Ascension Changelog

Intensify Rage now also reduces the health cost of Bloodrage by 25/50/75%.

Clarified the tooltip of Blood and Guts.

Blink now has a 35 second cooldown, up from 30 seconds.

Reduced the range of Searing Pain (Perilous Pain) to 25 yards, down from 30 yards.

Improved Hammer of Justice will now increase the stun duration by 0.33/0.66/1 seconds, down from 0.5/1/1.5 seconds.

Reckoning will now function the same way as Hack and Slash, triggering an ability called Reckoning, instead of auto attack that does not proc effects like Flametongue or Poisons.

The duration of Intimidation on your pet has been reduced to 5 seconds, from 15.

Frozen Power now has a 10 second internal cooldown.

Hand of Freedom now has a 30 second cooldown, down from 35 seconds.

Defensive Mindset from leaving Defensive Stance will now be removed when entering Defensive Stance.

Blessing of Salvation now has a 1 second global cooldown, down from 1.5 seconds.

Adjusted the icon of the Felguard's Intercept immobilize effect.

Increased the global cooldown of Hamstring and Wing Clip to 1.5 seconds, up from 1 second.

Fixed an issue causing Dispersing Blast Wave to not work.

Changed the tooltip of Tactical Mastery to clarity that the debuff for the staggered damage is dealt over time for the next 10 seconds.

Fixed an issue where rank 3 Killer Instinct would not grant critical strike chance for melee and ranged attacks.

Fixed an issue where Vindication rank 3 had a lower proc chance than intended and would stay active after unlearning the talent.

Unrelenting Storm can now be triggered from dealing damage with Lightning Shield.

Bangle of Endless Blessings (Normal). Now grants 20 spirit and 20 spellpower. Previously had no stats. Proc effect changed from: Equip: Your spell casts have a chance to allow 15% of your mana regeneration to continue while casting for 15 sec. to: Equip: Your spell casts have a chance to allow 25% of your mana regeneration to continue while casting for 15 sec. On use upgraded from: Use: Increases your Spirit by 130 for 20 sec. (2 minutes cooldown) to: Use: Increases your Spirit by 200 and increases your Healing Power by 10% of your spirit. Bangle of Endless Blessings (Mythic). Now grants 24 spirit and 24 spellpower. Previously had no stats. Proc effect changed from: Equip: Your spell casts have a chance to allow 15% of your mana regeneration to continue while casting for 15 sec. to: Equip: Your spell casts have a chance to allow 25% of your mana regeneration to continue while casting for 15 sec. On use upgraded from: Use: Increases your Spirit by 140 for 20 sec. (2 minutes cooldown) to: Use: Increases your Spirit by 220 and increases your Healing Power by 12% of your spirit.

Warp-Scarab Brooch (Normal). No longer increases MP5 by 16. Now grants 30 critical strike rating. On use effect changed from: Use: Increases spell power by 150 for 20 sec. (2 minutes cooldown). to: Use: Increases spell power by 169 for 20 sec. (2 minutes cooldown) Warp-Scarab Brooch (Mythic). No longer increases MP5 by 16. Now grants 38 critical strike rating. On use effect changed from: Use: Increases spell power by up 150 for 20 sec. (2 minutes cooldown). to: Use: Increases spell power by 188 for 20 sec. (2 minutes cooldown)

Auslese''s Light Chaneller (Normal) level 61 trinket. No longer increases spellpower by 32. No longer has an on-use effect. Previous on use: Reduces the cost of your next spell cast within 10 sec by up to 215 mana. (3 minutes cooldown). It now has a passive effect: Healing with heal over time effects grant you 4 Haste Rating, stacking up to 5 times and lasts for 6 seconds. Healing with a direct heal grants you 8 Spell Power, stacking up to 5 times and lasts for 6 seconds. Both effects have a separate 3 second cooldown. Auslese''s Light Chaneller (Mythic) Healing with heal over time effects grant you 6 Haste Rating, stacking up to 5 times and lasts for 6 seconds. Healing with a direct heal grants you 12 Spell Power, stacking up to 5 times and lasts for 6 seconds. Both effects have a separate 3 second cooldown.

