Ascension Changelog

[Pending Restart} Fixed an issue where the Shield of the Templar capstone did not always properly increase the amount of extra targets struck by Shield of Righteousness.

Fixed an issue where Fire Shield from Summon Imp had too high spell power scaling.

[Pending Restart] [Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian] The on-use spell slot of Atiesh now holds a transform spell for every version, allowing the user to cycle through the different versions of Atiesh.

[Pending Restart] [Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian] Atiesh no longer summons the portal to Karazhan on use. Instead equipping any Atiesh now teaches the player Portal: Karazhan, wish can be found under the General tab in players spell book. Unequipping Atiesh unlearns the portal automatically.

[Pending Restart] [Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian] All auras of Atiesh now diminish in effect with the carriers level by 5% for every level above 60. This means at level 70 their effect is halfed, at 80 they do not grant anymore benefit.

[Pending Restart] [Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian] All auras of Atiesh now effect the entire raid rather then just the group of the carrier and the radius has been increased to 40 yards up from 30.

[Pending Restart] [Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian] Atiesh no longer needs to be reequiped after death to activate its aura.

[Pending Restart] [Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian] The Crit Rating aura of Atiesh now effects all crit rating, previously would only effect spell crit rating.

[Pending Restart] [Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian] Added a fourth aura option granting 30 Haste Rating.

[Pending Restart] [Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian] Renamed the different auras applied by the Atieshs to unique names, making it easier to distinquish them.

[Pending Restart] [Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian] Corrected an issue where some versions of Atiesh had wrong spells applied.

[Pending Restart] [Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian] Corrected an issue where some versions of Atiesh would crash players clients if player hovered over them with their mouse.

+ [Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where the Silence in the Library Worldforged Mystic Enchantment was set to Arcane damage, and was unable to crit. It's now properly doing Physical damage and can inflict critical strikes.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where the 3 set bonus from Ahn'Qiraj Ruins for hunters had a very spammable visual causing too much visual clutter during dungeon and raid encounters.

[Pending Restart] [In for the Kill] Fixed an issue where In For the Kill could trigger the Taste for Blood capstone without Rend being present on the target.

[Pending Restart] Divine Purpose is now a 3 rank talent, changed from 5. It now reduces the cooldown of Hand of Freedom by 2/4/6 sec.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] Solar Burn damage over time (Knight of the Eclipse) now deals 10% reduced damage versus players.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] Serpent Venom now deals 20% reduced damage versus players.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] Seal of Fervor now deals 15% reduced damage versus players.

[Pending Restart] Stormborn now deals 10% reduced damage versus players.

Shadowcrawl (Shadowfiend spell) now increases its damage by 35%, changed from 15%.

[Pending Restart] Holy Specialization now reduces the cast time of damaging or healing Holy spells, changed from all Holy spells. (Meaning it no longer works with for example Repentance and Blinding Light.)

[Pending Restart] Shadowfiend attacks now restores 30% base mana, changed from 25%.

[Pending Restart] Art of War no longer reduces the cast time of Repentance.

[Pending Restart] Incinerate now deals 5% increased damage versus players.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] Mind Blast now deals 5% reduced damage versus players.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] Bloodthirst while in Bear Form now deals 15% increased damage versus players.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] Bloodthirst now deals 10% reduced damage versus players.

[Pending Restart] Claw now deals 10% less damage while Razor Claws Mystic Enchant is active.

[Pending Restart] Intervene (Pet) now lasts 3 seconds, changed from 5. It now has a 40 sec cooldown, changed from 35.

[Pending Restart] Dampening in arena now stacks up every 8 sec, changed from 10.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Goldrinn's Focus did not always increase Mind Sear damage by 20%.

[Pending Restart] Goldrinn's Focus now increases your Mind Flay and Mind Sear damage by 33% versus players, changed from 66%.

[Ascension Database] Fixed an issue where the "Modified By" tab would not be displayed for certain spells (this was a very specific issue that only affected a handful of spells)

[Pending Restart] Clarified the tooltip of Living Seed to state that it will trigger when the target takes direct spell or melee attacks.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Living Seed would not correctly trigger from all Direct damage spells or attacks.

