Ascension Changelog

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

Rune of Transmogrification is no longer deleteable.

Removed quests that required BOP items from A True Artisan weekly quest.

[Area 52] Holy Shock now deals 25% reduced damage against players. It previously had a PvP modifier of 15%.

[Area 52] Holy Fire now deals 15% reduced damage against players. It previously had a PvP modifier of 5%.

Fixed an issue where Judgement of Light incorrectly could trigger certain proc effects. As a reminder, you can read about how procs and triggered spells interact on our Wiki: https://project-ascension.fandom.com/wiki/Procs_and_triggered_spells

[Pending Restart] Robe of the Archmage, Robe of the Void and Truefaith Vestments (Tailoring Recipes) are no longer bind on pick up. They are now Bind on Equip.

[High-Risk] Desecrated Righteous Orbs will now have a sell price. (Pending Restart)

Reduced respawn time for Blackrock Stronghold mobs by 25% to improve questing there!

Improved Draft rarity logic to allow you to see a larger variety of Legendary abilities.

Improved Draft rarity logic while leveling so not picking a legendary does not prevent you from seeing epics.

Fixed an issue where the auctionhouse would default to heirlooms

Homicite Keys and Gnomish Master keys are now guaranteed to drop on death in Highrisk.

Overhauled Highrisk Loot Drops on Death to improve loot variability. This update breaks types of items into containers like High Risk Materials and drops a % range of them. This should help negate the pure upside to naked farming as well.

[High-Risk] HR specific materials, Beast Nest Bair and Hidden Cache Keys now have a vendor sell price. This change is required for upcoming improvements to how players drop loot in HR.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where the Guerilla Trapper 10 second rope cooldown wouldn't trigger correctly.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Champion of Justice sometimes would heal more targets than intended.

[High Risk Alar]: Adding iLvL requirements to High-Risk Hidden Caches and Beast Nests will ensure naked players cannot destroy these valuable gameobjects before those incurring a risk can find them. This change will also ensure players cannot bypass the intended risk factor by Hidden Cache hunting without risk.

[High Risk Alar]: Destroying a Beast Nests now requires Zul'Gurub Treasure Hunter Buff. (Pending Restart)

[High Risk Alar]: Using Bait to spawn creatures from Beast Nests now require Molten Core Treasure Hunter Buff. (Pending Restart)

[High Risk Alar]: Destroying a Hidden Cache now requires Zul'Gurub Treasure Hunter Buff. (Pending Restart)

[High Risk Alar]: Using Homicite Keys or Gnomish Masterkeys to open a Hidden Cache now requires Molten Core Treasure Hunter Buff. (Pending Restart)

Added role filtering to Hero Architect.

[Scholomance] [Death Knight Darkreaver] Pending Restart: Reduced the time between waves of the Death Knight Darkreaver event by ~60%. Reducing the total time between the start of the event and the Death Knight Darkreaver being spawned to 2 minutes down from 5 minutes.

[Scholomance] [Death Knight Darkreaver] Pending Restart: Creatures summoned during the Death Knight Darkreaver event now have difficulty appropriate stats.

[Serpentshrine Cavern] [Fathomlord Karathress] Pending Restart: Fathomguard Tidalvess no longer summons a Cyclone.

[Serpentshrine Cavern] [Fathomlord Karathress] Pending Restart: Reduced the chance for Fathom Stalker to apply Poisoned Arrows with their attacks by 50%.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where the Adorned buff from Champion of Justice still was 10 seconds, instead of 15.

Hero Architect: Refresh List button will no longer ignore selected category.

Hero Architect: Added scroll bar for longer description submission.

Hero Architect: added date submitted and date updated

Hero Architect: you can now delete your own builds.

Hero Architect: Fixed an issue where searching would ignore selected category.

Fixed an issue where the Mythic variant of Magister's Bindings had less intellect values than intended.

[Pending Restart] [Area52] Fixed an issue where Survival Tactics wasn't reducing the cooldown of Silencing Shot.

Fixed an issue where the Fireball from Baron Charr's Sceptre had double of its intended spell power scaling.

[Onyxias Lair] [Onyxias] Onyxian Whelps are no longer able to daze or critical strike.

[Onyxias Lair] Pending Restart: Increased the respawn time of Onyxian Warders to 7 days up from 2 hours.

