Ascension Changelog

Baroness Dorothea Millstripe's Mana Burn ability can no longer be Reflected or Redirected.

Baroness Dorothea Millstripe's Shadow Word: Pain ability can no longer be Reflected or Redirected.

Lord Crispin Ference will now cast his Shieldwall ability immediately after reaching 25% health remaining.

Lord Crispin Ference's Heroic Strike ability can no longer be Dodged, Parried, or Blocked.

Lady Catriona Von'Indi's Greater Heal ability will no longer be effected by cast time modifying effects.

Increased the range of Lady Catriona Von'Indi's Holy Fire ability to 40 yards from 30.

Lady Catriona Von'Indi's Holy Fire ability will now only target players.

Reduced the damage dealt by Attumen's Spectral Steeds by 10%.

Attumen's Felfire now lasts 30 seconds, down from 60 seconds.

Attumen's Charge is now unaffected by Invulnerabilities.

Attumen's Charge can no longer be Dodged, Parried, or Blocked.

Attumen's Intangible Presence will now ignore Invulnerabilities.

Attumen's Intangible Presence will now ignore Line of Sight.

Attumen's Intangible Presence can no longer be Reflected or Redirected.

Attumen's Knockdown stun duration has been reduced to 2 seconds from 3.

Reduced the damage of Attumen's Shadow Cleave ability to 50% weapon damage from 65%.

Attumen's Shadow Cleave ability can no longer be Dodged, Parried, or Blocked.

Corrected an issue where Torment of the Worgen would be hidden client-side, and would not visually transform the player.

Increased the range of the abilities of a handful of creatures in Karazhan.

Made several creature's abilities in Karazhan ignore Invulnerability, Reflect, and Redirect mechanics.

Improved targetting logic for a handful of creatures in Karazhan.

Moved checkpoints outside of boss areas in Karazhan.

Greatly improved checkpoint logic in Karazhan.

Created a new way to check for nightmare mode achievements. It will now recognize both nightmare mode auras instead of only one when completing these achievements. This will allow for players with the new & old aura alike to obtain Nightmare Mode achievements.

Area-52 Criminal Intent is re-enabled in No-Risk if you are not under the PvE ruleset. (We are experimenting with this change and looking forward to feedback)

[Seasonal] Fel Commutation can now be used to insure soulbound items.

Re-enabled the Bountiful Holy Wrath Mystic Enchantment.

Fixed Call to Arms Temporal Contracts

Corrected an issue where, depending on your zone, risk mode, and the time of day, game objects could double spawn or fail to spawn.

Implemented the ability to reload items. This will allow us to add (simple) new items without a restart, and moves us closer to being able to deploy entire updates without a restart.

Implemented the ability to reload complex vendor costs (items, honor, etc). This will allow us to implement these costs without a restart, and moves us closer to being able to deploy entire updates without a restart.

Karazhan - Fixed Side Door & Servant Entrance being opened before doing the opera event.

Added missing tier gear to [Bloodforged] Magtheridon's Lair templates.

Added missing tier gear to the [Bloodforged] Gruul's Lair loot templates

Added missing tier gear to the [Bloodforged] Karazhan loot templates.

Crow's on Wildhammer can now have Maghteridon's Lair [Bloodforged]

Crow's on A-52 can now have Magtheridon's Lair [Bloodforged] and Gruul's Lair [Bloodforged]

fixed the similar bug as well for gruul's lair in high-risk.

Fixed an issue where only Glaive of the Pit Lord could drop from HR if you have Magtheridon's Lair Treasure Finder.

Fixed an issue where Death's Grasp would not stack with some other sources of spell hit. (Active on next server restart.)

[Prophet of Wrath] Temporarily disabled while we fix a client crash.

Temporarily disabled forked lightning until a client crash is resolved around this random enchant. Forked lightning is added to the enchant exchange option until re-enabled.

Increased the Marks of Ascension reward from [High-Risk] Keeping Evil at Bay to 300.

Increased the Marks of Ascension reward from [High-Risk] Population Control to 200 up from 100.

Headless Horseman items will now drop more consistently.

Corrected an issue where, depending on your zone, risk mode, and the time of day, creatures could double spawn or fail to spawn.

Altar in Auchidoun will be returning, pending restart!

Prince Malchezaar's Axes now have reduced movement speed and use atypical pathfinding. This will prevent the axes from getting stuck on the walls, and will give players the opportunity to kite them effectively.

Prince Malchezaar now intelligently summons his infernals.

Prince Malchezaar's Shadow Realm can no longer inflict you with an Adumbral Pool immedietally after being thrown in.

Added an Infernal spawn location next to Prince Malchezaar's door.

Prince Malchezaar now has a short cooldown on his Infernal summon speech.

Headless Horseman items will now drop more consistently.

Fixed an issue where Compound Shot sometimes wouldn't be able to critically strike. This will be fixed next restart.

