Journal des Modifications Ascension

[Pending Restart] A new NPC will now be present in Battlegrounds (At Spawn, and Objective locations) that will offer a variety of services, such as repairing your armor, or selling you food, drink, arrows, and bullets.

Added a visual notice on bug reports where a comment has either been create or pinned by an Ascension staff member in order to make it easier to see where we have left replies.

[Pending Restart] You now heal for 10% less in Battlegrounds while you have Primary Stat Intellect. (This change is made to further differentiate the difference between the strength of Intellect and Spirit healing in Battlegrounds:)

[Pending Restart] - Shuriken Toss is now live on Area-52!

Marks of Ascension from Callboards will stay at their boosted Pilgrims Bounty numbers.

Worldforged Tooltip and Cache updates are pending restart.

Renamed the non-Worldforged Mystic Enchant Hoarfrost to Winter’s Bloom because two Enchants shared the name Hoarfrost.

Added a Worldforged Cache for Dark Iron Land Mine in the instance it is acquired from off the beaten path.

Added a Worldforged Cache for Shadow Dagger near the creatures it is acquired from.

Added a Worldforged Cache for Swashbuckler: Bloodsail near the creatures it is acquired from.

Added a Worldforged Cache for Arngrim's Greeting near the creatures it is acquired from.

Added an additional Worldforged Cache for Feral Shadow Charge near the creature it is acquired from in a much more obvious location. The existing cache will remain available.

Added a Worldforged Cache for Veil of Shadows near the creature it is acquired from.

Added a Worldforged Cache for Maggot Trap in the instance it is acquired from off the beaten path.

Added a Worldforged Cache for Carrion Swarm near the creature it is acquired from.

Moved the Worldforged Cache location for Shadow Word: Gore closer to the creature it is acquired from. It will be much more visible now.

Increased the drop chance of Fiery Charge.

Fixed the Worldforged Cache location for Fiery Heroic Leap to no longer spawn in lava. The chest will be more visible now.

Added a Worldforged Cache for Fiery Charge near the creature it is acquired from.

Added a Worldforged Cache for Flameburst near the creature it is acquired from.

Added a Worldforged Cache for Venom Belch near the creature it is acquired from.

Added a Worldforged Cache for Megafrost near the creature it is acquired from.

Added a Worldforged Cache for Earthborer Acid inside the instance the Enchant can be found in. The Cache can be found off the beaten path.

Added a Worldforged Cache for Ragefire Cleave near the creature it is acquired from.

Increased the drop rate of Maggot Trap.

Added an additional Worldforged Cache for Lunar Aspiration near the creature you obtain it from.

Shadow Word: Gore now has a 100% chance to drop.

Increased the drop chance for Arngrim's Greeting.

Creatures similar to the rare that drops Megafrost now also have a chance to drop Megafrost.

Increased the drop chance for Swashbuckler: Bloodsail.

The chance to obtain Megafrost from the rare creature that drops it is now 100% as intended.

Increased Lunar Aspiration drop chance to 100%.

Fixed an issue causing level 60 characters to have a lower chance to obtain Ragefire Cleave.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Carrion Swarm.

Increased drop chance for Ragefire Cleave.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Shadow Word: Gore.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Maggot Trap.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Absolute Hellfire.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Fiery Charge.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Flameburst.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Megafrost.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Fiery Heroic Leap.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Ragefire Cleave.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Venom Belch.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Lunar Aspirations.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Screams of the Past.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Rotting Breath.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Fiery Bash.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Frostfall.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Firefall.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Abjurer’s Ward: Fire.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Shadowfall.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Abjurer's Ward: Arcane.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Razorlash.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Shadow Dagger.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Abjurer’s Ward: Frost.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Saber Slash.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Void Zone.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Righteous Abjuration.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Hazardous Escape.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Swashbuckler: Bloodsail.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Arngrim's Greeting.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Veil of Shadows.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Feral Shadow Charge.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Glacial Light.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Wraith.

Added a tooltip hint to the Worldforged Enchant: Dark Iron Land Mine.

[Pending Restart] - Corrected the tooltip of Spirit of Zandalar and Rallying Cry of the Dragon Slayer to state that they do indeed persist through death, but are not usable in the most recently released raid.

There are now skillcards available for all level 1 abilities. These will be learned after level 10 if slotted.

Fixed an issue where you could cast Hand of Protection on a target carrying a Battleground flag and force them to drop it.

[Pending Restart] - Fixed an issue where "Titanic Fury" where it had the wrong duration after the recent server restart.

In addition to stat value adjustments additional items have been added to Onyxia's Lair. Mace of the Dragon Knight, Wand of the Noble, Neltharion's Badge, Insignia of the Dragon, Draconic Effigy, and Band of Nyxondra will all come with the arrival of Onyxia.

