Ascension Changelog

Surge of Light and Holy Ascension will now also provide the correct damage dealt whenever having both buffs.

Corrected an issue where Surge of Light and Holy Ascension was granting slightly less damage than intended.

Corrected an issue where Holy Ascension and Surge of Light was adding additive spell power scaling to abilities that scaled with smite damage. Fixing this issue allows us to bring back Righteous Zealot scaling with smite damage.

Increased the spell damage coefficient of Holy Fire to 34.4%, from 31.3%.

Increased the spell damage coefficient of Smite to 51.8%, from 47.5%.

Increased the spell damage coefficient of Arcane Blast (Divine) to 38.9%, from 33.1%.

Increased the spell damage coefficient of Arcane Missiles (Divine) to 18%, from 15.7%.

Increased the spell damage coefficient of Arcane Blast to 38.9%, from 33.1%.

Increased the spell damage coefficient of Arcane Missiles to 18%, from 15.7%.

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

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

Arcane Missiles now deals 15% reduced damage against players, from 5%.

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

Hunter pet auto attacks now deals 20% reduced damage against players, from 30%.

Fixed an issue where Soul Leech Capstone would stay active after unlearning the talents until relog.

Clarified the tooltip of Taste for Blood to indicate that the RE Insatiable replaces the damage increase of 10% and changes it to 20% per stack, not additive with the original Taste of Blood damage increase.

Clarified the tooltip of Healing Focus to specify it only gives spell haste.

Clarified the tooltip of Consecration to more accurately show the damage of the actual spell.

Fixed an issue causing Primal Fury to not always award an extra combo point on dealing a critical strike with Cat combo point generators.

Fixed an issue where Fel Intelligence wouldn't stack with Divine Spirit.

Fixed an issue causing Faerie Fire and Sting (hunter pet) to not be removed with immunities like Cloak of Shadows or Divine Shield.

Fixed an issue where Shadowfury would consume charges of Backdraft.

Kiggler the Crazed's Lightning Bolt is now effected by cast time increasing effects, such as Curse of Tongues.

Kiggler the Crazed's Lightning Bolt can now be casted while moving.

Kiggler the Crazed's Lightning Bolt can no longer be Reflected or Redirected.

Kiggler the Crazed will now use caster AI, allowing him to cast spells without delay between the spell casts when finding new targets.

High King Maulgar's Flurry now increases his attack speed by 50% down from 100%.

High King Maulgar's Charge can no longer be dodged or parried.

High King Maulgar's Charge damage has been reduced to 50% weapon damage from 75%.

High King Maulgar's Whirlwind now has a 2 seconds cast time before the effects channel.

High King Maulgar's Whirlwind now lasts 10 seconds, down from 15 seconds and he will now move at 25% speed, down from 50% during the effect.

Corrected an issue where High King Maulgar would not deal the intended amount of melee damage after using certain abilities.

The health between High King Maulgar and his council has been redistributed. High King Maulgar now has 17% less health and his council members have 25% more. The total health in the fight remains unchanged.

Corrected an issue where High King Maulgar's Council Member would not respawn after the encounter has been reset.

Lair Brute's Charge damage has been reduced to 50% weapon damage from 75%.

Lair Brute's Cleave ability can no longer be dodged or parried.

Lair Brute's Mortal Strike will now only target players instead of pets.

Lair Brute's Mortal Strike damage has been reduced to 100% weapon damage, down from 150%.

Carbon Buildup from Fire Fire Fireball will no longer display as a magic effect despite not being dispellable.

Fixed issues with Avatar of Lightning causing the cooldown reduction to sometimes not work, and would stop Elemental Focus from functioning properly.

Increased the duration of Crimson Champion's Champion's Protection to 3 seconds, from 2 seconds.

Added a target cap of 5 targets to Crimson Champion's Champion's Wrath.

Increased the range of Low Tide to 15 yards, from 10.

Fixed an issue with Purification By Light that caused its Exorcism to not scale with the critical damage bonus of Holy Specialization talents.

Fixed a bug where One with the Light would sometimes stop working.

Fixed an issue causing Righteous Zealot to not scale with Smite damage increases.

Fixed an issue causing Improved Vampiric Embrace talent and RE to not increase the healing received from bleeds using Twilight.

Fixed an issue where the Rend from Blades of Blood would not trigger talents like Blood Frenzy.

Changed Group Think from Legendary to Epic quality Mystic Enchant, and increased its damage bonus to 20%, from 25%.

Fixed Overloaded and Storm Caller to trigger multiple times per cast.

Increased the cooldown reduction of Prophet of Wrath from casting Smite and Holy Fire to 5 seconds, from 3 seconds.

Fixed an issue with Covering Crown where applying Rejuvenation with mouseover macros or healing addons would apply the damage reduction buff to your current target instead of the target of your Rejuvenation.

Increased the attack power scaling of Consecrated Strikes, and increased the spell power conversion to 30%, from 20%.

Added a new effect to Chilling Blows Epic RE. Now reads Each hit of your Frostbrand increases the duration of your Deep Freeze by 0.3 seconds. If the target is permanently immune to stuns, the cooldown of your Deep Freeze is instead reduced by 0.3 seconds.

Pending restart, The Marks of Ascension required to obtain Scrolls of Fortune is reduced by 25%. The maximum cost of a singular scroll will still remain at 2,000 Marks of Ascension. You will need to clear your cache folder to see the updated requirements.

Pending restart, Gyro-Balanced Khorium Destroyer will be trainable on Wildhammer.

