Ascension Changelog

[Alar] Pending Restarts: Reduced the health and melee damage of faction leaders.

[Requires Restart] Prestiged players can now use the auctionhouse even if under level 10.

[Requires Restart] RAF and Aura of Experience will work in Battlegrounds again.

[Requires Restart] Players should now be able to draft abilities during a Battleground.

[Requires Restart] Players will no longer gain experience in battleground when they are the max level for that battleground bracket, to prevent griefing.

[Requires Restart] fixed an issue where level 1s could not properly reroll enchants.

Aura of Experience and RAF do not benefit players in Battlegrounds anymore.

You can no longer use Aura of Experience at max level to avoid using it when you did not mean to!

Battlegrounds now reward EXP on end to encourage actually doing the objectvies in the Battleground.

Fixed an issue where Frozen Power wasn't properly making Frost Shock freeze enemies further than 15 yards away. [Pending restart]

The health of the Whispers of the Old Gods tentacle has been significantly decreased. [Pending restart]

The damage from the Whispers of the Old Gods tentacle now deals 30% reduced damage against players, from 20%.

Fixed an issue where Biting Cold would not correctly reduce the cooldown of Deep Freeze. [Pending restart]

Fixed an issue where players would get dungeon deserter if another player did not accept the LFG queue.

[Alar] Fixed an issue where the Warsong Outriders vendor was hostile to horde.

[Alar] Nerfed Resilient Constitution from 50% to 35% damage reduction at max level to match current pvp damage.

Re-enabled the Wonderous Wisdomball.

Added a gossip to the Ethereal Courier so you can retrieve your collection items sent from Area 52 without a server restart.

Implemented major performance improvements to scale with the growing population on Alar

Fixed an issues with RE stacking causing your Legendary enchants to not apply.

Added Level scaling to Resilient Constitution, so it doesn't reduce damage in low level pvp too much.

Fixed an issue where skill card exchanger was removing skillcards from your bank

Fixed an issue where items from dungeon satchels would not have stats.

Added Path to Ascension quests to various NPCs in start zones to ensure players can pick up the quest.

Renamed Scroll of Unlearning to Scroll of Talent Unlearning on Alar to make it clear it is only for talents.

Implemented a retry api function, so the website will not just hang endlessly when it fails to load.

Fixed Incapacitate effects not working as intended.

PVE mode can no longer apply in battlegrounds.

Fixed an issue where players were starting without the wand shoot spell.

Fixed various issues causing poor website performance

Added Google Drive patch mirror to our website.

Added a raid notification when players receive mail from support or the shop to let them know it is in their mail.

Added hotspot zones to dungeons up Zulfarrak to spread players out to improve performance.

Added Warsong Gultch to alars battlemaster list.

Fixed an issue where Random Battleground would not allow low level players to accept the queue.

Made various performance improvements to vanity collection.

Fixed various lag issues and increased server capacity significantly to mitigate queues.

[Al'ar] Earth Shock now deals 30% reduced damage against players, from 25%.

[High-Risk] Quadrupled how quickly Beast Nest and Hidden Caches will respawn after being looted to account for the amount of players looking for them! (Live Next Restart)

Pending Restarts: Previously Uncommon Quality items from Dire Maul bosses are now Rare Quality items. Requires Cache clear to visually see changes.

Temporarily disabled Wondrous Wonderball due to potential exploits.

[Blackrock Depths] The Ring of Law bosses now rotate per week.

[Stratholme] Corrected an issue where Grand Crusader Dathrohan would reset player damage requirement when transforming into Balnazzar, causing player to not get kill credit or loot from the encounter.

[Stratholme] Pending Restarts: Malor the Zealous now has a 5 seconds cast time on his Lay on Hands ability. Previously was an instant ability. Lay on Hands can be interrupted.

Corrected an issue where Stratholme creatures dealt more damage and had more health then intended.

Corrected an issue where the gates to Baron Rivendare in Stratholme would not open under certain circumstances.

Corrected an issue where the gates to Ramstein the Gorger in Stratholme would not open under certain circumstances.

[Stratholme] Pending Restarts: Baroness Anastaris Posses no longer increases the targets health.

