Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2018/11/30

Talents & Abilities

Change

Inner Fire no longer has a duration.

Change

Fixed a bug where Lock and Load wouldn??™??™t trigger from from Black Arrow.

Change

Beast Mastery no longer increases tamed pet damage by 10%.

Change

Endless Rage and been renamed to Two-Handed Weapon Mastery and in addition to its current effect increases all Physical damage dealt while a Two-Handed weapon is equipped, while in Battle or Berserker Stance, and while Titan??™??™s Grip is not learned.

Change

Honor Among Thieves has been reworked and now adds a combo point to your target after using a melee ability or spell. This effect has a 1.5 sec internal cooldown.

Change

Silence now triggers the global cooldown.

Change

Lava Lash now deals 110% weapon damage, up from 100%.

Change

Strength of Arms no longer increases the damage of your Mortal Strike following Overpower, and instead causes your next Mortal Strike to ignore 20/40% of the target??™s armor.

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Exorcism now scales with 20% of your spell and attack power, from 15%, and now deals 70% damage to players.

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Hammer of Wrath now scales with 20% of your spell and attack power, from 15%, and now deals 80% damage to players.

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Warlock pets now scale with the owner??™??™s hit rating.

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Explosive Shot damage over time will no longer miss as long as the spell initially hits its target.

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Fixed a bug where The Improved Revenge effect would be consumed by auto attacks.

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Improved Blink now lasts for 3 seconds, down from 4, and reduces the damage you take by 10/20% instead of reducing your chance to avoid spells and attacks.

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Vanish should now break channeled spells and drop combat instantly when used.

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Shadowstep now increases the damage of your next Rogue ability by 10%, from 20%.

Change

Master of Subtlety now only increase Physical damage done.

Change

Juggernaut now causes your next Mortal Strike or Slam to apply Rend, if learned, after using Charge.

Change

Winter??™s Chill now increases all Frost critical strike chance instead of only Frostbolt.

Change

Go for the Throat now restores 15/30 focus, from 25/50, and has a 2 sec internal cooldown.

Change

Aimed Shot now deals 130% weapon damage and deals 80% damage to players.

Change

Chimera Shot now deals 130% weapon damage and deals 75% damage to players.

Change

Serpent Sting now scales with 30% of your ranged attack power, from 20%, and deals 70% damage to players.

Change

Volley now scales with 10% ranged attack power, up from 8%.

Change

Explosive Shot now scales with 30% ranged attack power, from 12%, and deals 65% damage to players.

Change

Multi-Shot now deals 130% weapon damage and 80% damage to players.

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Arcane Shot now scales with 30% ranged attack power, from 20%, and deals 75% damage to players.

Change

Ferocious Bite now deals 10% more damage and 80% damage to players.

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Rip now deals 10% more damage and 80% damage to players.

Change

Rake now deals 10% more damage and 80% damage to players.

Change

Slaughter from the Shadows has been reduced to 3 ranks and now reduces the energy cost of your Backstab and Ambush by 7/14/20 and Hemorrhage by 2/4/5 and now gives you a 33/66/100% chance when you deal damage with Backstab or Hemorrhage to reduce the cooldown of your Shadow Dance by 1 sec.

Change

Fel Concentration now reduces the channel/cast duration/time of your Drain Life, Drain Mana, Drain Soul, Unstable Affliction, and Haunt spells by 2/4/6%, from 4/7/10%.

Change

Savage Rend (Raptor pet ability) now procs when Savage Rend is used and increase all damage by 5%.

Change

Lethality now also affects Ambush.

Change

Ambush now deals 275% of your weapon damage and deals 75% damage to players.

Change

Art of War now increases the damage and healing of your Flash of Light and Exorcism spells by 30% (10% damage to players).

Change

Nurturing Instincts now give you 5/10% additional healing received while in cat form, from 10/20%.

Change

Unfair Advantage now has a 2 sec ICD, up from 1.

Change

Empowered Renew no longer double dips from healing done modifiers and should now always heal 15% of your Renew??™??™s healing done.

Change

Holy Fire now deals 80% damage to players, from 84%.

Change

Penance now deals 80% damage to players, from 84%.

Change

Surge of Light now increases Smite damage to players by 10%, from 20%.

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Shadow Dance now lasts 8 seconds, from 6, and activates Overkill and Mastery of Subtlety.

Change

Fixed a bug where Killing Spree would target players not in sight.

Change

Bloodrage can now be used while shapeshifted.

Change

Seal Fate has been reduced to 3 ranks and now gives you a 33/66/100% chance to generate an additional combo point on the target when you Rogue combo point generators critically strike, and now also increases the damage of Rogue combo point generating abilities by 1/2/3%.

Change

Relentless Strikes has been reduced to 3 ranks and now has a 7/14/20% chance per combo point spent to grant you 25 energy and 10% armor penetration for 5 seconds after using a Rogue finisher.

Change

Cat form now gives you 2 attack power per Agility, up from 1.75.

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Mangle (Cat) now deals 10% more damage and 80% damage to players.

Change

Shred now deals 10% more damage and 80% damage to players.

