Ascension Changelog

Fixed issue preventing redirects to the proper route on the download page for Linux users.

[Scholomance] Kirtonos the Herald will now have a guaranteed piece of loot dropped. Pending Restart.

[Scholomance] Blood Steward of Kirtonos will now have a guaranteed piece of loot dropped. Pending Restart.

Removed a few spawns after the Halycon boss (leading into the room for Overlord Wyrmthalak) that were over-saturated in mob density in Lower Blackrock Spire which lead to drastic over & chain pulling

Fixed an issue where The Unforgiven items on Heroic was not upscaled.

Fixed an issue where the unforgiven could only drop 2 items on heroic & normal.

Fixed an issue where Sword Specialization (Warrior) could stop giving its hit chance.

Significantly increased the login speeds into Area 52.

Greedy Demons now appear more frequently in High-Risk and have a good chance to drop epic loot. Catch them and take their loot!

Implemented additional debugging and fixes for LFG Queue getting stuck.

Implemented additional caching and performance improvements to Auctionhouse

Added proper auctionhouse sorting for rarity, buyout, name, level and more.

Added Courier Malik to the additional instances of Stormwind and Orgrimmar

Lightning Bolt base damage has been reduced by 5% at level 60. [Pending restart]

Explosive Shot base damage has been reduced by 5% at level 60. [Pending Restart]

Fixed an issue where the mana regen from Improved Leader of the Pack did not trigger correctly. [Pending restart]

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Pending Restart: Punctured Voodoo Dolls now have unique names, no longer have a item limit and can now be sold to vendors for 1 copper. Requires Cache clear to display changes.

[Alar] Massively reduced the craft time on all new Flask Recipes requiring High-Risk materials.

Fixed an issue where the proc and damage shield from Flame Wrath had too high spell power scaling.

Corrected Mystic Orb, Mystic Rune, Mark of Ascension drops for 108 classic dungeon bosses.

Added High Risk Recipe loot tables to 27 bosses that missed them on normal dungeon mode and 75 from heroic mode.

[Stratholme] Pending Restart: Malor the Zealous will have a guaranteed drop in Stratholme on all difficulties.

Controlled Explosion now increases Explosive Shot main target damage by 10% and reduces its AOE damage by 15%. [Pending restart]

Forked Lightning now also increases the cooldown of your Chain Lightning by 2 seconds. [Pending restart]

Fixed the weapon damage of Slavedriver''s cane on heroic.

Fixed an issue where some visuals on Hakkar would stop appearing. (requires patch update)

Fixed an issue where Avatar of Lightning was not allowing you to cast while moving. This requires a patch update from the launcher.

Reduced the spawn timer of Setis. (He is still on a random spawn timer)

Fixed an issue where Lamellar honor pieces for the horde were unable to be enchanted. (Requires patch update)

[Al'ar] The 2v2 Daily now rewards 1500 Marks of Ascension [Pending Restart]

[Al'ar] The 2v2 Daily will now be every day on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The 1v1 daily will now spawn on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.

Increased the experience gain from completing a Battleground

[Blackrock Depths] Corrected an issue where Ironhand Guardian, Static Golems in the Magmus encounter, would deal damage in the entire room with their Gout of Flame ability. Gout of Flame is now correctly a Cone ability. Reduces the duration of Magmus War Stomp from 8 seconds to 3.

Fixed deterrence skillcard to be usable [Requires restart]

Fixed deterrence Golden skillcard to be usable [Requires restart]

Fixed mass dispel skillcard to be usable [Requires restart]

Fixed mass dispel Golden skillcard to be usable [Requires restart]

Fixed Shattering Throw Golden skillcard to be usable [Requires restart]

Fixed Shattering Throw skillcard to be usable [Requires restart]

Fixed an issue where Shadowcraft Bracers was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Belt of Valor was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Shadowcraft Belt was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Wildheart Belt was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Beaststalker's Belt was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Dreadmist Bracers was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Cord of Elements was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Magister's Belt was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Devout Belt was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Magister's Bindings was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Bracers of Valor was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Wildheart Gloves was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Fixed an issue where Beaststalker's Bindings was not dropping its heroic version on the heroic difficulty.

Updated AH to improve server wide performance and speed up some searches.

Updated Movement handling in capital cities to improve performance.

Fixed various issues that would cause the LFG queue get STUCK.

Reduced spawn time of mobs in ZulMashar by 25%. They will also be effected by dynamic respawn.

Fixed Balnazzar Loot Tables on Heroic & Normal!

Fixed an issue where the Scrolls of Greater Experience & Scroll of Experience were not functioning on area-52.

