Ascension Changelog

[Pending Restart] - [Holy Champion] - Sanctuary is now called Divine Consecration. Sanctuary used to periodically place a healing ground consecration under your allies. Healing 5% of their Maximum HP every 1 second and reducing damage taken by 25% while in the consecration. Divine Consecration now deals small to medium Holy Damage every two seconds and inflicts you with a stack of Holy Reckoning. Holy Reckoning increases holy damage taken by 6% per stack, stacks up to 250 times and lasts for 8 seconds.

[Pending Restart] - [Holy Champion] - Devotion is now called Anointed Strength. Devotion previously reduced all damage taken by all allies within 40 yards by 25%. Anointed Strength causes nearby allies to deal a bonus 15% of their weapon damage as Holy Damage on their attacks.

[Pending Restart] - Classic's Holy Champions have received a rework.

[Pending Restart] Blood Bowl will now occur twice per day instead of twice every three days. Blood Bowl has also been updated to include higher tier loot on both realms. Blood Bowl occurs at 18:00 and 22:00 server time.

[Pending Restart] - [Area-52] - Due to daylight saving's, crow's cache timer has been moved back 1 hour. It will now start at 15:00, 18:00, 21:00, 00:00, 03:00, 06:00, 09:00, 12:00 server time.

[Pending Restart]Spawn point of High Risk chests dropped by slain players has been improved and situations where they were spawned on top of the ceiling in caves should happen way less

[Pending Restart]You can only have one Banner of Recruitment up at the same time now

[Pending Restart]Fixed an issue where Wind Rush Capstone was reducing cooldown of Wind Rush more than intended

[Pending Restart]Fixed an issue where Titanic Power would be consumed by Heroic Strike

[Pending Restart]Fixed an issue where Chromatic Bolt from Tamed Dragonkins had longer cast time than intended

[Pending Restart]Fixed an issue where 2.5 Striker's 3 Set bonus did not grant Attack Power to your pet correctly

[Pending Restart]Fixed an issue where Ice Lash would not consume Searing Rage buff

[Pending Restart]Fixed an issue where Tamed Beasts would leave Prowl stealth and enter it right after

[Pending Restart]Fixed an issue where Nightslayer Boots had less hit rating on Mythic difficulty than intended

[Pending Restart]Fixed an issue where Dark Flames did not increase Shadow damage against Ignited targets correctly

[Pending Restart]Fixed an issue where 2.5 Genesis Bear set bonus did not work correctly. Both 3 and 5 set bonuses will grant their stats now.

[Pending Restart]Fixed an issue where Time Bomb cooldown did not reset on Last Checkpoint respawn

[Pending Restart] You can now have Demonic Pact and Greater Demonic Pact active at the same time. Total spell power remains unchanged from before, meaning you only get additional spell power from Greater Demonic Pact once it is more powerful than Demonic Pact or equivalent raid buffs.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Demonic Pact would give one less Intellect than intended at all expansions.

[Pending Restart] Demonic Pact now lasts for 30 minutes. Greater Demonic Pact still lasts 45 seconds.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Greater Demonic Pact would consume Arcane Intellect.

[Thrall] [Pending restart] Fixed an issue where the mana cost reductions changelogged last month were not applying to all spells on Thrall.

[AQR][Drape of Roaring Earth] Now correctly grants intellect.

[Beast and Blade] Pack Tactics now increases damage against players from 5% to 8%. (Pending Restart)

[Beast and Blade] Double Team now increased damage against players from 10% to 20%. (Pending Restart)

[Righteous Flames] This is in preparation for upcoming changes that will shift playstyle of this spec to focus on its cleaving capabilities.

[Pending Restart][Righteous Flames] Fixed a bug where Holy Fire (Righteous Flames) would hit more targets than intended, now it properly hits up to 5 targets.

Fixed issue causing the builder to freeze upon searching in certain scenarios.

[Black Rock Depths] Anvilrage Guardsman no longer stun a random target in range. This has been replaced with a hamstring effect.

[Black Rock Depths] Anvilrage Guardsman now longer stun a random target in range. This has been replaced with a hamstring effect.

