Ascension Changelog

[Chronomancer] Artificer's Wand removed. A modified Auto Shot for wands added.

[Tinker] Bomb Launcher no longer increases the cast time of Blackpowder Shot

[Tinker] Blackpowder Shot now causes Sentry Turret force attack instead of Telescopic Focusing Lens.

[Tinker] Telescopic Focusing Lens no longer causes Sentry Turrets to force attack. Now affects 2 additional hits.

[Tinker] Improved Lightning Conductor now additionally increases the duration by further 3 sec.

[Tinker] Lightning Conductor duration increased by 2 sec.

[Tinker] Demolition tree nodes moved around.

[Tinker] Rocket Barrage reworked to instead increase the charge count of Rockadier shots and reduce its cooldown.

[Tinker] Cannonball Launcher reworked into Incendiary Rounds, increasing the duration of Blackpowder Barrage and causing damage dealt by Blackpowder Barrage to deal additional fire damage based on damage done.

[Tinker] Boomshot not using ranged weapon for its damage fixed.

[Tinker] Handcannon base damage increased.

[Tinker] Handcannon now scales with ranged weapon damage.

[Tinker] THE BIG ONE!!! scaling fixed.

[Tinker] Holstered Cannon now procs on cast instead of hit.

[Tinker] Explosive Rounds RAP scaling fixed.

[Tinker] Refined Gunpowder now correctly increases the damage dealt by Explosive Rounds and Standard Rounds.

[Tinker] Blasting Barrels now additionally increase the damage of Blackpowder Shot.

[Tinker] Weapon damage contribution of Standard Rounds Blackpowder Shot increased by 30%.

[Tinker] Last Bullet now causes Blackpowder Shot with Standard Rounds to ignore % armor and to deal increased damage versus enemies below 35% health.

[Tinker] Overclock Weapon now provides increased damage instead of reduced cast time.

[Tinker] Rocket Launcher scaling increased

[Tinker] Issue where Boomshot was dealing weapon damage and not ranged weapon damage fixed

[Tinker] Doomcannon MK-3 now reduces movement speed by 60%, up from 90%

[Tinker] Boomshot can now be cast while casting

[Tinker] Handcannon can now be cast while casting

[Starcaller] Moonlit Bulwark can now be used while stunned.

[Starcaller] Celestial Strike and Cleave now deal Arcane Damage.

[Starcaller] Base damage of Lunar Shock increased.

[Starcaller] Lunar Shock scaling increased by 12%.

[Starcaller] Nightborne Armaments now additionally provide critical strike rating.

[Starcaller] Starcovered Night now additionally procs from dodges.

[Starcaller] Tyrande's Guidance now reduces the cooldown by % rather than flat and now additionally affects Warden's Blade.

[Starcaller] Stand Against Darkness is now a self buff rather than a debuff.

[Starcaller] Clear the Skies value increased by 5%.

[Reaper] Soulslam tooltip now dynamic.

[Reaper] Blood Siphon leech value reduced by 5%.

[Reaper] Genocide proc chance reduced by 5%.

[Reaper] Slaughter AP scaling fixed (buff).

[Reaper] Haunter reworked.

[Reaper] Masochistic Rage now increases your movement speed by 20%, you cannot be slowed below 80% of your normal speed and you stagger 25% of incoming damage over 10 sec. Duration unchanged. Cooldown increased to 45 sec.

[Reaper] Beyond Saving now additionally slows.

[Reaper] Blood Fueled now additionally provides 5% critical strike chance.

[Reaper] Crimson Harvest damage to leech value reduced by 20%.

[Reaper] Duration of Crimson Harvest increased to 12s, tick rate now scales with haste.

[Reaper] Blood Siphon CD reduced by 3 sec.

[Reaper] Extinction no longer causes Slaughter to generate a Reaped Soul.

[Reaper] Slaughter now generates a Reaped Soul by default.

[Reaper] Ravenous Thirst now procs from any kind of damage and refunds 3 seconds of Blood Siphon CD.

[Reaper] Soul Protector now grants increased armor contribution instead of armor based on stamina.

[Reaper] Withering Touch cooldown reduced by 5 sec.

[Reaper] Darkrend Scythe tick rate now benefits from haste.

[Reaper] Darkrend Scythe tick rate up to 2 sec from 1 sec.

[Runemaster] Scaling of Icy Death increased by 28%.

[Runemaster] Pyrostrike scaling fixed. (was not linear; buff)

[Runemaster] Cold Storage now addionally causes your melee attacks to have a chance to slow the target.

[Runemaster] Deft Touch now causes Frost Blade uses to extend duration of Frozen Touch.