Preceding the release of Onyxia's Lair, some items have received stat value adjustments to bring them more in line with this season's itemization goals. These items include: Dragonslayer's Signet, Eskhandar's Collar, Halo of Transcendence, Onyxia Tooth Pendant, Ring of Binding, Sapphiron Drape.

[Area-52] - the Legendary Mystic Enchantment Burning Darkness is now available on Area-52!

Fixed an issue where Ironsand became "nature" damage, it is now correctly once again Physical Damage, this created buggy interactions and prevented it from working with things like "trauma" despite being a bleed.

[Pending Restart] - Items bought from Edrim Skysong now follow the same 2 hour refund rules as other vendors. Previously you could NEVER return an item bought for mythic coins.

[Requires Launcher Update] Arena gear no longer has 2v2 or 3v3 rating requirements, meaning it can now be purchased if you have high enough 1v1 rating.

Lucky Cards now increase your chance to roll those abilities on Hands of Fate AND Card Swaps.

Your Book of Ascension when summoned now auto-trains all of your ranks.

Pets will now be automatically revived/called when you enter an LFG dungeon.

All vanilla open world leveling quests will now give a small amount of Marks of Ascension.

Auctionhouse sale cut has been increased from 7 to 8%.

Skillcards are now spec-specific and can be slotted and maintained for that specialization. This opens up options for additional skillcard behavior after level 60.

Fixed an issue where the normal versions of Gordock Knuckleband and Flattened Elven Ring had half the intended PVE power.

Fixed an issue where the tooltip of Retribution tier 1 Paladin 8 set bonus did not state that it also increased the damage of Seal/Judgement of Vengeance.

The 8 set bonus of the T1 Warrior Might DPS set has been reworked. It now has a new effect: Dealing a critical strike with physical abilities has a chance to grant you 60 attack power, 40 melee haste, or 42 critical strike rating. This effect can only occur once every 15 seconds, and lasts for 10 seconds.

The following items have additionally seen a stat revamp on Thrall: Gyth's Skull, Dragoneye Coif, Tribal War Feathers, Slaghide Gauntlets, Cinderhide Armsplints, Pyremail Wristguards, Flameweave Cuffs, Foresight Girdle, Emberplate Armguards, Tearfall Bracers, Dragonskin Cowl, Phasing Boots, Fluctuating Cloak, Elemental Plate Girdle, Dimly Opalescent Ring. These items had a chance roll stats randomly (the majority of the randomly generated stats were resistance stats) and these items would not keep the same stats when upgraded, for these two reasons have been reworked to prevent this.

[Pending Restart] Added a Tank Stance as a special tooltip to Defensive Stance, Righteous Fury, Bear Form and Mana-forged Barrier to emphasise they don't stack with each other.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Vampiric Touch & Devouring Plague wasn't able to trigger Darkness while in the Worgen form from the Curse of Arugal Mystic Enchantment.

[Pending Restart] - Fixed an issue where Absolute Zero was not freezing the stunned targets, any targets stunned by Absolute Zero will now also function as if they're frozen.

"Winter's Mantle" and "Gathering Will" when fully stacked increases the critical strike chance of Fuego and Arctis by 15%, down from 24%.

Winter's Mantle and Gathering Will now provides 30% damage increase per stack to Arctis / Fuego, down from 40%. This will result in a total of 150% damage increase, down from 160% damage increase when fully stacked.

The following changes will roll out shortly after a restart on December 15th. This changelog is posted well in advance to give people the opportunity to prepare for the changes themselves: [Warden of Demonreach] - "Winter's Mantle" and "Gathering Will" now enable Soul of Feugo and Winter's Bite after casting Fuego and Arctis (respectively) at 5 stacks, up from 4 stacks.

[Dire Maul] - Eye of Immol'Thar now have a 25 yard spawn radius with relation to Immol'thar, down from 35 yards.

You can now draft Slice and Dice at level 1 if you know a Cat Form combo point generator.

[Pending Restart] Blackrock Depths - Emperor Dagran Thaurissan - Emperor will use Grappling Hook on players that he can't reach - pulling them towards him, and he will "prefer" to stay in his throne room now.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Party Recuperation wasn't always correctly benefitting from Quick Recovery.

[Pending Restart] Party Recuperation has seen a minor rework in how it functions. The base health heal is now baked into the hot itself as a flat value. Furthermore the scaling has been substantially increased.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Blades of Blood did not properly interact with Hydra's Venom.

[Pending Restart] - Fixed an issue where Glacial Light did not benefit from or consume the stacks from Water Geyser.