Ascension Changelog

The NPCs in Stormwind and Orgrimmar that disable experience gain to allow twinking have been re-introduced.

The Battle Quartermasters in the Stormwind and Orgrimmar PvP Halls have new wares.

Honorable kills should now correctly be awarded.

Black war PVP mounts can now be purchased.

The Food and Drink vendors in the Stormwind and Orgrimmar PvP Halls now sell the Battleground-only food that normally requires a trip to a Battleground entrance, additionally they now sell water that can only be used in Arenas.

PvP Healing and Mana potions have had their effects increased to match the regular alchemy potions of their same tier.

Added a spectator-oriented Tournament Arena that players can use for community PVP competitions, as a dueling hub or one day even for server-held tournaments. The entrance to it will be added at a later date.

Ranked arenas should now be enabled. Note that currently there is only Ruins of Lordaeron available. AQ-themed Circle of Blood coming soon, when Silithus zone progression begins.

World Bosses and Faction Leaders now grant Conquest Points.

Eastern Plaguelands towers now also provide a mount speed increase to the faction that controls them, the Hillsbrad world event will be enabled in the future.

With the new season, there are 400+ new items, as well as new profession crafts for gear progression. Note that Conquest weapons won't be available for the first 3 weeks of the season.

Season 1 has been enabled. Honor points and Conquest points can now be acquired.

NPCs related to Gillijim's Isle can be found at the Stormwind Harbor and Orgrimmar's Valley of Winds.

A new reputation has been added for each faction in Gillijim's Isle, Yeyewata'thraze for Horde and Grumbscrew's Crew for Alliance, with new rewards to obtain from each.

A new battleground, Gillijim's Isle has been added. Remember to handle explosives responsibly and beware of sharks!

PVP:

Fixed an issue where Hand of Justice could proc from Seal of Penitence and Judgement of Penitence, causing you to PvP attack yourself, HoJ could also proc from some other unintended abilities. We believe this fixes the PvP flagging in Onyxia's Lair issue. Side effect of this fix is that Hand of Justice can now only proc from Physical damage.

*Developer's note: The goal with these adjustments is to reduce the initial burst damage especially in PvP combat without affecting their overall damage too greatly. The reason for why Vengeance was previously changed to only Holy damage is due to the way it interacts with Crusader Strike and then now Verdict, which is that the ability scales off of your Weapon Damage, which is increased by Vengeance, and then the ability itself is increased by Vengeance, essentially double dipping. With Verdict moved to Physical it opens up Vengeance returning to affecting both damage types, and so Crusader Strike has seen a small adjustment as it will now double dip here again.*

Crusader Strike's weapon damage percentage has been reduced by 5%.

Verdict's mana cost has been reduced by 20%.

Verdict now deals Physical damage instead of Holy.

Vengeance now once again provides Physical damage in addition to Holy.

Fixed an issue where Sunder Armor could only stack twice, the unruly Sunder and Expose Armor have been sent to behavioral therapy and should now behave with each other. Due to the way this was fixed Sunder Armor's application on enemies has a new spell ID, this may affect some addons that track these.

The Rogue quest "Mission Possible But Not Probable" is now properly scripted so that the enemies within the tower are weak to certain Rogue abilities as intended, making the quest more probable.

Fixed some food descriptions stating that the Well Fed buff would last 30 seconds.

It should no longer be possible to overwrite Improved Crusader Strike with a non-Improved Crusader Strike or with a lower rank of Crusader Strike.

Sunder Armor and Expose Armor should now behave more reliably, it should no longer be possible to overwrite a talented Expose Armor with Sunder Armor, or overwrite Sunder Armor with a lower rank.

Fixed an issue where some food buffs could be stacked.

Fixed an issue where some Elixirs could be stacked within their category.

Poisoned Knife now consumes 5 minutes of poison, down from 10.

The Assassination Rogue talent Poisoned Knife should now again function as intended.

High Justice Grimstone is now counted after completing the Ring of Law (including if it was completed via the quest "The Challenge") for the achievement "Blackrock Depths".

You can no longer speak in global channels or whisper other players until level 5, unless they are in the same guild as you.

Fixed an issue where Race Change or Faction Change could cause your racial knowledge to sometimes act strangely, you will now always retain your current set of racials after a Race or Faction change, meaning these cannot be used to bypass the 2 week cooldown.

Fixed an issue where profession titles were incorrect for Female characters.

Improved quest credit for Finding Fireplume.

Slightly improved the proc rate of Fury of the Black Brood.

Custom tabards now count for the tabard achievements, these will also be added to Tabard vendors for players who deleted these tabards in a future update.

The previously mentioned 20% Moonkin threat reduction was incorrectly applied and should now work as intended.

Fixed an issue where Improved Leader of the Pack would cause Steady Shot to be interrupted.

Fixed a typo on the Panacea enchantment description that stated it increased healing by 25% instead of 20%, the actual effect is unchanged.

The trinket Laexxarn's Web is now considered a Root effect and can be dispelled with Dispel Magic effects.

Viper Sting and Drain Mana now again behave as intended.

Fixed an issue where the quest "The Shimmering Frond" was available to the Horde.

Fixed an issue where "Wanted: Mistfin" in Auberdine was labeled as Horde-only instead of Alliance-only.

Custom Night-only creatures, such as Plagued Shambler or Everstill Lurker, will now spawn at all times of day until the issue with Night creature spawning is resolved.

Adjusted the proc rate of Fury of the Black Flight, it should now be less affected by attack speed modifiers.

