Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2021/03/02

General

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Added Pet experience bar in Pet UI.

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Dying in Twisting Nether (Felforged) will no longer reset your character.

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Using a Faction Change Potion will no longer cause Felforged players to be teleported to their original faction major city.

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Fixed an issue where Crows Cache would spawn on server startup in Azeroth (Area 52)

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Players can no longer see RAF friends location in friend list in High Risk.

Talents & Abilities

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Players with Intellect as their Primary Stat now properly have a 20% mana cost reduction on spells while inside Arenas.

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Fixed an issue with Fiery Payback where the cooldown would not display correctly. You now instead gain a debuff that makes you unable to cast Pyroblast for 5 seconds.

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Reduced the scaling of Power Word: Shield to 48%, down from 60%.

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Updated Borrowed Time to properly show the multiplicative scaling (as all other coefficient-increasing talents do). The new tooltip now properly shows that the amount absorbed by Power Word: Shield is increased by 8/16/24/32/40% of your healing power, up from 6/12/18/24/30%.

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Entangling Roots now lasts for a maximum of 8 sec in PvP, down from 10 sec.

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Soul Warding now reduces the cooldown of Power Word: Shield by 0.5/1 seconds, down from 2/4 seconds.

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Misdirect now has a 30 second cooldown period before it can be recast on the same target.

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The damage dealt increase from Brain Freeze to targets affected by your Fireball effect has been reduced to 3/6/9%, down from 4/8/12%.

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Earth Shock now deals 25% reduced damage against players, from 30%.

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Frost Shock now deals 30% reduced damage against players, from 35%.

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Seal of Command now deals 10% reduced damage against players, from 15%.

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Chain Lightning now deals 20% reduced damage against players, from 15%.

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Lightning Bolt now deals 5% reduced damage against players. It previously did not have a PvP modifier.

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Starfire now deals 10% reduced damage against players, from 5%.

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Wrath now deals 10% reduced damage against players, from 5%.

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Reduced the damage of Mortal Strike, Overpower and Slam with Single-Minded Fury by 5% against players.

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Fixed a bug where the coefficient of the Fire, Frost and Shadow Ward spells was too high. Their spell power scaling has been reduced from 70% to 40%.

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Power Word: Shield can now trigger Grace.

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Fixed a bug where talents that increased your Nature healing would increase the absorb effects of your Holy absorb spells and vice versa.

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Reduced the base absorb values of Mana Shield rank 6 by 15% and rank 5 by 8%.

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The mana reduction granted to healing over time from Tree of Life talent will now properly only apply while in Tree of Life form.

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Fixed an issue where the critical strike chance of Evoker was higher than intended. It will now increase critical strike chance by 2% per stack, as shown in the tooltip.

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Increased the healing gained from Bandages from First Aid by roughly 75%.

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Fixed an issue where Abolish Disease didn't remove a disease on application.

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Fixed an issue where Execute would not show in combatlog or combat text for subsequent misses after the first.

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Fixed an issue where Empowered Stormstrike would sometimes not proc correctly.

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Removed the delay on Single-Minded Fury's Slam (Off-hand).

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Improved Spirit Tap now grants spell critical strike rating instead of spell haste rating. In addition, Spirit Tap spirit bonus has been increased from 5/10% to 8/15%.

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The spell power scaling of Ice Barrier has been reduced from 70% to 40%.

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One-Handed Specialization (Warrior) has been changed from 1/2/3/4/5% parry to 2/4/6/8/10% block chance.

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Reduced the base absorb given by Mana Shield rank 6 by 15%, and rank 5 by 8%.

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Fixed an issue where Earthliving was missing weapon category requirement, making it apply to items like Skinning Knives.

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Lone Wolf now increases damage by 3/6%, down from 4/8%.

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Multi-Shot now deals 120% weapon damage, down from 130%.

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Improved the wording of Turn the Tables by clarifying that only cat and rogue combo point builders are affected.

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Fixed an issue where the damage reduction of rank 1 and rank 2 of Ardent Defender did not work.

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Fixed an issue where the ranged attack power value sometimes could show up as red in the character screen for players whose primary stat wasn't Agility.

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Reduced the rank 1 values of Molten Core to be half of rank 2. In addition, corrected the tooltip of the buff from Molten Core.

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Demonic Aegis talents no longer increase the healing gained from Fel Armor.

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Reduced the duration of Brutal Impact from 0.5/1 second to 0.25/0.5 seconds.

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Fixed an issue causing Master Poisoner to not proc properly. It should now stay active as long as you have the target poisoned. This effect does not stack with similar effects, and only the strongest debuff will remain active.

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Fixed an issue where players sometimes could cast certain spells requiring stealth while in Travel Form

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Fixed an issue where both Serendipity and Inner Focus would be consumed on the same Greater Heal, without both benefiting the cast time. Now Inner Focus will be consumed on the first Greater Heal, and Serendipity on the second Greater Heal cast. While Inner Focus is active you cannot get Serendipity stacks.

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Fixed an issue where Arcane Empowerment was in the spellbook instead of an Aura.

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Fixed an issue where some Meta gems like Mystical Skyfire Diamond would trigger from casting non-combat buffs. In addition, fixed some tooltip inconsistencies with meta gems.

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Fixed an issue where Tactical Mastery would not grant armor as intended.

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Shadow Focus now has a 33/66/100% pushback reduction for Mind Flay.

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Clarified the tooltip of Faint and Faint (Fancy Footwork) to state that the threat reduction is in an area around the caster.

