Ascension Changelog

The critical damage damage reduction from Resilience has been lowered. Overall passive Resilience from gear has been increased.

Player base health at level 60 has been increased by 500.

Arcane Shielding - Now grants 1/2% reduced spell damage taken, from 25/50% increased resistances from Mage Armor.

Legacy - Track Dragonkin - Now costs 1 Ability Essence, from 2.

Legacy - Track Beasts - Now costs 1 Ability Essence, from 2.

Legacy - Track Undead - Now costs 1 Ability Essence, from 2.

Soothe Animal - Now lasts 30 sec and applies a 20% attack speed reduction effect. Does not stack with similar effects.

Master Tactician - Reduced to 3 points. Now gives your ranged attacks a 20% chance to grant 3/6/9% critical strike chance with all ranged and melee attacks, from a 15% chance to grant 2/4/6/8/10% critical strike chance with all ranged and melee attacks.

Thrill of the Hunt - In addition to its current effect, now also grants a 33/66/100% chance for your Explosive Shot and Arcane Shot criticals to refund 1 sec of their cooldown, and for your Chimaera Shot, Multi -Shot and Aimed Shot criticals to refund 2 sec of their cooldown. This effect can only occur once per use of each shot.

Sheath of Light - Reduced to 3 points. Now grants 4/7/10% of melee attack power and 5/10/15% of your direct critical healing as a heal over time, from 2/4/6/8/10% and 5/10/15/20/25%.

Beacon of Light - Now has a very short internal cooldown, preventing multiple procs on area of effect heals. Now heals for 40% of healing done, from 25%.

Fixed an issue with Beacon of Light keeping players in combat.

Curse of Elements - Now lasts for 30 seconds on players, from 2 min.

Magic Absorption - Now reduces the damage taken from spells by 3/6% instead of granting 0.25/0.5 resistances per level.

Mage Armor - Now reduces the damage taken from spells by 4% instead of granting 15 to all resistances.

Master of Subtlety - Now lasts 10 sec, from 6 sec.

Survival of the Fittest - Now increases the armor contribution from cloth and leather while in Bear Form and Dire Bear Form by 5/10/15%, from 10/20/30%.

Arcane Concentration - No longer triggers from non -damaging spell effects.

Earth Shock - Now deals 30% reduced damage to players, from 35%.

Improved Sprint - Fixed an issue wherein the players target would receive the slow immunity effect, rather than the player.

Stormstrike - Now deals 110% weapon damage, from 100%.

Empowered Stormstrike - Now deals 15% weapon damage as Fire or Frost depending on the applied Shaman imbue, from 10%.

Maelstrom Weapon - Now grants 3% bonus damage per stack to Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning, from 4%. Now also reduces the damage dealt by Fireball by 2% per stack.

Fireball - Now deals 5% reduced damage to players.

Blizzard - Lowered base damage and scaling by 5%.

Fingers of Frost - No longer triggered by the damage dealt by Blizzard.

Rain of Fire - Now ticks every 1 sec, from every 2 sec and changed the base damage and scaling to compensate. New values should result in a net gain of 15% more damage per-cast than before.

Devouring Plague - Now deals 15% reduced damage to players.

Searing Light - No longer affects Holy Nova.

Thunderstorm - Cooldown lowered to 40 sec, from 45.

Ice Barrier - Now lasts 15 sec, from 60.

Power Word: Shield - Now lasts 15 sec, from 30.

Slow - Now reduces movement speed by 40%, from 60%.

Critical Block - Now grants a 24/47/70% chance to critically block, from 20/40/60%. Reduced critical strike chance of Shield Slam to 4/7/10%, from 5/10/15%.

Shield Slam - Now does 20% reduced damage to players, from 15%.

Shield Slam - Now does 15% higher threat.

Shield Specialization - Reduced to 3 points. Now grants 4/7/10% block chance, from 1/2/3/4/5% and 33/67/100% chance to trigger the rage generation, from 20/40/60/80/100%

Toughness (Protection Warrior) - Reduced to 3 ranks. Now increases stamina by 1/2/3%, armor by 2/4/6% and block value by 2/4/6%.

Gag Order - Shattering Throw now triggers the silence instead of Shield Bash.

Vitality - Now grants 13/26/40% energy regeneration, from 8/16/25%.

Relentless Strikes - May now trigger from Druid finishers.

Mutilate - Now deals 45% increased damage while a Rogue poison is applied to the target, from 40%. Tooltip has been corrected to display the accurate value.

Instant Poison - Now benefits from 7% of your melee attack power, from 6%.

Pummel - Now usable while shapeshifted.

Sword Specialization - Now grants 1/2/3/4/5% melee hit chance, increased the proc chance of the extra attacks effect to 3/6/9/12/15% from 2/4/6/8/10% and lowered the cooldown to 1 sec from 2 sec.

Mace Specialization (Rogue) - Now grants 2/4/6/8/10% melee attack speed in addition to its current effect.

Bladestorm - Now does 120% weapon damage, from 100% and now deals 5% reduced damage while Titans Grip is learned.

Titans Grip - Now reduces damage dealt by 13%, from 15%.

Strength of Arms - Now grants 2/4% bonus strength, from 1/2%.

Improved Berserker Stance - Strength bonus no longer has a stance requirement.

Tactical Mastery - Now grants 2/4/6% damage reduction, from 1/2/3%.

Fixed an issue where Tactical Mastery was not being cancelled while Titans Grip is learned.

Shield Block - Now increases block chance by 25%, from 100% and increases block value by 50%, from 100%.

