Ascension Changelog

[Ranger] Craft: Makeshift Leather Boots now, instead of granting a speed increase, gives the ally the ability to cast Yippy Skippy Boots for the duration, which is a speed boost that acts like a mount

[Barb] Ripper's stacks will now correctly fall off before the CD comes back up

[Necro] Minions should now correctly get their HP set to max when summoned

[Necro] Glacial Ward now absorbs all kinds of Magical Damage instead of just Frost

[Necro] Crown's Call now also gives your Frost Crits a chance to make your next Arctic Blast free and instant

[Necro] Winter's Approach has a new visual

[Necro] Winter's Approach is now instant, lasts 6 sec and has a 22 sec CD

[Necro] Arctic Blast's buff no longer has limited charges

[Necro] Arctic Blast now scales with level properly

[Necro] Soulfreeze's Frozen Soul effect can no longer miss

[Necro] Freezing Fog now procs specifically from Chill Touch, Glacial Dagger and Icequake

[Witch Doctor] Devotions no longer considered Magic effects

[Monk] Pushed the updated Word of Wrath Cooldown to patch

[Monk] Swift Justice now correctly generates Holy Runes

[Monk] Holy Runes can no longer be manually removed

[Monk] Effects that generate 3 Holy Runes should now work correctly

[Monk] Runes of Benediction no longer has a charge counter

[SoA] Wargmark is no longer a Magic effect

[Reaper] Painmail should no longer trigger from enemy attacks

[Reaper] Using Reap's 3rd hit should now correctly reset back to 0 stacks of Reap, instead of 1 stack

[KoX] Black Furnace now correctly gives 25% reduced cast time per stack

[KoX] Black Furnace now correctly stacks 6 times

[Primalist] Lifegiver's healing visual will no longer trigger on the enemy of your attack

[Chrono] Disenchant Weapon now correctly buffs the enemy instead of the caster

[Chrono] Disenchant Weapon now correctly has a 40yd range

[Cultist] The tooltip of Sow Fear now correctly clarifies that it is a Y'shaarj ability

[Cultist] Twilight's Slam's shield effect now correctly deals Physical Damage instead of Shadow

[Cultist] Psychic Trauma should now correctly apply from all melee crits, not just physical

[Cultist] Wracked Mind now correctly only applies to the target

[Cultist] Eldritch Smite of C'thun now has an aura tooltip

[Cultist] Tentacle of C'thun can now target a location on the ground

[Starcaller] Lunar Channeling now has the original Absorption effect attached

[Starcaller] Absorption is now Arcing Comet, a backward disengage type spell that provides a movespeed boost, and slow falling for 4 sec

[Starcaller] Guided Reflexes now clears Slows and Roots and provides Immunity to them for the duration

[Starcaller] Shooting Star now gives 60% speed up from 40%

Increased drop chance of Draconic Warhorns and fixed some issues that would stop them from dropping.

[Primalist] Now passively gains 100% increased offhand damage

[Primalist] Primal Shred's Slow should now display correctly

[Primalist] Boon of the Tiger now correctly buffs your target's attack speed instead of your own

[Monk] Swift Justice CD reduced to 1.5 min from 2 min

[Monk] Swift Justice now generates a Holy Rune every 0.5 sec instead of a Combo Chain every sec

[Monk] Blade Mastery can no longer be canceled manually

[Monk] Blademaster Strike's rush effect now generates 3 Holy Runes

[Monk] Martial Strike now generates 3 Holy Runes

[Venomancer] Toxic Sludge's effect is now correctly considered a Snare

[Venomancer] Lethargy (the slow from Miasma) is now correctly considered a Snare effect, and will be removed by effects that remove Snares etc

[Pyro] Increased scaling of Breath of Alex

[Cultist] Mental Assault now lasts 3 sec down from 12 sec but will no longer break from LoS. The pet will still chain cast the spell it just reapplies every 3 sec

[Cultist] Corrupted Soul tooltip updated

[Cultist] Whisper of Yogg-Saron's debuff is now a seperate effect that won't scale with effects that buff Yogg-Saron abilities

[Primalist] Earth's Embrace is no longer usable whle Silenced

[Necro] Reduced the SP Necromancer Initiates get from your Intellect

[Starcaller] Shooting Star should now work correctly

[Reaper] Cull and similar effects can now proc Soul Harvester

[Reaper] Reap now deal 50% wep dmg baseline, down from 75% (still scales up each use)

[Reaper] Fixed a bug where Reap's first 2 hits would be able to crit

[Demon Hunter] Neter Focus now correctly makes you Immune to Silence

[Demon Hunter] Fixed a bug where Legionbreaker would sometimes cancel itself early

