Ascension Changelog

Dark Pact: Removed the shared cooldown with Life Tap.

Stoicism: Now also has 1/2/3% reduced chance to be critically hit.

Healing Grace: Now gives 1/2/3% critical strike chance. Capstone Bonus: Reduces threat generated by 20%. This does not stack with other similar capstone bonuses.

Subtlety: Now also gives 1/2/3% haste. Capstone Bonus: Reduces threat generated by 20%. This does not stack with other similar capstone bonuses.

Shadow Affinity: Now reduces the mana cost of all your Shadow spells by 2/4/6%. Capstone Bonus: Reduces threat generated by 20%. This does not stack with other similar capstone bonuses.

Mana Feed: Now also gives 5% missing mana to the pet every 5 sec.

Improved Expose Armor: Increased the armor penetration to 3%, up from 2%.

Improved Berserker Rage: Capstone now grants 50 rage, up from 30.

Absolution: Now also Increase radius of mass dispel 2/4/5 yards.

Increased the coefficient of Venomous Fury by 100%. From 0.06 AP/SP to 0.12 AP/SP.

Harbinger of Pestilence disease bonus damage changed to 15% per stack, down from 20%.

Shadow Power: Deep Shadow now increases damage done to the target by 6%, down from 12, but now lasts 4 seconds, up from 3 seconds.

Improved Curse of Agony now increases the damage of Curse of Agony by 10/20/30%, up from 5/10/15%.

Improved Curse of Agony now longer increases critical strike damage bonus. The capstone now only enables the ability to critically hit. This talent was actually not intended to provide this crit mod post caster rework and only enable critical hits of the spell.

Endless Agony: Now provides 5% and 4% damage increase to Curse of Doom and Curse of Agony, up from 4% and 3% per stack.

Fixed an issue where Armor mods were not affecting Ranged Physical attacks.

Burning Darkness: Shadowburn damage bonus has been increased from 10% to 25%.

Burning Darkness no longer increases the damage of Corruption.

Decreased the scaling of Shadowflame. It previously had unintendedly high scaling coefficients.

Talent: Mental Dexterity now gives 7/14/20% Intellect to ranged and melee haste rating. Capstone: Increases the spell critical rating granted by Agility by an additional 10% and the melee critical strike rating granted by Intellect by an additional 10%. This rework aims to make it a strong pick for melee hybrids wearing items with Intellect and avoid the issues that could arise with extremely unintuitive gearing strategies.

Orc racial ability Blood Fury attack power and spell power reduced by 50%. With the co-efficient hybridization changes this is slightly stronger than it was before.

Arcane Arrows range increased from 30 to 35.

Arcane Arrows can now be triggered by ranged abilities.

Benediction (Tier 1 Retribution talent) internal cooldown has been reduced to 3 seconds from 5 seconds.

Mortal Shots reduced to 5/10/15% critical strike damage bonus, down from 7/14/20%. This comes in tandem with the opening up of the primary stat bonus that adds 20% critical strike damage to ranged, so this is still net gain critical damage done potential.

Piercing Shots now provides a bleed equivalent to 8/16/25% from 10/20/30%. The talent is largely unchanged.

New Talent: Sidearm Specialization. Replaces Dual-Wield Specialization in Fury Warrior tree. Now increases your armor penetration by 3/6/9% and your chance to hit with spells and abilities by 1/2/3%.

Fixed a bug where Freezing Strikes worked with any rank of Fingers of Frost. It now correctly requires the final rank.

Snowblind: Ice Prism Shatter ICD reduced to 1 second, down from 2 seconds.

Clarified the tooltip of Freezing Strikes that Fingers of Frost from this caps at 2 stacks.

Lowered Freezing Strike Frostbrand Weapon bonus damage from from 30% to 15%. With the hybrid overhaul, Frostbrand Weapon has become more powerful with the Hybridization Update and this enchantment would become non-choice for those wanting to incorporate Frostbrand into their build in a meaningful way.

Knight of the Eclipse: Lunar Knight AND Solar Knight damage bonus buffed from 50% to 80%.

Frozen Power talent now increases your Fire, Nature, and Frost damage by 3/6/9% on targets affected by your Frostbrand Weapon, down from 4/8/12%.

Consecrated Strikes: No longer provides bonus spell damage based on your Strength. Systemically removing conversions from these Mystic Enchantments with the Hybrid Overhaul in mind.

Mace of the Dragon Knight reduced haste per stack from 67 to 42. With the rework, this item became far too powerful.

Spell Shredder: Increased the attack power and spell power coefficients of the Elemental Rends of Spell Shredder.

