Ascension Changelog

Explosive Shot now deals 60% less damage to nearby enemies, up from 40%.

Chain Lightning now has a base cooldown of 7 seconds, up from 6 seconds.

Unrelenting Storm capstone now increases the damage of your Chain Lightning by 15%, down from 20%.

Shield Slam no longer has a PvP mod. It previous dealt 5% reduced damage against players.

Fixed the tooltip of rank 3 Anger Management showing the wrong rage gain value.

Demoralizing Roar rank 7 is now trainable at level 70.

Spirit Walk now lasts for 6 sec, changed from 10. It no longer removes movement impairing effects.

Maelstrom Weapon now also adds 3% Attack Power scaling to your next Lightning Bolt, Chain Lightning, Fireball or Frostbolt per stack.

Frozen Power now also increases the damage of Ice Lance on targets affected by your Frostbrand Attack.

The damage of Frostbrand Weapon has been increased by 50% versus monsters (damage unchanged in PvP).

Blessed Recovery now also increases your healing done with Priest spells by 3/6/9%.

Desperate Prayer no longer cost mana. If used while below 25% health, it is guaranteed to crit.

Divine Shield now has a 4 second duration, changed from 6.

Gag Order is now a 3 point talent, changed from 2. In addition to its previous effects, it now also reduces the cooldown of Shield Bash by 2/4/6 seconds.

Shield Bash now has a 18 second base cooldown, changed from 12.

Purify can now trigger Sacred Cleansing's periodic spell damage reduction.

The Sacred Cleansing capstone now also makes Purify able to dispel a magic effect on allies (the dispel won't work on yourself).

Improved Moonfire is now a 3 point talent, changed from 2. It now increases the damage of Moonfire by 5/10/15%, changed from 5/10. It no longer increases Moonfire's critical hit chance, but increases Starfire's by 3/6/9% instead.

Hand of Salvation now lasts for 4 seconds, changed from 3.

The Noxious Stings capstone now silences the target in addition to rooting it when Chimera Shot is used on a target affected Wyvern Sting's sleep effect.

Booming Echoes is now a 3 point talent, increasing the direct damage of your shaman shock spells by 5/10/15%, changed from 10/20%.

The heal from the Dance of Death capstone now has a 40% attack power scaling, changed from 25.

[Alar] Base health increased by 300 for level 60.

Savage Defense is now a level 20 ability, changed from level 40.

Efficiency is now a 3 point talent, changed from 5. It now reduces the mana cost of your stings by 10/20/30%, changed from 6/12/18/24/30. In addition, it now also increases your ranged attack speed by 3/7/10%.

Improved Water Shield now has a 17/34/50% chance to instantly gain mana as if you consumed a Water shield Orb when your healing and damage nature spells critically hit. This chance is doubled with Healing Wave.

Surge of Light now also reduces the mana cost of the Smite or Flash Heal.

Holy Concentration now also increases your spirit when critically hitting with Holy Fire.

Fixed an issue where some weapons with attack speed slows would stack with other similar effects like Riposte and Thunder Clap.

Fanaticism now increases the critical strike chance of your all Judgements spells by 10/20/30%, changed from 6/12/18%

Removed the Holy Power Capstone.

Increased the spell power scaling of Frostbolt to 55%, up from 52%.

Pets now only gain 75% of the effect of Resilient Constitution (which means that they'll have less damage reduction in PvP combat).

Adjusted the tooltip of the Fire and Brimstone mystic enchantment to be more accurate.

Adjusted the Intellect stat gain during leveling. You now gain more during levels 46 to 59.

Shield of the Templar now grants a 2 second silence to Avenger's Shield, changed from 3.

Avenger's Shield now dazes enemies for 6 seconds, changed from 10.

Sap is now in the "Normal Crowd Control" diminishing return category. (It now DRs with for example Fear and Gouge.)

Felguard's Intercept now roots for 1.5 seconds, changed from 3.