[Black Rock Depths - Upper City ] Removed the stun effect from Emperor Thaurissan, The effect now applies a damage over time effect. Pending Restart

[Stratholme - Service Entrance] Removed the stun effect from Ramstein the Gorger, the knockback now dazes you for the duration. Pending Restart

Moved the start and respawn locations of Lower Black Rock Spire, Upper Black Rock Spire, Dire Maul North, Dire Maul East, And Dire Maul West. This is to prevent people from respawning and accidentaly running out of the instance.

[Pending Restart] - Increased the amount of Mythic Coins received to 100 from 50 rewarded to the group for the first time the Keyholder completes that Keylevel. (This amount is increased by how many chest levels you obtain in the key, meaning 3 chesting that key level will now reward 300 coins). This change is one of many QOL and improvements to the Mythic+ system that is coming.

[Pending Restart] - Fixed a client sided issue where the Environmental Affixes were not visible.

Implemented an Automatic Vanity collection Sync for vanity items claimed on Thrall to Area 52

[Pending Restart] [Soul Leech] Removed the 1 second ICD from this talent. (This was put in place to fix issues with Flame Surge proccing Soul Leech multiple times in a single cast. This has since been fixed and the ICD is no longer required)

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where the Tooltip of Honor Among Thieves incorrectly stated that the internal cooldown of the effect was 5 seconds instead of 3 seconds.

[Ascension Database] Added the option to filter spells based on their Cooldown.

[Ascension Database] Added a fullscreen toggle for the Item Comparison tool.

[Ascension Database] Fixed an issue where the item comparison tool was missing stats for some items/itemsets.

[Scholomance] The Viewing Room Key is now of Uncommon Quality and no longer consumed on use.

[Pending Restart] [Primal Tide] Clarified the tooltip of Primal Tide to better describe its behaviour.

Previously acquired Sigils have now been retroactively put into the Vanity Collection. This requires a restart.

Nozdormu now offers Mystic Draughts that grant an Enchanting Level for 150 Mystic Runes.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where high risk enchants like Iron Sights Scope would not work on thrown weapons.

Casting Shadow Dance while drunk causes you to dance until the drunkenness effect wears off.

Casting whirlwind 3 times in a row now lifts you off the ground, raising your height for each additional cast afterwards

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Kill Shot from the Hunter Marksmanship tree now appropriately kills your target. This change was introduced to imply more synergy between the name of the ability and its actual effect.

Using Bestial Wrath now causes the following sound effect to play for all creatures within 40yrds. This was an intended change that never made it in-game, but is now implemented. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrS523dOHU4

Due to increased demand by players, Crow’s Cache has been transformed into a PvE event where you fight an army of crows.

Gnomes have been removed due to only a small amount of players picking them. They did not garner the reach necessary to support their development.

Implemented pressure weight system for directional movement. You can now press W, A, S, or D harder to go faster in that direction.

League 4: The Unleashed Reborned World will be announced later this month.

Renamed Will Smith back to One Punch.

Travel Form and Ghost Wolf form have been combined into a single spell: airplane form. This spell increases your movement speed by 600%, and aims to allow open-world travel to be more accessible to players. It consumes one [Flask of Oil] for every 20yrds moved, so be sure to have some handy!

Added 17 new Sinister Strike Legendary Enchants. There were still some spells that did not directly interact with Sinister Strike: this was largely viewed as a bug and has been fixed.

Development has started for World of Warcraft 2: Electric Boogaloo, a new branch of Ascension where you’ll play the original 9 WoW classes, but with all of the stuff Ascension has implemented over the years like Mythic+, Flex Raids, Mystic Enchantments, custom mechanics, etc.

Improved the visual cue of Rapid Fire to allow for deeper PvP counterplay. It will now make a“Pow, pow, pow” sound while active

Tranquilizing Shot from the Hunter Marksmanship Tree can now be used on players to prevent their use of emotes.

Entangling Roots and Mass Entanglement will now prompt your target with a consent box before binding them.