Added New Talent Dual Wield Mastery. This Tier 1 Fury talent increases your melee attack speed by 2/4/6/8/10%. It has a capstone effect that makes off-hand attacks deal full damage.

Added a Mind Flay Bonus damage mode to Goldrinn's Fury to add a lever for balance and make up for loss of conversion.

Divine Strength Capstone effect has been changed to: Divine Strength now gives 2/4/6% Strength and 1/2/3% Stamina. This talent was non-choice.

Off-Hand attacks now deal 75% damage baseline up from 50% baseline. Additionally, talents that increase off-hand damage no longer stack. If you wanted to dual wield, these talents were non-choice.

Combat Experience now grants 1/2/3% critical strike chance instead of 2/4/6% intellect. Its capstone has been changed and now gives +0.5 Intellect per level (30 Intellect at level 60, 35 Intellect at level 70). This should make it more relevant for those with less Intellect on their gear and more specialised for them.

The Improved Stormstrike effect is now increasing Nature, Fire, and Frost damage by 10%. Down from 20% Nature, and 10% Fire/Frost.

Channelled Rage now extends the duration of Shamanistic Rage by 3 seconds when critically striking with spells and has a 5 second internal cooldown. Melee critical strikes now reduces the cooldown of Shamanistic Rage by 5 seconds and has no internal cooldown.

Stormstrike Nature, Fire, Frost damage from Stormstrike has been moved into the Improved Stormstrike Talent. This is to ensure Stormstrike does not become a default for anyone utilizing Nature, Fire, Frost damage in the new hybrid paradigm.

Disabled Swashbuckling in Shapeshift forms. This caused too many balance and design problems due to how feral weapon mechanics work.

Versatile Power now gives 2% Spell critical strike chance when Expose Weakness is active. This was a conversion to Mystic Enchant and most are being reworked.

Fixed an issue where in the scenario there was more than one user of Prayer of Preservation in a group, you could consume each other's Preservation buffs. You will now only be able to consume the preservations that you cast yourself.

Fixed an issue where Good Fortune Mystic Enchantment in combination with Light's Grace and Serendipity would cause your Prayer of Preservation to not correctly tick 3 times per channel.

Reduced the level scaling of Preservation heal by 10%. This is to counterbalance the power provided by the heal now correctly prioritizing low health allies, to ensure the rotation of healing doesn't feel skewed towards Preservation rather than Prayer of Preservation.

Fixed an issue where smart targeting on the Preservation heal from the Prayer of Preservation legendary enchant wasn't working properly. It should now properly prioritize healing low health allies.

Systemically buffed caster weapon DPS to be more comparable to melee weapon DPS. Caster weapons often didn't have properly scaling weapon DPS at all. This change aims to enhance variety in item choice. This means using a spell power weapon is no longer a detrimental DPS loss for hybrids and can be now even favorable in some situations like spell-heavy hybrid rotations.

Fixed an Issue where Prayer of Preservation could tick more than 3 times during its channel time. This caused the heal to be far more powerful than intended.

Fixed an issue where Pets were not really gaining any default mana regen at all, they now receive a portion of stamina and intellect as MP5.

Ammo now stacks up to 5000.

Fixed an issue where spells that refreshed the duration of DoT/HoT effects behaved differently. All spells now follow the most common behavior of recalculating AP/SP and haste when they are refreshed.

Rebalanced Hybrid gear to ensure the margins are there to not be overly useful for Pure Melee. To accomplish this the AP from Strength, Agility or attack power was lowered and Spell Power has been increased. This also aims to balance out Hybrid DPS to be more balanced towards spells over just sheer auto attacks. Hybrids will be balanced with these changes in mind.

Strength allocation now grants 1 attack power per level instead of 1 Agility per level. This is to facilitate a greater identity between Strength and Agility.

Primary Stat: Agility allocation now also makes Agility increase your critical strike damage bonus by a percentage equal to your agility divided by your level. If you for example have 300 agility and are level 60, you gain 300/60 = 5% increased critical strike damage bonus.

Agility allocation now grants 1 attack power per level instead of 1 Strength per level. This is to facilitate a greater identity between Strength and Agility.

Added 1 Spirit per level to Hero Class. Reduced Spirit per level from Int and Spirit Primary Stat allocation from 2 to 1 per level. Implication of this is Agility/Strength should have slightly less mana problems, especially while levelling.

Added 3% Crit to Held in off-hand items (like Jin’do’s Bag of Wammies). This will happen instead of letting them be enchanted right now due to some client restrictions that will require some more time to work around.

