Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2020/09/02

General

New

Upgraded the combat prowess of all heroes. Your attacks against higher level enemies (and raid bosses) will now never be Glancing Blows. This will result in an increase in the damage caused by auto-attacks against these enemies.

Change

Boss Target Dummies in Shattrath have undergone the heroes journey and are now real boss dummies inheriting all the Immune Masks of Bosses.

Change

Ogri'la Faction will now be available after next server restart.

Change

Fixed an issue where Mailboxes in Draenei and Bloodelf start zone were in wrong phase.

Talents & Abilities

Change

Fixed a bug where Damage Shield scaled with spell damage.

System Changes

Change

Fixed a bug where arena teams statistic changes did not get saved when winning an arena game.

Quests

Change

Corrected an issue where Spectrecles could not be completed as an Outlaw.

2020/09/01

General

New

Corrected Ravager Cage Key drop on Azuremyst Isle.

New

Added Heroic Boss Training Dummies to Shattrath

Talents & Abilities

Change

Infected Blood now deals damage every 2 seconds, instead of every 0.5 seconds. (Total damage unchanged.)

Change

Fixed a bug where Festering Strikes was dealing too high damage.

Change

Fixed a bug where Spellsteal was usable while shapeshifted.

World

Change

Sunfury Conjurer - Corrected an issue where the NPC would flee on aggro instead of at low HP

Item Changes

Change

Corrected an issue where an outlier helmet: "Helm of the Stalwart Defender" had PvP Power.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Escape from Durnholde Keep - Fixed Thrall not remounting after combat

Change

The Arcatraz - Harbinger Skyriss' mini-bosses' corpses will now despawn if players wipe

Change

Escape from Durnholde Keep - Thrall should now attack the NPCs at the Church

Change

Escape from Durnholde Keep - Gave Thrall fear immunity so he'd no longer get stuck in the textures sometimes

Change

Reworked 83 creatures in heroics to more organically use their abilities and not use them immediately at pull.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Fixed an issue where One with the Forest would only proc off auto-attacks.

Quests

Change

Creature of the Eco-Domes - NPCs will stop moving around and combat bugging players when shot

Change

Body of Evidence - Corrected another issue that stopped the quest event from working

Change

Fixed rewards on all Call Board quests. You'll now receive the rewards properly.

2020/08/31

General

New

[Qiraji Battle Horn] and [Staff of the Sun God] are temporarily disabled while we look into client crashes from them.

Change

Increased slot based Resilience by 10%.

Talents & Abilities

Change

Corrected an Issue where Booming Thunder, Surge of Light, Holy Ascension and the Unspoken-Names proc would unintentionally add spellpower coefficeints from their proc. Their damage increasements will now be in line with the tooltips.

Change

This will also prevent those certain spells causing mobs to randomly threat drop.

Change

Corrected an issue where many spells were using the wrong flags, this will fix certain issues like Arcane Blast and Penance instantly cause mobs to evade.

Change

Removed the cast time slow effect from the pet abilities Lava Breath and Poison Spit.

Item Changes

New

All honor and arena PvP set bonuses are now shared between different tier of sets.

New

Fixed an issue where the bloodforged version of Xi'ri's Gift did not have its on-use effect.

New

Fixed an issue where the stats of Timelapse Shard unintendedly would change when becoming bloodied. This will be live next restart.

Mystic Enchants

New

Fixed an issue where Versatile Power was giving more spell power than indicated by the tooltip.

Quests

Change

Arena daily quests from the callboard will currently only be for 2v2. (This change will be active on the next server restart.)

2020/08/30

General

Change

Updated the faction swap locations to Shattrath.

Change

Set Bonuses for Bloodforged items will now display properly

Change

All Guards in Capital Cities should now scale up in level based on the expansion.

Change

Outlaws should now be able to quest in the vast majority of hubs.

Change

Fixed/Reduced aggro radius for creatures bringing it closer in line with Blizzlike references. This will impact larger creatures more than smaller ones but in all cases aggro radius will have been reduced by some amount.

Change

Fixed an issue where Crow's Cache would spawn in Azeroth after a server crash during the event.

Change

Sylvanar Npcs will now interact with Outlaws properly.

Change

Removed Spoils of War from Call to Arms.

Change

Fixed an Issue where Call to Arms had a max level of 60.

New

Increased Mystic Runes from all Call Board quests to 10 up from 1.

Talents & Abilities

Change

Envenom now has a 0.9 PvP mod.

Change

Lava Lash now has a 0.9 PvP mod.

Change

The Seed of Corruption trigger damage now has a 0.8 PvP mod.

Item Changes

New

Accessories will be available from the honor point vendor in shattrath.

Change

Fixed an issue where the 4-piece set bonus of Desolation Battlegear did not proc off ranged attacks.

