Ascension Changelog

Pending Restart: Titan Scroll (World Buff) visual can now be turned off with .chatsetting command.

Implemented performance improvements!

[Requires Restart] Changed Titan Scroll Visual to something less flashbang

Fixed an issue where experience would end up mismatch between party members.

Fixed an issue where some players were not receiving their riding tome on Prestige.

Prestige Players on area-52 will no longer get a short temporary character-lock. [Pending Restart]

You can no longer delete Hand of Fates.

Added Uncommon loot templates to all leveling dungeons to smooth out the leveling experience and ensure players can gear up fully by doing dungeons while leveling.

Prestiging will now remove your pets to prevent an issue where people could keep high level pets. We'll improve this in the future to delevel pets you have properly.

Increased the chance to draft rare abilities.

Increased Rare Skill Card drop chance.

Prestige is now available on Area 52.

[Alar] [PENDING RESTART] Added many attunement quests and quest chains such as General Drakisath''s Demise to an exception list when prestiging, these quests & quest chain progress will not reset when prestiging.

You can now roll Tame Beast again at level 1

Fixed an issue where certain Bloodforged items such as Enumerated Bracers or items from your random satchel from dungeon or battlegrounds could roll without any stats. This fix will only apply to newly obtained items post restart.

[Serpentshrine Cavern] Pending Restarts: Underbog Colossus Fatal Infection ability now applies stacks every 3 seconds up from 1 second. Damage is still applied per second.

Pending Restarts: Reduced the duration of a number of "Banish" type spells used by various creatures.

[Blackrock Spire] [Pyroguard Emberseer] When the encounter starts, all player are now summoned inside Pyroguard Emberseers room.

[Blackrock Spire] [Pyroguard Emberseer] Pyroguard Emberseer will now join combat earlier when all Incarcerators are defeated.

[Blackrock Spire] [Pyroguard Emberseer] Pyroguard Emberseer now requires a single player to use his altar in order to start the encounter. Previously required every player in the instance to use and channel the altar.

Doubled the Experience gain from completing a Battleground!

Temporarily removed effects from Preparation in BGs while we address some bugs with it!

RAF Level granting is now disabled in Battlegrounds.

1v1 Honorable Combat Zones should now rotate properly at max level.

Players queued for LFG will no longer incur EXP degradation for being carried by higher level players. This was causing weird EXP issues in BRD where the level range is huge.

Fixed an issue where players could queue for a battleground and outlevel the bracket and still get into the battleground. They will now be removed from the queue when exceeding the bracket.

[Alar] Patch Pending: Fixed a visual issue where the crafting spell for Gnomish Masterkeys read as Desecrated Orbs. (Live next spell patch)

Prestige Leaderboard is now available! https://ascension.gg/leaderboard/prestige/alar

Fixed issue that caused all Talents to cost Ability Essence on the website builder.

[Alar] (Pending Restart) All High-Risk Materials and Craftables now have unique names for each rarity.

[Alar] Players can now find Hot Spices on Cooking Suppliers.

[Alar] Pending Restarts: Fixed an issue where Beast Nest and Hidden Cache loot pouches would give an incorrect version of HR Mining items.

[Alar] Pending Restarts: Fixed an issue where Beast Nest and Hidden Cache loot pouches would give an incorrect version of Fused Silithid Carapace.

[Blackrock Spire] Pending Restarts: Gyths items will now drop from Warchief Rend Blackhand. Gyth no longer awards any loot.

[Blackrock Spire] Corrected an issue where trash creatures would not drop any loot other then gold.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Shooting Stars and Arcane Motes were counted as legendary Mystic Enchants, when they should be epic.

Fixed an issue where Fear (Shaken) and Fear (Mass Hysteria) had the incorrect range and cast time. [Pending restart]

[Alar] (Pending Restart) Ill Gotten Gains and Arms Dealer quests renamed to indicate the rarity item required.

[Alar] Ill Gotten Goods: Mining Items will now accept the proper items.

[Alar] Ill Gotten Goods: Fused Silithid Carapace now accepts the proper item.

Extra rage and energy bars will now be enabled by default.

Fixed an issue where taking damage from damage over time effects while out of combat would cancel drinking and eating. [Pending restart]

[Alar] Removed Felforged Tome from Vanity collection as people were unlocking it by proxy and were unable to use it.

Fixed an issue where Feathered Arrows would have no level requirement, yet add up to 9 DPS to your ranged weapon, the equivalent of a level 40 arrow. These arrows now require you to be level 35 to equip them.

[Alar] Pending Restarts: City Guards are now immune to Mind-control and similar effects.

[Alar] Pending Restarts: Faction Leader no longer follow the parry hasten rules.

[Alar] Pending Restarts: Corrected an issue where High Tinker Mekkatorgue had false expansion stats.

[Alar] Pending Restarts: All faction leader and city guards now ignore stealth, invisibility and feign death.

[Alar] Pending Restarts: Corrected multiple issues where city guards had no visible ranged weapons.

[Alar] Pending Restarts: Corrected multiple issues where city guards spawned with false expansion stats.

