Ascension Changelog

Binding Heal (Rank 1) is now learnable at level 60, and will scale up to level 70 or until you learn a new rank. Level 70 values are untouched by this change.

Seal of Vengeance (Rank 1) is now learnable at level 60, and will scale up to level 70 or until you learn a new rank. Level 70 values are untouched by this change.

Ice Lance (Rank 1) is now learnable at level 60, and will scale up to level 70 or until you learn a new rank. Level 70 values are untouched by this change.

Arcane Blast (Rank 1) is now learnable at level 60, and will scale up to level 70 or until you learn a new rank. Level 70 values are untouched by this change.

Lifebloom (Rank 1) is now learnable at level 60, and will scale up to level 70 or until you learn a new rank. Level 70 values are untouched by this change.

Fireball, Wrath, Starfire, Smite, Holy Fire, Shadow Bolt, Chaos Bolt, Soul Fire, Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Incinerate and Immolate have had their damage slightly reduced to account for their respective cast time reduction and the new talents affecting them.

Lightning Mastery has been reworked. It now reads: your spell criticals have a 33/66/100% chance to grant you a stack of Raw Power. While active, your Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning criticals have a 2% chance per stack to trigger Lightning Mastery, consuming all Raw Power stacks to increase your spell critical strike damage bonus by 50% for 6 seconds.

Burnout now increases your critical strike damage bonus of all spells, instead of Mage spells.

Grim Reach is now a 3 point talent that increases the range of your damaging spells with a channeling or cast time by 2/4/6 yards. This does not stack with other similar effects.

Gale Winds now also increases the range of Entangling Roots by 3/6/9 yards.

Nature's Reach is now a 3 point talent that increases the range of your damaging spells with a channeling or cast time by 2/4/6 yards. This does not stack with other similar effects.

Fel Concentration has been reworked, it now reads: Reduces the pushback suffered from damaging attacks while casting by 33/66/100%, and has a new capstone.

Holy Reach is now a 3 point talent that increases the range of your damaging spells with a channeling or cast time by 2/4/6 yards. This does not stack with other similar effects. In addition, increases the radius of your Prayer of Healing, Holy Nova, Divine Hymn, and Circle of Healing spells by 7/14/20%.

Shadow Reach is now a 3 point talent that increases the range of your damaging spells with a channeling or cast time by 2/4/6 yards. This does not stack with other similar effects.

Elemental Reach is now a 3 point talent that increases the range of your damaging spells with a channeling or cast time by 2/4/6 yards. This does not stack with other similar effects. In addition, increases the range of your Flame Shock by 5/10/15 yards.

Destructive Reach is now a 3 point talent that increases the range of your damaging spells with a channeling or cast time by 2/4/6 yards. This does not stack with other similar effects.

Flame Throwing is now a 3 point talent that increases the range of your damaging spells with a channeling or cast time by 2/4/6 yards. This does not stack with other similar effects. In addition, increases the range of your Living Bomb by 2/4/6 yards. Flame Throwing is now a 3 point talent, and the fireball effect has been moved to the capstone.

The Shaman talent Healing Focus has been renamed to Natural Focus, and its capstone effect now applies to all Nature healing spells, changed from applying to only Shaman healing spells.

The damage increase of Shaman spells while Clearcasting is active from Elemental Oath has been moved to Elemental Fury capstone, and Elemental Oath instead now grants 1/2/3% spell critical effect chance, in addition to the existing 1/2/3% critical effect chance given to party and raid members.

Elemental Fury now increases your critical strike damage bonus of all spells, instead of only Shaman spells.

Celestial Focus now reduces the pushback of all spells by 33/66/100%, instead of only reducing pushback for Flash of Light and Holy Light.

Burning Soul now reduces the pushback of all spells by 33/66/100%, instead of only reducing pushback for Mage Fire spells. It now also increases your chance to critically hit with spells by 1/2/3%.

Arcane Stability now reduces the pushback of all spells by 33/66/100%, instead of only reducing pushback for Arcane Missiles and Arcane Blast. It now also increases your chance to hit with spells by 1/2/3%.

Empowered Imp now also increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Imp's Firebolt spell by 33/66/100%. This effect used to be in Ruin. The Empowered Imp proc has been moved into a Capstone bonus.

