Ascension Changelog

[Knight of Xoroth] Hell Scream is now baseline and learned at level 4, Chains of Xoroth took its place in the class tree and Hellfire Advance is no longer baseline and has taken the old spot of Chains of Xoroth in the class tree

[Knight of Xoroth] Hook, Line, and Sinker talent reworked

[Knight of Xoroth] Absolutism now works with Skulltaker

[Knight of Xoroth] To Ashes now works with abilities that spend Deathfire

[Knight of Xoroth] Chaos Feast now has a reworked effect that increases the damage of Unleashed Pestilences

[Knight of Xoroth] Rampant is no longer consumed and now stacks 5 times up from 2, but its value has been reduced to 5% from 25% and now works with Skulltaker

[Knight of Xoroth] War’s spec passive now increases the rage cost of Infernal Strike by 20 and its weapon damage dealt by 40% up from 20% and it now also applies Torn Flesh with Demonstrike

[Knight of Xoroth] Infernal Strike now has no cooldown for any spec

[Knight of Xoroth] Melt down to 3% per stack from 4%

[Knight of Xoroth] Damage scaling of Melt increased by ~10%

[Knight of Xoroth] Hellmaw now costs 20 rage down from 40

[Knight of Xoroth] Pestilence of Conquest now burns 10% maximum mana down from 15%

[Knight of Xoroth] Demonstrike and Consuming Blade no longer generate Deathfire

[Knight of Xoroth] Generating the first stack of Demon’s Blood will no longer cause you to lose all of your rage.

[Knight of Xoroth] Hellbound Charge added as a switch node with Hellfire Advance.

[Guardian] Field Commander now procs from Standards, effect names changed accordingly.

[Guardian] War Drums first effect replaced by effectiveness increasing effect to Echoes of War.

[Guardian] Veteran of the Third War now shares switch node with new node Soundwave, increasing damage of Sound of War.

[Guardian] Standard Bearer and Motivated For Life swapped.

[Guardian] Elegant Combat now grants Ballads a chance to remove cost of Pulverize and increase its crit chance.

[Guardian] Glorious Chorus replaced by Echoes of War, causing Sound of War to provide a buff to nearby allies.

[Guardian] A Hero’s Tale no longer provides a Motivation effect.

[Guardian] Little Drummer reworked, now provides increased chance to resist curses to nearby allies.

[Guardian] Battle bard now affects both Ballads.

[Guardian] Pier Piper now causes triggering Sound of War to increase damage of Ram or Linebreaker.

[Guardian] Reverberations now also works with Linebreaker.

[Guardian] Ballads now deal Magic Damage instead of Physical Damage

[Guardian] Triumph now has a chance to grant Motivation on kill

[Guardian] Ballads no longer provide buffs to Valiant Strike and Pulverize.

[Guardian] Ballads no longer have charges, but they also no longer have any cooldown.

[Guardian] Ballad of the Conqueror GCD changed to 1s up from 0.5s

[Guardian] Ballad of the Conqueror damage reduced

[Guardian] Power Stance now makes NPCs clap, not players (it only makes guards clap, this was an accident, but it’s a pretty cool accident)

[Guardian] Several spell icons updated

[Guardian] Several spell visuals tweaked slightly

[Guardian] Triumph now additionally gives you Motivation on kill with a 7 second ICD.

[Guardian] Standard of Spellwarding has been added, reducing enemy spell haste

[Guardian] Ballads now deal Magic damage and ignore resistances.

[Guardian] Minstrel no longer buffs Pulverize, now increases melee haste.

[Guardian] Standards now share a 5 sec cooldown

[Guardian] Standards are now mutually exclusive, and only one can be active at a time

[Guardian] Standards radius reduced to 40 yds.

[Guardian] Class-wide banners have been renamed to “Standards”-- The banners attached to your back are still called banners.

[Guardian] Brace is now baseline and learned at level 8, replaced with a new passive called Motivator

[Guardian] Motivated For Life no longer gives increased effectiveness to Motivations

[Guardian] Valliance (Passive) now increases the energy restore of Valiant Strike by 20.

[Guardian] Valiant Strike now restore 20% missing Energy baseline.

[Guardian] Shield Combat now provides damage as a passive effect not a proc.

[Guardian] Tactical Combat, Glory, Opening Play and Spike Shield moved around.

[Guardian] Valiant Effort now reduces the cooldown of Linebreaker by a flat amount.

[Guardian] Valiant Effort and Aftershock swapped.

[Guardian] Make Room! I'm Here now increases the duration of Valiant Stand.

[Guardian] Linebreaker cooldown reduced by 3 sec.

[Guardian] With Honor now reduces the cooldown of Linebreaker and Ram.

