Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2021/09/01

General

Change

Increased the spell power scaling of Frostbolt to 55%, up from 52%.

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Pets now only gain 75% of the effect of Resilient Constitution (which means that they'll have less damage reduction in PvP combat).

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Adjusted the tooltip of the Fire and Brimstone mystic enchantment to be more accurate.

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Adjusted the Intellect stat gain during leveling. You now gain more during levels 46 to 59.

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Shield of the Templar now grants a 2 second silence to Avenger's Shield, changed from 3.

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Avenger's Shield now dazes enemies for 6 seconds, changed from 10.

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Sap is now in the "Normal Crowd Control" diminishing return category. (It now DRs with for example Fear and Gouge.)

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Felguard's Intercept now roots for 1.5 seconds, changed from 3.

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Stoneform now also reduces the chance to be critically hit by 20% for its duration.

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Pushback from taking damage while casting spells has been reduced.

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Fiery Payback now gives a cooldown to Pyroblast while below 35% health. It previously prevented the use of Pyroblast through a debuff.

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Fixed an issue where the rank 1 of throwing specialization would not apply properly.

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Crusade now reduces the cooldown of Repentance by 4/7/10 seconds, changed from 5/10/15.

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Repentance now has a 35 second cooldown, changed from 45.

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Added a new visual to Escape Artist, and its immunity now lasts 3 seconds, changed from 2.

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Cannibalize now heals for 40% of total health, changed from 30%.

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Fixed the tooltips of Feral Charge (Bear), Feral Charge (Cat), Shadowstep, Intercept and Intervene to state that they all share a cooldown with eachother.

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Fixed an issue where Demon Charge would not put Charge on a cooldown, but charge would put Demon Charge on cooldown. Both now state their shared cooldown in the tooltip.

Dungeons & Raids

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[Scholomance] Pending Restarts: Blood Steward of Kirtonos is now considered a boss and had her health and damage adjusted accordingly.

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[Blackrock Spire] [Quartermaster Zigris] Pending Restarts: Stun Bomb now deals base Fire damage to enemies hit. Previously would deal damage based on 100% of the bosses weapon damage.

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[Scholomance] Pending Restarts: Reduced the chance of Unstable Corpses and Reanimated Corpses to trigger Disease Burst when getting hit to 10% down from 40. Reduced the damage of Disease Burst by 60%. Disease Burst will now also be triggered by range and spell hits. Previously would only trigger from melee attacks.

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[Scholomance] Pending Restarts: Reduced the direct damage dealt of Dark Plague used by multiple creatures throughout Scholomance by 50%. Reduced the duration of Dark Plague to 30 seconds down from 90 seconds. Reduced the range of Dark Plague to 10 yards down from 30.

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[Scholomance] [Darkmaster Gandling] Reduced health and damage dealt by Risen Guardians by 50% on all difficulties.

2021/08/31

Dungeons & Raids

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Corrected an issue where Terrifying Presence would not remove Spirit of Zandalar inside raids.

2021/08/30

General

Change

Heart of Wyrmthalak now has an AP & SP scalar on the proc effect of the trinket.

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Fixed an issue where the Quest Givers outside of Stormwind and Orgrimmar could be attacked preventing you from obtaining or not being able to turn in the "DUEL!" quest.

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Added text to prestige confirmation to let you know what specialization you are in!

Item Changes

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Pending Restarts: The following items now have a 1 copper sell price and can be sold to vendors: Scourgestones, Frayed Abomination Stitching, Skin of Shadows.

Dungeons & Raids

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Pending Restart: Reduced the damage dealt from Holy Strike for multiple creatures inside classic dungeons across all difficulties by 75%.

Quests

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(Pending Restart) It's Time to Duel! quest is now a daily and rewards 25 Marks of Ascension.

2021/08/29

General

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Added 2521 creatures to dynamic respawn that were a part of the Keeping Evil at Bay and A Lesser Known Issue quests.

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Added Mobs at Dragonmaw Gates to the dynamic respawn system.