[Onyxias Lair][Onyxia] Finkle Einhorn can now be found in Onyxias Lair.

[Onyxias Lair][Onyxia] Added a Heroic Version of Onyxias Head.

[Onyxias Lair][Onyxia] Onyxia no longer drops Tier 2 head pieces directly. She now drops Tier 2 Head Token that can be exchanged for their represented Head Pieces at Major Mattingly in Stormwind and Overlord Runthak in Orgrimmar.

[Onyxias Lair][Onyxia] Added a visual to the target of Fireball displaying the area of impact.

[Onyxias Lair][Onyxia] Onyxia no longer pauses between Fireball casts during Phase 2.

[Onyxias Lair][Onyxia] Optimized the transition into Phase 2. Onyxia will now start here Phase 2 routines faster.

[Onyxias Lair][Onyxia] Onyxia no longer casts Wing Buffet.

[Onyxias Lair][Onyxia] Greatly reduced the frequency of Cleave.

[Onyxias Lair][Onyxia] Corrected an issue where Onyxias Flame Breath would select the targets it hit on cast rather then cast finish. Player that are in front of Onyxia when the cast begins will no longer get hit if they have moved out of it by the end of the cast.

[Onyxias Lair][Onyxia] All creatures inside Onyxias Lair use new updated abilities. Player require the latest patches to experience the raid properly.

[Onyxias Lair][Onyxia] Updated Onyxia to latest standards - Ignoring Invisibility and Feign Death, despawn on evade, extra boss frame, removal of parry hasten rules, no combat reposition.

Sealed Cards and Golden Sealed Cards can no longer be deleted.

Optimized Hero Architect search to not include archived builds by default unless you are searching in that category.

The Hero Architect now requires players to pick an icon before submitting a build.

Released Hero Architect 2.0 on Area 52.

Warlock Pets will now persist through logouts. You will no longer need to resummon your demon when logging into the game.

Fixed an exploit allowing you to disconnect yourself when logging into your account from a different client.

Increased the chance to drop Jungle Remedy.

Fixed a bug allowing the 15% damage buffs from The Beast Within and Arcane Power to stack. As intended, none of the 15% damage buffs (including also Death Wish and Avenging Wrath) should now be able to stack with each other.

Fixed an issue where Sanctity of Battle wouldnt increase the damage of Hammer of Wrath. [Pending Restart]

Fixed a bug where Shield Bash could knockdown the target. [Requires Launcher update]

Dark Pact will now drain the correct amount of mana (was reduced by resilience before).

Personal Bank: You can no longer store class enchanted items (Rockbiter, Windfury, ...)

Prestige: Resetting your character will now also reset your instance and raid difficulty back to normal.

Transmog: Artificial items such as Skinning Knife and Pickaxe will no longer get automatically transmogrified when using them at Level 1.

Transmog: You can now transmogrify soulbound tradeable items. (Will cause these items to get bound.)

Linken's Boomerang is no longer usable in Arena.

Fixed a bug causing high AP multiplier values for custom artificial transmog weapons.

Fixed a bug causing Open World Bosses to have an additional +3 levels (??). They will now have the correct level for 63/73 (??).

[Pending Restart] Champion of Justice now requires you to effectively heal an ally but no longer has a health threshold. The Adorned and Champion of Justice buffs have had their durations increased from 10 to 15 seconds. (Tooltips will be adjusted to match this update shortly.)

[Pending Restart] Carnage Incarnate now only requires 12 stacks in order to trigger, down from 20. (Tooltips will be adjusted to match this update shortly.)

Fixed Pepe not randomizing outfits.

Implemented @cursor macro functionality.

Living Root of the Wildheart [Flex] will now have a 40 second ICD. These trinkets previously had a buggy interaction causing the Heroic & Ascended to have incorrect proc cooldowns.

Living Root of the Wildheart [Heroic] will now have a 37.5 second ICD.

Living Root of the Wildheart [Ascended] will now have a 35 second ICD.

Fixed an issue where the recent Carnage Incarnate changes got temporarily reverted. [Pending Restart]

[Mythic+] Active next restart: With Mythic+ dungeons getting reworked, Mythic+ creatures no longer gain healing increase per mythic level.

