Ascension Changelog

[Reaper] Greater Crimson Pact is no longer improperly capped to 5 targets.

[Pyromancer] Inferno can now be cancelled early, but will only do the big pulse of healing if you channel the full duration.

[Pyromancer] Rekindle no longer improperly triggers Offering of Executus.

[Pyromancer] Overheat now properly causes Slagstone to cleave to one additional nearby target.

[Primalist] Call of Ursoc now instantly resets the cooldown of both Bear’s Maw and Totemic Smash, instead of causing the next one of them to not incur a cooldown, but the cooldown has been increased. (Note: Through other talents, a core loop of Rylak’s Bite -> Bear’s Maw -> Totemic Smash has been established, and this talent broke that core loop by resetting one of them and not the other, desyncing it.)

[Knight of Xoroth] Melt can now properly trigger Pestilence Unbound.

[Knight of Xoroth] Inferno Blast now properly increases the damage of Seeking Flame instead of Infernal Strike.

[Knight of Xoroth] Flames of Xoroth rank 2 no longer splits damage (this was removed on other ranks last week, this rank accidentally got missed)

[Guardian] Elegant Combat now highlights Pulverize.

[Felsworn] Immolation Aura now properly generates threat, puts you in combat, etc.

[Cultist] The Heretic level 30 and level 40 spec passives now require the correct level (they were reversed).

[Cultist] Hammer of Twilight now properly cleaves 2 additional nearby targets, instead of only 1.

[Cultist] Malevolent Power can no longer build stacks while you have the instant cast buff active.

[Cultist] Saronite Shield now requires Black Blood on the target, instead of Void-Touched.

[Bloodmage] The free Vampiric Fang from casting Transgression now properly triggers its heal.

[Bloodmage] Bloodborn now just affects the spell haste of your next 3 casts instead of specifying specific spells

[Necromancer] Value of Summoning Adept reduced by 5%.

[Necromancer] Value of Fetid Mark reduced by 1%.

[Necromancer] Base damage and scaling of Command: Skeletal Archer reduced by 5%.

[Necromancer] You can no longer cast Command spells while casting or channeling other spells.

[Chronomancer] Discordance no longer triggers Unearthed Pools without the talent.

[Witch Hunter] Darkness capstone row has seen the following talents reworked: Low Dawn, Anguishing Flock, Deal with the Devil, Magical Blasting Powder

[Witch Hunter] Boltslinger Spec Passive now grants ranged attacks and abilities a chance to shoot a shot dealing damage based on ranged attack power.

[Witch Hunter] Bane of Witches now increases your Physical Damage for a short period after using a Bolt.

[Witch Hunter] Darkness, No More replaced with Neverending Pursuit, causing Damnation crits to refund rage.

[Witch Hunter] Tormentor Bolt renamed to Tormentor.

[Witch Hunter] Abrasive now causes Tormentor Bolt to tick faster.

[Witch Hunter] Strafing Shot now causes ranged direct crits to spread Tormentor Bolt to one nearby enemy.

[Witch Hunter] Expect the Unexpected makes Witchbane and Darkslayer do more damage against targets affected by Tormentor Bolt.

[Witch Hunter] Giantslayer now affects both bolts.

[Witch Hunter] Lucky Shot no longer increases bolt crit chance.

[Witch Hunter] Rapid now makes Witchbane do its full damage over shorter period of time.

[Witch Hunter] Crossbow Expert now affects Damnation and Darkslayer.

[Witch Hunter] Trophy Hunter now makes Heartseeking Bolt crits increase the damage of next Darkslayer.

[Witch Hunter] One Shot now causes Heartseeking Bolt and Witching Bolt crits to bleed.

[Witch Hunter] Arbalest Mastery now causes Witchbane to deal increased damage with each shot unleashed.

[Witch Hunter] Relentless now causes Witchbane to hit an additional target.

[Witch Hunter] New capstone Everything You Have replacing Bag of Tricks, doubles the duration of Dark Frenzy but causes it to drain your health.

[Witch Hunter] Bounty Hunter damage increased.

[Witch Hunter] Dead and Gone now reduces the CD of Bolt and Dash and increases its damage boost.

[Witch Hunter] Heavy Crossbows now affects Heartseeking Bolt instead of Witching Bolt with reduced chance to proc and reduced ICD.

[Witch Hunter] Boltslinger - level 50 Passive grants a chance on direct ranged allow use of Witching Bolt.

[Witch Hunter] Boltslinger - Level 30 Passives now causes Darkslayer and Witchbane damage to reduce armor, stacking.

[Witch Hunter] Boltslinger - Level 20 Passive now causes all Bolts to generate mana.

[Witch Hunter] Empowered Heartseeking Bolt now guarantees Heartseeking Bolt crit.

[Witch Hunter] Witching Hour no longer affects Tormentor Bolt and Witching Bolt.

[Witch Hunter] Empowered Ricocheting Bolt now holds the old effect of Empowered Heartseeking Bolt.

[Witch Hunter] Witching Hour Empowered Darkslayer Bolt replaced by Empowered Ricocheting Bolt.

[Witch Hunter] Darkbane now a capstone allowing Bolt and Dash to affect additional use of Bolts.

[Witch Hunter] Bolt and Dash no longer a capstone, now a mid level talent causing your next bolt to deal more damage and incur no shared CD. Cooldown now 45 seconds.

