Ascension Changelog

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Firefall.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Abjurer’s Ward: Fire.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Abjurer's Ward: Arcane.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Shadowfall.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Razorlash.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Abjurer’s Ward: Frost.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Shadow Dagger.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Void Zone.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Saber Slash.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Righteous Abjuration.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Swashbuckler: Bloodsail.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Hazardous Escape.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Arngrim's Greeting.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Feral Shadow Charge.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Veil of Shadows.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Glacial Light.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Dark Iron Land Mine.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Wraith.

[Pending Restart] - Corrected the tooltip of Spirit of Zandalar and Rallying Cry of the Dragon Slayer to state that they do indeed persist through death, but are not usable in the most recently released raid.

There are now skillcards available for all level 1 abilities. These will be learned after level 10 if slotted.

Fixed an issue where you could cast Hand of Protection on a target carrying a Battleground flag and force them to drop it.

[Stormbringer] Lord of Lightning's cooldown is now correctly reduced when you deal direct nature damage

[Stormbringer] Updated tooltip of Titanstorm to reflect that it procs from direct nature damage

[Witch Doctor] Fixed Mixologist

[Sun Cleric] Herald of Purity should now correctly affect damage

[Sun Cleric] Herald of Purity can now proc from both Sun Ray and Dawnsear in addition to other Sun Cleric Fire spells

[Barbarian] Fixed the tooltip of Storm of Steel

[Runemaster] Aspect of Blades now correctly procs Primordial Energy

[Runemaster] Damage caused by Spellblades should now show in combat logs with the correct name

[Tinker] Bomb Launcher can now correctly proc Rockadier explosions

[Tinker] Fixed a bug causing Sticky Bomb ranks to not always scale properly

[Ranger] Flank now correctly generates 2 Archery Points

[SoA] Gorge now costs 60 Rage down from 100

[SoA] Bloodgorged now stacks up to 30 down from 100

[SoA] Gorge now reduces damage taken by 30% down from 50% while channeling

[SoA] Gorge now heals for 1% per tick down from 2%

[SoA] Liquify now provides complete damage immunity instead of total immunity to all spells/attacks

[Monk] Fixed an issue where Runes of Grace had an old script attached to it that was causing it to generate healing using an old system. It will now trigger in the correct way but probably be a lot lower than it was, we will need to adjust from here using the correct system

[Chronomancer] You can now visually see a buff representing when your Order and Chaos stacks will balance

[Chronomancer] Decomposition now starts ticking instantly when applied

[Chronomancer] Decomposition now has a 2 sec base cast time up from 1.5 sec

[Chronomancer] Added new VFX/SFX for Sand Bomb

[Chronomancer] Remake is now a Chaos spell

[Chronomancer] Unmake is now an Order spell

[Chronomancer] Order and Chaos spells now naturally balance at an increasing rate as the stack amount gets higher toward one end of the spectrum (i.e. at 19 order, stacks balance very quickly)

[Chronomancer] Order and Chaos stacks now naturally balance again

[Chronomancer] Duality Chronomancer now regenerates 3% mana when generating an Upheaval stack

[Reaper] The bonus 3% max health heal given by Reap while Jailer of Souls is active is no longer hidden from the combat log

[Reaper] Limbo now lasts 8 sec down from 15 sec but its heal tickrate is increased significantly

[Various] Fixed some issues with the changes to shapeshift forms

[Pending Restart] - Fixed an issue where "Titanic Fury" where it had the wrong duration after the recent server restart.

In addition to stat value adjustments additional items have been added to Onyxia's Lair. Mace of the Dragon Knight, Wand of the Noble, Neltharion's Badge, Insignia of the Dragon, Draconic Effigy, and Band of Nyxondra will all come with the arrival of Onyxia.

Preceding the release of Onyxia's Lair, some items have received stat value adjustments to bring them more in line with this season's itemization goals. These items include: Dragonslayer's Signet, Eskhandar's Collar, Halo of Transcendence, Onyxia Tooth Pendant, Ring of Binding, Sapphiron Drape.

[Area-52] - the Legendary Mystic Enchantment Burning Darkness is now available on Area-52!

Fixed an issue where Ironsand became "nature" damage, it is now correctly once again Physical Damage, this created buggy interactions and prevented it from working with things like "trauma" despite being a bleed.

[Pending Restart] - Items bought from Edrim Skysong now follow the same 2 hour refund rules as other vendors. Previously you could NEVER return an item bought for mythic coins.

[Requires Launcher Update] Arena gear no longer has 2v2 or 3v3 rating requirements, meaning it can now be purchased if you have high enough 1v1 rating.

Lucky Cards now increase your chance to roll those abilities on Hands of Fate AND Card Swaps.

Your Book of Ascension when summoned now auto-trains all of your ranks.

Pets will now be automatically revived/called when you enter an LFG dungeon.