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Added Mobs at Mazthoril to the dynamic respawn system.

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[Alar] [Pending Restart] Mythic Daily Random Dungeon Reward from LFG will now grant you a Mythic Spoils of War containing EPIC spoils.

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[Area-52] Prestigious Cache will now reward TBC items on Area-52 Realm.

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[Alar] [Pending Restart] Mythic Daily Random Dungeon reward from LFG will now reward 25 gold up from 10.

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[Alar] [Pending Restart] Updated the description of Limitless noggenfogger elixir to let players know that it comes from the Arena Frenzy Event.

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[Alar] [Pending Restart] Mythic Dungeons now reward 50 Marks of Ascension per boss kill.

Mystic Enchants

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Fixed an issue where Avatar of Lightning wouldn't allow casting while moving. [Requires launcher update]

2021/08/28

Talents & Abilities

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[Alar] For the Horde/Alliance will now last 12 hours in-game time. (Requires Restart)

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Fixed an issue where rank 1 of Dragon's Breath showed its cooldown incorrectly. [Requires launcher update]

2021/08/27

General

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[Requires Restart] Fixed an issue with GUID mapping that stopped many Daily Quest creatures from being affected by dynamic respawn.

World

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Pending Restarts: Greatly increased the visibility distance of Ruul the Darkener in Shadowmoon Valley.

Dungeons & Raids

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[Blackrock Spire] Pending Restarts: Corrected an issue where player were unable to reenter Upper Blackrock Spire if they died after Warchief Rend Blackhand had been pulled.

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[World Bosses] [Setis] Pending Restarts: Setis will now spawn unattackable and react passive. Setis will become vulnerable and react aggressive on a random timer 5 to 10 minutes after he spawned.

2021/08/26

Talents & Abilities

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[Alar] Reduced the damage of Feral Spirits in PvP by 20%.

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[Area 52] Fixed an issue where Ice Floes wouldn't reduce the duration of Hypothermia.

Change

[Area 52] Fixed an issue where Wyvern Sting wouldn't apply its sleep effect correctly.

Website

Removed

Removed "Bagnon" AddOn from the list of supported AddOns as it was prone to interfere with the in-game UI and hiding elements from view.

New

Updated "AtlasLoot" addon, now supports Heroic/Mythic loot. You can install this from the Addons tab on the launcher, if you have already installed a prior version you will have to re-install the addon.

Item Changes

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Pending Restarts: Librams from classic dungeons that are used to turn in for Shendralar Faction Reputation and item enchantments no longer have an item limit.

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Pending Restarts: Librams from classic dungeons that are used to turn in for Shendralar Faction Reputation and item enchantments now have a 1 copper sell price and can be sold to vendors.

Change

The stun effect from Hurd Smasher no longer works against players.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

[Blackrock Depths] Princess Moira Bronzebeard no longer drops any loot. Emperor Dagran Thaurissan will now drop the loot of Princess Moira Bronzebeard in addition to his own loot.

2021/08/25

General

Change

Limitless Noggenfogger is now in the vanity collection.

Change

Added missing Alliance War Herald to Stormwind instances 2 and 3.

Website

Change

Fixed issue preventing mobile users from accessing the Prestige leaderboard. 🐛

Item Changes

Change

[Alar] Gnomish Lens Item Enhancements will only apply to librams and relics temporarily. (Pending Restart)

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Copper, Silver and Golden Mark of War now has a 1 second cooldown. [Pending restart]

2021/08/24

General

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[Area-52] Fixed gossip confirmation for Prestige.

Change

Doubled chance to find Rare and Epic Skillcards in Sealed and Golden Sealed Packs.

Website

Change

Fixed issue preventing redirects to the proper route on the download page for Linux users.

Item Changes

Change

[Alar] Fixed an issue where all new crafting recipes requiring High-Risk materials would all appear under Tailoring Recipe tab in the Auction House. They will now appear under their proper profession tab. (Pending Restart)

Quests

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[Alar] (Pending Restart) Fixed an issue where some Arms Dealer: Quests were asking for the recipe instead of the crafted item.

