Ascension Changelog

[Area 52] [Item Changes] [Fetish of the Fallen] Fetish of the Fallen now has a new effect. Killing an enemy that provides experience or honor generates 200 health and grants you 6 Attack Power for 10 seconds. Stacking up to 10 times.

[Area 52] [Item Changes] [Occulus of the Hidden Eye] Occulus of the Hidden Eye now has a new effect. Killing an enemy that provides experience or honor generates 100 mana and grants you 3 Spell Power for 10 seconds. Stacking up to 10 times.

[Area 52] [Item Changes] [Totem of Astral Winds] Totem of Astral Winds has a new effect. Your Windfury Attacks critical strikes increase your Attack Power by 8. Stacking up to 5 times. The old effect of the totem was unable to function duo to differences in the Ascension Version of Windfury.

[Area 52] [Item Changes] [Blackout Truncheon] Doubled Blackout Truncheons ppm. Reduced duration to 6 seconds down from 10 seconds.

[Area 52] [Item Changes] [Blinkstrike] Doubled Blinkstrikes ppm. Blink Strike now inflicts 80% Weapon damage if triggered on its Normal version and will now show up as Blinkstrike in combat log.

[Area 52] [Item Changes] [Runed Fungalcap] Runed Fungalcap on use effect for gaining Parry Rating is no longer tied to the absorb itself. It is now a standalone buff that lasts for 10 seconds (which on average should have more uptime).

[Area 52] [Item Changes] [The Blade Fist] The Blade Fist now increases the users Haste Rating by 62 down from 180. This effect can now stack up to 3 times and is now based on ppm and no longer has an internal cd.

[Area 52] [Item Changes] [Hammer of Destiny] In addition to its Mana regeneration effect the Hammer of Destiny now also increases the users Spell Power by 21 for 10 seconds When the effect is triggered. Can stack up to 3 times.

[Area 52] [Item Changes] [Staff of Natural Fury] Increased the mana cost reduction on Shape Shift Forms to 250 up from 200.

[Area 52] [Item Changes] All changes pending restart. All changes require patch updates and cache clear.

[Website] Fixed builder not generating proper export link with enhancements.

[Auchenai Crypts] [Pending Restart] - Shirrak the Dead Watcher now applies the stacks of Inhibit Magic aura at intervals of 7 yard range from 10 to 15 yard intervals. Below is a list form of the newly applied ranges for the cast speed slow. - 4 stacks are applied when at 7 yards from Shirrak (from 15) - 3 stacks are applied when at 14 yards from Shirrak (from 25) - 2 stacks are applied when at 21 yards from Shirrak (from 35) - 1 stack is now applied when at 28 yards range (from 45) This also means you can completely avoid the cast speed slow while standing at max range (30 yards) from 55 yards. This aura is planned to be reworked in the new future.

[Area-52] Pending Restart - Reduced Magic Damage in all Heroic and Mythic dungeons except Caverns of Time dungeons by 20%. Mythic+ Scaling has been adjusted accordantly and remains the same for Mythic 10 Keys as before.

[Area-52] Corrected multiple issues where 25 payer flex bosses and 25 player Ascended bosses would not be able to drop special loot like mounts and pets.

[Pending Restart] Focused Power now reduces the cast time of Mass Dispel by 0.5/1 sec, changed from 0.25/0.5 sec.

[Pending Restart] Mass Dispel now has a 20 sec cooldown, changed from 30.

[Pending Restart] Veiled Shadows no longer increases the duration of Silence.

[Pending Restart] Silence now lasts for 4 sec, changed from 3.

[Pending Restart] Guardian Totems is now a 2 point talent, changed from 3. It now reduces the cooldown of Tremor Totem by 5/10 sec, changed from 5/10/15. Its other effects total power remains unchanged.

[Pending Restart] Tremor Totem now has a 20 sec cooldown, changed from 30.

[Pending Restart] Unending Resolve now lasts for 6 sec, changed from 8. (8 seconds cast time immunity can be frustrating to face and together with its damage reduction Unending Resolve was overall too powerful.)

[Pending Restart] Polymorph now cost 2 Epic Essence, changed from 1. (With 2v2 being a bigger focus it no longer made sense that this strong crowd control effect only cost 1.)

[Pending Restart] Blind now has a 120 sec cooldown, changed from 150.

[Pending Restart] Grip of Horror no longer increases the duration of Psychic Horror, but its capstone effect now reduces damage dealt by targets affected by Psychic Horror's disarm effect by 25%, changed from 20%.

