Ascension Changelog

Fixed a bug where world bosses would sometimes not drop loot.

Fixed phasing issues with Bellygrub in Redridge Mountains

These updates are the follow-ups to the general resilience change from last week and aim to rein in the most dominant outliers in the short term. There may be more tweaks like these over the next days if needed, but the primary focus is on a bigger long-term balance pass that will be centered around buffs and improving diversity.

[Pending Restart] Wind Lash now deals 10% less damage in PvP combat.

[Pending Restart] Shadow Crash now deals 10% less damage in PvP combat.

[Pending Restart] Hammer of the Righteous now deals 10% less damage in PvP combat.

[Pending Restart] Shield of Righteousness now deals 10% less damage in PvP combat.

[Pending Restart] Glyph of Avenger's Shield now increases its damage by 50% in PvP combat, changed from 100%. (Unchanged versus monsters).

[Pending Restart] Resurrecting at the closest town, closest city or at the spirit healer will now apply Resurrection Sickness to the player when above level 10.

Fixed a bug where itemlevel from Green & Blue Quality items were contributing as much itemlevel as an epic item in the average item level calculation.

[Pending Restart] [Zul'Gurub] [High Priest Thekal]: Rip, applied by Swipe and Speed Slash is now treated as a area effect, obeying all damage modifications effecting area damage.

[Pending Restart] [Zul'Gurub] [Jindo, the Hexxer]: Sacrificed Trolls now apply initial threat scaling from their health rather than an initial 100k flat.

[Pending Restart] [Zul'Gurub] [Jindo, the Hexxer]: Corrected an issue where Brainwash Totems would sometimes spawn with much more health then intended.

Fixed a bug where Darkmoon Faire was not starting. It will be available next restart.

[Jindo Boss Adjustments] - Delusions of Jin'do now increases your damage against undeads by 350% instead of 250%.

[Jindo Boss Adjustments] - Decreased the damage of Seeking Shadow Bolt Volley by 15%.

[Jindo Boss Adjustments] - Shades will now spawn later in the fight.

Fixed a bug where the new Prestigious Cache awarded for prestiging during ZG was not always granting gear.

[Pending Restart] - Gri'lek now takes 3% increased damage for each stack of insatiable.

[Pending Restart] - Jin'do the Hexxer will summon Brain Wash Totems and Healing Stream Totems half as often and the Cursed Visions of Jin'Do had its damage increased but its tick timer increased to 5 seconds, reducing its overall DPS.

Fixed a bug where procced spells could grant rage

Fixed a bug where threat reducing talents like Fanaticism, Arcane Subtlety, Nature's Reach, Burning Soul were not reducing threat.

Death's Embrace - Zul'Gurub enchantment now provides 24 Attack Power, 10 Stamina and 6 Expertise Rating. This enchantment can be applied to a leg or head slot item.

Due to loot lockout timer being adjusted: Azuregos & Setis Loot Lockouts have been reset. You may still have an instance ID lockout and can reset that via your character panel. They will reset every 7 days on 05/11/2025 at 09:00 Server Time.

[Pending Restart] Shadow of Death now deals 30% of Ambush damage as a Shadow damage around the target, changed from 15%. In PvP combat it now deals 20% of the damage, changed from 15%. Also fixed a bug where it was incorrectly dealing increased damage and could critically hit. (So buffing it together with the bug fix that reduces its damage.)

You now take 10% reduced damage in PvP combat at level 60. This will be followed up by a patch to address outliers spells in PvP in the coming week.

[Pending Restart] Fixed a bug where Cloak of Shadows would immune the damage from Chaos Bolt.

Fixed a bug where old PvP equipment was dropping from battleground spoils.

(Pending Restart) Fixed missing High-Risk Refiner spell and object visuals missing.

(Patch Pending) Fixed some High-Risk Refiners being invisible or having cube models.

(Pending Restart) Dark Iron Bar requirements on War-Mode Crafting Recipes have been reduced to 10.

Fixed a bug where the Evergreen Pouch had the wrong cooldown.

Fixed a bug where you could not see the PvP quests on the callboard.

