Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2019/08/15

General

Change

Callboards will no longer display Winterspring as a 1v1 zone twice.

Talents & Abilities

Change

Darkmoon: Backstab deals 15% reduced damage to players, changed from 10%.

System Changes

Change

Karma: Fixed a bug where Criminal Intent could expire mid combat.

2019/08/14

General

Change

Darkmoon: You are now able to receive a new Draft Mode Deck (for level 1 drafting) from the General Goods vendors in starting areas.

Change

Seasonal: You can no longer send mail via the starting zone mail boxes to prevent spam. You can still receive mail from these mailboxes.

Change

Poison Skill card is currently disabled while we address some bugs. It will not roll.

2019/08/13

General

Change

Darkmoon: Lootboxes from Daily Quests, Scourge Invasions and the Blood Bowl now have a chance to drop Zul'Gurub gear!

Change

Lootboxes from Daily Quests, Scourge Invasions and the Blood Bowl should now give level 60 dungeon gear again.

Talents & Abilities

Change

Temporarily disabled the usage of Sentry Totem.

2019/08/12

General

Change

Legacy: Twisted Faith now only grants spell damage from Spirit instead of spell power. Its proc gives 1/2/3% base mana down from 2/4/6%. (This change has already been active for a while).

Change

Flagglemurk the Cruel (rare mob) now has a rare loot drop table as intended.

Change

Mailboxes in starting areas can now only be used to receive mail.

Change

.character activate command now allows you to activate up to 10 characters (client limit).

Change

Fixed an exploit allowing to create multiple characters with the same name.

Talents & Abilities

Change

You are able to swap stances and keep the Tactical Mastery bonuses once entering defensive stance without relogging. (Change active on next server restart)

Change

Tactical Mastery should no longer constantly re-apply the stamina bonus. Your HP will now be able to go to 100% when you have tactical mastery learned. (Change active on next server restart)

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Fixed a bug where using Feint would make you lose your current combo points. (Change active on next server restart).

Change

Disabled the use of old Dampen Magic ranks. (It only has one rank now).

System Changes

Change

Gurubash Blood Bowl: Updated event announcements. Added a visual effect while you are on a killing streak.

2019/08/11

Mystic Enchants

Change

Darkmoon: Fixed a bug where Divine Purpose would increase damage by 75% and healing by 50%. It now increases damage by 50% and healing by 75% as intended.

2019/08/10

General

Change

Noth: Plagued Guardian health reduced by another 20%.

Change

Noth: Plagued Champion health reduced by another 20%.

Change

Noth: Plagued Warrior health increased by 50%. Is now immune to all Crowd Control but slows.

Change

Noth: Plagued Champion health reduced by 10%.

Change

Noth: Plagued Guardian health reduced by 10%.

Talents & Abilities

Change

Cure Disease will no longer make you temporarily immune to disease. (Change active on next server restart).

Change

Cure Poison will no longer make you temporarily immune to poisons. (Change active on next server restart).

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Naxxramas Plague Wing bosses are now available.

Change

Updated Naxxramas Plague Wing trash mobs to better reflect the intended difficulty of the wing.

Change

Updated loot tables for the final bosses of each wing in Naxxramas to drop 2 set piece tokens on 10man, up from 1.

Quests

Change

Seasonal: 10 New Hand Fate Quests have been added to the quest chain.

2019/08/09

General

Change

Spellstones and Firestones no longer get removed when changing weapons.

Change

Fixed a bug where you would get attacked by guards when using the "Resurrect at nearest Town" option

Change

Fixed a bug where you could unlearn Tame Beast and the your pet would still appear at the next login.

System Changes

Change

Crows Cache: Improve Crows Cache event messages. The looter will now be announced to the world.

2019/08/08

General

Change

Legacy: Fixed Scourge Invasion not being up.

Change

Seasonal: Re-enabled Hand of Fate Quests

Item Changes

Change

Increased the damage of Seed of Decay from the Druid T3 2 set bonus. (Effective next restart)

Change

The Shaman dungeon sets, The Elements and The Five Thunders, Furious Storm proc effect is now also triggered by healing spells.

2019/08/07

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Fixed unintended behavior for razorgore after casting a spell which caused him to enter the follow state.

2019/08/06

General

Change

Darkmoon: Blazing Speed should now be working as intended.

Change

Darkmoon: Eviscerate now deals 10% less damage in PvP.

Change

Scourge Invasion loot boxes from high level invasions will now give a guaranteed dungeon item drop.

Change

Fixed a bug where you would be assigned to the wrong phase when entering a major city.

Change

Fixed a bug where attacking evading creatures would result in a infinite melee attacking state.

Change

Fixed a bug where character faction / race transfer would learn TBC flight paths.

Change

Laughing Skull: Fixed orb shard events not spawning, they should now function.

World

Change

Mage Stormwind Portal should now work correctly again.

System Changes

Change

Karma: You will no longer lose reputation when fighting neutral NPCs.

Change

Checkpoint System: Initial checkpoint will now be inside the raid instead of outside the instance portal.

Item Changes

Change

Scroll of Experience can no longer be used while having a pending Ability Draft.

