Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2018/09/27

General

Change

Players will now gain around 20% more mp5 from Spirit at levels 1-60.

Talents & Abilities

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Shamanistic Rage now reduces damage taken by 10% and has had its proc rate increased to 12 ppm.

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Ice Floes has had its effect increased to 11/22/33%.

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Frost Nova now has a 22 second cooldown.

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Chilled to the Bone has been reduced to 3 ranks and now provides 1/2/3% additional damage with Frostbolt and increases the slow of your chill effect by 4/7/10%.

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Balance of Power now also provides increased chance to hit with Physical spells. This should affect things like Bear and Warrior taunt.

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Improved Insect Swarm now causes your Insect Swarm to increase all Nature damage you deal to the target by 2/4/6% and cause your Moonfire effect to increase all Arcane damage you deal to the target by 2/4/6%.

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Wind Shear now has an 8 second cooldown and locks the target out of casting for 3 seconds.

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Deflection (Arms) now increases the threat of Victory Rush used with its effect by 20/40/60%.

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Setup now also reduces the chance to dodge granted by Ghostly Strike by 5/10/15% and increases its parry chance granted by 5/10/15% and increases the duration of your Ghostly Strike effect by 2/4/6 seconds.

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Static Shock has been reduced to 3 ranks, but is otherwise unchanged.

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Combat Potency has been reduced to three ranks and now provides a 33/66/100% chance to generate 15 energy when you land an off-hand melee attack or a special attack which deals damage with your off-hand.

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Arcane Concentration has been reduced to three ranks and now provides a 4/7/10% chance to trigger its effect.

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Illumination has been reduced to 3 ranks and now provides a 33/66/100% chance to trigger its effect.

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Life Tap now has a 6 second cooldown. It now also shares cooldown with Dark Pact.

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Dark Pact now has a 6 second cooldown. It now also shares cooldown with Life Tap.

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Deadly Brew may now proc from Deadly Poison.

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Tactical Mastery has been reworked and now in addition to increasing the threat generated by your Mortal Strike and Bloodthirst abilities it also increases your armor contribution from items by 17/34/50%, Stamina by 3/6/9%, and reduces all damage taken by 2/4/6% while in Defensive Stance and a Two-Handed Weapon is equipped.

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Setup now also reduces the chance to dodge granted by Ghostly Strike by 5/10/15% and increases its parry chance granted by 5/10/15% and increases the duration of your Ghostly Strike effect by 2/4/6 seconds.

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Arcane Concentration has been reduced to three ranks and now provides a 4/7/10% chance to trigger its effect.

Item Changes

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The Warlock AQ20 set bonus has been reworked to: Your Corruption spell grants you a Soul Sliver when it deals damage. Soul Sliver grants you 5 spell power for 12 seconds and stacks up to 8 times. At 8 stacks the stacks are consumed and your next Shadow Bolt within 10 seconds will deal 50% additional damage (20% to players).

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The Warrior AQ20 set bonus has been reworked to: Berserker Rage now also increases the damage you deal by 5% and reduces the damage you take by 5%.

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The Shaman AQ20 set bonus has been reworked to: You gain an additional effect when using your Call of spells: Call of the Elements- Increases your spell power by 30 for 2 min. Call of the Ancestors- Increases your attack power by 60 for 2 min. Call of the Spirits- Increase your spell haste by 2% and grants you 21 mp5 for 2 min. You may not have more than 1 of these effects active at a time.

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The Rogue AQ20 set bonus has been reworked to: Increases your energy regeneration by 12%.

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The Priest AQ20 set bonus has been reworked to: Reduces the cooldown of your Penance by 2 seconds, Circle of Healing by 1.5 seconds, and Mind Blast by 2 seconds.

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The Paladin AQ20 set bonus has been reworked to: Casting Judgement increases your Strength by 20 and Spell Power by 30 for 8 seconds.

