Ascension Changelog

[Cultist] Veiled Knight now increases damage of Curse of Y’Shaarj.

[Cultist] Curse of Y'Shaarj cooldown reduced by 4 sec, direct damage reduced and now ticks 1 sec faster.

[Cultist] Eye for Edicts renamed to Watchful Presence. No longer has an additional chance to proc increased effectiveness through Eldritch Mending.

[Bloodmage] Finger of Agony should no longer require Endless Thirst

[Cultist] Presences are no longer auras and only affect the Cultist. Their procs have had their values adjusted with this in mind.

[Bloodmage] Torture and Vampyr Lord have been swapped and their effects have been reworked

[Bloodmage] Embrace of the Vampyr is now called Sever Mortality

[Bloodmage] Taldaram’s Rage now increases the critical damage of Bloodmoon Blast and has been swapped with Puncturing Fangs

[Bloodmage] Hemorrhagic Shock now scales with modifiers to Bloodmoon Blast

[Barbarian] Blizzard no longer reduces the cooldown of Breath of the North by 3 seconds, but increases its damage by 20%, up from 10%.

[Barbarian] Javelin Toss % Weapon damage no longer scales with ranks, flat damage further increased by ranks.

[Barbarian] Perfect Aim now provides damage increase instead of crit damage increase.

[Barbarian] Entrails and No Survivors swapped.

[Barbarian] Manhunter now provides its value as a constant passive.

[Barbarian] Savage Finesse removed.

[Barbarian] Unrestrained Javelin now increases damage of Berserker Axe and Axe Volley.

[Barbarian] Torture now works for all of your damage.

[Barbarian] Frothing Savage value increased by 5%.

[Barbarian] Throw Weapon % weapon damage no longer scales with ranks, flat damage further increased by ranks.

[Barbarian] Gurubashi Technique swapped with Zul’jin’s Legacy, Zul’jin’s Legacy reworked

[Barbarian] Barbed Spear % weapon damage no longer scales with ranks, flat damage further increased by ranks.

[Barbarian] Legacy of the Amani now increases the damage of Barbed Spear instead of allowing it to hit twice for 50% of the damage dealt

[Barbarian] Barbed Spear no longer requires enrage

[General] Babify and Fungify no longer have target requirements (human, critter, beast, elemental, etc.)

[Barbarian] Gruesome reworked

[General] Temporary Max HP Increases (aka Last Stand type effects) have been adjusted to work better

[PvP] Global healing reduction that applied to all heals in Battlegrounds removed. This will result in a global 25% increase to all healing done in BGs. This is live now.

[Cultist] Tentacles spawned by Void Assailants now properly interact with Fallen Templar and Twisted Sanity. This is already live!

[PvP] Resilient Constiution has been tweaked, you should now do ~25-30% more damage at level 60.

[Reaper] Perpetual Harvest no longer refreshes charges of Crow's Harvest.

[Reaper] Dark Fate no longer interacts with Red Wake CD.

[Reaper] Crow's Harvest no longer has a CD or charges.

[Reaper] Ravenous Thirst no longer interacts with Red Wake CD.

[Reaper] Red Wake no longer has a cooldown.

[Witch Hunter] Dawn Blade and Dusk Blade can no longer cleave

[Witch Hunter] Flourish no longer has charges or a cooldown, and no longer applies a bleed

[Witch Hunter] Shadowhound model has been updated

[Witch Hunter] Just A Sap swapped with Knight Training (now called Dark Intuition) in the Black Knight tree

[Witch Hunter] Shadowblast now has no cooldown, but now costs 35 rage up from 25

[Witch Doctor] You may now only have 1 Jinx on a target at a time per player. Jinxes as a whole have been adjusted with this in mind

[Witch Doctor] Raptor’s Speed moved from level 18 to level 14.

[Venomancer] Fortitude tree slightly repathed for clarity of choice and synergy progression.

[Venomancer] Protogenesis periodic healing tick rate reduced by 0.5 and base healing reduced early.

[Venomancer] Reform value per stack of Exposed Flesh increased by 20%.

[Venomancer] Charm of Warding value doubled.

[Venomancer] Vile Fury cost reduction reduced by 5 but now also affects Sting.

[Venomancer] Carapace Regeneration now drains 2 less Rage per tick per stack.

[Venomancer] Cost of Sting and Tail Strike reduced by 5.

[Venomancer] Scorpid Speed now interacts with Leg Strike. No longer increases crit chance. Proc now also increases melee attack speed.

[Venomancer] Scorpion King now interacts with Leg Strike and increases its crit chance and Rage generation.

