Journal de Mise à Jour d'Ascension

[Pending Restart] Dark Apotheosis now makes the Warlock immune to interrupt effects from monsters, making it much more dependable as a tank. This interrupt immunity does not work against players.

[Pending restart] [Epic: Curseweaver] This enchant has been upgraded. Instead of increasing the amount of Curses you can have on a target by one, it now makes your Curse of Agony and Curse of Doom no longer occupy a Curse slot. This means this enchant enables these two damaging Curses to be applied alongside any other Curse.

[Pending Restart] Fixed a bug causing the triggered Shadow damage from Shadow of Death not to trigger properly.

[Pending Restart] Fixed a bug causing the removal of the positional requirement of Ambush while Rush of Blood is active not to work properly.

[Pending Restart] Fixed issues causing the updates to the updates to Glyph of Hemorrhage, Glyph of Ambush and Dirty Deeds.

[Pending Restart] - Low Tide no longer has an ICD on spreading riptide.

Fixed an issue causing Dark Apotheosis tanks to sometimes lose their threat modifier after dying, resulting in them doing far less threat than intended. This has been hotfixed and is already live.

[Pending restart] Fixed an issue causing Abyssal Eruption from the new Feeding the Abyss enchantment not to increase healing properly.

[Guardian] Shield of Denial and Unyielding Stand will now be usable in Tower or Line Formations. This was hotfixed live. The tooltips will be properly updated with the next restart!

Developer's Note: This talent was always intended to only be auto attacks, but was triggering off of all melee damage instead, leading to some of the disproportionate power that we have seen from Rangers.

[Ranger] Dirty Blades now only triggers off of auto attacks. This is already in, tooltip will be updated from Melee Attacks to Melee Auto Attacks next update.

[Pending Restart] - Necromancer - Graverobber now reduces the cast time and mana cost of your Raise spells and Animates. Its previous effect has been moved to the Corpse Wagon talent. Note: This will help smooth out the early game mana economy for Animation Necromancers while also enhancing their fantasy of being the absolute best at using Animate and Raise spells.

Developer's Note: All of these changes are to help ensure that Seismic Crash remains optimal for use in single target, amongst reports that Seismic Spike was actually being used for more single target damage.

[Pending Restart] - Primalist - Seismic Crash SP scaling per tick increased from 6.8% to 10%. AP scaling per tick increased from 2.9% to 6%.

[Pending Restart] - Primalist - Seismic Crash (Rank 8) - Damage increased by 20.16%. This rank is available at level 60.

[Pending Restart] - Primalist - Seismic Crash (Rank 7) - Damage increased by 28.57%. This rank is available at level 52.

[Pending Restart] - Primalist - Seismic Crash (Rank 6) - Damage increased by 20.65%. This rank is available at level 46.

[Pending Restart] - Primalist - Seismic Crash (Rank 4) - Damage increased by 18.33%. This rank is available at level 30.

[Pending Restart] - Primalist - Seismic Crash (Rank 3) - Damage increased by 15.91%. This rank is available at level 24.

[Pending Restart] - Primalist - Seismic Crash (Rank 2) - Damage increased by 26.09%. This rank is available at level 16.

Developer's Note: This talent makes it difficult to increase the damage and scalings of Seismic Crash, as it provides too variable of a damage increase amongst the periodicity changes of the spell (i.e. if you were to use this talent with rank 1 Seismic Crash, you would get 2 extra ticks, while if you used it with rank 5 Seismic Crash, you would get 4 extra, and the value difference was difficult to quantify).

[Pending Restart] - Primalist - Crashing Out no longer increases the duration of Seismic Crash, instead just increases its damage.

[Pending Restart] - Primalist - Crashing Out no longer mentions a movement slowing effect on Seismic Crash, as this was removed previously but not from this talents tooltip.

[Pending Restart] - Primalist - Fixed an issue where Seismic Crash tooltip did not correctly display the amount of AP and SP scaling you were receiving.

[Pending Restart] - Primalist - Fixed an issue where Seismic Crash tooltip was displaying a hardcoded value for the amount of ticks, that did not end up updating with the changing periodicity between ranks.

[Pending Restart] - Primalist - Fixed an issue where ranks 2-10 of Seismic Crash were dealing Nature damage and not Physical damage.

[Pending Restart] - Primalist - Fixed an issue where ranks 2-10 of Seismic Crash did not have an initial tick upon cast, resulting in them dealing 1 less tick of damage than intended.

