Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2022/10/04

General

New

[Requires Launcher Update] Auctions are now be sorted by lowest buyout cost per unit. Sorting auctions using the bid column will instead sort by buyout cost per unit.

2022/10/03

Item Changes

Change

[Pending Restart] [Items] [Ancient Aqir Artefact] Corrected an issue where the Normal Version of the Ancient Aqir Artefact had no effect.

Dungeons & Raids

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[Pending Restart] [Zul'Aman] [Zul'jin] The Grand Theft Amani Achievement will now be rewarded to all player inside the raid as long as the criteria is meet by atleast one player.

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[Pending Restart] [Zul'Aman] [Zul'jin] Corrected an issue where the Grand Theft Amani Achievement was not correctly awarded.

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[Pending Restart] [Zul'Aman] [Zul'jin] Zul'jin's Berserking Heal will now first start to tick again after he has recovered from his stun state after finishing his Bladestorm instead of immediately starting to heal after his Bladestorm is finished.

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[Pending Restart] [Zul'Aman] [Zul'jin] Zul'jin will now grab player back on to his battlefield if they leave his platform using a Gabbling Hook.

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[Pending Restart] [Zul'Aman] [Zul'jin] Increased the time between Stampeding Spirit Bear waves being summoned by 6 seconds on all difficulties.

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[Pending Restart] [Zul'Aman] [Zul'jin] Reduced the damage dealt by Turbulent Winds on all difficulties by 50%.

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[Pending Restart] [Zul'Aman] [Hex Lord Malacrass] Corrected an issue where Hex Lord Malacrass would not start casting Drain Soul after one of his servants died. Hex Lord Malacrass will now correctly start to cast Drain Soul instead of Drain Power as soon as his first servant died after being resurrected once instead of his first servants disappearance.

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[Pending Restart] [Zul'Aman] [Nalorakk] Nalorakk will now only yell once per summon of Stampeding Spirit Bears.

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[Pending Restart] [Zul'Aman] [Nalorakk] Corrected an issue where Nalorakk would command his Stampeding Spirit Bears to charge the same target multiple times.

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[Pending Restart] [Zul'Aman] [Akilzon] Reduced the damage dealt by Turbulent Winds on all difficulties by 50%.

Mystic Enchants

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[Pending restart] Fixed an issue where Combo Shot from Compound Power Mystic Enchantment still couldn't proc the Sharpshooter Mystic Enchant.

2022/09/30

Talents & Abilities

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Imps from Hand of Guldan now deals 30% reduced damage versus players.

Change

Starfire now deals 5% reduced damage versus players. It previously did not have a PvP mod.

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Arcane Missiles now deals 15% reduced damage versus players, changed from 10%.

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Living Bomb now deals 35% reduced damage versus players, changed from 30%.

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Shadow Word: Pain now deals 45% reduced damage versus players, changed from 40%.

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Curse of Agony now deals 20% reduced damage versus players, changed from 15%.

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[Alar] Wrath now deals 5% reduced damage versus players while the Knight of the Eclipse mystic enchant is active.

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Spirit Bond rank 1 now regenerates 3% base health every 20 sec, changed from 2% base health every 10 sec.

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Spirit Bond rank 2 now regenerates 3% base health, changed from 4%.

Change

Nether Whelp now has the Twilight Blast spell instead of Horrify. (It was never intended to have Horrify which gave this pet 2 crowd control effects which ended up being too powerful.)

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Fixed an issue where Shadow Word: Death self damage could deal higher damage than what it dealt to the enemy.

2022/09/28

Item Changes

New

[Pending Restart] High Inquisitor Qormaladon will now restore lost "Empowered Insignia of the Burning Legion +" trinkets with the "Replace Lost Trinkets" gossip option, whether they were misplaced, or if you were a Felforged from the previous event!

2022/09/26

General

Change

[Requires Restart] Felforged now have a max PvP combat range of 5 levels in Group zones specifically. This deals with an issue that would cause you to be unable to attack some opponents who were in groups because of level difference.

