Ascension Changelog

Pending restart, the Ethereal Bazaar will have 8 more slots each cycle.

Added Gossip Text when you click on the Transmogrifier explaining the system briefly.

Added a Transmogrifier NPC next to the Ethereal Bazaar in all Capital Cities.

Corrected an issue where Hack and Slash would not trigger with a single one-handed weapon (Swashbuckler).

Corrected an issue where Hack and Slash Main Hand's attack would sometimes fail to proc.

Corrected an issue where Sword Specialization would not trigger with a single one-handed weapon (Swashbuckler).

Corrected an issue where Sword Specialization would sometimes fail to proc.

Magtheridon has his health reduced by 20% on Flex Difficulty.

Corrected an issue where specific abilities would reset the stacking damage of Wrath of the Pit Lord.

Magtheridon's Blast Nova no longer causes spell pushback.

Magtheridon's Collapse Ceiling no longer ignores armor. Collapse Ceiling damage has been increased by 100%.

Magtheridon's Cleave can now be blocked.

Conflagration has its damage reduced by 66% and now stacks up to 3 times. While standinding in the effects radius a stack is applied every second.

Magtheridon's Conflagration no longer effects pets.

Burning Abyssal's will now deal Physical damage with their attacks instead of Fire damage.

Fire Blast casted by Burning Abyssal's will now ignore any effect increasing or reducing its damage dealt. The damage of Fire Blast has been reduced by 25%.

Summon Burning Abyssal will now ignore any effect increasing or reducing its damage dealt. The damage of Summon Abyssal has been reduced by 25%.

Hellfire Channeler now have a 45 yard maximum range on their Fear and Dark Mending ability. Previously had no limit.

Hellfire Channelers Fear ability now lasts for 3 seconds, down from 6.

Increased the casting time of all Hellfire Channelers abilities to 3 from 2 seconds on Flex Difficulty.

Hellfire Channelers are now vulnerable to cast time increasing effects.

Hellfire Warder now have 45% less health.

Hellfire Warder and Hellfire Channeler will no longer target pets with their Shadowbolt Volley.

Hellfire Warder will no longer target pets with their Shadow Word: Pain.

Pending restart, all Timewalking raid bosses now drop two Badges of Justice.

Pending restart, re-enabled the Fear (Mass Hysteria) Mystic Enchantment.

Pending restart, corrected an issue where Fear (Mass Hysteria) was not properly consumed on damage taken.

Pending restart, corrected an issue where Fear (Shaken) was not properly consumed on damage taken.

Fixed an issue where some procs that require a certain amount of stacks of a buff had lost their requirement.

[Tenacious Companion]: Temporarily disabled while a bug is resolved.

[Launcher] Added NVIDIA video driver detection to automatically disable "Hardware Cursor" on the first run for the 460.89 driver version which is known to have issues with this option.

Reduces antiblock spots in capital cities for placeable gameobject to 6 yards from 30.

Fixed an issue where the temporal contracts would not work for the Call to Arms: Proving Grounds quests.

Fixed an issue where the temporal contracts would not work for the Call to Arms: Battleground quests.

Warbringer O'mrogg inside the Shattered Halls dungeon should no longer damage pets with his Blast Nova and Thunderclap abilities.

Adumbral Pool's casted by The Warden during the Prince Malchezaar encounter will no longer effect pets.

Corrected a rare case where Prince Malchezaar's Enfeeble could miss its target.

Reduced the health of Netherspite by 10% on heroic difficulty.

Shade of Aran's Volatile Polymorph Explosion has its radius reduced to 5 yard down from 8.

Shade of Aran's Fireball and Chain Fireball has its damage reduced by 7% on heroic difficulty.

Shade of Aran's Mass Polymorph now restores 20% of effected players health per second, up from 10%.

Reduced the health of Shade of Aran by 10% on heroic difficulty.

Kil'reks Amplify Flame now increases Fire damage taken by 5%, down from 10%.

Terestian Illhoofs Shadow Bolt is now effected by cast time increasing effects.

Reduced the damage dealt by Nightbane's Final Hour when the effect is dispelled by 10% on heroic difficulty.

Nightbane's Restless Skeletons are no longer immune to bleed effects.

Reduced the health of Nightbane by 10% on heroic difficulty.

Corrected an issue where the Maiden of Virtue would cast Desperate Prayer without a visible cast on heroic difficulty.

The Maiden of Virtue's Holy Ground direct damage has been reduced by 50% and will now apply a damage over time effect to effected targets, dealing additional damage every second over 8 seconds stacking up to 6 times. This damage can break Repentance. The total damage with 6 stacks remains unchanged.

The Maiden of Virtue's Holy Ground has its radius increased to 10 from 8 yards.

The Maiden of Virtue will no longer damage pets with her Holy Ground.

Fixed an issue where Burning Determination wouldn't trigger as intended. [Pending server restart]

Temporarily disabled Mass Hysteria pending a bug fix.

