Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2017/05/05

Talents & Abilities

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Improved Shadowform now reduces damage taken while in Shadowform by 5/10%.

Change

Shadowform no longer reduces damage taken by 10%

2017/05/04

Dungeons & Raids

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Lowered elemental (magical) damage values in a lot of lower level instances.

Change

Majordomo Executus no longer summons Ragnaros twice.

Change

Added Dark Strike back to Sulfuron Harbinger.

Change

Golemagg's Pyroblast is no longer on a randomized timer.

Change

Dead Man's Plea is now just an indicator as to how much time you have left, it will not handle whether or not Ysida Harmon spawns.

Change

Added Shadow Word: Pain back to the Flamewaker Priests.

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Reduced Shazzrah's health by 20%.

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Reduced the duration of Golemagg's Magma Splash debuff to 15 seconds from 30 seconds.

Quests

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Quest chain Gnomer-gooooone! will now correctly teleport players to and from Gnomeregan and Booty Bay after completion.

2017/04/30

System Changes

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Custom Tomes will only drop in the Open World now.

2017/04/29

Talents & Abilities

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Empowered Fire, temporarily disabled the mana regen from it as it was giving significantly higher than intended.

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Improved Devouring Plague instant damage part was reduced to 20/13/7% down from 30/20/10%.

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Amplify Curse now also increases the damage done by Curse of Agony by 10%.

Dungeons & Raids

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Temporarily disabled Dagran Thaurissan's hard mode, it will be re-added after his re-haul is finalized.

2017/04/28

Dungeons & Raids

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Created Majordomo Executus' hard mode.

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Shazzrah's channeled Arcane Explosion will now repeat at a static interval regardless of his current HP percentage.

Change

Created Sulfuron Harbinger's hard mode.

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Solved an issue where all players and creatures were benefitting from Majordomo Executus' shield spells.

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Majordomo Executus' Flamewaker Healers will now properly become CC immune after 4 adds die.

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Gehennas' Incinerate spell no longer has a cast time.

Change

Garr's hard mode has been made more strict.

Change

The Aqual and Eternal Quintessences have a working douse spell assigned to them.

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Added checks to prevent fragility of Majordomo Executus' hard mode.

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Implemented a new method of application for the Flamewaker Priest's Flame of Debilitation that shouldnt cause server lag.

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Removed Immolate and Shadow Word: Pain from Sulfuron Harbinger's Flamewaker Priests.

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Reduced Golemagg's Cave In damage by 20%.

2017/04/24

Quests

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Hidden Enemies: Indicator on map of where to farm Lieutenant's Insignia has been corrected.

2017/04/23

Item Changes

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Fixed issue where Scroll of Unlearning would not display for Alliance.

2017/04/22

Talents & Abilities

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Fixed Cobra Strikes Random Enchant to only alter two strikes.

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Fixed Eye for an Eye Random Enchant. It will now proc only on critical strikes.

Change

All Sublety spells will be located in their proper skill tab.

Change

Blizzard should now be trainable now

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Golemagg the Incinerator now has a leash

Change

All Molten Core runes will visually activate and deactivate as they should.

Change

Created Baron Geddon's Hard Mode.

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Created Gehennas' Hard Mode.

Change

Created Lucifron's Hard Mode.

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Created Golemagg the Incinerator's Hard Mode.

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Created Shazzrah's Hard Mode.

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Created Garr's Hard Mode.

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Rehauled Sulfuron Harbinger's old mechanic (you will need to delete your cache for this).

Quests

Change

Brogg in Mudsprocket, Dustwallow Marsh will now correctly give out his quests in the right order.

2017/04/21

Talents & Abilities

Change

Expose Weakness should now be working as intended again.

Change

Natural Shapeshifter is now a 1 point talent (which costs 1 AE 1 TE) and reduces the mana cost of shapeshifts by 30% and reduces the global cooldown of Cat Form, Bear Form and Dire Bear Form by 0.5 sec.

Change

Updated tooltips for abilities that are usable while shapeshifted to state that they are.

Change

Trueshot Aura is now usable while shapeshifted.

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Feign Death is now usable while shapeshifted.

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Disengage is now usable while shapeshifted.

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Battle Shout is now usable while shapeshifted.

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Piercing Howl is now usable while shapeshifted.

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Premeditation is now usable while shapeshifted.

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All racials are now usable while shapeshifted.

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All Hunter aspects are now usable while shapeshifted.

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All Paladin auras are now usable while shapeshifted.

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Deterrence now silences you as well as pacifies you for its duration.

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All totems are now usable while shapeshifted.

Change

Holy Power reverted to work like previously. It now adds 1/2/3/4/5% Holy critical chance.

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Alliance can now train Survival Hunter Spells. Finally.

Change

Spirit of Redemption is now working as intended.

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Serrated Blades now gives 2/4/6% armor penetration down from 3/6/9%.

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Shredding Blows now gives a maximum of 5% armor penetration.

Change

You will no longer lose rage when entering Bear Form or Dire Bear Form.

Change

Significantly increased the damage on the first 4 ranks of Shadow Bolt.

System Changes

Change

Fixed visuals for engagement with friendly guards. Will no longer glow red. They also run a lot slower.

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Reduced the pushback to 0.25 sec down from 0.5 sec and the channeled cast pushback to 5% from 25%.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Majordomo Executus has been added to the testing roster.

2017/04/18

System Changes

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Made Dramatic Changes to the Dynamic Respawn System. These may fix infinitely spawning rares, but more testing is needed.

2017/04/16

General

Change

Following bosses has had their missing abilities and/or events implemented:

Change

High Interrogator Gerstahn

Change

Lord Roccor

Change

Houndmaster Grebmar

Change

Pyromancer Loregrain

Change

Verek & Warder Stilgiss

Change

Bael'gar

Change

Golem Lord Argelmach

Change

The Seven

Change

Ambassador Flamelash

Change

Magmus

Talents & Abilities

Change

Preparation, Evasion, Premeditation, Bersker Rage, Piercing howl, Death wish, The Beast Within should all be usable while shapeshifted

2017/04/15

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Fixed issues with exploitability of Dagran Thaurissan's hard mode.

Change

Fixed an issue where Archmage Arugal was respawning 5 minutes after death.

Change

Fixed an issue where Alzzin the Wildshaper would not remove the rocks behind him properly.

2017/04/14

Talents & Abilities

Change

Deep Wounds weapon requirement removed (will now work in Cat and Bear Form).

Change

Fel Vitality now increases the Stamina and Intellect of your Warlock pet by 20/40/60% up from 5/10/15%

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Berserker Rage is now usable while shapeshifted.

Change

Significantly decreased the health and mana of Warlock pets.

Change

Sanctified Retribution now increases damage by 3% up from 1%.

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Demonic Embrace now increases the percentage of damage shared via your Soul Link by 4/7/10%.

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Soul Link now transfers 10% of damage taken to your Warlock pet down from 20%.

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Energize effects from talents, abilities and random enchants will now work.

World

Change

Fixed an extensive list of random enchants.

System Changes

Change

Implemented Hardmodes into various dungeons and raids.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Fixed an issue where Dagran Thaurissan had phantom totems from his hard mode.

2017/04/13

Talents & Abilities

Change

Feral Spirits are now classified as elements. This means spirit wolves will no longer be affected by 'A Beast Within'

System Changes

Change

Transmogrification has been added to every Capital City.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Increased the damage of Golemagg the Incinerator's Cave In ability by 40%.

Change

Removed the ability to dispel the Immolate and Shadow Word: Pain from the Flamewaker Priests.

Change

Reduced the Immolate damage of Flamewaker Priests by 66%.