Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2023/07/22

General

New

[Area52] Demolisher Strike damage increased by 10% in pvp combat

New

[Area52] Slam Damage increased by 10% in pvp combat

New

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

Talents & Abilities

Change

[Pending Restart] Intercept now has a 2 sec stun duration, changed from 3.

Change

[Pending Restart] The recent Intercept cooldown change has been reverted. It now again has a 30 sec cooldown.

Change

[Pending Restart] Removed the range increasing capstone of Improved Intercept.

2023/07/21

Talents & Abilities

Change

[Pending Restart] Intercept now has a 35 sec cooldown, changed from 30.

2023/07/20

Website

Change

Fixed an issue that prevented some architect builds from loading on the website.

2023/07/19

General

New

[Pending Restart] Hell scream is no longer affected by silence

New

[Pending Restart] Intimdating Shout is no longer affected by silence

New

[Pending Restart] Lingering Shadows can no longer trigger procs such as Shadow embrace.

New

[Pending Restart] Intimdating Shout is no longer affected by silence

New

[Pending Restart] Lingering Shadows can no longer Trigger's procs such as Shadow embrace.

New

[Pending Restart] Hell scream is no longer affected by silence

New

[Pending Restart] Intimdating Shout is no longer affected by silence

New

[Pending Restart] Hell scream is no longer affected by silence

New

[Pending Restart] Lingering Shadow's no longer Trigger's procs such as Shadow embrace.

Mystic Enchants

Change

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Consumed By Fire's bonus damage to Pyroblast and Meteor worked versus players.

2023/07/18

General

Change

Chromie now will only display for sale the heirlooms you do not currently possess. This aims to reduce the chance you'll purchase a second heirloom you already bought and have in your bags.

Quests

Change

Fixed an issue where Ratchet's quests were scaling until level 40, they now scale from level 1~20 like the mobs in the area. This previously allowed for an exploit on leveling. Ratchet is Ascension's neutral faction starter zone and as such like other starter areas, it only scales until level 20 in mobs/quests/rewards.

2023/07/17

Talents & Abilities

Change

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Aimed Shot rank 7 could not be used while silenced.

Item Changes

Change

[A52] Fixed an issue where Incarnation: Moonspirit (Blue) was not getting added to vanity. You may reuse the item and it'll added to your vanity now!

Change

[Thrall] Fixed an issue where Sigil of Goldilocks was not being added/synchronized to vanity. Synchronizing your vanity again after a relog should now display it as in vanity if you already acquire it in other realms before.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

[Pending Restart] [Temple of Ahn'Qiraj] [C'thun] Corrected an issue where C'thun would not restore player to full health afrer forcefully ehecting them from his stomach.

2023/07/16

Mystic Enchants

Change

[Pending Restart] Necromancer's Touch now increases Drain Life damage versus players by 3% per stack, changed from 10%.

2023/07/15

General

Change

[Venomancer] Unintended opposite tree costs for Shadra's Binding and Lord of Decay swapping between trees have been fixed. (pending restart)

Talents & Abilities

Change

[Thrall] Fixed an issue causing Improved Hammer of Justice to be unlearnable.

2023/07/14

General

Change

[Archimonde] Fixed an issue where the base version of the Heirloom "Polished Spaulders of Might" base version was not available in Nozdormu over Marks of Ascension.

New

[Pending Restart] Lay on hands can now be used in arena at 20% effectiveness.

2023/07/13

General

New

[Area52] Deadly poison damage reduced by 15% in pvp combat.

Change

Clarified a variety of pet ability tooltips that shared names with player abilities to make it easier to create macros for them in conjunction with player abilities: Claw, Prowl, Rake, Growl, Pummel, Ravage, Cleave, War Stomp, Disarm, Hamstring, Mind Blast, Enrage, Infected Wound, Mangle, Frenzy, Curse of Weakness Swipe, Mind Sear, Curse of Doom, Rain of Fire, Wild Growth, Thunderclap, Mana Burn, Slow, Fireball, Shadowbolt, Drain Mana, Frostbolt, Chain lightning, Shockwave, Sunder Armor, Shadowstep, Arcane Barrage, Deep Freeze, Cone of Cold, Disarm, Wrath, Veil of Shadow, Shadow Cleave

Quests

Change

Fixed issues with the Horde counterpart of the Nefarian's Head quests delivery creature was wrong in a multiple quest versions.