[Runemaster] Runestone:Frozen Touch reworked to now cause your melee attacks to deal additional frost damage.

[Runemaster] Mysticbind range increased b 3 yds.

[Runemaster] Dazzling Spray duration increased by 1 sec.

[Area 52] [Elune] Fixed an issue where you could teleport away while affected by the Crow's Rage debuff.

[Pending Restart] Princess Yauj's lights in the Temple of Ahn'Qiraj now have a radius indicator.

[Pending Restart] [Elune] [Area 52] Fixed an issue where Blurred Blade had no ICD, it now has a 0.5 second ICD.

[Pending Restart] Fixed a bug where the Lightning Overload stun was still on the random DR.

Each point of PvP power now grants 0.06 damage, changed from 0.05. (This results in a 30% damage increase when you have the PvP power cap, changed from 25%.)

Two new tabards with arena rating requirements are now available from Merul. All tabards now require 2000 rating, changed from 2200.

[Area 52] Wraith now deals 10% reduced damage in PvP combat.

[Area 52] Forbidden Technique now deals 15% reduced damage in PvP combat.

[Area 52] Dusk Dagger (Forbidden Technique) now deals 10% reduced damage in PvP combat.

[Area 52] Shadow Dagger (Forbidden Technique) now deals 10% reduced damage in PvP combat.

[Area 52] Starfire's now deals 5% reduced damage in PvP combat.

[Area 52] Gunslinger's Strike increased damage for Mongoose Bite has been reduced from 20% to 15% in PvP combat.

[Pending restart and patch] Added the Brutal Gladiator's Libram of Fortitude to the Season 4 Arena vendor.

[Pending restart and patch] Added the Brutal Gladiator's Dagger to the Season 4 Arena vendor. Handle it with care, it's extra sharp.

[Pending restart and patch] Added two new rings with hit rating to the Season 4 Honor vendor.

[Pending restart and cache clear] The stats on S4 Bracers, Belt and Boots have been increased by approximately 5% across the board, and another few % specifically for spell power. This change is intended to help make sure that these pieces stay competitive with Bloodforged gear.

[Pending restart and cache clear] The Guardian's Dragonhide Boots, Belt and Bracers now also have some Intellect.

[Pending restart] Slowed down the Brutal Gladiator's War Staff and Battle Staff from 2.0 to 3.6 speed. DPS is unchanged. As with all item updates, this requires a cache clear to be visible in-game.

[Pending restart] All the Season 4 headpieces have had their stats buffed slightly (approximately 5%) in order to better balance their power relative to the Bloodforged PvE options.

Fixed an issue where Guardian, Felsworn, Bloodmage and Knight of Xoroth had an extra threat modifier ontop of the baseline 1200% threat.

Reduced the threat caused by Cadaverous/Couragous and other similar tank 4 set bonuses that cause a spike in threat upon hitting an enemy target for the first time.

[Runemaster] - No longer randomly vanishes and disappears in PvP when you aren't looking at them.

[Blood Mage] - Battleground Flags are now dropped upon pickup while Running Wild is active

[Witch Hunter] - Shadow Hound's Track movement speed reduced from 50% to 20%.

[Sun Cleric] - Rapture PvP modded reduced by 40%

[Sun Cleric] - Sun Ray PvP Modded reduced by 50%

[Sun Cleric] - Horusath Blast Pvp Modded reduced by 60%

[Wildwalker] - Hand of the Earthmother/Primal Wave scaling reworked

[Knight of Xoroth] - Skulltaker PvP Modded reduced by 50%

[General] - Some pets were double dipping on Resilient Constitution, causing them to deal far less damage and take far less damage than intended.

[Cultist] - Mind Leak and Whisper of Yogg-saron swapped positions.

[Cultist] - Psychic Leech range increased from 30 yds to 40 yds.

[Cultist] - Smite of the Empire deals damage and generates 20 insanity and 2 void runes.

[Cultist] - Eldritch Smite of C'thun reworked to Smite of the Empire (Corruption Only)

[Cultist] - Eldritch Blast cast time reduced by 0.5 seconds.

[Cultist] - Void Tendrils no longer breaks on damage.

[Cultist] - Eldritch Devastation movement slow reduced from 50% to 30%.

[Cultist] - Eldritch Devastation cooldown reduced from 12 seconds to 6 seconds.

[Cultist] - Corrupt Mind no longer on GCD

[Cultist] - Corrupt Mind travel time now much faster

[Pending Restart] Corrected an issue preventing the Deadwood Headdress from dropping. This item will now properly drop from Deadwood Furbolg mobs in Felwood as long as you have completed the quest "Timbermaw Ally".