Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2023/08/16

General

Change

Fixed an issue where Model F00D-R3PA1R (Battleground Bot) did not provide items to players above level 61, this NPC will now provide consumables from 61 to 65 and from 65 to 70.

Item Changes

New

Malorne Regalia (2) proc made more consistent.

New

Cyclone Harness (4) Increases your physical damage done by 2% and your spell critical strike chance by 2%.

New

Cyclone Raiment items were reitemized, stats were shifted more towards crit to support itemization of current shaman-like specs.

New

Cyclone Harness (2) Increases your hit rating by 4% of your Agility.

New

Cyclone Raiment (2) Regenerate mana equal to 5% of your Intellect every 5 seconds. Even while casting.

New

Cyclone Raiment (4) Reduces the cooldown on your Nature's Swiftness ability 10 seconds.

New

Cyclone Regalia items were reitemized. MP5 was removed in favour of other stats.

New

Cyclone Regalia (4) proc made more consistent.

New

Justicar Raiment (2) Increases your Intellect by 5%.

New

Cyclone Regalia (2) Increases your spell power by 30.

New

Justicar Battlegear items were reitemized.

New

Justicar Battlegear (4) Tripples the effect of Conviction Capstone bonus.

New

Justicar Armor (4) Increases the damage dealt by your Shield of Righteousness by 15%.

New

Justicar Battlegear (2) Increases your spell power and attack power by 20.

New

T4 Sets and their itemization was slightly modernized (This is not a full comprehensive rework, this is more of a QoL, opening the sets up for more classless gameplay)

New

Netherblade (2) Increases your hit chance by 3%.

Mystic Enchants

Change

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Hammerstorm could be procced without being affected by either Defensive Stance or Righteous Fury.

2023/08/15

General

New

[Pending Restart] Added Badges of Justice to all higher Level TBC normal dungeon bosses (68+).

New

Astral Storm damage reduced by 10% in pvp combat.

New

Fireball damage increased by 10% in pvp combat.

New

Pyroblast damage increased by 5% in pvp combat.

New

[Requires Launcher Update] Significantly reduced the intensity, and duration of the reveal flash animation on draft cards when Auto Reveal is enabled.

New

[Pending Restart] Ambidextrous now gives 20% bonus off-hand damage versus players, changed from 30%.

New

[Pending Restart] Hypnosis now lasts 30 sec versus monsters. Fixed an issue where Hypnosis lasted 6 sec, instead of 8 sec versus players.

New

[Pending Restart] Fear Ward now has a 1 second global cooldown.

New

Focused burst damage reduced by 5% in pvp combat.

New

[Pending Restart] Reduced damage taken in pvp by 5%.

New

Fel concentration healing reduced by 20% in pvp combat.

New

Gift of the naaru healing reduced by 10% in pvp combat

New

Chaos burn damage reduced by 30% in pvp combat

New

Drain life Damage reduced by 10% in pvp combat

Talents & Abilities

Change

[Pending Restart] Fear Ward now has a 2.5s duration, changed from 3. It now has a 0.5 sec delay before it can be used again. (The previous change of giving it a global cooldown has been reverted.)

Change

[Pending patch] Clarified the tooltips of Deflection and Ghostlike Reflexes.

Change

[Pending restart] Removed the PvP mod (-40%) of Improved Devouring Plague. This talent was redesigned without getting an update to its PvP mod, which this fixes.

Change

[Pending restart] Fixed an issue where the Amplify Curse capstone effect dealt far less damage than intended. This change should increase its damage by 200%-500% depending on your gear/build.

Change

[Draft] Fixed an issue where Healing Rain was costing a rare gem. It will now register as common. Keep in mind it may visually appear as Rare until a patch update, but will not take up rare gem slots.

World

New

Vendors that had a 12 hour respawn on certain items such as the recipes from the Enchanting vendor in Lower City now permanently sell their items with no respawn timer.

Mystic Enchants

Change

[Harbinger of Flame] [Pending Restart] The damage over time effect from Flame Burst now scales from 4.57% of your spell power and attackpower per tick.

Change

Fixed an issue where Natural Perfection could become permanent instead of lasting for the next 3 hits.

Change

[Verdant Convergence] Now displays an error letting you know you cannot manually cast Insect Swarm while the enchant is active instead of saying you cannot do this right now. (pending server restart)

Change

[Verdant Convergence] Clarified and improved tooltips. (Pending Spell Patch)

Change

[Pending Restart] [Munitions Expert] [Sharpshooter] Fixed an issue where Quick-Draw and Armor Piercing buffs were affecting the cast speed of the Sharpshooter Mystic Enchantment.

Change

[Thunder Slam] Fixed an issue where Lightning Blade and Thunderslam could be unlearned when switching weapons and removed from your action abr. (Pending server restart)

Change

[Pending restart] Fixed an issue where Rare Worldforged Mystic Enchants would grant more power than the tooltip implied.

2023/08/14

General

Change

Lesser Profane Essence and Nether quests will now only appear if you have the items in your inventory as these items have been removed from the game. You can ssafely convert your Profanes into HR Scrolls or vendor them.

New

Arena Season 3 Boots have been improved to match Hyjal item levels and power.

New

Arena Season 3 Belts have been improved to match Hyjal item levels and power.

New

Compound shot deals 10% less damage in pvp combat.

New

Updated Season 3 1 handed weapons to have the correct damage

New

Fixed Season 3 item levels to match Hyjal

Change

[Pending Restart] Reduced the number of kills required to complete Keeping Evil at Bay: Arklonis Ridge to 6.