Fixed an issue where Rush of Blood wouldn't reduce the energy cost of Ambush. [Pending server restart]

[Area 52] Added BG Queue Announcer. It will show you how many people are needed for the match to start and announce to the world when the match begins.

[Launcher] You can now enable or disable Hardware Cursor in settings.

Fixed an exploit that allowed some players to remove negative effects such as the Titan's Grip damage penalty.

Fixed an issue where the Shadow Crash damage from the Pure Shadow enchantment wasn't properly being spread between the enemies hit. [Pending server restart]

Corrected an issue where the heroic 2H-Tank version of warbringer was not purchaseable by some.

For the remainder of the year, all epic and legendary enchants will be exchangeable! This means that you can bring an item with an epic enchant to an altar and reforge it to any other epic enchant in your collection for free!

Fixed Eye of Gruul to properly proc and be consumed by Riptide, and not proc on indirect healing spells that are unable to benefit from the mana reduction like Prayer of Mending and Power Word: Shield.

Corrected an issue where the effects triggered by Sealed Book's that can be found inside Karazhan would not be displayed in the players aura bar.

Prince Malchezaar's Shadow Nova will no longer effect pets.

Netherspite's Netherbreath will no longer target pets.

The Explosion caused by Shade of Aran's Volatile Polymorph will no longer damage pets on heroic difficulty.

Corrected an issue where the Explosion caused by Shade of Aran's Volatile Polymorph would scale with damage increasing effects owned by the triggering player on heroic difficulty.

Shade of Aran's Blizzard will no longer effect pets.

Corrected an issue where the Explosion caused by Shade of Aran's Flame Wreath would scale with damage increasing effects owned by the triggering player.

The Explosion caused by Shade of Aran's Flame Wreath will no longer damage pets.

Kil'reks Amplify Flames will no longer effect pets.

Corrected an issue where Terestian Illhoof's Curse of Destruction would scale with damage increasing effects owned by the triggering player on heroic difficulty.

The Curator's Astral Flare's Arcing Sear will no longer target pets.

Nightbane's Restless Skeleton's Immolation will no longer deal damage to pets.

Corrected an issue where The Stench of Failure during the Opera encounter would scale with damage increasing effects owned by the triggering player.

The Maiden of Virtue will no longer damage pets with her Desperate Prayer.

Lord Crispin Ference now has to wait 60 seconds before he can use his Shield Wall again after casting it.

Lady Berrybuck now has to wait 60 seconds before she can use her Divine Shield again after casting it.

Attumen's Fel Fireball will no longer target pets on heroic difficulty.

Melee players will now take up to 30% reduced damage from most Area of Effect spells in level 70 heroic difficulty raids.

Re-disabling two deprecated bugged legendary enchants (Primordial Devastation and Elemental Alacrity) which incorrectly became available to players.

Fixed an issue where the animation of Ice Lash wasn't visible. [Requires launcher update]

Fixed an issue where one of the effects of the Ambidextrous Legendary enchant wasn't proccing correctly.

Fixed an issue where some epic and legendary REs could not be exchanged. [Pending server restart]

Pending Restart, fixed an issue where Ice Lash wouldn't critically strike with fingers of frost.

Fixed an issue where arcane motes would get consumed by starfire or moonfire.

Fixed an issue where Flame Surge Mystic Enchant would not proc talents like Soul Leech on the AOE version of Incinerate.

Blazing Determination now lasts for 6 seconds, from 8.

The Hack and Slash Mystic Enchantment now increases the chance of your Hack and Slash talent to proc by 2%.

The Sword Specialization Mystic Enchantment now increases the chance of your Sword Specialization talent to proc by 2%.

Added an additional effect to the Epic enchant Lingering Death. It now also makes your Shadow Word: Death linger on the target, negating incoming heals for an amount equal to the damage caused by the spell. This effect lasts for 3 seconds.

Bountiful Gift now triples the attributes given by Mark of the Wild rather than quadrupling them. Its quality has been reduced from Legendary to Epic.

The Legendary enchant Arcane Motes now doesn't consume when Starfire or Moonfire is cast, but its duration has been reduced to 8 seconds. It now triggers from Arcane Barrage in addition to Arcane Missiles.

The Searing Light enchant now also increases the damage of Exorcism.

Fires of Vengeance now increases the damage of both Holy Fire and Smite on targets afflicted by your Righteous Vengeance. The damage increased to Smite used to be on a separate enchant called The Right Smite, which has been merged with this enchant and therefore will be deprecated.

Fixed an issue where Twisted Mind would not correctly apply the healing and absorb reduction to the player.

Fixed an issue with the tooltip of Hasty Mongoose Bite. It still reduces the cooldown by 0.15 seconds, as intended.

Fixed an issue causing Savage Strikes Mystic Enchant to not apply to Wing Clip.

Reduced the spell power coefficient of Arrows of Fire to 1.5%, from 2%.

A Quick Death now grants 3% melee haste per stack, down from 4%. Its quality has been reduced from Legendary to Epic.

Fixed an issue where Chilling Blows wouldn't increase the duration of Deep Freeze properly.