Journal des Modifications Ascension

[Runemaster] Runemasters will now be able to use two-handed melee weapons (swords, axes, maces and polearms). This will come with passive effects and will be geared toward tanking, allowing us to create a clear differential between the dagger (dps) style, and the tank (2h) style, and let us tweak knobs for both individually, i.e. we can nerf the survivability of dps build while keeping it for tank builds

[Runemaster] The Riftblade spell will no longer continue checking for essences to consume for 0.5sec after use

[Runemaster] Fixed scaling of Word of Oblivion's DoT

[Primalist] Lifegiver scaling increased, but it can now only proc once every 5 sec and heals in a smaller radius

[Primalist] Added new visual for Primal Weapon: Life's proc, Lifegiver

[Necromancer] Added new visual for Chill Touch

[Necromancer] Added new visual for Heartchill

[Necromancer] Added new visual for Glacial Dagger

[Cultist] Slightly altered Insane visual

[Cultist] Eldritch Grasp's delayed application can no longer miss

[Cultist] New visual for Tentacle of Y'Shaarj

[Cultist] Fixed a bug causing Enslave to break very quickly after casting

[Tinker] Fixed Sniper Training's cast time increase

[Chrono] Fixed Shield of Ages' proc

[Cultist] Fixed the visual for Maddening Glimpse (the fear proc from Abyssal Ward)

[Cultist] Fixed a bug causing Enslave to break very quickly after casting

[Necro] Fixed stamina scaling of Putrid Ghouls

[Tinker] Quickscope now correctly resets Snipe's cooldown

[Venomancer] Harden Carapace will now start at 25 stacks, with each stack giving 3% DR and dropping every 0.4 sec for a full 10 sec duration

[Venomancer] Carapace Regeneration is no longer a Magic effect

[Venomancer] Fixed a bug with Carapace Regneration's cooldown

[Stormbringer] Modifying static with Slicing Wind should now correctly be apply to activate Thorim's effects and Overcharge etc

[Witch Hunter] Bola Shot should now require you to face the target

[Runemaster] Ace of Runes now also causes Thaumaturgy to incur no cooldown

[Runemaster] Ace of Primordials now grants Thaumaturgy an additional 20% damage

[Runemaster] The bonus damage caused by Ace of Ice, Ace of Flame, and Ace of Magic now scales with Intellect, and benefits from modifiers to Thaumaturgy (damage bonuses etc)

[SoA] Shadow Worgen should now work correctly

[Sun Cleric] Light's Advance will now correctly force you to face the target while you charge them

[Cultist] Confuse is now a 24 sec Cooldown baseline and its lockout time is now 3 sec up from 2 sec

[Cultist] Power of Will is now Renounce Darkness, a 10 min Cooldown that removes the Insane effect and resets your Insanity to zero

[Cultist] Tentacles of C'thun should now be better at recasting Mental Assault when it falls off / target switches / gets interrupted etc etc etc

[Cultist] Gaze of C'thun now causes your active Tentacles that are in range of an enemy to start attacking them

[Necro] Blessing of the Crypt now has default targetting

[Necro] Spells that target minions based on their HP will now work correctly

[Necro] Spells that sac/target minions will no longer work on dead minions

[Necro] Ghouls will now count for spells like Acrid Aegis, Spellblight, etc

[Necro] Fixed Defend Your Master

[Necro] Ghouls should now obey Grave March

[Ranger] Loaded Bolts should now correctly be consumed on crit

[Ranger] Hail of Arrows will stop firing shots while pacified

[Necro] Blightbound (Blight's root effect) has a new visual

[Necro] Blight has a new visual

[Necro] Blight no longer has a cost

[Necro] Blight no longer applies Withered stacks but will root all enemies in its area when it ends

[Necro] Blighted Ground is now Blight, a nova style effect that leaves a patch on the ground for 4 sec that slows enemies by 50% and grounds them

[Runemaster] Phase Rush no longer boosts dodge

[Tinker] Deploy Bombs now give you a 'Bomb Ready' aura while within range of them, and Remote Detonation only works while you have that aura

[Tinker] Sniper Training talent replaced with Quickscope, giving your BPS hits a chance to make your next Snipe instant and free, but removing its Slow