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The Mage AQ20 set bonus has been reworked to: Arcane Power now reduces the mana cost of your spells instead by 20%, increases the critical strike damage bonus of Combustion by 20%, and increase the duration of both Icy Veins effects by 20% seconds.

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The Druid AQ20 set bonus has been reworked to: Gain the following bonuses based on your Shapeshift form: Bear: Reduces all damage taken by 3%. Cat: Increases critical strike damage by 5%. Moonkin: Increases the critical strike chance of Wrath by 5% and reduces the cast time of Starfire by 5%. Tree of Life: Healing Touch criticals extend the duration of your Rejuvenation spell by 3 seconds and refund 50% of the spells cost.

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All currently available PvP sets should now have their 6 piece set bonus tooltip updated to reflect that they give Resilience and not Stamina.

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The Felheart 5 piece set bonus should now provide bonus resistances to your pet.

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Blazefury Medallion now procs from effects like Mutilate and Stormstrike.

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Darkmoon Card: Maelstrom now scales with 32% of your spell power, down from 43%.

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Many high level foods which provided the Well Fed buff has had their durations increased to 30 minutes.

Dungeons & Raids

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[Straight To The Heart] achievement added

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[Glory of the Molten Core Raider] achievements added

Mystic Enchants

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Courage of Elune now properly triggers from Swipe (Bear).

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Deadly Brew may now proc from Deadly Poison.

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Improved Insect Swarm now causes your Insect Swarm to increase all Nature damage you deal to the target by 1/2/2% and cause your Moonfire effect to increase all Arcane damage you deal to the target by 1/1/2%

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Spell Impact now also affect Pyroblast.

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The Blessing of the Divines RE can no longer give beneficial effects to enemies, as intended.

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The Blessing of the Divines RE can now give procs to both the target of the healer and the healer at the same time.

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Swift Spells now also triggers from direct healing spells.

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NEW: Blademaster- When you parry you gain 150 armor for 20 seconds, stacking 5 times. At 5 stacks you empower the next ability you use, consuming the stacks and granting it an additional effect for 10 seconds: Devastate: Deals 50% additional damage and reduces the targets armor by an additional 10% for 6 seconds. Riposte: Increases your chance to parry by 12% for 12 seconds. Shield Slam: Attempts to dispel 1 additional effect from the target and increases your block value by 10% for 12 seconds.

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NEW: Holy Ascension- After casting Holy Fire your next spell is empowered: Smite: Deals 50% additional damage. Exorcism: Increases all Holy damage you deal to the target by 5% for 10 seconds. Penance: Fires an additional holy bolt. Holy Shock: Guaranteed to critically strike.

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Righteous Flames now increases the damage of your Holy Fire damage over time effect by 65/70/70/75/75% and increases its duration by 0.2/0.2/0.4/0.4/0.6 seconds.

2018/09/26

General

Change

Launcher Updated Fixing Scaling and Removing Retired Realms

World

Change

Fixed an issue where Shay Leafrunner would attack horde players and get them combat bugged.

Change

Fixed drop chance for Captain Sanders Treasure Map.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Maraudon - Fixed an issue where Noxxion would not become visible again if he dies while invisible.

2018/09/25

Item Changes

Change

Fixed an issue where Lifegiving Gem was giving too much health. (Active after next server restart)

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Enabled the dungeon teleport feature while using the Random Dungeon Finder on Andorhal.

2018/09/20

General

Change

Permanently disabled the methods that addons such as Overwatch use to operate.

Item Changes

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Increased "Draconic for Dummies(Part III)" drop chance to 6%.

2018/09/19

General

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Disabled any lingering effects of the karma system (from Ravenholdt) for characters that transferred to Andorhal.

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The Coren Direbrew quest for the Brewfest event now rewards 3 Mystic Orbs. The loot box reward will now drop ZG/MC raid loot (like the Cenarion Armaments).

