Ascension Changelog

[Requires Restart] Reduced the amount of resistances inherited from your pet by approximately 30%. (Since most resistance is inherited via the (insert element) resistance aura). They would gain 40% of your resistances, then they would gain even more resistance from the (insert element) resistance aura. With resistances being buffed on Classless, this offered too much magic damage mitigation.

[Requires restart] Spirit Dash Now applies a debuff to indicate the cooldown.

Untarnished Mystic scrolls now require level 1 (This change should make it easier to search for trinkets on the auction that require level 60)

Improved Shadow Form now Decreases spell pushback by 33%, 66%, and 100%.

Lunar Aspirations Attack Power Coefficent has been 0.20 to 0.18.

Venoumous Fury (Serpent form) deals 10% reduced damage against players.

Brambles Silence now obeys the diminishing returns of entangling roots AND silence, this change was made so that brambles could not be applied through casting entangling roots while the target is immune to root effects.

Divine Storm deals 5% increased damage against players.

Crusader Strike deals 5% increased damage against players.

Lava Burst deals 5% reduced damage against players.

Demolishing deals 5% reduced damage against players in 1v1 arena.

Holy Fire deals 5% reduced damage against players.

Frostfall cost reduced to 500g.

The Revive pet talent now also works with all forms of tamable pets:Revive Elemental, Revive Dragonkin, Revive Undead, Revive Demon.

Divine Storm damage in pvp increased by 5%

Frostfall cost reduced to 500g

Crusader Strike damage in pvp increased by 5%

The Revive pet talent now also works with all forms of tamable pets:Revive Elemental, Revive Dragonkin, Revive Undead, Revive Demon

Increased the chance of getting Bijous and Coins from Zul'Gurub by 33%.

[Pending Restart] - Corrected the statline of many tier 1 & tier 2 items. (further itemization updates and new tier sets will come before BWL!)

[Mythic+] - The Coin Cap has been increased to 2100 per week from 1550.

[Ascension DB] Fixed an issue where certain Heroic, Mythic, and Ascended creatures were not showing up in item sources.

[Pending Restart] Items, such as those from "PvP Accessories", Warsong Gulch, Arathi Basin, and Alterac Valley are now vendorable.

[Pending Restart] -Wands have been added to pvp vendors!

[Pending Restart] - Fixed an issue where specialization 4 was not refreshing its HoF cap. (Your HoF cap will now catch up to the other specializations).

[Ascension DB] The Spell Details table has been changed to list each spell scaling in its own row, rather than combining them all into a single row and cell. This is a small change to the way spell scalings are displayed.

(Ascension DB) Fixed a styling issue that caused the Worldforged checkbox to be hidden on the Mystic Enchant Creator page.

+ [Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Hoarfrost was not properly applying Winter's Chill.

[Pending Restart] - The Spellpower Values on the Following Items have been increased by approximately 25%. Aurastone Hammer, Staff of Dominance, Azuresong Mageblade and Sorcerous Dagger. This is mainly to offset the disproportianate amount of power granted by going from these weapons (which drop in the same tier) as Benediction, Anathema and Blade of the Dragon Bone.

Coins and Bijous from Zul'Gurub will now always drop in quantities of 3 and 2 respectively.

Redirect is now no longer possible to roll and has a significantly increased chance to be unrollled in Hand of Fates and Card Swaps. This is because it has been replaced with baseline combo point target swapping functionality.

[Pending Restart] - Mangle will now once again generate combo points.

Fixed an issue where Rank 5 Sinister Strike had incorrect bonus damage values and was dealing less damage than previous ranks.

[Pending Restart] Melee elemental damaging attacks will also be able to trigger Fel Synergy talent.

Conquest of Azeroth classess, spells and specialisations are now supported by the Ascension DB (https://db.ascension.gg).

Fixed an issue where the Ghostly Blow DoT effect was dealing more damage than intended at lower levels due to a level scaling bug. The dot damage has been reduced at lower levels, but remains unchanged at max level.

Fixed an issue where Ghostly Blow was usable outside of Melee Range.

Added Experimental Frontliner Fortitude Buff for Melee in Southshore Vs Tarrenmill. This reduces the duration of Slows and Snares and Increases Health.

Fixed an issue causing Templar of Flame's damage reduction to not work against monsters.

[Requires Restart] Combo points will now automatically transfer between targets. (This essentially makes combo points bound to the player)

Fixed an Issue with Honor Amongst Thieves and AoE sometimes resetting your combo points.

-Rend rank 7 pvp damage in 1v1 arena has been reduced by 5%(with the recent baseline buff to rend this spell became too strong)

-Heroic Entrance ERE is now considered a controlled stun

-Seal of fervor damage reduction no longer works against players

[Pending Restart] The recent Evasion changes have been reverted. Rank 1 now lasts for 8 sec, changed from 3. Rank 2 now lasts for 10 sec, changed from 4. Evasion now grants 50% dodge chance and ranged miss chance, changed from 100%.

Fixed an issue where Riposte was usable while transformed into Ghostly Blow.

Added a Worldforged Cache for Firefall near the creature it drops from. (Pending Restart)

[Pending Restart] - You will now be rewarded an achievement whenever completing a mythic level for Both TBC & Classic.

[Requires Restart] Smoke Bomb can now be used in Cat form and Bear form.

Significantly increased the drop rate of Demon Leather in High-Risk. This increase applies both while the event is active and while the event is not active.

Significantly increased the drop rate of Core Leather in High-Risk. This increase applies both while the event is active and while the event is not active.

Arcane Power is now usable in Cat and Bear form.

Mythic+ Boons are now live with the release of Mythic11-20!

Fixed an issue where the Champion Visual on Thrall was missing and the HP increase was not working.