Fixed the typo with Heroic Bloodforged The Unholy Blade. It is no longer balde.

[Pending Restart] Clarified the tooltip of the Titanic Finale Random Enchantment to properly indicate that you need Enrage rank 5 talented for the enrage damage increase to work.

Corrected an issue where a recent update caused the Normal Shard of the Fallen Star to have to high of a scaling. Its scaling is now back to its intended values.

Corrected the Horde Version stats of the Plate Gear in PvP Prog 5.

Reverted the recent change where certain pet abilities could only be used while the pet was in combat.

Fixed an issue where some versions of the Shard of the Fallen star item did not have its PvP mod applied.

[Thrall] Shard of the Fallen Star now deals 60% less damage in pvp.

[Thrall] Shard of the Fallen Star now deals 60% less damage in pvp.

[Requires Restart] Shard of the Fallen Star now deals 60% less damage in pvp.

[Thrall] Shard of the Fallen Star Damage reduced by 60% in pvp (will monitor this and tune accordingly).

[Pending Restart] [Naxxramas] [Kel'Thuzad] Corrected an issue where Kel'thuzads Frost Room would not build correctly.

[Pending Restart] [Naxxramas] [Kel'Thuzad] Kel'Thuzad no longer casts Death and Decay while in his Frost Room Phases.

[Pending Restart] [Naxxramas] [Kel'Thuzad] Reduced the duration of Phase 1 by 60 seconds.

[Pending Restart] [Naxxramas] [Kel'Thuzad] Mana Bomb now destroys 75% of targets mana down from 100%.

[Pending Restart] [Naxxramas] [Grobbulus] Increased the time between Construct activations to 60 seconds up from 45 seconds.

[Pending Restart] [Naxxramas] [Gothik the Harvester] Corrected an issue where Gothik would not filter targets on the Undead Side from Harvest Soul target application on Ascended Difficulty.

[Pending Restart] [Naxxramas] [Gothik the Harvester] Gothik now casts Soul Bolt instead of Shadow Bolt.

[Pending Restart] [Naxxramas] [Gothik the Harvester] Reduced the Potency of Harvest Soul to 5% per stack. This change also applies to the Shade of Gothik the Harvester during the Kel'Thuzad fight.

[Pending Restart] [Naxxramas] [Noth the Plaguebringer] Reduced the level of Plagued Champions to 61 down from 62. Plagued Champions now have less Health and Damage and are no longer immune to most forms of soft and hard CC.

[Pending Restart] [Naxxramas] [Anub'Rekhan] Crypt Guards are no longer immune to Stun and Silence effects.

[Pending Restart] [Naxxramas] [Anub'Rekhan] Increased the cast time of Crypt Guards Pain Spike to 4 seconds up from 3.

[Cryotherapist] Fixed an issue where under certain circumstances you were able to use Icy Penance while below level 60.

Area-52: Zul'Aman is no longer "Snapping" to 10 or 25 player difficulty on ascended. You can now bring 10 to 25 players and the difficulty and health of the creatures will now adjust accordingly to the instance on Ascended!

[Ascension Database] Fixed an issue where color codes were not properly parsed for item Enchants/Enchantments on the Item Comparison tool.

[Ascension Database] Fixed an issue where in some circumstances NPC loot items would fail to show their required Quest condition.

Added Riposte, Ghostly Strike, Shuriken Toss and Shiv to the Upper Hand Epic RE.

[Ascension Database] Integrated comments from Wowhead for the Quest category. This provides some extra useful information when looking up details about a quest.

Inducing Trauma will now properly refresh the Rend transform spell Hydra's Venom.

[Pending Restart] You now heal for 5% less in Battlegrounds and 1v1 arena.

[Pending Restart] You now take 5% less damage versus players.

[Requires Restart] Corpse runner now will also increase swim speed by 100% as well.

[Thrall] Beast Nest Bait has been temporarily disabled while we resolve an issue with them.

