Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2020/08/07

Talents & Abilities

Change

Corrected an issue where Rain of Arrows could trigger periodic damage procs.

Change

Corrected an issue where Rain of Arrows could not trigger direct damage procs.

Change

Corrected an issue where Rain of Arrows could not scale with most talents and Mystic Enchantments that affected Volley.

Change

Corrected an issue where Rain of Arrows could not critically strike.

Change

Corrected an issue where Fire Storm could trigger periodic damage procs.

Change

Corrected an issue where Fire Storm could not trigger direct damage procs.

Change

Corrected an issue where Fire Storm could not scale with most talents and Mystic Enchantments that affected Rain of Fire.

Change

Corrected an issue where Fire Storm could not critically strike.

Change

Corrected an issue where Hailstorm could trigger periodic damage procs.

Change

Corrected an issue where Hailstorm could not trigger direct damage procs.

Change

Corrected an issue where Hailstorm could not scale with most talents and Mystic Enchantments that affected Blizzard.

Change

Corrected an issue where Hailstorm could not critically strike.

Change

Spell Deflection is now an absorb, so it will now report in your combat log how much was absorbed.

Change

Corrected an issue where Dragon's Breath damage would be immuned when used on some bosses.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Skull Crusher has been enabled once again. Its triggered effect now reduces the targets Intellect by 5%. (Tooltips will reflect this change when a new patch is released.)

Change

Temporarily disabled the proc from the Skull Crusher enchant as we investigate a bug with it. It will be redesigned and reenabled in the future.

Quests

New

Removed the quest Proving Grounds: 1v1. It will now rotate between 2v2 and 3v3.

2020/08/06

Item Changes

Change

Corrected all the stats of rare PvP weapons.

2020/08/05

Talents & Abilities

Change

Corrected tooltip of Arcane Concentration talent rank 1 to reflect damaging spells only.

Change

Fixed an issue where -5% armor debuffs weren't stacking correctly. The armor reduction granted by Curse of Weakness, Faerie Fire and Faerie Fire (Feral) now correctly do not stack even if the debuffs are active simultaneously.

Change

Empowered Fire now also increases the spell damage coefficient of Living Bomb.

Change

Reduced the spell damage coefficient of Living Bomb by 9%.

Change

FIxed an issue where Warbringer incorrectly could be used to break roots.

Change

The Searing Light talent now also increases the damage of Holy Nova.

Change

Reduced the damage of Holy Nova by 20%.

Change

Fixed an issue where Focus Magic wasn't giving Arcane spell critical strike chance as intended.

Change

Clarified the tooltip of Ghostly Strike.

Change

Mental Quickness has had its effect reduced to 20%, but its effect is doubled if your Primary Stat is Strength.

Change

Changed the name Bladestorm Whirlwinds to be distinguishable from normal Whirlwinds.

Change

Updated the tooltip of Divine Aegis to indicate that the effect doesn't trigger on full overheals.

Change

Updated the tooltip of Sheath of Light to indicate that the effect only triggers from Holy heals.

Change

Improved Immolate now increases damage done by 5/10/15% from 10/20/30%

Change

Improved Shadowform now grants 2/4% damage reduction, from 3/6%.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Fixed an issue where Upper Hand didn't work for Mutilate.

Change

Fixed an issue where Consecrated Strikes would apply its buff also to players without the RE equipped.

Change

Fixed an issue where Accurate Searing Pain didn't work with Perilous Pain.

Change

Fixed an issue where Searing Pain (Perilous Pain) would generate significantly less threat than Searing Pain.

Change

Fixed an issue where Time Warp looked like it could be used three times, in spite of being Epic.

Change

Updated the icon of the buff given by Seed of Life to be different from Lifebloom.

Change

Fixed the tooltip of Demonic Synergy to show the correct critical strike chance.

2020/08/04

General

Change

Increased baseline resilience vaules by 15%. From the next server restart you will take about 5% less damage in PvP.

Talents & Abilities

Change

Shadow Embrace now reduces healing over time effects on the target by 1/2/3/4/5%, down from 2/4/6/8/10%. (Change active on next server restart.)

Change

Mind Blast now has a 0.95 PvP mod.

Change

Mind Flay now has a 0.9 PvP mod, changed from 0.95.

Change

Devouring Plague now has a 0.65 PvP mod, changed from 0.7.

Change

Shadow Word: Pain now has a 0.65 PvP mod, changed from 0.7

Change

Sudden Death has had its proc chance increased by about 20%. It now properly has a 6 second cooldown.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

[World Dragons] - Reduced the damage of all nightmare dragons by 25%.

Change

[World Dragons] - Noxious Breath periodic damage reduced by 10%. Cooldown reduction on ability is now 3 seconds down from 10 seconds increase.

Change

[AQR]: With the removal of the quest and reputation tokens from the raid - bosses now drop significantly more loot.

Mystic Enchants

Change

The Sudden Death Mystic Enchant now reduces the internal cooldown of the Sudden Death talent by 1 second. It still stacks to 3.