Fixed an issue where Reincarnation had its Wrath of the Lich King cooldown of 30 minutes, which allowed for an unintended interaction with Totem of Rebirth. It now correctly has a 1 hour cooldown.

Reverted a previous nerf to Righteous Fury, bringing it back to 60% threat increase up from 50%.

Sanctified Light (Holy Paladin talent) no longer reduces the threat of Judgement of Light.

Judgement of Wisdom and Judgement of Light no longer generate threat.

Fixed an issue where multiple ranks of Judgement of Wisdom and Judgement of Light could be stacked.

Increased the time between Onyxian Whelpling waves from 30 seconds to 40 seconds due to the above class changes.

Raids:

Reduced the threat generated by Judgement of Light and Judgement of Wisdom by 70%.

Paladin:

Fixed a mistake where Seed of Corruption had its Wrath of the Lich King explosion spell damage coefficient of 28.6% instead of the intended Burning Crusade value of 21.4%.

Warlock:

Darkmantle 8pc now instead reduces the energy cost of Sinister Strike, Backstab, and Mutilate by 5.

Rogue:

Call of Thunder now also increases the damage dealt by Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning by 1%/2%/3%/4%/5%, and both effects now also affect Lightning Shield.

Shaman:

Base damage dealt by Rake increased by 30%.

Tiger's Fury (Rank 4) now increases damage by an additional 1 per stack.

Damage dealt by Enervate increased by 55%.

Druid:

Players who still retained their Ominous White Orb after completion of "Dreams of Another Life" can now bring it to Archmage Xylem in Azshara to get rid of it.

Players who have difficulty using Tier Tokens obtained from Onyxia can now exchange them with a vendor in Theramore or Brackenwall Village. These vendors are named Dragonslayer Tyrpeas and Dragonslayer Tokun respectively. You will need to update your client to purchase these items.

Undead Paladins can now acquire a new Divination Scryer by speaking to The Fallen Knight in Undercity after completion of "Judgment and Redemption" like their Alliance counterparts.

The aforementioned loot table issues have been fixed.

Baradin Hold has been re-enabled. We are aware of another issue where many creatures around the world no longer drop cloth and this is being investigated.

Due to an issue, Baradin Hold has been temporarily disabled and will be re-enabled as soon as possible.

Reduced the amount of nature damage dealt by Eva's Left Leg due to how it interacted with some class abilities.

Reduced the health and damage caused by Spiderlings summoned from Bulging Egg Sac.

Fixed an issue where Halycon could be CCed, preventing the summoning of Gizrul the Slavener within Blackrock Spire.

Adjustments have been made to loot tables in Lava Fishing, and new items have been added. You will now also find pools of fish within lava in some areas.

Lava Fish in freshwater sources has been over-fished into extinction.

Submerged Necklace can now be correctly picked up.

Starfall Crystals fell from the stars again and should be available for collection in Winterspring.

Fixed item Hammersmith's Legacy not counting as a Blacksmith Hammer. With that the server is truly saved.

Fixed an issue that made Tabard of the Thorium Brotherhood be Alliance only.

Removed the ability of one of Technobot's abilities to instakill players.

Fixed an exploit where certain vendor items were disenchantable, players who abused this exploit have been actioned.

Solved an issue where Ras Frostwhisper was not turning into human form for the quest "The Lich, Ras Frostwhisper". The quest rewards have also been adjusted.

Fixed an issue where Deadly Poison ranks could stack, greatly increasing the damage of Envenom.

Fixed a Poison Vendor NPC from Wrath of the Lich King which sold poisons directly, he now sells poison reagents like any other vendor. Deadly Poison Rank 5 obtained from this vendor is no longer usable as it is not yet obtainable.

Reduced the amount of framerate drop generated by Explode on Atressian. Should be a bit better but still more work to be done.

Fixed an issue where certain spells in Onyxia's Lair were affected by Bane of Tongues and Mind-numbing Poison.

A sizable chunk of items in the Onyxia's Lair raid have been rebalanced.

Due to the Winter Veil gifts despawning early, they have been brought back for 1 more day now that the event is over to let players have a chance to grab them if they missed them previously.

Fixed the tooltip of Blessed Sunfruit Juice, the functionality has not changed.

Fixed an issue where the Abandoned Lockbox required for the Burningsteel Pickaxe got so abandoned it quit and stopped existing.

Fixed an issue where some custom quests, such as Golem Gyroscope, could not be picked up or completed.

Adjusted the stats on the item Onyxia Scale Shield, and fixed an issue where it had no block. Further adjustments will be made to loot from Onyxia's Lair next year.

Fixed an issue where the Onyxia Scale Hood recipe would not appear after being learned. This was intended to be a Tailoring recipe, but the recipe item was erroneously marked as Dragonscale Leatherworking. Due to players having already used the recipe this item has been changed to Onyxia Scale Mask and is now a leather item, it will appear in your Leatherworking menu retroactively. A new item, Pattern: Onyxian Hood, has been added for Tailors to obtain.

Adjustments have been made to the items required for the recipes that use Scales of Onyxia in Onyxia's Lair. No player had crafted these items prior to these changes.

Fixed an issue where faction changing would cause issues with a player's active War Mode.

Fixed an issue where entering an instance while PvP flagged outside of War Mode would fail to remove your PvP status, it should now be impossible to be PvP flagged in dungeons or raids, probably!

The trinket "Faceted Beryl Palm Stone" no longer procs from certain spells that cannot crit, and it has had its internal cooldown reduced to 15 seconds.

If you've deleted your Drakefire Amulet you can now obtain a new one by speaking to Rexxar in Desolace (Horde) or Haleh in Winterspring (Alliance).