Stoneform now also reduces the chance to be critically hit by 20% for its duration.

Pushback from taking damage while casting spells has been reduced.

Fiery Payback now gives a cooldown to Pyroblast while below 35% health. It previously prevented the use of Pyroblast through a debuff.

Fixed an issue where the rank 1 of throwing specialization would not apply properly.

Crusade now reduces the cooldown of Repentance by 4/7/10 seconds, changed from 5/10/15.

Repentance now has a 35 second cooldown, changed from 45.

Added a new visual to Escape Artist, and its immunity now lasts 3 seconds, changed from 2.

Cannibalize now heals for 40% of total health, changed from 30%.

Fixed the tooltips of Feral Charge (Bear), Feral Charge (Cat), Shadowstep, Intercept and Intervene to state that they all share a cooldown with eachother.

Fixed an issue where Demon Charge would not put Charge on a cooldown, but charge would put Demon Charge on cooldown. Both now state their shared cooldown in the tooltip.

[New Talent] Improved Feral Spirit - Increases the duration of Spirit Walk on you from your Feral Spirits by 2/4/6 sec and gives it a 33/66/100% chance to remove all movement impairing effects on you. Capstone Bonus: Your Stormstrike empowers one of your Feral Spirits with lightning, causing its auto attacks to deal extra nature damage for 6 seconds.

[New Capstone] While your Blessed Recovery is active, your Desperate Prayer cooldown ticks down twice as fast.

[New Capstone] Improved Moonfire - Capstone Bonus: Your direct Arcane damage criticals on targets afflicted by your Moonfire have a chance to instantly trigger an extra tick of Moonfire.

[New Capstone] Booming Echoes - With the final rank of this talent, dealing damage with a Shaman Shock spell increases your damage with that magic school by 5% for 10 seconds.

[New Capstone] Heart of the Crusader - With the final rank of this talent, your Judgements deal bonus Holy spell damage to all enemies within 8 yards of the target.

[Scholomance] Pending Restarts: Blood Steward of Kirtonos is now considered a boss and had her health and damage adjusted accordingly.

[Blackrock Spire] [Quartermaster Zigris] Pending Restarts: Stun Bomb now deals base Fire damage to enemies hit. Previously would deal damage based on 100% of the bosses weapon damage.

[Scholomance] Pending Restarts: Reduced the chance of Unstable Corpses and Reanimated Corpses to trigger Disease Burst when getting hit to 10% down from 40. Reduced the damage of Disease Burst by 60%. Disease Burst will now also be triggered by range and spell hits. Previously would only trigger from melee attacks.

[Scholomance] Pending Restarts: Reduced the direct damage dealt of Dark Plague used by multiple creatures throughout Scholomance by 50%. Reduced the duration of Dark Plague to 30 seconds down from 90 seconds. Reduced the range of Dark Plague to 10 yards down from 30.

[Scholomance] [Darkmaster Gandling] Reduced health and damage dealt by Risen Guardians by 50% on all difficulties.

[New Legendary Enchant]: Temporal Shift - Teaches you Temporal Blast, a casted spell dealing Arcane damage to the target and reducing the cast time of your next other damaging spell by 40%. Cancelling a Temporal Blast before it finishes stores the time invested into the cast, reducing the cast time of your next Temporal Blast by the same amount.

Corrected an issue where Terrifying Presence would not remove Spirit of Zandalar inside raids.

Heart of Wyrmthalak now has an AP & SP scalar on the proc effect of the trinket.

Fixed an issue where the Quest Givers outside of Stormwind and Orgrimmar could be attacked preventing you from obtaining or not being able to turn in the "DUEL!" quest.

Added text to prestige confirmation to let you know what specialization you are in!

Pending Restarts: The following items now have a 1 copper sell price and can be sold to vendors: Scourgestones, Frayed Abomination Stitching, Skin of Shadows.

Pending Restart: Reduced the damage dealt from Holy Strike for multiple creatures inside classic dungeons across all difficulties by 75%.