All vanilla open world leveling quests will now give a small amount of Marks of Ascension.

Auctionhouse sale cut has been increased from 7 to 8%.

Skillcards are now spec-specific and can be slotted and maintained for that specialization. This opens up options for additional skillcard behavior after level 60.

[Witch Hunter] Temporarily reverted the change that caused Witch Hunters to be able to auto attack while Dual Crossbows is active

[Monk] Exposed Left & Exposed Right are now buffs on the player instead of the target (renamed to Left Flank & Right flank respectively)

[Barbarian] Ancestral Might is now passive

[Necromancer] Grave March no longer ignores LoS and now has a 40yd range

[Guardian] Honorguard no longer has a persistent VFX

[Runemaster] Added a new active called Elemental Invocation to the Riftblade tree

[Runemaster] Added a new passive called Leyline Stalker to the Riftblade tree

[Runemaster] Added a new passive called Spell Cannon to the Riftblade tree

[Runemaster] Added a new aspect to the Riftblade tree

[Runemaster] Mage Knight now correctly provides a dodge buff after using Ley Walk

[Runemaster] Mage Knight is now a passive effect

[Various] Fixed a bug where new shapeshift forms would cause client crashes

[Reaper] Limbo now heals for 2% per tick down from 3% per tick

[Reaper] Limbo now cleanses harmful effects of any magic school and grants magic immunity for its duration

[Reaper] Removed the Soul Infusion effect of Limbo

[Monk] The tooltip of Zephyr Edge now shows the duration and stacking amount of the Zephyr buff

[KoX] Annihilate now consumes current Rage, dealing 5% additional weapon damage per point of rage taken

[KoX] Annihilate's base damage is now 100% weapon damage

[KoX] Annihilate no longer consumes Demon's Blood stacks and no longer scales from them

[Witch Doctor] Fixed an issue where Dance of the Loa would only affect the caster

Fixed an issue where the normal versions of Gordock Knuckleband and Flattened Elven Ring had half the intended PVE power.

Fixed an issue where the tooltip of Retribution tier 1 Paladin 8 set bonus did not state that it also increased the damage of Seal/Judgement of Vengeance.

The 8 set bonus of the T1 Warrior Might DPS set has been reworked. It now has a new effect: Dealing a critical strike with physical abilities has a chance to grant you 60 attack power, 40 melee haste, or 42 critical strike rating. This effect can only occur once every 15 seconds, and lasts for 10 seconds.

The following items have additionally seen a stat revamp on Thrall: Gyth's Skull, Dragoneye Coif, Tribal War Feathers, Slaghide Gauntlets, Cinderhide Armsplints, Pyremail Wristguards, Flameweave Cuffs, Foresight Girdle, Emberplate Armguards, Tearfall Bracers, Dragonskin Cowl, Phasing Boots, Fluctuating Cloak, Elemental Plate Girdle, Dimly Opalescent Ring. These items had a chance roll stats randomly (the majority of the randomly generated stats were resistance stats) and these items would not keep the same stats when upgraded, for these two reasons have been reworked to prevent this.

[Sun Cleric] Bless now correctly increases spell hit chance in addition to melee and ranged hit chance

[Reaper] Fixed a bug where Limbo's secondary effect could remain active when the buff should be removed

[KoX] Updated tooltip of Pestilence of War to reflect that it also gives a % max health heal

[Demon Hunter] Reduced the forward momentum given by Soar

[Demon Hunter] Soar now lasts 10 sec down from 15 sec

[Witch Doctor] Trying a change to improve the AI of Serpent Wards

[Runemaster] Familiar: Cosmic Force is now a 40 sec CD up from 20 sec

[Pending Restart] Added a Tank Stance as a special tooltip to Defensive Stance, Righteous Fury, Bear Form and Mana-forged Barrier to emphasise they don't stack with each other.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Vampiric Touch & Devouring Plague wasn't able to trigger Darkness while in the Worgen form from the Curse of Arugal Mystic Enchantment.

[Pending Restart] - Fixed an issue where Absolute Zero was not freezing the stunned targets, any targets stunned by Absolute Zero will now also function as if they're frozen.

"Winter's Mantle" and "Gathering Will" when fully stacked increases the critical strike chance of Fuego and Arctis by 15%, down from 24%.

Winter's Mantle and Gathering Will now provides 30% damage increase per stack to Arctis / Fuego, down from 40%. This will result in a total of 150% damage increase, down from 160% damage increase when fully stacked.

The following changes will roll out shortly after a restart on December 15th. This changelog is posted well in advance to give people the opportunity to prepare for the changes themselves: [Warden of Demonreach] - "Winter's Mantle" and "Gathering Will" now enable Soul of Feugo and Winter's Bite after casting Fuego and Arctis (respectively) at 5 stacks, up from 4 stacks.