Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2020/08/07

Talents & Abilities

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Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Cone of Cold.

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Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Frost Ward.

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Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Frost Nova.

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Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Dragon's Breath.

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Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Combustion.

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Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Blast Wave.

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Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Fire Ward.

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Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Flamestrike.

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Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Slow.

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Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Arcane Power.

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Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Spellsteal.

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Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Ritual of Refreshment.

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Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Invisibility.

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Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Arcane Blast.

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Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Conjure Mana Gem.

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Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Mana Shield.

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Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Amplify Magic.

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Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Arcane Explosion.

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Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Slow Fall.

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Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Dampen Magic.

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Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Dispel Curse.

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Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Polymorph.

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Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Conjure Water.

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Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Conjure Food.

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Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Arcane Intellect.

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Wacky Wizardry now scales to your level (improved from the last update).

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Corrected an issue where learning and unlearning spells would learn and unlearn Slow (Mass Slow).

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Corrected an issue where learning and unlearning spells would learn and unlearn Plague Bearer's Festering Strike.

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Corrected an issue where Slow (Mass Slow) was put in your General spell book tab.

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Corrected an issue where Plague Bearer's Festering Strike was put in your General spell book tab.

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Corrected an issue where Uncommon Mystic Enchantments did not affect the off-hand component of Whirlwind.

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Corrected an issue where Mind Flay (Unbounded Mind Flay) displayed that it had a range of 30 yards.

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Corrected an issue where the Stormbringer and Overloaded Mystic Enchantments had identical descriptions (although, they are still very similar).

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Corrected an issue where Coward's Bane was not proccing.

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Corrected an issue where Arcane Motes was not affecting Starfire or Moonfire damage properly.

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Corrected an issue where Tooth and Nail was not added to the enchant collection last update.

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Corrected an issue where Barrier of Blades was not added to the enchant collection last update.

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Corrected an issue where Mass Slow was not properly granting the Slow (Mass Slow) ability.

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Corrected an issue where Totem Master: Fire did not properly affect Magma Totem.

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Corrected an issue where Rain of Arrows could trigger periodic damage procs.

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Corrected an issue where Rain of Arrows could not trigger direct damage procs.

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Corrected an issue where Rain of Arrows could not scale with most talents and Mystic Enchantments that affected Volley.

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Corrected an issue where Rain of Arrows could not critically strike.

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Corrected an issue where Fire Storm could trigger periodic damage procs.

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Corrected an issue where Fire Storm could not trigger direct damage procs.

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Corrected an issue where Fire Storm could not scale with most talents and Mystic Enchantments that affected Rain of Fire.

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Corrected an issue where Fire Storm could not critically strike.

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Corrected an issue where Hailstorm could trigger periodic damage procs.

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Corrected an issue where Hailstorm could not trigger direct damage procs.

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Corrected an issue where Hailstorm could not scale with most talents and Mystic Enchantments that affected Blizzard.

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Corrected an issue where Hailstorm could not critically strike.

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Spell Deflection is now an absorb, so it will now report in your combat log how much was absorbed.

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Corrected an issue where Dragon's Breath damage would be immuned when used on some bosses.

Mystic Enchants

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Skull Crusher has been enabled once again. Its triggered effect now reduces the targets Intellect by 5%. (Tooltips will reflect this change when a new patch is released.)

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Temporarily disabled the proc from the Skull Crusher enchant as we investigate a bug with it. It will be redesigned and reenabled in the future.

Quests

New

Removed the quest Proving Grounds: 1v1. It will now rotate between 2v2 and 3v3.

2020/08/06

Item Changes

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Corrected all the stats of rare PvP weapons.

2020/08/05

Talents & Abilities

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Corrected tooltip of Arcane Concentration talent rank 1 to reflect damaging spells only.

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Fixed an issue where -5% armor debuffs weren't stacking correctly. The armor reduction granted by Curse of Weakness, Faerie Fire and Faerie Fire (Feral) now correctly do not stack even if the debuffs are active simultaneously.