Dreadmist Regailia - A primarily based intellect caster set will now appear in the intellect category in the mythic+ loot box and intellect has been matched to its spirit. This means that those items who had greater spirit, now have equal (or greater) intellect than spirit and said items with equal spirit and intellect can appear in both the Spirit and Intellect category of the mythic+ lootbox.

Weapons with previously only spell power, hit, crit or haste or combination of these 4 stats without any main stat (Agility, Stamina, Intellect, Spirit) will now ALSO appear in the Intellect category of the mythic+ lootbox.

[Mythic]+ Handguards of Savagery - Previously an item with a mix of intellect and attack power has been transformed into an item with agility main stat and will no longer appear in the intellect category of the mythic+ lootbox.

[Mythic]+ Odious Greaves - Previously an item with a mix of intellect and attack power has been transformed into an item with agility main stat and will no longer appear in the intellect category of the mythic+ lootbox.

[Mythic]+ Bonebrace Hauberk - Previously an item with a mix of intellect and attack power has been transformed into an item with agility main stat and will no longer appear in the intellect category of the mythic+ lootbox.

[Mythic]+ Beaststalker's Belt - Previously an item with a mix of intellect and attack power has been transformed into an item with agility main stat and will no longer appear in the intellect category of the mythic+ lootbox.

[Mythic]+ Pauldrons of Elements - Previously an item with a mix of intellect and attack power has been transformed into an item with agility main stat and will no longer appear in the intellect category of the mythic+ lootbox.

[Mythic]+ Savage Gladiator Grips - Previously an item with a mix of intellect and attack power has been transformed into an item with agility main stat and will no longer appear in the intellect category of the mythic+ lootbox.

Arena Frenzy now begins at 12 server time instead of 18. It now lasts for 24h on Area 52 as well.

[Mythic]+ Verek's Leash Previously an item in both the agility & intellect category made up of equal stats of both agility & intellect will no longer appear in the intellect category of the Mythic+ lootbox.

[Mythic]+ Coif of Elements Previously an item in both the agility & intellect category made up of equal stats of both agility & intellect will no longer appear in the intellect category of the Mythic+ lootbox.

[Mythic]+ Searingscale Leggings Previously an item in both the agility & intellect category made up of equal stats of both agility & intellect will no longer appear in the intellect category of the Mythic+ lootbox.

[Mythic]+ Slashclaw Bracers Previously an item in both the agility & intellect category made up of equal stats of both agility & intellect will no longer appear in the intellect category of the Mythic+ lootbox.

Fixed an issue where some of the Tier 1 & Tier 2 sets had no set bonuses for the heroic verson of the gear. Requires cache clear & server restart.

Fixed an issue where disenchanting certain bloodforge items would not have a chance to yield HR materials.

PvP Cap will receive some changes: - each week the cap will increase by 1500 points. - the cap will no longer "reset" each week, rather it will just increase. - (1 week: 1500, 2nd: 3000, 3rd: 4500, ...) - no more difference between rated and normal cap - cap will no longer increase with rating (flat 1500 cap for everyone) --------------------------------------------- These changes will come to Al'ar with the next PvP Season

Fixed an issue where Chaos Bolt would not pierce through Deterrence. [Pending Restart]

Fixed an issue where your cast would be interrupted if your target used Deterrence. [Pending Restart]

[Romus the Redeemer] Applied UI polish to Romus the Redeemers options.

[Romus the Redeemer] Romus the Redeemer can now sell flex gear for the current tier available if you clear the raid.

[Pending Restart] Increase arena team rating gained from 0-1300 rating by 25%. Arena rating lost as solo queue team is reduced by 25%.

[Pending Restart] Tweaks to Carnage Incarnate. The periodic damage of the Rend attack from Carnage Incarnate now has an attack power coefficient of 8% and generates more threat. It also has a chance to give a stack of Consume Blood when dealing damage to monsters. The duration of Consume Blood now lasts 30 seconds, from 15. The heal effect has been changed into a periodic effect that heals you every second for 3 seconds. It now has a 10 second internal cooldown and still only removes one stack of Consume Blood, making it consume fewer stacks overall.

[Scholomance] Reduced the movement speed of Reanimated Corpses and Unstable Corpses.

Fixed an issue where Holy Fire (Righteous Flames) did not have a PvP mod.