Change

Fixed an issue where casting Battle Shout could refresh the cooldown on Warcry incorrectly.

Change

Battering Ram now makes Slam ignore 10% of the targets' armor instead of reducing their chance to block. It still applies Sunder Armor, but can no longer apply two stacks at once with Single-Minded Fury.

Change

Deprecated the Barrier of Blades Mystic Enchantment.

Change

Molten Earth will also no longer scale Lava Lash and additional modifiers. It now scales with 5% SP & 2.5% AP (up from 4% SP & 2.0% AP).

Change

Benevolent Crusader now reduces the cast time of Exorcism instead of Penance.

2020/08/03

Talents & Abilities

Change

Corrected the duration on Strength of the Horde

Change

Updated Ignite tooltip to clarify direct fire damage, not periodic.

Change

Improved Gouge now increases duration by .33/.66/1 from .5/1/1.5

Change

Corrected a discrepancy between the Stamina gain between Bear Form and Dire Bear Form.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Corrected High-Risk Kazzak loot template.

Change

[BWL] Brood Afflictions will now grant 20% damage increase to players up from 15%.

Change

[BWL] Brood Affliction: Red will no longer stack higher than 2. Damage decreased by 15%.

Change

[BWL] Brood Afflicton: Blue will no longer drain mana nor slow movement speed.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Reduced the movement speed of Fungarians by 50%.

Change

Corrected an issue where Atonement could not trigger when using Penance.

Change

Blaze can now be procced by triggered effects.

Change

Corrected an issue where Armor of Faith was not triggering a shield.

Change

Added clarification in the Fleeting Shadows tooltip that you have to know the Shadow Dance ability.

Change

Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Counterspell.

Change

Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Dragon's Breath.

Change

Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Fire Blast.

Change

Wacky Wizardry can now trigger Scorch.

Change

Wacky Wizardry now scales to your level.

Change

Battlemage no longer incurs a cooldown or obeys cooldowns.

Change

Low Tide no longer incurs a cooldown or obeys cooldowns for Riptide.

Change

Added a new visual for Skull Crusher that does not override the casting animation for Slam.

Change

Corrected an issue where Double Agent was not triggering additional damage on stealthed targets.

Change

Corrected an issue where Judged in Light was not properly affecting Penance damage.

Change

Corrected an issue where Hammer of Penance was not properly affecting Penance damage.

Change

Corrected an issue where Fire and Ice was applied to all players by default instead of only those with the Mystic Enchantment.

Change

Reduced the internal cooldown for Burst of Thorns to 1 second from 3 seconds.

Change

Corrected an issue where Burst of Thorns was not proccing.

Change

Corrected an issue where Voodoo Power did not affect Stormstrike.

Change

Corrected an issue where Everlasting Summons did not affect Dragon's Call.

Change

Corrected an issue where Everlasting Summons did not affect Book of The Dead.

Change

Atonement now only has one charge from three.

Change

Corrected an issue where Atonement would only return 1 mana back to healers.

New

Added the Blood Rain Mystic Enchantment. Your Stormstrike now increases the damage of bleeds on the target by 15%.

New

Added the Twilight Mystic Enchantment. Your vampiric embrace now heals from your bleeds. Spooky vampire.

New

Added the Throw Weapon Mystic Enchantment. You learn Throw Weapon. Throw Weapon deals a significant amount of damage at a range, but disarms you for two seconds.

New

Added the Mortal Wounds Mystic Enchantment. Your Mortal strike now slows your target by 25% if the target is above 50% health. Lasts 4 seconds. Does not stack with other similar effects.

New

Added the Barrier of Blades Mystic Enchantment. Bladestorm now increases your parry by 50% for its duration. You cannot have a shield and must be in defensive stance.

New

Added the Battle Fervor Mystic Enchantment. Your Charge ability triggers Improved Victory Rush. Battle Shout increases attack speed and movement speed by 30% for 3 seconds while in Battle Stance. This effect cannot occur more than once every 10 seconds.

New

Added the Death or Glory Mystic Enchantment. Last stand dispels all harmful magic effects on you and grants you 10% increased melee attack power, melee attack speed and movement speed. You lose 30% of your maximum health at the end of the duration if you did not kill an enemy that granted experience or honor.

New

Added the Flash of Adrenaline Mystic Enchantment. Your Adrenaline Rush now refreshes the cooldown of your sprint.

New

Added the Tooth and Nail Mystic Enchantment. Your Devastate has a 10% chance to lower the cooldown of your Shockwave by 18 seconds for 8 seconds. This effect cannot occur more than once every minute.

New

Added the Blades of Blood Mystic Enchantment. For 3 Seconds after using your Charge ability, your Whirlwind ability will apply your Rend (if known) to targets that are hit and has its maximum target limit increased by 5.

New

Added the Judge, Jury, Executioner Mystic Enchantment. Your Judgments add 2 Combo points.

New

Added the Spartan Kick Mystic Enchantment. Your Kick ability now knocks players back. Requires Battle Stance. This effect cannot occur more than once every 20 seconds.