Ascension Changelog

Fixed lighting on new start zone maps.

Fixed various missing creatures, gameobjects, and questgivers after mapping update.

Fixed nodes not being pooled in start zones after mapping update.

Put all start zones, Orgrimmar, and Stormwind onto their own maps to improve performance.

[Area 52] Introduced new Mystic Enchant UI.

[Area 52] Updated and Fixes Various Prestige bugs.

Improved Blink now reduces the mana cost of Blink by 33/66/100%, up from 10/20/30%.

New Capstone: Benediction - Benediction now also restores mana to party members below 50% of their total mana.

Benediction is now a 3 point talent restoring 7/14/20% of your base mana (from 4/8/12/16/20%) when you kill an enemy that yields experience or honor.

The Clearcasting effect from Elemental Focus now reduces the mana cost of your next two Fire, Nature or Frost spells by 30%, up from 20%.

Arcane Concentration now has a 5/10/15% chance to trigger, up from 4/7/10%.

Master of Elements now restores up to 50% of the base mana cost of the spell, up from 30%.

Illumination now restores up to 60% of the base mana cost of the spell, up from 40%.

Fixed the tooltip of Frozen Power to display the correct range.

[Alar High-Risk] Increased drop rate of Vulture Meat from Deadwind Vultures.

Fixed an issue where crimson champion would sometimes not grant any charges when casting the ability.

Rolled out Optimization and Performance Updates to decrease latency and expand server cap to reduce queue times!

Pending Restart. PvP Trinkets and other accessories will be available from: Master Sargeant Biggins and Sargeant Ba'sha found within all capital cities!

[Alar] Fixed an issue that would cause For the Horde! and For the Alliance! to be removed when entering an arena. (Pending Restart)

Fixed an issue where Serpent Sting damage would break the Wyvern Sting sleep effect. [Pending restart]

Fixed an issue where certain set pieces from the dungeon 1 sets we're still registerred as rare quality on the heroic version. They are now epic quality. (Requires a cache clear)

Fixed an issue where Wildheart belt was missing spellpower on the heroic version. (Requires a cache clear)

Improved the Heroic Itemization of the Deathbone armor set. Stamina increased and defensive value increased of all pieces.

[Area 52] [Serpentshrine Cavern] Pending Restart: Reduced health, damage dealt and healing done of all creatures inside Serpentshrine Cavern by 4.6% on Ascended difficulty.

[Alar] Training dummies when entering the capital city will now be level 60 & 63 (for boss dummies)

Player using the Dungeon Finder to enter Heroic Dungeons will now be placed in the correct location of the map.

Kirtonos the Herald will now correctly enter combat.

Fixed an issue where Balnazzar would not grant his achievement, nor loot to players in Stratholme Main Gate.

Fixed an issue where Timmy the cruel would sometimes not drop any loot.

Reduced the HP of the seven dwarves in Blackrock Depths to account for you fighting multiple bosses at once. Before, you could sometimes live long enough to see all seven dwarves engaged at once.

Chest of the Seven in Blackrock Depths should correctly grant heroic loot.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where tribute runs in Dire Maul North was not accounting for how many bosses you had not killed. Hint: The more bosses you keep alive before opening the tribute = the more loot in the tribute chest.

Fixed an issue where the spirit crystals in Dire Maul West would fail to function after a server crash.

[Pending Restart] Increased the stats of Dire Maul East, West & North's Uncommon Gear in the heroic mode and upped their quality to epic & requiredlevel, itemlevel to the appropriate amount to fit the new standard itemization of Heroic Dungeons.

Fixed an issue in a rare case in Heroic Dire Maul East where the door would remain closed while visibly being opened.

Fixed an issue where Heroic Dire Maul East would not give RDF completion.

Pet happiness was temporarily disabled due to performance issues. (All pets currently have max happiness bonus.)

Pending Restart: Titan Scroll (World Buff) visual can now be turned off with .chatsetting command.

Implemented performance improvements!

[Requires Restart] Changed Titan Scroll Visual to something less flashbang

Fixed an issue where experience would end up mismatch between party members.

Fixed an issue where some players were not receiving their riding tome on Prestige.

Fixed an issue where Ice Block sometimes could bug out and not freeze the player correctly. [Pending restart]

[High-Risk] The Alliance War Herald went on a surprise vacation, but has returned to Stormwind once again.

Pending Restarts: Piccolo of the Living Flame now has 20 Haste Rating.

[Al'ar] Pending Restart: Removed rare spawned bosses in BRD, UBRS, LBRS, Stratholme and DMW from their spawn pools. Rare bosses now always spawn once per instance and have fixed spawn locations.

Prestige Players on area-52 will no longer get a short temporary character-lock. [Pending Restart]

You can no longer delete Hand of Fates.

Added Uncommon loot templates to all leveling dungeons to smooth out the leveling experience and ensure players can gear up fully by doing dungeons while leveling.

Prestiging will now remove your pets to prevent an issue where people could keep high level pets. We'll improve this in the future to delevel pets you have properly.

Increased the chance to draft rare abilities.

Increased Rare Skill Card drop chance.

Prestige is now available on Area 52.

[Alar] [PENDING RESTART] Added many attunement quests and quest chains such as General Drakisath''s Demise to an exception list when prestiging, these quests & quest chain progress will not reset when prestiging.