[Stratholme] Pending Restarts: Baroness Anastaris Posses now reduces the targets damage done by 50% rather then increasing its damage dealt by 200%.

[Stratholme] Pending Restarts: Baroness Anastaris Posses now lasts for a maximum of 10 seconds down from 2 minutes.

[All Realms] Pending Restarts: Classic normal dungeon creatures are no longer able to critical strike.

The damage and threat increase of the Thunderstruck talent now also affects Crackling Thunder. [Pending restart]

Reduced Crackling Thunder base damage for low levels and introduced level scaling. (Damage unchanged for max level.) [Pending restart]

Fixed an issue where the cooldown of Wind Shear was incorrect. [Pending restart]

Fixed an issue where Gouge and Scatter Shot would not apply the crowd control effect. [Pending server restart]

Reduced the base heal amount of Holy Light by approximately 9%

Increased the base heal amount of Greater Heal by approximately 5%

Increased the base heal amount of Healing Touch by approximately 3%

Increased the base heal amount of Healing Wave by approximately 12%

[Area52] Increased the AE cost of Dismantle by 1.

[Area52] Increased the AE cost of Entangling Roots by 1.

[Area52] Increased the AE cost of Stealth by 1.

[Area52] Increased the AE cost of Disarm by 1.

[Area52] Increased the AE cost of Polymorph by 1.

[Area52] Increased the AE cost of Evocation by 1.

[Area52] Increased the AE cost of Readiness by 1.

[Area52] Increased the AE cost of Cold Snap by 1.

[Area52] Decreased the AE cost of Single-Minded Fury by 1.

[Area52] Decreased the AE cost of Titan's Grip by 1.

[Area52] Decreased the AE cost of Bloodthirst by 1.

[Area52] Decreased the AE cost of Wyvern Sting by 1.

[Area52] Decreased the AE cost of Chaos Bolt by 1.

[Area52] Decreased the AE cost of Death Coil by 1.

[Area52] Decreased the AE cost of Repentance by 1.

[Area52] Decreased the AE cost of Deep Freeze by 1.

[Area52] Decreased the AE cost of Wind Shear by 1.

[Area52] Decreased the AE cost of Innervate by 1.

Fixed an issue where some bosses would stop casting Fierce Blows. All bosses will not continuously cast Fierce Blow, as intended.

Increased the damage and scaling of Arcane Shot by 5%.

Increased the damage and scaling of Living Bomb by 10%.

Increased the damage and scaling of Cone of Cold by 5%.

Increased the damage and scaling of Curse of Agony by 10%.

Increased the damage and scaling of Searing Pain and Searing Pain (Perilous Pain) by 10%.

Increased the damage and scaling of Scorch and Scorch (Scorched Earth) by 10%.

Increased the damage and scaling of Serpent Sting by 10%.

Increased the damage and scaling of Arcane Explosion by 10%.

Increased the damage bonus value given by Tiger's Fury by 20%.

Increased the damage of Backstab by 10%. In addition, Backstab now deals 250% weapon damage, up from 230%.

Increased the damage and scaling of Flame Shock by 10%.

Increased the damage done by Chimera Shot - Serpent to 90% of the damage done by your Serpent Sting, up from 60%.

Increased the damage and scaling of Immolate by 5%.

Fixed an issue where some Uncommon Mystic Enchants like Hasty Thunderstorm did not affect Astral Storm.

Fixed an issue causing Unstoppable Force to sometimes not work.

Clarified the tooltip of Aspect of the Viper to state it only has a chance to trigger, it is not guaranteed.

Fixed an issue where Libram of Divine Purpose did not increase the spell power for Judgement of Righteous.

Fixed an issue where Thunderstorm would consume Elemental Mastery.

Cleanse now has a 6 second base cooldown. This cooldown is reduced by 3 seconds if your Primary Stat is Spirit.

Dispel Magic now has a 6 second base cooldown. This cooldown is reduced by 3 seconds if your Primary Stat is Spirit.

The cooldown of Heroic Fury has been increased to 60 seconds, from 45.

Totem of Petrification and Hibernate (Hypnosis) are temporarily disabled on Al'ar.