Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2024/03/22

General

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[Area-52] Molten Earth damage increased by 19% in PvP Combat.

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[Area-52] Shurikan Toss damage increased by 15% in PvP Combat.

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[Area-52] Shadow Dagger Damage increased by 10% in PvP Combat.

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[Area-52] Loa's Assualt Damage increased by 10% in PvP Combat.

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[Area-52] Zandalari Glaive [Zandalari Windreaver] Damage increased by 10% in PvP Combat.

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[Area-52] FelBlade [Fel Corruption] Damage increased by 5% in PvP Combat.

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[Area-52] Fel Cleave [Fel Corruption] Damage increased by 5% in PvP Combat.

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[Pending Restart] Sealed In Flames now correctly increases the damage of Seal of righteousness. (Was incorrectly buffing Seal of command).

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[Area-52] Jadefire Corruption Damage increased by 10% in PvP Combat.

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[Area-52] Rend- Hydra's Venom Damage increased by 17% in PvP Combat.

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[Area-52] Lunar Aspiration damage increased by 5% in PvP Combat.

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[Area-52] Consecration (Emanate) Damage increased by 10% in PvP Combat.

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[Area-52] Flare strike damage increased by 22% in PvP Combat.

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[Area-52] Scorched Ground damage increased by 10% in PvP Combat.

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[Area-52] Fel Strike Damage increased by 10% in PvP Combat.

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[Area-52] Flameburst Damage increased by 10% in PvP Combat.

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[Area-52] Seething Flames Damage increased by 5% in PvP Combat.

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[Area-52] Arcane missiles Damage increased by 5% in Arena Combat.

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[Area-52] Seal of Fervor Damage increased by 5% in PvP combat

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[Area-52] Fungal Rot [Call of Fungarians] Damage increased by 35% In PvP Combat.

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[Area-52] Empowered Stormstrike damage increased by 3% in PvP Combat.

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[Area-52] Holy Nova Damage increased by 33% in PvP Combat. (PvP Mod Removed).

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[Area-52] Holy nova damage increased by 33% in player v player combat. (PvP Mod removed).

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[Area-52] Arcane missiles Damage increased by 5% in PvP Combat.

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[Area-52] Arcane Missiles Damage increased by 5% in player v player combat.

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[Area-52] Smite damage increased by 10% in player v player combat.

Talents & Abilities

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Fishing is now disabled in Battlegrounds.

2024/03/21

Talents & Abilities

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[Elune] [Pending Restart] Fixed an issue with Holy Radiance where the heal amount transferred was not including the extra healing from critical heals. (This means if your Greater Heal crit for 1500 the 35% transfer would be calculated as if the heal hit for 1000.)

Mystic Enchants

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[Area-52] [Pending Restart] Holy Radiance now transfers 40% of the amount healed by Flash Heal up from 35% to targets affected by your Renew.

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[Area-52] [Pending Restart] Holy Radiance has been buffed and no longer reduces the healing of Greater Heal by 30%. However the transfer of Greater Heal has been reduced from 35% to 25%. (This results in a buff to single target healing with Greater Heal with no change to healing output when transferring it to renewed targets.)

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[Area-52] [Pending Restart] Fixed an issue with Holy Radiance where the heal amount transferred was not including the extra healing from critical heals. (This means if your Greater Heal crit for 1500 the 35% transfer would be calculated as if the heal hit for 1000.)

2024/03/20

General

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[Area-52] Heroic Leap Damage increased by 10% in player v player combat.

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[Area-52] Raptor Strike Damage increased by 5% in player v player combat

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[Area-52] Thunderclap damage increased by 5% in player v player combat.

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[Area-52] Mongoose Bite damage increased by 5% in player v player combat.

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[Area-52] Counterattack Damage increased by 5% in player v player combat

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[Area-52] Bloodthirst damage increased by 10% in player v player combat.

Dungeons & Raids

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[Pending Restart] [Zul'Gurub] [Hakkar] Will of Hakkar has been updated to the latest Mind Control version used by Nefarian, preventing a players death.

2024/03/19

General

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Updated Path to Ascension quests to have a distinct quest icon on NPCs.

