League 2: Comprehensive Overview

Heroes!

League 2 is fast approaching, and with it the premiere of the redesigned Felforged Challenge Mode. Prepare to join the Legion or struggle against them as you return to Azeroth and tackle your favorite content as Wildcard Heroes! 

This article will cover, in detail, everything you need to know about the league:

Release Date: January 29th, 2021 | 18:00 Server Time

Major Features

• Felforged Mode
  • Join the Legion
  • High-Octane Game Mode where Death means Reincarnation at level 20
    • Tackle new Ball-Busting Challenges
    • Obtain incredible cosmetic rewards
    • Have a blast in all-or-nothing PvP combat
  • Unique Felforged Realm First Achievements
• Wildcard Improvements
  • NEW: Golden Skill Cards
    • An additional guaranteed ability in Wildcard Mode
  • Specialization Specific Scroll of Fortune Quests
    • Quest Chains for EACH of your Unlocked Specializations
    • Heroes can now improve ALL their specs in Wildcard!
    • x3 Scrolls of Specialization every day
      • 3 scrolls per spec!
• Return to Azeroth
  • Tackle your favorite Vanilla content
    • Dungeons, Raids, Battlegrounds, PvP Zones, World Bosses, and more!
    • Retuned and Rescripted raiding to clean up and add some mechanics to flex and heroic raids. (We rewrote ZG for the 3rd time because it was janky)
  • Discover incredible new builds at 60
    • League 2 is the first ever Vanilla Ascension experience to feature our newest updates (Hero Architect, new REs, etc.)
• REMASTERED Vanilla Items
  • Some Vanilla raid items sucked big doo doo
  • These items have been completely remade
    • Recaptured item identity and gaining incredible new power
    • Recreated in the spirit of vanilla
      • Discovering a new item means discovering new playstyles
• Tamable Undead and Demon Pets
  • May appear during League 2, but not 100% sure yet

Secondary Features

• Vanity Collection Access
  • You’ll have access to your ENTIRE Vanity Collection, merged from both Area 52 and Wildhammer INTO League 2
    • Use your entire collection during League 2!
• x2 Raid Loot
• x3 Marks of Ascension
• Fast Paced
  • Raid Release every 2 weeks
  • Shorter Lockout Times (But not too short)
    • 2-3 Days ZG
    • 4-5 Days Molten Core - Naxx
• Progress into TBC
  • League will progress into TBC content, up to Karazhan
  • Merge into Area 52 or Wildhammer at any time
• Legion and Scourge Invasions
• Custom Vanilla Craftables
  • Including Crafting Affixes
• Retuned and Rescripted Vanilla Raids
• NEW Call Board Quests
  • Honorable Combat Quests
  • Destroy the Felforged Quests
• Vanilla World Bosses
  • 16 hour Respawn Time
• Challenge Mode Updates
  • Mark of Ascension Rewards increased to 2500 (up from from 250)
• Return of Daily Arena Quests
  • 1v1, 2v2, and 3v3
• Faction Leaders drop Spoils of War
• Remastered Elemental Invasions

Felforged Mode

A full, in-depth Felforged Guide can be found on our Wikia page right here: https://project-ascension.fandom.com/wiki/Felforged

Felforged mode is an entirely new way to experience Ascension: rather than taking up arms to defend Azeroth, Felforged Heroes work to destroy it. Operating from a hub-world in the far reaches of the Twisting Nether, Felforged Heroes make quick, temporary excursions to Azeroth to sow chaos, overcome epic challenges, and slay righteous Heroes. Rather than the typical linear game progression, Felforged Heroes willingly trap themselves in an eternal cycle of Death and Rebirth, dropping into Azeroth and completing sinister tasks before retreating--or being banished--back to the Nether. Each descent to Azeroth is a fresh adventure, allowing you to grab new abilities, complete new challenges, slay new foes, and collect Souls: an account-wide Felforged Currency crucial to progression. Although Felforged Heroes reset to level 20 each time they die, Souls allow meta-progress to be made across all Felforged Heroes: you can use souls to purchase gear, potions, progression items, cosmetics, and more.

