Ascension Changelog

The spellbook tabs are now based on classes rather than specializations.

The tooltip of Sanctified Retribution has been updated.

Reworked Contagion: The final tick of your Corruption deals 30/60/90/120/150% increased damage.

Capstone Bonus: With the final rank of Contagion, your Corruption becomes contagious. If the final tick of Corruption occurs while you're draining the targets soul, the area becomes contaminated, spreading Corruption to all targets within 15 yards.

Thunder Clap now deals 40% increased damage when a Two-Handed weapon is equipped, from 25%.

The tooltip of Berserking has been updated.

Improved Slam is now a 3 point talent that reduces the cast time of Slam by 0.33/0.67/1 second and increases its damage by 5/10/15%.

Capstone: With the final rank of Improved Slam, your Slam is guaranteed to critically hit when used on an Incapacitated target.

Vigor now properly grants +20 energy also while in Cat Form.

Lock and Load now has a 10/20/30% chance to trigger from periodic effects, from 5/10/15%.

The tooltip of Metamorphosis has been updated.

Spiritual Focus now also gives 1/2/3% spell haste.

Firestarter now increases the duration of Dragon's Breath by 0.75/1.5 seconds, from 1/2.

The duration of Dragon's Breath has been reduced to 2.5 seconds, from 3.

Capstone: The final rank of Sharpened Claws makes your critical strikes while in Bear Form or Dire Bear Form increase the duration of your Barkskin by 1 second. This effect cannot occur more than once each second.

Retuned the 5-piece setbonus of Doomcaller's Garb (T2.5): It now deals 50% increased damage to players, from 100%.

Updated the 6-piece setbonus of Redemption Armor (T3): The Redemption Heal should no longer proc off triggered heals.

Retuned the 8-piece setbonus of Redemption Armor (T3): Increased the proc rate and scaling.

Updated the 8-piece setbonus of Dreadnaught Battlegear (T3): The Cheat Death effect now triggers a debuff to display the cooldown of the effect.

Retuned the 8-piece setbonus of Bonescythe Armor (T3): The Strikes of Opportunity now deal 25% damage, from 15%.

Reworked the 5-piece setbonus of Striker's Garb (T2.5): Your Arcane Shot and Explosive Shot abilities grant you 15 Ranged Attack Power for 10 seconds, stacking up to 10 times.

Reworked the 3-piece setbonus of Enigma Vestments (T2.5): Increases the critical strike chance of your Arcane, Fire and Frost spells by 3%.

Reworked the 5-piece setbonus of Enigma Vestments (T2.5): The Clearcasting effect from your Arcane Concentration now also reduces the cast time of your next spell by 15%.

Retuned the 5-piece setbonus of Conqueror's Battlegear (T2.5): It now deals slightly less damage than before.

Retuned the 3-piece setbonus of Deathdealer's Embrace (T2.5): It now gives your rogue finishing moves a chance to add two combo points, from five.

Reworked the 5-piece setbonus of Deathdealer's Embrace (T2.5): It now gives 2% melee haste per stack instead of 1% Rogue ability damage. The attack power bonus remains unchanged.

Fixed the tooltip for the Oracle (T2.5) 5-piece set bonus.

All PvP polearms should now have Agility rather than Strength.

Reworked the 3-piece setbonus of Avenger's Battlegear (T2.5): It now increases the critical strike chance of Crusader Strike, Divine Storm, Hammer of Wrath, Exorcism and Hammer of the Righteous by 5%.

Reworked the 5-piece setbonus of Genesis Raiment (T2.5): It now grants +25 to all attributes.

Reworked the 5-piece setbonus of Stormcaller's Garb (T2.5): It now imbues your spells with the power of the elements, giving successful casts a chance to grant you 5% Nature spell critical strike chance for 10 seconds.

Updated the tooltip of the Netherwind (T2) 8-piece set bonus.

New Legendary RE - Seed of Life: Your periodic heals from Regrowth and Rejuvenation plant a Seed of Life in the target, healing them each second for 4 seconds and stacking up to 8 times. Upon reaching 8 stacks the seed blooms and heals the target and up to 5 nearby allies.

New Legendary RE - Expunge: Your Chimera Shots have a 100% chance to leave a lingering poisons on the target dealing Nature damage every 3 seconds for 15 seconds and stacking up to 3 times. Upon reaching 3 stacks the poison is expunged from the target, dealing Nature damage (half to players) to the target and enemies within 10 yards.

New Legendary RE - Transcendental Embrace: Your bond with nature infuses you with power. Every 10 seconds your Chain Heal has its cast time reduced by 10% and reach increased to affect an extra target. This effect can be stored up to 3 times.

Wild Felfire now triggers the Rain of Fire on all Chaos Bolt casts, instead of being limited to critical hits.

The tooltip of Tidal Mastery has been updated.

Your Greater Heal, Flash Heal and Penance spells now also heal all targets affected by your Renew for 20% of the amount. Also reduces the mana cost of Renew by 20%.

Your Riptides create a healing effect at the feet of the target ally. All allies standing within will be healed each second for 6 seconds, and Chain Heals cast on these targets will be 15% more powerful.

Fixed the tooltip of Blaze Ward.

Fixed the tooltip of Blademaster.

Fixed a bug with Total Eclipse where your first Starfire sometimes wouldn't proc another spell.

Dangerous Love - Stormwind and Undercity Guards will now properly give cards

Fixed a bug with the cooldown of Purge rank 1.

Fixed a bug with the cooldown of Purge rank 1. (Change active on next server restart).

