Ascension Changelog

[Necromancer] Transfer Life will now only target your Raises (Abomination, Skeletal Archer, Grave Mage, etc) and will no longer target your Animates (Zombies, Putrid Thralls, etc)

[Necromancer] Base damage of Lich Blast increased by ~150 by level 60.

[Necromancer] Heartchill no longer triggers additional damage and instead increases the damage the enemy takes from Lichfrost and Ice Barrage alongside reducing healing received.

[Necromancer] Curse of the Lich no longer triggers additional damage and instead increases the damage of your Lich Blast (10 stack Deathchill damage proc from Lich Form) with each stack alongside reducing casting speed.

[Necromancer] Deathly Chill talent swapped positions with Hail of Arrows to put Hail of Arrows in the Icequake talent line

[Necromancer] Icicle Shards has been reworked into Rotting Ice. This change should be similar in output, but give more value to spells and effects like Unholy Frenzy.

[Necromancer] Arctic Blast is now reflavored to Animate: Frost Giant. It is the same spell, but it now also animates a Frost Giant and has no visual missile.

[Necromancer] Command: Abomination now slows the target’s movement speed to a halt instead of rooting. (Which resulted in occasional interaction of root preventing the pull)

[Necromancer] Soulfreeze now has a 3 sec duration and ticks every .3 sec, down from 4 sec duration ticking every .4 sec. Its base damage per tick has been increased by ~20.

[Necromancer] Soulfreeze now also refreshes the duration of Glacial Shift with each tick

[Necromancer] Bone Legion now works with any command spell instead of just Command: Skeletal Archers

[Necromancer] Deathly Chill reworked to no longer give critical damage as it was essentially a copy of another node in the same tree (Coldwind)

[Necromancer] Soulfreeze now generates Runic Power (Exactly as Crypt Swarm does)

[Knight of Xoroth] Warbeast now also works with Demonstrike.

[Knight of Xoroth] Fixed a bug with Absolutism and Chaos Feast where affected spells instead of ignoring given % value of armor were considered as attacking an enemy with % more armor.

[Guardian] Calculated Strikes now also works with Spear Throw

[Guardian] Centurion Strike no longer regains charges of Valiant Strike baseline, the effect now requires the Battling for Supremacy talent.

[Felsworn] Issue where Fel Rift: Orgrimmar had no icon has been fixed

[Cultist] Cultists can once again equip staves.

[Chronomancer] Scepter of Time cooldown reduced by 2 sec.

[Chronomancer] Tome of Time cooldown reduced from 1 min to 30 sec.

[Chronomancer] The Vast Infinite adjusted, Infinite Power now speeds up the recovery rate of Bronze Protector’s spells instead of reducing the cooldown they incur.

[Bloodmage] Sanguine Essence now persists through death so you do not have to retoggle it with every death.

[General] Spec passives will now also appear in your specialization talent tree for gigachad levels of clarity

[General] Ragnaros can now drop the Pyroclasmic Longbow, an int/sp/haste bow.

[Bloodmage] Cunning now also procs from Dark Blessing.

[Runemaster] Ley Lock now has a 24 sec cd down from 25 sec

[Primalist] Cave In now has an 18 sec cd down from 25 sec

[Venomancer] Nullifying Toxin is now 40 yds baseline and now has a 24 sec cd up from 15 sec

[Sun Cleric] Solar Burn now has a 24 sec cd down from 25 sec, but now lasts 3 sec down from 4

[Starcaller] Halt now has an 18 sec cd down from 25 sec, but now lasts 3 sec down from 4

[Cultist] Confuse now has a 40 yd range baseline, and its cd is now 24 sec down from 25 sec

[Necromancer] Spellbright now has a 24 sec cd down from 25, and a 5 sec duration up from 4

[Chronomancer] Time Lock now has a 24 sec cd down from 25, and a 5 sec duration up from 4

[Ranger] Throatcutter now has a 18 sec cd down from 20 sec

[Bloodmage] Aneurysm now has a 24 sec cd down from 25, and a 3 sec duration down from 4

[Guardian] Shattering Cry now has a 3 sec duration down from 4 sec

[Knight of Xoroth] Hellgaze now has a 3 sec duration down from 4 sec

[Stormbringer] Mystic Thunder now has a 24 sec cd down from 25 sec and now lasts 5 sec up from 4

[Witch Hunter] Muzzle now has an 18 sec cd down from 25 sec and now lasts 3 sec down from 4

[Felsworn] Felbreak now has a 18 sec cd up from 15 sec and now lasts 3 sec down from 4

[Witch Doctor] Spirit Shock now has a 24 sec cd up from 20 sec

[Barbarian] Wrist Snap is now called Jawbreaker and it now has a 3 sec duration down from 4 and its cooldown increased to 18 sec from 15. Its range is now normalized at 30 yds across all specs.