Reworked the set bonuses of the Tier 3 raid armor sets.

Reworked the stats on the Earthshatterer Tier 3 raid armor set, as well as made some minor tweaks to the Dreamwalker, Dreadnaught, Redemption and Faith Tier 3 sets.

Necro -Knight Garb now grants 35% less armor.

The Fire Strike effect granted by Blazefury Medallion and Fiery Retributor will no longer proc effects intended to trigger from spells.

Fixed an issue with the AQ40 Enigma 5 set Arcane Power bonus granting many more additional missiles than intended.

Idol of Longevity - No longer refunds 25 mana on casting Healing Touch, now grants 12 spell power for 15 sec after casting Healing Touch, stacking up to 3 times.

Digested Hand of Power - Now grants 20 haste rating in addition to its current stats.

Misplaced Servo Arm - Lowered the PPM and scaling on the Chance On Hit effect, and the effect may now trigger from all melee attacks and abilities rather than only auto -attacks.

Ring of Spiritual Fervor - Now grants 14 spirit, 24 spell power and 10 haste rating in place of 11 stamina and 13 mana per 5.

Pendant of Forgotten Names - Now grants 20 spell power and 10 haste rating in place of 9 mana per 5.

Eye of Diminution - Name changed to Eye of the Scourge and replaced the threat reduction effect. New effect - Your ranged and melee attacks grant you 5 ranged and melee attack power for 10 sec, stacking up to 10 times.

Warmth of Forgiveness - Reworked. Now grants 35 intellect and reduces the base mana cost of your spells by 12, replacing 13 mana per 5 and the 500 mana restore on -use effect.

Totem of Flowing Water - Reworked. Now grants 8 crit rating for 15 sec stacking up to 5 times when you cast Lesser Healing Wave, replacing the 10 mana restore.

Glyph of Deflection - On use effect changed to 135 block value for 20 sec, from 235 block value for 40 sec.

Fixed an issue with the AQ40 Conqueror 3 set bonus that allowed players to retain the critical strike chance granted by Battle Shout after unequipping the set bonus.

Fixed an issue where the AQ40 Oracle 3 set bonus would not trigger from certain direct healing spells. Also clarified the tooltip to reflect that it only triggers from direct healing spells.

The AQ40 Oracle 5 set bonus Power Word - Shield component now absorbs 50% of its previous value.

The AQ40 Genesis 5 set bonus Bloom base heal has been reduced by 50% and scaling by 20% of the previous values. Now also has a target limit of 5.

Reduced the damage of the AQ40 Striker 5 set bonus direct damage component by 25%.

Improved Fire Nova - Now reduces the cooldown of your Fire Nova by 0.33 sec, from 0.2 sec.

Time Warp - Now reduces the cooldown of your Blink by 0.33/0.4/0.5/0.6/0.67 sec, from 0.2/0.25/0.3/0.35/0.4 sec.

Improved Mangle - Now reduces the cooldown of your Mangle (Bear) by 0.4/0.5 sec, from 0.3/0.4 sec.

Legacy - Divine Purpose now increases the damage and healing of your Penance by 75%, from 100%.

Legacy - Spirit Dash - Now remove roots when used but no longer removes and grants immunity to slowing effects.

Body and Soul - Now increases the duration of your Body and Soul by 0.5/0.75/1 sec, replacing its previous effect.

Blooming Growth - is now capped at 5 targets per trigger.

Arcane Shielding - Both ranks now grant 1% reduced spell damage taken, from 16/20% increased resistances from Mage Armor.

Improved Fire Nova - Now reduces the cooldown of your Fire Nova by 0.33 sec, from 0.2 sec.

Poleaxe Specialization - Reduced the critical strike damage bonus from 2% to 1% and removed it from the Common rank of the random enchant.

Mace Specialization (Rogue) - Both ranks now grant 2% melee attack speed in addition to their current effects.

Vitality - Now grants 8/9/10% energy regeneration, from 4/5/6%.

Focused Fire - Now grants 11/12/13/14/15% bonus damage on your Flametongue Weapon, from 16/17/18/19/20%.

Searing Light - No longer affects Holy Nova.

Savage Defense - Now increases the amount absorbed by your Savage Defense by 3/4%, from 5/6%.

Fierce Mind - Now grants 3/4/5% of your spirit as healing power, from 4/5/6%.

Reaching Recovery - Reworked. Now reduces the amount healed on the primary target of your Chain Heal by 9/8/7/6/5%, but reduces the healing lost on subsequent bounces by 10%.

Critical Block - Now grants 8/9/10% increased chance to critically block, from 6/7/8% and 2/3/4% increased chance to critically strike with Shield Slam, from 3/4/5%.

Improved Tracking now properly indicates that the Random Enchant does not stack.

Storm, Earth and Fire - Now reduces the cooldown of your Chain Lightning by 0.5 sec, from 0.25 sec.

Pristine Pouch is now Bind on Equip (from Bind on Pickup)

The First-Class Experimental Teleporter cooldown has been reduced to 10 minutes, from 20. (Change active on next server restart).

Magic Rooster Egg is now Bind on Equip (from Bind on Pickup)

Swift Zhevra is now Bind on Equip (from Bind on Pickup)

Reset all flight nodes from players with Feather of Ascension. Please reuse your Feather of Ascension!

Fixed a case where Scroll of Friendship would disappear without being activated.

Feather of Ascension now only learns your factions flight nodes. This fixes a bug where Outlaws could use crossfaction flight paths.

Sergent Bly and his associates are now responsive in Zul'Farrak after the pyramid event on Laughing Skull.