Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2020/10/05

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Pending restart, Shade of Aran's Drinking phase can no longer be interrupted, preventing players from being trapped in Polymorph Purgatory.

Quests

Change

Added Mystic Orbs and Marks of Ascension to all Callboard Breadcrumbs.

Change

Increased Marks of Ascension from Adventurers Needed to 150 from 100

Change

Increased Marks of Ascension from Heroes Needed to 300 from 200

Change

Pending restart, all Heroes Needed Callboard quests will have a heroic tag, and will require heroic kills.

2020/10/04

General

Change

Fixed the behavior of Knock Back spells related to their movement.

Change

Improved the smoothness of movement under certain conditions.

World

Change

Corrected an issue where Reclaiming Auchindoun's Blessing of The Spirits would not be updated unless you logged in or changed maps.

Change

Corrected an issue where, if the Reclaiming Auchindoun event expired, no winner was announced.

Change

Added warnings for the Reclaiming Auchindoun event ending.

Change

Corrected an issue where the Reclaiming Auchindoun score would occasionally be reset.

Change

Killing Cabal in the center of Auchindoun during the Reclaiming Auchindoun event now grants your team a point per kill.

Change

Pending restart, Reclaiming Auchindoun's Spirit Crystals will be of a Rare quality.

Change

Pending restart, corrected an issue where the Spirit Obelisk in the Reclaiming Auchindoun event had too high of a tolerance for determining whether or not a summon needed to be despawned after being summoned at a invalid position.

Item Changes

Change

Corrected an issue where Shadow Cleave (Metamorphosis) and Black Arrow were unable to trigger the Frozen Shadoweave set bonus.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Corrected an issue where Flame Surge's radius was randomly larger/smaller than intended.

Quests

Change

Digging Up The Past - Reduced the charred bones' respawn timer.

2020/10/03

General

Change

[Seasonal]: Added game event structuring for Karazhan release.

Change

[Seasonal]: Added game event structuring for daily Scroll of Fortune quests.

Change

[Seasonal]: Added game event structuring for daily Seal the Deal quests.

Talents & Abilities

Change

Fixed the issue with Lock and Load. It should now function as the tooltip states and isn't consumed by Seething Flames.

World

Change

significantly increased the chances once again for Skill Cards to drop from mobs.

System Changes

Change

You can now queue for Battlegrounds and Dungeons at the same time!

New

Rotating Honorable Combat zones are now enabled in Outland.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Corrected an issue where multiple of Prince Malchezaar's Adumbral Pools could spawn from a single projectile.

Change

Fixed an issue where Prince Malchezaar would occasionally crash the server when trying to auto attack players.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Greatly increased the scaling for Purification By Light's Exorcism and Consecration effects.

Change

Updated the visual on the Unrelenting Wrath effect to give a more clear indicator of when it triggers. (This change will go live when a new patch is pushed.)

Change

FIxed an issue where Unrelenting Wrath wasn't properly triggering.

2020/10/02

General

Change

Fel Commutation Quest, (Mysterious Scroll quest) now scales to your level.

Talents & Abilities

Change

Fireballs instant casted through "FIREBALL!" from the Brain Freeze proc will no longer also consume Maelstrom Weapon.

Change

Fireballs casted through Maelstrom Weapon will prioritize FIREBALL! From Brain Freeze proc over Maelstrom Proc.

Change

Flame Throwing's cast time reduction will now function in conjunction with Maelstrom Weapon.

Change

Casting Frostbolt with 4 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon and atleast 1 stack of Improved Cone of Cold will now make your frostbolt instant cast.

Change

Improved Cone of Cold's cast time reduction aura will no longer be consumed whenever you have 5 stacks of Maelstrom Weapon.

Change

Fixed an issue where having Flame Throwing or Improved Cone of Cold or the Brain Freeze Proc that reduces cast time of certain spells would negate the cast time reduction granted from Maelstrom Weapon.

Change

Fingers of Frost should now be consumed on spell hit rather than spell_cast

Change

Seething flames should no longer consume Lock and Load.

Quests

Change

Removed level 70 Dusty Tome Quests and Dusty Tome Rewards since they are no longer necessary.

2020/10/01

General

Change

All Tabards that are not bloodforged tabards, will count towards the represent & equip X amount of tabards achievement.

Change

Skill Cards from World in High Risk now will drop at a significantly higher rate.

Change

Skill Cards from World now will drop at a significantly higher rate.

Change

Fixed the ability to sometimes drink a refreshing water while casting under certain circumstances. This banned and ancient Mana Gaining art was discovered by a Blood Elf in Halaa but will no longer be possible.

Talents & Abilities

New

Shadow Bolt no longer deals reduced damage to players.

New

Earth Shock now deals 30% reduced damage to players, from 35%.

New

Flame Shock now deals 30% reduced damage to players, from 35%.

New

Garrote now deals 5% reduced damage to players, from 10%.