[Venomancer] Scorpid Claw removed.

[Venomancer] Leg Strike now also has AP scaling.

[Venomancer] Leg Strike now on 10 sec recharge.

[Venomancer] New capstone row talent Tunneler added

[Venomancer] Deadly Neurotoxins and Toxic Explosion now on a switch node.

[Venomancer] Swiftness of the Spider and Venomous Bite now on a switch node.

[Venomancer] Serpent Lord now causes Venom Fang to refund Rage. No longer increases damage of Facemelter.

[Venomancer] Venomous Bite no longer causes Venom Fang to Refund Rage. Now increases damage of Facemelter.

[Venomancer] Bursting Sores now apply Lethal Toxin.

[Venomancer] Black Widow now increases critical damage of Widowmaker.

[Venomancer] Spider Lord scarabs damage scaling calculation redone as it was set too high baseline.

[Venomancer] Swiftness of the Spider proc chance increased by 10%.

[Venomancer] Swift Pincers now deals Nature Damage and has SP scaling.

[Venomancer] Bugging now procs from any harmful spells cast from Tunnel Below and no longer affects Tunnel Beetle and Surprise Attack.

[Venomancer] Arachnophobia passive replaced by Wither and Perish, allowing Withering Venom to stack 2 additional times.

[Venomancer] Tunnel Below no longer causes Venom Fang to stun but its damage boost is increased by 50%.

[Venomancer] Arachnophobia is now an active spell learned baseline

[Venomancer] Stalking tree pathing adjusted with the above changes in mind

[Venomancer] Rotfang now has no cooldown but costs 50 Rage up from 25

[Venomancer] Widow’s Kiss deprecated and turned into a passive

[Venomancer] Dread Poison triggers off of Nerubian Poison instead of Widow’s Kiss

[Venomancer] Swiftskitter has been reworked to Death Spray and now has Venomtip Poison synergy

[Venomancer] Corrupting Poison removed from the spec passive, new effects have been added with the above changes in mind

[Venomancer] Widowmaker now costs Rage instead of generating it and its base damage and scaling have been increased dramatically

[Venomancer] Black Widow now has a reworked effect

[Venomancer] Nerubian Sting now costs mana instead of Rage

[Venomancer] Nature Against Nature now has a new effect alongside its resistance increase

[Venomancer] Venomous Bites now increases the damage of Venom Fang instead of augmenting Swift Pinchers

[Venomancer] Widow’s Kiss now costs 40 rage up from 25, but no longer has a cooldown

[Venomancer] Leg Strike now only strikes 1 target

[Venomancer] Fang of Shadra is deprecated

[Venomancer] Venomous Cascade now works with Venomtip Poison, Nerubian Sting and Withering Venom

[Venomancer] Lethality and Toxin Explosion now works with all periodic damage

[Venomancer] Added Shadra’s Perseverance passive as a switch node with Glory to Shadra!

[Venomancer] Boding Dread has been reworked

[Venomancer] Gripping Legs talent has been reworked into Ambush Predator with Burrow and Tunnel Below synergy

[Venomancer] Nightweb Poison has been reflavored to Facemelter and now deals Nature Damage. The original Facemelter in the Stalking tree has been deprecated and replaced with a passive.

[Templar] Tithes are now only 40yds, down from 100yds

[Templar] Added Detect Evil and Crusader’s Presence abilities learned baseline at level 18 and 20

[Templar] Silverhand Incantation now affects Zeal instead of Grapple Weapon but now it has a 5min cd up from 3min

[Templar] Find The Weak Spot issue fixed where the tooltip still mentioned the damage, even though the damage was already removed

[Templar] Several spells have had their tooltips cleaned up and polished

[Templar] Tithe moved to level 6

[Templar] Crusader spec passive now mentions Scarlet Training

[Templar] Clobber and Harmonic Disposition icon changed, and Harmonic Disposition has now become a toggleable aura.

[Templar] At level 1 you will now start with Templar Strike AND Righteous Lunge for a better introduction to the followup mechanic

[Templar] A new animation has been added to Meditate

[Templar] Thousand Blades now only channels on 1 enemy instead of cleaving up to 8 baseline, Zealot spec passive will allow Thousand Blades to cleave up to 8 targets as before. Note: this is to establish a more clear use case for Thousand Blades vs Righteous Tempest in Crusader as they were basically the same spell, an aoe channeled combo breaker with a short cd

[Templar] Libram of Fervor no longer procs damage out similar to Libram of Consecration, but it now also increases attack power based on your Intellect

[Templar] Libram of Grace is now baseline and learned at level 14