Felforged Mode

• Sell your Soul to the Legion
• Boost instantly to level 20
  • Get a level 20 Wildcard Build
  • Improve it with Scrolls of Fortune
    • Note: Each time you die, you will revert to the build you start the game with, so take some time to improve it: it’s your core build.
• Gear up instantly
  • With a chest of starting Legion Gear
    • Located in your Inventory
• Meteor Drop into Azeroth
• Hunt foes, complete challenges, and have fun
• Die
  • Dying allows you to return to the Twisting Nether to spend souls, complete challenges, and reroll a new build.
  • Bonus EXP and Loot Drop makes dying not so bad
    • Felforged Heroes have a personal bank where they can store gear to instantly empower their next run.
• Note: EXP Boosts (Potion of Experience, Aura of Experience, Recruit-a-Friend, etc.) will not work in Felforged Mode
  • Exceptions
    • Blood of Sargeras: a Felforged specific Potion of Experience obtainable with Souls

Additionally, Felforged Heroes will gain Marks of Ascension as they level up, granting them access to Scrolls of Fortune and Skill Cards. Need more Marks of Ascension? Just die and level up!

Defend Against the Felforged

New Hero’s Call and Warchief’s Command Board Quests

During League 2. Heroes of the Horde and Alliance can band together to drive back Felforged Heroes with brand new Hero’s Call and Warchief’s Command Quests. These new quests will be some of the most rewarding on the Boards, and will offer Heroes a chance to pick up incredible Faction Specific Cosmetics:

• New Call Board Quests:
  • Felforged: Infiltrate capital cities and slay faction leaders
  • Horde and Alliance: Slay enemies inside your capital city
    • Slaying an enemy inside a city rewards you with a token. Exchange these tokens for cosmetics!
• Rewards
  • NEW: Faction Specific Cosmetic Set
    • Alliance Cosmetic Set
    • Horde Cosmetic Set
  • NEW: Faction Specific Weapons
    • 14 Alliance Specific Weapons
    • 14 Horde Specific Weapons

Honorable Combat Quests

In addition to slaying Felforged, Heroes can look forward to brand new Honorable Combat Call Board Quests. These quests require you to venture into Honorable Combat zones and slay Heroes with a higher Treasure Hunter Buff than you! The higher their buff is than yours, the more rewards you get!

• Honorable Combat Call Board Quests
  • Venture into Honorable Combat Zones
    • Winterspring, Western Plaguelands, etc.
  • Slay Heroes with a Treasure Hunter buff equal to or greater than your own
  • Gain rewards based on the difference between your buffs!

These quests should help instigate more fair fights between Heroes seeking the challenge. Additionally, Heroes who have no interest in PvP can complete these quests using Temporal Contracts

• Temporal Contracts allow you to exchange Gold for tickets that complete Call Board Quests

Wildcard Changes

Two big Wildcard changes arrive with League two:

• Golden Skill Cards
• Specialization Specific Scroll of Fortune Quest Chains

Golden Skill Cards: Allow your Hero to claim a second guaranteed ability in Wildcard Mode. 

Golden Skill Cards function exactly like normal skill cards, and you can use them along with a normal Skill Card. This means each of your Wildcard Heroes can now have two GUARANTEED ABILITIES across all of their specs.

How to Obtain: Exchange gold for packs of Golden Skill Cards from Silas Darkmoon.

Specialization Specific Scroll of Fortune Quest Chains: Provide a new, separate quest chain for each of your learned Specializations.

SSSoFQC, the acronym for the above transgression against the English Language, allows Heroes to undertake a separate Scroll of Fortune Quest Chain for each of their learned specializations. The purpose of this feature is to allow Heroes to tweak and improve all of their specs in Wildcard mode, and not feel like they’re limited to one because that’s the one they spent all their Scrolls of Fortune on.

Additionally, with x3 Marks of Ascension on League 2, obtaining Scrolls of Fortune will be easier than ever. Heroes can obtain 3 Scrolls per spec, per day.

