Ascension Changelog

[Reposting For Clarity] - Originally TBC did not have Armor Penetration Gems. With the addition of new gems in this patch, Armor Penetration Gems can be obtained just like other Gem Recipes and can be crafted once you obtain the pattern.

[Pending Restart] Guardian Spirit - added limit to how much the spirit can absorb on fatal hit, 15% of target's MAX health, similar to how Ardent Defender and Cheat Death already work. This is done to prevent the negation of mechanics that are intended to kill a player in specific circumstances.

Fixed an issue where certain characters merged to Area 52 were not showing up on the website.

[Pending Maintenance and Core Merge] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [Anetheron] Increased the scale of players bodys that are send into the Nighhtmare by 100% for allied healers to spot them easier.

[Pending Maintenance and Core Merge] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [Anetheron] Corrected an issue where player would not see Spiritual Pain appear on screen or their combat logs. Spiritual Pain will now correctly show up informing the player inside the Nightmare that he takes damage because of his left behind body taking damage as well.

[Pending Maintenance and Core Merge] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [Anetheron] Player leaving or entering the Nightmare now get restored to full health.

[Pending Maintenance and Core Merge] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [Rage Winterchill] Death and Decay no longer inflicts percentage damage. Death and Decay now inflicts a flat amount of damage per second instead.

[Pending Maintenance and Core Merge] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [Rage Winterchill] Increased the radius of Body Heat being applied to 2 yards up from 1 yard.

[Pending Maintenance and Core Merge] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [Rage Winterchill] Reduced the damage of Ice Spikes by 50%.

[Pending Maintenance and Core Merge] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [Rage Winterchill] Rage Winterchill will now attempt to send Ice Spikes after targets currently not being chased after by an Ice Spike.

[Pending Maintenance and Core Merge] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [Items] Exquisit and Flawless Band of Eternity, Sage and Restorer version are now both able to proc from both damaging and healing spells.

[Pending Maintenance and Core Merge] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [Items] The tooltipps of Exquisit and Flawless Bands of Eternity now display their proc chance and internal cooldown.

[Pending Maintenance and Core Merge] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [General] Increased the time between waves spawning after the last invading creature of a wave has been killed to 15 seconds up from 5 seconds to grant player room for resurrection, buffing and regeneration.

[Pending Restart] Design: Purified Shadowsong Amethyst can now drop from Mount Hyjal trash mobs and be bought from Indormi inside the raid for a Heart of Darkness.

[Area52] Spirit healing has been reduced by 10% in Battleground pvp combat.

[Pending Restart] - G'eras now also sells designs for Fractured Living Ruby.

G'eras now sells the designs for Quick Dawnstone, Reckless Noble Topaz and Forceful Talasite. You can find this designs under the Amani Empire tab.

Gronnstalker 3 set bonus got changed: Now it increases the damage you deal with your critical strikes by 3%. This was changed to open up the bonus for playstyles not utilizing hunter stings in their rotations.

Slayer T6 3set bonus got changed to properly grant expected power gain: Increases your physical damage, critical strike chance and chance to hit by 1%.

Added missing Intellect to Lightbringer T6 tank set. You can preview this changes on the item vendor.

Slightly reitemized stats on T6 Skyshatter and Lightbringer healer sets to smooth out gearing progressions and relative power between these two sets.

[Pending Restart] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [General] Increased the number of creatures spawned inside the Undead Camp right outside the Alliance Base. This creatures are not part of enemy attck waves but can be engaged and slayn to obtain loot and reputation without starting the invasion event from Jaina.

[Pending Restart] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [Anetheron] Increased the duration of Jaina's Ring of Frost to 15 seconds up from 10.

[Pending Restart] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [Anetheron] Greatly reduced the health of Nightmare Amalgans inside the Nightmare Phase. Increased the effects of Fleshbound Nigthtmare, applied to Nightmare Amalgans when they leave the Nightmare Phase through a Nightmarte Portal by 100%.

[Pending Restart] [The Battle for Mount Hyjal] [General] Increased all bosses hitbox radius.

[Blooming Growth] [Pending Restart] Renamed the critical strike chance buff granted by Blooming Growth to Blooming Power from Blooming Growth to make it easier to track/identify the buff from Blooming Growths heal over time effect.