[Blackrock Spire]Pending Restarts: Reworked the loot of all bosses in both Lower and Upper Blackrock Spire on all difficulties. Bosses now have proper loot table, rare spawns will no longer drop their entire loot table on kill, all bosses will now award correct currency, corrected a number of missing items from heroic difficulty, removed a number of unused items from bosses loot tables such as old ability tomes, all bosses inside Upper Blackrock Spire now drop 2 items up from 1.

Correctly Statted Heroic Held in Off-Hand items. Their stats will be available after you clear your cache.

Corrected the tooltip of the personal bank to no longer say that you can not store soulbound items as this is untrue now.

Fixed an issue where 25 mobs inside of instances were still not dropping the correct heroic loot. (There are still more to fix, we are working through this to get this fixed asap)

Overlord Wyrmthalak will now correctly drop the same amount of items that other end bosses in Heroic Dungeons drop.

Alazzin the Shapeshifter in Dire Maul East will now correctly drop the same amount of items that other end bosses in Heroic Dungeons drop.

Vastly improved the stats on 40 different items within the heroic dungeons.

Bloodclot Band from Heroic Dungeon now has updated stats.

Second Wind on Heroic now has a 2 minute cooldown, down from 15 minutes on it's mana regeneration proc.

Applied a smart-scalar to the heroic dungeon items for their armor. Armor from heroic dungeons should now compare to other armor from their same item level tier.

Doubled the Dynamic Respawn rate for creatures in world.

The Holy Power Capstone now reduces the damage penalty of Divine Shield from 50% to 35% (previously 25%). This change will be active after a realm restart.

[Dire Maul] [Pimgib] Pimgib, the Imp of Lethtendris no longer awards any loot. His loot is now part of Lethtendris loot.

[Dire Maul] [Stomper Kreeg] Stomper Kreeg now uses the shared loot table from the Guard bosses. He can still drop his Mug.

[Dire Maul] Pending Restarts: Reworked the loot of all bosses in all parts of Dire Maul on all difficulties. Bosses now have proper loot table, Rare spawns will no longer drop their entire loot table on kill, all bosses will now award correct currency, corrected a number of missing items from heroic difficulty, removed a number of unused items from bosses loot tables such as old ability tomes, all bosses can now drop dire maul books.

Fixed an issue where the Lunar Spirits Moonfire damage reduction wasn't working correctly. [Pending restart]

[Alar] (Pending Restart) Exquisite Crafts: Quests will now award 2500 Marks from 1000.

Wrapping Things Up: Anti-Venom now requires 15 antivenom down from 30.

Added Skillcard Exchange to Booty Bay Added 1v1 Queue to Booty Bay

Added Skillcard Exchange to Booty Bay

Added all relevant Arena NPCs to Ironforge.

Added all relevant Arena NPCs to Undercity.

[Pending Restart] Alliance & Horde Vendors will now offer honor gear for both the paladin and shaman.

[Quality of Life] Any Vendor that would sell items that belong to an item set will now organize the items by their set bonuses.

The Sunder Armor applied by many non-boss NPCs inside of Blackrock Depths now stacks only 5 times (reducing armor by 10%) from 10 times and duration has been reduced to 30 seconds (from 60 seconds).

[Alar] The Uncommon Flask of the Warsong was incorrectly granting Agility. It will now grant strength similar to the rare and epic version. (All flask changes pending restart)

[Alar] Flask of Adept Striking will now properly grant Ranged Attack Power.

[Alar] Flask of Shattering Thunder will now properly grant Healing Power.

[Alar] Flask of the Executioner will now properly grant Ranged Attack Power.

[Alar] Flask of Savage Assault will now properly grant Ranged Attack Power.

[Alar] Flask of Unrelenting Power will now properly grant Healing Power.

[Alar] Flask of the Kirin Tor Power will now properly grant Healing Power.

[Alar] Flask of Manifesting Power will now properly grant Healing Power.

[Alar] Vulcan Wontons will now properly grant Healing Power.

[Alar] Jurassic Soup will now properly grant Healing Power as well.

[Alar] Vulture a la King will now properly grant Healing Power as well.

[ZulGurub] [Hakkar] Pending Restart: Hakkar now drops 1 - 3 additional items from his Epic Item loot table to be on par with other bosses item rewards.

[Blackrock Depths] [The Seven] Pending Restarts: Reduced the health combined health of The Seven to be more in line with other bosses health.

To compensate, we have doubled the amount of possible spawn locations for the Crow's Cache in Eastern Kingdom and Kalimdor which includes enticing locations for group world pvp.

Removed Certain & Unfun Crow's Cache locations such as: The Drowned Reef, Arathi Highlands where the Crow's Cache would spawn underwater or The Twin Colossals, Feralas where you could instantly be knocked off the ledge right after your game was finished loading.

Added Portal to Undercity in Orgimmar to give players a quick option to get out of Orgrimmar when it has so many players.