Ascension Changelog

[Pyromancer] Death From Above now sends you in a straight controlled direction and now deals increased damage

[Pyromancer] Draconic Assault reworked into Firestorm

[Pyromancer] Soar will not act as a slow fall

[Knight of Xoroth] A Gift from Hell no longer provides an unmentioned 2% more block value to Infernal Bulwark. It now properly increases by 10% instead of 12%.

[Barbarian] Massacre now lasts 8 sec up from 5 and it does 60% weapon damage up from 50%

[Barbarian] Utter Devastation now also has Decapitate and Crushing Slam synergy and is otherwise unchanged

[Starcaller] Lunar Phase stacks have been slightly reworked on the backend. This has temporarily broken the custom UI element, but it will be fixed quickly!

[Starcaller] Star Pupil will no longer be consumed while Lunar Eclipse is active.

[Starcaller] Moonlit Impacts now properly extends the duration of Lunar Amplification.

[Starcaller] Font of Magic reworked.

[Starcaller] Moonscreen replaced with Infused Aegis.

[Templar] Tranquil Circle now only takes half the duration of its aoe slow effect to CC enemies, up from taking the full dura

[Witch Hunter] Stake now scales with AP

[Chronomancer] Swapping Empowerments will no longer spam you with relearns for Discordance/Chronurgy.

[Chronomancer] Accelerated Recovery ranks redone.

[Chronomancer] Scepter of Time will no longer spam you with errors that it requires a ranged weapon equipped.

[Chronomancer] Temporal Focus now has a 2min cd up from 1.5min, but now lasts 8 sec up from 6 sec

[Chronomancer] Sandy Disposition is now called Untimely Disposition and lasts 6 sec down from 15, but increases all damage taken instead of just your periodic damage. In addition it now increases damage by 20% up from 15%.

[Chronomancer] Procrastination now also effects Timeguard

[Chronomancer] The Bieko Effect has been reworked

[Chronomancer] A new ability called Dimensional Divergence has replaced Hasten in the class tree

[Chronomancer] Past Mistakes is now 8 sec duration up from 6 sec baseline

[Chronomancer] Hasten is now baseline and learned at level 40, its duration is now 12 sec baseline up from 8

[Cultist] Psychic Suppression now lifts the target in the air and suffocates them for the duration

[Cultist] C'thun's Grasp no longer spams you with relearns in chat.

[Bloodmage] Shadow Howl now works on all allies within 30 yds

[Felsworn] Felreaver’s Fury renamed Waves of Uneasiness, now applies through Gust.

[Felsworn] Demonwrath reworked

[Felsworn] Vengeance now only strikes one target but its base damage has been increased by 80 at rank 7 and scaling has increased by 10%

[Felsworn] Suffering now also increases the damage of Vengeance by 15% but now only reduces its cost by 5 down from 10

[Felsworn] The duration increase to Fel Empowerment on the Suffering talent has been moved to the Bulwark of Azzinoth talent

[Reaper] Sanguine Harvester now also works with Soulrend

[Reaper] Harvest spec passive now gives Soulrend additional weapon damage

[Reaper] Encore now triggers on your next Reap instead of 3 second after Sinister Litany

[Reaper] Encore no longer increases the cooldown of Sinister Litany

[Reaper] Haunter now also gives Soulrend additional AP scaling

[Reaper] Essence Invigoration reworked

[Reaper] Massacre now also allows Wraithblade to grant Extinction

[Reaper] Soul Capture now also returns mana back to you and its healing scaling has been increased by 8%.

[Reaper] A new talent taking the name of Soul Survivor has taken the place of Dominator in the Domination tree

[Reaper] Dominator now works on damage taken and is a switch node with Possess

[Reaper] Soul Survivor has been reworked into a passive

[Tinker] Mechanics tree has been adjusted with the above changes in mind

[Tinker] Increased the base damage of Molten Grenades from Upgrade! by ~150

[Tinker] Master Technician base damage increased by 190

[Tinker] Boomshot now restores flat mana scaling with RAP instead of % max mana

[Tinker] Hydraulic Strike now also applies to the Tinker themselves as well as the pet and now does Stormstrike Damage

[Tinker] Upgrade Z-15 proc chance increased to 30% from 25%

[Tinker] Lightning Conductor has been renamed and now only restores mana

[Tinker] Grenadier is now Escape Artist and it now reduces the cooldown of Parachute Pack

