Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2020/10/16

General

Change

All cooking recipes are now fixed and properly count towards the achievement. Previously there was an issue where all achievements but lunch lady would count towards the achievement.

Talents & Abilities

New

Fixed an issue where the Impoved Victory Rush talent sometimes wasn't properly triggering.

New

Arcane Blast now increases the mana cost of subsequent Arcane Blasts by 125%, from 175%.

New

Two-Handed Weapon Mastery now increases damage by 3/6%, from 2/4%.

New

Fixed an issue that caused the scaling of absorbs like Power Word: Shield and Ice Barrier to not be affected by any of our previous scaling nerfs.

New

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

New

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

New

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

New

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

New

Rake now deals 20% reduced damage against players, from 25%.

New

Earth Shock now deals 25% reduced damage against players, from 30%.

New

Flame Shock now deals 25% reduced damage against players, from 30%.

New

Insect Swarm now deals 20% reduced damage against players, from 25%.

New

Shadow Word: Pain now deals 30% reduced damage against players, from 35%.

New

[Seasonal] Living Bomb now deals 35% reduced damage against players, from 30%.

New

[Legacy] Living Bomb now deals 25% reduced damage against players, from 20%.

New

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

New

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

New

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

New

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

New

Windfury now deals 35% reduced damage against players, from 30%.

New

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

New

The Crusader Strike and Divine Storm attacks from the One with the Light Mystic Enchantment now also deal 10% reduced damage against players.

New

Holy Vengeance now deals 5% reduced damage against players.

New

Seal of Vengeance now deals 5% reduced damage against players.

New

Fixed an issue where the Lock and Load talent sometimes wouldn't proc from certain ranks of Freezing Trap.

New

Blazing Speed now also reduces the cooldown of Blast Wave by 3/6/9 seconds.

New

Blazing Speed now lasts 6 seconds, from 4.

New

Empowered Fire now grants 20% increased spell power coefficient on Fireball, Pyroblast and Living Bomb, from 9%.

New

Reduced the baseline spell power coefficient of Pyroblast by 10%.

New

Unbreakable Will now reduces the duration of Stun, Fear and Silence effects by 3/6/9/12/15%, from 4/8/12/16/20%.

New

Pure of Heart now reduces the duration of Curse, Disease, Fear and Charm effects by 7/14/20%, from 10/20/30%.

New

Unyielding Faith now reduces the duration of Disorient and Polymorph effects by 7/14/20%, from 10/20/30%.

New

The Burning Determination Capstone effect now lasts for 20 seconds, from 10.

New

Burning Determination now reduces damage taken while silenced by 10/20/30%, from 5/10/15%

New

Increased the damage scaling of Ice Lance by 10% for all ranks.

New

Increased the damage of Ice Lance by 10% for all ranks.

New

Increased the damage scaling of Frostbolt by 5% for all ranks.

New

Increased the damage of Frostbolt by 5% for all ranks.

New

Spellstone now increases the damage done of all periodic spells by 2%.

New

Fixed an issue causing prowl to not increase damage done while using the Companion Epic REs to change the school of your tamed pet.

New

Initiative will now give combo points more consistently.

New

Steady Shot now has a 1 second global cooldown, from 1.5 seconds. Its cast time remains unchanged.

New

Increased the missile speed of Flare. It should now reach its destination faster than before.

New

Fixed a bug where Rank 1 of Reverberation wouldn't proc properly.

New

Fixed an issue where Victory Rush sometimes could be useable while Shapeshifted.

New

Fixed a bug where Heart of the Phoenix sometimes didn't work.

New

Fixed an issue where the Misery debuff sometimes incorrectly could remove Faerie Fire from the target.

New

FIxed an issue where higher ranks of Mind-Numbing Poison and mass Slow incorrectly could stack with other cast speed slows.

New

The tooltips of the Nightfall and Backlash talents have been updated to properly reflect that they deal reduced damage to players.

New

Fixed an issue where Drain Soul sometimes wouldn't grant Soul Shards properly. (It should now grant them from Target Dummies.)

New

Fixed a bug where Master Tactician wouldn't proc off Explosive Shot.

New

Frostbrand Weapon can once more trigger Winter's Chill.

New

Anger Management now grants rage more consistently.

New

Earth and Moon now also reduces the targets healing taken by 14/27/40%.

New

New Capstone - Shamanistic Focus Capstone Bonus: With the final rank of this talent you gain 10% of your Agility as Spell Hit Rating.

New

New Capstone - Thundering Strikes Capstone Bonus: Increases your spell critical strike rating by 30% of your Agility.

New

Turn the Tables now also affects Cat form abilities.

New

The Arms Warrior talent Deflection now also reduces your chance to be critically hit by 1/2/3% in addition to its other effects.

New

Wrecking Crew now also increases the damage of Thunder Clap.

Item Changes

New

Fixed an issue where Romulo's Poison Vial wouldn't proc properly from ranged attacks.

New

Undaunted Might is a [NEW] enchanting recipe found from Gruul's and Magtheridon's Lair. This recipe Permanently enchants a melee weapon to have a chance when attacking to increase Strength by 120 and increase critical strike rating by 30 for 15 seconds. Requires a level 35 or higher item.

New

Corrected the tooltip of the Mongoose enchant.

Change

Fixed a bug where the proc from Glaive of the Pit had spell power scaling.

Mystic Enchants

New

Swift Justice now correctly does not stack.

New

Fixed an issue where the undispellable Ice Age Frost Nova wouldn't apply to players when its damage was absorbed.