Staff Mastery 10% Haste has been removed and baked into the Primary stat Intellect bonuses at a greater value. This will allow you to get 12% spell haste using any 2-handed weapon when using Intellect.

Increased Spell Power on Held in off-hand items to balance out the removal of the Spell and Healing % increase that used to be on them.

Empowered Mending - Spirit 1-Handed Bonus: When wielding a One-Handed weapon, your healing is increased by 5%.

Spiritual Acceleration - Spirit 2-Handed Bonus: When wielding a Two-Handed weapon, your spell haste is increased by 10% and spell critical strike chance by 3%.

Magic Acceleration - Intellect 2-Handed Bonus: When wielding a Two-Handed weapon, your spell haste is increased by 12%.

Devastating Spells - Intellect 1-Handed Bonus: When wielding a One-Handed weapon, your spell damage is increased by 5%.

Fatal Wounds - Agility 2-Handed Bonus: When wielding a Two-Handed weapon, your physical critical strike damage bonus is increased by 20%.

Agile Strikes - Agility 1-Handed Bonus: When wielding a One-Handed weapon, your damaging melee and ranged abilities’ global cooldown is reduced by 10%.

Heavy Swings - Strength 2-Handed Bonus: When wielding a Two-Handed weapon your auto-attacks are 10% slower but your melee and ranged abilities deal 10% more damage.

Devastating Strikes - Strength 1-Handed Bonus: When wielding a One-Handed Weapon, your Armor Penetration is increased by 20%.

Added Primary Stat Weapon Bonuses while wearing 1 Handed or 2 Handed weapons:

Melee, Ranged, and Spellcasters now require a static 14% Hit.

Primary Stat Bonuses are now clearly shown in the tooltips on the Primary Stats in Character Advancement.

Buffed Hit Rating Contributing to now give 1% Hit from 8 Hit Rating, this is from 10 to 1%

All Hit talents now give general hit instead of specific ranged, melee, or spell hit.

Intellect now gives a small amount of melee critical strike chance.

Agility now gives a small amount of spell critical strike chance.

Weapon DPS now scales with your spell power as well as your attack power.

Expertise has been removed and creatures and bosses have had their parry and dodge chance reduced accordingly.

Expertise has been replaced on all items, enchants, food buffs, set bonuses, and talents.

All Abilities now Scale with Attack Power and Spell Power. This is balanced such that spell casts will scale best with spell power, melee abilities will scale best with attack power, but they will still scale with either or allowing you to customize more effectively.

Nation of Adoration achievement will no longer require Silvermoon/Exodar criteria to be completed on Thrall (Pending restart)

Fixed an issue where players were not awarded Tough Love achievement after defeating Crown Chemical Co. trio (Pending restart)

Fixed an issue where Akil'zon in Zul Aman would reset in the corners of the room (Pending restart)

Pilfering Perfume (Love is in the Air) quest can now be correctly completed on both factions (Pending restart)

Talon of the Phoenix can now be purchased from L'uta the Redeemer for Raider's Commendations (Pending restart)

Resourcefulness now correctly reduces cooldown of Glaive Toss (Pending restart)

[Pending Restart] [Love Is In The Air] [The Crown Chemical Co] Corrected an issue where Apothecary Hummel would not drop loot if not killed last.

[Love is in the air] - Corrected an issue that gave too many Heart-Shaped Boxes when completing the RDF event.

[Requires Launcher Update] Auto sell junk should now sell all junk items.

[Thrall] Crusader Strike (One with the light) Damage reduced by 7% in arena.

All Open world pvp spell mods are now the same as their Battleground spell pvp mods. Meaning you should no longer see a difference in damage inside Battlegrounds versus during open world pvp.

[Requires Restart] (Hoplite) The Skewered Debuff now grants 5% (Down from 10%) additional damage with Colosus smash versus players.

[Requires Restart] (Hoplite) The Skewered Debuff now grants 5% (Down from 10%) additional damage versus players.

[Thrall] Emerald Visage Corrosive Acid breath damage has been reduced by 50%

[Thrall] Whirlwind Damage Reduced by 5% in 1v1 Arena.

[Area52] Sinister strike Damage increased by 20% in arena and open world pvp.

[Requires Launcher Update] You can now search for item appearances by name in the transmog UI. Previously, items that were not cached would be unsearchable if they shared an appearance with another displayed item.

[Requires Launcher Update] Fixed several issues with transmogrifying weapons. Backsheathe / Main Hand / Both Hand / Off Hand appearances are now separate appearances to collect.