Ascension Changelog

[Cultist] Presence of N’zoth can now properly trigger from any melee damage done.

[Cultist] Vision of Doom no longer references Armageddon if you are in Dreadnought spec.

[Cultist] Summoning a Tentacle of Yogg-saron can now properly trigger Fallen Templar.

[Cultist] Netherborne can now properly trigger from Abyssal Strike.

[Cultist] Wavering Pride can now properly still trigger its AP reduction on enemies immune to the slow.

[Cultist] While you have the instant cast of Malevolence ready through Heretic’s Pennant, you cannot build further stacks until you spend it.

[Cultist] Nightmares can now properly trigger Abyssal Destruction.

[Cultist] Presence of C’thun no longer scales the range increase by your AP, allowing Godblade to have a nearly 500 yd Blade of the Empire xd.

[Cultist] Malevolence’s heal now only has a 20 yd radius down from 40 yds

[Chronomancer] The Time tree capstones have been repathed slightly

[Chronomancer] The Infinite tree has been repathed entirely

[Chronomancer] Chrono Sorcery now works with Spirit instead of Intellect.

[Chronomancer] Unearthed Passage now works with Waves of Time, Reflection, and Backtrack instead of Clasp of Infinity

[Chronomancer] Incarnation of Duality is now called Incarnation of Chaos and has a reworked effect

[Chronomancer] Chronological has been reworked

[Chronomancer] Hourglass of Eternity now triggers increased haste on periodic damage dealt

[Chronomancer] All Chronobeam talents have been repurposed to work with Chaos Shard

[Chronomancer] All order oriented talents have been repurposed to only work with the previous Chaos spells

[Chronomancer] Null Orbs is now a capstone and has a reworked effect focusing on Chaos Shard

[Chronomancer] Warped Reality has been swapped with Erasion and it now also works with Waves of Time

[Chronomancer] Chaos Shard is no longer a capstone and has been moved into Tier 1

[Chronomancer] Duality is now called Infinite and focuses on the previous Chaos Empowerment gameplay. The nodes have all been overhauled or changed with this gameplay loop in mind.

[Chronomancer] Chronobeam, Tome of Time, and all Order spell transforms deprecated

[Chronomancer] Added Unmade node to the Infinite tree

[Chronomancer] Temporal Anomaly now reduces damage taken by 40% up from 30%

[Chronomancer] Stillness of Time is now called Expediting Time and has a reworked effect for Time Out!

[Chronomancer] Truly Infinite deprecated and its effect for Ripple has been baked in baseline

[Chronomancer] Waves of Time no longer deals damage and now also triggers the knockback an additional time after 2 sec

[Chronomancer] Time Guard now reduces damage dealt by 25% for 5 sec when it procs

[Bloodmage] Hemoglobe now has a 1 min cd down from 2 min

[Bloodmage] Dissipate now only requires Blood Rituals on the target to grant them additional movement speed and is otherwise usable all the time

[Bloodmage] Animated Blood no longer requires Mortal Form

[Bloodmage] Shadow Bond is now a switch node with Dark Mending

[Bloodmage] Endure the Curse and One Man’s Curse… are no longer capstones. The Accursed tree capstone row pathing has been adjusted.

[Bloodmage] Veinburst now has a 1.5 sec cast time when used in Mortal Form

[Bloodmage] Rending Slash and Bloodstalker deprecated

[Bloodmage] Gory Fangs added as a switch node with Puncturing Fangs

[Bloodmage] Barely Human reworked and now has Marrowbite synergy

[Bloodmage] Blood Loss is now called Bloodlord’s Curse and has a new effect, Puncturing Fangs has been adjusted with this effect in mind

[Bloodmage] Sanguine Scripture now also gives spell haste alongside movement speed

[Bloodmage] Fang Over Fang, Veinburst and its associated talents, and Killer Instinct reworked

[Bloodmage] Cooldown of Veinburst reduced to 15 sec from 20 sec

[Bloodmage] Each spec will now transform Blood Curse into their respective Curse, except for Eternal which will have 2 Cursed Forms

[Bloodmage] Dark Blood talent adjusted to now turn Sanguine Essence into a Cursed Form, which transforms the associated abilities. This means with Dark Blood active you will transform your Cursed abilities into melee variants, but you will still be able to use your Mortal Form abilities

[Bloodmage] Hunt has been reworked into Accursed Summoner

[Bloodmage] Dark Embrace has been reworked into Final Embrace, it is essentially the same ability but with a unique twist

[Bloodmage] Savagery no longer works with Dark Embrace

[Bloodmage] Blood Pact can now also proc off of Bloodmoon Blast and now stacks 4 times up from 3

[Bloodmage] Vital Shred now deals 150% of the damage dealt as Shadow Damage for each condition met up from 100%

[Bloodmage] Added an additional effect to Blood Scent

[Bloodmage] Everhungry now works with any direct critical strike, but now only lasts 5 sec down from 8 sec

[Barbarian] Reduced the attack power scaling of Blood Hunt by 10%

[Barbarian] Berserker Rush now roots instead of stuns

[Barbarian] Berserker Rush is now a switch node with Impaling Leap

[Barbarian] Added a new node called Rage Tosser to Headhunting

[Barbarian] Issue where Berserker Axe and Javelin Toss were not receiving their full AP scaling value fixed.

