Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2021/10/16

Talents & Abilities

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Improved Travel form is now a 3 point talent, changed from 5.

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Improved Sprint now increases the duration of Sprint by 1/2/3 seconds, changed from 2/4/6.

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Improved Felhunter is now a 3 point talent, changed from 2. It now reduces the cooldown of Spell Lock and Devour Magic by 7/14/20 seconds.

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Devour Magic now has a 40 second cooldown, changed from 20.

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Spell Lock now has a 60 second cooldown, changed from 40.

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Iron Will now has a 5 second duration in PvP, changed from 6.

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Shockwave now has a 2.5 second duration, changed from 2.

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Improved Blink now reduces the cooldown of Blink by 4/8/12 seconds, changed from 3/6/9.

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Blink now has a 45 second cooldown, changed from 40.

Mystic Enchants

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The Deadly Bite bleed now lasts for 12 seconds, up from 8 seconds.

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Shadow Word: Pain cast while Shadow Visions proc is active will now affect up to 4 additional nearby enemies, up from 3 additional enemies.

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Champion of Justice's Adorned can now be applied by several players on the same target.

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Champion of Justice's Adorned heals will now never trigger the Adorned buff.

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Champion of Justice's healing effects are now able to critically hit.

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Manacharged Strike now deals approximately 20% more damage. Its damage against players is now reduced by 40%, up from 30%.

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In the Zone spell shield now has a 5% attack power scaling.

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Carnage Incarnate now allows Taste for Blood to empower your next Swipe to generate additional threat, in addition to its previous effects.

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Crush (Heavyweight) can now hit up to 6 targets, changed from 10, and now deals 110% weapon damage, changed from 125%.

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Increased the cost reduction from dual school rare Mystic Enchant like Cold Logic from reducing the cost of abilities from the two schools by 4%, up from 2%.

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Increased the bonus scaling granted from all Focused Mystic Enchants to 3%, up from 2%.

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Clarified the tooltip of Throw Weapon Mystic Enchant to state the 20 yard range.

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Frost Lich now slows the target by 50%, changed from 70%, but also has a 4 second duration, changed from 2.

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Stormbringer Legendary Mystic Enchant has been reworked, it now reads: Your damaging abilities have a chance to strike your target's location with lightning, dealing additional Nature damage to the target and leaving an electrified area slowing enemies by 50% and dealing damage every second for 4 seconds.

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Harbinger of Flame now also increases your Fire damage done to the targets affected by Flame Burst by 3%, and Flame Burst now lasts for 5 seconds.

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Amal'thazad's Curse has been reworked. It now reads: Your damaging abilities have a chance to call forth Amal'thazad's Curse, chilling yourself but granting you 1% critical strike chance per stack. Amal'thazad's Curse also deals frost damage to your target and chills enemies near the target, reducing their movement speed by 5%, stacking 5 times.

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Unbounded Spell Slinger now reduces the mana cost of your next ability by 20%, up from 10%. In addition, its damage has been increased by 30%.

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The damage of Purification By Light's Exorcism has been increased by 20%. In addition, fixed a bug where it could proc from auto-attacks but not melee abilities.

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Deathbringer Mystic Enchant now heals you for 50% of the damage, down from 70%, but now deals 50% more damage.

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Growing Light now also gives you a buff when you heal the target of your Beacon of Light. This buff inicreases the healing transferred to your Beacon of Light by an additional 20% for 6 seconds, stacking up to 3 times.

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Controlled Typhoon now increases the damage of Typhoon by 40%, changed from 20%.

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Foul Play now has a 2 second silence duration, changed from 3.

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Changed the tooltip of Demonic Mind to be more accurate.

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Powerful Death Coil now increases the damage of your Death Coil by 10%, changed from 15%.

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Frozen Mind now increases armor by 250% of Intellect, changed from 200.

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Eternal Water now also makes your Water Elemental's Water Bolt spell increases your spell haste by 1% for 10 seconds, stacking up to 10 times.

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Urgent Touch now reduces the cast time of your Healing Touch spell by 0.1, down from 0.15 seconds.

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Controlled Blast now reduces the cooldown of Blast Wave by 15 seconds, changed from 10.

2021/10/15

General

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Fixed an issue where your Prestige quest would not be completed in Battlegrounds.

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Increased Marks of Ascension from new Prestige Rotating Daily Event to 2500 from 1000

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Added a new instancing system that will sync creatures and objects so portals, npcs, and necessary things stop disappearing from capitals.

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Added Rotating Prestige Event Quests to promote different types of leveling content each day. Open World, Dungeons, Leveling in rotation.

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Skill card Exchange will now give you many more sealed cards for turning in Higher quality cards. See news article!

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Opening Sealed cards will now give you Darkmoon Tickets, these will be used to claim rewards and prizes on Silas Darkmoon in the near future!

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Added onto Titan Scroll aura description to explain what they are and how they work.

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Fixed a case where macros would untarget stuff when you used an @cursor sometimes

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added @cursor to /castrandom and /castsequence macros.

2021/10/14

General

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Pets will get resurrected when entering the Arena.

Talents & Abilities

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Fixed a bug where Deterrence would not give parry chance.

