Ascension Changelog

Banshee Wail from the Banshee pet now deals 25% reduced damage vs players. (It was dealing too high damage even without any investment into it.)

[Pending Restart] - Fixed an issue that caused player's pet's spell casts to appear duplicated to player's clients. This issue was most noticeable when the pet's spell missed.

Earth Shock will now stack from multiple casters. This means that you can now have multiple people in the same group using Earth Shock without worry of them overriding yours. (Mainly affecting builds that use the following enchantments: Elemental Assassin, Swarming Stings).

Improved Stormstrike debuff for increased Fire and Frost damage will now stack from multiple casters. This means that you can now have multiple people in the same group using this talent without worry of them overriding yours.

[High Risk] Fixed an issue where players could refine High-Risk materials out in the open world without being level 60, effectively bypassing the risk associated with doing so. You must be level 60 to use High-Risk Resource turnings as intended.

[Pending Patch Update] - The description of the Remove Armor & Weapon Enchant vellums now more clearly states that it does not give back the enchantment that you removed.

[Pending Restart] - Rune of Metamorphosis will now work inside of Tree of Wrath and you will gain same the bonus as the Tree of Life.

[Pending Restart] [Vanilla PvP Progression] - Warrior Tier Set from Arena Rewards are now statted more akin to the Rogue Set but instead replacing the agility for strength. The agility/rogue set remains unchanged. We are looking into the other PvP sets as well to make changes that more align with the stat allocation system without disrupting the players who have already obtained and use these gear pieces.

[Dungeons and Raids] - Fixed an issue where certain mobs would spam interrupts on you at a 100% chance of success when walking into melee range or being in combat with them.This chance has been significantly decreased and also has a cooldown.

[Pending Restart] Pure Shadow stacks can now additionally be gained from Shadow Burn and Shadow Word: Death.

[Pending Restart] Pure Shadow stacks are now gained on cast instead of hit. This means that you can use shadow fury right after you fire your tenth shadow bolt and you do not have to wait for it to hit the target. Overall, this change should smooth over the rotation and create more viability especially in fast-paced environments where sometimes your Shadow Bolt casts would not deal damage to a target as it died after you finished your cast but before the Shadow Bolt could hit the target.

[Pending Restart] Shadow Burn now scales 37.4% of your spell power up from 33.3%.

[Pending Restart] Shadow Bolt now scales 53.5% of your spell damage. Up from 48.9%.

[Pending Restart] [Astral Bomber Legendary Enchantment] - Lunar and Solar Bomber now provide 4% increased damage to spells from 3%. This means the damage increase to their respective spells is increased by 20% up from 15% per cast once Lunar and Solar bomber are fully stacked. Pair this with the new Natural Destruction epic RE to really pack a punch.

[Pending Restart] Trueshot Aura is now a passive ability and will always be active after you learn it just like Rampage or Unleashed Rage.

[Pending restart] The Frozen Chaos buff has been reduced to a 20% damage increase (from 25%) and 40% bonus spell damage scaling increase (from 50%).

Solar and Lunar Knight now increases the damage of your Wrath and Starfire by 20% per stack to players, changed from 50%. (It was overperforming due to the recent bug fixes, causing far too high instant burst in PvP).

[Pending Restart] - Fixed an issue in Solar Eclipse not always increasing the damage of Wrath when accompanied with the Astral Knight Buff - tooltip below: Your Wrath damage is increased by 60% and 12% of your attack power. Your next Wrath will grant you Astral Attunement. Stacking twice.

[Pending Restart] - Solar and Lunar Knight will now increase the damage of your Wrath and Starfire by 50% to players down from 60%.

[Pending Restart] - Fixed an issue where Knight of the Eclipse damage buffs was not always applying to Starfire or Wrath.

Temporarily Removed items that contain a "RANDOM AFFIX" item in the mythic+ loot chest as these items could roll entirely useless affixes becoming very frustrating.

Fixed an issue where some bosses in botanica could drop items not in their loot tables.

[Pending Restart] Everlasting Affliction now reduces the cooldown of Howl of Terror by 1/2/3 sec, changed from 2/4/6 sec.

Fixed the tooltip of Arcane Flows to clarify that it increases all Magic damage.

Fixed the buff tooltip of Berserk to also state the cost reduction in Cat Form and Bear Form.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where the heal of Holy Shock was reduced to 30 yards. It is now 40 yards like other heals.