[Ranger] Precision Shot cost increased to 40 Focus from 35

[Barbarian] To The Bone has been reworked and now has synergy between Guts Spilled and Break. Note: This is being done because its original effect was incompatible with the beta design of Gutspiller. The new design of this talent adds QoL to the Headhunter's rotation and will be applied with the next restart.

[Ranger] Reduced the scaling of Precision Shot by 17%.

[Ranger] Reduced the base damage of Flank Ranks 2-5 by ~40%.

[Ranger] Reduced the additional damage granted to Flank and Skullpiercer while a Polearm is equipped through the Ambuscade talent to 25% from 50%

[Pending Restart] [Epic: Searing Brand] Instead of only dealing damage once per target, it can deal damage to each target multiple times with an internal cooldown of 15 seconds per target.

[Pending Restart] [Warlock] Fixed an issue causing Searing Brand reducing attack power more than the tooltip says.

[Pending Restart] [Warlock] Reign of Dread no longer scales with haste. This means the duratoin of the -60% chance to be hit does not go down as you get more haste.

[Pending Restart] - Fixed a bug where only 1 of the summons from Stampede was benefitting from Bestial Wrath.

[Live Now] - Fixed a bug where Hunter Pets and Stampede Pets were not correctly benefitting from your Armor Penetration.

[Pending Restart] - Fixed a bug where the Stampede Damage increase was overriden by other hunters using Stampede.

[Pending Restart] - Fixed a bug where Stampede could damage opposite faction players in the group.

[Warlock] [Demonology: Unholy Power] This is now a 3-point talent, increasing the damage of the affected summoned demons by 5/10/15%, changed from 4/8/12/16/20%. This change is intended to slightly reduce the amount of damage amplifiers Demons can stack on top of each other, reigning in the damage potential of Demonology while freeing up a few talent points to be used elsewhere.

[Venomancer] You can now glide while in Venomwing Form

[Pending Restart] - Warlocks will now have the ability to queue for tank in LFG

[Tame Dragonkin] - [Tether Elemental] - [Ensalve Demon] - All elements from the creature RPG overhaul now apply to these creatures and their scaling has been increased by over 150%. This means creatures will have: Varying amounts of dodge, parry, block, resistances, armor, attack speeds, abilities, mana, health, attack power and spell power, strength, agility, intellect, expertise, critical strike chance and MORE. Developer Note: While NOT all base stat updates are displaying properly under the display, you can see the difference in the attack power, health mana, etc. There will be a patch that shortly follows.

[Warlock] [Epic: Searing Flames] This enchant has been reworked, it now reads: The periodic effect of Immolate now deals damage to all enemies within 8 yards of the target, but can only be active on one target at a time. Each time Immolate deals periodic damage, Imp’s Firebolt crit chance increases by 3%, consumed when it critically hits.

[Warlock] [New Legendary Enchant: Feeding the Abyss] Your ability to Dodge is replaced with a dark hunger. You have a chance [10% plus your spell critical chance] to fully absorb incoming physical damage, storing it for later use. After 10 seconds the stored damage is fed to the abyss, causing your next Life Tap to deal damage to nearby enemies, healing you and your pet based on the damage dealt.

[Warlock] [New Epic Enchant: Dread Communion] Your demon is healed for 25% of the healing you receive. Casting Demonic Empowerment triples the effect of your Master Demonologist talent for 10 seconds.

[Warlock] [New Epic Enchant: Searing Brand] Your Searing Pain reduces the target's attack power. This does not stack with other similar effects. The first time a target is branded they take additional high-threat Fire damage. Requires Dark Apotheosis.

[Warlock] [Demonology: Improved Demonic Tactics] This talent now has an additional effect: When your pet is below 20% health, the damage it takes from your Soul Link is reduced by 90%.

[Warlock] [Demonology: Demonic Resilience] This now reduces the chance to be critically hit by 2/4/6%, up from 1/2/3%.

[Warlock] [New Talent: Taste for Torment] Soul Gorge’s healing is increased by up to 10/20/30% of damage taken in the last 5 seconds. Searing Pain has a 10/20/30% chance to reset the cooldown of Soul Gorge. Requires level 30.

[Warlock] [New Talent: Dark Fixation] Increases your armor by 100/200% of your spell power. Damage dealt to yourself with Life Tap is converted into an absorb shield equal to 50/100% the self-inflicted damage. Requires level 15.

