Ascension Changelog

Cauterizing fire Healing Increased by 25% in arena combat.

Cauterizing fire Healing reduced by 20% in battleground and open world pvp combat.

[Pending Restart] - Polished Observer Shield will now also update its block value over levels. (Requires a patch update as well)

Corrected the socket bonus on the following items: "Idol of Feral Shadows", "Totem of the Astral Winds", "Ivory idol of the Moongoddess", "Totem of Spontaneous Regrowth", "Idol of th Emerald Queen", "Libram of the Lightbringer", "Idol of Ursoc", "Idol of the Unseen Moon", "Idol of Terror", "Stonebreaker's Totem", "Totem of Living Water", "Libram of Divine Judgement", "Libram of Divine Purpose", "Idol of Terror", "Libram of Mending", "Cloak of Dark Bargain", "Totem of the Void", "Librma of the Eternal Rest", "Idol of the Emerald Queen", "Libram of Avengement", "Totem of the Thunderhead", "Totem of Spontaenous Regrowth", "Ivory Idol of the Moongoddess", "Idol of the Claw", "Libram of Saints Departed", "Reaver of the Infinites", "Totem of Healing Rains", "Libram of Absolute Truth", "Idol of the Crescent Goddess", "Totem of the Maelstrom", "Talon of the Phoenix", "Claw of the Phoenix", "Staff of Blazing Glory", "Waistband of Crushed Skulls", "Throat Crushers", "Arrow-Fall Chestguard", "Hauberk of the Empire's Champion", "Cloak of Ancient Rituals", "Cloak of Fiends", "Shadowcaster's Drape", "Massacare Cloak", "Spaulders of the Advocate", "Hex Lord's Voodoo Pauldrons", "Shoulderpads of Dancing Blades", "Loop of Cursed Bones", "Blood-stained Pauldrons"

[Area52] Ambush damage in battleground and open world pvp combat has been reduced by 10%.

[Area52] Shadow Dagger (Forbidden Technique) damage in battleground and open world pvp combat has been reduced by 20%.

[Area52] Fixed an issue causing pvp mods to not apply correctly.

[Area52] Fixed an issue causing wraiths pvp mod to not be applied

[Area52] Ambush damage in battleground and open world pvp combat has been reduced by 10%.

[Area52] Shadow dagger (forbidden technique) damage in Battleground and open world pvp combat as been reduced by 20%

[Area52] Ambush damage in battleground, and open world pvp combat has been reduced by 20%.

Hand of Protection also clears Stun effects when used.

Cloak of Shadows now also removes all Bleed effects when used and grants immunity to Snare and Root effects.

Cloak of Shadows now has a 2 minute cooldown, down from 3 minutes.

Combat Readiness now also triggers against spells. It now provides 3% damage reduction per stack in PvP (still 5% against monsters).

The Disarm duration reduction effect on Improved Counterattack has been moved to Survivalist, making it more accessible to more builds.

Weapon Mastery now grants 2% critical strike chance per stack, changed from 1.

Grip of Horror now increases the disarm duration of Psychic Horror by 0.66/1.33/2 sec, changed from 1/2/3.

Dismantle now lasts for 6 seconds, down from 7.

Disarm now lasts for 6 seconds, down from 7.

Improved Disarm: Change to the target taking +10% damage from you while disarmed. [This also fixes an issue with PvE]

New Moon ERE now has an additional effect: Dealing periodic damage with Moonfire reduces the cast time of your next Arcane Blast by 5%, stacking up to 5 times.

Temporal Shift now has a cast time of 2 seconds, down from 2.2.

Missile Barrage now also has a 8/16/20% chance to trigger from Slow.

Unfurling Time Epic Mystic Enchant now has an additional effect: Casting Slow on a target within 15 yards of you that is already afflicted by Slow roots them for 2 seconds.

New Capstone: Netherwind Presence - Casting Slow while Netherwind Presence is fully stacked increases your movement speed by 30% for 3 seconds.

Netherwind Presence procs on spell cast instead of hit.

Shadow Strikes no longer trigger from on-hit effects such as Heroic Strike or Cleave. This makes it in-line with other proc effects, which as a general rule do not trigger from spells/abilities that do not have a global cooldown.

Angelic Feather now costs 10% of base mana, down from 16%. It now grants 50% increased movement speed up from 40%.

Thunderstorm now deals 10% more damage.

Hydromancer Electrocute now has a 30 second internal cooldown, up from 20.

Lightning Overload now stuns for 2.5 seconds, up from 2.

Lightning Discharge now stuns for 2.5 seconds, up from 1.5.

Unrelenting Storm now also stacks up from Elemental Blast and Lava Burst.

