Ascension Changelog

Stringy Vulture Meat, Murloc Eye, Goretusk Snout, Okra, Murloc Fin are now party wide loot. These items are apart of quests like Westfall Stew and will no longer take longer in groups.

Fixed a bug with the RPG Creature rework where Azgalor would have an extra automated loot generated. Azgalor already had his own unique weapon model available. The secondary drop was removed to keep the Epic Exclusive.

Fixed a bug where titan scrolls were applying in some start zone instances when they should not have.

[Pending Restart] - Fixed a bug where the dungeon kill experience for bosses was lower than intended.

Experience for killing all creatures in Dungeons has been increased by 10%.

Mounting in Battle Grounds will now increase your movement speed by 100% even if you do not have the riding training for it.

Corrected an issue in which an encounter with the Forgotten Avatar was dealing significantly more damage than intended with some abilities.

[Elune] - Spirit Wolves will be temporarily disabled whilst a fix to their damage is worked on.

Entering an inn will grant you a "Resting" buff. Once inside the inn for atleast 10 minutes, you will gain a 5% experience boost to killing monsters for 2 hours

[Pending Restart] - Rare Spawns in the Open World will now drop Bonus Runes of Ascension.

Since the core merge - Experience Granted via quests will now show the exact amount rather than the base amount of experience rewarded.

Fixed a bug where tomes from Millhouse Manastorm were not teaching people the spells.

Fixed a bug with Filters on Hero Architects

Fixed a bug where Wonderous Wisdomball was not working for other members of your party.

[Cache Clear Required] - Fixed a bug where some quests were not rewarding the correct amount of Runes of Ascension while leveling.

Fixed a bug with the proc behavior of Explosive Shot, Holy Shock, and Penance not triggering the spells or talents that they were before the core merge.

Fixed a bug where some made builds were not able to be seen on the architect.

Fixed an issue where you couldn't start trials upon prestiging

Fixed a bug where Mystic Enchantments were reset on prestige.

Fixed a bug where some Archetypes had the wrong Primary Stat selected.

Fixed a bug where some archetypes would stop rewarding spells at certain levels.

[Pending Restart] - Battleground Wins now reward 1,000 Runes of Ascension and Battleground Losses now reward 400 Runes of Ascension, up from 300 & 100.

[Pending Restart] - TBC Dungeon Bosses now drop 50 Runes of Ascension per kill up from 0. Heroic and Mythic TBC Dungeon Bosses now drop 100 Runes of Ascension per kill.

[Pending Restart] - Runes of Ascension are now rewarded from open world quests with objectives from level 10 and above zones. The amount of Runes of Ascensdion rewarded are determined by 2 different things: 1. The Level of the Zone. 2. The Difficulty of the Quest (Elite and Harder Quests reward more). Quests now reward between 30 to 500 Runes of Ascension.

[Pending Restart] - Runes of Ascension from Sunwell Plateau bosses increased to 500 each (up from 200).

[Pending Restart] - Runes of Ascension from Black Temple bosses increased to 500 each (up from 200).

[Pending Restart] - Runes of Ascension from Mount Hyjal bosses increased to 500 each (up from 200).

[Pending Restart] - Runes of Ascension from Zul'Aman bosses increased to 450 each (up from 200).

[Pending Restart] - Runes of Ascension from Tempest Keep bosses increased to 450 each (up from 200).

[Pending Restart] - Runes of Ascension from Serpentshrine Cavern bosses increased to 400 each (up from 200).

[Pending Restart] - Runes of Ascension from Gruul's Lair bosses increased to 500 each (up from 200).

[Pending Restart] - Runes of Ascension from Magtheridon's Lair bosses increased to 500 each (up from 200).

[Pending Restart] - Runes of Ascension from Karazhan bosses increased to 300 each (up from 200).

[Launcher] Fix launcher extensions unable to load with processors without AVX2 cpu feature.

[Launcher] Fix shop category defaults for epoch realms

Fixed a rare crash that could occur during login in both the launcher and the game.