[Warlock] [New Talent Ability: Reign of Dread] Surge into the air and scorch all enemies below with Shadowflame damage over 2 seconds. While airborne melee attacks against you have $s1% increased chance to miss. Requires level 60.

[Warlock] [Demonology: Challenging Howl] This spell has been reworked and now reads: Taunts the target to attack you, but has no effect if the target is already attacking you. This spell can not miss.

[Warlock] [New Dark Apotheosis Spell: Maw of Dread] Releases a demonic howl in a wide cone before you, causing Shadow damage to enemies caught within and slowing their attacks by 20% for 15 seconds.

[Warlock] [New Dark Apotheosis Spell: Soul Gorge] Hurls demonic ruin at up to five enemies, causing Shadow damage. Casting this restores 40% of your base mana mana and regenerates 5% of your max health. Can be cast while moving.

[Warlock] [New Spell: Dark Apotheosis] Transform yourself into a demon, increasing your health by 15%, armor contribution from cloth items by 600% and significantly increasing your threat. While shapeshifted you are immune to pushback effects and damage dealt by you and your pets is reduced by 30%. While in Dark Apotheosis your Searing Pain spell is instant and you learn Challenging Howl, Demon Charge and Maw of Dread.

[Shaman] [NEW Spell: Totemic Projection] Relocates your active totems to the specified location. This spell has a short cooldown.

[Barbarian] Developer’s Note: These changes are happening to Headhunting because Headhunting was designed to have quicker enrages than the other specializations, which would lead to more triggers of Born in Blood and more energy regen as well as more instances of Berserker Axe, but the pre-beta rework of Unbridled Rage left them at a slow enrage pacing that did not match the rest of their design, especially at lower levels. These changes will be fully integrated with the next restart.

[Barbarian] Gutspiller now costs 20 Energy down from 40.

[Barbarian] Deep Fury now causes direct Physical Damage dealt to reduce the cooldown of Unbridled Rage by 1 sec instead of giving it a flat 5 sec cooldown reduction.

[Barbarian] You Want Axe? now reduces the cost of Berserker Axe by 50% instead of by a flat 10. Note: This means Berserker Axe costs 15 Energy while active instead of 20.

[Barbarian] Manhunter is now called Strong Arm and increases the damage of your Spears instead of boosting your damage against Humanoids. Its Humanoid damage-boosting effect has been moved down the tree and the node it was placed in has been renamed to Manhunter.

[Barbarian] Headhunting’s Level 10 Passive now gives a flat energy cost reduction to Maiming Throw and Throw Weapon of 15, instead of reducing their Energy cost by 25%. Note: This ends up being a buff with Throw Weapon costing 30 from 33 Energy and Maiming Throw costing 15 from 22 Energy.

[Hunter] [Pets] These changes will reduce the performance of pets at low levels and early gear levels, but ensure they grow in power in tandem with their Hunter. This fixes an issue that pets were very powerful while leveling and at low gear levels, but then became relatively weak. With these changes the power curves are aligned.

[Hunter] [Pets] Pets now inherit 100% of the owner's armor penetration.

[Hunter] [Pets] The attack power inheritance of pets has been increased by approximately 36% (from 22% to 30%).

[Hunter] [Pets] The base strength, base agility and base damage of all Hunter pets have been reduced by 20%.

Developer's Note: Geode Barrage was another similar case where due to the change in casting time, it did not feel like it improved enough upon rank up, and DPS remained relatively unchanged. Due to being a spell that deals physical damage, it previously received an increase to its damage to overcome some of the armor reduction provided by enemy armor. At level 1, however, enemies do not have a significant amount of armor, and rank 1 was receiving disproportionate value, so it has been lowered slightly.

[Pending Restart] - Primalist - Geode Barrage (Rank 10) - Damage increased by 31.26%. This rank is available at level 68.

[Pending Restart] - Primalist - Geode Barrage (Rank 9) - Damage increased by 9.56%. This rank is available at level 60.

[Pending Restart] - Primalist - Geode Barrage (Rank 8) - Damage increased by 25.16%. This rank is available at level 54.

[Pending Restart] - Primalist - Geode Barrage (Rank 7) - Damage increased by 26.41%. This rank is available at level 46.

[Pending Restart] - Primalist - Geode Barrage (Rank 6) - Damage increased by 38.54%. This rank is available at level 38.

