Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2023/07/28

General

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[Necromancer] Will of the Necropolis now costs 1 Foul Remnant instead of draining runic power over time

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[SoA] Increased SP scaling of Transfusion

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[SoA] Added some base level-scaling healing to Transfusion not based on max hp

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[SoA] Dark Liturgy can no longer target self

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[SoA] Sangunity's healing no longer affects self

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[SoA] Transfusion can no longer target self

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[SoA] Blood's spec passive now reduces healing from allies by 30% down from 50% and boosts selfheals by 20% down from 25%

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[SoA] Thirst references in tooltips now only appear if you are in Blood spec

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[SoA] Thirst is now triggered by knowing the Blood spec passive instead of baseline

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[Guardian] Reduced AP scaling on Tactical Strike

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[SoA] Reduced base damage of Atherann's Anguish

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[Reaper] Maw Knight now heals for 4% and grants 3% DR down from 5% and 5% respectively

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[Reaper] Improved Ghost Claw now increases the movespeed stolen by 15% down from 20%

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[Reaper] The Ethereal node now removes the CD of Shift

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[Reaper] Ghost Claw now steals 25% movespeed baseline down from 40%

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[Reaper] Shift now has 5 sec base CD

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[Reaper] Moved Improved Reave underneath Reave

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[Reaper] New icon for Ghostly Fortitude

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[Reaper] Dirge no longer generates a 2nd Soul Fragment on its offhand attack baseline

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[Reaper] Added a new passive node that allows Dirge to generate a 2nd Soul Fragment on its offhand attack

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[Witch Doctor] Updated the targeting reticle for Stasis Ward to reflect the duration of its actual stu

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[Witch Doctor] Curse of Hir'eek (Gift of the Loa) now boosts periodic damage taken by 50% down from 100%

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[Witch Doctor] Increased range of Stasis Ward to 20yd

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[Witch Doctor] Improved Hex of Death now allows Hex of Death to stack to 2 instead of 3

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[Witch Doctor] Bad Mojo (the Hex of Death stacker) is now called Improved Hex of Death and has a new icon

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[Witch Doctor] Voodoo Creep should now affect Hexes active on the target when it's applied

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[Witch Doctor] Voodoo Creep stacks now apply to the target instead of the caster

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[Witch Hunter] Daring Escape no longer requires Dual Crossbows to use

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[Witch Doctor] Touch of Torta should now be correctly consumed by Gift of the Loa

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[Witch Hunter] Ballista passive node now alsor educes the mana cost of Flintlock Shot by 5% per rank

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[Witch Hunter] Persisting Presence now called Lightspeaker, increases the duration of Proclamation by 3 sec down from 4 sec

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[Witch Hunter] Righteous Presence now called Proclamation

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[Witch Hunter] Proclamation now also reduces enemy attack power while active

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[Witch Hunter] Righteous Presence now has a 35 sec CD and 5 sec duration

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[Monk] Unburden no longer affects Charm effects

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[Witch Hunter] Fixed an issue where physical damage effects would reduce the remaining CD of Vault

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[Monk] Unburden now correctly affects snare effects

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[Monk] Fixed a bug where Unburden affected Stun effects

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[Monk] Unburden no longer prevents the caster from using Blade Tempest

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[Monk] Zeal now grants haste and energy regeneration instead of GCD reduction, and now grants 25% movespeed up from 20%

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[Monk] Righteous Palm's chain effect now grants 15% damage and 25% reduced GCDs on combat moves / chain enders

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[Monk] Zeal no longer reduced GCDs

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[Monk] Righteous Palm now scales from AP only instead of SP

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[Monk] Fist of Light now boosts damage the target takes from you by 5% for 10 sec

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[Monk] Righteous Palm is now a 24 sec cooldown

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[Monk] Fist of Light is now a combat move chain ender, and only deals Holy damage (but scales with AP, not SP)

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[Monk] Benediction can no longer crit

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[Witch Hunter] Endless Torment now increases the duration of Torment by 2 seconds, up from 1 second, whenever you crit with Flintlock Shot

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[Witch Hunter] Clarified the tooltip for Sensed Evil

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[Witch Hunter] Replaced "Vampire Hunt" with a new passive talent called "Vampire Hunting" that causes your Dawn Blade to reduce the effectiveness of healing on your target by 30%.

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[Witch Hunter] Acrobatics has been split into 2 separate talents, Acrobatics and Quick Escape

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[Witch Hunter] Undertaker will now increase your parry rating by 25% of your Agility, rather than giving you 5% more damage.