[Guardian] Spartan Kick now generates Motivation baseline

[Guardian] Power Kick now causes Spartan Kick to generate energy instead of Motivation

[Guardian] Added Net Brawler and Colossal Reprise talents to the Gladiator tree

[Guardian] Base damage of Sever’s max rank increased by 30

[Guardian] Hero’s Journey is now called Opening Play and has Spear Throw synergy

[Guardian] Spear Throw is now the first node in Gladiator, replacing Pulverize

[Guardian] Sever no longer will chain to crowd controlled targets

[Guardian] Sunder deprecated and replaced with Pulverize in the Guardian class. Sunder talents now work with Pulverize or have otherwise been adjusted.

[Guardian] Sever now strikes 8 targets up from 5

[Guardian] Shattering initial damage value increase reduced by 20.

[Guardian] Ranks and rank value of Warquake fixed. (were not receiving per level bonuses)

[Venomancer] Cycle of Decay additionally allows the 2 Venom Bolts to be castable while moving

[Ranger] When Flank is made to cleave (such as through the talent ‘Caught Off Guard’) it will now no longer chain to crowd controlled enemies

[Ranger] The direct damage portion of Venomous Arrows now also scales with RAP

[Ranger] Venomous Arrows scaling increased by 6% and its direct base damage by ~40

[Ranger] Toxishot added as a switch node with Venomous Arrows

[General] Many tooltips, icons, and spell visuals have been updated for clarity.

[General] Issue where when you were learning ranks, rank 1 would keep appearing at the top of the trainer has been fixed

[Witch Hunter] Shadowhound will no longer spam Track.

[Chronomancer] Bronze Protector will no longer spam Chrono Mend and Breath of Time.

[Knight of Xoroth] Greater Imp will no longer spam Searing Claw and Burst.

[Tinker] Clockwork Assistant will no longer spam Piston Punch.

[Barbarian] Honored Ancestor will no longer spam Crushing Blow.

[Runemaster] Issue where Manuscriptions would not grant a chapter while in Attunement of Air has been fixed.

[Tinker] Landstrider Keys is now learned automatically at level 20. This was incorrectly moved to the trainer.

[Starcaller] Cosmic Presence SP reduction is now part of the aura instead of a short duration debuff on hit.

[Cultist] Withering Touch has been replaced with Entropic Singularity

[Cultist] Yawning Decay now gives the Darkwither refresh proc from Withering Touch

[Stormbringer] Stormfury no longer hits enemies who are not in combat.

[Bloodmage] Bloodfallen Lament no longer hits enemies who are not in combat.

[Templar] Temple Guardian can no longer be cast on yourself.

[General] Some specs that did not have one have received a spec passive, such as Warden, Sentinel, Brewing, Inquisition, and more.

[General] Many tooltips have been updated for clarity and we will be continuing working on these.

[Pyromancer] Magnitude 10 reduced from 6% per stack to 3% per stack.

[Felsworn] Fel Quickness now also gives expertise scaling

[Reaper] Ruin’s reward effect now gives haste and Soul Fragments instead of a damage increase towards specific abilities in the kit. In addition, the role of Soulrend and Doomrend in Ruin have been swapped. Duration reduced to 10 sec from 15 sec.

[Reaper] Slaughter Party now deals 150% weapon damage down from 200%

[Reaper] Added Blood Wraith as a switch node with Blood Knight

[Cultist] Prophetic Compulsion now gives you the Insanity gen that was previously baked into the Heretic spec passive

[Cultist] Herald of the Depths now has a 45 sec cd baseline down from 1min

[Cultist] Wracked Mind now lasts 10 sec baseline down from 16

[Felsworn] Fiendish Magic now has Fel Doom synergy

[Starcaller] Added Starfire Comet talent to the Sentinel Tree

[Venomancer] Fungarians will now move slightly faster

[Stormbringer] Electric Energy reworked to no longer be a stacking effect and instead directly buff the output of Call Lightning

[Templar] Silverhand Incantation now also grants you Follow Up

[Templar] Oathkeeper tree pathing adjusted slightly with the above changes in mind

[Templar] Transcendent Guardian now reduces the cooldown of Temple Guardian by 15 sec up from 10 sec

[Templar] Uther’s Legacy now only heals for 75% of the damage dealt, down from 100%

[Templar] Heavy Slam has been reworked to Sacred Resistance