[Necro] Minions now gain hit, crit and expertise based on your intellect

[Necro] Trying a fix for minions HP starting at an unbuffed amount

[Necro] Corpsefury now also buffs spell haste, ranged haste, and magic damage

[Necro] Fixed a bug where Corpsefury would apply to the caster instead of your minions

[Necro] Corpsefury now costs 30 RP instead of a Foul Remnant

[Necro] Improved the targetting of Abomination Hook's actual hook

[Chrono] Timeguard's DR effect now has a shield visual for the duration of its effect

[SoA] Fixed scaling of Goldrinn's Thirst

[SoA] Staves should now be usable baseline

[SoA] Reduced the ICD of Lifeline proc to 1 sec

[SoA] Esence Harvester's Lifeline proc can now only proc from Transfusion, Dark Liturgy or Fleshcraft

[All] Fixed a bug where you would get duplicates of the Portable Wealth Synchronizer item in your bags

[All] We are working on changing the loot tables for spoils/bg bags etc to be better suited to your class on CoA!

[Pending restart] Fixed an issue where Arcane Blast would not stack up properly when triggered by Temporal Blast with the Harnessed Energy enchant active.

Fixed an issue where you could still cast an instant spell right after using Elemental Mastery while Avatar of Lightning was active.

Renamed the new High-Risk Transmute spells that convert Rare materials into Epic materials to be more clear that they are Transmute: Spells. The spells are currently available from Outland's profession trainers and the book of artisans. These spells will show up in the general tab of your spell book pending a restart and patch update if you have already learned them or learn them prior to restart. (Pending Restart and Patch Update)

[Area-52] Innkeepers will now provide Hearthstones via their vendor option in the event that you've misplaced yours (You should always keep one on you, they count as a totem, too!)

Fixed issue where attempting to submit a Bug Report would show the error "Invalid character selected."

Improved error logging when submitting Bug Tracker reports. It should no longer just say "Server Error" when a field has been incorrectly filled out.

[Monk] Whenever you spend all of your Holy Runes, you gain a stack of Pursuit

[Runemaster] Aspect of Dominion's passive regen is reduced to 3% from 5%, and Manastrike's regen is increased to 6% from 5%

[Barb] Ripper now hits with both weapons

[Barb] Ripper now deals 70% weapon damage up from 60%, and costs Health instead of Energy

[Barb] Barbaric Rage now allows the use of Raging Strike for its duration

[Barb] Devastating Blow now gives a passive reduction to crit chance and increase to crit bonus

[Barb] Trying a fix for Savage Smash's Wrecker effects

[Barb] Fixed the reference to Exhaustion in the tooltip of Reckless Fury

[Barb] The Stun component of Tankard Toss is now different from its damage, so it can now deal damage against stun immune targets

[Barb] Fixed the visual for Tankard Toss

Alembic of Infernal Power has been re-added to The Black Stalker (Underbog) loot template.

The changes to Nether Meat, Leather and Weave drops in High-Risk are aimed at increasing the value of farming outside of HR event areas for players that prefer to avoid them, while addressing the disparity in Marks of War obtained from mobs that had both Nether materials and event materials. This will allow Event Farming to remain a lucrative source of Marks of War and enable non-event farming to be a lucrative source of Marks of War.

[High-Risk] Increased the drop chance of Nether Weave from Humanoids not tied to High-Risk events.

[High-Risk] Increased the drop chance of Nether Meat from Beasts not tied to High-Risk events.

[High-Risk] Increased the drop chance of Nether Leather from Beasts not tied to High-Risk events.

[High-Risk] Reduced the drop chance of Nether Weave from Humanoids that could drop Twisted, Dread or Void Weave.

[High-Risk] Reduced the drop chance of Nether Meat from Beasts that could drop Twisted, Dread or Void Meat.

[High-Risk] Reduced the drop chance of Nether Leather from Beasts that could drop Twisted, Dread or Void Leather.

High-Risk Cooking Recipes will now show up under the correct category in the Auction House. (Pending Restart)

High-Risk Alchemy Recipes will now show up under the correct category in the Auction House.

[Pending Restart]: Added the Purified Shadow Pearl Recipe to the Master Jewelcrafting trainers Jazdalaad (Netherstorm), Tatiana and Kalaen(Hellfire Peninsula), Hamanar (Shattrath)

[Pending Restart] Counterattack root now lasts for 2 sec, changed from 3.

[High-Risk] Beast Nests have been reenabled.