Compound Shot now deals 130/140/150/160/170% ranged weapon damage, from 135/140/145/150/155%. (Tooltips will be updated next patch.)

Added Bloodforged drops to Auchenai Spirits for Spirit Wars event.

Nightmare Mode players will be able to properly trade between players pending next restart! This was always the intended behavior and Nightmare Mode players could use the mailbox already, allowing them to indirectly trade. Ironman/Survivalist Mode x Nightmare Mode is, and was, the combo intended to restrict player's trading within the Nightmare Challenge.

Fixed an issue where the Strength of Arms talent wasn't triggering properly from Slam.

Area 52: PvE Mode is now available on the Risk Changer. Allowing you to turn off your PvP flag in No-Risk.

Area 52: You can now use Fel Commutation on soulbound items. (Will come to seasonal with next set of updates).

Area 52: Reclaiming Auchindoun: Spirit Wars event will now occur everyday at 23:00 Servertime.

Banner of Recruitment will now be usable/placeable by Officers of the guild pending next restart. If the "Officer" has the permission to speak in Officer's Chat and invite permissions they too will be able to help with the recruitment using the banner!

Fixed an issue where A Honest Mistake couldn't proc off some triggered spells such as Arcane Missiles.

Pending restart, added 7 New Crow's Cache Locations. One in each zone.

Pending restart, High King Maulgar's minions will no longer cast their Soulstone, Lightning Shield, Renew, and Reflective Shield abilities until they die.

Pending restart, corrected an issue where High King Maulgar would rarely and randomly fail to respawn his minions.

Pending restart, corrected an issue where Earth's Blessing was not granting you a charge of Earth Shield.

Fixed an issue where the attack from Bulwark was generating way less threat than intended. It now has the same threat modifiers as Shield Slam (but still deals reduced damage).

Wacky Wizardy can no longer roll mana gems.

Pending restart, added a Weekly Timewalking Dungeon quest to Call Board. It chooses any Vanilla dungeon each week.

Corrected the tooltip on Trademan scroll to 375 skill granted. Clarifying 375 skill granted towards that profession.

Crow's Rage (buff given around the crow's cache) reduces the AoE damage you take by 30%.

Weapons will state they will no longer increase atack power in moonkin form. Requires newest Patch - A.

Gems will no longer display socket color, they will now display "Gem Socket".

Pending restart, reduced the ilvl requirement for Bloodforged Magtheridon's Lair equipment.

Pending restart, reduced the ilvl requirement for Bloodforged Gruul's Lair equipment.

Pending restart, Karazhan's Arcane Watchman's Overload ability will no longer affect pets.

Corrected an issue where Magtheridon's Shadow Grasp damage would increase as the fight went on.

Pending restart, corrected an issue where Gruul would use his boulders quicker each time without resetting in between encounters.

Fixed the tooltips of Master of Shadows and Apprentice of Shadows buffs to correctly state that it gives Shadow spell power based on Agility (Tooltips will update next patch).

Upon next restart, Shadow Arrow will be able to be saved to collection.

Upon next restart, Torment the Weak a once beloved RE will return and be rollable in your collection.

The Seed of Life effect now triggers on HoT ticks and applications. This should make it easier to prevent the Seed from falling off the target, especially for players who don't have both Rejuvenation and Regrowth.

Demonic Rage now also slightly reduces the spell power scaling of Shadow Cleave while active. This should result in Shadow Cleave dealing a few % less damage with this Mystic Enchant.

Unyielding Faith RE now reduces the duration of Fears and Disorients by 3%, down from 4%.

The Shatter Mystic Enchant will now benefit an entire cast of Arcane Missiles (as long as the spell is started before the Frostbolt hits its target).

The effect of the Blazing Determination Mystic Enchant now lasts for 8 seconds, from 4.

The Ice Age Mystic Enchant is now Epic quality, from Legendary.

One With The Hunt is now Epic quality instead of Legendary. It now has a 100% chance to trigger from hunter shots, up from 30%.

Fire Walk With Me now increases the movement speed by 50%, up from 40%.

Secrets of the Farstrider now increases the periodic damage of your Explosive Shot by 3% down from 4%.

Fixed tooltip of Endurance Training to state that it does not stack.

Initiative RE will now give combo points more consistently.

Fixed an issue where Good Fortune sometimes wouldn't give the buff as intended.

Fixed an issue where Thermal Shock could backfire on the caster. You will no longer be able to Thermally Shock yourself.

Fixed an issue where Volley (Rain of Arrows) could consume too much ammunition.

Fixed an issue where Aegis wouldn't proc as intended.

Booming Thunder can once more gain multiple stacks from a single cast of Chain Lightning.

Fixed the tooltip of Frost Reserve to indicate that it removes a stack of Water Shield on dealing Frost damage.

Fixed an issue where Whispers of the Old Gods sometimes wouldn't deal damage.