World

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[High-Risk] Greedy Demons will now have a chance to drop Golden Mark of War (Pending Restart)

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[High-Risk] Greedy Demons will now always drop some Silver Mark of War (Pending Restart)

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[High-Risk] Greedy Demons now have a chance to drop Epic HR Materials (Pending Restart)

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[High-Risk] Greedy Demons will now always drop some Rare HR Materials (Pending Restart)

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[High-Risk] Greedy Demons will now always drop additional Mystic Orbs and Runes (Pending Restart)

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[High-Risk] Greedy Demons will now always drop Molten Core and ZG Loot. (Pending Restart)

System Changes

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PvE Mode: PvE Mode will now be removed when entering Open World arenas.

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[Area-52] Re-enabled Twin Peaks Call to Arms back into rotation. You can now also random BG into twin peaks.

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[Area-52] Fixed a multitude of issues within the Twin Peaks battleground.

Dungeons & Raids

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[Onyxias Lair] [Onyxias] Pending Restart - Reduced the damage of Deep Breath on normal difficulty by 95%. Player need a new Patch-S for Heroic and Ascended difficulty.

2021/10/13

General

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Added Mailbox outside of Ironforge Auctionhouse.

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Fixed some bugs with the Spell Transmog Enable/Disable system.

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Poisons no longer drop in Highrisk.

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Implemented some improved Hot reloading that should allow us to hotfix issues with less restarts.

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Added Option to Skillcard Exchanger to buy Golden Skill cards.

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Ammo and Arrows will no longer drop in High-Risk

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Added an option to Chromie to display your currently active Skill cards.

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Updated Knowledge Base Help Menus.

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Doubled the distance in which you get experience and kill credit for quests when playing in group.

Item Changes

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[High-Risk] Increased the chance to obtain Dusk Shards when disenchanting Molten Core gear.

2021/10/12

Quests

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[Alar] Adventurer's Contract: Deadwind Vices will now require any Ogre Kills instead of specific Ogres.

2021/10/11

General

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[Callboard] [Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where the "A True Artisan" quests could have multiple versions available at the same time, despite only able to do 1 per week. They will now correctly randomly shuffle.

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[Callboard] [Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where the "Threat to Azeroth" [High Risk] quests could have multiple versions available at the same time, despite only able to do 1 per week. They will now correctly randomly shuffle.

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[Callboard] [Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where the "Threat to Azeroth" quests could have multiple versions available at the same time, despite only able to do 1 per week. They will now correctly randomly shuffle.

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Fixed an issue where PvP items from the alliance alterac vendor would have pve power instead of PvP power.

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You can no longer offer players from the opposite faction to sign petitions.

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[Pending Restart] Incantation of Experience - Now has a 1 second cast time, from 2.5 seconds.

Talents & Abilities

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Seed of Corruption will now proc as intended.

Item Changes

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Fixed an issue where the Ascended Hand of Ragnaros Fireball DoT was scaling with too high spell power.

2021/10/10

General

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Fixed an error in the Hand of Fate Quest Chain Logic for Specialization III not allowing you to reach the current server cap.

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[Area-52] Fixed an issue where after killing Kelthuzad in Naxrammas, you would not unlock the commendations vendor at Romus the Redeemer.

Dungeons & Raids

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[Area 52] [Serpentshrine Cavern] Reduced the health, damage dealt and healing done of all creatures inside the Serpentshrine Caverns by 4.5% on Ascended Difficulty.

Mystic Enchants

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[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where the spell damage bonus of the Improved Moonfire Capstone effect wasn't applying correctly.

Quests

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[Alar][Callboard] The Weekly Callboard Quest for Raids will now rotate between Onyxia, ZG, and Molten Core. This will prevent the raid quest from disappearing from one week to another as a quest without the raid out can appear.

2021/10/09

Item Changes

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[High-Risk] Crafting an Epic Scorching Hot Steak will now correctly give you the epic version! (Pending Restart)

Mystic Enchants

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Fixed an issue causing the heal triggered by Champion of Justice to also heal targets the player had not Adorned.

Quests

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[High Risk Alar]: Updated Hidden Cache and Beast Nest Path to Ascension quest text to indicate the required minimal ilvl to Smash or Open Chests/Nests.

2021/10/07

World

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[High-Risk] Fixed an issue where Beasts from Beast Nests could sometimes not drop their intended loot.

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[High-Risk] Beasts spawned from Epic Beast Nest Bait now drop rare and Epic Dusk Shards.

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[High-Risk] Beasts spawned from Epic Beast Nest Bait now drop Epic HR Materials.

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[High-Risk] Beasts spawned from Rare Beast Nest Bait now drop rare and epic HR Materials.

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[High-Risk] Beasts spawned from Uncommon Beast Nest Bait now drop rare HR Materials.

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[High-Risk] Beasts spawned from Epic Beast Nest Bait now drops 2-3 Golden Mark of War from 1.

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[High-Risk] Beasts spawned from Rare Beast Nest Bait now drops 2-3 Silver Mark of War from 1.

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[High-Risk] Beasts spawned from Uncommon Beast Nest Bait now drops 2-3 Copper Mark of War from 1.

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[High-Risk] All Hidden Caches drop additional Mystic Orbs and Runes based on quality.

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[High-Risk] Intact Hidden Cache now drops Rare and Epic Dusk Shards.

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[High-Risk] Intact Hidden Cache now drops Epic HR Materials.

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[High-Risk] Singed Hidden Cache now drops rare HR Materials and Epic Materials.

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[High-Risk] Smoldering Hidden Cache now drops rare HR Materials.

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[High-Risk] Intact Hidden Cache now drops 2-3 Golden Mark of War from 1.

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[High-Risk] Singed Hidden Cache now drops 2-3 Silver Mark of War from 1.