Ascension Changelog

The Opera House's Shame effect can no longer be Reflected or Redirected.

The Opera House's Shame effect will now ignore Invulnerabilities.

Corrected an issue where The Opera House's Stench of Failure was affected by player abilities and talents.

The Maiden of Virtue's Holy Ground ability now deals 750 damage per tick (from 2000)

The Maiden of Virtue's Holy Ground ability will now deal damage every second (from 3), but will only interrupt players every third tick. This makes it easier to break Repentance.

The Maiden of Virtue's Repentance ability now lasts 6 seconds, down from 12.

The Maiden of Virtue's Repentance ability can no longer be Reflected or Redirected.

The Maiden of Virtue's Repentance ability will now ignore Invulnerabilities.

The Maiden of Virtue's Repentance ability will now only target players.

The Maiden of Virtue's Desperate Prayer ability is no longer affected by any cast time modifiers.

The Maiden of Virtue's Consecration effect will not deal damage every second from 2 seconds, and had it's damage reduced accordingly.

The Maiden of Virtue's Desperate Prayer Explosion effect will now deal damage in an 8 yard radius from 7 yards.

The Maiden of Virtue's Holy Wrath ability will now only target players.

The Maiden of Virtue's Holy Fire ability can no longer be Reflected or Redirected.

The Maiden of Virtue's Holy Fire ability will now only target players.

Corrected an issue where Moroes' Stuffed debuff would reduce movement speed incorrectly.

Corrected an issue where Moroes' Starving debuff would be affected by a players' auras and talents.

Moroes' Frenzy ability will no longer increase Physical damage dealt by 20%, and will instead increase his attack speed by 30%.

Moroes' Gouge ability now deals 50% weapon damage instead of 5000 physical damage.

Moroes' Blind ability can no longer be Dodged, Parried, or Blocked.

Lady Keira Berrybuck will now cast her Divine Shield ability immedietally after reaching 25% health remaining.

Lady Keira Berrybuck's Greater Blessing of Might ability will now ignore Line of Sight.

Corrected an issue where Baroness Dorothea Millstripe's Mana Burn ability would destroy more mana than intended.

Increased the range of Baroness Dorothea Millstripe's Mana Burn ability to 40 yards from 30.

Baroness Dorothea Millstripe's Mana Burn ability can no longer be Reflected or Redirected.

Baroness Dorothea Millstripe's Shadow Word: Pain ability can no longer be Reflected or Redirected.

Lord Crispin Ference will now cast his Shieldwall ability immediately after reaching 25% health remaining.

Lord Crispin Ference's Heroic Strike ability can no longer be Dodged, Parried, or Blocked.

Lady Catriona Von'Indi's Greater Heal ability will no longer be effected by cast time modifying effects.

Increased the range of Lady Catriona Von'Indi's Holy Fire ability to 40 yards from 30.

Lady Catriona Von'Indi's Holy Fire ability will now only target players.

Reduced the damage dealt by Attumen's Spectral Steeds by 10%.

Attumen's Felfire now lasts 30 seconds, down from 60 seconds.

Attumen's Charge is now unaffected by Invulnerabilities.

Attumen's Charge can no longer be Dodged, Parried, or Blocked.

Attumen's Intangible Presence will now ignore Invulnerabilities.

Attumen's Intangible Presence will now ignore Line of Sight.

Attumen's Intangible Presence can no longer be Reflected or Redirected.

Attumen's Knockdown stun duration has been reduced to 2 seconds from 3.

Reduced the damage of Attumen's Shadow Cleave ability to 50% weapon damage from 65%.

Attumen's Shadow Cleave ability can no longer be Dodged, Parried, or Blocked.

Corrected an issue where Torment of the Worgen would be hidden client-side, and would not visually transform the player.

Increased the range of the abilities of a handful of creatures in Karazhan.

Made several creature's abilities in Karazhan ignore Invulnerability, Reflect, and Redirect mechanics.

Improved targetting logic for a handful of creatures in Karazhan.

Moved checkpoints outside of boss areas in Karazhan.

Greatly improved checkpoint logic in Karazhan.

Created a new way to check for nightmare mode achievements. It will now recognize both nightmare mode auras instead of only one when completing these achievements. This will allow for players with the new & old aura alike to obtain Nightmare Mode achievements.

Area-52 Criminal Intent is re-enabled in No-Risk if you are not under the PvE ruleset. (We are experimenting with this change and looking forward to feedback)

[Seasonal] Fel Commutation can now be used to insure soulbound items.

Re-enabled the Bountiful Holy Wrath Mystic Enchantment.

Fixed Call to Arms Temporal Contracts

Corrected an issue where, depending on your zone, risk mode, and the time of day, game objects could double spawn or fail to spawn.

Implemented the ability to reload items. This will allow us to add (simple) new items without a restart, and moves us closer to being able to deploy entire updates without a restart.