Dungeons & Raids

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Reduce Blackwing Technicians bomb damage by 25%.[BWL]

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Reduce Blackwing Taskmasters Shadow Shock damage by 25%. [BWL]

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Remove the 3 Wyrmguard Defenders in the drake room in BWL

2018/09/17

World

Change

Spirit of Azuregos will now proper give the player Magical Ledger when his gossip is completed.

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Spirit of Azuregos will now properly spawn and roam the world when Azuregos dies.

2018/09/11

General

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Implemented Honorable Combat on Laughing Skull

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Pushed a fix to Visibility/Pet Ghost bug issues.

Website

Change

Added 2 New Bags to Shop

Change

Added 8 Transmogrification Runes to all Cosmetic Sets

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Added Bundles to the shop

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Lowered Prices on a variety of shop items

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A new private dedicated torrent has been created which includes Ascension.exe as well as vastly improved download speeds

2018/09/10

Mystic Enchants

Change

Reliant Companion RE has been reworked and are now ranks of the new RE Cobra Strikes.

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Ferocious Companion RE has been reworked and is now rank 5 of the new RE Cobra Strikes.

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Fixed an issue where the Kindred Spirits were giving too big of a damage increase.

Quests

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Stranger Things - Nerfed the HP of every demon except for the Doomguard Commander by 33%.

2018/09/09

Quests

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Stranger Things - Fixed an issue where Heckling Imps wouldnt spawn alongside the Flamewaker Imps.

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Stranger Things - Increased Orgrim Doomhammers health to 70k (up from 46k).

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Stranger Things - Reduced Flamewaker Imps Hellfire damage by 50%.

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Stranger Things - Increased the time between each wave.

2018/09/07

General

Change

Increased visibility radius and improved performance of visibility/grid system

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Added 5 yards visibility radius and improved performance.

2018/09/04

General

Change

Ravenholdt - The "Wont People from Andorhal Get Ruined?" quest now only requires one Flesh Golem.

2018/09/03

General

Change

Ravenholdt - Zul'Gurub is now available.

2018/09/02

General

Change

Ravenholdt - Onyxia's Lair is now available.

Change

Hearthstone now has a 30 minute cooldown, down from 60 minutes.

2018/09/01

General

Change

Ravenholdt - Removed the Lights Hope transpolyporter from Booty Bay.

Change

Ravenholdt - Introduced a new Experimental Teleporter system that can take you to Winterspring, Western Plaguelands, Burning Steppes and Silithus (perhaps to other places as well). It can be found in Ratchet and Booty Bay.

2018/08/31

General

Change

Criminals are no longer forced hostile with Goblin factions.

Change

Criminals can now enter Goblin cities without being attacked by guards.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Resolved an issue where players were able to Blink through the door that is supposed to be opened by Ironbark the Redeemed in Dire Maul.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Unrelenting Wrath should now proc from Volley critical strikes.

Quests

Change

Fixed an issue where you couldnt do Seasonal: Father of Fire and Mother of Dragons in a raid group.

2018/08/29

General

Change

Ravenholdt - The War Supplies loot boxes from the level 60 quests now has a chance to hold a raid item from Molten Core or ZulGurub.

Change

Ravenholdt - Slightly tweaked daily quests are now available all from capital cities and Booty Bay.

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Ravenholdt - Added Training Dummies to Booty Bay.

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Ravenholdt - Molten Core and ZulGurub loot now has a chance to drop from level 50+ mobs out in the world.

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Various elite NPCs in capitols have been given guard behaviour.

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Guards will now run towards the target player after firing a ranged shot instead of standing still.

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Ravenholdt - Guards will no longer announce outlaws that are in stealth.

World

Change

Fixed a few herbs in Blasted Lands that were spawned in the air.

Dungeons & Raids

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Corrected the drop chance of several items from Zum Rah.

Quests

Change

Completely rescripted and enabled "Hints of a New Plague?".

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You will now receive the Unfired Plate Gauntlets when you start Hot Fiery Death.

Change

Added a NPC that will teleport you down after completing You are Rakhlikh, Demon.