Ascension Changelog

Cleaned up Creature_Group logs to speedup server start times

Reverted Charging in Water logic while we address some performance issues it caused.

Implemented Spelldatabase loading, this will enable up to reload spell effect/damage values without realm restarts

Applied a fix for Arcane Missiles Rank 8 not being learnable despite having Arcane Missiles Rank 7. (To be implemented on the next server restart)

The Laid Eggs debuff in the Buru encounter will no longer persist through death.

Buru can now be taunted while in his vulnerability phase.

Ayamiss will no longer consider the main threat a viable candidate for Paralysis.

Ayamiss will now reset her threat when transitioning from her flying phase to her ground phase.

Tweaked Buru so he spawns 33% less broodguards to defend his hatchlings in 10 man.

Gehennas: Power Overwhelming debuff duration increased from 30 seconds to 40.

Gehennas: Empowered Fire Nova damage reduced from 40% of max health to 35% and it can no longer crit.

Corrected an issue with Buru the Gorger where his vulnerability phase would have smaller damage thresholds the lower his health was.

Buru will now reduce his damage taken during his Hardened Carapace phase by 75%. This change was made with the fix to his vulnerability phase.

General Rajaxx and his subordinates should now more reliably summon their beetles.

Stinger Charges can no longer critically strike.

Lucifron: The [Method in the Madness] achievement can now be completed on 25 player difficulty but requires a bigger Ritual of Shadows.

Shazzrah: The [Little Alchemy] achievement can now be completed on 25 player difficulty but requires 9 Arcane-Infused Lava Spawns to be created.

Garr: Firesworn Eruptions should no longer miss and players now have a significantly reduced chance to resist them whilst still in the air from a previous Eruption.

Razorgore: Destroy Egg cooldown reduced from 7 seconds to 5.

Moam will now have different chances to spawn explosions in 10 and 25 man. Slightly increased the chance for 10 man to spawn explosions, and decreased the chance in 25 man to spawn explosions.

Chromie should now spawn the first of each month again.

Laughing Skull - Nefarian loot now has a chance to drop from Crows Cache and mobs in the world.

Hunter pet hit inheritance should now be working again.

All fear effects now share diminishing returns with disorient effects.

Combat Potency now gives 5 energy, down from 15 and can no longer trigger from special attacks.

Vigilance now also resets the cooldown of Growl.

Slow now has a 10 sec max PvP duration.

Curse of Exhaustion now has a 10 sec PvP duration.

Rank 1 and rank 2 of Fear now lasts 8 seconds in PvP.

Crusader Strike now deals 100% weapon damage, up from 85%.

Vengeance now also affects Crusader Strike and Divine Storm.

Penance, Holy Fire, and Exorcism now properly deal less damage to players.

Tactical Mastery once again requires you to be in Defensive Stance and have a Two-Handed Weapon Equipped.

Sinister Flurry now benefits from Sinister Strike modifiers.

Booming Thunder now grants 15% additional damage per stack (11% to players).

Molten Earth now deals 25% additional critical damage.

Mending Tide has had its healing increased by 20% and now benefits from Riptide modifiers.

Whispers of the Old Gods now scales with your spell power.

Blessing of the Divines proc chance has been reduced and the duration of the health bonus, healing bonus, and damage reduction have been reduced.

Healing Way now also increases the initial healing of Riptide.

Holy Ascension no longer affects Penance and now only grants 20% bonus damage to Smite when used against players.

Regenerative Shadows has been reworked to: Dealing damage with Mind Flay grants you a Soul Fragment. Soul Fragments grant you 1% increased casting speed for 12 seconds, stacking up to 9 times. Upon reaching 9 stacks you gain Shadow Visions for the next 12 seconds. Shadow Visions empowers your next ability: Shadow Word: Pain- Afflicts up to 3 additional nearby enemies. Mind Blast- causes the target to take 5% more Shadow damage from the caster for 5 seconds. Devouring Plague- Increases its duration by 50%.

Total Eclipse has been reworked to: dealing damage with Wrath while Solar Eclipse is active reduces the cooldown of your Treants by 2 seconds and dealing damage with Starfire with Lunar Eclipse is active reduces the cooldown of your Starfall by 2 seconds.

Deadly Aim has been reworked to: Your auto shots have a 12% chance to reset the cooldown of your Aimed Shot and increase the damage it deals by 50% (20% to players).

Consecrated Strikes has had its proc chance greatly increased and it now provides 8% bonus to Strength for 8 seconds.

Implemented missing yells for Rajaxx.

Implemented Encounter frame for Rajaxx.

Implemented Encounter frame for Kurinnaxx.

Fixed an issue where Rajaxx would melee random players when he knocked them up.