2023/07/12

General

New

[Area52] Exorcist's Slash damage reduced by 50% in pvp combat.

Talents & Abilities

Change

Fixed an issue where the OG Warlock Create Spellstone skill was generating unusable spellstones.

Item Changes

Change

Fixed an issue where the Thalassian Warhorse was not correctly providing you the correct spell on Live to allow you to mount. If you had this issue you can just redeliver the item from vanity to learn the correct one.

2023/07/11

General

Change

[Area52] Exorcist's Slash damage reduced by 20% in pvp combat.

Change

[Area52] Fixed an issue causing Stormhammer's PvP Mod to not be applied.

Change

[Area52] Charred bite [Lucifer] direct damage reduced by 20% in pvp combat.

Change

[Requires Patch] Renamed Frost Nova on all pets to Frost Nova (Pet). This will allow you to more easily use Frost Nova on macros.

Change

[Requires Patch] Renamed Growl on all pets to Growl (Pet). This will allow you to more easily use Growl on macros.

New

Trial leaderboards are now available in the in-game trial UI. You can find these by selecting a trial and clicking the leaderboard tab. At this time these are sorted and shown as real time and not in-game time.

New

Added an experimental Action Camera to the interface options. This can be found in [Esc -> Interface -> Action Camera]

Website

New

With the recent changes included, tooltips on the Website Builder have been entirely overhauled and should provide a much closer result to what you find in-game. A significant amount of broken formulae were fixed, spell dependencies are now clearly visible amongst other improvements.

Change

[Web Builder] Some fixes to attempt to make browser do less work when searching for a spell or talent.

Change

[Web Builder] Implemented number and spell highlights.

2023/07/10

General

New

[Area52] Solar Burn (dot) Damage reduced by 20% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Conflagrate damage reduced by 10% in pvp combat.

Talents & Abilities

Change

Fixed an issue where the internal cooldown of the Battlemage talent didn't always apply.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

[Pending Restart] [Temple of Ahn'Qiraj] [C'thun] Corrected an issue where pets, guardians and totems would be effected by Digestive Acid.

Change

[Pending Restart] [Dire Maul East] [Alzzin the Wildshaper] Increased the cooldown for Alzzin the Wildshapers Regrowth ability to 30 seconds up from 20 seconds.

2023/07/09

General

New

[Area52] Orbital arrows (paratrooper) Damage reduced by 30% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Searing pain (perilous pain) Damage increased by 5% in pvp combat

New

[Area52] Grasp of darkness Damage reduced by 35% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Imp - Firebolt Damage reduced by 35% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Scorch (scorched earth) Damage increased by 18% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Wild imps now deal 25% more damage in pvp combat

2023/07/08

General

New

[Pending Restart] Hunter's Mark is now 60 yd range.

Change

Fixed an issue that would cause long server load times after a crash.

Change

Fixed an issue where the winter versions of Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin had the same weight as their normal versions, which resulted in scenarios where they were very likely to start one after the other, generating a feeling of monotony and fatigue.

2023/07/07

Talents & Abilities

Change

Green Whelp's Rejuvenation has been changed to Minor Rejuvenation to enable players to use the spell within macro's

Item Changes

Change

[Area52] Fixed an issue where the item for the enchant Holy Magics was not usable.

Change

[Area52] Fixed an issue where Master Sergeant Biggins didn't sell anything. He now sells same items as horde counterpart.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

[Ahn'Qiraj] [C'thun] The damage dealt by Breath of the Old God has been reduced by 30% on Mythic and Ascended difficulties.

Change

[Ahn'Qiraj] [C'thun] The Health of C'thun has been reduced by 30% on Mythic and Ascended difficulties.

Change

[Ahn'Qiraj] [C'thun] The Health of Giant Claw Tentacles and Giant Eye Tentacles has been reduced by 40% on Mythic and Ascended difficulties.

Change

[Ahn'Qiraj] [C'thun] The damage dealt by Eradicate (Fire Tentacles) has been reduced by 30% on Mythic and Ascended difficulties.

Change

[Ahn'Qiraj] [C'thun] The damage of the Lesser Eye Beam has been reduced by 30% on Mythic and Ascended difficulties.

2023/07/06

General

Change

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where the acquisition method of Shieldwall soldier WFRE was not available for Hero Classes.

