Ascension Changelog

[Witch Hunter] Instead of reducing Dodge Chance by 50%, Shadowhound's Lock On now reduces the target's chance to avoid ranged attacks by 50%

[Witch Hunter] Shadowhound's Lock On ability now lasts a max of 4 sec, but only has a chance to break on taking damage

[Witch Hunter] Shadowhound's Track ability now Slows by 50% up from 40% for its duration

[Witch Hunter] Shadowhound's Track ability no longer has a minimum range, and its base damage is increased

[Witch Hunter] Shadowhound's Shadow Claw ability now increases damage taken from gun attacks by 10% instead of applying a spell haste debuff

[Witch Hunter] Shadowhound's Shadow Claw ability now slows by 40% for 10 sec on a 5 sec CD, and no longer stacks

[Requires Launcher Update] - Fixed an issue where the Arena Rating requirement would sometimes fail to provide the team requirement to purchase the item, the right cost and team rating will now display properly.

Fixed circumstances where Blinkstrike could have recursive proc behaviors, this created unbalanceable interactions with the weapon in particular. The overall performance of the weapon should be mostly unaffected unless relying on this buggy behavior and will be monitored for further tuning.

[Ranger] Duelist Strike now refunds 10 Focus against enemies affected by Counterstruck

[Ranger] Fixed a bug where the application of Unbalanced from Duelist Strike could be avoided

[Tinker] Inscribed Plating now has 12 charges instead of 20

[Tinker] Inscribed Plating now correctly costs Energy

[Tinker] Piston Punch now scales with Agi

[Tinker] New visual for Piston Punch

[Tinker] Bruiser Bot: Decimate now scales with Agi, and costs energy

[Tinker] Junkyard Bruiser no longer provides a 5% reduction to damage taken

[Tinker] Junkyard Bruiser now provides a 15% damage split with pet, down from 20%

[Ranger] Plundering now reduces the remaining CD of Brigand Strike instead of Ravage

[Ranger] Hack now reduces the remaining CD of Brigand Strike instead of Ravage

[Ranger] Hack is now a 5 sec CD and has better damage scaling

[Necro] Minions now correctly get full HP when summoned

[Chronomancer] Significantly increased the proc rate of Charm of Many Fates

[Chronomancer] Artificer's Tools now grants 100% Spirit -> RAP conversion, up from 40%

[Chronomancer] Chaos Wand no longer needs an enemy target in order to cast

[Pyromancer] Cooldown of Petrifying Visage reduced from 1 min to 30 sec

[Runemaster] Increased SP scaling of the damage caused when you use Thaumaturgy with Ace of Flame, Ace of Ice, or Ace of Magic

[Runemaster] Reduced base SP scaling of Thaumaturgy

[Runemaster] Aspect of Runes now gives your Arcane Damage effects a chance to boost your Spell Haste Rating by a percentage of your Spirit for a short time

[Runemaster] Word of Oblivion's DoT now scales with your spell haste

[Runemaster] Wizardry (the buff from Ace of Wizardry) now lasts 15 sec, up from 10 sec

[Runemaster] Ace of Wizardry now also reduces Thaumaturgy's damage by 20%

[Runemaster] Ace of Mana now also reduces Thaumaturgy's damage by 40%

[Runemaster] Instead of reducing your GCD, Imbue now gives your attacks a chance to grant you a stack of Primordial Energy

[Barbarian] Fixed a bug where other Carnage spenders than Crushing Slam were being modified by effects that modify Crushing Slam exclusively

[All] Current spells that apply grip lockout: Flesh Hook, Empire's Grasp, Gripping Webs, Warpshift. We can look at adding more, modifying this mechanic or removing it and doing something else depending on how it plays out. lmk!

[All] Added a buffer aura to prevent consecutive grip effects, lasting 5 sec. Grip abilities grey out and become unusable against enemies with the buffer to prevent you from wasting grip effects (your grip cant be 'immuned', simply wont be usable)

[Primalist] Wild Walk is now on the same GCD as Primal Charge

[Demon Hunter] Fel Fireball now generates 15 Rage (still only in Intellect mainstat)

[Demon Hunter] Only 1 Demon Hunter Pact can be active per player at a time

[Demon Hunter] Added 2 new Pacts that will be added baseline with core revamp

[Demon Hunter] Legionfel Pact has a new icon

[Demon Hunter] Legionfel Armada is now Legionfel Pact

[Stormbringer] Call Lightning now makes dealing any Nature Damage reduce the remaining CD of Call Lightning by 3 sec

[Stormbringer] Lord of Lightning no longer reduces the CD of Call Lightning passively

[Stormbringer] Lord of Lightning now gives Call Lightning 100% crit chance

[Stormbringer] Lord of Lightning no longer buffs the damage of Call Lightning, but now gives 15% spell haste

[Stormbringer] Stormforged Strike is now automatically learned when you have Thunder King, and is only usable while Thunder King is active

[Stormbringer] The chance to proc the 'next spell is instant' effect of Thunder King now increases for every stack of the attack speed bonus you have

[Stormbringer] The new Thunder King ability is like an active form that drains static to remain active, and functions similarly, but also reduces the CD of your Tempest spell, gives your autos bonus spellstorm damage, gives a stacking attack speed bonus on melee attacks

[Stormbringer] Replaced Stormforged Strike with a new, active version of Thunder King