You can now roll Tame Beast again at level 1

Fixed an issue where certain Bloodforged items such as Enumerated Bracers or items from your random satchel from dungeon or battlegrounds could roll without any stats. This fix will only apply to newly obtained items post restart.

[Serpentshrine Cavern] Pending Restarts: Underbog Colossus Fatal Infection ability now applies stacks every 3 seconds up from 1 second. Damage is still applied per second.

Pending Restarts: Reduced the duration of a number of "Banish" type spells used by various creatures.

[Blackrock Spire] [Pyroguard Emberseer] When the encounter starts, all player are now summoned inside Pyroguard Emberseers room.

[Blackrock Spire] [Pyroguard Emberseer] Pyroguard Emberseer will now join combat earlier when all Incarcerators are defeated.

[Blackrock Spire] [Pyroguard Emberseer] Pyroguard Emberseer now requires a single player to use his altar in order to start the encounter. Previously required every player in the instance to use and channel the altar.

Doubled the Experience gain from completing a Battleground!

Temporarily removed effects from Preparation in BGs while we address some bugs with it!

RAF Level granting is now disabled in Battlegrounds.

1v1 Honorable Combat Zones should now rotate properly at max level.

Players queued for LFG will no longer incur EXP degradation for being carried by higher level players. This was causing weird EXP issues in BRD where the level range is huge.

Fixed an issue where players could queue for a battleground and outlevel the bracket and still get into the battleground. They will now be removed from the queue when exceeding the bracket.

[Alar] Patch Pending: Fixed a visual issue where the crafting spell for Gnomish Masterkeys read as Desecrated Orbs. (Live next spell patch)

Prestige Leaderboard is now available! https://ascension.gg/leaderboard/prestige/alar

Fixed issue that caused all Talents to cost Ability Essence on the website builder.

[Alar] (Pending Restart) All High-Risk Materials and Craftables now have unique names for each rarity.

[Alar] Players can now find Hot Spices on Cooking Suppliers.

[Alar] Pending Restarts: Fixed an issue where Beast Nest and Hidden Cache loot pouches would give an incorrect version of HR Mining items.

[Alar] Pending Restarts: Fixed an issue where Beast Nest and Hidden Cache loot pouches would give an incorrect version of Fused Silithid Carapace.

[Blackrock Spire] Pending Restarts: Gyths items will now drop from Warchief Rend Blackhand. Gyth no longer awards any loot.

[Blackrock Spire] Corrected an issue where trash creatures would not drop any loot other then gold.

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Shooting Stars and Arcane Motes were counted as legendary Mystic Enchants, when they should be epic.

Fixed an issue where Fear (Shaken) and Fear (Mass Hysteria) had the incorrect range and cast time. [Pending restart]

[Alar] (Pending Restart) Ill Gotten Gains and Arms Dealer quests renamed to indicate the rarity item required.

[Alar] Ill Gotten Goods: Mining Items will now accept the proper items.

[Alar] Ill Gotten Goods: Fused Silithid Carapace now accepts the proper item.

Extra rage and energy bars will now be enabled by default.

Fixed an issue where taking damage from damage over time effects while out of combat would cancel drinking and eating. [Pending restart]

[Alar] Removed Felforged Tome from Vanity collection as people were unlocking it by proxy and were unable to use it.

Fixed an issue where Feathered Arrows would have no level requirement, yet add up to 9 DPS to your ranged weapon, the equivalent of a level 40 arrow. These arrows now require you to be level 35 to equip them.

[Alar] Pending Restarts: City Guards are now immune to Mind-control and similar effects.

[Alar] Pending Restarts: Faction Leader no longer follow the parry hasten rules.

[Alar] Pending Restarts: Corrected an issue where High Tinker Mekkatorgue had false expansion stats.

[Alar] Pending Restarts: All faction leader and city guards now ignore stealth, invisibility and feign death.

[Alar] Pending Restarts: Corrected multiple issues where city guards had no visible ranged weapons.

[Alar] Pending Restarts: Corrected multiple issues where city guards spawned with false expansion stats.

[Alar] Pending Restarts: Reduced the health and melee damage of city guards.

Fixed an issue where the Whirlwind main hand attack damage was dealing too low damage. [Pending restart]

[Alar] Pending Restarts: Added missing description text indicating where High Risk Meat can be found.

Pending Restarts: Eye of the Best , Quest Reward from "For the Horde!" and "For the Alliance!" now has 20 Hit Rating. Previously had 28 Critical Strike Rating.

[Blackrock Spire] Pending Restarts: Upper Blackrock Spire and Lower Blackrock Spire are now balanced separately from each other. Lower Blackrock Spire is considered a 5 player dungeon. Upper Blackrock Spire is considered a 15 player dungeon.

[Scholomance] [Kirtonos the Herald] Pending Restarts: Corrected an issue where Kirtonos the Herald would drop no loot and immediately despawn upon death.

[Alar] Added [High-Risk] tag to Bloody Business: Quests to indicate HR is required.

[Alar] Added [High-Risk] tag to Alliance Expedition: Quests to indicate HR is required.

[Alar] Added [High-Risk] tag to Horde Expedition: Quests to indicate HR is required.