Quests

Change

Legacy: The Fate of Ramaladni and The Only Song I Know... quests are now available, provided a character has completed Echoes of War. Additionally, the latter quest mentioned above has been made repeatable. (Active on server restart)

2019/08/05

General

Change

Fixed the visual bug where Divine Shield would remove the Ironman aura. (Change active on next server restart).

Change

Invisibility Potion will now break when interacting with battleground objectives. E.G. capping and carrying flags.

Change

Fixed a bug where Defensive Stance wasn't reducing healing by 10%. (Change active on next server restart).

Change

Ironmen with Criminal Intent active should no longer be able to attack others in Honorable Combat.

Change

Seasonal: Temporarily disabled Hand of Fate quests while we resolve some issues with Hand of Fate

Talents & Abilities

Change

Twin Disciplines should once again add the proper scaling to Power Word: Shield.

Change

Iron Will should once again be working on Darkmoon.

Change

Tactical Mastery should once again update properly when swapping stance and weapons.

Change

Aspect of the Beast will not longer remain on tamed pets after dismissing and resummoning them if it is no longer your active Aspect.

Change

Illumination mana refund will no longer be reduced by effects which reduce the mana cost of spells, like Divine Illumination.

Item Changes

Change

Swift Spectral Tiger no longer grants 100% bonus movespeed with Apprentice Riding.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

You should no longer be able to use the checkpoint system to resurrect during a raid encounter.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Twin Disciplines should once again add the proper scaling to Power Word: Shield.

Change

Frenzyheart Fury now grants 1 crit rating at level 20 and below, and grants an additional 1 crit rating every 2 levels after that, up to 21 crit rating. From 21 flat crit rating.

Change

Fixed a rare crash which could occur when using Assuaging Shadows.

2019/08/04

General

Change

Laughing Skull: Naxxramas set piece tokens are no longer soulbound. (Change active on next server restart).

Talents & Abilities

Change

Treasure Hunter auras will now persist through death. (effective after next restart)

Change

Fixed a bug where blinking could cause dead pets to revive under some circumstances

Change

Fixed a bug where blinking would deflag you from PvP within capital cities.

2019/08/03

General

Change

Darkmoon: Fixed an issue where some Zul'Gurub gear had a reputation requirement which was not intended.

System Changes

Change

Karma: Implemented zone and world wide announcements for different Karma related action in the open world.

Change

Ironman: Leaderboard will now display the correct URL to the website where the Leaderboard is located.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Portals in Naxxramas should now work for the entire raid. (Requires a restart)

2019/08/02

General

Change

Darkmoon: Fixed a bug where base health at level 60 was 500 too high. (Change active on next server restart).

Change

Seasonal: Counting Cards quest for sealed packs now rewards 5 Sealed cards, up from 3.

Change

Shadowsong has been updated to the latest branches in preparation for mass transfer to legacy.

Change

Fixed an issue where players could not switch risk modes

Change

Seasonal: Autoshot now can roll in the first card at level 1

Change

Weekly Quests now give 25 Marks of Ascension

Talents & Abilities

Change

Fixed a bug where Pure of Heart wouldn't reduce the duration of Fear effects. (Change active on next server restart).

Change

Legacy: Corrected the amount of spell damage Flametongue Weapon gives to the old amount.

Change

Increased the base damage of Serpent Sting rank rank 1 to 3 by around 20%, rank 4-6 by around 15% and rank 7 by around 10%. (Change active on next server restart).

Mystic Enchants

Change

Fixed a bug with Unyielding Faith where it gave 3% disorient duration reduction instead of the intended 5%.

2019/08/01

General

Change

Seasonal: Added 9 Additional Hand of Fate: Shuffle the Deck quests. These are a quest chain, all new characters can do them all.

Talents & Abilities

Change

Fleet Footed and Relentless Strikes will now trigger properly from Meditate and Recuperate. (Change active on next server restart).

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Naxxramas: Faerlina's Poison Volley will now properly generate poison pools (careful, they're dangerous.)

2019/07/31

General

Change

Darkmoon: Added a mailbox to all starting areas.

Talents & Abilities

Change

Penance will no longer trigger a cooldown if it was out of range to actually cast the version the target selected. (damage or heal)

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Slime water will no longer kill vanity pets (like books of ascension)

2019/07/29

General

Change

Seasonal: Temporarily Disabling Hand of Fate to address a bug.

Change

Seasonal: Fixed an issue where some quests were not rewarding 10 Marks of Ascension

Change

The Conflicted debuff (that you get from changing your risk) now lasts 10 minutes and will continue to tick down while you're offline. (Change active on next server restart).

System Changes

Change

Ironman: Implement Bloodiest Ironman Announcement. Starting from 29. July 19:30 ST. It will now announce the leading Ironman with the most kills done in World.

Change

Ironman: Low-Risk Ironman can no longer be attacked by other players.

Change

Ironman: High-Risk Ironmen are now always forced to Single Target PvP combat even if they somehow might lose their single target pvp aura.

Change

Ironman: Survivalist can now use all Book of Ascension.

Change

Ironman: Ironmen will no longer die when falling through the world. They will get teleported to the closest graveyard.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Globs of Viscidus are no longer susceptible to Disorient effects. (Active on server restart)