[Pending Restart] - Primalist - Geode Barrage (Rank 5) - Damage increased by 51.71%. This rank is available at level 30.

[Pending Restart] - Primalist - Geode Barrage (Rank 4) - Damage increased by 55.94%. This rank is available at level 22.

[Pending Restart] - Primalist - Geode Barrage (Rank 3) - Damage increased by 39.71%. This rank is available at level 14.

[Pending Restart] - Primalist - Geode Barrage (Rank 2) - Damage increased by 42.66%. This rank is available at level 6.

[Pending Restart] - Primalist - Geode Barrage (Rank 1) - Damage decreased by 9.88%. This rank is available at level 1.

[Pending Restart] - This change is also going live early because it is changing fundamental behavior of a spell: Blessing of the Eternals chance to trigger Earthliving will now trigger based on the target's health value PREHEAL. Meaning if you just healed someone who was under 35% health, you now have an 80% increased chance to trigger Earthliving. Additionally, this chance to trigger has been buffed from triggering on allies under 35% health to allies who were healed who were under 50% health.

[Pending Restart] - This change is going live early because it is merging an enchant. Spreading Tides has been merged into Low Tide. Low Tide now reads: Increases your chance to critically heal your Riptide target by 8%. Critical heals with Healing Wave on your Riptide target now spread Riptide to a nearby ally. This effect can only occur once every 8 seconds.

Developer's Note: Some of these increases may seem larger than expected. One thing we noticed is that as we were propagating out some value increases in our initial pass, we did not account enough for changes in cast time that some spells have. While the raw value increased across ranks, once the change in cast time was accounted for, there were times that it could come out as a minor loss in total HPS. As such, we are updating the numbers to provide a more significant increase once cast time goes up, to ensure you still feel a meaningful difference in output between ranks.

[Pending Restart] - Tinker - Repair Shot (Rank 11) - Healing increased by 42.1%. This rank is available at level 60.

[Pending Restart] - Tinker - Repair Shot (Rank 10) - Healing increased by 93.2%. This rank is available at level 54.

[Pending Restart] - Tinker - Repair Shot (Rank 9) - Healing increased by 108.3%. This rank is available at level 48.

[Pending Restart] - Tinker - Repair Shot (Rank 8) - Healing increased by 119.6%. This rank is available at level 42.

[Pending Restart] - Tinker - Repair Shot (Rank 7) - Healing increased by 95.9%. This rank is available at level 36.

[Pending Restart] - Tinker - Repair Shot (Rank 6) - Healing increased by 81.6%. This rank is available at level 30.

[Pending Restart] - Tinker - Repair Shot (Rank 5) - Healing increased by 80.7%. This rank is available at level 24.

[Pending Restart] - Tinker - Repair Shot (Rank 4) - Healing increased by 83.5%. This rank is available at level 18.

[Pending Restart] - Tinker - Repair Shot (Rank 3) - Healing increased by 93.3%. This rank is available at level 12.

[Pending Restart] - Tinker - Repair Shot (Rank 2) - Healing increased by 83.3%. This rank is available at level 8.

[Pending Restart] - Tinker - Repair Shot (Rank 1) - Healing increased by 34.8%. This rank is available at level 2.

[Pending Restart] - Runic Power, similar to rage, will have a short timer where it will no longer decay the moment you are out of combat.

[Pending Restart] - [Witch Doctor] - Splash Potion (Rank 7) - Healing decreased by 19.0%. This rank is available at level 58.

[Pending Restart] - [Witch Doctor] - Splash Potion (Rank 6) - Healing decreased by 15.5%. This rank is available at level 50.

[Pending Restart] - [Witch Doctor] - Splash Potion (Rank 4) - Healing increased by 22.2%. This rank is available at level 36.

[Pending Restart] - [Witch Doctor] - Splash Potion (Rank 3) - Healing increased by 8.0%. This rank is available at level 28.

[Pending Restart] - [Witch Doctor] - Splash Potion (Rank 2) - Healing increased by 46.9%. This rank is available at level 22.

[Pending Restart] - [Witch Doctor] - Splash Potion (Rank 1) - Healing increased by 105.7%. This rank is available at level 17.

[Pending Restart] - [Witch Doctor] - Spirit in a Bottle (Rank 8) - Healing decreased by 67.0%. This rank is available at level 68.