Ascension Changelog

Frostbrand Weapon now deals 20% reduced damage against players, from 15%.

Earth Shock now deals 25% reduced damage against players, from 20%.

Increased the spell damage coefficient of Smite from 47.5% to 48.5%.

Increased the spell damage coefficient of Arcane Blast from 32.2% to 33.1%.

Reduced the spell damage coefficient of tick of Healing Stream Totem from 3.62% to 3.24%

Increased the spell damage coefficient of Fireball from 46% to 48.5%.

Increased the spell damage coefficient of Ice lance from 7.5% to 8%.

Increased the spell damage coefficient per tick of Flame Shock from 5.75% to 6.3%.

Increased the spell damage coefficient of Chain Lightning from 35% to 39%.

Clarified the tooltips of Seal of Wisdom and Seal of Light to say it only triggers on melee auto-attacks.

Slightly increased the stats and armor gained by Mark of the Wild and Gift of the Wild for certain ranks.

Fixed the tooltip of Improved Polymorph to have correct timers shown for the debuff and cast time reduction.

Fixed an issue causing Stoneclaw Totem not to generate any threat.

Clarified the tooltips of critical strike talents to more clearly indicate whether they only increase spell critical strike chance, or also the critical strike chance of abilities dealing magic damage (such as Lava Lash and Hammer of the Righteous).

Fixed a bug where Presence of Mind couldn't be used while Arcane Power was active.

Fixed a bug where Earth and Moon could trigger the Predatory Strikes talent. [Pending server restart]

Reduced cost of Mystic Orbs on Geras from 2 Badges to 1 Badge.

Moved all items sold by Edrim Skysong to Nozdormu. Edrim Skysong retired.

Added Mystic Orbs to Geras for Badges of Justice.

Nightbane's Final Hour will no longer be removed by Cloak of Shadows. Cloak of Shadows will still prevent damage taken from Final Hour's area damage if active.

Pending restart, corrected an issue where Maiden of Virtue on Heroic 25 player difficulty would cast Chain Holy Fire on 3 targets which would chain to an additional 3 targets per chain cast causing 9 people to be affected rather than the intended 3 targets.

Pending restart, Shade of Aran's Manawyrms can now be rooted.

Pending restart, Shade of Aran's Manawyrms can now be frozen.

Pending restart, Shade of Aran's Manawyrms can now be stunned.

Pending restart, Shade of Aran's Manawyrms can no longer critically strike enemies.

Pending restart, Shade of Aran's Manawyrms can no longer daze enemies.

Pending restart, reduced The Curator's health by 5.6% on Heroic.

Pending restart, The Crone is now immune to Disarm effects.

Pending restart, the Maiden of Virtue is now immune to Disarm effects.

Pending restart, increased the duration of Moroes' Energized buff to 8 seconds from 5.

Pending restart, reduced the duration of Attumen's Felfire to 25 seconds from 30. This will result in the Felfire despawning as he charges instead of after he charges.

Pending restart, reduced the movement speed of Attumen's Spectral Chargers by ~13%.

Fixed an issue that allowed Titan's Grip to sometimes provide double benefit from equipment's PvE/PvP power. Titan's Grip is not intended to give any additional PvE/PvP power over single 2-Handed equip, dual-wield or other setups.

Fixed an issue that prevented full PvE power benefit when using Titan's Grip with a 1-Handed weapon in the main hand.

The Sated debuff and the Bloodlust buff will now be removed if a dungeon or raid boss encounter is reset.

Extended the duration of Pilgrim's Bounty by 3 days to allow players to further re-obtain these achievements.

Fixed an issue where multiple event achievements and 151 more general criteria achievements were not functioning correctly.

Fixed a bug where Shadow Crash would be cast without 10 stacks.

Fixed a bug where Shadowfury would aggro creatures it did not hit. [Pending server restart]

Corrected an issue where the Servants' Quarter bosses in Karazhan would sometimes not drop the intended amount of loot for the represented difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Malediction was giving more critical strike chance than intended.

Fixed a bug that prevented Living Seed from triggering off non-critical Healing Touch heals with the Overflow legendary enchant.

Pending restart, Nightmarish Book of Ascension will correct add to collection on Area-52.

Pending restart, The Rokk <Master of Cooking> will be available on all realms.

Pending restart, fixed an exploit with gaining PvE power unintentionally.

Pending restart, Old Man Barlo <Master of Fishing> will be available on all realms.

Added quest PoI to 35 daily quests that were previously missing them.

For the Alliance: Death Trap corrected an issue where you had to kill Karnaze isntead of Baelmon the Hound Master.

Lava Lash now deals 10% reduced damage against players, from 25%. It was previously reduced due to a bug that has now been remedied. [These changes are already live on Wildhammer, and will be on Area 52 after the next restart.]