[The Battle for Mount Hyjal] Corrected an issue where bosses inside The Battle of Mount Hyjal would not award KIll Credit towards the Rings of Eternity quests.

Shuriken Toss now has a 30% spell power scaling, changed from 40%.

[Area 52] Heroic Bloodforged events can now drop all previous tiers without an event scroll active. Event Scrolls will still be required to obtain the most recent Heroic Bloodforged tier gear. That means with Hyjal released previous tiers like Karazhan or Serpentshrine Cavern will drop Heroic Bloodforged from the Event Areas even without a scroll active. As a note: Heroic Bloodforged Hyjal requires 145 ilvl to obtain.

[Ascension DB] Fixed an issue where you would be redirected to the homepage after adding a comment.

Cooking recipes that require Warped Flesh have been reduced to 3 for Rare and 6 for Epic, from 10 each.

Cooking recipes that require Serpent Flesh have been reduced to 2 for Rare and 4 for Epic, from 10 each.

Cooking recipes that require Raptor Ribs have been reduced to 2 for Rare and 4 for Epic, from 10 each.

Previously, High-Risk Rare and Epic cooking recipes both required 10 common quality meat. Now Rare High-Risk cooking recipes will require 5 common quality meat.

Pure Flask of the Executioner now requires 10 Mana Thistle from 20.

Impure Flask of the Executioner now requires 5 Mana Thistle from 10.

Impure Flask of Unrelenting Power now requires 5 Mana Thistle from 10.

Pure Flask of Unrelenting Power now requires 10 Mana Thistle from 20.

Pure Flask of the Unyielding now requires 10 Terocone from 20.

Impure Flask of the Unyielding now requires 5 Terocone from 10.

Impure Flask of Butchery now requires 2 Netherbloom from 5.

Pure Flask of Butchery now requires 4 Netherbloom from 10.

Impure Flask of the Warsong now requires 2 Nightmare Vine from 5.

Pure Flask of the Warsong now requires 4 Nightmare Vine from 10.

Removed all Rare uncut gems from HR Jewel Crafting Pendants. Recipes will now require 5x2 Uncommon Gems for Rare Crafts and 10x2 Uncommon Gems for Epic Crafts. This should add value to green gems and make blue gems more affordable.

Mastercraft Subtle Gambeson now requires 10 Nether Dragonscales from 20.

Subtle Gambeson now requires 5 Nether Dragonscales from 10.

Mastercraft Clefthoof Gambeson 10 Thick Clefthoof Leather from 20.

Mastercraft True Strike Gambeson now requires Heavy Knothide Leather.

Clefthoof Gambeson now requires 5 Thick Clefthoof Leather from 10.

True Strike Gambeson now requires Heavy Knothide Leather.

Mastercraft Wind Gambeson requires 4 Wind Scales from 20.

Wind Gambeson now requires 2 Wind Scales from 10.

Fel Strike Gambeson now requires 1 Fel Hide from 10.

Mastercraft Fel Strike Gambeson now requires 2 Fel Hide from 20.

Mastercraft Cobra Strike Gambeson now requires 2 Cobra Scale from 20.

[Area 52] Many High-Risk Recipes have had their material costs updated.

Cobra Strike Gambeson now requires 1 Cobra Scale from 10.

[Pending Restart] [Thrall] You now take 5% reduced damage in PvP.

[Hyjal] - Pets are no longer affected by Rage Winterchill's Frostbite spell. Additionally, on Normal and Heroic, Frostbite occurs every 4 seconds from every 3 seconds.

[Thrall] Preparing for Outlands: Keeper Scroll: High-Risk Events is now available at the War Herals in your capital city. This quest allows you to trade Profane Essence for High-Risk event scrolls that can be used in TBC after it launches on Thrall.

[Area 52] Fixed an issue where High-Risk Dailies were rewarding level 60 Bloodforged Caches. They will not correctly grant a Callboard Cache (TBC)

[Area52] High-Risk Epic Material Transmute spells no longer require Lesser Profane Nether. Lesser Profane Nethers are being deprecated and can be converted into High-Risk Event Scrolls at the War Herald. (The spells will require, but not consume Profanes until a spell patch is pushed).

[Area52] Lingering shadows 20% damage nerf in pvp has been reverted.