[Pending Restart] [The Burning Crusade Dungeons] [Mythic Plus]: Increased the hard key cap to 125 from 100. Corrected an issue where key level 100 did not increase in scaling from key level 99.

[Launcher] Fix Lutris installation script for GE-Proton by @burneddi

[Launcher] Fixed infinite update loop on PTR.

[Pending Restart] - Luck of the Draw now gives you a Flat Amount of Stats rather than a percentage increase.

[Blackrock Caverns] - The adds from the last boss will no longer respawn if you wipe.

[Pending Restart] [Sunwell Plateau] [High Commander Arynyes]: The attack power Arynyes can gain from her Vengeance mechanic is now capped at 2000 (200.000 Focus). 2000 attack power roughly tripples Arynyes melee attack damage. Note that this high values are more common to occur on Elune then on Area 52.

[Launcher] Fixed first install button design.

Removed username, display name from registration, new users will be required to sign in using their emails.

Removed Mystic Orbs and Mystic Runes from Path to Ascension UI and increased Mark of Ascension baseline to 250 from all tutorials.

[Launcher] Added a Settings button next to the Play button to streamline access to auto‑login controls and related options.

Passwords are now case‑sensitive and must exactly match your website password.

[Launcher] Reworked auto login behavior.

Password length increased to 72 characters.

[Pending Restart] [Sunwell Plateau] [Felmyst]: Corrected an issue where Felmyst would miss a spot when breathing Necrotic Deluge over the battlefield when flying on the most northern line.

[Pending Restart + Update] - [A52] - [Elune] The most frequented NPCs like Chromie/Silas/Burth/StonyTark will now have collision to help prevent players from overlapping/covering them and making them harder to interact during gameplay.

[Pending Restart] Elementals in Elemental Plateau now drop their respective Elemental Lodestones!

[Pending Restart] The 'More Arcane Tomes' and 'More Fel Armaments' turn-in quests are now available for the Scryers and the Aldor, respectively. These quests allow you to turn in 5 items at a time.

[Pending Restart] [Pending Patch] [The Underbog] [Ghaz'an]: The area covered by Three Headed Strike will now be visually displayed.

[Pending Restart] [Pending Patch] [The Underbog] [Ghaz'an]: Three Headed strike now has a 1 second casting time and the three attacks will now occur in quick succession after another instead of at once in the same moment.

[Pending Restart] [Pending Patch] [The Underbog] [Ghaz'an]: Ghaz'ans strikes can now be blocked, parried and dodged unless stated otherwise. Ghaz'ans strikes now have unique names for each attack. The middle heads strike is now Fierce Three Headed Strike and behaves like a Fierce Blow. It is still a cleave. The left heads strikes can not be dodged. The right heads cleave can not be parried.

[Pending Restart] [Pending Patch] [The Underbog] [Ghaz'an]: Corrected an issue where Ghaz'an's three headed strike was secretly a four headed strike.

Fixed an issue where there was a Copper Vein Ore that could never be mined because it was located right at the intersection of Northshire Valley and Elwynn Forest.

[Pending Restart] - [Area-52] - [Elemental Assassin] - Elemental Blades now increase the damage of your Stormstrike by 35% in PvP combat, reduced from 65%.

[Pending Restart] [Area-52] [Dominant Word: Shield] - Now requires Spirit allocation.

[Pending Restart] [Area-52] [Spell Shredder] - Elemental Rend (Frost) (Nature) & (Fire) now deal 15% reduced damage in PvP combat.

[Pending Restart] [Area-52] [Spell Shredder] - Elemental Shredder (Frost) (Nature) & (Fire) now deal 15% reduced damage in PvP combat.

[Pending Restart] [Area-52] Feint no longer has an additional affect in PvP combat.

The recent changes also received PvP mod reductions and their overall power is mostly unchanged for PvP.

+ [Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Mending Tides] – Now requires Spirit Allocation.

+ [Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Mending Tides] – Casting Riptide now triggers Improved Chain Heal capstone if-know.

