Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2021/06/04

Item Changes

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Auslese''s Light Chaneller (Normal) level 61 trinket. No longer increases spellpower by 32. No longer has an on-use effect. Previous on use: Reduces the cost of your next spell cast within 10 sec by up to 215 mana. (3 minutes cooldown). It now has a passive effect: Healing with heal over time effects grant you 4 Haste Rating, stacking up to 5 times and lasts for 6 seconds. Healing with a direct heal grants you 8 Spell Power, stacking up to 5 times and lasts for 6 seconds. Both effects have a separate 3 second cooldown. Auslese''s Light Chaneller (Mythic) Healing with heal over time effects grant you 6 Haste Rating, stacking up to 5 times and lasts for 6 seconds. Healing with a direct heal grants you 12 Spell Power, stacking up to 5 times and lasts for 6 seconds. Both effects have a separate 3 second cooldown.

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Figurine of the Colossus (Normal) No longer increases shield block rating. Increases Shield Block Value by 49. Increases Defense Rating by 16. On use changed from: Each successful block heals you for 100. Effect lasts 20 seconds to: Each successful block heals you for 400. Effect lasts 20 seconds and is reduced significantly outside of instances. Figurine of the Colossus (Mythic) No longer increases shield block rating. Increases Shield Block Value by 60. Increases Defense Rating by 24. On use upgraded to: Each successful block heals you for 500. Effect lasts 20 seconds and is reduced significantly outside of instances.

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Argussian Compass (Normal) On Use changed from: Use: Reduces damage from each attack by 68, up to a total of 1150 damage absorbed. Lasts 20 sec. (2 minutes cooldown) to: Reduces damage from each attack by 500, up to a total of 3000 damage absorbed. Lasts 10 seconds and is significantly reduced outside of instances. Argussian Compass (Mythic) Stamina Increased to 42 On Use Upgraded to: Reduces damage from each attack by 550, up to a total of 3300 damage absorbed. Lasts 10 seconds and is significantly reduced outside of instances.

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Adamantine Figurine (Normal): Changed to have no on-use. No more passive stats. Fully avoiding damage from an attack increases Stamina by 5. Taking direct damage increases your Defense and Dodge Rating by 4. Each effect stacks to 5 times and lasts for 8 secs. Adamantine Figurine Mythic: Changed to have no on-use. No more passive stats. Fully avoiding damage from an attack increases Stamina by 6. Taking direct damage increases your Defense and Dodge Rating by 5. Each effect stacks to 5 times and lasts for 8 secs.

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Highlighting some of the trinket reworks coming with the release of mythic 0!

2021/06/03

General

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Fixed an issue where you couldn't send Contestant's Commendations from Arena Frenzy in the mail.

2021/06/02

General

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Banner of Recruitment now has a 10 minute cooldown.

Talents & Abilities

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Fixed a bug where the Silence from Brambles would interrupt casts even on full Silence diminishing returns. [Pending restart]

2021/06/01

General

Change

Reduced the cooldown of all Flags of Ownership from 10 minutes down to 1 minute and 30 seconds! Active upon next server restart.

World

New

Added Fire Resistance Items to G'eras. G'eras Inventory has been reorganised.

2021/05/30

General

Change

[Felforged] Beezlebub lost 45 different items during the merge. He has now found them and made them available for Fel to purchase again.

Talents & Abilities

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Nurturing Instincts now increases healing taken by 3/6% while in Cat Form, down from 5/10%.

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Blood Craze now heals for 3/6/9% of your base health, down from 4/8/12%.

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Primal Tenacity now reduces the damage taken while stunned and duration of Fear effects by 5/10/15%, down from 10/20/30%.

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Tools of War now increases the damage done per stack versus players by 2%, down from 3%. (Damage unchanged versus monsters.)

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Auto-attacks now deals 5% reduced damage against players. It previously did not have a PvP modifier.

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Windfury now deals 40% reduced damage against players, from 35%.

