Ascension Changelog

[Requires Restart] Combo points will now automatically transfer between targets. (This essentially makes combo points bound to the player)

Fixed an Issue with Honor Amongst Thieves and AoE sometimes resetting your combo points.

-Rend rank 7 pvp damage in 1v1 arena has been reduced by 5%(with the recent baseline buff to rend this spell became too strong)

-Heroic Entrance ERE is now considered a controlled stun

-Seal of fervor damage reduction no longer works against players

Fixed an issue where Riposte was usable while transformed into Ghostly Blow.

[Pending Restart] - You will now be rewarded an achievement whenever completing a mythic level for Both TBC & Classic.

[Requires Restart] Smoke Bomb can now be used in Cat form and Bear form.

Significantly increased the drop rate of Demon Leather in High-Risk. This increase applies both while the event is active and while the event is not active.

Significantly increased the drop rate of Core Leather in High-Risk. This increase applies both while the event is active and while the event is not active.

Arcane Power is now usable in Cat and Bear form.

Mythic+ Boons are now live with the release of Mythic11-20!

Fixed an issue where the Champion Visual on Thrall was missing and the HP increase was not working.

[Requires Restart] Bloodbath can now be used in Shapeshift forms.

Lowered cooldown of Redirect to 5 seconds from 15 seconds.

[Interrupts] - PVE Interrupts, like Rebuke and Fizzle can now be used in Cat/Bear Form.

[Requires Restart] Bloodstained Debuff will no longer apply the negative effects in Heroic Raids only Mythic and Ascended.

[Pending Restart] - [Thrall] - In celebration of Christmas and the most recent updates to Arena and Draft, 4,000 more Arena Points have been added to the arena point cap for this PvP Progression. Additionally, 10 more Hand of Fate quests have become available, making the total amount of quests available 86, from 76. (This is a total of 30 more Hand of Fates!)

Increased bonus damage of Eviscerate Ranks 1-3

Increased bonus damage of Heroic Strike Ranks 1-3

Increased bonus damage of Sinister Strike Ranks 1-6

Increased bonus damage of Rend Ranks 1-7

PvP Cache loot has been increased in quality(more changes to come soon)

Fixed an issue where Fiery Charge attack power scaling was lower than intended. This should result in a damage increase for melee players using the WRE.

Thrall - Added two new weapons to the arena vendors. (3.80 Speed Agility and Strength based staffs)

Two new staff weapons have been added to the arena vendors. (Str or agi based and 3.80 Speed).

[Pending Restart] - Posses (casted from Baroness Anastari's Banshees) now has a 2.2 second cast time, up from 1.8 seconds and can now also be interrupted. Additionally, when becoming possessed you now have a flat 10,000 health increase.

[Rotting Breath] - Updated the tooltip of the Rotting Breath Worldforged Mystic Enchantment to clarify that it does not benefit from the cooldown reduction from Playing with Fire. Rotting Breath already has a reduced cooldown baseline.

[Pending Restart] Added the Arena Cosmetic Rewards npc to Shattrath as well.

[Pending Restart] PvP trinket now also removes disarm and silence effects.

Pending Restart - Crowd control abilities can no longer miss players (they can still be avoided through dodge, parry's and blocks)

Taunt, Growl, Distracting Shot, and Hand of Reckoning can no longer miss.

Taunt ,Growl ,Distracting Shot , and Hand of Reckoning can no longer be miss.

[Pending Restart] Evasion rank 1 now lasts for 3 sec, changed from 8. Rank 2 now lasts for 4 sec, changed from 10. Evasion now grants 100% dodge chance and ranged miss chance, changed from 50%.

[Pending Restart] Evasion rank 1 now lasts for 3 sec, changed from 8. Rank 1 now lasts for 4 sec, changed from 10. Evasion now grants 100% dodge chance and ranged miss chance, changed from 50%.

[Darkmaster] - Havested Essence now reduces the tick rate and channel time of Drain Soul and Drain Life by 6% per stack, down from 10%.

[Hand of Gul'Dan] - Unholy Power now provides 6/12/18/24/30% damage increase to your demons, up from 4/8/12/16/20%.

[Hand of Gul'Dan] - Wild Imps now have 100% critical strike damage by default and no longer require investment in Empowered Imp (Talent). However, the Empowered Imp (Talent) no longer increases the effectiveness of Wild Imps.

[Hand of Gul'Dan] - Improved Imp now provides 7/14/20% effectiveness, down from 10/20/30%.

[Elemental Destruction] - Decreased the Base Damage and Scaling of Energy Bolt by 4%.

[Elemental Destruction] - Decreased the Base Damage and Scaling of Elemental Immolation by 6% against monsters.

[Blood for the Blood God] - Fixing an issue where the Critical Strike Damage Bonus after using Hunger for Blood is applying twice as much Critical Strike Damage Bonus as intended.

[Warden of Demonreach] - Soul of the Fuego and Winter's Bite now deals 60% of the damage of Fuego/Arctis (respectively) down from 75%.

The following changes will roll out shortly after a restart on January 2nd. This changelog is posted well in advance to give people the opportunity to prepare for the changes themselves

[Requires Restart] Interrupts are now unable to miss in both PvE and PvP.

[Pending Restart] - [Bugfix] - Mounting or Stealthing will now remove Orb of Power.

+ [Pending Restart] - [Thrall] - [Area-52] - Merul now offers TWO BRAND NEW transmog sets, locked behind arena rating.

