Ascension Changelog

[Witch Hunter] Tonic Supply and Witch Knight now properly affect Holy Water Tonic.

[Witch Hunter] No Regrets reduced to 15% from 35%

[Witch Hunter] Hunt mana cost reduced by 10%

[Witch Hunter] Noctis Blade now scales with your Parry rating instead of your defense rating

[Witch Hunter] Wicked Intent has been reworked

[Witch Hunter] Noctis Blade no longer requires a dodge or parry

[Witch Hunter] Witchblight now reduces affected targets chance to hit on their next attack by 100% instead of reducing their physical and magic damage dealt

[Witch Hunter] Cycle of Despair no longer prevents Dawn from stacking while active.

[Witch Hunter] Dusk stack value reduced by 2%.

[Witch Hunter] Cost of Noctis Blade and March of the Black King reduced by 2%.

[Witch Hunter] ‘Tis But A Flesh Wound now provides 5% DR and 5% increased healing taken when at or below 50% HP.

[Starcaller] Nebula is now guaranteed to proc but only procs from blocks.

[Stormbringer] Cyclone’s Embrace value reduced by 100.

[Stormbringer] Pressures will no longer debuff your allies as well!

[Stormbringer] Electrocute now generates 10 additional Static when used with Electrocutioner

[Stormbringer] The level 50 passive for Lightning now grants additional damage to enemies rooted by Eye of the Storm instead of additional damage at the end of the duration of Eye of the Storm

[Stormbringer] Thunder Wave no longer grants Electrocutioner, instead refreshes the duration of Volt on enemies struck

[Stormbringer] Scaling of Electrocute increased by 5%, Base damage at rank 11 increased by ~50

[Stormbringer] Duration of Kinetic Energy increased to 20 sec from 15 sec

[Stormbringer] Titanstorm now also procs from Electrocute, but the CDR has been reduced to 3 sec from 5 sec

[Starcaller] Chosen of the Moon duration increased by 3 sec.

[Witch Doctor] Bwonsamdi’s Gift now also grants ranged haste and allows Reclamation to transform into Spirit Volley, as well as additional Spirit synergy

[Witch Doctor] Frenzied Spirits now lasts up to 15 sec total, down from 20, but it now also generates a Spirit for you every sec while active

[Chronomancer] Added Temporal Return spell learned baseline at level 14

[Chronomancer] Nozdormu’s Gaze added as a switch node with Titan’s Gaze

[Chronomancer] Added Overcorrection as a switch node with Bronze Timeways

[Chronomancer] End of Time added as a switch node with Eternity

[Chronomancer] Procrastination added as a switch node with Timekeeper, and the original Procrastination node has been reworked

[Chronomancer] Maker of Realities added as a switch node with Unmaker of Realities

[Chronomancer] Titan’s Gaze now has a new effect that augments Time Out! and its previous effect has been baked into the Constant Recovery talent

[Primalist] Battle Druid now has a 3 sec icd

[Primalist] Tooltip issue regarding Seismic Crash and Primal Resurgence interaction has been fixed.

[Primalist] Issue where Rylak’s Charge sometimes wouldn’t charge you has been fixed.

[Primalist] Totemic Smash no longer deals aoe to the initial target, and now the aoe damage is only dealt to targets around the initial target.

[Primalist] Totemic Smash no longer transforms from Geode Barrage

[Primalist] Earthenforged Barrier, Rock Solid, and Fury of the Earthmother have been adjusted to work with the new version of Rock Barrier in mind

[Primalist] Rock Barrier no longer costs Rage, now costs mana

[Primalist] Rock Barrier now increases your Armor, scaling with your Stamina

[Primalist] Bearskin now has a 5min cd up from 3min, but now reduces damage taken by 60% up from 50%

[Primalist] Sacred Grove no longer has a cast time

[Primalist] Geode Barrage now has an increased cast time, but its base damage has also been increased with this in mind.

[Primalist] Rush of the Hunt now has a new effect with Rylak’s Bite

[Primalist] Ursoc’s Roar and Bring Me Their Bones are now a switch node

[Ranger] Serrated Shot now also deals its damage on application

[Felsworn] Carve now usable while silenced.

[Templar] Zealot level 15 and 40 passives swapped positions

[Templar] Righteous Upheaval and Sanctified Smash swapped positions

[Templar] Oathkeeper - Level 50 Passive Dodge to magic resistance conversion reduced from 20% to 10%.

[Templar] Aggramar’s Rage now also increases the damage of Chastise and Thousand Blades, but its critical strike chance for both is reduced by 3%.