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Rend now deals 15% reduced damage against players, from 10%.

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Execute now deals 20% reduced damage against players, from 15%.

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Insect Swarm now deals 15% reduced damage against players, from 10%.

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Flame Shock now deals 20% reduced damage against players, from 10%.

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Rake now deals 20% reduced damage against players, from 15%.

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Claw now deals 10% reduced damage against players. It previously did not have a PvP modifier.

Quests

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[Felforged] Fixed an issue causing Silas to not offer or accept SoF quests for felforged. Pending Restart.

2021/05/29

General

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[Shipwrecked Set]: Fixed items not being delivered properly from lootbox.

Change

Reduced the cost of Arena Season 1 Prestigious Weapons by approximately 40%.

Talents & Abilities

Change

Fixed an issue where Demonic Aegis did not work as stated in the tooltip.

2021/05/27

Website

New

[Launcher] Changelog design improvements.

New

[Launcher] Downloader text clarification.

New

[Launcher] Fix settings not being saved to config.wtf sometimes.

New

[Launcher] Default settings that are applied during first install will now also be applied on repair.

New

[Launcher] Improved some buttons readability.

New

[Launcher] Fix resolution sorting in settings.

New

[Launcher] Improved registration page validation visuals.

2021/05/26

General

Change

Uncommon (green) items will now have PvE power - pending restart, this change is to help ease player's upgrades from questing, levelling or farming once they hit max level.

Talents & Abilities

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Fixed an issue where entering Defensive Stance again wouldn't remove the Defensive Mindset debuff.

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Fixed an issue where the Enveloping Shadows capstone effect wasn't triggering properly.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

[Karazhan] [Nightbane] Nightbane now becomes unattackable during his air phase. This should prevent pets and guardians from pulling creatures on the floor below.

2021/05/24

General

New

[Felforged] Beezlebub now offers high level pet food in Critical Consumables.

Change

Fixed an issue where Mass Dispel would say it was able to be ranked up while only rank 1 was trainable.

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Fixed an issue Life Tap would say it was able to be ranked up while only rank 1 was trainable.

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Fixed an issue where Mage Armor was able to say it was able to be ranked up while rank 2 and 3 were not trainable.

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Fixed an issue where Rockbiter Rank 5 would say it was able to be ranked up while Rank 6 was not trainable.

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Fixed an issue where players would not have criminal intent if they were over level 20.

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Reverted a change where the dungeon finder would stack up based on how many members were in the party that qued for random dungeons as it only applied to one player. Now the buff for queing for random dungeons will be rewarded to the party and give 10% damage, 10% healing and a 10% health increase.

Change

Scroll of Fortune levelling quests can now be auto completed.

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Removed vendor behaviour from a slough of empty vendors.

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You can now talk to other class trainers as a Hero.

Change

The Sturdy Quarterstaff from the Path to Ascenion 1 quest now requires level 5 instead of level 8.

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The Honor Hold and Thrallmar Stones of Retreat no longer have question marks for icons.

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The Honor Hold and Thrallmar Stones of Retreat are now in the Vanity spell book page.

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You will now revive at full health when at or below level 20.

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Titan's Scrolls no longer apply to players below level 10. Levelling to 10 will immedietally apply all active world buffs to you.

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You will now receive on-screen notifications when your abilities are ready to be ranked up.

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Removed ability unlock notifications to reduce UX spam.

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Criminal Intent will now send you a notification, informing you that it was taught to you at level 20.

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Criminal Intent is no longer taught at level one.

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New players now start with all 1-20 flight paths known.

Change

You will no longer be able to buy Temporal Contracts before level 55.

Change

Incorporated the community-made LFG Auto Reque addon into the base client install. This addon will automatically reque you for LFG when an internal que reset is triggered.

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The Hot Spot visual (cloud of smoke) no longer plays when entering a Hot Spot as a ghost.

Change

The Dice of Destiny is now informative based on your current conditions. It will not ask you to enable Wildcard Mode if you already have it enabled.