Slightly increased Kurinaxxs aggro range.

Released Moam, Buru the Gorger, and Ayamiss the Hunter.

Reduced the effective Radius of Kurinaxx's Brood's Drenched in Poison debuff by 37.5% so that it better matches its visual radius.

Roughly doubled the visual radius of Kurinaxx's Sand Traps to better show its effective range.

Ragnaros: Tier 1 & 2 Sons of Flame will now wait 10/5 seconds before applying their mana burn aura.

Fixed a case where Surge of Light was not always increasing the damage of Smite.

Majordomo: Fixed the achievement criteria for [Crowd Control to Major-domo]

AQ20 blue gear should no longer disenchant into Prismatic shards

Garr: Fixed the achievement criteria for [Between a Rock and a Hard Place]

Life Tap and Dark Pact should no longer have a cooldown triggered when using certain interrupt spells like Counterspell and Kick.

Corrected an issue where Baristolth despawned after the 24 hour gate opening event.

Ragnaros: Sons of Flame no longer cast Incite Flames to reduce fire resistance of players.

Ragnaros: Removed resistances from Sol to make interrupts more reliable.

Ragnaros: Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause Ragnaros to be summoned multiple times.

Sulfuron: Flamewaker Priests have remembered how to heal Sulfuron on hardmode.

Sulfuron: Removed resistances from Flamewaker Priests to make interrupts more reliable.

Shazzrah: [Little Alchemy] achievement now only requires 3 Arcane-Infused Lava Spawns, down from 4. Description will be updated in the next patch.

Shazzrah: Removed resistances from Arcane-Infused Lava Spawns to make interrupts more reliable.

Majordomo: Removed resistances from Flamewaker Healers to make interrupts more reliable.

Corrected an issue where Rajaxx and his allies were unable to summon their beetles.

Surge of Light should now properly always increase the damage of your next Smite.

Fixed an issue with Scatter Shot range. It no longer has a minimum range and its max range is 15 yard as intended.

Rajaxx no longer respawns his Captains, Generals, and Colonel on a wipe.

Applied a crash fix for Rajaxx.

Kurinnaxx no longer summons 2x too many adds in 25 man.

Corrected an issue where Rajaxx, Pakkon, and Zerran were knocking players up too far.

Searing Light now properly increases the damage of Holy Nova by 4% per rank and now also increases the damage of Exorcism by 4% per rank.

Thunder Clap now deals double damage when a Two-Handed weapon is equipped.

Improved Revenge now also causes your next Devastate following Revenge to hit an additional 1/2 targets.

Surge of Light now also increases the damage of your next Smite by 60% (20% against players).

Smite damage has been increased by 20% at all ranks.

Holy Fire damage has been increased by 20% at all ranks, but now deals 16% less damage to players.

Penance damage has been increased by 20% at all ranks, but now deals 16% less damage to players.

Exorcism now deals 16% less damage to players.

Vigilance can now be used while shapeshifted.

Malice rank 3 now provides the proper amount of energy regeneration.

Moonglow now also causes your Moonfire direct damage, Starfire, and Healing Touch spells to increase your Spirit by 4/7/10% for 8 seconds.

Feral Spirits have had their damage reduced by 15%.

Iron Will has been reworked and now provides an additional 8/16/25% of your Strength as parry rating and gives you a 33/66/100% chance to gain 50% damage reduction for 10 seconds after dealing damage with Mocking Blow. Also, parrying an attack causes you to generate 10 rage.

Devastate no longer requires a Shield to be equipped and deals 100% damage when a Two-Handed Weapon is equipped.

Intimidation no longer requires your pets attack to critically strike to trigger.

Elemental Clearcasting can now be triggered from additional spells such as Hurricane.

Ghostly Strike now lasts 8 seconds, up from 7.

Deflection (Combat) now also increases the threat of your Ghostly Strike and Riposte by 20/40/60% and gives you a 33/66/100% chance to reduce the cooldown of your Ghostly Strike by 3 seconds after using Riposte.

Mocking Blow now has a 2 min cooldown, but can no longer be blocked, dodged, parried, or miss and now deals damage to taunt immune targets.

Execute attack power scaling increased to 25%, from 20%.

Explosive Trap damage reduced by 15%.

Improved Fear now provides .15/.30 sec cast time reduction on Fear.

Twisted Faith has been reduced to three ranks and now increases spell power by 5/10/15% of your Spirit, increases the damage of your Mind Flay and Mind Blast on targets afflicted with your Shadow Word: Pain by 2/4/6%, and in addition your Shadow Word Pain ticks grant you 2/4/6% of your base mana.

Improved Mortal Strike now also increases the healing reduction effect by an additional 4/7/10%.

Spell Impact now also affects Pyroblast.