Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2020/11/13

Website

New

[Launcher] Dashboard and Shop layout has been reworked.

System Changes

Change

Increased Mystic Rune reward from Resolute challenge to 200 from 100.

Change

Increased Mystic Rune reward from Nightmare Mode challenge to 200 from 100.

Change

Increased Mystic Rune reward from Ironman challenge to 200 from 100.

Change

Increased Mystic Rune reward from Survivalist challenge to 200 from 100.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Pending Restart, Bloodforged items in the off-hand slot will now correctly apply the Bloodstained debuff when in raids.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Fixed an issue where the Inescapable Roots debuff could be applied to targets immune to Entangling Roots.

2020/11/12

Talents & Abilities

Change

All instant cast healing spells now heal for 5% less in 2v2 and 3v3 arena.

Change

Tree of Life base mana has been increased to 18%, from 13%. [Pending server restart]

Item Changes

Change

Pending Restart, the heroic version of Shadowvine Cloak of Infusion will now grant Spell Power.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Pending Restart, Netherspite will be able to have his attack speed slowed.

Change

Pending restart, reduced Terestian Illhoof's health by 10% in Heroic.

Change

Pending restart, destroying Prince Malchezaar's Shadow Crystals only takes 1 second from 2.

Change

Fixed an issue where the Wine object in Karazhan appeared as a cube. (Requires new patch-W.mpq)

2020/11/11

Talents & Abilities

Change

Shaman - Lava Lash now deals 15% reduced damage against players, from 10%.

Change

Multi-Shot (Focused Burst) now deals 50% reduced damage against players, from 40%.

Change

Mortal Strike now deals 15% reduced damage against players, from 10%.

Change

Magma Totem now deals 10% reduced damage against players.

Change

Immolation Aura now deals 15% reduced damage against players, from 10%.

Change

Execute now deals 5% reduced damage against players.

Change

Divine Storm (One with the Light) now deals 15% reduced damage against players, from 10%.

Change

Crusader Strike (One with the Light) now deals 15% reduced damage against players, from 10%.

Change

Mind Flay no longer deals reduced damage against players. It previously was reduced by 5%.

Change

Shield Slam now deals 20% reduced damage against players, from 25%.

Change

Rake now deals 20% reduced damage against players, from 25%.

Change

Immolation Trap now deals 20% reduced damage against players, from 25%.

Change

Serpent Sting now deals 10% reduced damage against players, from 15%.

Change

Ice Lance now deals 10% reduced damage against players, from 15%.

Change

Deadly Bite now deals 40% reduced damage against players, from 50%.

Change

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

Change

All magic damage over time spells now deal 5% increased damage in 2v2 and 3v3 arena.

Change

All damage spells with a cast time now deal 5% increased damage in 2v2 and 3v3 arena.

Change

Fixed a bug where Seal of Vengeance wouldn't proc from all Paladin melee abilities. [Pending server restart]

Change

[Area 52] Fixed an issue where you couldn't pick rank 3 of Shamanistic Focus.

Item Changes

Change

Corrected the spells for the heroic librams, books, off-hands and proc effects that were missing from karazhan.

Change

Fixed an issue where Malorne Harness 2 set bonus wouldn't trigger from melee abilities.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Fixed an issue where the debuffs from Overheating wouldn't be separate for each caster.

2020/11/10

Talents & Abilities

Change

Fixed a bug where Lock and Load would sometimes not allow to cast Explosive Shot / Arcane Shot even if it was off cooldown.

Change

Iron Will damage reduction will now also work when using Mocking Blow while having a Staff equipped.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Pending restart, The Stench of Failure will no longer be able to place itself in the air or under the stage on Heroic.

Change

Pending restart, Adumbral Pool will no longer be able to place itself in their air on Heroic.

Change

Pending restart, fixed a safe spot on the Shade of Aran encounter where you would only take a single hit instead of two.

Change

Pending restart, Prince Malchezaar now has an additional Infernal spawn point by his door.

Change

Pending restart, Prince Malchezaar's axes will no longer be able to daze their victim.

Change

Pending restart, Tito will no longer be able to daze his victim.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Fixed an issue where Void Eruptionw wasn't triggering properly and had the wrong duration. (Requires restart.)

2020/11/09

General

Change

Auctioneers and Bank NPCs will no longer be attackable or hostile [Requires Restart].

Change

Added Chromie to add Capital Cities for Temporal Contracts and Timewalking teleports.

New

All Auctioneers & Bankers are now unattackable

Talents & Abilities

Change

Corrected an issue where Wild Growth would only heal 4 targets, it will now correctly heal 5.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Pending restart, The Maiden of Virtue will be subject to diminishing returns.

