Ascension Changelog

Fixed mass dispel Golden skillcard to be usable [Requires restart]

Fixed Shattering Throw Golden skillcard to be usable [Requires restart]

Fixed Shattering Throw skillcard to be usable [Requires restart]

Fixed an issue where Shadowcraft Bracers was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Belt of Valor was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Shadowcraft Belt was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Wildheart Belt was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Beaststalker's Belt was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Dreadmist Bracers was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Cord of Elements was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Magister's Belt was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Devout Belt was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Magister's Bindings was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Bracers of Valor was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Wildheart Gloves was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Beaststalker's Bindings was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Updated AH to improve server wide performance and speed up some searches.

Updated Movement handling in capital cities to improve performance.

Fixed various issues that would cause the LFG queue get STUCK.

Reduced spawn time of mobs in ZulMashar by 25%. They will also be effected by dynamic respawn.

Fixed Balnazzar Loot Tables on Heroic & Normal!

Fixed an issue where the Scrolls of Greater Experience & Scroll of Experience were not functioning on area-52.

[Blackrock Spire]Pending Restarts: Reworked the loot of all bosses in both Lower and Upper Blackrock Spire on all difficulties. Bosses now have proper loot table, rare spawns will no longer drop their entire loot table on kill, all bosses will now award correct currency, corrected a number of missing items from heroic difficulty, removed a number of unused items from bosses loot tables such as old ability tomes, all bosses inside Upper Blackrock Spire now drop 2 items up from 1.

Correctly Statted Heroic Held in Off-Hand items. Their stats will be available after you clear your cache.

Corrected the tooltip of the personal bank to no longer say that you can not store soulbound items as this is untrue now.

Fixed an issue where 25 mobs inside of instances were still not dropping the correct heroic loot. (There are still more to fix, we are working through this to get this fixed asap)

Overlord Wyrmthalak will now correctly drop the same amount of items that other end bosses in Heroic Dungeons drop.

Alazzin the Shapeshifter in Dire Maul East will now correctly drop the same amount of items that other end bosses in Heroic Dungeons drop.

Vastly improved the stats on 40 different items within the heroic dungeons.

Bloodclot Band from Heroic Dungeon now has updated stats.

Second Wind on Heroic now has a 2 minute cooldown, down from 15 minutes on it's mana regeneration proc.

Applied a smart-scalar to the heroic dungeon items for their armor. Armor from heroic dungeons should now compare to other armor from their same item level tier.

Doubled the Dynamic Respawn rate for creatures in world.

The Holy Power Capstone now reduces the damage penalty of Divine Shield from 50% to 35% (previously 25%). This change will be active after a realm restart.

[Dire Maul] [Pimgib] Pimgib, the Imp of Lethtendris no longer awards any loot. His loot is now part of Lethtendris loot.

[Dire Maul] [Stomper Kreeg] Stomper Kreeg now uses the shared loot table from the Guard bosses. He can still drop his Mug.

[Dire Maul] Pending Restarts: Reworked the loot of all bosses in all parts of Dire Maul on all difficulties. Bosses now have proper loot table, Rare spawns will no longer drop their entire loot table on kill, all bosses will now award correct currency, corrected a number of missing items from heroic difficulty, removed a number of unused items from bosses loot tables such as old ability tomes, all bosses can now drop dire maul books.

Fixed an issue where the Lunar Spirits Moonfire damage reduction wasn't working correctly. [Pending restart]

[Alar] (Pending Restart) Exquisite Crafts: Quests will now award 2500 Marks from 1000.

Wrapping Things Up: Anti-Venom now requires 15 antivenom down from 30.

Added Skillcard Exchange to Booty Bay Added 1v1 Queue to Booty Bay

Added Skillcard Exchange to Booty Bay

Added all relevant Arena NPCs to Ironforge.

Added all relevant Arena NPCs to Undercity.

[Pending Restart] Alliance & Horde Vendors will now offer honor gear for both the paladin and shaman.

[Quality of Life] Any Vendor that would sell items that belong to an item set will now organize the items by their set bonuses.

The Sunder Armor applied by many non-boss NPCs inside of Blackrock Depths now stacks only 5 times (reducing armor by 10%) from 10 times and duration has been reduced to 30 seconds (from 60 seconds).

[Alar] The Uncommon Flask of the Warsong was incorrectly granting Agility. It will now grant strength similar to the rare and epic version. (All flask changes pending restart)

[Alar] Flask of Adept Striking will now properly grant Ranged Attack Power.

[Alar] Flask of Shattering Thunder will now properly grant Healing Power.

[Alar] Flask of the Executioner will now properly grant Ranged Attack Power.

