Ascension Changelog

Hand of Sacrifice now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Fear now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Death Coil now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Howl of Terror now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Bash now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Intimidating Shout now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Blind now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Blink now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Hand of Freedom now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Gouge now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Hand of Protection now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Shield Wall now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Travel Form now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Hammer of Justice now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Divine Shield now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Disengage now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Divine Protection now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Kidney Shot now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Polymorph now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Hypnosis now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Ring of Frost now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Petrification Totem now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Alter Time now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Anti-Magic Zone now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Dancing Rune Weapon now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Summon Gargoyle now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Demonic Leap now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Solar Beam now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Smoke Bomb now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Avatar now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Blinding Light now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Heroic Leap now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Skull Banner now costs 3 AE (down from 4 AE).

Build Draft is now live on Area 52, this brings you 87 unique builds for you to explore. Each build has a leveling (1-70), PvE, and PvP variant, meaning there is 261 variations for you to play.

This allows you to play more archetypes during the leveling experience.

Devastate can now be learned at level 10

Incinerate can now be learned at level 28

Lacerate can now be learned at level 10

Tranquilizing Shot can now be learned at level 44

Feral Charge can now be learned at level 1

Lavalash can now be learned at level 20

Stormstrike can now be learned at level 1

Mutilate can now be learned at level 20

Penance can now be learned at level 30

Divine Storm can now be learned at level 30

Crusader Strike can now be learned at level 1

Ice Lance can now be learned at level 40

Mangle can now be learned at level 20

Ferocious Bite can now be learned at level 10.

Increased the base healing of healing spells between 60 to 70 to closer match the percentage of health gained during those levels. This will keep heals getting progressively stronger while leveling and early end-game while still maintaining the intention of the changes to fix one-shot reaction based healing metas end-game.

Reduced Physical Damage of TBC Heroic Dungeons by 25% and Mythic Dungeons by 10% to come in tandem with the healing overhaul, this will reduce overall damage taken while placing more emphasis on mechanics.

[Replenishment] In addition to its previous effects Replenishment now also grants 3% of your base mana every 5 seconds for 15 seconds.

[Web Builder] Fixed missing talents after update in Area52 and Thrall.

Fixed unix launcher crash.

[Pending Restart] Two-handed heirloom weapons will provide 6% extra EXP (increased from 3%) to compensate for the empty off-hand slot. Note: Equipping 2x Two-handed heirloom weapons will still provide 6% extra EXP.

[Vampire Lord] Beacon of Shadow now transfers 25% of the damage dealt to healing up from 15%.

[Vampire Lord] Increased the Damage > Healing transfer from your Vampire Lord buff from 3% to 5%.

[Pending Restart] - [Area-52]- Fixed an issue where surpassing the item level "bracket" for callboard caches in the most recently released tier would result in an empty callboard cache. Callboard Caches should now always have the correct loot in them.

[Area52] + [Area52] Freezing blood (Frostbolt) damage reduced in pvp by 50%

[Pending Restart] - Heirloom 2 Hand weapons that had EXP bonus on them will now give 6% EXP bonus up from 3%. (This is to match the effect and keep you in sync with others using two one-handed heirlooms).

[Crow's Cache] - [Area-52] - [Live Now] - Fixed an issue where Crow's Cache would sometimes not give loot

[Pending Restart & Patch Update] - Fixed an issue where the Gylph Enchantments were showing up on Area-52. This was not intended because they are not usable by the Hero class.

[Area52] Freezing blood damage reduced in pvp by 50%

+ [Pending Restart] Hazardous escape now reads "Your Sprint leaves behind a trail of poison that damages foes and reduces the cooldown of sprint by 1 second everytime it deals damage (the effect has a 1 sec icd against monsters)." Its Attack power and spell power coefficients have been increased from 0.05 to 0.12.

[Pending Restart] Hazardous escape now reads "Your Sprint leaves behind a trail of poison that damages foes and reduces the cooldown of sprint by 1 second everytime it deals damage (the effect has a 1 sec icd against monsters)." Its Attack power and spell power coefficients have been increased from 0.5 to 0.12.

[Pending Restart] Hazardous Escape now reads "Your Sprint leaves behind a trail of poison that damages foes and reduces the cooldown of sprint by 1 second everytime it deals damage it reduces the cooldown by 1 second (the effect has a 1 sec icd against monsters). " Also increased its AP and SP coefficient from 0.5 to 0.12

[Requires Launcher Update] Added a new option for Mouseover Casting [Esc -> Interface -> Mouseover Casting]. When enabled, your spells and macros will target your mouseover target first, if you have one. This is the same behavior as a [@mouseover,exists] macro. If no mouseover is found, it will cast as normal at your target.

[Area52] Ice lash No longer reduces the damage of frostbolt and ice lance against players.

[Pending Restart] PvP Mount Rewards have been moved to "Merul" In Booty Bay And Shattrath.

[Pending Restart] Lava Sweep no longer reduces the damage your Fire Blast, Fireball and Pyroblast deals to players by 20%.

[Pending Restart] Lava Sweep - Eruption now grants 2 stacks against players

[Area52] Eviscerate (disembowel) Damage reduced by 20% in pvp combat.

[Area52] Starfire Damage reduced by 5% in pvp combat.

We've resolved an issue where downloads could sometimes fail if they were interrupted and then resumed.

Fixed the export function on website builder. Builds made on the website and exported, now properly import into the game.

[Pending Restart] Piercing Howl, Dragon Roar, Battle Shout, Commanding Shout, Demoralizing Shout, Challenging Shout, Demoralizing Roar, Challenging Roar can now be used when silenced (but no longer when pacified like other melee abilities).

[Area52] Hack and slash damage increased by 50% in pvp combat.

[Area52] Elemental Rend (Frost) Damage increased by 20% in pvp combat.

[Area52] Elemental Rend (Fire) Damage increased by 20% in pvp combat.

[Area52] Elemental Rend (Nature) Damage increased by 20% in pvp combat.

[Area52] Titantic Strike Damage increased by 10% in pvp combat.

[Area52] Lighting Blade (thunder slam) Damage increased by 10% in pvp combat.

[Area52] Backstab Damage increased by 10% in pvp combat.

[Area52] Chimera Shot Damage increased by 30% in Battlegrounds and open world pvp.

[Area52] Shadow Crash (pure shadow) Damage increased by 30% in pvp combat.

[Area52] Focused Burst damage increased by 10% in pvp combat.

[Area52] Energy bolt (Elemental Destruction) Damage increased by 5% in pvp combat.

[Area52] Hazardous Escape Damage increased by 20% in pvp combat.

[Area52] Ice lash damage increased by 10% in pvp combat.

[Area52] Titanic Mutilate damage increased by 5% in pvp combat.

[Area52] Mongoose Bite Damage increased by 5% in pvp combat.

[Area52] Overpower Damage increased by 5% in pvp combat.

[Area52] Colosus Smash Damage increased by 5% in pvp combat.

[Area52] Whirlwind Damage increased by 5% in pvp combat.

[Area52] Cleave Damage increased by 5% in pvp combat.

[Area52] Execute Damage increased by 10% in pvp combat.

[Area52] Sinister Strike(Rank 10) Damage increased by 10% in pvp combat.

[Area52] Pistol Whip (defias Gunslinger) Damage increased by 10% in pvp combat

[Area52] Pistol Shot (Defias Gunslinger) Damage increased by 10% in pvp combat

[Area52] Draconic Slam Damage increased by 5% in pvp combat