Encrypted Twilight Texts now reward 250 More Reputation on the repeatable and first turn in. Bringing them UP to 500 reputation from 250 per turn in (this is a corrected changelog from the previously posted one).

Fixed a bug where Encrypted Twilight Texts (repeatable) was rewarding 500 Reputation instead of the intended 750 reputation. Additionally, the pre-requisite quest for getting access to the repeatable quest now also rewards 750 up from 500.

Refiner Guardians have a significantly higher chance of dropping Ephemeral Keys.

Refiner Guardians have a significantly higher chance of dropping new War Mode crafting recipes.

Refiner Guardians such as the Wailing Weaver and Vile Butcher have a high chance of dropping Heroic Bloodforged and Bloodforged Gear.

Rare creatures can now drop Heroic Bloodforged Gear. This chance is based on difficulty and respawn length.

Rare creatures now almost always drop previous tier bloodforged. This chance is based on difficulty and respawn length.

Rare creatures now have a much higher chance to drop current tier bloodforged. This chance is based on difficulty and respawn length.

(Pending Restart) Fixed an issue where Cloak Lining Tailoring Recipes were not learnable.

(Pending Restart/Patch) Fixed an issue where Ephemeral Keys were not highlighting Hidden Caches on the mini-map.

[Pending Restart] You will no longer be able to use Hearthstone while using Divine Shield in High-Risk.

[Pending Restart] Adjusted the acquisition method of the enchant Rush of Blood for Rogues. The time required between each player's acquisition has been cut down a lot. We noticed this was a big bottleneck and should be more flexible now.

[Pending Restart] Players are now able to do the [Hallowed be thy Name] achievement within Classic Expansion. The TBC and BloodElf/Draenei achievement requirements have been removed to allow players to complete it. You should retroactively be awarded the achievement if you have all the classic points completed after the next server restart and patch.

[Pending Restart] - Crows Cache now rewards everyone who participates 2,000 Runes of Ascension.

[Requires Launcher Update] Added predicted healing to ascension's raid frames, and all launcher raid frame addons. This new system works similar to existing addons that communicate predicted healing amounts, but is a shared common version across all addons, as well as the base UI meaning everyone will have it and see the same values.

Azuregos will now reflect every 60 seconds from every 30 seconds.

Fixed a bug where Azuregos was teleporting people more than 30 yards away and wiping their threat. Azuregos will now only teleport people within 30 yards in.

[Pending Restart] - The Heirloom sets for Champion Herod's and Mystical Set of the Elements are now mail gear from level 1 because these sets may not be equippable via classes that had obtained them, you are now granted the respective slot in the Stained Shadowcraft Set or Preened Ironfeather set for each piece you had in your vanity. What this means is: if you had the head piece from Champion set, you now ALSO have the Stained Shadowcraft helmet.

Sap (Rank 4) is now trainable on the trainer at level 60. This change ensures that Sap retains the same strength it was meant to have at endgame without affecting leveling.

[Pending Restart] Restorative Totems and Healing Tide now correctly affect Healing Stream Totem.

[Pending Restart] Illumination will now correctly give you back the base mana of the spell and not be reduced if you have any mana cost reductions active (like Divine Illumination).

Fixed an issue where creatures in high-level zones had a much lower chance to drop leveling Bloodforged gear in High-Risk than intended. They will now drop at a rate more consistent with previous zones based on the difficulty of the creature killed.

(Pending Restart) Disenchanting Bloodforged gear now has a chance to drop a new enchanting material. The chance and amounts are higher when disenchanting Heroic Bloodforged and higher tier gear.

[Pending Restart] Added over 50 missing items to the Mark of Triumph vendor.

Fixed a bug where the Conviction Paladin talent incorrectly increased spell critical strike chance by 1/2/3%. It now correctly increases by 2/4/6%.

If you have a level 60 on Bronzebeard, you can now use Heirlooms on Malfurion as well.

The Healing % bonus gained from PvP Power is now active in the Open World if you are in War Mode or High Risk.

Titan's Grip was double dipping and reducing your damage twice in PvP on Bronzebeard, this is no longer the case.

