Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2020/07/31

Talents & Abilities

Change

Fixed Primal Fury Talent. Now correctly grants combo points and rage on crit.

Change

Fixed an issue that caused Blood Thirst to consume Taste for Blood procs.

Change

Fixed an issue where Lava Lash and Stormstrike didn't trigger Flametongue.

Change

Greater Heal Rank 4 now heals for the correct amount.

Change

Fixed an issue causing Mangle Cat, Bear and Trauma +% bleed effect to stack.

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Fixed an issue where Bladestorm were unable to crit and didn't scale properly.

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Frozen Power immobilize now last for 3 sec, down from 4.

Change

Insect Swarm no longer reduces the targets chance to hit.

Change

Improved Fear now reduces Fear cast time by 0.1/0.2 sec, from 0.15/0.3. The slow duration is reduced to 3 sec, down from 5.

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Devouring Plague now cost 28% base mana, up from 25%.

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Corruption now cost 21% base mana, up from 18%.

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Shadow Word: Pain now cost 25% base mana, up from 22%.

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Devouring Plague now has a 0.75 PvP mod, changed from 0.8.

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Mind Flay now has a 0.95 PvP mod.

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Increased Shadow Word: Pain PvP to 0.7, from 0.75.

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Shadow Bite (Felhunter) now has a 30% PvP mod.

Change

Bladestorm PVP mod not being applied properly.

Item Changes

Change

Fixed PvP Power across all items.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Corehounds in Molten Core no longer look for Corehounds in a radius, and instead try to see if the rest of their formation is dead. Different packs of Core Hounds will not be able to revive eachother.

Change

Greatly improved overall consistency with setting boss states in Molten Core.

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Greatly improved overall consistency for the Baron Geddon encounter.

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Greatly improved overall consistency for the Garr encounter.

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Corrected an issue where Nefarians Bone Constructs would not use their abilities.

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Nefarian will now summon his Bone Constructs at 30% health (up from 20%).

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Chromaggus'' health has been increased significantly on heroic difficulty. Reminder that each Brood Affliction still increases damage dealt by 15%.

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Time Lapse (The movement speed slow from standing inside chronosphere) now lasts for 10 seconds (down from 30).

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Chronosphere will no longer increase damage dealt by 100%. Instead it will now increase casting and attack speed by 50%.

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Corrosive Accid now lasts 21 seconds (up from 15). Acid Breath will no longer reduce targets armor by a random amount. It will now reduce targets armor by -4500. Periodic tick damage reduced by 50%.

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Frost Burn now lasts 21 seconds (up from 15).

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Ignite Flesh now lasts 21 seconds (down from 60).

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Dark Flames now lasts 5 seconds (down from 10).

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All Brood Afflictions will now last for 5 minutes (down from 10).

Change

Brood Affliction: Black: Will no longer increase the players'' Fire Damage taken. It will now reduce the players attack power by 50%.

Change

Brood Affliction: Green: No longer deals periodic damage. Now reduces healing taken by 25% (down from 50%).

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Brood Affliction: Bronze: Will now stun the player every 10 seconds for 1 Second. (Was 4 Seconds).

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Chromagus Enrage will no longer increase his damage done by 40%. He now gains 30% attack speed (up from 20%) and he will no longer grow to a size that causes him to adjust his position.

Change

Corrected an issue where the Elemental Shields from Chromaggus would also reduce the damage of the element they increased(This left for a 20% increase from the intended 100% increase). Holy damage is no longer reduced by these shields as it is not empowered by Chromaggus.

Change

Corrected an issue where Chromaggus would target the same area for his Frost Breath every time he used it.

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Corrected an issue where Flamegor''s Immolate would stack to 5.

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Reduced Flamegors size by 20%.

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Flamegor is no longer immune to slow and snare effect.

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Flamegor will no longer grow in size during Enrage. Instead Flamegor will now gain 50% increased movement speed.

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Flamegor now has the lowest health of the encounter.

Change

Flamegor will no longer cast Shadowflame. He will use Dark Breath instead.

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Ebonroc now has the second highest health of the encounter.

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Ebonroc will no longer cast Dark Breath.

Change

Ebonroc''s Shadow of Ebonroc will now last 15 seconds (up from 8) and heal him for 10000 when he lands a melee attack (down from 50000). This healing is reduced by 50% on Flexmode.

Change

Increased Firemaw''s size by 20%.

Change

Flame Buffet has been reworked: Interval remains the same at 3 seconds. It will now increase fire damage taken by 5% per stack. It now stacks up to 50 (from 3). Duration stays at 20 seconds. Range reduced to 40 yards (was 100).