New

[Pending Restart] Battle Fervor now increases damage of victory rush by 20% (down from 100%) against players.

Talents & Abilities

Change

[Pending Restart] Prayer of Mending will jump only to players now, using the smart heal logic, targeting the player with the lowest health in the party/raid group. This is done to prevent cases where spell jumps on pet/minion that has low chance of taking damage, "preventing" future jumps.

Website

Change

Fixed icons not showing up in tooltips on web builder.

Change

Updated tooltips for web builder

Item Changes

Change

[Archimonde][Thrall] Fixed an issue where Master Sergeant Biggins didn't sell certain Arathi Basin items.

Change

[Archimonde] Fixed an issue where Master Sergeant Biggins didn't have WSG option.

Quests

Change

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where the Alliance Paladin mount quests were not available to Hero Classes.

Change

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Warlock mount quests were not available to Hero Classes.

2023/07/05

General

New

[Area52] Shattered Veil Damage reduced by 30% in pvp combat.

Item Changes

Change

[AQT] Fixed an issue where C'Thun didn't drop Raid Cache on any difficulty.

Change

Fixed an issue with Vengeful Gladiator's Rifle having the wrong type of ammo requirement.

Change

Gave [Fel Blood] and [Necrotic Rune] descriptions that better explain their functions.

Quests

Change

Exquisit Crafts Daily quest now also awards a Bloodforged Callboard Cache. (pending restart)

Change

Ill Gotten Goods Daily quest now also awards a Bloodforged Callboard Cache. (pending restart)

2023/07/04

General

Change

[Son of Arugal] Gnash (Rank 2) will no longer be appearing in the spellbook, just like other passives that are within talent trees (pending patch).

New

[Area52] Exorcist's slash damage reduced by 40% in pvp combat.

New

[Pending Restart][Bugfix] Unrelenting Wrath now properly works against players.

New

[Pending Restart] Unrelenting wrath proc chance increased to 50% against players (up from 25%).

Mystic Enchants

Change

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Demonic Tactics was not increasing the overall crit chance of your pet.

Change

[Archimonde] [Arcane Thunder Seer]

2023/07/03

General

New

[Area52] Charred bite (dot) damage reduced by 20% in pvp combat.

Talents & Abilities

Change

[Original 9 Classes] [Shaman] Fixed an issue where Healing Stream Totem was not gaining any benefit from your spell power, it will now scale from 4.4% of your healing power per tick of the totem.

Change

[Original 9 Classes] [Shaman] Fixed an issue where Earthliving Weapon was scaling from spell power more than intended. It now takes 17.1% of your Healing Power per tick.

2023/07/02

General

New

[Area52][Pending Restart] Improved Sprint has been changed and now reads. Increases your Sprint duration by 0.5/1/1.5 sec. Capstone Bonus: Activating Sprint reduces the duration of root effects by 50% and your movement speed can't be lowered below 100% of normal movement speed while Sprint is active.

New

[Area52][Pending Restart] Burning Rush now costs 1 legendary gem, changed from 2. Now costs 2 AE, changed from 3.

New

[Area52][Pending Restart] Fleet Footed no longer increases the duration of Sprint.

New

[Area52][Pending Restart] Sprint now lasts for 6 sec, changed from 9 sec. It now has a 1 min cooldown, changed from 3. Now costs 1 legendary gem, changed from 2. Now costs 2 AE, changed from 3.

2023/07/01

Dungeons & Raids

Change

[Pending Restart] [Temple of Ahn'Qiraj] [C'thun] Corrected an issue where Digestive Accid would not increase in damage over time on Heroic and higher difficulties.

Change

[Pending Restart] [Temple of Ahn'Qiraj] [C'thun] Corrected an issue where C'thuns Eyebeam would not increase in damage whenever it chaines to another target.

2023/06/30

Mystic Enchants

Change

+[Arcane Thunder Seer] Arcane Thunder now requires fully channeling all 5 Arcane Missile projectiles to grant stack of Thunder Seer (they dont need to succesfully land on the target). This ensures that the damage output while fully stacked feels rewarding while fixing the exploit of rapid stacking of the buff.

Change

+[Arcane Thunder Seer] Increased duration of Thunder Seer to 7 seconds. Up from 6.

Change

+[Arcane Thunder Seer] Thunder Seer now reduces cast time of your Arcane Missiles by .375 (this reverts the previous nerf of 0.250 sec)