Amplify Curse now has a new Capstone effect: If any of your Curses are dispelled, your next Curse of Agony will deal bonus Shadow damage to the target after 3 seconds.

Mongoose Bite and Counterattack now require weapons, meaning they can no longer be used while disarmed.

The Capstone effect of Amplify Curse allowing you to have multiple Curses active at the same time is now baseline.

Staggering Shout now has a 20 sec cooldown, changed from 25

Fixed issues with the Tenacity pet talent tree.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where the damage from Bloodbath would not always apply.

Fixed an issue where the Unending Fury capstone was not reducing the cooldown of Whirlwind (pending restart)

Fixed a visual issue where Avatar tooltip would display 0% physical damage done. (requires patch)

Fixed an issue where Tidal Mastery did not increase the duration of Tidal Force.

[Pending Restart] Added a small ICD to charge so you don't immediately use both charges of charge at the same time. This should make it feel like it did before it was changed recently.

Fixed an issue where Lucifur would lose functionality after dying. Relogging will also resolve this. (Required Restart)

[Repentant Reconciliation] The buff that triggers the heal is no longer consumed after casting penance. The duration has been reduced to 8 seconds from 12 seconds. Improved the tooltip to add clarity and reduce text. (Pending Restart and Patch)

Ward of Light will now properly reset the cooldown on Divine Storm (requires restart)

Updated the tooltip of Compound Power to reflect that Arcane Shot and Steady Shot now always grant 2 combo points instead of requiring a critical strike.

[Thrall] Fixed an issue where Lesser Enchants like Lesser Arcane Explosion were missing. (Pending restart and patch)

[Thrall] Fixed an issue where the quest to complete a Build Draft was accessible on Thrall. This game mode is not acessible and the quest cannot be completed outside of Freepick.

[Pending Restart] - Fixed an issue where after the Core Merge, deep frozen debuff was not increasing damage taken on adds that move through jaina's ring of frost on the 2nd boss of Hyjal.

SOCKET BONUSES ARE BACK

[Requires Launcher Update] [AddOns] Significantly improved the tracking of absorption healing for both Details and Skada

Chain heal jumps now heal for 75% of the original amount up from 60%. (These changes overall aim to reduce the reliance upon Tidal Force in both low gear scenarios and high gear scenarios respectively.)

Tidal Mastery is now a 3 point talent down from 5 points. (its cooldown per talent point has not changed. This results in a 12 second cooldown nerf to Tidal Force, from 1 minute to 1 minute 12 seconds.)

Tidal Force now increases the healing of Chain heal jumps by 15% from 75% to 90%.

Tidal Force now causes healing wave to heal the target again for 30% of the original amount down from 40%.

Holy Specialization now gives your Holy spell critical damage spells a chance to increase your magic damage done by 5%.

Holy Specialization has been Reworked slightly. It now no longer reduces the cast time of holy spells by 10% per stack. It's previous effect remains unchanged. (it still grants 3% critical strike chance for holy spells per stack.)

Tidal Mastery is now a 3 point talent down from 5 points. (its cooldown per talent point has not changed. This results in a 12 second cooldown nerf to Tidal Force, from 1 minute to 1 minute 12 seconds.)

Chain heal jumps now heal for 75% of the original amount up from 60%. (These changes overall aim to reduce the reliance upon Tidal Force in both low gear scenarios and high gear scenarios respectively.)

Reaching Recovery now reduces the initial heal of Chain heal by 3% and increases the subsequent jumps by 5%.

Tidal Force now increases the healing of Chain heal jumps by 15% from 75% to 90%.

Tidal Force now causes healing wave to heal the target again for 30% of the original amount down from 40%.

Holy Specialization now gives your Holy spell critical damage spells a chance to increase your magic damage done by 5%.

Holy Specialization has been Reworked slightly. It now no longer reduces the cast time of holy spells by 10% per stack. It's previous effect remains unchanged. (it still grants 3% critical strike chance for holy spells per stack.)

[Pending Restart] - Added missing socket bonuses to the Following Parry Tank Sets: Destroyer, Onslaught & Warbringer.

[Reaching Recovery] Now reduces the initial heal of Chain heal by 3% and increases the subsequent jumps by 5% from 7% and 10% respectively.

[Compound Power] Increased the damage of Combo shot from 108% weapon damage to 150% weapon damage.

[Compound Power] Increased the bleed damage dealt by Combo Shot by 50%.

[Lucifur] - Fixed an issue where the dot from Charred Bite was not scaling with SP and AP.

[Compound Power] Steady shot and Arcane shot now grant 2 combo points per hit, they no longer requires critical strikes.

[Lucifur] - Mark of the Beast now grants haste and damage instead of spell critical strike chance and damage.

