicar Battlegear items were reitemized.

Justicar Battlegear (4) Tripples the effect of Conviction Capstone bonus.

Justicar Armor (4) Increases the damage dealt by your Shield of Righteousness by 15%.

Justicar Battlegear (2) Increases your spell power and attack power by 20.

T4 Sets and their itemization was slightly modernized (This is not a full comprehensive rework, this is more of a QoL, opening the sets up for more classless gameplay)

Netherblade (2) Increases your hit chance by 3%.

[Wind Rager] Fixed a visual tooltip issue where Hurricane Strike mentioned Furious Winds, a deprecated mechanic.

[Astral Bomber] Cleaned up the tooltip to make the mechanics of the enchant more clear and reduced the text size from a game of thrones book length to a harry potter book length.

[Harbinger of Flame] Fixed an issue where Flame Burst was not hitting nearby enemies. (Pending Server Restart)

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Hammerstorm could be procced without being affected by either Defensive Stance or Righteous Fury.

Fixed an issue where some High-Risk Dailies were not set to 2500 marks.

[Pending Restart] Added Badges of Justice to all higher Level TBC normal dungeon bosses (68+).

Astral Storm damage reduced by 10% in pvp combat.

Fireball damage increased by 10% in pvp combat.

Pyroblast damage increased by 5% in pvp combat.

[Requires Launcher Update] Significantly reduced the intensity, and duration of the reveal flash animation on draft cards when Auto Reveal is enabled.

[Pending Restart] Ambidextrous now gives 20% bonus off-hand damage versus players, changed from 30%.

[Pending Restart] Hypnosis now lasts 30 sec versus monsters. Fixed an issue where Hypnosis lasted 6 sec, instead of 8 sec versus players.

[Pending Restart] Fear Ward now has a 1 second global cooldown.

Focused burst damage reduced by 5% in pvp combat.

[Pending Restart] Reduced damage taken in pvp by 5%.

Fel concentration healing reduced by 20% in pvp combat.

Gift of the naaru healing reduced by 10% in pvp combat

Chaos burn damage reduced by 30% in pvp combat

Drain life Damage reduced by 10% in pvp combat

[Pending Restart] Fear Ward now has a 2.5s duration, changed from 3. It now has a 0.5 sec delay before it can be used again. (The previous change of giving it a global cooldown has been reverted.)

[Pending patch] Clarified the tooltips of Deflection and Ghostlike Reflexes.

[Pending restart] Removed the PvP mod (-40%) of Improved Devouring Plague. This talent was redesigned without getting an update to its PvP mod, which this fixes.

[Pending restart] Fixed an issue where the Amplify Curse capstone effect dealt far less damage than intended. This change should increase its damage by 200%-500% depending on your gear/build.

[Draft] Fixed an issue where Healing Rain was costing a rare gem. It will now register as common. Keep in mind it may visually appear as Rare until a patch update, but will not take up rare gem slots.

[Harbinger of Flame] [Pending Restart] The damage over time effect from Flame Burst now scales from 4.57% of your spell power and attackpower per tick.

Fixed an issue where Natural Perfection could become permanent instead of lasting for the next 3 hits.

[Verdant Convergence] Now displays an error letting you know you cannot manually cast Insect Swarm while the enchant is active instead of saying you cannot do this right now. (pending server restart)

[Verdant Convergence] Clarified and improved tooltips. (Pending Spell Patch)

[Pending Restart] [Munitions Expert] [Sharpshooter] Fixed an issue where Quick-Draw and Armor Piercing buffs were affecting the cast speed of the Sharpshooter Mystic Enchantment.