(Pending Restart) It's Time to Duel! quest is now a daily and rewards 25 Marks of Ascension.

Added 2521 creatures to dynamic respawn that were a part of the Keeping Evil at Bay and A Lesser Known Issue quests.

Added Mobs at Dragonmaw Gates to the dynamic respawn system.

Added Mobs at Mazthoril to the dynamic respawn system.

[Alar] [Pending Restart] Mythic Daily Random Dungeon Reward from LFG will now grant you a Mythic Spoils of War containing EPIC spoils.

[Area-52] Prestigious Cache will now reward TBC items on Area-52 Realm.

[Alar] [Pending Restart] Mythic Daily Random Dungeon reward from LFG will now reward 25 gold up from 10.

[Alar] [Pending Restart] Updated the description of Limitless noggenfogger elixir to let players know that it comes from the Arena Frenzy Event.

[Alar] [Pending Restart] Mythic Dungeons now reward 50 Marks of Ascension per boss kill.

Fixed an issue where Avatar of Lightning wouldn't allow casting while moving. [Requires launcher update]

[Alar] For the Horde/Alliance will now last 12 hours in-game time. (Requires Restart)

Fixed an issue where rank 1 of Dragon's Breath showed its cooldown incorrectly. [Requires launcher update]

[Requires Restart] Fixed an issue with GUID mapping that stopped many Daily Quest creatures from being affected by dynamic respawn.

Pending Restarts: Greatly increased the visibility distance of Ruul the Darkener in Shadowmoon Valley.

[Blackrock Spire] Pending Restarts: Corrected an issue where player were unable to reenter Upper Blackrock Spire if they died after Warchief Rend Blackhand had been pulled.

[World Bosses] [Setis] Pending Restarts: Setis will now spawn unattackable and react passive. Setis will become vulnerable and react aggressive on a random timer 5 to 10 minutes after he spawned.

[Alar] Reduced the damage of Feral Spirits in PvP by 20%.

[Area 52] Fixed an issue where Ice Floes wouldn't reduce the duration of Hypothermia.

[Area 52] Fixed an issue where Wyvern Sting wouldn't apply its sleep effect correctly.

Removed "Bagnon" AddOn from the list of supported AddOns as it was prone to interfere with the in-game UI and hiding elements from view.

Updated "AtlasLoot" addon, now supports Heroic/Mythic loot. You can install this from the Addons tab on the launcher, if you have already installed a prior version you will have to re-install the addon.

Pending Restarts: Librams from classic dungeons that are used to turn in for Shendralar Faction Reputation and item enchantments no longer have an item limit.

Pending Restarts: Librams from classic dungeons that are used to turn in for Shendralar Faction Reputation and item enchantments now have a 1 copper sell price and can be sold to vendors.

The stun effect from Hurd Smasher no longer works against players.

[Blackrock Depths] Princess Moira Bronzebeard no longer drops any loot. Emperor Dagran Thaurissan will now drop the loot of Princess Moira Bronzebeard in addition to his own loot.

Limitless Noggenfogger is now in the vanity collection.

Added missing Alliance War Herald to Stormwind instances 2 and 3.

Fixed issue preventing mobile users from accessing the Prestige leaderboard. 🐛

[Alar] Gnomish Lens Item Enhancements will only apply to librams and relics temporarily. (Pending Restart)

Copper, Silver and Golden Mark of War now has a 1 second cooldown. [Pending restart]

[Area-52] Fixed gossip confirmation for Prestige.

Doubled chance to find Rare and Epic Skillcards in Sealed and Golden Sealed Packs.

[Alar] Fixed an issue where all new crafting recipes requiring High-Risk materials would all appear under Tailoring Recipe tab in the Auction House. They will now appear under their proper profession tab. (Pending Restart)

[Alar] (Pending Restart) Fixed an issue where some Arms Dealer: Quests were asking for the recipe instead of the crafted item.