Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2018/08/29

General

Change

Ravenholdt - Level 60 outlaws are now friendly with faction NPCs, but will be attacked by nearby guards when not in stealth. Neutral guards will not automatically attack outlaws.

2018/08/27

General

Change

Added a teleporter in Booty Bay to Lights Hope Chapel in Eastern Plaguelands.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Nerfed the damage of Shadow Flame on the three drakes by 25%

Change

Resolved an issue where Nefarians Dark Volley was doing slightly more damage than intended.

2018/08/26

General

Change

The Bug Off quest in Silithus has now been re-enabled. (It will be available a while during the 60 cap as well due to it being disabled previously).

World

Change

Bloodsail Mages will now do normal damage.

Item Changes

Change

Elixir of Detect Undead will no longer last 1 second.

Quests

Change

Fixed a bug where "Protect Kanati Greycloud" would not complete.

Change

Corrupted Sabers has been fixed [Requires a restart].

2018/08/25

Item Changes

Change

Gnomish Death Ray will now properly damage the target.

2018/08/23

General

Change

Ravenholdt - The Bug Off quest in Silithus has been temporarily disabled due to a bug

2018/08/22

General

Change

Ravenholdt - Temporarily reduced the experience gained from LFD for level 45+ dungeons.

Change

Ravenholdt - Temporarily reduced the experience gained from mobs in level 45+ instances by 50%.

2018/08/14

General

Change

Ravenholdt - Battlegrounds no longer reward experience.

Change

Guards can now shoot again.

System Changes

Change

Players are now unable to gain or lose rep with the law for a few seconds after completing a duel.

Change

Theramore NPCs are now friendly to pre-60 Alliance Outlaws.

Change

Outlaws below level 60 can no longer be attacked in major cities.

Quests

Change

Maxwells Mission will now be obtainable.

2018/08/12

General

Change

Ravenholdt - Arathi Highlands is now a 1v1 zone again.

2018/08/11

System Changes

Change

Wand SP scaling has been reduced by 50%.

Quests

Change

Path of Defense will now have a proper quest category. [Requires cleared Cache]

Change

Coven Extermination will now have the correct NPC requirements. [Requires cleared Cache]

2018/08/10

General

Change

Ravenholdt - Criminal max duration lowered to 15 min, from 30 min.

Change

Ravenholdt - Arathi Highlands is no longer a 1v1 zone.

Change

Fixed an issue where Stitches would get spawned multiple times and not roam Duskwood.

Change

Terenthis will no longer be stuck in an RP loop and is now able to once again speak to players.

World

Change

Nizzle the Rebel Camp flight master is now only usable to alliance players as intended.

Item Changes

Change

Ravenholdt - Scroll of Mass Dispel cost changed to a 2g cost and level 30 requirement but you can only carry 3 at a time. The horde and alliance pvp vendors now sell them as well.

2018/08/08

General

Change

Spirit healers in battlegrounds can now resurrect players that were filled cross-faction

Change

Killing a player shortly after a duel no longer triggers rep loss/gain with The Law

2018/08/07

General

Change

Ravenholdt - Raid items will no longer drop from mobs in the world. (They will be reintroduced at a higher level cap)

Talents & Abilities

Change

Fixed a bug where Lock and Load wouldn't proc from Frost Trap.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Reduced the damage of Chromaggus and Nefarians auto attack by 10%

Change

Fixed an issue with Broodlord Lashslayers aggro radius

Change

Made Nefarians Shadow Clones able to be taunted

Change

Added an emote to Nefarians Dark Volley spell

Change

Reduced the damage of Nefarians Drakanoids by 15%

Change

Removed the mind control ability from Nefarian.

2018/08/06

General

Change

Ravenholdt - If you have the Criminal debuff and get killed by a guard you will now drop loot as intended.

Change

Decreased the respawn tiemr of Umpi from 5 minutes to 1 minute.

Change

For Ravenholdt: If you have the Criminal debuff and get killed by a guard you will now drop loot. (If you're an Outlaw without the Criminal debuff you won't drop loot.)

2018/08/05

General

Change

Fixed an issue that caused low level players entering a battleground on Ravenholdt to be unattackable.

Change

Fixed an issue that caused outlaws to be unable to attack each other.

Change

Outlaws can now heal each other while grouped.

2018/08/04

Item Changes

Change

Swift Spectral Tiger has been disabled on Ravenholdt due to a bug.

2018/08/03

General

Change

You are no longer able to shapeshift while in a Polymorph effect. (You are still immune to Polymorph effects when already shapeshifted.)

Talents & Abilities

Change

Fireball base damage increased. About 10% for rank 1-4 and 10. About 20% for rank 5-9.

Change

Scorch base damage increased. About 20% for rank 1-5. About 10% for rank 6.

Change

Pyroblast base damage increased. About 10% for rank 1 and 7. About 20% for rank 2-6.

Change

Shadow Bolt base damage increased. About 10% for rank 1-4 and 8. About 20% for rank 5-7.

