Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2017/02/21

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Hydrospawn no longer elevates to the platform above.

2017/02/20

Talents & Abilities

Change

Updated various spell descriptions to clarify use.

Change

Warlock Summoning Circle will no longer be usable in instance (Medium/Hardcore only)

Change

Searing Light now has five ranks with a separate modifier for Holy Nova.

2017/02/18

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Changed the way Shazzrah's, Lucifron's, and Gehennas' curses work.

2017/02/17

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Added a new Shazzrah mechanic.

2017/02/16

World

Change

Reins of the Winterspring Frostsaber now requires 150 Riding Skill and exalted with Wintersaber Trainers.

Change

The quests "An Earnest Proposition" are now unobtainable and will remain so for the foreseeable future.

2017/02/15

Talents & Abilities

Change

Seal of Righteousness now deals weapon damage, and will no longer incorrectly trigger weapon imbues. The proc now also has a 1 second internal cooldown.

Change

Circle of Healing and Wild Growth now share a 6 second cooldown. This change will be reflected in their tooltips next patch update.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Lucifron can now make you his thrall.

Change

Increased the frequency at which Shazzrah casts his curse.

2017/02/14

Talents & Abilities

Change

Rogue and Druid 'Safe Fall' were both reduced to 1 Ability Essence in cost.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Applied a fix to Lucifron's Seed of Corruption skill, making it actually go off.

Change

Reduced Shazzrah's health to 6.9 million HP (down from 7.7 million).

Change

Shazzrah's channeled Arcane Explosion has been overhauled in that it is now cast more often and changes throughout the encounter.

Change

Tuned up melee and spell damage in Molten Core across the board by about 16%.

2017/02/13

Talents & Abilities

Change

Hemo will now deal 75% weapon damage with 2-handers.

Change

Sinister strike will now deal 75% weapon damage with 2-handers.

Change

Cat (Swipe) has been tuned to 110% weapon damage.

2017/02/12

Talents & Abilities

Change

Protection Paladin 'Toughness' now gives % increased threat rather than reducing duration of movement slowing effects.

2017/02/11

Talents & Abilities

Change

Fingers of Frost is now consumed on spell cast.

Change

Maelstrom Weapon is now consumed on spell cast.

2017/02/10

Talents & Abilities

Change

Added 1 Rank of 'Empowered Frostbolt'

Change

Increased effect of 'Wrath of Cenarius' by 100%.

Change

Crippling Poison is back to 50%. Plans to add bonus slow into 'Improved Poisons'

Change

Feral Spirits duration has been reduced to 30 seconds.

Change

Feral Spirits duration has been reduced to 30 seconds.

2017/02/09

Talents & Abilities

Change

Buffed 'Rend and Tear' Talent

Change

Lacerate is now on the Feral Druid Character Advancement.

Change

Divine Shield now reduces healing by 50%

Change

Free Action Potion effect can now be dispelled.

Change

The following tomes can now be found on Trainers instead: Holy Paladin Tome: Holy Shock III, Protection Paladin Tome: Holy Shield III, Subtlety Tome: Hemorrhage III, Holy Tome: Lightwell III, Balance Tome: Insect Swarm V, Frost Tome: Ice Barrier IV, Shadow Tome: Mind Flay VI, Holy Tome: Lightwell III, Fire Tome: Blast Wave V, Fire Tome: Pyroblast VIII

Item Changes

Change

Scroll of Mass Dispel is now 10 Gold, down from 18.

2017/02/08

Talents & Abilities

Change

Phaseshift will now make imp unhealable

Change

Crippling poison r1 is now 70% movement reduction as intended

Change

Both ranks of Vindication reduced by 50% Real points per level

Change

Cat Swipe lowered to level 20

Change

Tier 2 feral talent Savage fury now Increases the damage caused by Claw, Rake, Mangle by 10%/20% and Bleed damage increased by 15/20%

Change

Cleanse Spirit now costs 2 AE as intended

Change

All of these abilities will now cost 1 Ability Essence: Soothe Animal, Eyes of the Beast, Beast Lore, Water walking, water breathing, unending breath, sense undead, all tracks except track hidden and track humanoids, Eagle eye mind soothe Eye of kilrogg(edited) Stance Mastery Detect Traps Disarm Traps

2017/02/07

Talents & Abilities

Change

Expose Armor and Sunder Armor no longer stack

Change

The global melee nerf has been removed

Change

Firestarter (Fire) is now properly consumed on Flamestrike casts

Change

Backdraft is now properly consumed on destruction spell casts

Change

Arcane Potency is now once again consumed on spell casts.