Fixed an issue where some ranks of Shadowfury would pull aggro and break stealth outside of the intended area. [Pending server restart]

Fixed an issue where Living Seed wouldn't work properly with the Overflow legendary enchant. [Pending server restart.]

Pending restart, Fixed an issue where the Green Fireball Random Enchantments would also not affect Fire Fire Fireball.

Pending restart, Fixed an issue where Spellstones would not increase the DoT damage of Fire Fire Fireball.

Fixed an issue where Shield Slam would not trigger its dispel effect when Sword and Board is active. [Pending server restart]

Removed Skillcard Sentry Totem

Removed Skillcard Mind Control

Pending restart, fixed spelling error on Missile Barrage talent.

Fixed Skill Card - Recuperate to no longer be broken. Pending Restart.

Fixed an issue where using REs like Controlled Typhoon could interrupt Arcane Missile casts. [Pending server restart]

Fixed an issue where Fire Fire Fireball dealt too much damage at low levels. Its base damage will now properly scale with your level, and will be lower than previously for players level 50 and below, and slightly higher for high level players. [This change requires a restart.]

Moved all Mystic Scroll quests to Nozdormu.

Counterattack no longer deals reduced damage against players. It previously had a PvP modifier of 5%.

Power Word: Shield now absorbs 5% less damage when used in arenas.

Conflagrate now deals 5% reduced damage against players, from 10%.

Holy Fire now deals 5% reduced damage against players, from 10%.

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

Sinister Strike (Double Down) now deals 10% reduced damage against players, from 5%.

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

Libram of Repentance will now properly work with the Holy Shield from the Crimson Champion legendary enchant.

Corrected an issue where the Maiden of Virtue would attack the target of Blessing of Martyrdom at the end of the cast if the target was in melee range. Active after server restart.

Fixed an issue where the Divine damage Arcane Missiles from the Prophet of Wrath legendary didn't have the same spell damage coefficient as normal Arcane Missiles.

Fixed a bug where the effect of Hailstorm would end when hitting a target in stealth.

Ice Barrage now increases the damage of Ice Lance against higher level targets by 50%, up from 33%.

Corrected the tooltip of Stupefied to show the correct cast speed slow and duration.

Fixed an issue with Druid of Rot: Call Fungarians where the original Force of Nature was still castable while the RE was equipped.

Fixed a strange interaction between Evocation and Arcane Missiles (Divine) which could cause players to deal damage to themselves.

Fixed an issue with Prison Tactics not being consumed by Mutilate. Also clarified that Shiv does not benefit from the RE.

Fixed an issue where the Improved Traps enchant wasn't functioning correctly.

Fixed an issue with Blooming Growth, it will now apply even if the chained targets are more than 35 yards away from the caster.

Increased the cooldown reduction of Channeled Rage RE to 3 seconds, up from 1 second. In addition, spell critical now extend the duration by 3 seconds, up from 2 seconds.

Expunge explosion now uses ranged hit/crit instead of spell hit/crit percent chance values.

Fixed an issue where the Wild Quiver enchant sometimes gave less of a pro chance increase to the Wild Quiver talent than intended.

Fixed an issue causing Evoker to sometimes stop working until relog.

Fixed an issue where effects meant to increase the duration of your debuff on a target sometimes incorrectly would affect another players' debuff of the same kind instead of yours.

[New Epic Enchant] - Fire Fire Fireball: After casting Fireball twice, your next Fireball's cast time will be increased by 0.5 seconds but will additionally trigger a wave of Fireballs towards your current target. In addition, the critical strike chance of Fireball is increased by 6%.

New Legendary enchant: Primordial Fury - During Shamanistic Rage your Shaman non-periodic spell and ability criticals consume 50 rage to deal extra Elemental damage and empower you with Primordial Fury, increasing your spell damage by 30% of your Agility for 15 seconds. (Elemental damage is a combination of the Nature, Fire and Frost schools, and will benefit from the highest modifier to either of these schools.)

New Legendary enchant: Crimson Champion - Your Holy Shield ability is transformed into Holy Shield (Crimson Champion) which permanently increases your chance to block by 10% and deals Holy damage when blocking an attack. This damage can only occur once per second, and instead of consuming a charge of the buff it instead grants one. Three charges are consumed to empower your next Shield Slam, Avenger's Shield or Power Word: Shield: Shield Slam - Deals Holy damage to all nearby enemies. Avenger's Shield - Increases your block value by 15% and threat by 10% for 10 sec. Power Word: Shield - Reduces all damage taken by 50% for 2 seconds.

New Epic enchant: Controlled Typhoon - Your Typhoon no longer knocks enemies back. It instead knocks you back.

New Epic enchant: Controlled Blast - Your Blast Wave no longer knocks enemies back. Instead its cooldown is reduced by 10 seconds and mana cost by 50%.

New Epic enchant: Controlled Storm - Your Thunderstorm no longer knocks enemies back. It instead restores twice as much mana and infuses you with lightning, increasing your critical strike chance with Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning by 15% for 10 seconds.

New Epic enchant: Rekindled Faith - Each time your Renew heals a target with full health the duration of the Renew effect on the target is increased by 2 sec.

New Rare enchant: Honor Among Thieves - Reduces the internal cooldown of your Honor Among Thieves Capstone effect by 0.5s.

New Epic enchant: Avatar of Lightning - Your Elemental Mastery now frees you from the physical plane, lifting you into the air and allowing you to move while casting Lightning Bolt and Chain Lightning. The cooldown of your Elemental Mastery is also halved, but it no longer gives you an instant cast.