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Empowered Fire now also increases the spell damage coefficient of Living Bomb.

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Reduced the spell damage coefficient of Living Bomb by 9%.

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FIxed an issue where Warbringer incorrectly could be used to break roots.

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The Searing Light talent now also increases the damage of Holy Nova.

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Reduced the damage of Holy Nova by 20%.

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Fixed an issue where Focus Magic wasn't giving Arcane spell critical strike chance as intended.

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Clarified the tooltip of Ghostly Strike.

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Mental Quickness has had its effect reduced to 20%, but its effect is doubled if your Primary Stat is Strength.

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Changed the name Bladestorm Whirlwinds to be distinguishable from normal Whirlwinds.

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Updated the tooltip of Divine Aegis to indicate that the effect doesn't trigger on full overheals.

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Updated the tooltip of Sheath of Light to indicate that the effect only triggers from Holy heals.

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Improved Immolate now increases damage done by 5/10/15% from 10/20/30%

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Improved Shadowform now grants 2/4% damage reduction, from 3/6%.

Mystic Enchants

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Fixed an issue where Upper Hand didn't work for Mutilate.

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Fixed an issue where Consecrated Strikes would apply its buff also to players without the RE equipped.

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Fixed an issue where Accurate Searing Pain didn't work with Perilous Pain.

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Fixed an issue where Searing Pain (Perilous Pain) would generate significantly less threat than Searing Pain.

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Fixed an issue where Time Warp looked like it could be used three times, in spite of being Epic.

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Updated the icon of the buff given by Seed of Life to be different from Lifebloom.

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Fixed the tooltip of Demonic Synergy to show the correct critical strike chance.

2020/08/04

General

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Increased baseline resilience vaules by 15%. From the next server restart you will take about 5% less damage in PvP.

Talents & Abilities

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Shadow Embrace now reduces healing over time effects on the target by 1/2/3/4/5%, down from 2/4/6/8/10%. (Change active on next server restart.)

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Mind Blast now has a 0.95 PvP mod.

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Mind Flay now has a 0.9 PvP mod, changed from 0.95.

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Devouring Plague now has a 0.65 PvP mod, changed from 0.7.

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Shadow Word: Pain now has a 0.65 PvP mod, changed from 0.7

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Sudden Death has had its proc chance increased by about 20%. It now properly has a 6 second cooldown.

Dungeons & Raids

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[World Dragons] - Reduced the damage of all nightmare dragons by 25%.

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[World Dragons] - Noxious Breath periodic damage reduced by 10%. Cooldown reduction on ability is now 3 seconds down from 10 seconds increase.

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[AQR]: With the removal of the quest and reputation tokens from the raid - bosses now drop significantly more loot.

Mystic Enchants

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The Sudden Death Mystic Enchant now reduces the internal cooldown of the Sudden Death talent by 1 second. It still stacks to 3.

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Fixed an issue where casting Battle Shout could refresh the cooldown on Warcry incorrectly.

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Battering Ram now makes Slam ignore 10% of the targets' armor instead of reducing their chance to block. It still applies Sunder Armor, but can no longer apply two stacks at once with Single-Minded Fury.

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Deprecated the Barrier of Blades Mystic Enchantment.

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Molten Earth will also no longer scale Lava Lash and additional modifiers. It now scales with 5% SP & 2.5% AP (up from 4% SP & 2.0% AP).

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Benevolent Crusader now reduces the cast time of Exorcism instead of Penance.

2020/08/03

Talents & Abilities

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Corrected the duration on Strength of the Horde

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Updated Ignite tooltip to clarify direct fire damage, not periodic.

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Improved Gouge now increases duration by .33/.66/1 from .5/1/1.5

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Corrected High-Risk Kazzak loot template.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Reduced the movement speed of Fungarians by 50%.