[Barbarian] Disembowel duration increased by 3 sec.

[General] Added a vertical line of free passives for each Specialization that are learned at specific benchmark levels (10/15/20/30/40/50). Each specialization receives their own count of these passives, some having more than others. These were added to smooth out pacing while you level and attempt to remove some non-choice nodes from the tree, while also providing clarity on the acquisition of Conversion passives (ex: X% of Strength becomes Hit Rating).

[General] Issue fixed where you could downrank persistent ground AoEs and stack their damage. (This applies to things like Primalists Earthquake, Runemasters Earthen Winds, Venomancers Miasma, etc).

There is a picture with how many raiders commendation each boss is supposed to drop in the discord changelog channels

Raider's Commendations had not been updated since its original inception. Raider's Commendations are now also available from many other sources like World Bosses since the original implementation and with that in mind: prices of many items have been rebased with this in mind.

Raider's Commendations now provide a boost from conquering the last boss of the raid. Additionally, the total amount of commendations rewarded for each instance has been increased.

Raider's Commendations have been overhauled with how they are obtained.

Raid Cache loot has been tailored to every single class and specialization.

Raid Caches will have equippable gear in them always.

Last Boss of every raid now drops 2 caches and Raid Caches exclusively drop from the last boss now.

Raid Caches no longer have a 60% chance to only contain Runes of Ascension in them.

Raider's Commendations and Raider's Cache:

Helps address item inflation by reducing the volume of unwanted gear entering the economy.

Reduces inventory management burden from excessive low-quality loot

Eliminates the tedious process of opening dozens of Callboard Caches filled with vendor items.

Daily and weekly quest completions are reset upon reaching new Callboard Cache level unlocks

Quest completion progress resets when you unlock a new Callboard Cache tier, eliminating the need to wait for new content releases to turn in accumulated quests

Players with lower item levels will find it easier to earn Callboard Cache points, which still allows for it to be quicker for catch-up.

The point system helps undergeared players progress faster while preventing the Callboard from overshadowing other ways of gearing.

Callboard Cache quality scales with both current content and your item level - the better your gear, the better your cache rewards become

Callboard Cache contents are determined at the moment you obtain the cache, ensuring relevance to your current progression

No more receiving 2-4 pieces of unusable gear per Callboard Cache that immediately gets vendored

Loot is more likely to be favorable and appropriate for your current specialization

Callboard Caches now provide gear that is guaranteed to be equippable by your character

You'll receive fewer Callboard Caches overall, but each cache will contain significantly better and more relevant loot

You can now see your progress toward your next Callboard Cache, making the reward system feel more meaningful

Callboard quests now award points toward your next Callboard Cache instead of giving a cache for every single quest completion

Quest organization has been streamlined to make finding and tracking available quests easier

The Callboard & Callboard Caches have been Overhauled:

[Witch Hunter] Boltslinger tree restructured.

[Witch Hunter] Giantslayer value up by 5%. Improved health check logic.

[Witch Hunter] Mechanized Crossbows no longer provides armor ignore (never actually worked)

[Witch Hunter] Lucky Shot armor ignore up by 5%.

[Witch Hunter] My Trusty Arbalest now provides damage increase instead of crit damage increase.

[Witch Hunter] Arbalest Mastery now provides same value to all affected spells.

[Witch Hunter] Kingdom Hearts now provides haste.

[Witch Hunter] Heartless now increases ranged critical damage.

[Witch Hunter] Heartstop Bolt now provides a healing reduction baseline.

[Witch Hunter] Dark Intent now also works with Pommel Smash

[Witch Doctor] The Shadowhunting Spec passive will now also reduce the mana cost of all spells and abilities.

[Venomancer] Cycle of Decay damage increase reduced by 15%.

[Necromancer] Skeletal Archers no longer apply the standardized armor % debuff and instead reduce armor by a flat amount as well as shadow resistance

[Tinker] Backup Fuel now refreshes all charges of Rocket Boots but now has a 60 sec icd up from 20 sec

[Necromancer] Soulfreeze now has a 15 sec base cooldown down from 20 sec