Prestigious PvP Weapons and Off-Pieces are now released. These upgraded weapons and Off-Pieces have boosted stats and resillience. Off-Pieces have boosted PvP Power. These items will require an arena rating, arena points and the NON PRESTIGIOUS VARIANT. The reason that the NON PRESTIGIOUS VARIANT is included is because when the upgraded arena gear was introduced, it was hard to choose between whether you should hold your arena points or if you should get the upgrade now. This naturally came with a reduction of the original planned costs of the Arena Points for the Prestigious Gear.

Fixed an issue where Knifestorm channel would be cancelled when a target within the area of effect would die.

Fixed an issue where only Rank 1 of Hoarfrost had spell power scaling. All ranks will now properly scale.

Fixed an issue where Frosty Charge had no level scaling.

Bosses in leveling dungeons now have a 100% chance to drop a Mystic Scroll.

Fixed an issue where Eonar's Blessing could very rarely be carried into a dungeon and procced.

Mythic 1-40 items will now unlock their Mythic 0 appearance when bound or equipped.

Fixed an issue where rage generated from spells could be unpredictable in some cases.

Not having a primary start selected when queueing for LFG will now alert your entire part in stead of just you and the party leader.

[Thrall] Shadow Waste Bolt now deals 5% reduced damage in PvP.

[Thrall] Shiv now deals 10% increased damage in PvP.

[Thrall] Shred now deals 10% increased damage in PvP.

[Thrall] Mangle (Bear) now deals 5% increased damage in PvP.

[Thrall] Maul now deals 5% increased damage in PvP.

[Thrall] Execute now deals 5% increased damage in PvP.

[Thrall] Hammer of Wrath PvP Damage has been increased by 5%

[Thrall] Raging Blow now deals 5% increased damage in PvP.

[Thrall] Thunder Clap now deals 5% increased damage in PvP.

[Thrall] Cleave now deals 5% increased damage in PvP.

[Thrall] Colosus Smash now deals 5% increased damage in PvP.

[Thrall] Sinister Strike now deals 5% increased damage in PvP.

[Thrall] Ambush now deals 8% increased damage in PvP.

[Thrall] Killing Spree now deals 5% increased damage in PvP.

[Thrall] Crusader Strike now deals 5% increased damage in PvP.

[Thrall] Whirlwind now deals 5% increased damage in PvP.

[Thrall] Wind Strike now deals 5% increased damage in PvP.

[Thrall] Mortal Strike now deals 5% increased damage in PvP.

[Thrall] Overpower now deals 5% increased damage in PvP.

[Thrall] Rend now deals 5% increased damage in PvP.

[Pending Restart] - Fixed a rare issue where some spells were dealing more damage than intended the last 24 hours.

[Pending Restart] - Quests from Khadgar's Head are now level scaled. (since dungeons are level scaled). Meaning they should always give appropriate exp per level.

[Pending Restart] - Arena Points from losses have been drastically increased: 1v1 losses now provide 30 Arena points. 2v2 losses now provide 45 Arena Points. 3v3 losses now provide 60 Arena Points.

[Pending Restart] - Arena Points from wins have been drastically increased: 1v1 wins now provides 50 Arena Points. 2v2 wins now provides 75 Arena Points. 3v3 wins now provide 100 Arena Points.

Removed Arena rating requirements from Non-pristine Arena gear. This change will be accompanied with introducing pristine gear in the coming days for all major pvp sets. The intention of this change is to allow people to get better gear initially to facilitate fairer fights while still having some meaningful gear to obtain.

You can no longer need on Mystic Scrolls and Worldforged Scrolls you already know or own while queueing for LFG.

Added a PvE Power requirement to queueing for specific Mythic dungeons.

Improved the error message when trying to apply Mystic Scrolls and Worldforged Scrolls to equipment that cannot have the given enchantment applied to them.

[Pending Restart] - Fixed an issue where Flamewalker Acoloytes would have Molten Shield instead of Shadow Shield, meaning all adds would take reduced physical damage.

World buffs (not to be confused with Titan Scrolls) are now removed in Honorable Combat.

You can now learn talents while in combat if you are in a dungeon.

Your Aura of Experience will now be given a 5 minute duration once you hit level 60, allowing your party members to catch up with you.

Whenever you cannot queue for LFG because a party member needs to allocate a primary stat, it will now also alert your party member.

[Thrall] Significantly increased the drop chance of Sanguine Leather when skinning beasts in High-Risk.

[Thrall] Significantly increased the drop chance of Sanguine Weave when killing humanoids in High-Risk.

[Area52] You are now 6x more likely to obtain Epic Nether Meat and 4x more likely to obtain Rare Nether Meat from High-Risk creatures.

[Area52] You are now 3x more likely to obtain Epic Nether Leather and 2x more likely to obtain Rare Nether Leather from High-Risk Skinning.

[Area52] You are now 3x more likely to obtain Epic Nether Weave and 2x more likely to obtain Rare Nether Weave from High-Risk Humanoids.

[Area52] Increased the drop chance of High-Risk Nether Meat from creatures in High-Risk.

[Area52] Increased the drop chance of High-Risk Nether Leather when skinning beasts in High-Risk.

[Area52] Increased the drop chance of High-Risk Nether Weave when killing humanoids in High-Risk.

[Pending Restart] - [Area-52] - World Bosses will now reward 15 Raider's Commendations to the entire raid upon defeat.

[Pending Restart] - [Area-52] - World Bosses now also have an upgraded, heroic loot template. These heroic items are direct (and vertical) upgrades to their counterparts.

[Pending Restart] - Doomwalker and Doom Lord Kazzak will now drop Tome of Untold Secrets.