[Templar] Added Justicar of Light as a switch node with Guardian of Light

[Templar] Meditate now reduces damage taken by 50% down from 80% and now has a 3min cd up from 2min, but now has a 15 sec duration up from 8

[Templar] Libram of Grace now increases healing received by 20% up from 15%.

[Templar] Eternal Blessing now increases your Holy Damage dealt instead of reducing Physical Damage taken

[Templar] Barrier of Light reworked into a short duration team aura, instead of a personal DR spell.

[Templar] Tome of Light now has a 5min cd up from 3min, but it now absorbs significantly more damage

[Guardian] Sever renamed to Broad Sweep

[Guardian] Valiant Strike renamed to Resurgent Strike

[Guardian] Ram and Shield Challenge have swapped icons.

[Guardian] Footman’s Call now increases the damage of Pulverize scaling with your block rating

[Guardian] Scaling of the healing done by Counter Stance has been increased significantly scaling with your attack power

[Guardian] Forceful Impact value down to 1 sec from 2 sec

[Guardian] Brace now has a 3min cd up from 2min, but now reduces damage taken by 50% up from 30%

[Guardian] Raise Shield now grants 100% block chance and block value instead of reducing all damage taken by 50%

[Guardian] Vanguard level 40 passive value increased to 5 sec from 1 sec

[Cultist] Eldritch Entities and Void Drain now restore 2% base health instead of 1% max health.

[Cultist] General of Yshaarj now causes healing based on damage dealt instead of percentage max health healing.

[Cultist] Doomcloak reworked into a passive effect.

[Cultist] Occultism now procs from critical strikes and no longer gives 10% increased critical damage

[Cultist] Terrorbolt is now called Terror and both it and Absolute Horror now work with Wrath of the Black Empire instead of Horrorbolt

[Cultist] Horrorbolt Volley scaling reduced by 10%, base damage reduced by ~275\

[Cultist] Aberration now also reduces the channel time of Eldritch Devastation

[Cultist] Eldritch Devastation now strikes 8 targets up from 5, but its base tick rate has been increased to 1.5 sec from .5 sec

[Cultist] Aberration proc chance increased to 40% from 20%

[Cultist] Occultism critical damage reduced from 20% to 10%

[Cultist] Twilight Guardian no longer scales with Defense rating, now based on damage.

[Cultist] Bulwark of Shadow CD reduction value reduced from 50% to 30%.

[Cultist] Darkward value halved.

[Cultist] Eldritch Devastation now has a 1.5 sec tick rate up from .5 sec

[Cultist] Eldritch Velocity value reduced by 10%.

[Cultist] Inner Turmoil stack count reduced by 2.

[Cultist] Call of C’thun stack count increase lowered from 3 to 1, tick rate bonus increased by 5%.

[Cultist] Total Madness now has a chance to break early on damage taken

[Barbarian] Savage Strength now only gives Agility

[Barbarian] Spear of Sen’jin now has no cooldown but now costs 55 Energy, but now transforms Throw Weapon and scales with modifiers to it instead of Javelin Toss

[Barbarian] Legacy of the Amani reworked

[Barbarian] Headhunting now has a level 30 passive

[Barbarian] Steel Fury stack value reduced by 2%.

[Barbarian] Brutality - Level 50 Passive value reduced by 5%.

[Barbarian] Savage Massacre no longer ignores armor.

[Bloodmage] Aortic Assault now no longer requires a target

[Bloodmage] Pursuit now provides crit chance instead of damage reduction.

[Bloodmage] Gore now provides additional attack power from agility and strength when in Eternal Form.

[Bloodmage] Eternal - Level 15 Passive AGI to Dodge conversion halved.

[Bloodmage] Eternal Resolve no longer heals.

[Bloodmage] Cunning replaced by Packleader, causing Howl spells to empower your summons.

[Bloodmage] Shrug Off replaced by Eternal Hunt, reducing the cost of Bloodfang Bite and increasing its damage.

[Bloodmage] Bloodthorns damage lowered and rank acquisition adjusted.

[General] Spells that deal “X”strike damage (ex: Flamestrike, Naturestrike, Shadowstrike,etc.) have now been assigned 1 school that matches how the ability was intended to function against armor and resistances (ex: A Flamestrike spell is now either a Fire spell or a Physical spell)

[General] Hit rating and expertise values and how you acquire them have been adjusted across the board. They are generally spec-based acquisitions now, instead of class tree or baseline.

[General] Tanks no longer have hit and expertise conversions.