[Lucifur] - Shred and Mangle now procs Devil's Claw on all targets struck, when affected by the Devil's Claw buff.

[Lucifur] - Whilst effected by the lowered GCD buff, when entering Cat Form you cast Cataclysm.

[Lucifur] [New] - [Cataclysm] - Lucifur now teaches you Cataclysm. Cataclysm is an AoE spell that deals large fire damage to up to 6 nearby enemy targets within 8 yard range and applies a fire damage over time debuff to targets effected. Casting this grants you 15% increased fire damage. Only useable in Cat Form. +

[Lucifur] [New] - [Devil's Ignition] - Your Incinerate is transformed in to Devil's Ingition, dealing fire damage and additional damage if the target is effected by Charred Bite instead of Immolate. Critically Striking with Mangle, Claw or Shred has a chance to grant you Devil's Ember allowing you to cast Devil's Ignition. Only usable in Cat Form.

[Lucifur] [New] - [Number of the Beast] - Critically Striking with any abiliy has a 66% chance to grant you Number of the Beast, stacking 6 times. Upon reaching 6 stacks you can manually cast Cataclysm consuming all stacks and granting an additional 7 seconds of Devil's Claw.

[Lucifur] - Charred Bite now increases the damage dealt by Searing Pain and Devil's Ignition by 10% per stack.

[Lucifur] - The Devil's Claw generator for Lucifur has changed from Scorch to Searing Pain, and all related buffs and effects have been changed to affect Searing Pain instead.

[Lucifur] - Searing Pain has reduced threat generation whilst you have Lucifur equipped.

[Eldritch Knight] - While Eldritch Weapon is active you generate 20% more threat overall. Eldritch Explosion now generates 30% more threat, 50% with the Eldritch Weapon buff.

[One with the Light] One with the Light now causes Holy Specialization to grant 10% cast time reduction for your Holy Fire, instead of granting % damage to Smite and Holy Fire.

[Curse of Arugal] - Void Eruption can now be used while shapeshifted into a Worgen.

[One with the Light] One with the Light has been changed slightly. It can now only trigger one instance of two stacks of Holy Specialization. (Before it was possible to trigger ten stacks instantaneously from a single Divine Storm, this caused major performance issues.)

[Repentant Reconcilliation] [Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Repentant Reconcilliation would not be consumed when healing allies or damaging enemies. (It previously would only be consumed upon healing yourself.)

[Cauterizing Flames] [Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Cauterizing Fire would gain double the effect of Divine Aegis. It will now correctly benefit the same as other Holy healing effects.

[Pending Restart] - A New Heirloom Shield has been added, Polished Observer's Shield, this shield has Stamina, Defense and Hit Rating. The armor of the shield will not currently reflect accurately in the tooltip, however, will display correctly when equipped by you, this behavior is denoted in the tooltip with an "equip" effect.

[Pending Maintenance and Core Merge] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [Azgalor] Reduced the damage of Legion Portals Negative Energy by 40%.

[Pending Maintenance and Core Merge] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [Azgalor] Legion Portals now spawn Undead Forces and Worthless Imps slightly faster.

[Pending Maintenance and Core Merge] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [Azgalor] Legion Portal no longer summon Frost Wyrms.

[Pending Maintenance and Core Merge] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [Azgalor] Corrected an issue where Rain of Fire would disappear visually.

[Pending Maintenance and Core Merge] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [Kaz'rogal] The Mark of Kaz'rogal is now a Arcane spell. Previously was a Shadow spell.

[Pending Maintenance and Core Merge] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [Kaz'rogal] The Pillar of Cataclysm and Suffering now also increase all enemies Fire or Shadow damage taken for a brief moment whenever they cast their area of effect damage until they have a target close enough to connect their channeled beam to.

[Pending Maintenance and Core Merge] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [Kaz'rogal] Increased the damage inflicted by Cataclysmic Strikes poeriodic effect and Tormenting Strikes direct damaging effects.

[Pending Maintenance and Core Merge] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [Anetheron] Reduced the required amount of Nightmare Amalgans being killed while under the effect of Jaina's Circle of Frost to complete the Crushed Ice achievement to 12 down from 20.

[Pending Maintenance and Core Merge] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [Anetheron] Corrected the visual scale of Lady Jaina's Ring of Frost to match the actual effect radius.

[Pending Maintenance and Core Merge] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [Anetheron] Corrected an issue where Carrion Swarm would not reduce targets healing received.

[Pending Maintenance and Core Merge] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [Anetheron] Added raid warnings that announce who got send into the Nightmare.

[Pending Maintenance and Core Merge] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [Anetheron] Extended Nightmare and Sleep tolltipps to further explain how the mechanic works.