[Alar] Pending Restarts: Reduced the health and melee damage of city guards.

[Alar] Pending Restarts: Reduced the health and melee damage of faction leaders.

[Requires Restart] Prestiged players can now use the auctionhouse even if under level 10.

[Requires Restart] RAF and Aura of Experience will work in Battlegrounds again.

[Requires Restart] Players should now be able to draft abilities during a Battleground.

[Requires Restart] Players will no longer gain experience in battleground when they are the max level for that battleground bracket, to prevent griefing.

[Requires Restart] fixed an issue where level 1s could not properly reroll enchants.

Aura of Experience and RAF do not benefit players in Battlegrounds anymore.

You can no longer use Aura of Experience at max level to avoid using it when you did not mean to!

Battlegrounds now reward EXP on end to encourage actually doing the objectvies in the Battleground.

Fixed an issue where the Whirlwind main hand attack damage was dealing too low damage. [Pending restart]

Fixed an issue where Frozen Power wasn't properly making Frost Shock freeze enemies further than 15 yards away. [Pending restart]

[Alar] Pending Restarts: Added missing description text indicating where High Risk Meat can be found.

Pending Restarts: Eye of the Best , Quest Reward from "For the Horde!" and "For the Alliance!" now has 20 Hit Rating. Previously had 28 Critical Strike Rating.

[Blackrock Spire] Pending Restarts: Upper Blackrock Spire and Lower Blackrock Spire are now balanced separately from each other. Lower Blackrock Spire is considered a 5 player dungeon. Upper Blackrock Spire is considered a 15 player dungeon.

[Scholomance] [Kirtonos the Herald] Pending Restarts: Corrected an issue where Kirtonos the Herald would drop no loot and immediately despawn upon death.

The health of the Whispers of the Old Gods tentacle has been significantly decreased. [Pending restart]

The damage from the Whispers of the Old Gods tentacle now deals 30% reduced damage against players, from 20%.

Fixed an issue where Biting Cold would not correctly reduce the cooldown of Deep Freeze. [Pending restart]

[Alar] Added [High-Risk] tag to Bloody Business: Quests to indicate HR is required.

[Alar] Added [High-Risk] tag to Alliance Expedition: Quests to indicate HR is required.

[Alar] Added [High-Risk] tag to Horde Expedition: Quests to indicate HR is required.

Fixed an issue where players would get dungeon deserter if another player did not accept the LFG queue.

[Alar] Fixed an issue where the Warsong Outriders vendor was hostile to horde.

[Alar] Nerfed Resilient Constitution from 50% to 35% damage reduction at max level to match current pvp damage.

Re-enabled the Wonderous Wisdomball.

Added a gossip to the Ethereal Courier so you can retrieve your collection items sent from Area 52 without a server restart.

Implemented major performance improvements to scale with the growing population on Alar

Fixed an issues with RE stacking causing your Legendary enchants to not apply.

Added Level scaling to Resilient Constitution, so it doesn't reduce damage in low level pvp too much.

Fixed an issue where skill card exchanger was removing skillcards from your bank

Fixed an issue where items from dungeon satchels would not have stats.

Added Path to Ascension quests to various NPCs in start zones to ensure players can pick up the quest.

Renamed Scroll of Unlearning to Scroll of Talent Unlearning on Alar to make it clear it is only for talents.

[Al'ar] Earth Shock now deals 30% reduced damage against players, from 25%.

[High-Risk] Quadrupled how quickly Beast Nest and Hidden Caches will respawn after being looted to account for the amount of players looking for them! (Live Next Restart)

Pending Restarts: Previously Uncommon Quality items from Dire Maul bosses are now Rare Quality items. Requires Cache clear to visually see changes.

Temporarily disabled Wondrous Wonderball due to potential exploits.

[Blackrock Depths] The Ring of Law bosses now rotate per week.

[Stratholme] Corrected an issue where Grand Crusader Dathrohan would reset player damage requirement when transforming into Balnazzar, causing player to not get kill credit or loot from the encounter.

[Stratholme] Pending Restarts: Malor the Zealous now has a 5 seconds cast time on his Lay on Hands ability. Previously was an instant ability. Lay on Hands can be interrupted.

Corrected an issue where Stratholme creatures dealt more damage and had more health then intended.

Corrected an issue where the gates to Baron Rivendare in Stratholme would not open under certain circumstances.

Corrected an issue where the gates to Ramstein the Gorger in Stratholme would not open under certain circumstances.

[Stratholme] Pending Restarts: Baroness Anastaris Posses no longer increases the targets health.

[Stratholme] Pending Restarts: Baroness Anastaris Posses now reduces the targets damage done by 50% rather then increasing its damage dealt by 200%.

[Stratholme] Pending Restarts: Baroness Anastaris Posses now lasts for a maximum of 10 seconds down from 2 minutes.

[All Realms] Pending Restarts: Classic normal dungeon creatures are no longer able to critical strike.

The damage and threat increase of the Thunderstruck talent now also affects Crackling Thunder. [Pending restart]

Reduced Crackling Thunder base damage for low levels and introduced level scaling. (Damage unchanged for max level.) [Pending restart]