[Requires Restart] Bloodbath can now be used in Shapeshift forms.

Lowered cooldown of Redirect to 5 seconds from 15 seconds.

[Interrupts] - PVE Interrupts, like Rebuke and Fizzle can now be used in Cat/Bear Form.

[Requires Restart] Bloodstained Debuff will no longer apply the negative effects in Heroic Raids only Mythic and Ascended.

[Pending Restart] - [Thrall] - In celebration of Christmas and the most recent updates to Arena and Draft, 4,000 more Arena Points have been added to the arena point cap for this PvP Progression. Additionally, 10 more Hand of Fate quests have become available, making the total amount of quests available 86, from 76. (This is a total of 30 more Hand of Fates!)

Increased bonus damage of Eviscerate Ranks 1-3

Increased bonus damage of Heroic Strike Ranks 1-3

Increased bonus damage of Sinister Strike Ranks 1-6

Increased bonus damage of Rend Ranks 1-7

PvP Cache loot has been increased in quality(more changes to come soon)

Fixed an issue where Fiery Charge attack power scaling was lower than intended. This should result in a damage increase for melee players using the WRE.

Thrall - Added two new weapons to the arena vendors. (3.80 Speed Agility and Strength based staffs)

Two new staff weapons have been added to the arena vendors. (Str or agi based and 3.80 Speed).

[Pending Restart] - Posses (casted from Baroness Anastari's Banshees) now has a 2.2 second cast time, up from 1.8 seconds and can now also be interrupted. Additionally, when becoming possessed you now have a flat 10,000 health increase.

[Rotting Breath] - Updated the tooltip of the Rotting Breath Worldforged Mystic Enchantment to clarify that it does not benefit from the cooldown reduction from Playing with Fire. Rotting Breath already has a reduced cooldown baseline.

[Pending Restart] Added the Arena Cosmetic Rewards npc to Shattrath as well.

[Pending Restart] PvP trinket now also removes disarm and silence effects.

Pending Restart - Crowd control abilities can no longer miss players (they can still be avoided through dodge, parry's and blocks)

Taunt, Growl, Distracting Shot, and Hand of Reckoning can no longer miss.

Taunt ,Growl ,Distracting Shot , and Hand of Reckoning can no longer be miss.

[Pending Restart] Evasion rank 1 now lasts for 3 sec, changed from 8. Rank 2 now lasts for 4 sec, changed from 10. Evasion now grants 100% dodge chance and ranged miss chance, changed from 50%.

[Pending Restart] Evasion rank 1 now lasts for 3 sec, changed from 8. Rank 1 now lasts for 4 sec, changed from 10. Evasion now grants 100% dodge chance and ranged miss chance, changed from 50%.

[Darkmaster] - Havested Essence now reduces the tick rate and channel time of Drain Soul and Drain Life by 6% per stack, down from 10%.

[Hand of Gul'Dan] - Unholy Power now provides 6/12/18/24/30% damage increase to your demons, up from 4/8/12/16/20%.

[Hand of Gul'Dan] - Wild Imps now have 100% critical strike damage by default and no longer require investment in Empowered Imp (Talent). However, the Empowered Imp (Talent) no longer increases the effectiveness of Wild Imps.

[Hand of Gul'Dan] - Improved Imp now provides 7/14/20% effectiveness, down from 10/20/30%.

[Elemental Destruction] - Decreased the Base Damage and Scaling of Energy Bolt by 4%.

[Elemental Destruction] - Decreased the Base Damage and Scaling of Elemental Immolation by 6% against monsters.

[Blood for the Blood God] - Fixing an issue where the Critical Strike Damage Bonus after using Hunger for Blood is applying twice as much Critical Strike Damage Bonus as intended.

[Warden of Demonreach] - Soul of the Fuego and Winter's Bite now deals 60% of the damage of Fuego/Arctis (respectively) down from 75%.

The following changes will roll out shortly after a restart on January 2nd. This changelog is posted well in advance to give people the opportunity to prepare for the changes themselves

[Requires Restart] Interrupts are now unable to miss in both PvE and PvP.

[Pending Restart] - [Bugfix] - Mounting or Stealthing will now remove Orb of Power.

+ [Pending Restart] - [Thrall] - [Area-52] - Merul now offers TWO BRAND NEW transmog sets, locked behind arena rating.

Prestigious PvP Weapons and Off-Pieces are now released. These upgraded weapons and Off-Pieces have boosted stats and resillience. Off-Pieces have boosted PvP Power. These items will require an arena rating, arena points and the NON PRESTIGIOUS VARIANT. The reason that the NON PRESTIGIOUS VARIANT is included is because when the upgraded arena gear was introduced, it was hard to choose between whether you should hold your arena points or if you should get the upgrade now. This naturally came with a reduction of the original planned costs of the Arena Points for the Prestigious Gear.

Fixed an issue where Knifestorm channel would be cancelled when a target within the area of effect would die.

Fixed an issue where only Rank 1 of Hoarfrost had spell power scaling. All ranks will now properly scale.

Fixed an issue where Frosty Charge had no level scaling.

Bosses in leveling dungeons now have a 100% chance to drop a Mystic Scroll.

Fixed an issue where Eonar's Blessing could very rarely be carried into a dungeon and procced.

Mythic 1-40 items will now unlock their Mythic 0 appearance when bound or equipped.

Fixed an issue where rage generated from spells could be unpredictable in some cases.

Not having a primary start selected when queueing for LFG will now alert your entire part in stead of just you and the party leader.

[Thrall] Shadow Waste Bolt now deals 5% reduced damage in PvP.

[Thrall] Shiv now deals 10% increased damage in PvP.

[Thrall] Shred now deals 10% increased damage in PvP.