[Thrall] Greedy Demons will now drop Naxx chests.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where the Ebbing Tides Totem Worldforged Enchant was only increasing Nature healing, Holy spells will now also benefit from the buff.

[Emanating Light] [Pending Restart] Clarified the tooltip of Emanating Light to state that it does not work with the Holy Ground Mystic Enchantment.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Seals of the Pure was not correctly increasing the damage dealt by Seal of Righteousness or Seal of Fervor.

[Naxxramas] - Gothik's Harvest Soul is now 3% per stack from 5% per stack but now stacks up to 25 times, up from 19 times.

Temporarily disabled Heroic Leap in Naxxramas.

[Requires restart] Siegebreaker no longer resets the cooldown of intercept through dance of death

Siegebreaker no longer resets the cooldown of intercept through dance of death

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Wrath with Solar Knight active was not getting its damage increase.

Fixed an issue where Hand of Guldan was castable while moving.

Scholomance Door no longer requires the key to gain access to the door that allows you to enter the dungeon (this was an unnecessary restriction that added tension with the Mythic+ system).

[Pending restart] Fixed an issue where the Agility One-Handed bonus reduced the global cooldown of certain abilities more than the intended 10%.

[Pending restart] The Agility One-Handed bonus now also reduces the cost (energy, rage or mana) of affected melee abilities by 10%. This is intended to offset the increased cost that comes with using abilities faster, so that your resource usage doesn't go up when you get this bonus.

[Website] Implemented a visual notifier to all Bug Reports that have been responded to by a member of the Ascension Staff Team to make communication more visible.

[Pending Restart] [Prayer of Preservation] Preservation has had its Base Healing and coefficient reduced by 40%. Developer Notes: These changes come to curb the dominance of Prayer of Preservation especially inside of the Mythic+ environment. We are reviewing changes to troublesome Mythic+ affixes that can only be effectively dealt with in an efficient manner by Prayer of Preservation but also raid mechanics where Prayer of Preservation was used to strong arm the encounters in order to make them feel more diversified in the builds that can effectively tackle these kinds of mechanics in future.

[Pending Restart] [Prayer of Preservation] Prayer of Preservation now has a 15 second cooldown up from 12 seconds.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where the Penance bolts procced from Prayers of the Penitent was doing less damage then intended, and not scaling properly from spell damage.

Updated the daily dungeon diving quests for Upper and Lower Scholomance, They are separate quests that now only require the last boss of each respective dungeon.

[Pending Restart] Lunar Knight now increases the damage of your Starfire versus players by 5% per stack, changed from no increase.

[Pending Restart] Solar Knight now increases the damage of your Wrath versus players by 5% per stack, changed from no increase.

[Pending Restart] When Sweeping Swings is active, your Sweeping Strikes now deal 25% less damage versus players.

[Pending Restart] Eviscerate (Solar Strike) now deals 15% less damage to players.

[Pending Restart] Properly fixed an issue where Sweeping Strikes attacks could hit the main target.

[Pending Restart] Reduced the damage of Arcane Bullet by 15% in PvP.

[Pending Restart] Heroic Entrance now causes your Heroic Leap to deal 70% increased damage versus players, changed from 80%.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Harnessed Energy would work while Arcane Gunslinger is active.

[Pending Restart] The Blessed Resilience buff now requires Spirit Primary Stat to trigger.

[Pending Restart] Instant Poison now deals 10% less damage to players.

[Pending Restart] Pyroblast now deals 5% less damage in PvP.

[Pending Restart][Righteous Flames] Number of charges granted by your Inner Fire is reduced by 50%. Up from 25%. This is a temporary change to address the outlier performance of Righteous Flames while still ensuring it remains a strong option. Bigger overhaul is planned for the next major update.

[Charged Tides] Fixed an issue where in some circumstances you could generate a stack of Charged Tides but instantly consume the stack generated despite the cast not benefitting from Charged Tides effects.

[Charged Tides] Fixed an issue where Charged Tides effects weren't being consumed by Living Lightning. It will now correctly benefit from and consume the effects of Charged Tides.