Implemented the ability to reload complex vendor costs (items, honor, etc). This will allow us to implement these costs without a restart, and moves us closer to being able to deploy entire updates without a restart.

Karazhan - Fixed Side Door & Servant Entrance being opened before doing the opera event.

Added missing tier gear to [Bloodforged] Magtheridon's Lair templates.

Added missing tier gear to the [Bloodforged] Gruul's Lair loot templates

Added missing tier gear to the [Bloodforged] Karazhan loot templates.

Crow's on Wildhammer can now have Maghteridon's Lair [Bloodforged]

Crow's on A-52 can now have Magtheridon's Lair [Bloodforged] and Gruul's Lair [Bloodforged]

fixed the similar bug as well for gruul's lair in high-risk.

Fixed an issue where only Glaive of the Pit Lord could drop from HR if you have Magtheridon's Lair Treasure Finder.

Fixed an issue where Death's Grasp would not stack with some other sources of spell hit. (Active on next server restart.)

[Prophet of Wrath] Temporarily disabled while we fix a client crash.

Temporarily disabled forked lightning until a client crash is resolved around this random enchant. Forked lightning is added to the enchant exchange option until re-enabled.

Increased the Marks of Ascension reward from [High-Risk] Keeping Evil at Bay to 300.

Increased the Marks of Ascension reward from [High-Risk] Population Control to 200 up from 100.

Headless Horseman items will now drop more consistently.

Corrected an issue where, depending on your zone, risk mode, and the time of day, creatures could double spawn or fail to spawn.

Altar in Auchidoun will be returning, pending restart!

Prince Malchezaar's Axes now have reduced movement speed and use atypical pathfinding. This will prevent the axes from getting stuck on the walls, and will give players the opportunity to kite them effectively.

Prince Malchezaar now intelligently summons his infernals.

Prince Malchezaar's Shadow Realm can no longer inflict you with an Adumbral Pool immedietally after being thrown in.

Added an Infernal spawn location next to Prince Malchezaar's door.

Prince Malchezaar now has a short cooldown on his Infernal summon speech.

Headless Horseman items will now drop more consistently.

Fixed an issue where Compound Shot sometimes wouldn't be able to critically strike. This will be fixed next restart.

Compound Shot now deals 130/140/150/160/170% ranged weapon damage, from 135/140/145/150/155%. (Tooltips will be updated next patch.)

Added Bloodforged drops to Auchenai Spirits for Spirit Wars event.

Nightmare Mode players will be able to properly trade between players pending next restart! This was always the intended behavior and Nightmare Mode players could use the mailbox already, allowing them to indirectly trade. Ironman/Survivalist Mode x Nightmare Mode is, and was, the combo intended to restrict player's trading within the Nightmare Challenge.

Fixed an issue where the Strength of Arms talent wasn't triggering properly from Slam.

Area 52: PvE Mode is now available on the Risk Changer. Allowing you to turn off your PvP flag in No-Risk.

Area 52: You can now use Fel Commutation on soulbound items. (Will come to seasonal with next set of updates).

Area 52: Reclaiming Auchindoun: Spirit Wars event will now occur everyday at 23:00 Servertime.

Banner of Recruitment will now be usable/placeable by Officers of the guild pending next restart. If the "Officer" has the permission to speak in Officer's Chat and invite permissions they too will be able to help with the recruitment using the banner!

Fixed an issue where A Honest Mistake couldn't proc off some triggered spells such as Arcane Missiles.

Pending restart, added 7 New Crow's Cache Locations. One in each zone.

Pending restart, High King Maulgar's minions will no longer cast their Soulstone, Lightning Shield, Renew, and Reflective Shield abilities until they die.

Pending restart, corrected an issue where High King Maulgar would rarely and randomly fail to respawn his minions.

Pending restart, corrected an issue where Earth's Blessing was not granting you a charge of Earth Shield.

Fixed an issue where the attack from Bulwark was generating way less threat than intended. It now has the same threat modifiers as Shield Slam (but still deals reduced damage).

Wacky Wizardy can no longer roll mana gems.

Pending restart, added a Weekly Timewalking Dungeon quest to Call Board. It chooses any Vanilla dungeon each week.

Corrected the tooltip on Trademan scroll to 375 skill granted. Clarifying 375 skill granted towards that profession.

Pending restart, reduced the ilvl requirement for Bloodforged Magtheridon's Lair equipment.

Pending restart, reduced the ilvl requirement for Bloodforged Gruul's Lair equipment.

Pending restart, Karazhan's Arcane Watchman's Overload ability will no longer affect pets.

Corrected an issue where Magtheridon's Shadow Grasp damage would increase as the fight went on.

Fixed the tooltips of Master of Shadows and Apprentice of Shadows buffs to correctly state that it gives Shadow spell power based on Agility (Tooltips will update next patch).