Ascension Changelog

Replaced the hover animation for shop items with a more performant and less buggy solution.

Minor adjustments to the contrast and spacing of text elements in news articles to reduce eye-strain.

Fixed an issue where Demonic Knowledge could persist (under specific circumstances) while not having the talent learned.

Added two additional mailboxes to Booty Bay closest to the Arena Vendor.

Added two additional Auctioneers to Booty Bay to the bank side nearest of the Hanging Shark because this area can become densely populated during prime time.

[Requires Launcher Update] You will now be prompted before spending gold to reforge an item at a Mystic Enchanting Altar

[Requires Launcher Update] Fixed old / deprecated enchants preventing use of a Mystic Enchanting Altar

[Requires Launcher Update] The login screen now prevents typing in the account / password field while a dialog box, or the realm list is open. This is to prevent accidentally typing in the password field when getting disconnected.

[Requires Launcher Update] The Equipment Manager is now enabled by default. You can still disable it in interface options.

[Requires Launcher Update] @cursor macros will no longer cause you to sometimes change targets when spamming them.

[Requires Launcher Update] Collection windows (Character Advancement, Enchants, Vanity Store, etc...) will now hide when entering combat.

[Requires Launcher Update] Searching for Mystic Enchants will now search in the selected category.

[Mythic+] Pending Restart - Void Spawns summoned by Void Bound Champions no longer spawn with the Last Will affix.

Removed the quest exclusion group from the 1v1 & 2v2 daily. In addition you can now complete both dailies in the same day.

During the Arena Frenzy the 2v2 Daily Quest will always be available.

In addition to Blood Bowl starting at 18:00 server, a second Blood Bowl will begin at 22:00 because this will allow more people from different time zones to participate in the event.

Arena Frenzy will now also start on Thursday in addition to its regularly scheduled Sunday start, because this allows more players to participate in the event who cannot play on Sunday.

[Mythic+] Pending Restart - Elemental Powers applied by Convention of the Elements no longer break stealth.

Greatly increased the chance to find talented abilities of qualities in Draft.

Increased Epic Ability Softcap to 8.

Fixed an issue on Area-52 where achievements would trigger when they were not meant to trigger.

Arcane Artillery, Precision High Risk Enchants should no longer proc from mounting, buffing, etc.

Fixed the Held in Off-hands from PvP vendor missing their intended PvP power & held in off-hand bonus.

Applied distinct vendor sorting to Romus the Redeemer, Mythic Exchange and PvP vendors, allowing you to find your set, weapon or item fastest.

Greatly decreased the spawn timer of Scarshield Quartermaster. (This mob drops the item to start the BWL attunement)

Temporarily disabled Blade's Edge Arena to resolve some issues with pathing & mapping.

Disabled High-Risk Enchants temporarily if you are level 61 and above. A greater rework is planned to hit TBC bringing with it new HR enchants, items and consumables for TBC.

Chromie has returned back to Booty Bay.

Prevented players above level 60 from using High-Risk Item Enchants on Area52. We are aware of and working on a solution to existing level 60+ items having these enchants active.

Fixed an issue on Area 52 where level 60 High-Risk Food and Elixirs were usable by character over level 60.

[Stratholme] Removed one Champion from Service Entrance, player will now find exactly 5 Champions between the start of the dungeon and Baron Rivendare.

[Mythic +] Corrected an issue where Singularity and Darkness summoned by Void Bound Champions would turn into Murlocs trough the Mrglrlrlrr! affix, causing them to not give visible feedback about their effect radius.

[Scholomance] Baron Rivendares Mindless Skeletons no longer spawn with the Last Will affix.

Fixed an issue where some resource cost reducing Mystic Enchants such as Jack of All Trades would not be consumed on triggered abilities.

[Alar] [Pending Restart] Resilient Constitution now reduces damage taken in PvP by 45%, changed from 40.

Corrected the MMR search and expand range for 1v1 & 2v2 Arena. [Al'ar]

Greatly increased the chance of Twin Peaks to appear in Random BG selection [Area-52].

[Scholomance] Pending Restart - Moved 17 creatures around Scholomance to prevent chain pulls of packs standing to close to each other.

[Scholomance] Pending Restart - Removed 17 creatures from Scholomance, reducing group sizes of caster packs. Reduced the trash count requirement for Mythic + by 36 to 283 total count down from 319.

[Scholomance] Pending Restart - Removed two Champions from Scholomance inside the Dragon Whelp room and in Jandice Barovs room.

[Scholomance] Pending Restart - Risen Aberrations can no longer critical strike.

[Scholomance] Pending Restart - Corrected an issue where Risen Guards would cast the Mythic Version of Forked Lightning on all difficulties instead of Shield Slam.

Fixed some inconsistencies in the Arctic Winds and Deep Freeze interaction chaining to targets outside of its intended range.

Fixed an issue where the change to spell power scaling of Frostbolt from Frost Oil got reverted back to a too high value.

Cast time of Rain of Arrow Enchantment will now benefit from ranged haste modifiers such as Rapid Fire.

Fire Up! Enchantment will now longer affect Totem spells such as Magma Totem.

Fixed an issue where Lightning Overload was not functioning properly, failing to give the increased chance to proc your Lightning Overload.

Clarified the tooltip on Skillcards to show that you can use them below level 10 only.

You can now use skillcards from level 1 to 9. This means if you accidentally hit level 2, you can still use your skillcards.