[Pending Restart] Psychic Horror now has a 3 second duration, changed from 2.

Empowered Stormstrike attacks now deal 25/50% weapon damage, up from 30%. Their spell damage scaling has also been increased to 7.5/15% up from 10%.

Fixed an issue where Empowered Stormstrike could trigger multiple times off the same attack. You can now once again get one Fire and one Frost instance of Empowered Stormstrike each time you cast Stormstrike.

[Website] Fixed a bug when filtering roles in the Hero Architect that swapped the places of "Damage" and "Healer" roles. ⚔️

[Pending Restart] Focused Power now reduces the cast time of Mass Dispel by 0.1 sec, changed from 0.2 sec.

[Pending Restart] Staggering Shout now has a 25 second cooldown, changed from 30.

[Pending restart] Reduced the the level scaling of Preservation heal by approximately 20% and increased the healing power coefficient of the Prayer of Preservation channel from 2% to 9%. This change will not change the overall healing output for players with this LRE dramatically, but will shift some power away from Preservation procs into the Prayer of Preservation channel in order to make the gameplay feel better.

[Pending Restart] - [Disciple of the Tides] - [Legendary Enchantment] Fixed an issue where the Tidal Shield would not allow you to proc the Indulgent Position buff (100% crit for Lesser Healing Wave / Tidal Shield) or the Frugal Disposition heal from the frugal disposition Epic Enchantment when used on anyone but yourself.

[Website] Additional builder optimizations have been added.

[Website] Optimized builder spell icon loading.

[Mythic+] [Area-52] The "Mystic Runes, Mystic Orbs, and Mark of Ascension" option in the Mythic+ loot cache will now be labelled as "Mystic Runes, Mystic Orbs, Gems and Mark of Ascension". Choosing this option will reward you a chance at gems from Heroic and Mythic0 dungeons and a chance at some uncut gems. You are guaranteed at least 2 of any combination of Gems or Uncut Gems. As a reminder: choosing this option does NOT count towards your maximum opened mythic+ chests for the week.

Increased the damage reduction effect of various Mind Control effects inside Classic and TBC dungeons and Tempest Keep - The Eye by to 75% up from 50%. Player deal 75% less damage while under the effect of this Mind Controls and take 75% less.

Fixed an issue where sometimes the 100% crit buff from frugal disposition would fail to proc when it did not over-heal.

[Epic Enchantment] - [Shadow Core] - Now has an 8 second cooldown when triggered without Molten Core from 10 seconds. This change matches the cooldown of Mind Blast. Additionally, the increased chance to proc Molten Core is now increased by 6% from 5% while on cooldown.

[Area-52] Edrim Skysong will return after his short vacation on the next server restart.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Hammer of Justice would have an unintended increased duration for some players.

[Pending Restart] - Increased the base damage and spell damage scaling of Mind Blast by 6%.

[Pending Restart] Metamorphosis now reduces slow and stun duration effects by 25%, changed from 50%.

Fixed an ability where the tooltip of the Improved Immolate talent did not show the Capstone effect properly.

[The Slave Pens] [Mennu the Betrayer] Increased the healing interval of Cleansing-Stream Totem to 1 second up from 2 seconds.

[The Slave Pens] [Mennu the Betrayer] Reduced the radius of all totem effects by 50%.

[Pending Restart] - [Rare Enchantment] - Improved Mind Blast now increases the damage of Mind Blast by 4% down from 6%. This will result in a slight damage increase if you used this enchantment with the baseline buffs to Mind Blast.

[Pending Restart] - [Shadow Core] - [Epic Enchantment] - Refreshing or Triggering Molten Core will increase the damage of your next Mind Blast by 20%.

By Fire Be Purged has a 30 second internal cooldown on removing buffs from 20 since it is now an Epic Mystic Enchantment.

By Fire Be Purged has a new effect which provides 10% critical strike chance to Fire Nova.

[Legendary Mystic Enchant] By Fire Be Purged is now an Epic Mystic Enchantment from Legendary.

Fixed an issue where Stagger''s damage could be influenced by some stats of the player. It should now always deal correct damage.

You can now only purchase up to 100 Scroll of **STAT** from Darkmoon Faire before having to trade or mail them off. This alongside the other changes should help unpromote semi-afk-vendor-buying while making sure this is not the best way to obtain your **STAT** scrolls while additionally being more accessible to everyone.

Darkmoon Faire now regenerates Scroll of **STAT** Stock 3x Faster than before.