Shadow Focus now reduces the pushback of all spells by 33/66/100%, instead of only reducing pushback for Mind Flay. It now also reduces the mana cost of all spells by 2/4/6%, instead of only reducing it for Shadow spells.

Eye of the Storm now reduces the pushback of all spells by 33/66/100%, instead of only reducing pushback for Elemental Shaman spells.

Intensity now reduces the pushback of all spells by 33/66/100%, instead of only reducing pushback for Destruction spells. It now also increases your Magic damage by 1/2/3%.

Arcane Subtlety is now a 3 point talent that increases the range of your damaging spells with a channeling or cast time by 2/4/6 yards. This does not stack with other similar effects. It also now reduces the mana cost of your Arcane Spells by 4/8/12%.

Spell Power (talent) now increases your critical strike damage bonus of all spells, instead of only Arcane Mage spells.

Celestial Focus now reduces the pushback of all spells by 33/66/100%, instead of only reducing pushback for Balance spells.

Earth Shock, Fire Blast, Fireball, Flame Shock, Frostfire Bolt, Holy Shock, Pyroblast and Shadowburn now have a 30 yard range.

Ice Shards now increases your critical strike damage bonus of all spells, instead of Frost Mage spells. In addition, this talent has been reworked to a 5 point talent.

Holy Specialization now increases your critical strike damage bonus of all spells, instead of only Holy spells.

Pandemic now only allows the spells to critically hit, without increasing the critical damage bonus of the affected spells.

Shadow form now only allows the spells to critically hit, without increasing the critical damage bonus of the affected spells.

Vengeance now increases your critical strike damage bonus of all spells, instead of only Balance spells.

Ruin now increases your critical strike damage bonus of all spells, instead of only Destruction spells.

Dreamstate now regenerates 1/2/3% of your missing mana every 10 seconds instead of regenerating mana equal to 4/7/10% of your Intellect every 5 seconds. As a result, the mana regen from talent will be up to five times better than before for players who struggle with mana.

Improved Drain Soul now returns 12/25% of your Maximum mana if the target is killed while you drain its soul, up from 7/15%.

The Capstone effect of Master of Elements now refunds 4% of the mana cost of ANY spell critical, instead of being limited to Fire Mage criticals.

Master of Elements now increases your Fire critical strike chance by 1/2/3% instead of reducing the mana cost of Fire spells.

Improved Healing Wave has been reworked. It now reads: Increases the healing done by Healing Wave by 2/4/6% and critical strike chance by 1/2/3%.

Healing Wave, Greater Heal and Healing Touch's cast times have been reduced by 0.5 seconds, and their healing has been reduced by 4%.

Emberstorm no longer reduces the cast time of Incinerate.

Divine Fury has been reworked, it now reads: increases your direct spell damage dealt to targets affected by your Holy Fire by 3/6/9% and critical strike chance of holy fire by 2/4/6%.

Holy Fire's cast time has been reduced by 0.5 sec.

Immolate's cast time has been reduced by 0.5 sec.

Bane has been reworked, it now reads: increases the critical strike chance of Shadow Bolt, Chaos Bolt, Immolate and Soul fire by 2/4/6% and reduces the mana cost of these spells by 5/10/15%.

Shadow Bolt's cast time has been reduced by 0.5 sec.

Soul Fire's cast time has been reduced by 0.5 sec.

Empowered Frostbolt has been renamed and reworked to Empowering Frostbolt which now makes Frostbolt increase your spell critical strike damage bonus by 10/20/30% and your Frost damage by 1/3/5% for 8 seconds after casting Frostbolt.

Improved Frostbolt has been reworked, it now reads: increases the damage of Frostbolt by 3/6/9%.

Frostbolt's cast time has been reduced by 0.5 sec.

Smite's cast time has been reduced by 0.5 sec.

Improved Fireball has been reworked, it now reads: increases the critical strike chance of Fireball by 3/6/9%.

Fireball's cast time has been reduced by 0.5 sec.

Lightning Overload no longer has a reduced chance to trigger in single target when using Chain Lightning.

Lightning Overload now has a 7/14/20% chance to trigger, changed from 11/22/33%. This chance is now tripled from critical strikes.