[Stormbringer] Disabled the Thunder King capstone

[Stormbringer] Fixed the tooltip of Thunderprison

[Stormbringer] Trying a fix for Wind Servant resetting its own HP total

[Stormbringer] Stormforged Strike now correctly starts auto-attacks

[Stormbringer] The 'Lightning Rod Charged' and 'Lightning Rod Hypercharged' auras are now correctly hidden in combat log, and no longer considered magic effects

[Ranger] Power Shot is now correctly included in the right 'list' to be affected by all effects that modify ranged attacks (e.g. Steadiness, Crossbow Mastery etc)

[Ranger] Envenomed Arrows' target debuff should now be able to stack for different Rangers

[Cultist] Entropic Union now has a 1 sec cast time up from Instant

[Cultist] Entropic Union can no longer miss

[Cultist] Entropic Union is no longer considered a magic effect

[Cultist] Mindbender will now correctly resummon itself after using an 'attach' ability, even if you are moving

[Witch Hunter] Vanquishing Shot has a new visual

[Witch Hunter] Reduced the radius of Smoke Grenade

[Witch Hunter] Disappear will no longer break from taking damage

[Witch Hunter] Smoke Grenade's Blind will now correctly break when taking damage

[Tinker] Cannonball Launcher is no longer considered a passive

[Tinker] Bruiser Bot: Intimidate will now cost some Energy

[Tinker] Bruiser Bot: Intimidate will now correctly go off regardless of if you have LoS of your pet

[Tinker] Combat Dash will no longer repeat its sound each time it stacks

[Tinker] Pushed updated tooltip of Piston Punch to patch

[Monk] Fixed the AP scaling of the damage component of the dash from the final use of Blademaster Strike

[Monk] Significantly reduced the dash distance of the final use of Blademaster Strike

[Monk] Blade Mastery stacks now last up to 7 sec up from 4 sec

[Monk] Windwalk no longer causes a levitation effect

[Requires Launcher Update] fixed a lua error after trying to add a lucky skill card to your collection that would prevent you from switching to the lucky skill card tab.

[Requires Launcher Update] The hit rating stat on the character sheet will now update when changing gear / talents / spells and no longer requires you to re-open the window to update your hit rating requirement.

[Requires Launcher Update] Added a confirmation popup to the Return to Graveyard button.

[Requires Launcher Update] Moved the Return to Graveyard button inside battlegrounds to not overlap with the score at the top of the screen.

[Pending Restart] Updated the tooltip of Combustion to correctly state that it increases your critical strike damage bonus by 150%. Changed Combustion to give 75% critical strike damage bonus versus players. (This will generally increase the damage of a critical by 37,5% in PvE and 18,75% in PvP.)

Fixed an issue where the heal from Blood Drinker was getting double attack power scaling. Blood Drinker now again heals for 50% less while in a Feral form, changed from 60% less. (The recent Feral change gets reverted due to a bug being fixed.)

Alembic of Infernal Power now properly rewards PvE power instead of PvP power.

[Alar] - [Area - 52] - Cabal Ritualists inside Shadow Labyrinths now cast Flame Strike instead of Blast Wave, Cone of Cold instead of Frost Nova, Arcane Explosion instead of Arcane Vortex. This will reduce the amount of Crowd Control by these mobs.

[Pending Restart] Unending Fury now also increases the damage of Victory Rush.

[Pending Restart] Slow now reduces the targets ranged attack speed by 30%, down from 60%. (While some ranged builds are strong, this effect was too powerful of a counter which previously wasnt reduced when the cast time reduction was.)

[Pending Restart] Maim now has a 25 second cooldown, changed from 30.

[Pending Restart] Solar Beam now has a 50 sec cooldown, changed from 60 sec.

[Pending Restart] The damage from Improved Feral Spirit Capstone now scales with 40% of the pets attack power.

[Pending Restart] Tranquilizing Shot no longer has a minimum range. (To make it feel better to use versus melee players.)

[Pending Restart] Increased the healing of these spells in 2v2 and 3v3 by 10%: Lesser Healing Wave, Tidal Shield, Greater Heal, Flash Heal, Healing Touch, Regrowth, Rejuvenation, Lifebloom, Penance.

[Pending Restart] Reduced the healing of Adorned and Justice from Champion of Justice in 2v2 and 3v3 by 10%.

[Pending Restart] Fire Blast now deals 30% reduced damage versus players, changed from 20%.

[Pending Restart] Impact has had a small rework. It now increases the damage of Fire Blast by 3/6/9% and the stun effect is now a Capstone. (This was changed so you can no longer only use 1 or 2 talent points to get the strong utility of the stun.)

[Pending Restart] Aimed Shot now reduces healing taken by 35%, changed from 40%.

[Pending Restart] Mortal Strike now lasts for 8 sec, changed from 10 sec.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Combustion could grant too high crit bonus damage. (Up to 20% higher damage.)

[Pending Restart] Playing with Fire now grants half of the cooldown reduction when dealing damage versus players.

[Pending Restart] Charged Up (Charge recast buff) now has a visual effect to better indicate when its active.

[Pending Restart] Deep Wounds can no longer critically hit versus players. (2-handed PvP builds are strong and Deep Wounds can do a lot of their total damage from only 3 talent points. This also helps reducing passive damage being too high of a percentage of some builds total damage.)

[Pending Restart] Periodic and absorb healing reductions from Infected Wounds, Shadow Embrace and Piercing Shots are now 15%, changed from 30%. (As these effects stack with normal healing reduction effects these could be too situationally strong.)

[Pending Restart] Lava Sweep now deals 15% reduced damage versus players, changed from 25%.