Change

Corrected the stats of the blue quality PvP gear. The items will receive their new stats after the next restart. Once the server has been restarted, you will need to clear your cache to see the updated stats.

Change

Fixed an issue where the Vigilance of the Colossus trinket would scale unintendedly with healing power.

Change

Updated tooltip of Incarnation: Moonkin Astral Form to properly reflect it changes the appearance of Moonkin form.

Change

Updated tooltip of Outland Travel guide to indicate TBC access is available for all players above level 58.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Blood Furnace: Removed The Maker's damage buff from his Domination (Mind Control) spell.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Corrected an issue where Battle Cultist: Firebrand was not refreshing the duration of your Immolate properly.

Change

Corrected an issue where Charged Up did not refresh the duration of Explosive Shot properly.

Quests

Change

Patch to Ascension I: Collection and Capitals can now be found on the call board if you lose it or miss accepting it.

2020/08/29

General

Change

Added Heroic Dungeon loot to Challenge mode reward chests. (Survivalist, Ironman, Resolute)

Change

Corrected an issue where the Seek out Ameer quest chain was able to be started prematurely to its original 2.1 release. (Consortium Reputation)

Change

Added new World Drop Templates to all Outland rares.

Change

Added guaranteed Mystic Shard drops on Rares.

Change

Fixed an issue where some Call Boards were spawned in High Risk phase only.

Item Changes

Change

Updated tooltips on Expert and Artisan Riding Tome to reflect the %flying speed they unlock and avoid confusion.

Change

Corrected all instances of PvP Gear having PvE Power.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Steam Vaults: Fixed misplaced Coilfang Myrmidon at the Main Chamber Doors. This will no longer cause aggro through the door which pulled two packs of creatures.

Change

Fixed problems with doors in dungeons closes if you left them!

Change

Black Morass: Aeonus has stolen all of the Badges of Justice in the instance. Temporus and Chrono Lord Deja no longer drop Badge of Justice. Aoenus now drops 3.

Quests

Change

Body of Evidence - Fully scripted the event

2020/08/28

General

Change

Commander Ameer is not meant to be spawned in this patch and will not be available for now.

Change

Fixed a crash on Saeed.

Change

Fixed an issue where no-risk players could end up in high-risk phase.

Change

Fixed a bug where flying mounts could be used in Eastern Kingdom and Kalimdor.

Change

Fixed a bug where players could use temporary weapon enchants from different specializations.

Change

Base dodge chance has been changed from 5% down to 1%.

Talents & Abilities

Change

Arcane Potency will now affect all hits from arcane missiles and will no longer be removed from individual ticks.

Change

Arcane Blast should no longer increase mana cost of Arcane Barrage.

Change

Fixed a bug where players would summon pets from different specializations in battlegrounds.

Item Changes

Change

Initial use of Personal Bank (unlocking) will no longer put the item on cooldown.

Change

Personal Bank will notify the owner that he has to relog after unlocking it in order to use it.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Temporarily disabled Thorngrin the Tender in Botanica while we address a crash.

Change

Corrected an issue where Talon King Ikiss did not drop any heroic loot.

Change

Corrected an issue where the Avatar of the Martyred was not dropping any loot on Heroic. This is still the case, but his loot has since been merged into Exarch Maladaar's loot.

Change

Corrected an issue where badges did not drop in the Black Morass.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Corrected an issue where Evergreen was not refreshing the duration of Lifebloom.

Change

Corrected an issue where Battle Mage procs could not trigger Hot Streak.

Change

Corrected an issue where Psychic Barrage could not proc Pain and Suffering's effect.

Change

Corrected an issue where Psychic Barrage could not proc Vampiric Touch's effect.

Change

Corrected an issue where Psychic Barrage could not proc Improved Mind Blast's effect.

Change

Corrected an issue where Growing Light could not heal the caster.

Change

Corrected an issue where Arrows of Fire was not scaling from Spell Power.

Change

Corrected an issue where Arrows of Fire was considered to be a Priest spell.

Change

Corrected an issue where Arrows of Fire was not considered a magic effect for the sake of damage calculation.

Change

Corrected an issue where Arrows of Fire dealt Physical damage instead of Fire damage.

Change

Corrected an issue where Festering Strike was not scaling as intended.

Change

Corrected an issue where One With the Light would stop functioning after entering an arena.

Change

Deranged Druid now has Feral support!

Change

Corrected an issue where Holy Light could not trigger Soul Restoration.

Quests

Change

Dimensius the All-Devouring - Massively reworked, should function a lot better

Change

Allegiance to the Scryers (/ Aldor) will now always set you to 0/6000 friendly reputation.

Change

Outlaw's can now hand in quests at Toshley's Station.