Ascension Changelog

Counterattack no longer deals reduced damage against players. It previously had a PvP modifier of 5%.

Power Word: Shield now absorbs 5% less damage when used in arenas.

Conflagrate now deals 5% reduced damage against players, from 10%.

Holy Fire now deals 5% reduced damage against players, from 10%.

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

Sinister Strike (Double Down) now deals 10% reduced damage against players, from 5%.

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

Earth Shock now deals 25% reduced damage against players, from 20%.

Increased the spell damage coefficient of Smite from 47.5% to 48.5%.

Increased the spell damage coefficient of Arcane Blast from 32.2% to 33.1%.

Reduced the spell damage coefficient of tick of Healing Stream Totem from 3.62% to 3.24%

Increased the spell damage coefficient of Fireball from 46% to 48.5%.

Increased the spell damage coefficient of Ice lance from 7.5% to 8%.

Increased the spell damage coefficient per tick of Flame Shock from 5.75% to 6.3%.

Increased the spell damage coefficient of Chain Lightning from 35% to 39%.

Clarified the tooltips of Seal of Wisdom and Seal of Light to say it only triggers on melee auto-attacks.

Slightly increased the stats and armor gained by Mark of the Wild and Gift of the Wild for certain ranks.

Fixed the tooltip of Improved Polymorph to have correct timers shown for the debuff and cast time reduction.

Fixed an issue causing Stoneclaw Totem not to generate any threat.

Clarified the tooltips of critical strike talents to more clearly indicate whether they only increase spell critical strike chance, or also the critical strike chance of abilities dealing magic damage (such as Lava Lash and Hammer of the Righteous).

Fixed a bug where Presence of Mind couldn't be used while Arcane Power was active.

Fixed a bug where Earth and Moon could trigger the Predatory Strikes talent. [Pending server restart]

Expunge explosion now uses ranged hit/crit instead of spell hit/crit percent chance values.

Fixed an issue where the Wild Quiver enchant sometimes gave less of a pro chance increase to the Wild Quiver talent than intended.

Fixed an issue causing Evoker to sometimes stop working until relog.

Fixed an issue where effects meant to increase the duration of your debuff on a target sometimes incorrectly would affect another players' debuff of the same kind instead of yours.

[New Epic Enchant] - Fire Fire Fireball: After casting Fireball twice, your next Fireball's cast time will be increased by 0.5 seconds but will additionally trigger a wave of Fireballs towards your current target. In addition, the critical strike chance of Fireball is increased by 6%.

New Legendary enchant: Primordial Fury - During Shamanistic Rage your Shaman non-periodic spell and ability criticals consume 50 rage to deal extra Elemental damage and empower you with Primordial Fury, increasing your spell damage by 30% of your Agility for 15 seconds. (Elemental damage is a combination of the Nature, Fire and Frost schools, and will benefit from the highest modifier to either of these schools.)

New Legendary enchant: Crimson Champion - Your Holy Shield ability is transformed into Holy Shield (Crimson Champion) which permanently increases your chance to block by 10% and deals Holy damage when blocking an attack. This damage can only occur once per second, and instead of consuming a charge of the buff it instead grants one. Three charges are consumed to empower your next Shield Slam, Avenger's Shield or Power Word: Shield: Shield Slam - Deals Holy damage to all nearby enemies. Avenger's Shield - Increases your block value by 15% and threat by 10% for 10 sec. Power Word: Shield - Reduces all damage taken by 50% for 2 seconds.

New Epic enchant: Controlled Typhoon - Your Typhoon no longer knocks enemies back. It instead knocks you back.

New Epic enchant: Controlled Blast - Your Blast Wave no longer knocks enemies back. Instead its cooldown is reduced by 10 seconds and mana cost by 50%.

New Epic enchant: Controlled Storm - Your Thunderstorm no longer knocks enemies back. It instead restores twice as much mana and infuses you with lightning, increasing your critical strike chance with Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning by 15% for 10 seconds.

New Epic enchant: Rekindled Faith - Each time your Renew heals a target with full health the duration of the Renew effect on the target is increased by 2 sec.

New Rare enchant: Honor Among Thieves - Reduces the internal cooldown of your Honor Among Thieves Capstone effect by 0.5s.

New Epic enchant: Avatar of Lightning - Your Elemental Mastery now frees you from the physical plane, lifting you into the air and allowing you to move while casting Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning. The cooldown of your Elemental Mastery is also halved, but it no longer gives you an instant cast.

Reduced cost of Mystic Orbs on Geras from 2 Badges to 1 Badge.

Moved all items sold by Edrim Skysong to Nozdormu. Edrim Skysong retired.

Added Mystic Orbs to Geras for Badges of Justice.

Nightbane's Final Hour will no longer be removed by Cloak of Shadows. Cloak of Shadows will still prevent damage taken from Final Hour's area damage if active.

Pending restart, corrected an issue where Maiden of Virtue on Heroic 25 player difficulty would cast Chain Holy Fire on 3 targets which would chain to an additional 3 targets per chain cast causing 9 people to be affected rather than the intended 3 targets.

Pending restart, Shade of Aran's Manawyrms can now be rooted.

Pending restart, Shade of Aran's Manawyrms can now be frozen.

Pending restart, Shade of Aran's Manawyrms can now be stunned.