[Power Word: Shield] Fixed an issue where Power Word: Shield was not correctly casting Weakened Soul.

Added description text to Vanilla High-Risk craftables to make it more clear they can only be used at level 60.

[Champion of Justice] [Pending Restart] Increased the Coefficient of the heal triggered by melee abilities from 5% to 10% of your Bonus Spell Healing.

[Champion of Justice] [Pending Restart] Increased the damage > healing conversion from melee abilites from 20% to 35% of the damage dealt.

[Champion of Justice] Reduced the damage to healing conversion on adorned targets when using melee abilities from 100% of the damage dealt to 20% of the damage dealt. (This is live on Thrall and Area-52)

[Pending Restart][Shadow Dagger] Lingering Shadows application now correctly consumes buffs from Darkmaster legendary enchant (Harvested Essence, Necromancer's Touch).

[Pending Restart][Shadow Dagger] Shadow Dagger is the only source to trigger Lingering Shadows. Base Shuriken Toss could do it previously.

[Pending Restart][Shadow Dagger] Shadow Dagger Cooldown reduced to 10 sec. Down from 20.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue that prevented rage generation from spells and abilities when attacking the target dummies.

[Area 52] Fixed an issue where the pvp mod on Poison Rain was not applying.

[Area52] Lingering Shadow damage reduced by 20% in pvp combat.

[Area52] Titanic Mutilate damage reduced by 8% in pvp combat.

Fixed an issue causing divine purpose to stack to 3 (225%) instead of its intended 75%

Reduced duration of divine judgement,and divine purpose buffs from 18s to 16s.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue causing the pvp mod on Predator's wrath to not be active.

[Area52] Razzashi Talon damage reduced by 30% in pvp combat.

Vanilla and TBC Trinkets now have unique spells for all difficulties - this means they now upgrade both stats and their spells. This change will require server restart and launcher update!

[Area 52] Fixed an issue where Honor Among Thieves would trigger its capstone effect at rank 2 and bypass the Internal Cooldown. It now correctly has a 3 seconds Internal Cooldown and requires rank 3 to trigger its capstone effect.

[Thrall] Fixed an issue where rank 2-3 of Penance would not fire missiles.

Fixed an issue causing the new spell ranks of penance to not have the correct pvp mods.

[Penance] Fixed an issue where Ranks 2, 3, 4 and 5 of Penance would incorrectly cast Ranks 6, 7 and 8 respectively. (This should reduce its huge output seen in lower leveling brackets.)

Shadowburn now deals Shadowflame damage. This is meant to widen the access to backdraft for fire destruction specializations.

Decreased the duration of Greater Demonic Pact to 30 seconds. Down from 45 seconds.

Mana Feed now increases your pets missing mana regen by 4/8%. Up from 3/5%.

[Mythic +] [Thundering Affix] The Thundering Affix can now only damage players at level 70.

[Mythic +] [Thundering Affix] Reduced the damage of the Thundering Affix by 35%. (at level 70)

[Disciple of the Tides] Fixed an issue where with enough stacks of Disciple of the Tides you would stop dealing damage to players with Penance.

[Arcane Thunder Seer] Increased duration of Thunder Seer and Arcane Thunder to 8 seconds. Up from 7.

[Arcane Thunder Seer] Arcane Thunder now increases damage of your Lightning Bolt by 4% and Chain Lightning by 3% per stack.

[Arcane Thunder Seer] Thunder Seer now reduces cast time of your Arcane Missiles by .250 second per stack

[Area52] Penance healing done reduced by 15% in pvp combat.

[Area52] Adorned (Champion of justice) healing done reduced by 12% in pvp combat.

[Disciple of the Tides] Fixed an issue where the buff to Penance from Disciple of the Tides was increasing the healing of Penance far more than intended.

[Area 52] TBC Callboard Caches can now drop TBC Rare and Epic High-Risk Crafting Recipes.

[Divine Favor] Fixed an issue where the effects of Divine Favor would not get consumed when casting Align or Synchronize from the Steward of Eternity Mystic Enchantment.

[Steward of Eternity] The base heal increase has been reapplied to Align and Synchronize following the recent changes to Divine Favor which caused Steward of Eternity to far outperform other healing Mystic Enchantments due to un-intended behaviour.