Change

Pending restart, Prince Malchezaar will be subject to diminishing returns.

Change

Pending restart, Shade of Aran's Ultimate Arcane Explosion will only be able to affect players.

Quests

Change

Hero's Call Weekly Quests will now grant 500 Marks of Ascension. Up from 100. (To see this change you will need to actively clear your cache folder)

2020/11/08

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Pending restart, corrected an issue where The Big Bad Wolf would stop chasing Red Riding Hood after the tank exceeded 1 million threat.

Change

Pending restart, in Heroic, The Curator will now repeat his Termination effect every 15 seconds throughout the entire fight.

Change

Pending restart, The Maiden of Virtue will now remove all pending Repentance debuffs when she begins her Desperate Prayer warning cast.

Change

Pending restart, corrected an issue where Nightbane could receive assistance from The Curator if he was still alive.

Change

Pending restart, corrected an issue where Romulo could cleave behind him.

2020/11/07

General

New

Added flying to the Lucid Nightmare mount.

Talents & Abilities

Change

Fixed an issue where Test of Faith would stay active after casting an instant heal with Surge of Light.

Change

Firestarter now has a capstone effect that reduces the cooldown of Blastwave by 15 seconds.

Change

Blast Wave now has a 45 second cooldown up from 30 seconds.

Change

Balance of Power now increases the duration of the Typhoon Daze by 1/2 seconds.

Change

Wrath of Cenarius now also reduces the cooldown of Typhoon by 5/10/15 seconds.

Change

Typhoon no longer shares a cooldown with Blast Wave.

Change

Typhoon's daze effect now lasts for 3 seconds down from 6 seconds.

Change

Typhoon's daze icon has been changed to be recognized as a dispel effect.

Change

Typhoon's daze effect is now dispellable via magic dispel.

Change

Typhoon now has a 40 second cooldown up from 20 seconds.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Karazhan's Sealed Tomes will now respawn every 24 hours.

Change

Karazhan's Sealed Tomes now spawn as a part of a pool.

Change

Added missing spawn positions for Karazhan's Sealed Tomes.

Change

Moved some of the data for Moroes' Danse Macabre mechanic away from core and into spell data. This will allow for some facets of their spawning behavior to be reloaded and hotfixed.

Change

The Crone's Cyclones will now select new destinations every 10 seconds.

Change

The Crone's Cyclones will now select destinations in a 10-15 yard donut surrounding The Crone.

Change

The Crone's Cyclones now speed up and slow down dynamically based on their distance to their destination.

Change

The Crone's Cyclones will now move more smoothly.

Change

The Shade of Aran must now use all of his ultimate abilities before being able to repeat them.

Change

Prince Malchezaar will now prefer not to send players into the Shadow Realm twice in a row.

Change

Corrected an issue where Nightbane could be lured away from his balcony.

Change

Greatly Improved the implementation of Moroes' Danse Macabre mechanic to open up new patterns and dynamics for heroics.

Change

Improved visibility of Attumen's Spectral Steeds.

Change

The Maiden of Virtue will now always take 4 seconds to cast her Desperate Prayer warning, up from 2-4 seconds based on player count.

Change

Improved consistency of The Curator's Termination effect.

Change

Improved The Curator's Arcane Infusion compatibility with client-side addons.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Fixed a bug where Faerie Fire (Feral) proc charge from Nature's Fervor now lasts 8 seconds, from 6 seconds.

Change

Sawed off Barrel's Knockback effect can now only trigger once and not multiple times from focused burst.

Change

Cloudburst no longer increases the knockback of thunderstorm.

2020/11/06

Talents & Abilities

Change

[Wildhammer] Fixed an issue where Seed of Corruption was not usable.

Change

Fixed an issue where the damage increase of Lone Wolf and Improved Steady Shot wouldn't stack.

Change

Corrected an issue where the change to all taunts now using melee hit chance made them parry and dodgeable.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Pending restart, Gruul's Cave-In raining barrage of rocks will now only spawn above Players.

Change

Pending restart, Gruul's Hateful Strike will now only target the second highest Player on threat.

Change

Pending restart, Gruul's Boulders will now only target Player's and no longer target Pets and Totems.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Fixed an issue causing Master of Shadows buff to not trigger when using a finisher at 3 stacks. (Change active on next server restart.)

2020/11/05

System Changes

Change

[Seasonal] Overpower has been updated on the Character Advancement to indicate that it is only rollable at level 10.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Fixed an issue where Centered could proc off non-healing spells.

Change

Increased the PvP mod on Focused Burst by 20%.

Change

Fixed a crash that could happen when trying to cast Multi Shot with Focused Burst while Mind Controlled by an NPC.