Ascension Changelog

Cold Blood now has a 2 min cooldown, changed from 3.

A new world boss, Volchan, has been added! Along with a new method of obtaining a total of +10 increased Mining skill. Volchan has received temporarily inflated health and damage values due to the number of players that will be participating at his release.

As a heads up to avoid confusion some of the above fixes won't be applied with the upcoming restart they will be applied later ideally today.

Mounting in Battle Grounds will now increase your movement speed by 100% even if you do not have the riding training for it.

Mounting in Battle Grounds will now increase your movement speed by 100% even if you do not have the riding training for it.

Mounting in Battle Grounds will now increase your movement speed by 100% even if you do not have the riding training for it.

Amount of Felstone Grog required for its quest has been cut in half.

[Pending Restart] Some guards outside of Blackrock Depths are no longer duplicated.

Dark Iron Residue now also has a 10x option to turn them in faster.

[Pending Restart] You can now toggle "At War" with the Thorium Brotherhood, some important NPCs have been made unattackable, and you can regain reputation under neutral by killing Blackrock Depths enemies, this change was for the guard functionality.

[Pending Restart] Thorium Brotherhood Lookouts are now actual guards that should respond to PvP combat.

[Felsworn] Pacts now properly behave like Paladin auras, multiple Felsworns can bring different Pacts, but they cannot overlap the same one.

[Runemaster] Ley Lock is now melee range baseline and 40 yds for Glyphic

[Runemaster] Firebrand now has a small DoT alongside the explosion damage at the end to ensure you always gain some benefit from applying Firebrand.

[Runemaster] Empowered Magi no longer guarantees Firebrand on Primordial Blast, and is now a 50% chance to proc.

[Runemaster] Coldrune Blasts base damage has been nerfed greatly on lower ranks, and moderately at higher ranks

[Runemaster] Elemental Bursts base damage has been nerfed moderately

[Runemaster] Glyphic - Level 15 Passive crit scaling reduced from 20% of Spirit, to 15% of Spirit.

[Ranger] Deadshot now generates 2 Archery Points.

[Ranger] Venom Blade no longer deals direct damage.

[Ranger] Spread Shots reworked into Mortal Shots.

[Ranger] Serrated Shot now has 2 more ranks.

[Ranger] New node Deep Serrations added.

[Ranger] Splintered Arrows reworked.

[Ranger] Searing Quiver now deals % Fire Damage based on attack that triggers it.

[Ranger] Incendiary Shot now interacts will all direct damage archery point spenders and deals fire damage based on their damage.

[Ranger] Piercing Arrows now allows your abilities to ignore 25% of enemy armor.

[Ranger] New- Age Archery now causes ranged damage to increase damage of next Precision Shot.

[Ranger] Archery - Level 50 Passive added.

[Ranger] Archery Level 30 Passive now increases Quick Shot weapon damage %.

[Ranger] Quick Shot base weapon damage % reduced by 20%.

[Ranger] Archery - Level 40 Passive now allows auto shot to restore Focus instead of making periodic damage scale with haste.

[Ranger] Serrated Shot no longer deals direct damage, periodic damge increased.

[Ranger] Lethal Wounds value doubled.

[Ranger] Headshots Only also procs from Barbed Shot and affects Precision Shot.

[Ranger] Elven Enchantments now increases magic damage dealt and dealing damage with Searing Quiver reduces cast time of Precision Shot.

[Ranger] Swift Arrows now provides a chance to not consume Archery Points.

[Ranger] An Arrow For Everything is now a static passive.

[Ranger] Hunting With Precision now causes Hunting Shot to deal increased damage per bounce.

[Ranger] Piercing Shot now increases ranged weapon damage.

[Ranger] Stone Mason’s Secret (the capstone that makes Way of Defias cleave) renamed to Pilfering, as there was already a talent with the same name.

[Ranger] Both hits of Wild Strike can now properly trigger Bounty, instead of just the main hand one.

[Ranger] Venom Blade now shows full damage it will do over time in tooltip.

[Ranger] All ranks of Wild Strike now have the same cost as Rank 1. And cost lowered by 5.

[Reaper] Harvest - level 20 Passive now affects Doomrend.

[Reaper] Soul - Level 10 Passive now reduces the cooldown of Wraithblade

[Reaper] Spiritual Pressure now increases damage of Soulrend.

[Reaper] Haunter no longer increases Soulrend Scaling, increases its duration by 1 additional second.

[Reaper] Soulrend now has no cooldown.

[Reaper] Soul Harvester removed.

[Reaper] Phantom Harvest now replaced by Soul Harvest. Soul Harvest does AOE damage by default.

[Reaper] Harvest - level 30 Passive now causes Reap to generate an additional Soul Fragment when striking a target affected by Crimson Harvest instead of generating a full Reaped Soul.