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Lightning Shield damage can no longer trigger procs.

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Fixed an issue where Improved Riposte would not trigger if the target avoided the hit. The cooldown reduction of Ghostly Strike now works on using Riposte, as the tooltip suggests.

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Fixed an issue where Penance would not apply the Grace effect to the target.

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Fixed an issue where Eradication would only increase spell casting speed of Warlock abilities.

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Fixed an issue where Frost Shock would only give 1 stack of Elemental Clearcasting.

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Corrected tooltip error of Moroes' Frenzy buff.

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Corrected a tooltip error of Wrath of the Titans buff.

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Fixed an issue where you could cancel the auras from Tree of Life and Moonkin Form.

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Fixed an issue where Concussive Barrage didn't work on targets closer than 5 yards.

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Using Tame Beast on a polymorphed target will now reset the display ID of your tamed beast.

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Fixed an issue where Nature's Blessing Would grant an additional 3% healing to druid spells.

Website

New

[Website] Discord Linking has been completely reworked. You will have to re-link your account on the website again.

2021/03/01

General

Change

Removed Heroic Key Requirements from TBC Heroic, so players can queue via LFG.

2021/02/28

Dungeons & Raids

Change

[Area 52] Temporary disable Stolen Souls on Exarch Maladaar fight to resolve and issue with them.

2021/02/26

Mystic Enchants

Change

Reduced damage of Focused Burst to 60%, from 120%, and added a 1% damage scaling per level. (For example on level 30 it deals 90% weapon damage. On level 60 its damage is unchanged as it deals 120% like previously.)

2021/02/25

General

Change

Added a Bonus % Soul bonus for killing players in the new Battlefields while attempting Felchallenges. More Challenges and Higher tier challenges will give you a higher bonus.

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Removed Player kill requirement from Fel Challenges

2021/02/23

General

Change

Felforged will now receive a Damage Done and Damage Taken debuff if they are in an Honorable Combat zone while participating in the Perilous Challenge.

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[Pending Restart] Arena Spectators are now in Orgrimmar, Stormwind, and Shattrath.

2021/02/22

General

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Temporarily disabled Personal Bank to address some item bugs.

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Honorless Target buff will no longer be applied when entering a battleground.

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Ironmen and other game modes can now receive and open mail from quests.

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Unlocked lockboxes will no longer show locked in client when sending through mail.

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Pets and Totems can now assist their owner if he is an Ironmen.

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Temporarily Disabled the Felforged Training Dummies until we address a combat stuck issue with them.

Talents & Abilities

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Temporary profession weapon enchants, such as Wizard Oil and Sharpening Stones can now be used in arenas.

System Changes

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Mentor System will now check for completed raid achievements depending on server progression (Vanilla / TBC)

Item Changes

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[League 2] Zandalar Set Belts will now correctly show up under the Zul'Gurub Waist tab on Romus the Redeemer.

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[League 2] Added Thunderstrike, Anathema, Benediction, Lok'delar, Stave of the Ancient Keepers and Rhok'delar, Longbow of the Ancient Keepers to Romus the Redeemer's Molten Core Weapon tab.

Mystic Enchants

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Temporarily removed a part of the visual on Avatar of Lightning to prevent a client crash. [Requires launcher update]

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Pious Strikes will now cast Holy Nova (Holy Retribution) when both REs are active.

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Fixed an issue where many REs that reduce the remaining cooldown of abilities would cause a client desync when cooldown was fully reset by an RE not allowing client to cast spells.

2021/02/21

Item Changes

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[League 2] [Onyxia] [Items] Pending Restart: Corrected an issue where the Rallying Cry of the Dragonslayer Buff would still only grant Melee Attack Power.

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[League 2] [Onyxia] [Items] Pending Restart: The Dragon Killer item dropped by Onyxian Lair Guards during the Onyxia encounter will be of uncommon (Green) quality. This will allow the item to show in the group loot window if Need before Greed, Group Loot or Master Looter with minimum quality requirement rare (blue) is selected as loot system. The item can still be looted by anyone if Free For All is selected. Requires Cashe clear.

Quests

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Reduced Badges of Justice from Timewalking Dungeon bosses from 2 to 1.

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Temporal Contract: Timewalking is now 350g up from 300g.

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Timewalking: Molten Core will now award 50 Mystic Runes and 20 Mystic Orbs.

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Timewalking: Blackwing Lair will now award 75 Mystic Runes and 25 Mystic Orbs.

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Timewalking: Temple of Ahn'Qiraj will now award 100 Mystic Runes and 35 Mystic Orbs.

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Timewalking: Naxxramas will now award 125 Mystic Runes and 50 Mystic Orbs.

2021/02/20

General

Change

Increased [League] Increased Felforged Bonus Bloodforged Loot at 60 by 2x.

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Increased [League] Bloodforged Molten Core drop chance in the world by 3x.

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Increased [League] Bloodforged Zul'gurub drop chance in the world by 6x.

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Increased [League] Bloodforged Dungeon drop chance in the world by 2x

Dungeons & Raids

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Pending Restart the Heroic version of Onyxia's head will trigger the Rallying Cry of the Dragonslayer.

Change

With the Release of Onyxia, Ragnaros will now drop an extra item on HC 10.

2021/02/19

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Your first random LFG Heroic dungeon completion of the day will reward you with 250 Marks of Ascension. All completions after that will reward you with 150 Marks of Ascension.