If you have below 1500 arena rating, walking backwards is now 50% faster.

Blinding Light now correctly causes the target’s screen to turn solid white on use, more appropriately mimicking a flashbang grenade. If this effect is not blinding enough, we will replace it with the old Lunar Spirits visual.

New Legendary Mystic Enchantment:Disco Ball Drop - If you know Slow Fall, you also learn Disco Ball Drop : an offensive spell. When cast on a target in the air, they immediately plummet to the ground, taking increased damage for each cosmetic effect they have active.

Blink no longer removes you from stun or root effects.

Increased the z axis displacement of Levitate by 3 yards.

[Ascension Database] Fixed an issue where Mythic Plus items were missing from the Ascension DB. They are now available again.

[Thrall] Crusader Strike (One with the Light) now deals 5% reduced damage in PvP.

[Thrall] Killing Spree now deals 5% reduced damage in PvP.

[Thrall] Seal of Righteousness now deals 5% reduced damage in PvP.

[Thrall] Instant Poison now deals 5% reduced damage in PvP.

[Thrall] Mutilate now deals 5% reduced damage in PvP.

[Pending Restart] Wrath casted while Wild Wrath is active now deals 25% reduced damage versus players. However, the 8% damage increase, which stacks 3 times, now also works versus players.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Void Instability could be removed by spells like Divine Shield and Ice Block.

[Pending Restart] Casting Void Shift now also applies Void Instability to the caster, making you unable to be targeted by Void Shift for 30 sec.

Overhauled Callboard Caches. They will now be significantly more likely to grant Item level upgrades while giving less total loot. They have also been upgraded to drop up to current released tier Flex Normal raid gear.

[Ascension Database] Fixed an issue where the search function for the new Icon Selector (Mystic Enchant Designer) would always return 0 results when using a Chromium based browser.

[Ascension Database] You can now specify a Mystic Enchantment for the PvE and PvP WeakAura category.

[Ascension Database] Fixed an issue where the ID filter would not work for IDs above 100k.

[Ascension Database] You can now archive your submitted WeakAuras, which no longer lists them under the WeakAura category. Your archived WeakAuras can be restored or fully deleted.

[Ascension Database] The Mapper/Maps tool now includes contains all dungeon/raid maps for TBC and Classic.

[Ascension Database] The home page now has a section that lists featured community guides and weakauras, also has a section for popular pages and available tools.

[Ascension Database] Added text highlighting to the Mystic Enchant designer.

[Ascension Database] Fixed an issue with the Mystic Enchant Designer that the tooltip texture would repeat after a certain height

[Ascension Database] Added an icon selector to the Mystic Enchant designer, allowing you to easily search for icons and directly add them into your design/concept.

[Ascension Database] Mystic Enchant Creator has been renamed to Mystic Enchant Designer (URL remains to same).

[Ascension Database] WeakAura pages now have an extra tab that shows the decoded data/code.

[Ascension Database] Guides have been moved into the Community tab.

[Ascension Database] Guides now have an icon next to their title that indicates their category.

[Ascension Database] Fixed various styling and layout issues.

[Ascension Database] The database has had a styling makeover to be more inline with the main website and forum. Please note that the new styling is most likely incompatible with browser extensions such as Dark Reader, it is recommended to disable it for the Ascension DB.

[Temple of Ahn'Qiraji] Reduced the Base Health of all creatures inside the Temple of Ahn'Qiraji on Ascended difficulty by 10%.

[Temple of Ahn'Qiraji] [C'thun] orrected a potential issue where Breath of the Old God could reach into the Stomach.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Drain Soul was not gaining additional ticks from Harvested Essence from the Darkmaster Mystic Enchantment.

[Pending Restart] Fixed issues with Darkmaster where multiple players could not have Ruptured Soul active on the same target.

[Thrall] Greedy Demons will now drop between 1 and 2 Bloodbound AQ chests.

Open World Hotspot Experience increased from 50 to 100% bonus experience.

[Void Star Talisman] Ascended Version now has correct resistance values.

[Dark Apotheosis] Improved tooltip to be more readable.