Figurine of the Colossus (Normal) No longer increases shield block rating. Increases Shield Block Value by 49. Increases Defense Rating by 16. On use changed from: Each successful block heals you for 100. Effect lasts 20 seconds to: Each successful block heals you for 400. Effect lasts 20 seconds and is reduced significantly outside of instances. Figurine of the Colossus (Mythic) No longer increases shield block rating. Increases Shield Block Value by 60. Increases Defense Rating by 24. On use upgraded to: Each successful block heals you for 500. Effect lasts 20 seconds and is reduced significantly outside of instances.

Argussian Compass (Normal) On Use changed from: Use: Reduces damage from each attack by 68, up to a total of 1150 damage absorbed. Lasts 20 sec. (2 minutes cooldown) to: Reduces damage from each attack by 500, up to a total of 3000 damage absorbed. Lasts 10 seconds and is significantly reduced outside of instances. Argussian Compass (Mythic) Stamina Increased to 42 On Use Upgraded to: Reduces damage from each attack by 550, up to a total of 3300 damage absorbed. Lasts 10 seconds and is significantly reduced outside of instances.

Adamantine Figurine (Normal): Changed to have no on-use. No more passive stats. Fully avoiding damage from an attack increases Stamina by 5. Taking direct damage increases your Defense and Dodge Rating by 4. Each effect stacks to 5 times and lasts for 8 secs. Adamantine Figurine Mythic: Changed to have no on-use. No more passive stats. Fully avoiding damage from an attack increases Stamina by 6. Taking direct damage increases your Defense and Dodge Rating by 5. Each effect stacks to 5 times and lasts for 8 secs.

Highlighting some of the trinket reworks coming with the release of mythic 0!

Fixed an issue where you couldn't send Contestant's Commendations from Arena Frenzy in the mail.

Banner of Recruitment now has a 10 minute cooldown.

Fixed a bug where the Silence from Brambles would interrupt casts even on full Silence diminishing returns. [Pending restart]

Reduced the cooldown of all Flags of Ownership from 10 minutes down to 1 minute and 30 seconds! Active upon next server restart.

Added Fire Resistance Items to G'eras. G'eras Inventory has been reorganised.

[Felforged] Beezlebub lost 45 different items during the merge. He has now found them and made them available for Fel to purchase again.

Nurturing Instincts now increases healing taken by 3/6% while in Cat Form, down from 5/10%.

Blood Craze now heals for 3/6/9% of your base health, down from 4/8/12%.

Primal Tenacity now reduces the damage taken while stunned and duration of Fear effects by 5/10/15%, down from 10/20/30%.

Tools of War now increases the damage done per stack versus players by 2%, down from 3%. (Damage unchanged versus monsters.)

Auto-attacks now deals 5% reduced damage against players. It previously did not have a PvP modifier.

Windfury now deals 40% reduced damage against players, from 35%.

Rend now deals 15% reduced damage against players, from 10%.

Execute now deals 20% reduced damage against players, from 15%.

Insect Swarm now deals 15% reduced damage against players, from 10%.

Flame Shock now deals 20% reduced damage against players, from 10%.

Rake now deals 20% reduced damage against players, from 15%.

Claw now deals 10% reduced damage against players. It previously did not have a PvP modifier.

[Felforged] Fixed an issue causing Silas to not offer or accept SoF quests for felforged. Pending Restart.

[Shipwrecked Set]: Fixed items not being delivered properly from lootbox.

Reduced the cost of Arena Season 1 Prestigious Weapons by approximately 40%.

Fixed an issue where Demonic Aegis did not work as stated in the tooltip.

[Launcher] Changelog design improvements.

[Launcher] Downloader text clarification.

[Launcher] Fix settings not being saved to config.wtf sometimes.

[Launcher] Default settings that are applied during first install will now also be applied on repair.

[Launcher] Improved some buttons readability.