[Pending Restart] Significantly reduced the mana cost of many of the pet spells from Enslaved Demon and Dominate Undead. This will allow mana pets to be more equal to their energy counterparts in longer fights.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where spreading Insect Swarm and Insect Swarm (Plague) with Nature's Reach would not always apply the critical strike chance debuff from Improved Insect Swarm.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where having Improved Insect Swarm would give Insect Swarm Plague an unintended flat damage bonus. (This bug affected level 60 more than level 70 players. Resulting in a ~5% nerf of Insect Swarm (Plague))

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where the Improved Insect Swarm Capstone critical strike chance debuff would sometimes not apply. It now has a visible debuff that is trackable.

Fixed the tooltip of Kill Command to state that it only applies to tamed pets.

Fixed the tooltip of Spirit Bond to clarify it also works with enslaved demons and dominated undead pets.

Fixed the tooltip of Focused Fire to clarify the effect works for both the player and the pet. In addition, added dominated undead and enslaved demon to the effect and tooltip

Fixed the tooltip of Ferocity to clarify it also works with enslaved demons.

Fixed the tooltips of Lone Wolf and Demonic Knowledge to clarify they do not work with dominated undead or enslaved demons.

Fixed an issue where Illumination could restore mana from more spells than indicated by the tooltip.

[Mythic+] Bees will now stack up every 5 seconds from every 4 seconds.

[Pending Restart] While Guardians of the Grove is active, your treants can now use Wild Growth again, however they will not use it as often as previously.

[Pending Restart] Blood Drinker now heals for 50% less while in a Feral form. (Due to ferals having increased attack power this RE was vastly overperforming.)

Fixed the buff tooltip of Shadow Strikes Mystic Enchant to clarify that it also increases your Shadow damage.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where ranged abilities could trigger Primordial Fury, from the Mystic Enchant Primordial Fury.

Fixed the tooltip of Unrelenting Wrath Mystic Enchant to state that it only works with tamed pets.

Fixed the tooltip of Unleashed Fury Mystic Enchant to state that it also works on dominated undead and enslaved demons.

Fixed the tooltip of On the Hunt Mystic Enchant to state that it also works on dominated undead and enslaved demons.

Fixed an issue where Raising Hell Mystic Enchant worked on enslaved demons.

[Pending Restart] The Charger questline's will now reward an item instead of a spell. This new item is added to vanity Collections and teaches you the Charger.

[Pending Restart] Dreadsteed questline will now reward an item instead of a spell. This new item is added to vanity Collections and teaches you the Dreadsteed.

[Mythic+ Scaling][Pending Restart] - Adjusted the stat scaling per level on Mythic+ Items that will bring them to a more well rounded state and more in line with raid tiers.

[Mythic+ Scaling][Pending Restart] - Increased the scaling per level on the Caster Weapons which should bring their Spell Power more in line.

[World Boss Loot] - Increased the weapon damage of all Heroic and Ascended world boss loot by 5.5% and 11% respectively.

[Area-52] Fixed an issue where Master of Shadows damage proc was not being triggered via your shadow bolt when consumed via nightfall.

Fixed an issue where Charred Bite Damage from Lucifur was not receiving the correct scaling. This fix should result in a damage increase.

Added Beginners Book of Ascension and Beginners Book of Artisans to Thelsamar, Sepulcher, Auberdine, Blood Watch and Tranquilien.

[Requires Launcher Update] You can now specify how many stacks of a Mystic Enchant should be used for a build in the Hero Architect. Existing builds will need to be updated by the Author.

[Mal'ganis] Ny'alotha Allseer will now be rewarded upon completion of running either Nightmare and Ironman or Nightmare and Survivalist together.

Fixed an issue where Stratholme on Mythic & Heroic would not give you reputation for the Argent Dawn.

Fixed an issue where Scholomance on Mythic & Heroic would not give you reputation for the Argent Dawn.

[Blackwing Lair] - Nefarian will now kill all Drakonids 60 seconds after the final drakonid is summoned.

Electrocute from Hydromancer now lasts for 2 sec, changed from 3.

Fixed an issue where groups would not get BG pops properly when there were matches available.

Fixed an issue in the rolling of loot from caches that could cause you to get the same item over and over.

Fire Nova is now usuable even when your Fire Totem is LOS.

[Mythic+ Itemization Changes] - Helm of the Grand Crusader now has Agility, Hit Rating and Attack Power similarly to Shadowcraft Cap, but does not have critical strike rating. Previously this item had an equal distribution of Strength, Agility, Stamina and Attack Power... Weird right?