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Shadowflame''s periodic damage reduced by 90%. It still requires Onyxia Scale Cloak to prevent the effect.

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Firemaw, Ebonroc and Flamegor can now be seperated by 100 yards before Stress starts to stack. Stress will still start to stack when one of the drakes dies.

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Corrected an issue where it was possible for the drakes to leave their room without triggering Stress.

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Corrected an issue that caused Stress to stack to fast when triggered.

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Corrected an issue where all three drakes would gain their Stress Aura a few seconds into combat even when they were not seperated.

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Corrected an issue where it was possible to gain loot from the boss without killing all 3 drakes.

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Corrected an issue where Greater Whelps from Dragon Eggs were not immune to their represented element.

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Vaelastrasz the Corrupted will no longer deal a random amount of damage with the periodic effect of her Flame Breath. This effect is still lowered via resistance.

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Corrected an issue where Vaelastrasz the Corrupted would be displayed at full health. She will now engage combat at 30% health.

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Corrected an issue where a player could talk to Vaelastrasz the Corrupted before Nefarian had finished his speach, causing both events to overlap.

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Corrected an issue on Vaelastrasz the Corrupted where the Rift of Corruption would spawn to many Orbs.

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Corrected an issue on Vaelastrasz the Corrupted that caused Rift of Corruption not to spawn.

Change

Razorgores Fireball Volley becomes empowered while being mind controlled. Fireball Volley will now deal 300% increased damage but will have a 45 second cooldown while mind controlled.

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The amount of creatures spawned during Razorgores Phase 1 is now equal on all difficulties.

Change

Blackwing Warlords during Razorgores Phase 1 will no longer gain increased health for other nearby creatures.

Change

Fixed a bug where it was possible to kill Razorgore without doing his event.

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One of the Death Talon Wyrmguards infront of Chrommagus room will now patrol the laboratory.

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Death Talon Wyrmguards can now detect invisibility.

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Fixed a bug where Blackwing Warlock and Blackwing Spellbinder would not use their spells.

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Blue Dragon Whelps inside the Supression Room area are now immune to frost damage (was fire).

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Removed 4 trash mobs after Vaelastrasz before the Supression Room.

Change

Updated various immune masks on of creatures inside BWL to be more fitting with their models.

Change

The difficulty of Flexmode has been increased in comparission to the previous raids. This change only applies to Blackwing Lair.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Double the Pain Mystic Enchant now properly works with Perilous Pain.

Change

Camouflage Mystic Enchant now properly increases movement speed.

Change

Blademaster grants the proper % armor per parry.

Change

Twin Disciplines RE now properly grants 2% to DoT effects and increases the healing of Circle of Healing.

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Repartee now correctly grants Riposte with 100% crit.

Change

Fixed tooltip on Arrows of Fire to clarify it only works on critical fire attacks.

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Overheat should now break Blind and Gouge properly.

2020/07/30

Talents & Abilities

Change

Disabled companion pets that shook the ground or had obnoxious spell effects and will no longer drop at this time.

Change

Whirlind and Bladestorm now have a pvp mod of .8 from .9.

Change

Titan's Grip now reduces Bladestorm damage by 10% from 5%.

Change

Fixed another bug with Frostbrand Scaling where it was too low. It should now work as intended.

Item Changes

Change

[Alchemy Supplies]: Purchasable at proper vendors again.

New

[Faction Mounts]: No longer faction restricted.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Death Sentence now increases damage done by Execute by 3%.

Change

Demonic Resilience now decreases damage taken by your demon pet by 3%.

Change

Improved Ambush now gives 5% increased critical strike chance.

Change

Warcry will now only apply to the player who used Battle Shout.

2020/07/28

General

New

Increased baseline resilience by 10%. (This change will be active on next server restart.)

Change

Removed the limitation to swapping weapons while in combat.

Talents & Abilities

Change

Fixed a bug where Combustion gave significant critical strike chance to all Fire spells. It now only works with Fire Mage spells as intended.

Change

Fixed a bug where Blind still counted as a physical spell.

Change

Ice Barrier base shield amount has been reduced by 10%.

Change

Power Word: Shield base shield amount has been reduced by 10%.

Change

Fixed a bug where the Frostbrand Weapon spell damage scaling was too high.

Change

The health of Water Elemental, Spirit Wolves, Treants and Fungarians have been reduced.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Fixed an issue where a few Random Enchants weren't rollable. They will be after the next server restart.

Change

Lengthy Cheap Shot now increases the duration of Cheap Shot by 0.2 sec, down from 0.33 sec.

Change

Eternal Water now increases Water Elemental duration by 30 sec, down from 60.