[Reaper] Reaper now starts with Reap and Soulrend.

[Primalist] Geomancy tree has been repathed with the above changes in mind

[Primalist] Earthen Mandate is now the level 50 Geomancy passive. The current level 50 Geomancy passive is now the level Geomancy 30 passive and it now generates Rumbler off a % chance from generating Earthshaping instead of every 2 Geode Barrage casts.

[Primalist] Rupturer now also generates Geomolding with Stonefall damage dealt

[Primalist] Journey to the Core now works with Terrasurge and Earthquake and triggers with Seismic Lance

[Primalist] Corebreaker no longer generates Rage, instead increases the damage the target takes from your Earthquake

[Primalist] Cracking the Earth now triggers from Shattered Stone

[Primalist] Earthen Core deprecated and replaced with Shattered Stone talent

[Primalist] Cave Dweller has been swapped with the Geomancy Level 20 Passive

[Primalist] Cragforming now works with Mountain Hammer and deals more damage, no longer splits its damage, and is a 100% chance up from 10% chance

[Primalist] World Shaper now ticks every 5 sec up from every 2 sec, but now you also have a % chance with all direct spell damage to generate a stack.

[Primalist] Geothermal Vent base damage reduced by ~140

[Tinker] Demolitions Expert replaced with Grenadier talent which allows you to refresh a charge of Firepot Drone

[Tinker] Firepot Drone is now on a 3 charge system rather than always requiring a Napalm proc to use.

[Pyromancer] Overheat can no longer be cast if you already have Overheat active, preventing cases where you double tap it and waste both charges.

[Pyromancer] Tide of Fire’s healing and damage now share the same target cap

[Pyromancer] Lucifron’s Blessing now increases all haste, instead of just spell haste.

[Necromancer] Animate: Putrid Thralls is now instant cast

[Necromancer] Mucksplosion (the triggered Muckworm explosion from casting a Command) is now properly centered on the Muckworm, instead of on the Necromancer.

[Necromancer] Raise: Ghost has been reflavored to Raise: Skeletal Slime

[Necromancer] Tomb King now costs 30 Runic Power up from 25

[Necromancer] Tomb King now deals significantly more damage on auto attacks, but attacks far slower than before. In addition, its aura is now a baseline effect and its Unholy Command effect is now its previous Tomb Claw attack.

[Necromancer] Summoning Prodigy now causes Animate: Putrid Thrall to summon an additional thrall and last for 2 sec longer.

[Necromancer] Graverobber now increases the amount of zombies spawned by Animate: Zombies.

[Guardian] Ram’s Mortal Strike effect buffed from 30% to 40%.

[Bloodmage] Drenched in Blood now also works with Bloodbolt but its healing increase to Crimson Tide has been removed and baked in baseline to the spell

[Bloodmage] Blood Rituals now lasts 15 sec baseline up from 10 sec

[Bloodmage] Daily Rituals reworked into Black Heart, with Taldarams Torment synergy

[Bloodmage] Duration of Bloodbolt increased to 8sec from 6sec

[Bloodmage] Bite Wound changed to heal off auto attacks instead of specific abilities

[Bloodmage] Grimclaws is now called Grim Omen and now works with Howls instead of Bloodbolt

[Bloodmage] Gore now causes Bloodfang Bite to heal for a portion of its damage dealt.

[Bloodmage] Aortic Assault now extends the duration of Accursed Form by 2 sec.

[Bloodmage] Clotting no longer only works on your next ability cast and now affects all single-target damaging abilities instead of a handful of specific abilities

[Bloodmage] Savagery, now called Crimson Feast, no longer affects Aortic Assault

[Bloodmage] Bloodborne Assault reworked

[Bloodmage] Fleshbending now has a reworked effect

[Bloodmage] Thirsting Jaws reworked into Nightmare

Magister's Boots can now also drop from Astilos the Hollow in Baradin Hold.

Magister's Boots can now also drop from Astilos the Hollow in Baradin Hold.

Magister's Boots can now also drop from Astilos the Hollow in Baradin Hold.

Magister's Boots can now also drop from Astilos the Hollow in Baradin Hold.

Magister's Boots can now also drop from Astilos the Hollow in Baradin Hold.

Corrected an issue in which an encounter with the Forgotten Avatar was dealing significantly more damage than intended with some abilities.

Corrected an issue in which an encounter with the Forgotten Avatar was dealing significantly more damage than intended with some abilities.

Corrected an issue in which an encounter with the Forgotten Avatar was dealing significantly more damage than intended with some abilities.

[General] PvP Mods have been updated across the board. Many spells with negative mods from past iterations of the spell have been adjusted to have no mod at all.

[Bronzebeard] [Pending Restart] Ascending Flames increased initial damage for Flame Shock has been reduced from 80% to 40% in PvP combat.