Increased the buy price (the price which you buy) Scrolls from Darkmoon Faire. The price which they were sold at to vendors remains unchanged.

Inscribed Scroll Cases will now drop **STAT VI** scrolls instead of STAT V scrolls.

Level 65+ Creatures will now additionally drop Scroll of **STAT** VI scrolls in amounts of 1 to 3 (depending on difficulty of creature) from the same rate they they dropped **STAT V** scrolls. These creatures can still also drop **STAT V** scrolls.

[Mythic+] Pending Restart - Added missing Sockets to the Mythic 1 - 40 versions of Idols Librams and Totems from TBC Mythic Dungeons.

[Mythic+] Pending Restart - Corrected an issue where creatures killed by Murmur as part of his out of combat ambient events inside The Shadow Labyrinth would cause the dungeon to lose eligibility for a Mythic+ Key to start. Murmur will now start his ambient events 5 minutes after a player entered the dungeon. The Shadow Labyrinth Keystones will be re enabled later today.

[Area-52] [TBC] Mythic0 Dungeons no longer require attunement quests to enter. Just item level. This change was made to help reduce friction especially when grouped with friends upon entering dungeons and compatibility for every keystone you can get.

[Website] Optimized various media assets on the landing and builder pages to speed up load times by migrating from legacy image formats.

[Mythic+] Fixed an issue causing overflow on some creatures on Alar. This would result in Balnazzar on Mythic9 to oneshot or other damaging spells to kill players extremely fast.

[Pending Restart] - Fixed an issue where the Conflagrate DoT was unable crit. This effect was previously tied to the Improved Immolate Talent. It now has a capstone bonus reflecting its current behavior.

[Website] Implemented feature allowing users to sort the Bug Tracker by pressing the column headers.

[Area 52] [The Eye] [Kaelthas Sunstrider] Pending Restart - Reduced the extra damage dealt by Burning Blade to 10% Weapon damage down from 20%.

[Area 52] [Serpernt Shrine Cavern] [Lady Vashj] Pending Restart - Increased the base Physical damage of Lady Vashj and all creatures involved in the encounter by 30%.

[Area 52] [Serpernt Shrine Cavern] [Lady Vashj] Pending Restart - Increased the base health of Lady Vashj and all creatures involved in the encounter by 10 to 25%.

[Area 52] [The Eye] [Kaelthas Sunstrider] Pending Restart - Devastation now inflicts 300% Weapon damage up from 200% Weapon damage when attempting to execute a target and has its GCD reduced to 6 seconds down from 12 seconds.

[Area 52] [The Eye] [Kaelthas Sunstrider] Pending Restart - Infinity Blade now has a 1 second GCD on its Magic Disruption proc and the maximum amount of stacks has been reduced to 25 down from 100.

[Area 52] [The Eye] [Kaelthas Sunstrider] Pending Restart - Warp Slicer now has a 1 second GCD on its Warp Slice proc and the maximum amount of stacks has been reduced to 25 down from 100.

[Area 52] [The Eye] [Kaelthas Sunstrider] Pending Restart - Netherstrand Longbow can now proc from triggered spells and now requires the triggering spell to hit its target in order to generate mana.

[Area 52] [The Eye] [Kaelthas Sunstrider] Pending Restart - Cosmic Infuser now requires a triggering spell to have a mana cost.

[Area 52] [The Eye] [Kaelthas Sunstrider] Pending Restart - Quadruplet the total damage absorbed by Mana Shield on all difficulties.

[Area 52] [The Eye] [Kaelthas Sunstrider] Pending Restart - Increased the base Physical damage of Kaelthas Sunstrider and all creatures involved into the encounter by 30% on all difficulties.

[Area 52] [The Eye] [Kaelthas Sunstrider] Pending Restart - Increased the base health of Kaelthas Sunstrider and all creatures involved into the encounter by 11% on all difficulties.

[Area 52] [The Eye] Pending Restart - Reduced Health and Physical damage dealt by all creatures inside The Eye by 13% on Ascended Difficulty.

[Pending Restart] Arcane Blast now deals 5% less base damage at level 60. This scaling of this ability is unchanged. The base damage of this spell is unchanged at level 70.

[Pending Restart] Arcane Missiles now deals 5% less base damage at level 60. This scaling of this ability is unchanged. The base damage of this spell is unchanged at level 70.

[Pending Restart] Impact stun now lasts for 1.5 sec, changed from 2 sec.

[Pending Restart] Metamorphosis now increases damage done versus players by 10%, changed from 15%.