[Guardian] Linebreaker now provides Motivation baseline.

[Guardian] Ram cooldown reduced by 2 sec.

[Felsworn] Whispers of the Pit now has a 90 sec cd baseline down from 2min

[Felsworn] Fel Rush now causes you to dash in the direction you are moving, instead of the direction that you are facing.

[Felsworn] Added Slayer’s Pact learned at level 20

[Felsworn] Scars of the Past passive added as a switch node with Wings of Illidan

[Felsworn] Doomscar no longer heals baseline

[Felsworn] Infernal Doom no longer has its cooldown reduced by Felstrikes, but now costs 60 energy and has no cooldown

[Felsworn] Trickery now reduces the targets mana equal to 150% of your Stamina down from 200%

[Cultist] A new animation has been added to Malevolence

[Cultist] Psychic Trauma can no longer critically strike.

[Cultist] Y’shaarj’s Enforcer value increased significantly.

[Cultist] Eldritch Eye and Void Assailants now also work with Eldritch Mending

[Cultist] Psychic Burst and Armageddon removed.

[Cultist] Your Blade of the Empire is now augmented based on your currently active Presence, rather than being spec-specific

[Cultist] Edicts have been reflavored to Presences, each of which is associated with an Old God

[Cultist] Presence of C’thun added as a new stance learned at level 18

[Cultist] Curse of Y’shaarj no longer gains additional effects based on Insanity

[Cultist] Back tentacle spawning talents (Eye of N’zoth in Godblade, Void Assailants in Heretic, Shadowy Symbiosis in Dreadnought) now work again.

[Cultist] Heretic spec passive no longer increases the range of Confuse from 40 yards to 75 yards.

[Chronomancer] Temporal Resilience now has no cooldown its base mana cost has been increased by 15%

[Bloodmage] Eternal Curse now only increases your threat generated, its other effects have been baked into the spec passive

[Bloodmage] Gore has been reworked and now gives you the spec passives Rage generation for Cursed Fang (now called Marrowbite)

[Bloodmage] Bloodmoon Blast, Sanguine Rupture, and Taldaram’s Torment will now transform into Ravenous Strike, Claw Sweep, and Bloodfang Bite respectively while in a Cursed Form instead of learning these abilities baseline or through a spec passive

[Bloodmage] The 1-10 ability pacing and acquisition for the class has been adjusted around the addition of Blood Curse added at level 2, a new ability that ascends you into a new baseline Cursed Form. The original Blood Curse from the Accursed Tree has been renamed to Accursed Form. Other unique cursed forms such as Eternal Curse, Embrace of the Vampyr, and Accursed Form will be learned alongside this one.

[Bloodmage] Hemophobia now has a 90 sec cd base down from 2min

[Bloodmage] Cursed Rage is now called Mawstorm and it now has 2 charges and a 6 sec recharge instead of no cooldown and relying on Endless Thirst to proc

[Bloodmage] Increased the periodic healing done by Sacrificial Rite significantly

[Bloodmage] Vampyr Lord now also gives a new way to extend the duration of Embrace of the Vampyr

[Bloodmage] Bloodgale now requires Mortal Form

[Bloodmage] Embrace of the Vampyr now casts a free Vampiric Fang on your target rather than just clearing Insatiable and Thirst stacks, but no longer increases the range of Rending Slash

[Bloodmage] Embrace of the Vampyr no longer transforms you and now has a 1 min cd down from 2min, and a 30 sec base duration up from 15 sec

[Bloodmage] Endless Thirst no longer allows the use of ‘cursed’ abilities, Cursed abilities have been reflavored and no longer require Endless Thirst procs

[Bloodmage] Lupine Shred is now learned baseline at level 16

[Bloodmage] Hemophobia is now in the position of Bloodmyst and Bloodmyst is now in the position of the Terrify transformation

[Bloodmage] Puncturing Fangs now transforms Bloodmoon Blast, rather than making your next Bloodmoon Blast critically strike

[Bloodmage] Lunge is now learned at level 6, Dark Blessing took its spot in the class tree

[Bloodmage] Blood Feast is now baseline and learned at level 12

[Bloodmage] Animated Blood now has a special attack that it periodically unleashes that deals additional Shadow Damage and heals you equal to the damage dealt

[Barbarian] Axe Play now only triggers while you are Enraged

[Barbarian] Throw Weapon cost increased by 5

[Barbarian] You can no longer generate stacks of Raging while Unbridled Rage is active

[Barbarian] Axe Volley and Berserker Axe now require Enraged

[Barbarian] Smash no longer consumes energy.

[Barbarian] Smash energy regeneration reduced from 35% to 25%

[Barbarian] Unbridled Rage duration reduced to 10 sec from 15 sec