Change

Searing Pain base damage increased. About 10% for rank 1 and 5. About 20% for rank 2-4.

Change

Lightning Bolt base damage increased. About 20% for rank 1-8. About 10% for rank 9.

Change

Chain Lightning base damage increased. About 20% for rank 1 and 2. About 10% for rank 3.

Change

Mind Blast base damage increased. About 10% for ranks 1-8.

Change

Holy Fire base damage increased. About 10% for ranks 2-7.

Change

Exorcism base damage increased. About 10% for ranks 2-5.

Change

Smite base damage increased. About 20% for ranks 1-6. About 10% for rank 7.

Change

Immolate base damage increased. About 20% for ranks 1-3.

Change

Mind Flay base damage increased. About 20% for ranks 1-3.

Change

Arcane Missiles base damage increased. About 20% for rank 2-5. About 10% for rank 6.

Change

Frost Shock rank 1 damage reduced by 10% and slow duration (for only rank 1) changed to 4 seconds, down from 6.

Change

Rockbiter rank 1 attack power changed to 18, from 24. Rank 2 changed to 32, from 40.

Change

Mongoose Bite rank 1 base damage changed to 15, from 25. Rank 2 changed to 30, from 45.

Change

Arcane Shot base damage reduced for lower level ranks. Rank 1 changed to 10, from 15. Rank 2 changed to 16, from 23. Rank 3 changed to 27, from 36. Rank 4 changed to 55, from 65.

Change

Corruption rank 2 damage changed to 100, up from 90.

Change

Shadow Word: Pain rank 2 damage changed to 72, up from 60.

Change

Shadow Word: Pain rank 3 and above base mana changed to 14%, down from 22.

Change

Rejuvenation rank 1, rank 2 and rank 3 base mana changed to 16%, down from 18%.

Change

Moonfire damage has been increased at ranks 1 through 9 by around 10%.

Change

Wrath base damage increased. About 10% for rank 1-3 and 7. About 20% for rank 4-6

Change

Starfire base damage increased. About 10% for rank 1 and 5. About 20% for rank 2-4.

Change

Frostbolt base damage increased. About 10% for rank 1-4 and 9. About 20% for rank 5-8.

Change

Voidwalker Sacrifice shield has been reduced for lower level ranks. Rank 1 changed to 203, from 305. Rank 2 changed to 360 from 510. Rank 3 changed to 570 from 770. Rank 4 to 950 from 1095.

Change

Immolation Trap base damage has been reduced for lower level ranks. Rank 1 changed to 30 damage per tick, from 42. Rank 2 changed to 68 from 85. Rank 3 changed to 120 from 135. Rank 4 changed to 183, from 203.

Change

Ice Block and Divine Shield now share a 30 second cooldown.

Change

Fixed a bug where the Shamanistic Rage mana proc wouldn??™t trigger from some abilities.

Change

Fixed a bug where Drain Soul would be able to do damage through immunities like Divine Shield and Ice Block.

Change

Molten Core now has 2 ranks. The Immolate effects remain unchanged, but rank 2 provides the effects that rank 3 did previously. (Rank 1 gives half of rank 2.).

Change

Arcane Concentration tooltip updated to reflect it affects the next spell, not next damaging spell.

Change

Retaliation now lasts 8 seconds, down from 12.

Change

The Killer Instinct buff which makes Counterattack usable lasts 6 sec, down from 10 sec, and Counterattacks used this way will root for 3 seconds, down from 5. (Counterattack root from parry remains unchanged.)

Change

Unleashed Rage damage bonus while Shamanistic Rage is active will no longer affect holy damage.

Change

Soul Link now shares 6% of your damage taken with your demon, down from 10%.

Change

Demonic Embrace now increases the shared Soul Link damage by 2/4/6%, down from 4/7/10%.

Change

Blood Pact, Phase Shift and Fel Intelligence now has an ICD.

Change

Swift Retribution buff will no longer be consumed on melee attacks

Change

Bloodthirst now only applies 1 healing stack, down from 3.

Change

Improved Shadowform now gives 3/6% damage reduction, down from 5/10%.

Change

Expose Weakness now only increases your ranged attack power.

Change

Cone of Cold base mana reduced to 17%, down from 25%.

Change

Travel Form base mana increased from 26%, up from 13%.

Change

Curse of Exhaustion slow reduced to 50%, down from 60%.

Change

Improved Eviscerate increases Eviscerate damage again, instead of Eviscerate critical strike chance.

Change

Healing Prayer now gives 5/10% crit chance, down from 10/20%.

Change

Charge is now usable in combat. (It still requires Battle Stance.)

Mystic Enchants

Change

Improved Devotion Aura rank 3 was providing more bonus armor and healing than was stated on the item tooltip. The altar tooltip and its effect have been changed to match the item tooltip.

Change

Savage Strikes now gives 5/6% crit, down from 8/10%.

Change

Updated the Frost Lich tooltip to reflect its current effect.

Change

Nurturing Instinct now gives 8/10% of your Agility in healing, down from 10/12%, and also reduces all damage you deal by 2%.