[Frozen Chaos] - Polished the tooltip it now reads off as: Your Frostbolt and Ice Lance critical hits grant you a charge of Frozen Chaos and resets the cooldown of Chaos Bolt. You can store up to 3 charges of Frozen Chaos. Frozen Chaos increases the damage of your Chaos Bolt by 20% and the spell power scaling by 40% while additionally causing it to incur no cooldown. Casting Conflagrate grants you Splintered Chaos, causing your Chaos Bolts to hit an additional target. In addition, your Conflagrate triggers your Fingers of Frost (if known).

[Frozen Chaos] - The Splintered Chaos buff from Frozen Chaos will no longer additionally apply immolate to targets hit by your Chaos Bolt.

[Prophet of Wrath] [Pending Restart] - Prophet of Wrath now increases the critical strike damage of Holy and Arcane spells by 20% down from 25%. Prophet of Wrath has been a clear-cut contender and over-performing in many encounters since the caster talent rework and boost of 25% critical strike damage was added.

[Pending Restart] - [Predatory Nature] Now grants 2 combo points down from 5 when fully stacked and used on players. The Random Enchantment now reads off as: Consuming Predators Swiftness restores 10 energy and gives you a stack of Predatory Nature. Reaching three stacks increases the critical strike chance of your next spell cast through Predators Swiftness by 100% and causes it to grant 5 (2 to players) combo points.

[New Epic Enchantment] - [Shadow Core] Casting Mind Blast while Molten Core is active will activate your Shadow Core, restoring Molten Core to 3 charges. Casting Mind Blast without Molten Core active will grant you 1 charge of Molten Core and causes Shadow Core to go on cooldown for 10 seconds. While on cooldown, your chance to proc Molten Core from Corruption is increased by 5%.

[New Epic Enchantment] - [Predatory Nature] Consuming Predators Swiftness restores 10 energy and gives you a stack of Nature of Madness. Reaching three stacks increases the critical strike chance of your next spell cast through Predators Swiftness by 100% and causes it to grant 5 combo points.

Predators Wrath now reduces damage done of your Wrath by 20% from 10% in PvP.

Predators Wrath has been reworked. It no longer prevents your wrath from critically striking. The reworked RE now reads as follows: Your Predatory Strikes effect now lets you cast Wrath without leaving Cat Form. Wraths cast this way are unable to miss, but its damage is increased by 12% of your attack power. In addition, they will also restore 30 energy and 15% of your base mana, and gives you Predators Wrath. Predators Wrath causes all your Cat Form abilities to deal additional Nature damage, this effect lasts for 6 seconds.

Fixed an issue where Lava Sweep was gaining to much scaling on Fire Blast, Pyroblast and Flame Shock when used against players. Additionally, Lava Sweep now does 20% reduced damage in PvP, from 25% reduced damage in PvP.

[Pending Restart] - Fixed an issue where the tooltip of Surge of Light was not stating it was reducing the mana cost of Smite or Flash Heal.

[Pending Patch] High-Risk Materials will now be listed under their proper material categories when searched on the Auction House.

[Area 52] Pending Restart - Requires Cache clear to be displayed - Increased the Item Level of all items dropped by Doomlord Kazzak and Doomwalker to 125 up from 120.

Fixed an issue where Wind Strike could be used in feral forms.

[Pending Restart] - Fixed an issue where Fan of Knives was not giving you the "Out of Knives" debuff.

[Pending Restart] - Fixed an issue where the tooltip of Empowerment of Light was not stating it was reducing the mana cost of Smite or Flash Heal.

[Pending Restart] - Fixed an issue where Empowerment of Light was not reducing mana cost of smite.

[Pending Restart] The Flames of the Apostate damage over time effect is now dispellable.

[Pending Patch] Fixed an issue where leatherworkers could not learn some Battle Scarred Strap recipes.

Changed the Icon and Description of the Bloodforged Debuff in Flex Mode. It now has a distinct Icon and a more clear description. The new description is as follows: You are wearing Bloodforged or PvP items in PvE content. This debuff is only visible to you. In Flex Normal difficulty this has no penalty. In Heroic and Ascended difficulties this will reduce damage done, healing done, and increase the damage taken by 20%.

Fixed an issue where the Attack Power to Spell Power conversion buff from Lava Sweep was artificially supplying you with 5% melee and spell critical strike chance despite not being listed in the tooltip of the LRE.

Fixed an issue where, under rare circumstances, Frozen Power random enchantment would not add damage to targets affected by Frostbrand.