[Tinker] Sniper Rifle now has Sniper Training baked in

[Witch Hunter] Repeater is now Deploy Ballista

[Witch Hunter] Added scaling to Collect Bounty

[Venomancer] Venom Resistance now correctly only targets self

[Barbarian] Wristbreaker passive is now Improved Wrist Snap, giving it an increased duration and causing Wrecker to lower its remaining Cooldown

[Barbarian] Added a direct 3 sec Interrupt called Wrist Snap on a 35 sec CD that also slows melee and spell haste by 50% for the same duration. Coming with core revamp

[Tinker] Beacons share a 1 min Cooldown

[Tinker] Build: Shield Beacon is no longer usable while Silenced

[Guardian] Fixed buff tooltip of Shieldforge

[Ranger] Slightly reduced level scaling of Wild Strike's base damage (meant to do this when I removed its CD)

[Ranger] Updated tooltip of Wild Strike to reflect that it stacks 8 times

[Pyro] Wrath of Sinestra's damage procs now have reduced SP and level scaling

[Pyro] Cauterize Wounds no longer has SP scaling

[Pyro] Cauterize Wounds tooltip updated to reflect the bleed is not actually required in order to cast the spell.

[Monk] Sanctify Fists should now correctly give you a Holy Rune when you hit the right flank with a hook

[Barb] Exhaustion stacks now increase damage taken and reduce dodge chance and movespeed instead of reducing your output

[Barb] The Bleed effect from Impaling Rush will now correctly show as a debuff

[Barb] Exhaustion will now correctly stun at 5 stacks

[Pyro] Ignite now requires you to face your target

[Pyro] Spellburn now requires you to face your target

[Cultist] New visual for Abyssal Reconstruction

[Cultist] New visual for Abyssal Ward

[Cultist] New visual for Eldritch Idol

[Cultist] Coming with the core rework, Eldritch Smites are condensed into 1 spell that applies the Smite buff related to your current Old God as defined by your Herald

[Cultist] Psychic Mockery is now Test of Pride and counts as a Y'shaarj ability

[Cultist] Heralds are now displayed in the stance bar

[Cultist] Awakening is now 20yd range and has no cooldown, new visual and is now called Ritual of Awakening

[Cultist] Updated tooltip of Eldritch Smite of Y'shaarj to reflect that it now scales with Stamina

[Cultist] Eldritch Smite of Y'shaarj's Despoiled Ground effect now has reduced level scaling, but Stamina scaling has been added

[Cultist] Reduced level scaling of Entropic Strike's Shadow Resistance debuff

[Cultist] Fixed proc rate of Wavering Pride from Herald of Y'shaarj

[Cultist] Reduced the scaling of Wave of Doubt's AP debuff

[Cultuist] Reaving Blade is now a radial aoe instead of conal and has a new visual

[Cultist] Twilight Slam's conal effect now has a new visual and will no longer appear as a stun

[Cultist] Twilight Slam's SP reduction scaling reduced significantly

[Runemaster] Warp no longer usable while Rooted

[Runemaster] You can no longer cancel your own Fire Attunement

[Demom Hunter] Felshift's reflect damage now counts as Felfire and will therefore also scale correctly with SP

[Demon Hunter] Immolation Aura now correctly deals Chaos damage

[All] Fixed an issue inflating the damage done by all players in RDF

[Sun Cleric] Fixed Valkyrie Spear

[Runemaster] Word of Oblivion's Oblivion debuff now lasts 15 sec up from 6 sec

[SoA] Fixed a bug causing Goldrinn's Fury to consume itself

[SoA] Fixed Goldrinn's Fury visual

[Tinker] Fixed Parachute Pack

[Chrono] Fixed Timerend mana cost

[Venomancer] Dark Barrier of Shadra is now limited by Silence

[Venomancer] Extraction is now limited by Silence

[Venomancer] Extraction can now be Interrupted

[Stormbringer] Fixed the Cooldown of Cloudburst

[KoX] Flames of Xoroth is now a magic effect and has a new visual

[Primalist] Replaced Earthmother's Embrace with Sacred Grove, a similar but more powerful spell on a longer cooldown