+ [Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Cauterizing Flames] – Flames of the Apostate now increase healing done by circle of healing by 25% per stack from 20% per stack.

+ [Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Seed of Life] – Seed of Life has it's scaling decreased by 30%.

+ [Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Seed of Life] – Seed of Life Period was buffed to 1 sec from 3 sec

+ [Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Vampire Lord] – Unholy Light now trigger Vampiric Bond.

+ [Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Vampire Lord] – Unholy Light base and scaling was increased by 30%.

+ [Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Vampire Lord] – Unholy Light Cast time was reduced from 2.3 sec to 2.2 sec

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Evoker] – Evoker buff now increases the damage of all Mage spells by 4% per stack, buffed from 3%.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Compound Power] – Increased the weapon damage of Compound Shot to 510% at max combo points, buffed from 460%.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Blood and Guts] – Increased the base damage of Disembowel by 20% at max level.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Blood and Guts] – Doubled the base damage of Executing Disembowel.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Blood for the Blood God] – Bathe in Blood now increases the damage of your bleed effects by 7% per stack, buffed from 6%.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Prophet of Wrath] – Prophet of Wrath now increases your spell critical strike damage bonus by 65%, buffed from 60%.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Thunder Slam] – Thunder Slam now deals 250% weapon damage at max level, buffed from 205%.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Primordial Fury] – Primordial Fury now has a new mechanic: Triggering Primordial Fury decreases the cast time by 20% and increases the damage against monsters by 20% for your next Elemental Blast.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Pure Shadow] – Pure Shadow buff now also increases the damage Shadow Bolt deals to monsters by 4% per stack.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Heavyweight] – Crush no longer reduces its damage past 5 targets.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Shadow Visions] – Now increases the damage of your next Mind Blast by 65%, buffed from 50%.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Shadow Visions] – Engulfing Shadows now increases Shadow damage taken by 12% and damage taken from Vampiric Touch by 15%, buffed from 8%/10% respectively.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Molten Earth] – Doubled the base damage and scaling of the Molten Earth proc.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Molten Earth] – Molten Earth now has a 30% Attack Power and Spell Power scaling on its initial damage, buffed from 0%.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Deadly Bite] – Increased the base damage and scaling of Deadly Bite by 20%.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Dragon Warrior] – Draconic Slam now deals 250% weapon damage, buffed from 220%.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Dragon Warrior] – Dragon Roar no longer reduces its damage past 3 targets.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Lava Sweep] – Lava Sweep now deals 135% weapon damage at max level, buffed from 120%.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Gurubashi Berserker] – The damage penalty from Gurubashi Berserker stacks has been removed.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Consecrated Strikes] – Now teaches you Templar’s Slash, a physical weapon conal attack dealing 250% weapon damage at max level.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Consecrated Strikes] – Consecrated Strikes now causes your Seal of Command to deal 30% Physical Weapon damage, changed from 20% Holy Weapon damage.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Booming Thunder] – Chain Lightning now loses 10% less damage with each jump.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Booming Thunder] – Booming Thunder now increases the effectiveness of Booming Echoes Capstone to 15%, buffed from 10%.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Verdant Convergence] – Eclipse (Solar) is now extended by 0.75 sec, buffed from 0.5 sec.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Verdant Convergence] – Increased the base damage and scaling of Earthpulse Agony by 35%.

[Pending Restart] [Area 52] [Verdant Convergence] – Nature’s Grace now increases the damage of Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning by 30%, buffed from 18%.

Fixed a bug where Deterrence would not remove stun effects when used.

[Pending Restart + Clear Cache] All currently available Stones of Retreat had their descriptions updated to reflect their use correcly. You are now able to add opposite faction stones to your Vanity Collection, Faction restriction for using the spell still apply same as before. Also now you can add stones to your Vanity collection that would otherwise require different Expansion to be available, example now you can add TBC stone for future use to your collection while Vanilla is current expansion. And lastly "Sanctum of the Stars" (The Scryers) and "Altar of Sha'tar" (The Aldor) now indicate and are useable if you are not Hostile to said faction (Guards attack = not have good time).