Change

Rerolling abilities now tells you that you are rerolling abilities instead of telling you that you are re-activating Wildcard Mode.

Change

The Character Advancement quick-access buttons are now disabled by default.

Change

The Ascension Survival guide now opens at level 15 instead of level 10 to reduce UX spam.

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Learned abilities will continue to be added to your action bars past level 10.

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Corrected an issue where characters would be created with a bow and ammo equipped instead of arrows.

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Equipping a crossbow without arrows equipped will automatically equip the first arrows found in your inventory.

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Equipping a bow without arrows equipped will automatically equip the first arrows found in your inventory.

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Equipping a gun without ammo equipped will automatically equip the first ammo found in your inventory.

Change

Added an option to Riko to teach players more about Newcomers.

Change

Returning Players now share all mentor-related functionality with Newcomers.

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The Returning Player tag now shared visibility rules with the Newcomer tag.

Website

New

[Launcher] Fix button not showing "Install >" for first installation

New

[Launcher] Fixed launcher overwriting config.wtf on first installation or repair.

New

[Launcher] "Loop Music" (in-game option) will be enabled by default on the first installation.

New

[Launcher] Default resolution settings (based on your monitor) will be applied on first installation.

New

[Launcher] Fix some header links not being active when changing page within same page.

Item Changes

Change

Fel-Infused Gateway no longer puts Hearthstone on Cooldown.

Change

Gnomish Portable Transpolyporter no longer puts Hearthstone on Cooldown.

2021/05/23

General

Change

Improved and Adapted Blizzlike Tutorials for Ascension.

Change

You will no longer get the Bonus Zone visual while crossing over a bonus zone as a ghost. lol

Change

Removed Useless Grimoire entries and Vendor listing from the game.

Change

Improved the Luck of the Draw Buff. For each random member found in the dungeon finder you will get a 10% damage increase, a 10% healing increase and your health will be increased by 10%.

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Fixed an issue where completing a raid requirement for the mentor system wouldnt recognize new flex achievements.

Change

you can now obtain epic gems from heroic on gul'dan and the drop rate has been doubled!

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Increased the amount of loot obtained in high risk on gul'dan by a significant amount.

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Added Scrolls of Defense to Ascension Spell tab pending next server restart!

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Added Runes of Retreat to Ascension Spell tab pending next server restart!

Talents & Abilities

Change

Fixed an issue where Flame Throwing wouldn't reduce the cast time of Fireball. [Pending restart]

Change

Fixed an issue where Inner Focus wouldn't affect Mind Blast and Greater Heal properly. [Pending restart]

Dungeons & Raids

Change

[Karazhan] Berthold now teleports player to Shade of Arans Checkpoint position rather inside the middle of his room.

Change

[Gruuls Lair] [Gruul the Dragonkiller] Reworked Gruuls Ground Slam and Shatter routine. This will correct a number of bugs and unintended behaviour.

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[Gruuls Lair] [Gruul the Dragonkiller] Corrected an issue where one boulder spawn position was invalid and would cause the spawning boulder to explode immediately.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Fixed an issue where War Mage could trigger its cooldown reduction from friendly players. It will now properly get reduced from Arcane Explosion hits on enemy players. [Pending restart]

2021/05/22

General

Change

Repulsive Fel Energy has intensified the power of the Felforged Provision Gear Box, corrupting gear from Azeroth and allowing it to be used within the Outlands, engraved with the power of the Legion. Pending Restart, Beezlebub will sell a crate for Felforged for 500 gold containing level a full set of 70 gear with 105 Item Level and a level 70 PvP trinket.

Change

Blood Bowl will now last for 40 minutes and will start at 19:00 on all realms.

Change

Changed the label of T4 Set Vendors Ascended Item Category to display Ascended instead of Mythic.

Quests

Change

Reduced the level requirement for Wildcard: Silas Darkmoon's Fortune to 10.

New

Added new quest to all starter zones. Path to Ascension II: Rank Up Your Spells