World

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[Pending Restart] Creatures in Eversong Woods and Azuremyst Isle will now properly scale up to level 60. This will not apply to creatures in Ammen Vale and Sunstrider Isle.

Item Changes

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[Pending Restart] Shadowmoon Insignia now heals for 50% less outside of dungeons and raids. Its DoT effect no longer breaks crowd control effects.

Dungeons & Raids

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[Pending Restart] [Elune] Reduced the Lightning Bolt damage from Blindlight Oracle by 75%.

Quests

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[Elune][Pending Restart] Corrected an issue in which the quest "Steaming Up in Un'goro" was not properly displaying its quest tracker.

2024/03/18

General

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Moved a Shady Dealer who was acting super suspicious outside Stratholme to a new location The Crown Guard Tower in Eastern Plaguelands.

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Added baseline AoE damage reduction for melee in classic raids. This is to help melee deal with increasingly high AoE damage in raids temporarily. Tools will likely be introduced in the future to build into AoE damage reduction more instead in a more comprehensive update.

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Greatly increased drop chance from creatures for all Beastmaster Whistles, Elemental Lodestones, Summoner's Stones, and Bloodsoaked Vellums.

Talents & Abilities

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Fixed a bug where Rank 5 of Poleaxe Specialization was increasing critical damage more than intended.

2024/03/17

Talents & Abilities

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[Pending Restart] Sundering now has a wider radius and slightly longer range, making it line up better with its visual.

Dungeons & Raids

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[Pending Restart] [Elune] Cogsworth now has a new item [Purge-O-Matic], allowing players to remove 1 beneficial magic effect from creatures while in manastorm.

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[Elune] [Pending Restart] The Reflecting affix in Manastorm has been changed, you will now be able to dispel/purge the reflective buff that reflects damaging spells.

2024/03/16

General

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[Area-52] Imp firebolt from Hand of Gul'dan Damage reduced by 10% in player v player combat.

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[Pending Restart] Titan's Grip now reduces damage against players by 17% (down from 20%).

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[Area-52] Victory Rush healing reduced by 10% in player v player combat.

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[Area-52] Kill shot (spot weakness) Damage reduced by 10% in player v player combat.

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[Area-52] Harbinger's Bile damage reduced by 5% in player v player combat.

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[Area-52] Frostbolt Damage reduced by 3% in player v player combat.

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[Area-52] [Pending Restart][Shadow visions] Mind flay damage reduced by 25% (up from 20%) (Previous 15% was a tooltip error).

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[Pending Restart] Grasp of Darkness now correctly is affected by range talents.

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[Pending Restart] Grasp of Darkness now properly is affected by range talents.

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[Pending Restart] The following items are now bind on equip: Homebound Portal, Survivalist's Campsite, Belt of the Master Crafter, Gauntlets of the Master Crafter, Artisan’s Guild Tabard, Stick on a Carrot, Pendant of Adventure, Pendant of Discovery, Stone of Retreat: Goldshire, Stone of Retreat: Razor Hill. These items offered non-cosmetic value to many Heroes, but were only obtainable from a specific form of content, trials. Changing them from bind of pickup to bind on equip will give those who enjoy trials a direct avenue for making gold, and for those who don't, other ways to access these exclusive convenience items.

Talents & Abilities

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[Pending Restart] [Elune] Your Shadow Crash now deals 30% reduced damage to players for 10 seconds after being hit by your Shadow Crash. (This change aims to reduce the power of using two Shadow Crashes in a row in PvP.)

Item Changes

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[Pending Restart] Mystic Rune Fragments are now of Rare quality and no longer soul bound upon pickup and can now be traded.

Dungeons & Raids

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[Pending Restart] [The Black Temple] [General] Moved the position of a few trash mobs in Naj'entus chamber to not chain pull across the room.

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[Pending Restart] [The Black Temple] [General] The following creatures can now have loot: Dragonmaw Skystalker, Shadowmoon Houndmaster, Suffering Soulfragment, Hungering Soulfragment.

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[Pending Restart] [The Black Temple] [General] All trash creatures can now occasionally drop Mythic Orb Shards and Mythic Rune Fragments.

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[Pending Restart] [The Black Temple] [General] Corrected multiple issues where unique items from trash mobs such as summoner stones could not drop.