These Wildcard changes offer Heroes new and old the chance to get a good build and solid character before charging into TBC.

Return to Azeroth

League 2 sees Heroes returning to Azeroth. While you choose your side and face off against other Heroes, both Felforged and Normal Heroes can look forward to facing off against their favorite Vanilla content. Additionally, this is the first chance Heroes have to explore vanilla with all of Ascension’s TBC updates, including the Hero Architect, Mystic Enchantment changes, and more:

• Challenge your favorite Vanilla content
  • Dungeons
  • Raids: Flex and Heroic
    • Retuned and Rescripted raiding to clean up and add some mechanics to flex and heroic raids. (We rewrote ZG for the 3rd time because it was janky)
    • Heroic Raid Loot has been buffed to solidify its status as Heroic
  • Battlegrounds
  • World PvP
    • Fight in Honorable Combat Zones like Western Plaguelands and Winterspring if you’re brave enough
  • World Bosses (Azuregos, Kazzak, Dragons of Nightmare, etc.)
    • All World Bosses on League 2 will have a 16 hour respawn time in both phases.
  • Reworked Elemental Invasions
    • More Challenging
    • Significantly increased the rate and quantity of Mystic Orb Shard Drops
    • Score Bloodforged Gear
      • In both No Risk and High Risk
• Wildcard Azeroth
  • Discover incredible new builds at 60
  • Forge new Archetypes and playstyles with new Mystic Enchantments
• Reworked Cost of Vanilla Arena Gear
  • Increased Honor Rates ensure that PvPers can keep pace
  • Reworked cost for Arena Gear
    • The emphasis for League 2 is on Open World PvP, and though Arena Gear will be available at a reworked cost, Honor gear will be the focus
    • 1v1 Arena Brackets will have access to Arena Gear

Legion and Scourge Invasions

With League 2’s launch, expect Legion Invasions throughout Azeroth. Heroes who help put an end to these threats can snag powerful rewards based on their participation. Invasions require Heroes to band together to take down enemies surrounding a Legion Portal. Once the smaller enemies are defeated, a boss will spawn. The more you participate in the event (dealing damage, healing, etc), the higher your rank will rise. Slay the boss to gain a reward based on your rank!

• Legion Portals will spawn throughout Azeroth
• Head to the Invasion Point and increase your Rank
  • Increase your rank by participating in the invasion: slaying enemies and healing allies.
• Kill enough enemies to spawn the Legion General
• Slay the General to gain rewards based on your Rank!

Legion Invasions will happen throughout League 2. As the League progresses, these invasions will be replaced by Ahn’qiraj Invasions--once the realm gets to AQ--and Scourge Invasions before the release of Naxxramas.

Take down the Legion and grab your rewards!

Fel Blood

Monsters at Invasion Points sometimes drop Fel Blood. This powerful crafting ingredient can be used in professions to craft powerful items at a reduced cooldown time.

• Find unique versions of important crafting recipes
  • These recipes require Fel Blood
  • Mooncloth, Arcanite Bars, etc.
• Use Fel Blood to craft these items without cooldown
  • Make items fast

Remastered Vanilla Items

Vanilla was a simpler time, and as such the items within it were simpler as well. Many of these items, when looked at in Ascension’s classless setting, are lackluster. In order to capture the magic of finding a new item, as well as improving gear for classless Heroes, many useless pieces of vanilla gear have been redesigned. These redesigns keep with the original theme of the item, but introduce incredible new stats or effects, opening up new gear for more unique classless builds.

• Terrible raid items have been redesigned (read: big buffs)
  • Manastorm Leggings, Sorcerous Dagger, etc.
• Keep with their original theme
  • Manastorm Leggings still returns mana
• Open up new itemization for custom classless Heroes
  • More gear options for you to grab depending on what you want to build

Heroic Vanilla Gear has received a 20% stat increase across the board.

Get Ready for Battle!

Whether you plan to join the Legion as a Felforged or fight against the crusade, you’ll need Allies to do it! Gather your closest friends and get ready to dive into League 2--we’ll see you there!