[Launcher] Fix resolution sorting in settings.

[Launcher] Improved registration page validation visuals.

Uncommon (green) items will now have PvE power - pending restart, this change is to help ease player's upgrades from questing, levelling or farming once they hit max level.

Fixed an issue where entering Defensive Stance again wouldn't remove the Defensive Mindset debuff.

Fixed an issue where the Enveloping Shadows capstone effect wasn't triggering properly.

[Karazhan] [Nightbane] Nightbane now becomes unattackable during his air phase. This should prevent pets and guardians from pulling creatures on the floor below.

[Felforged] Beezlebub now offers high level pet food in Critical Consumables.

Fixed an issue where Mass Dispel would say it was able to be ranked up while only rank 1 was trainable.

Fixed an issue Life Tap would say it was able to be ranked up while only rank 1 was trainable.

Fixed an issue where Mage Armor was able to say it was able to be ranked up while rank 2 and 3 were not trainable.

Fixed an issue where Rockbiter Rank 5 would say it was able to be ranked up while Rank 6 was not trainable.

Fixed an issue where players would not have criminal intent if they were over level 20.

Reverted a change where the dungeon finder would stack up based on how many members were in the party that qued for random dungeons as it only applied to one player. Now the buff for queing for random dungeons will be rewarded to the party and give 10% damage, 10% healing and a 10% health increase.

Scroll of Fortune levelling quests can now be auto completed.

Removed vendor behaviour from a slough of empty vendors.

You can now talk to other class trainers as a Hero.

The Sturdy Quarterstaff from the Path to Ascenion 1 quest now requires level 5 instead of level 8.

The Honor Hold and Thrallmar Stones of Retreat no longer have question marks for icons.

The Honor Hold and Thrallmar Stones of Retreat are now in the Vanity spell book page.

You will now revive at full health when at or below level 20.

Titan's Scrolls no longer apply to players below level 10. Levelling to 10 will immedietally apply all active world buffs to you.

You will now receive on-screen notifications when your abilities are ready to be ranked up.

Removed ability unlock notifications to reduce UX spam.

Criminal Intent will now send you a notification, informing you that it was taught to you at level 20.

Criminal Intent is no longer taught at level one.

New players now start with all 1-20 flight paths known.

You will no longer be able to buy Temporal Contracts before level 55.

Incorporated the community-made LFG Auto Reque addon into the base client install. This addon will automatically reque you for LFG when an internal que reset is triggered.

The Hot Spot visual (cloud of smoke) no longer plays when entering a Hot Spot as a ghost.

The Dice of Destiny is now informative based on your current conditions. It will not ask you to enable Wildcard Mode if you already have it enabled.

Rerolling abilities now tells you that you are rerolling abilities instead of telling you that you are re-activating Wildcard Mode.

The Character Advancement quick-access buttons are now disabled by default.

The Ascension Survival guide now opens at level 15 instead of level 10 to reduce UX spam.

Learned abilities will continue to be added to your action bars past level 10.

Corrected an issue where characters would be created with a bow and ammo equipped instead of arrows.

Equipping a crossbow without arrows equipped will automatically equip the first arrows found in your inventory.

Equipping a bow without arrows equipped will automatically equip the first arrows found in your inventory.

Equipping a gun without ammo equipped will automatically equip the first ammo found in your inventory.

Added an option to Riko to teach players more about Newcomers.

Returning Players now share all mentor-related functionality with Newcomers.

The Returning Player tag now shared visibility rules with the Newcomer tag.

[Launcher] Fix button not showing "Install >" for first installation

[Launcher] Fixed launcher overwriting config.wtf on first installation or repair.

[Launcher] "Loop Music" (in-game option) will be enabled by default on the first installation.

[Launcher] Default resolution settings (based on your monitor) will be applied on first installation.

[Launcher] Fix some header links not being active when changing page within same page.

Fel-Infused Gateway no longer puts Hearthstone on Cooldown.

Gnomish Portable Transpolyporter no longer puts Hearthstone on Cooldown.