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[Pending Restart] [The Black Temple] [General] Corrected multiple issues where trash mobs could not drop every item on their loot tables.

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[Pending Restart] [The Black Temple] [General] Beasts, Machines, Elemental and Dragon type creatures now always drop a body part of various quality and will always have something on them to be looted.

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[Pending Restart] [The Black Temple] [General] Increased the frequency of consumable items such as potions and scrolls dropping 50%.

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[Pending Restart] [The Black Temple] [General] Increased the frequency of poor quality and uncommon quality armor and weapons dropping by 100%.

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[Pending Restart] [The Black Temple] [General] Corrected multiple issues where trash mobs could not drop every item on their loot tables. This greatly increases the amount of epic items, rare items, recipes and gems dropping from trash mobs.

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[Pending Restart] [The Black Temple] [General] Gnarf Schnarf has collected enough shiny things from adventurers traveling to the Black Temple and decided to go back into the candle business... for now.

2024/03/15

General

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[Area-52] Shadowmoon Insignia Healing reduced by 50% in arena combat.

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[Pending restart] Previous Drain soul nerf reverted, Drain soul now deals 3 times its execute damage to players (down from 4 )

2024/03/14

General

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[Area-52] Drain soul damage reduced by 35% in player v player combat.

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[Area-52] [Pending Restart] Harbinger of Pestilence now increases disease damage by 10% per stack vs players. (Down from 20%).

2024/03/12

World

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[Pending Restart] Added missing Herbalism nodes to Azuremyst Isle.

2024/03/11

General

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[Pending Restart] Herbalism nodes have been added to Eversong Woods.

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[Pending Restart] Swashbuckler: Shocktrooper Damage reduction against players has been removed.

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[Area-52] Shield of Righteousness Healing reduced by 10% in player v player combat.

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[Area-52] Time-bound (Steward of eternity) Healing reduced by 90% in 1v1 arena.

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[Area-52] Stormgarde Damage reduced by 15% in player v player combat.

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[Area-52] Hellfire Pursuit Damage reduced by 10% in player v player combat.

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[Area-52] Icicle Damage reduced by 10% in player v player combat.

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[Area-52] Killing spree damage reduced by 3% in player v player combat.

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[Area-52] Battle charge damage reduced by 5% in player v player combat.

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[Area-52] Locust Shot damage increased by 5% in player v player combat.

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[Area-52] Seal of Light healing reduced by 10% in player v player combat.

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[Area-52] Insect Swarm (plague) damage reduced by 10% in player v player combat.

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[Area-52] Champion of Justice (Adorned) Healing reduced by 90% in 1v1 arena.

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[Area-52] Wraith Damage reduced by 7% in player v player combat.

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[Area-52] Wrath damage reduced by 10% in player v player combat.

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[Area-52] Harbinger's Bileeduced by 8% in player v player combat.

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[Area-52] Wild quiver damage increased by 24% in player v player combat.

Dungeons & Raids

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[Blackwing Lair] [Nefarian] Chromatic Drakonid's Broodpowers now require spells to have a cost in order to trigger Draconic Regeneration.

2024/03/09

General

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[Requires restart] Now on a weekly basis the Lottery feature on Trade Prince Gallywix and his trusty pal Goldilocks will have a rotative rare prize instead of just [Sigil of Goldilocks] ON TOP of the prize money. These prizes range from [The Gorilla Goggles] to the [Reins of the Mighty Caravan Brutosaur] and new cosmetics as well.

2024/03/07

Talents & Abilities

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[Elune] Buffed Traumatic Wounds: Ferocious Bite now also extends the duration of your Rip by 1 second.

Dungeons & Raids

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[Elune] The end of segment portal in manastorm will now always spawn next to the objective boss in that segment.

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[Pending Restart] [The Black Temple] [Teron Gorefiend] Increased the duration of Spirit Touch on Teron Gorefiend to 15 seconds up from 10 seconds.

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[Pending Restart] [The Black Temple] [Teron Gorefiend] Reduced the mana costs of Vengeful Spirits Spirit Chains, Spirit Scream and Spirit Lance Volley to 8% down from 10%.