Ascension Changelog

[SoA] Lunge is now learned at level 24 up from level 16

[SoA] Liquify is now learned at level 30 up from 24

[SoA] Remorseless Assault no longer drains Rage or resets Curse of the Worgen

[SoA] Enemies still in range of Remorseless Assault when its effect ends are struck for large Physical Damage scaling with Grimclaw stacks but not consuming them

[SoA] Remorseless Execution is now Remorseless Assault, a 3 sec channel that strikes enemies in a cone every 0.5 sec, applying Grimclaw and dealing damage

[SoA] Blood Drinker no longer roots the target

[SoA] Consecutive hits of Blood Drinker's periodic effect now deal increasing damage (up to 100%)

[SoA] Each tick of Blood Drinker's periodic effect now also deals damage (in addition to previous effects)

[SoA] Blood Drinker now lasts up to 12 sec up from 1 sec

[SoA] Blood Drinker's periodic effect now ticks every sec up from 0.1 sec

[SoA] Effects whose damage scales with Grimclaw stacks now gain 15% damage per stack down from 25%

[SoA] Lunge now applies Grimclaw

[SoA] Goldrinn's Fang now applies a stack of Grimclaw

[SoA] Bloodfang Bite's damage now scales with Grimclaw stacks

[SoA] The Grimclaw ability taight to the player as Ferocity is now a passive that gives Ravenous Bite a chance to apply Grimclaw

[SoA] Grimclaw now stacks up to 12 times baseline

[SoA] Added an on-use sound to Lupine Shred

[SoA] Cleaned up the VFX of Lupine Shred

[SoA] Base CD of Lunge increased to 5 sec from 4 sec (now 3.5 sec with full stacks of Ferocious Frenzy)

[SoA] When Lunging Strike hits an enemy, you are instantly placed behind (and facing) them similar to shadowstep

[SoA] Using Lunge directly in melee range / facing an enemy will always instantly strike when with the Lunging Strike attack, should now never (or at least far less likely to) shoot you over targets directly in front

[SoA] Vastly improved the hit calculation of Lunge / Lunging Strike

[SoA] Fixed a bug causing rage-costing abilities to actually regenerate rage when used in Curse of the Worgen form with Ferocity spec selected

[KoX] Hand of Doom will now proc correctly

[KoX] Fixed a bug where Viciousnesss would increase torn flesh stacks by 3 instead of to 3

[KoX] Corpse Blade will now correctly generate Deathfire stacks again

[Requires Restart] Interrupts are now unable to miss in both PvE and PvP.

[Pending Restart] - [Bugfix] - Mounting or Stealthing will now remove Orb of Power.

+ [Pending Restart] - [Thrall] - [Area-52] - Merul now offers TWO BRAND NEW transmog sets, locked behind arena rating.

Prestigious PvP Weapons and Off-Pieces are now released. These upgraded weapons and Off-Pieces have boosted stats and resillience. Off-Pieces have boosted PvP Power. These items will require an arena rating, arena points and the NON PRESTIGIOUS VARIANT. The reason that the NON PRESTIGIOUS VARIANT is included is because when the upgraded arena gear was introduced, it was hard to choose between whether you should hold your arena points or if you should get the upgrade now. This naturally came with a reduction of the original planned costs of the Arena Points for the Prestigious Gear.

Fixed an issue where Knifestorm channel would be cancelled when a target within the area of effect would die.

[Witch Hunter] Dark Penance is no longer considered a magic effect

[Runemaster] Fixed an issue where the Runic Familiar was sometimes able to evade/avoid the initial teleportation (in front of the caster) of Oblivion Ball

[Runemaster] Fixed the direction at which the Runic Familiar is launched through Oblivion Ball

[Runemaster] Fixed a visual issue where the Runic Familiar would move the wrong way from Warpslide

[Runemaster] Field of Destruction will now show as active on the pet while it's up

[Runemaster] Field spells now share a 20 sec CD

[Runemaster] Added new VFX for the activation of Field spells

[Runemaster] Field of Clarity now also grants movement speed

[Runemaster] Field of Clarity's radius is reduced to 15yd

[Runemaster] Field of Clarity now regenerates mana every 3 sec down from 5 sec

[Ranger] Counterstruck should now stack for different casters

[Cultist] Fixed tooltip of Edict of Wrath

[Venomancer] Rotweaver Form now reduces healing taken by 50%

[Venomancer] Increased the proc chance of Fungal Growth

[Venomancer] Innoculate now deals 15% increased damage per Fungal Growth stack up from 10%