New

Rupture now deals 10% reduced damage to players, from 15%.

New

Steady Shot no longer deals reduced damage to players.

New

Deadly Poison now deals 25% reduced damage to players, from 20%.

New

Mutilate now deals 15% reduced damage to players, from 10%.

New

Ambush now deals 15% reduced damage to players, from 10%.

New

Explosive Shot now deals 40% reduced damage to players, from 35%.

New

Mortal Strike now deals 10% reduced damage to players, from 5%.

New

Bladestorm now deals 35% reduced damage to players, from 30%.

New

Overpower now deals 20% reduced damage to players, from 15%.

Website

New

Website performance has been improved.

Change

Fixed order history crash.

Change

Fixed an issue where it would display old realms with same characters as new realms in bug tracker report creation and my characters.

New

Archived characters are now available to be transfered.

New

Nightmare leaderboard is now available.

System Changes

Change

Reduced the mana pools of level 61-70 players slightly. On level 70, you will now have 361 less maximum mana than before.

Change

Reduced the mana cost of all spells by 15%!

Item Changes

Change

Fixed an issue where the Mana-Etched Regalia 4-piece set bonus wasn't working correctly.

Change

Fixed an issue where Leggings of Beast Mastery weren't working as intended.

Change

Justicar Battlegear (Retribution Paladin T4) 4set has been reworked. Now grants an additional stack to Vengeance.

Change

Justicar Battlegear (Retribution Paladin T4) 2set has been changed to the old 4 set bonus. Now increases the damage done by your Judgments by 10%.

Change

Cyclone Regalia (Restoration Shaman T4) 4set has been increased to 30 seconds cooldown reduction on Nature's Swiftness, up from 24 seconds.

Change

Cyclone Regalia (Restoration Shaman T4) 2set now also grants a 30 second cooldown reduction to Mana Tide Totem.

Change

Malorne Raiment (Restoration Druid T4) 4set has been increased to 30 seconds cooldown reduction on Natural Alacrity, up from 24 seconds.

Change

Demon Stalker Armor (Hunter T4) 4set has been reworked. Now triggers your Rapid Killing talent when casting Tranquilizing Shot.

Change

Demon Stalker Armor (Hunter T4) 2set has been reworked. Now increases the duration of Master Tactician by 4 seconds.

Change

Warbringer Battlegear (Warrior Fury/Arms T4) 4set has been reworked. Now reduces the threat gained from Heroic Strike and Cleave abilities by 25%.

Change

Warbringer Battlegear (Warrior Fury/Arms T4) 2set has been reworked. Now causes Shredding Blows to affect an additional swing.

Change

Specified that the Tier 4 warrior Warbringer Plate and Warbringer Armor 4set only increases the Physical damage of your next ability, instead of implying all damage.

Change

Fixed an issue that caused Tier 4 warrior Warbringer Plate set to have lower proc chance on its 2set bonus.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Zephyr - The Wrath of Al'Akir buff (granted from Windfury Procs) now also increases your chance to proc windfury weapon by 2% per stack.

Change

Zephyr now also benefits from windfury modifiers. (Elemental Weapons)

Change

Zephyr now deals 40% reduced damage to players from 20%.

Change

Fixed an issue where Words of Healing wasn't applying its healing bonus correctly.

Change

Hailstorm can now be cast instantly with Presence of Mind.

Change

Fixed a bug where Unbounded Drain Life didn't get affected by increases to Drain Life.

Change

Corrected the tooltip of Warcry to reflect it only gives you the buff.

Change

Clarified the tooltip of Storm Caller and Overloaded to specify that it only triggers from direct Nature damage.

Change

Fixed a bug where Lengthy Borrowed Time didn't work. Its duration has been changed to 0.5 seconds.

Change

Fixed spelling mistakes in Icy Conjuror and Shadow Propellant.

Change

Fixed an issue where Eldritch Knight sometimes didn't work while shapeshifted.

Change

Fixed an issue where Arcane Synergy had a shorter duration than indicated by its tooltip.

Change

Fixed Hasty Innervate.

Change

Fixed an issue where Unbounded Mind Flay wasn't triggering procs correctly.

Change

Shadow Strikes now correctly triggers from Stormstrike.

Change

Clarified the tooltip of Lunar Spirits.

Change

Righteous Flames stacks are no longer consumed by periodic damage.

Change

Fixed a bug where Centered would proc from non-holy spells.

Change

Fixed tooltip of Twilight for consistency.

Change

Fixed a bug where Improved Mend Pet was not cleansing debuffs.

Change

Fixed a typo in Molten Mind.

Change

Fixed Overheating tooltip to reflect it only trigger from melee abilities.

Change

Holy Radiance now heals targets affected by Renew for 30%, up from 20%, of the effective healing done by your healing abilities.

Change

Shatter now has updated tooltip clarifying that the effect only works for spells cast before your Frostbolt hits the target.