New

Desolate dust devil (dot) damage reduced by 6% in pvp combat.

New

Lava burst damage reduced by 5% in pvp combat.

Talents & Abilities

Change

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Leader of the Pack and Rampage could not co-exist. They will now stay active, but only one aura will take effect. (This means you will still only gain 5% crit but you won't lose any of the buffs due to taking Leader of the Pack.)

Change

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Sheath of Light was granting double its normal effects.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

[Pending Restart] [Karazhan] [Attumen and Midnight] Corrected an issue where Midnight had much less health then intended.

Change

[Pending Restart] [Karazhan] [General] Improved FPS performance throughout Karazhan.

Change

[Pending Restart] [Karazhan] [General] Corrected a number of issues among trash creatures including wrong spells being casted, not granting loot, bad links between creatures causing them to pull each other from across rooms when being attacked, missing paths.

Mystic Enchants

Change

[Repentant Reconciliation] Increased the duration from 8 seconds to 9 seconds. This should allow fully channeling Penance with enough time left to maintain the buff.

Change

[Wraith] Fixed an issue where Wraith could be removed from your bars when relogging.

Change

[Serpent Form] Fixed an issue where Serpent Form spells could be removed from your bar when relogging. (pending server restart)

Change

Winter's Mantle now increases the damage of your next Arctis versus players by 10%, changed from 20%. (With the recent stack increase to 8 the damage potential became too high in PvP.)

Change

Gathering Will now increases the damage of your next Fuego versus players by 10%, changed from 20%. (With the recent stack increase to 8 the damage potential became too high in PvP.)

Change

[Serpent Form] Fixed a spell rank issue with Venomous Fury, causing incorrect scaling and not learning the proper ranks at the proper levels. (will result in a buff while leveling, no change at end-game)

Change

[Serpent Form] Updated tooltip to be more clear.

2023/08/13

General

New

[Pending Restart] Arena mail gauntlets will no longer grant bonus range to flame shock.

New

[Thrall] Grape shot damage reduced by 10% in pvp combat.

New

Fixed an issue where searing totem pvp mod was only being applied to rank 1

New

*Notes: Melee feel a bit underwhelming at level 70 so we're giving them a little bit of a reset. (Will be Monitoring and updating more)

New

Rend - Hydra's vendom damage in pvp combat has been increased by 14%

New

Mortal Strike Damage has been increased by 10% in pvp combat.

New

Mortal STrike - Single minded fury Damage has been increased by 10% in pvp combat

New

Rend damage in pvp combat has been increased by 14% in pvp combat.

New

Titanic Strike PvP mod has been removed

New

Draconic Slam damage increased by 20% in pvp combat.

New

Thunder Slam PvP mod has been removed

New

Whirlwind PvP mod has been removed

New

Lightning Blade PvP Mod has been removed

New

Unbounded Deathbringer damage reduced by 10% in pvp combat.

New

Bloodthirst's PvP Mod has been removed.

New

Devstate damage increased by 10% in pvp combat.

New

Slam damage reduced by 25% in pvp combat.

Change

Fixed an issue where Kibler's Bits was giving far more strength than intended. It now grants 20 strength and stamina for 30 minutes.

Talents & Abilities

Change

Charge now has a 250ms cooldown. This prevents being able to cast charge twice inside of the same charge eating up the 2 Charge system that was implemented recently.

Change

Fixed an issue where Blast Wave, Typhoon and Thunderstorm were sharing a cooldown in some circumstances. They will now correctly no longer share a cooldown with each other.

Change

[Missile Barrage] Fixed an issue where Arcane Orb's chance to trigger missile barrage could sometimes stop working. (Pending Restart)

Website

Change

[Launcher] Fixed an issue that caused the settings UI to revert to incorrect resolution option.

Item Changes

Change

Fixed an issue where Build Masters Enchanting Altar could be spawned in anti-block areas.

Change

Fixed an issue where some High-Risk refine spells were giving incorrect Marks of War.

Mystic Enchants

Change

[Munitions Expert] [Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where under certain circumstances you could have both buffs active at the same time.

Change

[Dragon's Rage] Fixed an issue where when having more than 1 instance of this Mystic Enchant would not increase its effect. It will now increase Fire damage taken from the caster by 6/12/18% depending on the amount of Mystic Enchants slotted.

Change

[Steward of Eternity] [Pending Restart] Eternity now has a 5 second internal cooldown. (This is to prevent instances where you could trigger Eternity instantly back to back and handicap the duration on the mana regen buff.)

Change

[Pending Restart][Verdant Convergence] Fixed an issue this Mystic enchant would be removed upon entering instances (cities, pvp, pve instances)

Change

[Pending Restart][Verdant Convergence] Dawn: Hitting a player with Sunburst will remove all stacks of Dawn and prevent its generation until the next Lunar Eclipse.

Change

[Pending Restart][Verdant Convergence] New: Nature's Grace also increases your chance to trigger Lightning Overload by 20%.

Change

Lesser Arcane Explosion and other Lesser Enchant Spells are now fixed by updating via the launcher. (You may need to click the cog wheel on launcher and clear cache if you still experience issues applying the enchant)

Change

[Lucifur] Fixed an issue where Cataclysm would not grant 7 seconds of Devil's Claw if the buff was not currently active. It can now properly trigger the buff. (pending server restart)

Change

Fixed an issue where Harsh Winds would cause Wind Rager's Hurricane Strike to heal the target. Hard Winds should only reduce the movement speed when channeling Hurricane.

Quests

Change

[High-Risk Callboard Dailies - War In Zone] Increased Mark of Ascension rewards from 1500 to 2500.