Change

Felforged Caches from reaching certain Levels will now give Felforged Sealed Card packs

Website

New

[Website & Launcher] Fixed issues where account currencies like DP/LP/RDP would not cross-update between the launcher and website when spent without refreshing the page.

Change

[Launcher] Updated initialization process when installing the game with the goal of reducing stuck downloads.

New

[Website & Launcher] Websocket implementation has been rewritten to improve real-time network request performance and stability.

2022/09/25

General

Change

Fixed an issue where looting chests as a solo player was no longer granting experience as intended

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[Requires Restart] Buffed many of the Fel Perks

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Legion Caches will now grant experience on opening them.

Change

[Requires Restart] The Felforged Fel Portal will now show you when your next location unlocks.

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[Requires Restart] Added additional Tutorials to Felforged

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Added Quest Experience to the pvp Questchain for Felforged

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[Requires Restart] Using the Twisting Nether portal will now automatically give Felforged all relevant quests.

Change

Increased drop chance of Blues for Felforged levels 20-27

Change

Azzezel now offers a quest rewarding a Felfire steed for killing 100 players in the Twisting Nether.

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[Requires Restart] Reaching 99 Stacks of Twisted Fate will now kill you.

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[Requires Restart] Fel Iron keys are now obtained from Fel Iron Caches shown on your map and also killing players.

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[Requires Restart] Reduced health of rares in Escape the Apocalypse event by 20%.

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Fixed an issue where Twisted Fate is not removed from pets when leaving the Twisting Nether.

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Killing players in the Twisting Nether will now remove 5 stacks of Twisted Fate

Talents & Abilities

Change

[Pending Restart] - Hand of Guldan is now available on Area-52!

Mystic Enchants

Change

[Pending Restart] - Demonic Persistence is now available on Area-52!

2022/09/24

General

Change

Fixed an issue where you could group on Escape from Apocalypse Twisting Nether map

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[Requires Restart] Added additional Greedy Demon Spawn Locations to Twisting Nether

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Doubled Drop Chances of Bloodforged gear for Max level felforged in the Open World.

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Increased aggro radius on creatures in Twisting Nether.

Change

Updated waypoints on various creatures in Twisting Nether.

Change

Escape from the Apocalypse will now require a Fel Iron key to leave using Fel Gateways. These are obtained from killing rare monsters and other heroes.

Change

[Requires Restart] Twisted Fate will now also affect pets

Change

Fixed Life Drain tick rate on Ur'zul Fiend

Change

[Requires Restart] Fixed problems with Creatures not respawning on Twisting Nether map.

Change

Fixed issues with healing in the Twisting Nether Apocalypse map.

Talents & Abilities

Change

Fixed the tooltip of several spells related to Wild Imps from Hand of Guldan and specifically stated which talent affects the Wild Imps, and how they affect the Wild Imps.

Change

[Pending Restart] - Hand of Guldan now summons 4 Wild Imps baseline, but Decimation now increases the number of Wild Imps by 1/2, down from 2/4. With this, the average number of Wild Imps throughout the fight is slightly increased. This simply shifts some of the power from execute to being stronger baseline, while also increasing its overall performance.

Change

[Pending Restart] - Demonic Tactics will now also increase the critical strike chance of your Wild Imps.

Mystic Enchants

Change

[Pending Restart] - Demonic Persistence will now also add a 1 second duration increase to your Wild Imps from Hand of Guldan for each stack of Demonic Persistence on your Summoned Demon.

Change

[Pending Restart] - Empowered Imp, Demonic Tactics, and Unholy Power Mystic Enchantments will now also affect your Wild Imps.

2022/09/23

General

Change

[Requires Restart] Fixed an issue where Felforged POIs will stay on the Twisting Nether map after they have left

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[Requires Restart] Fixed Missing loot on King Voras in the Twisting Nether

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[Requires Restart] Added Greedy Demons to the Twisting Nether

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[Requires Restart] Titan Scrolls are no longer active in the Twisting Nether

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[Pending Restart] - Fixed an issue with Arena Decay not decaying on its intended cycle. Every Arena Team has been set to atleast 1 active game played this week and thus will decay 2 weeks from now if no games are played and their rating is above 2200.