Fixed an issue where the Living Seed heal would not trigger off attacks that were partially blocked.

Fixed a bug where Lava Lash would be affected by talents that increase off-hand damage.

Fixed some issues with the scaling of Pure Shadow that caused it to be weaker than intended.

Gruul the Dragonkiller's Cave In will no longer effect pets.

Prince Malchezaar's Infernal will no longer effect pets with their Hellfire Effect.

Netherspite's Netherburn will no longer cause spell pushback.

Shade of Aran's Mass Polymorph now restores 10% maximum health per second to effected player on all difficulties. Was 7%.

Attumen's Intangible Presence can no longer effect pets.

Attumen's Felfire can no longer target or damage pets.

Fixed an issue where Living Seed wasn't proccing as intended with Overflow.

Fixed an issue where Restorative Shadows wasn't working as intended.

The Use effect of The Decapitator is now (slightly) increased by you attack power.

Increased the proc chance of Romulo's Poison Vial from 2.5 to 4 PPM.

The Lightning Capacitor now also increases critical strike rating by 35.

Expunge now also reduces the cooldown of your Chimera Shot by 2 seconds.

Twilight no longer requires Shadowform.

Low Tide now increases the critical effect chance of Healing Wave by 10% on targets of your Riptide. The Riptide spread effect now only works with Healing Wave.

Conrolled Burn now increases the cast time of Immolate by 0.5 seconds, down from 0.75.

Unchained now also reduces the cooldown of Blink by 5 seconds.

The Shadow Word: Pain effect from Shadow Visions now also reduces the mana cost of your next Shadow Word: Pain by 100%. The Mind Blast effect now lasts for 10 seconds, up from 5.

Healing Garden is now Epic quality.

Call of Thunder now increases the critical strike chance of affected spells by 2%, from 1%.

Impact now has a proc chance of 3%, up from 2%.

Fixed an issue where By Fire Be Purged purged several buffs and did not have an ICD. It now has a 20s ICD and purges one buff.

Fixed an issue causing Stroll to Boom did not work.

Fixed an issue causing Quick Entangling Roots to not work.

Fixed an issue causing Ice Age Frost Nova to not apply if the target had an absorb effect active.

Fixed an issue causing Hasty Force of Nature RE to not work with Druid of Rot: Fungarians.

Fixed an issue with Plague Bearer causing the debuffs Rabies and Infected Blood to sometimes not apply.

Fixed an issue causing Burst of Thorns to not work.

Corrected the interaction of Fist of Reckoning to replace the original spell. In addition, changed Hand of Reckoning (Fist of Reckoning) to use melee hit chance instead of spell hit chance.

Munitions Expert drawbacks have been slightly increased, it now reduces your physical damage with bows by 15%, from 10%, and reduces your attack speed with guns by 30%, from 20%.

Focused Burst now has a lower damage penalty of 20%, from 35%, but now reduces the damage of subsequent hit by 10%. This will result in lowered damage potential when combined with the Multi-Multi Shot enchant.

Lightning Overload now increases the chance to trigger the Lightning Overload talent by 4%, up from 3%.

Corrupted Wounds now increases damage by 4%, down from 5%, but also increases the damage of Shadow Bolt.

Puncture now also increases the threat of Devastate and Sunder Armor by 4%.

Graceful Stride now gives 15% movement speed, up from 10%.

Sanctified Shadows now increases damage by 4%, from 3%.

Mind Melt now increases the critical strike chance of the affected spells by 3%, up from 2%.

Dark Torment now increases damage by 6%, up from 5%.

The Rare Righteous Flames enchant now increases the damage over time effect of you Holy Fire ability by 40% and increases the duration of your Holy Fire DoT effect by 1 second. This stacks to three times.

Arcane Empowerment now increases damage of the affected spells by 2%, up from 1%.

Holy Harmony now increases healing by 3%, up from 2%.

Improved healing now reduces the mana cost of the affected heals by 5%, up from 4%, and now also affects Renew.

Spell Impact now increases critical strike chance by 2%, up from 1%.

Blood Spatter now increases damage by 4%, up from 3%.

Moonfury now increases damage by 2%, up from 1%.

Dark Flames now increases your Shadow damage dealt on targets affected by your ignite by 4%, from 3%.

[New Legendary Enchant]: Pure Shadow - Your Shadow Bolt casts draw power from your enemies, increasing the critical strike chance of your Shadow spells by 1%, stacking up to 10 times. When fully stacked, your Shadowfury will send pure Shadow crashing down at the target area, dealing massive Shadow damage spread between affected enemies.

Empowering Smite now has a 12 second duration, up from 10.

Healing Way now also increases the periodic healing of your Riptide.