Pets were not benefitting from PvP Power. They will now correctly benefit from PvP power.

[Pending Restart] Fel Commutation gold will now be put into your HighRisk chest instead of immediately given to killers. This will give the opportunity to recover it if you can make it to your chest, and will also balance the risk better when fighting players in Warmode who are unable to open your chest.

You now take 10% less damage in PvP combat at level 60.

[Pending Restart] Sharpened Claws now increases your critical strike chance while in Bear, Dire Bear or Cat Form by 3/6/9%, changed from 2/4/6%.

[Pending Restart] Maul Rank 7 now deals 210 base damage, changed from 191.

[Pending Restart] Maul Rank 6 now deals 158 base damage, changed from 144.

[Pending Restart] Maul Rank 5 now deals 112 base damage, changed from 102.

[Pending Restart] Maul Rank 4 now deals 69 base damage, changed from 63.

[Pending Restart] Maul Rank 3 now deals 40 base damage, changed from 36.

[Pending Restart] Maul Rank 2 now deals 29 base damage, changed from 26.

[Pending Restart] Maul Rank 1 now deals 19 base damage, changed from 17.

[Pending Restart] Lacerate Rank 4 now deals 29 base damage, changed from 24. It now deals 41 damage per tick, changed from 34.

[Pending Restart] Lacerate Rank 3 now deals 22 base damage, changed from 18. It now deals 30 damage per tick, changed from 25.

[Pending Restart] Lacerate Rank 2 now deals 17 base damage, changed from 14. It now deals 24 damage per tick, changed from 20.

[Pending Restart] Lacerate Rank 1 now deals 13 base damage, changed from 11. It now deals 18 damage per tick, changed from 15.

[Pending Restart] Shred Rank 5 now deals 87 base damage, changed from 79.

[Pending Restart] Shred Rank 4 now deals 69 base damage, changed from 63.

[Pending Restart] Shred Rank 3 now deals 47 base damage, changed from 43.

[Pending Restart] Shred Rank 2 now deals 34 base damage, changed from 31.

[Pending Restart] Shred Rank 1 now deals 25 base damage, changed from 23.

[Pending Restart] Rip Rank 6 base damage has been increased. With 5 combo points it now deals 1044 damage, changed from 942.

[Pending Restart] Rip Rank 5 base damage has been increased. With 5 combo points it now deals 738 damage, changed from 672.

[Pending Restart] Rip Rank 4 base damage has been increased. With 5 combo points it now deals 510 damage, changed from 474.

[Pending Restart] Rip Rank 3 base damage has been increased. With 5 combo points it now deals 342 damage, changed from 306.

[Pending Restart] Rip Rank 2 base damage has been increased. With 5 combo points it now deals 234 damage, changed from 204.

[Pending Restart] Rip Rank 1 base damage has been increased. With 5 combo points it now deals 168 damage, changed from 138.

[Pending Restart] Ferocious Bite Rank 5 now deals 56 base damage, changed from 51.

[Pending Restart] Ferocious Bite Rank 4 now deals 48 base damage, changed from 44.

[Pending Restart] Ferocious Bite Rank 3 now deals 32 base damage, changed from 29.

[Pending Restart] Ferocious Bite Rank 2 now deals 21 base damage, changed from 19.

[Pending Restart] Ferocious Bite Rank 1 now deals 14 base damage, changed from 13.

[Pending Restart] Claw Rank 5 now deals 137 base damage, changed from 114.

[Pending Restart] Claw Rank 4 now deals 104 base damage, changed from 87.

[Pending Restart] Claw Rank 3 now deals 67 base damage, changed from 56.

[Pending Restart] Claw Rank 2 now deals 46 base damage, changed from 38.

[Pending Restart] Claw Rank 1 now deals 31 base damage, changed from 26.

A new Worldforged dagger was added around level 30~

A new dagger was added as a reward for the Poison quest chains for Rogues. (If you did not know all class quests that used to give abilities made baseline now give class specific gear.)

Rogue creatures now have a slightly increased chance to drop their immersive gear drops