Chain Lightning's cast time has been reduced by 0.5 sec.

Lightning Bolt's cast time has been reduced by 0.5 sec.

Chaos Bolt's cast time has been reduced by 0.5 sec.

Starlight Wrath has been reworked, it now reads: increases the critical strike chance of Wrath by 3/6/9% and the damage of Starfire by 2/4/6%.

Wrath's cast time has been reduced by 0.5 sec.

Starfire's cast time has been reduced by 0.5 sec.

Prayer of Preservation now grants the Preservation buff on the first tick while channeling, instead of granting the buff on the final tick of the channel. This is to make sure the buff gets applied even at high haste numbers due to server lag cutting sometimes cutting the last tick. Prayer of Preservation itself does not benefit nor consume the crit buff.

Increased the damage of Fire Nova by 20%. This damage increase was made baseline instead of being tied to the Improved Fire Nova talent.

Improved Fire Nova has been renamed to Rising Flames. It now also increases the critical strike damage bonus of your Fire totems by 50/100% and increases the attack speed of your Searing Totem by 15/30%.

Touched by the Light now requires Righteous Fury.

Divinity now requires Righteous Fury.

Holy Shield now requires Righteous Fury.

Shield of Righteousness now requires Righteous Fury.

Shield Mastery now requires Defensive Stance.

Critical Block now requires Defensive Stance.

Righteous Vengeance can now also trigger from Shield of Righteousness.

Shield of Righteousness no longer has ranks.

Holy Shield no longer has ranks.

Hypothermia now lasts for 30 sec, changed from 120.

Ice Floes no longer reduces the duration of Hypothermia.

Intervene now has a 35 sec cooldown, changed from 40.

Burning Determination now lasts for 10 sec, changed from 15.

The Blessed Life capstone has been moved to Healing Focus instead.

Brambles' silencing effect now has a 10 seconds cooldown.

Faerie Fire now lasts 20 sec in PvP, changed from 40.

The silence and interrupt immunity from Icy Veins now lasts for 4 sec, changed from 6.

Improved Ghost Wolf is now a 2 point talent and has been reworked, it now reads: Increases movement speed in Ghost Wolf by 5/10%, and reduces damage in Ghost wolf by 5/10%.

Ghost Wolf now grants 30% increased movement speed, changed from 40%. It no longer has a cast time, and no longer grants damage reduction.

Inspiration now also increases the dispel protection granted by Pain Suppression by 20/40% and its duration by 1/2 seconds in addition to its previous effects.

Pain suppression now gives 60% dispel protection baseline, changed from 65%.

Survival Tactics is now a 3 point talent, changed from 5, it now reduces the cooldown of Disengage and Silencing Shot by 3/6/9 seconds, and increases your movement speed after a disengage by 10/20/30% for 3 seconds.

Improved Howl of Terror is now a 2 point talent, changed from 3. It now reduces the cast time and global cooldown of Howl of Terror by 0.3/0.6 seconds, and its previous capstone effect has been spread across its two ranks.

Improved Hammer of Justice is now a 3 point talent, changed from 5. It now reduces the cooldown of Hammer of Justice by 5/10/15 seconds, and increases its duration by 0.5/1/1.5 seconds.

Shadow Weaving now gets all of its stacks dispelled at once.

Divine Providence is now a 3 point talent, changed from 5. It now increases the amount healed by Circle of Healing, Binding Heal, Holy Nova, Prayer of Healing, Greater Heal, Divine Hymn and Prayer of Mending by 3%, and reduces the cooldown of Prayer ff Mending by 10/20/30%.

Tidal Force now has a 80 second cooldown, changed from 90.

Berserk no longer grants immunity to fear effects.

Empowered Stormstrike's Fire, Frost and Nature damage will now be considered melee damage, and will benefit from talents, spell effects, gear, etc. as such.

Berserker Rage now has a 60 second cooldown, changed from 90.

Improved Berserker Rage now reduces the cooldown of Berserker Rage by 5/10/15 seconds, changed from 10/20/30.

Improved Gouge now increases the duration of gouge by 0.5/1/1.5 seconds, changed from 0.33/0.66/1.

Dash now has a 2 min cooldown, changed from 3.