Talents & Abilities

Change

[Pending Restart] - Corrected an issue where the negative PvP mod on Nightfall and Backlash would apply at the same time despite only consuming one proc.

Change

[Pending Restart] - Corrupted Bear Form now deals an additional 10% less damage with Shadow Bolts to players.

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[Pending Restart] - Corrected an issue where the damage increase from Nightfall and Backlash would apply at the same time despite only consuming one proc.

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[Pending Restart] - Fixed an issue where Backlash was not increasing the damage of Incinerate against monsters nor decreasing the damage versus players.

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[Pending Restart] - Corrected a recent issue where Nightfall and Backlash was being consumed simultaneously from one cast.

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[Pending Restart] - Fixed an exploit where having Backlash and Nightfall active at the same time would cause you to not consume your backlash procs.

2022/09/22

General

Change

[Honor Gear Improvements] - Matched the previous season honor cost of gear to those in the Classic PvP Progression. Most Items Honor Cost has been reduced by 25 to upwards of 40%.

Change

[Honor Gear Improvements] - You can now purchase Previous Season Weapons With Honor.

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[Honor Gear Improvements] - You can no longer purchase previous season arena gear for a mix of Honor and Arena Points. Since Arena Points are limited, this often caused regression in the long-term.

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[Pending Restart] - Fixed an issue where some quests were giving less XP than intended past level 60.

Change

Beginning to experiment with Dynamic POIs on players with Felforged. Felforged may begin showing on the map as POIs

Change

Felforged: Silas Darkmoon now sits besides the Fel Portal, to make it more apparent where Fel Power is spent!

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Felforged Tome: Journeyman Riding will now be granted when you reach 25000 Fel Power automatically.

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Felforged Tome: Apprentice Riding will now be granted when you reach 5000 Fel Power automatically

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[Requires Restart] The Felforged Caches you received based off of the level you died will now have an increasingly higher chance to give you Specific Mystic Scroll drops allowing you to enchant your items.

Change

Buffed many Felforged Perks. See descriptions for details!

Change

Improved the Meteors for Hillsbrad and Stranglethorn Vale to allow you to get to hillsbrad fields and kurzen compound.

Change

Fixed phasing issues around Ashenvale that caused some bad pvp action.

Change

Empower Legion Insignia is now upgraded and granted for Felforged automatically during Fel Power progression

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Fixed an issue where Felforged Insignias were able to be double equip

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[Requires Restart] Felforged will now get Mystic Runes and Mystic Orbs on death based on the level they reached.

Talents & Abilities

Change

[Pending restart] Fixed an issue where Hand of Gul'dan would not consume charges of Molten Core (rank 2).

Change

[Pending restart] Fixed an issue where the capstone of Nemesis would only trigger once per Metamorphosis cast.

Quests

Change

Significantly lowered the kills required to complete Demon's Contract: Winter is Coming

Change

Significantly lowered the kills required to complete Demon's Contract: Sow Terror (Group)

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Significantly lowered the kills required to complete Demon's Contract: Kick Some Ash (Group)

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Significantly lowered the kills required to complete Demon's Contract: Waste the Wastewanders (Group)

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Significantly lowered the kills required to complete Demon's Contract: Sandfury or Felfury (Group)

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Significantly lowered the kills required to complete Demon's Contract: Rum and Broke (Group)

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Significantly lowered the kills required to complete Demon's Contract: Stop Scalpers (Group)

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Significantly lowered the kills required to complete Demon's Contract: Dug Their Own Grave (Group)

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Significantly lowered the kills required to complete Demon's Contract: A Fortress of Corpses (Group)

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Significantly lowered the kills required to complete Demon's Contract: Better than Salt (Group)

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Significantly lowered the kills required to complete Demon's Contract: Dark Whispers