Change

Sanctity of Battle now also gives you a 33/66/100% chance to empower you next ability after using Exorcism: Hammer of Wrath: May be used regardless of the target??™??™s health and deals 75% more damage (15% to players). Consecration: Ticks an additional 4 times. Flash of Light: Guaranteed critical strike. And now also increases the damage of your Consecration and Divine Storm by 5/10/15%.

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Updated the Arcane Concentration tooltip to reflect the fact that it can proc from healing spells.

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Sinister Calling no longer increases the bonus damage of Backstab.

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Backstab now deals 175% weapon damage.

Change

Frostbolt now deals 10% more damage at ranks 10 and 11.

Change

Molten Fury has been temporarily disabled.

Change

Reverberation has been reduced to 3 ranks and now reduces the cooldown of your Shaman Shock spells by .5/1/1.5 seconds and when you deal damage with a Shaman Shock spell you increases the direct damage of the next different Shaman Shock spell used within 8 seconds by 20%.

Change

Chilled to the Bone now increases all Frost damage dealt.

Change

We??™??™ve updated multiple tooltips to now indicate damage dealt to players where necessary.

Change

Blazing Speed is now a 3 point talent which has a 4/7/10% chance to increase your movement speed by 50% for 6 seconds with a 6 second internal cooldown.

Change

Dual Wield in the Enhancement Shaman tree has been enabled and replaced with Empowered Stormstrike. This talent causes Your Stormstrike deals an additional 10% damage as Fire when a weapon is imbued with Flametongue and an additional 10% damage as Frost when a weapon is imbued with Frostbrand. In addition, your auto-attacks deal an additional 1% of your attack power and 7% of your spell power as Nature damage for 6 seconds after using Stormstrike.

Item Changes

Change

Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker now has a base dps of 62.1, from 53.9, and it??™??™s effect now scales with 20% of your spell power and deals 50% additional threat.

Change

Quivers and Ammo Pouches no longer increase your ranged attack speed.

Change

Fixed a bug with Judgement 8-piece set bonus where the extra damage wouldn??™??™t proc.

Change

Dirge??™??™s Kickin Chimera Chops now lasts 30 min.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Doubled the scaling of Stormbringer, Deathbringer, Righteous Zealot, Spell slinger, Frost Lich, and Harbinger of Flame, and reduced their damage dealt to players by 50%.

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Deadly Bite now scales with 1.5% AP per tick, down from 2%, and now increases the damage dealt by Raptor Strike by 17% per stack, down from 20%.

Change

Chilled to the Bone now increases all Frost damage dealt.

Change

Molten Fury has been temporarily disabled.

Change

Blazing Speed now has a 2/3% chance to proc, from 3/4%.

Change

We??™??™ve updated multiple tooltips to now indicate damage dealt to players where necessary.

Change

Nurturing Instincts now grants 5/6% of your Agility as healing power, from 8/10%.

Change

Aggression no longer affects Backstab.

Change

Opportunity now also affects Backstab.

Change

Go for the Throat now restores 15/30 focus, from 25/50, and has a 2 sec internal cooldown.

Change

Festering Wounds now increases your poison damage dealt to the target by 2%, from 3%, per stack, but now stacks its poison effect for each critical strike you deal with Mutilate, and no longer reduces the energy cost of your Mutilate.

Change

Fixed a bug where the Sword Specialization RE didn??™??™t share its ICD with the talent.

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Surefooted no longer stacks.

Change

Toughness now grants 5/6/7% movement impair effect reduction, from 4/5/6%, but no longer stacks.

Change

Assuaging Shadows has been reworked.

Change

Consecrated Strikes- fixed typo.

Change

Sudden Death- corrected tooltip.

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Improved Devotion Aura- corrected tooltip.

2018/11/29

General

Change

Recruit A Friend Summon now works properly.

World

Change

Gershala Nightwhisper - Add Flee for Assist Action at 15 percent health.

Change

Innkeeper Thulfram - Add pathing for creature in Hinterlands.

Change

Lizzarik in Barrens will now talk some lines every few minutes.

Change

Tavernkeep Smitts in Duskwood will now talk some lines every few minutes.

Change

Update texts for Infiltrator Marksen in Swamp of Sorrows.

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Viktori Prism'Antras in Duskwood will now talk some lines every few minutes.

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Madame Eva in Duskwood will talk some lines every few minutes now.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Ravaged Cadaver in Stratholme will no longer spawn Cadaver Worms - only Mangled Cadaver will do this.

Change

Implemented a more reliable stomach ejector for C'Thun. Incidences of failed teleports should no longer occur.

Quests

Change

The Moss-twined Heart - Add RP endevent for Denalan in Teldrassil.

2018/11/28

World

Change

Add a few new textlines to Defias Messenger in Westfall.

Change

Add a few new textlines to Hogan Ference in Duskwood.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Corrected an issue where the Twin Emperors were dropping more loot than intended.

Change

Applied a fix to a rare server crash caused by Ossirians Void Singularities switching phases. (To be applied on the next server restart)

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Ouro will now use Fierce Blow. (To be applied on the next server restart)

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Applied a fix to a rare server crash caused by Skeram summoning his clones. (To be applied on the next server restart)