New

Fixed an issue where the knockback behaviour of Sawed Off Barrel wasn't working as intended.

New

Fixed an issue where the Devouring Mystic Enchant wasn't working as intended.

New

Anger Management now grants rage more consistently.

New

Fixed an issue where Soul Restoration could reduce Weakened Soul cast by other players. It now correctly only reduces the duration of your own Weakened Soul.

New

New Legendary Enchant - Unchained: Your Blink spell now binds nearby enemies to the matter around them, preventing them from moving for 3 seconds. You also learn an alternate way of Blinking by harnessing the Arcane to propel you through space. You are only able to do this while casting an Arcane spell and it shares a cooldown with your normal Blink, but will not interrupt your spell cast.

New

New Legendary RE - Master of Shadows: Your Sinister Strike, Eviscerate, Garrote, and Rupture now deal extra Shadow damage, scaling with your spell damage. Your Sinister Strike criticals grant you Apprentice of Shadows, increasing your spell haste by 3% and your Shadow spell damage by 8% of your Agility for 8 sec, stacking up to 5 times. When fully stacked, your Eviscerate or Rupture consume Apprentice of Shadows to increase your Shadow spell damage by 40% of your Agility and increase your Shadow damage done by 10% for 10 sec.

New

New Epic RE - Savagery: Your Wing Clip now deals 30% more damage and reduces the cooldown of your Mongoose Bite by 0.5 seconds, but it no longer slows the enemy.

New

Evoker LRE has now been reworked! Casting Arcane Missiles while Missile Barrage is active increases the chance to proc your next Brain Freeze by 50%. Casting Fireball while Brain Freeze is active increases the chance to proc your next Missile Barrage by 50%. Consuming these effects grant you a stack of Evoker which decreases the cast time of Frostbolt by 2% and increases the damage and critical strike chance of Fireball, Frostbolt and Arcane Missiles by 2%. This effect stacks to 5 times.

New

Twilight is now an Epic RE, and you no longer have to re-equip the RE after leaving Shadow Form.

New

Shock and Awe now increased to 7% from 5% attack power scaling.

New

New Epic RE - Channeled Rage: Your melee criticals reduce the cooldown of Shamanistic Rage by 1 second and your spell criticals extend its duration by 2 seconds. However, your Shamanistic Rage no longer reduces damage taken and can only restore mana once every 3 seconds.

New

The Compound Power Legendary Enchant now has an additional effect: If you know Aimed Shot, you will now also learn Compound Shot, which consumes your combo points to fire an empowered Aimed Shot. This ability scales with effects that increase the damage of Aimed Shot, and also shares a cooldown with it.

New

New Legendary RE: Prophet of Wrath - Your Arcane Blast and Arcane Missiles increase the duration of Divine Illumination by 0.5 seconds each time they damage an enemy. Your Smite and Holy Fire spells reduce the cooldown of Divine Illumination by 2 seconds. While Divine Illumination is active, Arcane Blast and Arcane Missiles are infused with Holy power, causing them to deal Divine damage. Divine damage is a combination of the Arcane and Holy schools, and will benefit from modifiers to both schools.

New

New Legendary RE: Bulwark - Your Shield Block is replaced with an improved, channeled version. While active, you will Shield Slam nearby enemies every second and all incoming attacks will be critically blocked. Channeling reduces your movement speed by 50% and drains more and more energy. When your energy is depleted, the effect ends and cannot be recast until your energy is restored.

New

New Epic RE - Shadow Arrow: Your Black Arrow now increases the Shadow damage the target takes by 8%.

Change

Fixed an issue where Ice Age would silence the target in addition to rooting them.

2020/10/15

Quests

Change

[Seasonal]: The quest to roll a legendary mystic enchantment will now cost 5,000 marks down from 10,000.

2020/10/14

General

Change

Implemented 35 missing recipes to the Lunch Lady & learn X amount of cooking recipes. If you see more of these missing please open a bugtracker report and send it to Grey#0001 on discord.

Change

implemented structuring for violet signet ring exchange.

Change

Violet Hold will now stage the correct rewards.

Talents & Abilities

Change

Cut to the chase will now function once again pending next restart.

Change

Penance will now properly remove the Test of Faith capstone.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Don't Make me angry is now working correctly.

Change

Frost Reserve should now deal additional Frost Damage (not an increased amount of damage) and should trigger correctly now.

2020/10/13

Item Changes

Change

Socrethar's Teleportation Stone will now be usable both to and from Socrethar's Seat

2020/10/12

Talents & Abilities

Change

Fixed an issue which caused Improved Stormstrike mana gain to not work.

Item Changes

Change

Romulo's Poison will now scale off of attack power instead of spellpower.

Change

Temporarily disabled the mana drain effect on Black Grasp of the Destroyer due to a bug.

Change

Romulo's Poison now has a PPM of 3. (Up from 1.5)

Mystic Enchants

Change

Field Surgeon's mystic enchantment will now function properly, next restart, allowing and encouraging healers to get up-close and personal with their wounded party or raid members once more!

2020/10/11

Talents & Abilities

Change

[Seasonal]: Greater heal is now rollable at level 1.

Change

[Seasonal]: Corrected an issue where greater heal was not rollable.

Item Changes

Change

[Bloodforged Arena Season 1] Fixed the stat differences between Bloodforged and Pristine items.

2020/10/10

Item Changes

New

[Titan Scrolls] All Titan Scrolls will now have a 15 second cooldown on use.