[Witch Hunter] Sentry Reworked into Bounty Hunter

[Witch Hunter] Relentless damage bonus to Momentum increased from 3% to 4%

[Witch Hunter] Bolt and Dash now has a 30 sec cd down from 1 min

[Witch Hunter] Ricochet now reduces the damage of bolts by 20% per target struck (like Chain Lightning)

[Witch Hunter] New Capstone: Heavy Crossbows

[Witch Hunter] Bag of Tricks reworked

[Witch Hunter] Crossbow Expert now also affects Witchbane

[Witch Hunter] Renegade swapped with Bag of Tricks, Bag of Tricks reworked

[Witch Hunter] Arbalest Mastery now also affects Heartstop and Witching Bolt

[Witch Hunter] With Style reworked

[Witch Hunter] Repulse now functions as if you had learned the Spreading Darkness talent baseline, and Spreading Darkness now grants it the knockback effect

[Tinker] Distracto Shot now has an 18 sec cd down from 25 sec, but now lasts 3 sec down from 4

Symbiosis, associated talents have been adjusted

[Tinker] Growth Module is now a passive, Mega Module is now a capstone called Combat

[Tinker] Emergency Enhancer now has build synergies

[Tinker] Module Belt has been reworked

[Tinker] Goblin Batteries is now direct critical strikes instead of Repair Shot only

[Tinker] Zap! now requires the Resourceful Tech talent to guarantee a critical strike

[Tinker] Nanobot Reconstruction now ticks every 1.5 sec up from 1 sec

[Tinker] My Greatest Invention! now lasts 9 sec baseline up from 6 sec, base healing per tick increased by ~140

[Tinker] Increased the base healing of Healing Darts by 150 and its scaling by 10%, swapped with HYPER MODULE 6900, which has been reworked and renamed

[Tinker] Module Mechanic has been reworked to Rapid Fire Healing

[Witch Hunter] Issue where Darkflock was dealing AoE damage around you, and not around the target has been fixed.

[Ranger] Hack has been reflavored to Sapsting

[Ranger] Bushwhack is now a passive that augments Instinct

[Pyromancer] Firefall missing scaling fixed

[Pyromancer] Focused Fire Mana Regen increased from 30% to 50%

[Pyromancer] Cinder Scorch now also affects Blaze

[Pyromancer] Explode’s DoT can now critically strike.

[Pyromancer] Explode damage bonus from DoT’s increased from 20% to 50%

[Pyromancer] Explode tick rate reduced from 2 sec to 1 sec

[Pyromancer] Explode duration reduced from 8 sec to 4 sec

[Pyromancer] Ignis Fatalis cast time reduction reduced from 1 sec to 0.5 sec

[Pyromancer] Ignis Fatalis no longer reduces Ignis Ultimatus’s cooldown, now increases critical damage of Ignis Ultimatus by 20%

[Pyromancer] Ignis Ultimatus spell scaling reduced by 30%

[Pyromancer] Ignis Ultimatus damage is no longer split by targets hit

[Pyromancer] Magnitude 10 damage increased from 3% to 8% per stack.

[Pyromancer] Scorching Sermon’s duration increase on Blaze and Ignite reduced from 3 sec to 1 sec

[Pyromancer] Phoenix Radiance scaling reduced from 20% of total Spirit to 10%

[Pyromancer] Blazing Purge now also removes 2 curse effects on cast.

[Pyromancer] Bushfire now increases the damage of Scorching Ray by 15% and the healing done by Sunstrider Array by 25%.

[Pyromancer] Hot and Dangerous is now procced by Scorching Ray instead of Slagstone and now reduces the cooldown of Cauterize Wounds and Tide of Fire.

[Pyromancer] Sunstrider Array healing can no longer critically strike.

[Pyromancer] Sunstrider Array is now passive and its scaling has been reduced by 20%

[Pyromancer] Lifebinder’s Fire now also reduces the cooldown of Phoenix Egg

[Pyromancer] Kael’s Command duration increased from 8 sec to 10 sec

[Pyromancer] Kael’s Command/Phoenix Dive Phoenix Egg cooldown reduction increased from 8% to 10%

[Pyromancer] Kael’s Command cooldown decreased from 45 sec to 30 sec

[General] A mail tank dungeon set is now available!

[General] Mail Tank T2 gear has been added, available for tokens from Major Mattingly or Overlord Runthak

[General] Majordomo Executus can now drop the Volcanic Arbalest, an AGI/AP/haste crossbow.

[General] Lucifron, Gehennas, Shazzrah and the Sulfuron Harbinger can now drop the Molten Slugtosser, an int/spell power/crit gun.

[General] Magmadar can now drop the Magma-forged Throwing Knife, an Agi/Ap/Arpen throwing weapon.

[Witch Hunter] Scaling of Stake reduced by 5%

[Witch Hunter] Duration of Buried and Forgotten increased to 15 sec from 12 sec

[Witch Hunter] To Hell With You now has Stake and Searing Blade synergy

[Primalist] Heart of Azeroth has been reflavored to Wildheart