[Mythic+ Itemization Changes] - Clever hat now has hit rating, high spell power and stamina instead of previously only having stamina and mp5.

[Mythic+ Itemization Changes] - Ragefury Eyepatch now has slightly more agility than before.

[Mythic+ Itemization Changes] - Eye of Rend now has slightly more strength than before.

[Mythic+ Itemization Changes] - Ghostshroud has been transformed into an item with expertise, agility and attack power instead of having low strength and high agility.

[Mythic+ Itemization Changes] Ring of Demonic Potency is now an item that has high stamina, defense and expertise rating. Previously it had 10 stamina and no other stat.

[Mythic+ Itemization Changes] Magma forged Band is now an item that has Attack Power and Expertise Rating and be found in both the Strength and Agility category. This ring fills a slot that was not yet fulfilled in the itemization changes. This ring previously had a mix of Strength and Agility without a clear identity or purpose.

[Mythic+ Itemization Changes] Band of Vigor is now an item that has Attack Power and Hit Rating and be found in both the Strength and Agility category. This ring fills a slot that was not yet fulfilled in the itemization changes. This ring previously had a mix of Strength and Agility without a clear identity or purpose.

Renamed One Punch to Will Smith.

[Spell Shredder] Fixed an issue where Elemental Shredder would be removed after being disarmed.

Fixed an issue where Slice and Ice would be removed after being disarmed.

[Pending Restart] Survival Instincts now grants you 25% increased health, changed from 30%.

[Pending Restart] Last Stand now grants you 20% increased health, changed from 25%.

[Pending Restart] Concussion Blow now has a 4 sec duration, changed from 3.5.

[Pending Restart] Improved Kidney Shot now also increases all damage taken by 1/2/3% in addition to its previous effects.

[Pending Restart] Improved Disciplines no longer reduces the cooldown of Shockwave.

[Pending Restart] Thunderstruck now increases the duration of Shockwave by 0.33/0.66/1 sec, changed from 0.5/1/1.5, and it now reduces the cooldown of Shockwave by 5/10/15 sec in addition to its previous effects.

[Pending Restart] Shockwave now lasts for 3 sec, changed from 2.

[Malganis] While Missile Barrage is active your Arcane Missiles deals 10% reduced damage versus players.

[Chromie][Token of Prestige Exchange] - Chromie now offers the Hand of Nilganihmaht mount in exchange for Prestige Tokens. (Pending Restart)

[Scholomance] [Lorekeeper Polkelt] Pending Restart: Dark Plague now has a 3 seconds cool down.

[Pending Restart] The stun effect from The Bad Shepherd now lasts for 1.5 sec, changed from 2 sec.

[Pending Restart] Tainted Swipe now counts as a disease effect.

The Preservation heal from Prayer of Preservation has been increased by 15%.

[Pending Restart] Treants with Guardians of the Grove can no longer use Wild Growth.

Frozen Chaos now increases your Chaos Bolt damage versus players by 15%, changed from 5%.

[Lava Sweep] - Resetting the cooldown of Lava Sweep through Pyroblast with 5 stacks of Eruption will now also cause your next Lava Sweep to not incur a cooldown.

[Lava Sweep] - Lava Sweep can no longer be dodged or parried.

[Lava Sweep] - Fixed an issue in the "Sweeper" buff and Searing Lash buff from the Searing Rage RE not stacking simultaneously.

[Prophet of Wrath] Reduced the damage the Divine Arcane Blast and Arcane Missiles deals to players while Divine Illumination is active.

[Spell Shredder] Elemental Shredder Mortal Strike Damage Proc now deals 100% damage to players, increased from 70% damage to players.

[Spell Shredder] Elemental Rend now deals 100% damage to players, increased from 85% damage to players.

[Hoplite] Shield Strike now deals 75% damage to players, increased from 60% damage to players. This low PvP mod was necessary prior to Finisher Move Improvements.

[Hoplite] Phalanx Strike released with a significant PvP mod in an abundance of caution. Phalanx Strike will now increase PvP damage by 5% per stack, increased from 2% per stack. We will continue adjusting these PvP mods as feedback and data comes in.

[Fire Watch] Fire Watch Explosive Charge AOE now does 100% damage to players, increased from 80% damage to players.

[Fire Watch] Fire Watch Explosive Charge now does 100% damage to players, increased from 90% damage to players.

[Fire Watch] Fire Watch Fire Damage Proc now does 100% damage to players, increased from 95% damage to players.

[Beast and Blade] Increased the damage of Blade Beast to 10% per stack, increased from 5% per stack.