[Witch Hunter] Witching Bolt now an execute spell with increasing damage based on Rage spent, called Damnation

[Witch Hunter] Ricochet remade into Ricocheting Bolt, dealing damage to up to 5 enemies, increasing with each enemy hit. Shares cooldown with Heartseeking Bolt.

[Witch Hunter] Heartseeking Bolt now a 6 second cooldown and costs rage.

[Witch Hunter] Witchbane is now a channeled stationary ability dealing damage over time. No longer restores mana.

[Witch Hunter] Witchblood Tonic no longer heals.

[Witch Hunter] Black Knight tree pathing has been adjusted with the above Black Knight changes in mind

[Witch Hunter] New level 20 passive has been added to the Black Knight vertical line, previous level 20/40 passives have been moved down the line

[Witch Hunter] Shadowstorm talent now triggers on damage dealt instead of on cast but its proc chance has been reduced to 20% from 25%

[Witch Hunter] Destroyer of Evil now also allows Dawn Blade to apply Shadow Brand

[Witch Hunter] Desecrate now has no cd but its rage cost has been increased to 40 from 25

[Witch Hunter] Witchblight cd increased to 30 sec from 16 sec, but now heals for a % of your maximum health, and applies a debuff to enemies struck that reduces their damage dealt

[Witch Hunter] Secret Society adjusted with the above change in mind

[Witch Hunter] Knights Seal now only affects 1 target but no longer has to be consumed to get the Desecrate heal

[Witch Hunter] Desecrate now heals for a flat amount baseline + an additional amount for each target affected by Shadow Brand

[Witch Hunter] Destroyer of Evil now deals a % of damage dealt by Dawn Blade over time instead of flat scaling damage

[Witch Hunter] Bulwark of Darkness no longer allows Dawn Blade to cleave and instead gives increased damage for each stack of Pommel Strike

[Witch Hunter] Searing Blade damage fixed (was doing significantly less than intended)

[Witch Hunter] Expert Shot now increases damage of Shadowblast and Shadow Shot.

[Witch Hunter] Sharpshooter now affects Witchblaster and Darkflock.

[Witch Hunter] Darkness - Level 30 Passive now causes Shadowblast crits to generate an additional stack of Blasting Powder.

[Witch Hunter] Witchblaster and Darkflock cost reduced.

[Witch Hunter] Shadow Shot now costs rage and has no cooldown.

[Witch Hunter] Anguish is now a passive

[Witch Hunter] Slayer’s Mark CD increased to 90 sec from 60 sec but it now also increases all attackers attack power against the target

[Witch Hunter] Expulsion of Evil is now a chance for a full CD reset from direct ranged attacks and abilities.

[Witch Hunter] Darkness tree pathing adjusted.

[Witch Hunter] Holstered changed to Unholstered, increasing damage of Flintlock Shot and reducing its cost.

[Witch Hunter] Quickdraw now makes the next Flintlock Shot instant.

[Witch Hunter] Blasting Powder no longer affects Shadowblast, Shadow Shot and Quickdraw.

[Witch Hunter] Shadow Show Weapon Damage reduced by 25% base cooldown increased by 4 sec.

[Witch Hunter] Darkflock no longer scales with modifiers to Flintlock Shot. Now is affected by Blasting Powder and consumes it and does AOE damage upfront, not after a single target hit.

[Witch Hunter] Repulse now knocks back baseline and Spreading Darkness now reduces its cooldown.

[Witch Hunter] Darkslayer and Shadowblast have been combined into 1 spell called Shadowblast

[Witch Hunter] Coiling Shot and Flintlock Shot have been combined into 1 spell called Darkslayer

[Sun Cleric] Justice now costs Rage.

[Sun Cleric] Justice % Weapon damage lowered by 20.

[Sun Cleric] Justice cooldown increased by 2 sec.

[Sun Cleric] Warrior’s Light now provides individual values for Sunflare and Justice.

[Sun Cleric] Light of the Sun now provides damage increase instead of crit damage increase.

[Sun Cleric] Dawn effects of Justice and Glorious Execution swapped.

[Sun Cleric] Seraphic Bulwark cost reduced by 10.

[Sun Cleric] Bastion of Vengeance removed from switch node with Seraphic Justice.

[Sun Cleric] Seraphic Justice and Dawn’s Arrival now proc from Dawnbringer instead of Righteous Slam.

Light at the end of the Tunnel duration now lasts for 18 sec, changed from 15 sec.

Twilight Paragon now reduces the damage you take from Shadow Word: Death by 10% per stack. It now grants 1% Smite damage per stack, changed from 1% critical strike chance. Shadow Word: Pain is now extended by 3 sec on dealing Twilight damage, changed from casting Smite. Mind Flay and Mind Sear gets an additional damage tick over their duration while Paragon of Darkness is active.

Light and Shadow now increases Smite critical chance by 8%, changed from 10%.

Curse of Doom now benefits from damage over time modifiers like Haunt, Shadow Embrace and spellstones.

Shadow Visions now requires 6 fragments, changed from 9. The empowered effects are now: Devouring Plague: Duration increased by 12 seconds. Mind Blast: Damage increased by 50%, makes your next Mind Flay have 33% increased critical strike chance. Vampiric Touch: Marks a target to take 15% increased periodic damage from you for 30 seconds.

Lava Beam damage has been reduced and now deals about 15% more damage than a Chain Lightning. The jump damage is no longer reduced, changed from 30% per jump.

Fixed a bug where Doomguard would not attack summoner when summoned from Curse of Doom.