[Alar] Flask of Savage Assault will now properly grant Ranged Attack Power.

[Alar] Flask of Unrelenting Power will now properly grant Healing Power.

[Alar] Flask of the Kirin Tor Power will now properly grant Healing Power.

[Alar] Flask of Manifesting Power will now properly grant Healing Power.

[Alar] Vulcan Wontons will now properly grant Healing Power.

[Alar] Jurassic Soup will now properly grant Healing Power as well.

[Alar] Vulture a la King will now properly grant Healing Power as well.

[ZulGurub] [Hakkar] Pending Restart: Hakkar now drops 1 - 3 additional items from his Epic Item loot table to be on par with other bosses item rewards.

[Blackrock Depths] [The Seven] Pending Restarts: Reduced the health combined health of The Seven to be more in line with other bosses health.

To compensate, we have doubled the amount of possible spawn locations for the Crow's Cache in Eastern Kingdom and Kalimdor which includes enticing locations for group world pvp.

Removed Certain & Unfun Crow's Cache locations such as: The Drowned Reef, Arathi Highlands where the Crow's Cache would spawn underwater or The Twin Colossals, Feralas where you could instantly be knocked off the ledge right after your game was finished loading.

Added Portal to Undercity in Orgimmar to give players a quick option to get out of Orgrimmar when it has so many players.

Added Portal to Ironforge in Stormwind to give players a quick option to get out of stormwind when it has so many players.

Added Skill card Exchange to Undercity.

Added Chromie to Undercity.

Added Chromie to Ironforge.

Added Skill card exchange to Ironforge.

Patch an issue with caching that caused lag spikes during prime time yesterday.

Added Booty Bay to Experimental Teleporter.

Added Undercity to Experimental Teleporter.

Add Ironforge to Experimental Teleporter.

Increased visibility distance in start zones.

Fixed an issue where Rank 1 of Tranquility could bug out and heal for more than intended.

[Alar] Twisted Demonic Rune will no longer be soulbound. (Pending Restart)

[ZulGurub [Hakkar] Player send into the Realm of the Blood God on Ascended difficulty now have their total threat against Hakkar reduced by 90% upon entering the realm.

[ZulGurub [Hakkar] Hakkar will now recognise a player as a healer and prioritise other targets over them with some of his abilities.

[ZulGurub [Hakkar] Corrected an issue where Hakkar could fail to repeat some of his events if he was unable to find a valid target for his abilities on ascended difficulty.

Drastically reduced spawn time of creatures in start zones.

[Requires Restart] Personal Bank can now store soulbound items!

[Alar] New Alchemy Flasks requiring High-Risk ingredients will now properly drop in Dungeons and Raids.

[Alar] Fixed an issue causing Hipfire, Precision and Reflex Scopes to not apply to Guns, Bows or Crossbows. (Pending Restart)

Fixed Questmarkers for Start Zones in the new instanced maps.

Reworked some portions of Auctionhouse to improve performance.

Increased Rare Skill card drop chance.

Fixed a bug causing delays when looting.

Reduced Visibility distance and increased notify timers in capital cities to improve performance and increase FPS.

[Alar High-Risk] Beast Nest Creatures will now correctly have a 100% drop rate on ZG gear.

Corrected an issue where Item Limit Categories got restored for a number of weapons that previously had them removed. If you lost your weapon, it should appear in your mail. You may have to clear cache to be able to equip this weapons again.

[Serpentshrine Cavern] [Lady Vashj] Pending Restarts: Corrected an issue where Coilfang Siren (Ascended) could potentially spawn in unreachable areas.

[Serpentshrine Cavern] [Lady Vashj] Pending Restarts: Reduced the flying altitude of Toxic Sporebats by 10%.

[Serpentshrine Cavern] [Lady Vashj] Pending Restarts: Doubled the initial cool-down for Toxic Sporebats to cast Toxic Spores.

[Serpentshrine Cavern] [Lady Vashj] Pending Restarts: Player under the effect of Song of Lethargy (Ascended) now take 99% less Nature damage.

Fixed an issue where bloodforged affixes were not showing up properly.

Removed an ability called "Thrash" from 150 world creatures. Thrash would grant creatures a chance to hit its target 3 times per hit.

[Alar] Reduced cooldown on Mark of War.

[ZulGurub] [High Priestess Jeklik] Reduced the duration of Screech.

[ZulGurub] [High Priestess Jeklik] Pending Restart: Increased the cast time of Bat Riders Unstable Concoction to 5 seconds up from 4.

[ZulGurub] [Hakkar] Corrected an issue where Hakkar would not all of his abilities on Heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Avatar of Lightning wasn't functioning properly. (Requires patch update.)