2021/08/23

General

Change

[Scholomance] Kirtonos the Herald will now have a guaranteed piece of loot dropped. Pending Restart.

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[Scholomance] Blood Steward of Kirtonos will now have a guaranteed piece of loot dropped. Pending Restart.

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Removed a few spawns after the Halycon boss (leading into the room for Overlord Wyrmthalak) that were over-saturated in mob density in Lower Blackrock Spire which lead to drastic over & chain pulling

Change

Fixed an issue where The Unforgiven items on Heroic was not upscaled.

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Fixed an issue where the unforgiven could only drop 2 items on heroic & normal.

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Fixed an issue where Sword Specialization (Warrior) could stop giving its hit chance.

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Significantly increased the login speeds into Area 52.

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Greedy Demons now appear more frequently in High-Risk and have a good chance to drop epic loot. Catch them and take their loot!

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Implemented additional debugging and fixes for LFG Queue getting stuck.

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Implemented additional caching and performance improvements to Auctionhouse

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Added proper auctionhouse sorting for rarity, buyout, name, level and more.

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Added Courier Malik to the additional instances of Stormwind and Orgrimmar

Talents & Abilities

Change

Lightning Bolt base damage has been reduced by 5% at level 60. [Pending restart]

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Explosive Shot base damage has been reduced by 5% at level 60. [Pending Restart]

Change

Fixed an issue where the mana regen from Improved Leader of the Pack did not trigger correctly. [Pending restart]

Website

New

The Official Ascension Linux Launcher is now available! https://ascension.gg/download/unix Visit our forums to ask questions and receive support regarding this build of the launcher.

Item Changes

Change

Pending Restart: Punctured Voodoo Dolls now have unique names, no longer have a item limit and can now be sold to vendors for 1 copper. Requires Cache clear to display changes.

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[Alar] Massively reduced the craft time on all new Flask Recipes requiring High-Risk materials.

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Fixed an issue where the proc and damage shield from Flame Wrath had too high spell power scaling.

Dungeons & Raids

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Corrected Mystic Orb, Mystic Rune, Mark of Ascension drops for 108 classic dungeon bosses.

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Added High Risk Recipe loot tables to 27 bosses that missed them on normal dungeon mode and 75 from heroic mode.

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[Stratholme] Pending Restart: Malor the Zealous will have a guaranteed drop in Stratholme on all difficulties.

Mystic Enchants

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Controlled Explosion now increases Explosive Shot main target damage by 10% and reduces its AOE damage by 15%. [Pending restart]

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Forked Lightning now also increases the cooldown of your Chain Lightning by 2 seconds. [Pending restart]

2021/08/22

General

Change

Fixed the weapon damage of Slavedriver''s cane on heroic.

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Fixed an issue where some visuals on Hakkar would stop appearing. (requires patch update)

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Fixed an issue where Avatar of Lightning was not allowing you to cast while moving. This requires a patch update from the launcher.

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Reduced the spawn timer of Setis. (He is still on a random spawn timer)

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Fixed an issue where Lamellar honor pieces for the horde were unable to be enchanted. (Requires patch update)

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[Al'ar] The 2v2 Daily now rewards 1500 Marks of Ascension [Pending Restart]

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[Al'ar] The 2v2 Daily will now be every day on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The 1v1 daily will now spawn on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

Change

Increased the experience gain from completing a Battleground

Dungeons & Raids

Change

[Blackrock Depths] Corrected an issue where Ironhand Guardian, Static Golems in the Magmus encounter, would deal damage in the entire room with their Gout of Flame ability. Gout of Flame is now correctly a Cone ability. Reduces the duration of Magmus War Stomp from 8 seconds to 3.

2021/08/21

General

Change

Fixed deterrence skillcard to be usable [Requires restart]

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Fixed deterrence Golden skillcard to be usable [Requires restart]

Change

Fixed mass dispel skillcard to be usable [Requires restart]