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[Witch Hunter] You Can Run now gives an additional 1/2% haste at each rank

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[Witch Hunter] Clarified the tooltip for Sensed Evil

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[Witch Hunter] Endless Torment now increases the duration of Torment by 2 seconds, up from 1 second, whenever you crit with Flintlock Shot

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[Witch Hunter] Acrobatics has been split into 2 separate talents, Acrobatics and Quick Escape

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[Witch Hunter] Replaced "Vampire Hunt" with a new passive talent called "Vampire Hunting" that causes your Dawnblade to reduce the effectiveness of healing on your target by 30%.

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[Witch Hunter] Undertaker will now increase your parry rating by 25% of your Agility, rather than giving you 5% more damage.

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[Witch Hunter] You Can Run now gives an additional 1/2% haste at each rank

2023/07/27

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[Ranger] Adaptation: Swashbuckler proc chance to apply Counterstruck on parry has been increased from 40% to 80% due to how infrequent parrying can be.

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[Reaper] Issue where Murder Spree rank 2 was the same as rank 1 has been fixed

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[Primalist] Issue where Magma Geode would increase the damage of all Geodes has been fixed, only increases the damage of Magma Geodes now

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[SoA] Issue where Curse of the Worgen was not applying a 15% MS increase has been fixed

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[SoA] Shadow Hemorrhage SFX toned down

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[SoA] Consume tooltip now mentions the generation of Thirst

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[SoA] Shadow Hemorrhage scaling increased slightly in light of ranks no longer serving a purpose

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[SoA] Enthrall now requires Mortal Form

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[General] Issue where PvP Vendors sold Ability and Talent Purges (Not the CoA Purges) has been fixed. Using these would temporarily break the talent tree.

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[Sun Cleric] Shining Rays ranks removed, ranks were not intended since the talent overhaul

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[Witch Hunter] Added new connecting lines to the Witch Hunter tree to open up build possibilities.

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[Witch Hunter] Added the "Night Stalker" talent to the Witch Hunter tree, which increases your damage and critical strike chance by 2%.

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[Witch Hunter] Added "But You Can't Hide" to the Witch Hunter tree, adding new synergies for Inquisitor and Darkness Witch Hunters.

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[Witch Hunter] Renamed "Quickness" to "Defender of Darkshire" and changed it to increase your critical strike chance by 3%, instead of giving you 8% movement speed.

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[Witch Hunter] Changed "You Can Run" in the Witch Hunter tree to increase your haste by 1/2% and your movement speed by 4/8%

2023/07/26

General

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Pending Patch.

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[Venomancer] Skitter range has been reduced to 15yd from 20yd.

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[Demon Hunter] Glaive Rush base cost has been increased to 40.

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[Sun Cleric] Movement speed provided by Sungate has been lowered to 30%.

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[Demon Hunter] Glaive Throw no longer has a dead zone but it's CD has been increased by 3 seconds.

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[Son of Arugal] Catch the Scent movement speed has been reduced to 40%.

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[Ranger] CD of Backstep has been increased to 20 seconds.

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[Stormbringer] CD of Tempest has been increased to 20 seconds.

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[Ranger] CD of Reposition has been increased to 24 seconds.

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[Primalist] Primal Charge CD has been increased to 18 seconds.

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[Witch Hunter] Movement Speed granted by momentum has been reduced to 6 seconds.

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[Witch Hunter] You can no longer attack under the effect of Infiltrate.

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[Knight of Xoroth] Issue where Murderous Might was not affecting the correct spell has been fixed.

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[Son of Arugal] You can no longer attack under the effect of Shadowfang Bond.

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[Starcaller] Stellar Drift CD has been increased to 15 seconds.

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[Starcaller] Huntress Strafe now properly increases the duration of Shooting Star.

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[Starcaller] Huntress Shot and Moon Arrow have had their range reduced to standard 40 range and deadzone has been removed.

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[Starcaller] Enchanted Aegis and Starlight Duelist have swapped places to help with early tanking and making the tanking power progression more linear and not concentrated around level 33-34.

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[Cultist] Zeal has been moved out of a dead end position in class tree.

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[Cultist] New connection has been created between Set and Setting and Suppresion.

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[Cultist] Hysterical Momentum now grants 3% Attack Speed per stack up from 2% per stack.

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[Cultist] New connection has been created between Shieldreaver and Spellshift.

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[Cultist] Shadow of the Void level scaling increased slightly.

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[Cultist] Improved Eldritch Strike scaling increased slightly.

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[Witch Hunter] Increased the range of Witchblaster to 35yd to match the range of Witchblast Musket

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[Witch Hunter] Masochism now restores 20% max rage, instead of 20% max mana