Corrected the looting template for the spoils of war tied to invasions.

Invasions will now drop raider's commendations.

Raid bosses and world bosses will now drop an extra commendation.

Fixed a bug where Seduction would not share diminishing returns with fears and disorients. (This change is active on next server restart).

Corrected an issue with improved sprint having an incorrect duration.

[Seasonal]: Fixed Pets (e.g. Kahn - Portable Transmogrifier) gaining aggro on release.

Added missing commendations from Ysondre & Emeriss.

[Blackwing Lair]: Adjusted a significant error in code that would cause the Three Drakes to do abysmally high and unsustainable damage after wiping.

Fixed a bug where you could use Eternal Water and Paratrooper together with another legendary RE. (Active on next server restart).

Fixed an issue where the Enrage buff would be triggered without having the talent.

Ghost Howl will now properly spawn and patrol around Mulgore

Total Eclipse Legendary RE rework. After you gain Eclipse your next Wrath or Starfire will apply an additional effect. Wrath will apply Entangling Roots unless the target is immune to immobilizing effects, then it will apply an Insect Swarm. Starfire will apply a 2 second stun unless the target is immune to stun effects, then it will apply a Moonfire.

Removed some misplaced Venture Co. NPCs in the Barrens

Fixed an issue where the Enrage Capstone didn't trigger properly. (This change will be active after the next restart.)

Vigor now correctly grants Cat form +20 energy instead of +10.

Chain Lightning with 3 Unrelenting Storm stacks now trigger the spell damage taken debuff on all targets hit by it.

Weapon Mastery once again triggers on dodges, parries and blocks as intended.

Empowered Stormstrike's Shock attack power scaling has been increased by to 1.25%, from 1%. Its spell power scaling has been reduced from 5% to 4%.

Fixed a bug where the first rank of Remorseless Attacks sometimes would proc from enemies that didnt give experience or honor.

Fixed an issue where the cooldown of Disarm sometimes wouldn't display properly.

Fixed an issue where Atiesh Karazhan portal and visual effect didn't work as intended.

Fixed the tooltip of Wound Poison.

[Seasonal] Frostbolt now deals 15% reduced damage in PvP, from 20%.

[Seasonal] Curse of Agony now deals 15% reduced damage in PvP, from 10%.

[Seasonal] Shred now deals 15% reduced damage in PvP, from 20%.

[Seasonal] Insect Swarm now deals 25% reduced damage in PvP, from 20%.

[Seasonal] Rip now deals 15% reduced damage in PvP, from 20%.

[Seasonal] Mortal Strike now deals 20% reduced damage in PvP, from 25%.

[Seasonal] Shield Slam now deals 25% reduced damage in PvP, from 20%.

[Seasonal] Ferocious Bite now deals 15% reduced damage in PvP, from 20%.

[Seasonal] Ravage no longer deals reduced damage in PvP.

[Seasonal] Chimera Shot and Chimera Shot - Serpent now deal 25% reduced damage in PvP, from 35%.

[Seasonal] Explosive Shot now deals 20% reduced damage in PvP, from 30%.

Fixed an exploit that reset the iCD of a few Random Enchants in an unintended way.

The effect of the Faith 8-piece set bonus now properly appears in the combat log.

Anticipation (Warrior talent) has been renamed to Adaptive Defense.

Capstone: The final rank of Adaptive Defense reduces the damage you take by 5% for 10 seconds after dodging an attack.

Enrage now increases your physical damage by 2/4/6/8/10% and melee haste by 2/4/6/8/10% for 12 seconds after being struck by a damaging attack while below 50% health. This effect can occur once every 5 seconds.

Capstone: With the final rank of Enrage, this effect is also triggered at any health level by casting Bloodrage, Berserker Rage or Recklessness.

The cooldown reset of Bloodthirst from the Bloodsurge talent should now be more consistent and display properly.

The tooltip of Fire Power has been corrected.

The tooltip of the Earthfury 8-piece set bonus has been fixed.

Fixed a bug where Hunter traps sometimes would not have the proper delay before becoming active.

Enrage now increases your physical damage by 2/4/6/8/10% and melee haste by 2/4/6/8/10% for 12 seconds after being struck by a damaging attack while below 50% health. This effect can occur once every 5 seconds.

Capstone: With the final rank of Enrage, this effect is also triggered at any health level by casting Bloodrage, Berserker Rage or Recklessness.

Unrelenting Storm has been reworked. It now makes your Lightning Bolt casts trigger Unrelenting Storm, increasing your spell haste by 1/2/3% for 6 seconds, stacking up to 3 times.

Capstone: The final rank of Unrelenting Storm empowers your Chain Lightning while Unrelenting Storm is fully stacked. Chain Lightnings cast under this effect will unleash the storm, dealing 20% increased damage and causing the target to take 13% increased spell damage for 12 seconds. This does not stack with similar effects.

Capstone: The final rank of Sinister calling now makes your Hemorrhage apply an extra combo point when cast on a target that is bleeding.

Capstone: The final rank of Malice makes you gain 4 energy when your Garrote or Rupture deal damage.

Apprentice Riding Tomes are now useable at level 1.

Apprentice Riding Training is now learnable at level 1.

All mounts that require level 20 to use now require level 1 and Apprentice Riding.

Fixed an issue where a few PvP shields incorrectly didn't have the shield base effect that increases threat and reduces spell damage and healing. This change will be active after the next server restart.

Fixed an error where Bloodrage would not proc enrage with the capstone.

Fixed an error where you could not roll Eternal Water.