Pending restart, Shade of Aran's Manawyrms can no longer critically strike enemies.

Pending restart, Shade of Aran's Manawyrms can no longer daze enemies.

Pending restart, reduced The Curator's health by 5.6% on Heroic.

Pending restart, The Crone is now immune to Disarm effects.

Pending restart, the Maiden of Virtue is now immune to Disarm effects.

Pending restart, increased the duration of Moroes' Energized buff to 8 seconds from 5.

Pending restart, reduced the duration of Attumen's Felfire to 25 seconds from 30. This will result in the Felfire despawning as he charges instead of after he charges.

Pending restart, reduced the movement speed of Attumen's Spectral Chargers by ~13%.

Fixed an issue that allowed Titan's Grip to sometimes provide double benefit from equipment's PvE/PvP power. Titan's Grip is not intended to give any additional PvE/PvP power over single 2-Handed equip, dual-wield or other setups.

Fixed an issue that prevented full PvE power benefit when using Titan's Grip with a 1-Handed weapon in the main hand.

The Sated debuff and the Bloodlust buff will now be removed if a dungeon or raid boss encounter is reset.

Extended the duration of Pilgrim's Bounty by 3 days to allow players to further re-obtain these achievements.

Fixed an issue where multiple event achievements and 151 more general criteria achievements were not functioning correctly.

Fixed a bug where Shadow Crash would be cast without 10 stacks.

Fixed a bug where Shadowfury would aggro creatures it did not hit. [Pending server restart]

Corrected an issue where the Servants' Quarter bosses in Karazhan would sometimes not drop the intended amount of loot for the represented difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Malediction was giving more critical strike chance than intended.

Fixed a bug that prevented Living Seed from triggering off non-critical Healing Touch heals with the Overflow legendary enchant.

Pending restart, Nightmarish Book of Ascension will correct add to collection on Area-52.

Pending restart, The Rokk <Master of Cooking> will be available on all realms.

Pending restart, fixed an exploit with gaining PvE power unintentionally.

Pending restart, Old Man Barlo <Master of Fishing> will be available on all realms.

Added quest PoI to 35 daily quests that were previously missing them.

For the Alliance: Death Trap corrected an issue where you had to kill Karnaze isntead of Baelmon the Hound Master.

Lava Lash now deals 10% reduced damage against players, from 25%. It was previously reduced due to a bug that has now been remedied. [These changes are already live on Wildhammer, and will be on Area 52 after the next restart.]

Fixed an issue where the Living Seed heal would not trigger off attacks that were partially blocked.

Fixed a bug where Lava Lash would be affected by talents that increase off-hand damage.

Fixed some issues with the scaling of Pure Shadow that caused it to be weaker than intended.

Gruul the Dragonkiller's Cave In will no longer effect pets.

Prince Malchezaar's Infernal will no longer effect pets with their Hellfire Effect.

Netherspite's Netherburn will no longer cause spell pushback.

Shade of Aran's Mass Polymorph now restores 10% maximum health per second to effected player on all difficulties. Was 7%.

Attumen's Intangible Presence can no longer effect pets.

Attumen's Felfire can no longer target or damage pets.

Fixed an issue where Living Seed wasn't proccing as intended with Overflow.

Fixed an issue where Restorative Shadows wasn't working as intended.

The Use effect of The Decapitator is now (slightly) increased by you attack power.

Increased the proc chance of Romulo's Poison Vial from 2.5 to 4 PPM.

The Lightning Capacitor now also increases critical strike rating by 35.

Expunge now also reduces the cooldown of your Chimera Shot by 2 seconds.

Twilight no longer requires Shadowform.

Low Tide now increases the critical effect chance of Healing Wave by 10% on targets of your Riptide. The Riptide spread effect now only works with Healing Wave.

Conrolled Burn now increases the cast time of Immolate by 0.5 seconds, down from 0.75.

Unchained now also reduces the cooldown of Blink by 5 seconds.

The Shadow Word: Pain effect from Shadow Visions now also reduces the mana cost of your next Shadow Word: Pain by 100%. The Mind Blast effect now lasts for 10 seconds, up from 5.

Healing Garden is now Epic quality.

Call of Thunder now increases the critical strike chance of affected spells by 2%, from 1%.

Impact now has a proc chance of 3%, up from 2%.

Fixed an issue where By Fire Be Purged purged several buffs and did not have an ICD. It now has a 20s ICD and purges one buff.

Fixed an issue causing Stroll to Boom did not work.

Fixed an issue causing Quick Entangling Roots to not work.

Fixed an issue causing Ice Age Frost Nova to not apply if the target had an absorb effect active.

Fixed an issue causing Hasty Force of Nature RE to not work with Druid of Rot: Fungarians.

Fixed an issue with Plague Bearer causing the debuffs Rabies and Infected Blood to sometimes not apply.

Fixed an issue causing Burst of Thorns to not work.

Corrected the interaction of Fist of Reckoning to replace the original spell. In addition, changed Hand of Reckoning (Fist of Reckoning) to use melee hit chance instead of spell hit chance.

Munitions Expert drawbacks have been slightly increased, it now reduces your physical damage with bows by 15%, from 10%, and reduces your attack speed with guns by 30%, from 20%.