[Venomancer] Fungal Growth stacks now boost periodic damage from the Venomancer by 2% up from 1%, but only stack to 50 down from 100

[Venomancer] Fixed a bug where Fang Venom: Lifeblood's radius would not correctly expand with stacks (including stack 1, giving it a 1yd radius at all times before this fix)

[Venomancer] Fixed tooltip of Grove Blighter

[Venomancer] Fang Venom: Toxic Blast is now learned at level 22 down from 27

[Venomancer] Spider Jump is now learned at level 27 up from level 21

[Venomancer] Widowmaker is now learned at level 17 down from 28

[Venomancer] Fungal Growth is now learned at level 17 down from 28

[Venomancer] Paralyze is now learned at level 28 up from 23

[Venomancer] Venomtip Poison is now learned at level 17 down from level 28

[Starcaller] Fixed an issue causing some Starcaller characters to be unable to change specs

[Tinker] Blastmaster now increases Sticky Bomb's cooldown by 50%, down from 100%

[Tinker] Blastmaster no longer allows Sticky Bomb to hit multiple enemies

[Tinker] Fixed an issue where Firing Cage's root would persist if the effect was manually canceled

[KoX] Fixed a bug where Meatsaw's ranks above 1 did not deal the additional 75% weapon damage

[KoX] Corpse Blade now scales with target missing HP instead of caster's missing HP

[KoX] Replaced Annihilate with Skulltaker

[KoX] Infernal Shield now lasts 4 sec per Deathfire stack and no longer has a base duration

[KoX] Suffuse no longer has a cooldown

[KoX] Slightly increased healing of Suffuse

[KoX] Suffuse now ticks every 2 sec down from 3 sec

[KoX] Suffuse now lasts 4 sec per Deathfire stack and no longer has a base duration

[KoX] Fixed an issue with Mutual Agony and updated its tooltip to match its current effect

[KoX] Hellish Rebuke's damage should now scale properly with rank

[KoX] Fixed Hellish Rebuke tooltip

[KoX] Altered missile motion of Pestilence of War's projectiles so that they swirl into targets and move a bit slower

[KoX] Hellgate Ritual now correctly teaches Chains of Binding

[KoX] Removed Chains of Binding from the Defiance tree

[KoX] The old spell called Brimstone Buckler is now a passive called Hellskin that grants a 5 sec DR + fire reflect effect when you use certain other defensive abilities

[KoX] Burning Barrier now called Brimstone Buckler

[KoX] New VFX for Burning Barrier

[KoX] Added a new talent called Hand of Doom to the War tree

[KoX] Added a new talent called Warden of Chains to the War tree

[KoX] Added a new talent called Black Sabbath to the War tree

[KoX] Added a new talent called Harbinger of Pestilence to the War tree

[KoX] Added a new talent called Viciousness to the War tree

[KoX] Updated the tooltip of Firemaw to reflect that it stacks

[KoX] Fixed an issue where learning Flameforger would teach the player the old Pyromania passive

[KoX] Fixed an issue where Infernal Strike, when used at rank 1, could trigger its bonus FoX target damage twice

[KoX] Fixed an issue where resummoning a Hellgate before it naturally expires would not reset its full duration

[Chronomancer] From Darkness can now correctly proc from periodic damage

[Chronomancer] From Darkness no longer visually displays a mana cost

[Chronomancer] Word of Balance: Mend now has a 40yd range up from 30yd

[Chronomancer] Gift of the Timeways now has a 40yd range up from 30yd

[Chronomancer] Remake now has a 40yd range up from 30yd

[Reaper] Ghostly Rage is replaced with an effect called Dominion which heals for 4% health and grants a short damage reduction effect after spending a single Reaped Soul

[Reaper] Soulwarden's Resolve no longer has a CD

[Reaper] Requiem's remaining CD is reduced by 3 sec every time you use Soulwarden's Resolve or Soul Tap

[Reaper] Soulwarden's Resolve now enables abilities as if you were in Underwalk

[Reaper] Soulwarden's Resolve no longer reduces disease duration

[Reaper] Increased projectile speed of Spectre Stride

[Reaper] Spectre Stride now has a 5 sec base CD

[Reaper] Added a new passive to Domination tree called Death March

Fixed an issue where only Rank 1 of Hoarfrost had spell power scaling. All ranks will now properly scale.

Fixed an issue where Frosty Charge had no level scaling.