Change

Hot Streak! Is now properly consumed on Pyroblast casts.

World

Change

NPCs have had their armor buffed by 35% (Global NPC buff)

2017/01/31

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Added Mechanics to various mobs in Blackrock Spire.

2017/01/29

World

Change

Added Music to Midsummer Fire Festival Event

Change

Added Music to Darkmoon Faire Event.

Change

NPC Webwood Spider should now be neutral.

Change

Fixed offer reward text for quest Elanaria.

Change

Marked Arcane Missiles aura as negative. Fixes Downranking the spell when targetting low level mobs due to effect 1 flagged as positive.

Change

Fixed Grace proc with Penance

Change

Added AI to Duggan Wildhammer

Change

Quest - Defenders of Darrowshire: Added Spirit Particles

Change

Quest - Defenders of Darrowshire: Implemented proper spell for summoning spirits.

Change

Quest - Defenders of Darrowshire: Players no longer needs to make killing blow on ghouls for Darrowshire Spirit to spawn

Change

Added SAI to Bloodscalp Beastmaster, Skullsplinter Beastmaster, and Skullsplitter Hunter

Change

Fixed Gurubashi Arena Chest spawning position.

Change

Fixed Skinning Loot for Mottled Boar and Scorpid Worker

Change

Adjusted/Fixed Thistle Boar - Skinning Loot

System Changes

Change

Fixed pathfinding reset capability on respawn. This prevents evade chains on bosses.

Change

Resolved authentication bypass issues.

Change

Aspect of the Pack and Aspect of the Cheetah, now proc daze on damage only

Change

Updated scripts to summon creatures with proper spells instead of AI.

Change

Improved Auction house deposit handling.

Change

Fixed Misdirection Exploit

Change

Fixed conflicts between duration and cast time of channeled spells.

Change

Patched Memory Leak in Trade Handler.

Change

Fixed a Trading Spoof exploit.

Change

Implemented serverside validation of reserved/profane names

Change

Fixed async query crash when retrieving account data.

Change

All Enslaved Demons now have proper Global Cooldowns on Abilities.

Change

Fixed a crash happening when a corpse is added to a grid not fully loaded

Change

Fixed map crash happening during map unload when there are corpses inside.

Change

Improved spell category cooldown handling.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Added Onyxia's Lair Pathing

2017/01/27

World

Change

Added pathing for Booty Bay Bruiser

Change

Certain Auras will no longer remove stealth per blizzlike.

Change

Added missing spawns to Elune's Blessing

Change

Fixed Pet Resistance exploit

Change

Resolved issue with Lazy Peon AI.

Change

Scripted Rajah Haghazed

Change

Scripted Rot Hide Gnoll

Change

Scripted and Implemented Coren Direbrew

Change

Updated AI for John Turner

Change

Updated AI for Teacher and Kids in Stormwind.

Change

Fixed Loot issues with overabundant White Drops in world

Change

Reworked Alterac Mounts Herb spawn and Pools

Change

Reworked Herb Pool for Arathi Highlands.

Change

Scripted 'Dekin'

Change

Added waypoints to 'Swiftmane'

Change

Reworked various miscellaneous pathing and creatures in Elwynn Forest.

Change

Added Reputation on kill to Pyroguard Emberseer

Change

Scripted 'Arcane Protector'

System Changes

Change

Optimized waypoint generation and allocation.

Change

Resolved an issue where totems would spawn with improper placement.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Reworked Movement/Pathing in Deadmines.