You can now purchase the 2k arena rated mounts on Area-52 & Al'ar.

The Strength of Arms talent now only grants one stack at a time. Using Slam or Overpower with Single-Minded Fury no longer gives two stacks instantly.

Pending Restart - Corrected an issue where Mantle of Lost Hope had no bounding on its Heroic and Mythic versions and will now be bind on pick up.

Extension regarding Fierce Blow changes: Creatures that have a magic damage school instead of physical damage on their auto attacks have a much lower base damage then the classic physical damaging creature to account the damage reduction from armor being missing. However this creatures also use Fierce Blow. Since the base damage of this creatures is reduced, their Fierce Blows dealt much less damage then the once from physical damaging creatures as their Fierce Blows are still getting reduced by armor and reduced this creatures overall damage rather then keeping it constant. With recent changes to Fierce Blow inheriting the creatures spell school, the damage will now be equal to this creatures auto attacks. This insures that Fierce Blow still serves its purpose of supressing high avoidance stacking builds and allowing a creature to not have all of its damage be nullified by extreme parry and dodge values for creatures that use a different spell school as physical.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Corrected an issue where Corpse Explosion would share damage between pets and totems. Damage is now only shared between player.

[Scholomance][Jandice Barov] Corrected an issue where Arcane Explosion would not be room wide on Mythic Difficulty.

[Scholomance][Jandice Barov] Corrected an issue where Arcane Explosion would deal much more damage on Heroic and Mythic difficulty then intended.

[Scholomance][Darkmaster Gandling] Corrected an issue where Incinerate would deal much more damage on Heroic and Mythic difficulty then intended.

[Scholomance][Instructor Malicia] Increased the damage of Death and Decay to 10% maximum health up from 8% maximum health.

[Scholomance][Lorekeeper Polkelt] Corrected an issue where Corrosive Breath would not properly reduce targets Nature resistance.

[Scholomance][Lord Alexei Barov] Reduced the health burn of Unholy Frenzy to 1% maximum health per second down from 2% maximum health per second.

[Scholomance][Lord Alexei Barov] Unholy Frenzy now increases all damage dealt. Previously would only increase Physical damage dealt.

[Dire Maul East][Alzzin the Wildshaper] Increased the attack speed granted by Dire Wolf Form to 30% up from 15%.

[Dire Maul East][Alzzin the Wildshaper] Corrected an issue where Enervate would not burn the targets mana.

[Dire Maul East][Lethtendris] Pimgibs Empower buff can no longer be dispelled.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Call of the Grave no longer obeys line of sight.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Increased the tick rate of Curse of Agony to 1 second up from 3 seconds. Reduced damage accordantly.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Disease Cloud is now properly treated as a periodic effect.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Reduced the duration of Cloud of Disease to 10 seconds down from 20 seconds.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Increased the tick rate of Consuming Shadows to 1 second up from 2 seconds.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Corrected an issue where Drain Life would not transfer health to the casting creature.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Zombie Rush now also increases the creatures attack and casting speed by 5% per stack.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Corrected an issue where Zombie Rush would increase the creatures damage dealt by 5% per stack.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Reduced the potency of Bone Shield by 50% on Heroic and Mythic Difficulty.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Reduced the potency of Drain Mana on all difficulties.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Reduced the duration of the Silence ability to 5 seconds down from 10 seconds.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Corrected an issue where creatures would not properly fixate on the target of the Seeing Red ability.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Increased the damage of Execute to 300% up from 200% weapon damage.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Defensive Stance no longer reduces the creatures damage dealt.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Increased the % max health damage of Vicious Bite to 50% up from 45%.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Reduced the healing of Greater Heal and Healing Wave to 30% down from 50% maximum health.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Corrected an issue where Mortal Cleave could hit targets behind the caster.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Reduced the duration of Paralysing Poison to 2 seconds down from 4 seconds.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Increased the damage of Rupture on all difficulties.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Corrected an issue where Chaotic Power could only target Demons.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Reduced the duration of Corruption to 15 seconds down from 24 seconds.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Reduced the duration of Shadow Word Pain and Dark Arrow to 15 seconds down from 18 seconds.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Increased the effect of all Resistance buffs without additional effects by 100%.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Reduced the potency of Mana Burn on all difficulties.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Reduced the potency of Power Word Shield on Heroic and Mythic Difficulty by 50%.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Next Patch Update - Corrected the wording of Chains of Ice to make it clear its not a root.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Corrected an issue where Cone of Cold had less range on its slow application then on its damage application.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Blink now only teleports the caster forward, previously would teleport to a random location within a radius, causing the caster to sometimes get stuck in walls.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Reduced the direct healing of Regrowth to 15% down from 25% maximum health.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Stoneform can no longer be dispelled.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Next Patch Update - Renamed Arcane Blast to Arcane Shock and changed its icon.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Reduced the tick rate of Immolate to 3 seconds down from 2 seconds. Increased the damage per tick accordantly.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Tendon Rip can now stack up to three times.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Increased the damage of Rend on Heroic and Mythic difficulty.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Increased the tick rate of Rain of Fire, Blizzard, Storm Cloud, Disease Cloud and Volley to 1 second up from 2 seconds. Reduced damage per tick accordantly.

[Ascension Creature Abilities] Changed the damage of all abilities that previously stated to deal Plague damage to Shadow damage.