Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2018/01/27

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Fixed an issue where Chromaggus' breath was dealing too much damage (the initial breath, the secondary effect remains the same).

2018/01/23

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Increased Mystic Orb reward for the first LFD of the day to 2, up from 1.

2018/01/22

System Changes

Change

Fixed the Inn-Bug FFA PvP Exploit and various other FFA PvP interactions

Change

Re-tuned leveling dungeons to be more in-line with blizzlike scaling.

2018/01/16

General

Change

Interactive guards have been temporarily disabled because of performance issues.

Change

Professions now level up 2x faster on Sargeras.

Change

Weapon skills now level up 5x faster on Sargeras.

Change

New performance changes are in place that reduce server startup and restart times severely.

Talents & Abilities

Change

Fixed a bug that caused people with the Pick Lock skill to be purged.

Change

The unlearn button below skills in your character advancement window should now correctly unlearn the ability in all scenarios.

Item Changes

Change

Recruit-a-Friend changes : Recruit-a-Friend is now working cross realms and the whole system has been reworked to be much more user friendly.

Change

Fixed a potential exploit with the Feather of Ancients, you are now only able to use this item once per character.

Mystic Enchants

Change

You can now filter your random enchant collection by quality in the search UI.

Change

Rebalanced the chances for the different quality tiers of random enchants to appear on the reforge altar and on drops in the world. Reduced the chance for weapon specific random enchants to appear on weapons.

2018/01/14

Talents & Abilities

Change

Recuperate has been disabled while we address a severe exploit.

Item Changes

Change

[Totem of the Earthen Ring] Should no longer be destroyable and can be purchased from the Shaman vendors who sold the other totems.

2018/01/13

General

Change

Alliance and Horde Battle Standards are now rooted

2018/01/12

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Applied a potential fix for Vaelastrasz's Flame Breath target selection.

2018/01/11

World

Change

Fixed an issue where Doomlord Kazzak, when in combat, would cause a lot of stress on the server.

2018/01/10

World

Change

Dramatically increased the rate of uncommon items dropped by monsters in the world on all realms.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Greatly reduced the experience granted by chests inside instances, we will monitor it closely from here and make adjustments as needed.

2018/01/09

System Changes

Change

The Fel Communtation limit on Sargeras has been set to 3. This is subject to further changes.

Change

Recruit a Friend level gap for bonus exp extended from 5 level difference to 10 levels.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

All Blackwing Lair bosses now drop Mystic Runes (The three drakes and Razorgore are a temporary exception).

Change

Corrected an issue with the orb spawn rate in Vaelastrasz's 10 man difficulty.

2018/01/08

Mystic Enchants

Change

Rolling a legendary Random Enchant on a piece of gear no longer causes that gear to become soulbound.

2018/01/07

Talents & Abilities

Change

Ardent Defender is now working as stated in its tooltip.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Made slight changes to Sulfuron Harbinger's adds, they will now be leashed to Sulfuron instead of eachother. This makes the fight less cheesy/vulnerable to bugs, and vastly reduces the performance hit it used to have on the server.

2018/01/06

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Disabled Venoxis' hard mode (King Cobra).

Change

Hakkar no longer uses DOOM!

Change

Hakkar uses an additional Mind Control in 25 man.

Change

Hakkar no longer uses aspects if a priest is dead.

Change

Hakkar now uses additional mechanics if you fail to kill the priests.

Change

Applied a temporary fix for the Blackrock Depths Dark Keeper Portrait, a permanent blizz-like fix will be coming soon.

Change

Mandokir now resets his level up stacks on reset.

Change

Corrected some issues with Mandokir's AI resetting.

2018/01/05

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Mystic Orb drop chances have been readjusted for Blackrock Depths in order to be more rewarding to players forming a group and completing the dungeon. (The average amount of orbs obtained for a complete run has remained the same.)

Change

Increased the gold rewards from Looking for Dungeon completion at all levels, also the first completion of the day rewards a Mystic Orb.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Gear crafted by professions now can roll random enchants on it on creation.

2018/01/04

Dungeons & Raids

Change

The drop rate of Mystic Orbs have been readjusted in dungeons to make them more efficient to farm there.

Change

When leaving Molten Core you will no longer be ported to BRD but instead back to the teleportation window.

2017/12/31

Talents & Abilities

Change

Blade Twisting talent and random enchant now properly procs the dazed effect.

Change

The Revitalize talent and random enchant now correctly grant Energy and Rage to affected targets.

Change

Conflagrate now properly scales with your Immolate damage and duration.

Change

Ignite may now proc off melee abilities which deal fire damage.

Change

Updated the Spirit Bond tooltip to indicate that it works with any pet.

Change

Updated the Bestial Wrath tooltip to indicate that it only works with tame pets.

Change

Updated the Predatory Strikes tooltip to indicate that it only works with Feral finishing moves.

Change

The Ritual of Summoning is enabled inside of instances again on Andorhal.

Change

Missile Barrage now has the correct proc chance as stated on the talent.

Change

Reduced damage over time scaling of Immolate.

Change

Seal of Justice now has an internal cooldown.

Change

The Clearcasting effect from Elemental Focus is now consumed on damaging Fire, Frost, or Nature spell as intended.

Change

The Clearcasting effect from Arcane Concentration is now properly consumed after successfully casting a damage or healing spell.

Change

The Sword and Board effect now grants the proper amount of bonus threat.

World

Change

Creatures in the world will once again move more slowly when they are gravely damaged.

Change

Caster mobs will no longer stand still awkwardly after being Silenced

System Changes

Change

Part of the Random Enchant overhaul is now live. This process will be completed soon and a full changelog update will be accompanied with it.

Change

Two new PvP shoulder enchants are now available from the Horde and Alliance PvP Accessories Quartermasters.

Change

A level 58 version of the Rune of Perfection trinket has been added to the Horde and Alliance Warsong rep vendors.

Change

The maximum size of Battleground premades has been temporarily reduced to 3.

Change

Losing battleground will now award 5 Mystic Fragments

Change

Winning Battlegrounds will now award 1 Mystic Rune

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Retuned all level 1-40 dungeons. They will be closer to their blizz-like values.

Change

Previous raid content has been returned in accordance with the new RE changes. Bosses in ZG, MC, and Onyxia’s Lair have had their health and damage reduced.

Change

Added Mystic Fragments to the loot tables of all high level Dungeon Bosses starting in Blackrock Depths.

Change

Raid Boss will now always drop 2 Mystic Rune.

Change

Shazzrah's Curse can now be dispelled.

Mystic Enchants

Change

Over 70 new Random Enchants have currently been added to the game.

2017/12/17

World

Change

Added Beginner's Book of Ascension to all Start Zones.

2017/12/03

General

Change

Implemented a new Tome Collection System.

Change

Changed Auction Houses to cross faction on Andorhal and Sargeras.

Item Changes

Change

Fixed an issue where transmog tokens disappeared from honor vendors.

2017/12/02

Item Changes

Change

You can no longer destroy the Book of Artisans or the Book of Ascension.

2017/12/01

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Jeklik will now properly use all of her abilities in both Normal and Hardmode

2017/11/29

World

Change

World bosses now drop Mystic Runes.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Onyxia will now cast her appropriate spells in 10-man and 25-man

2017/11/28

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Onyxia's Head will now only drop if someone in your raid needs it and is of the right faction.

2017/11/27

Talents & Abilities

Change

The Furor talent is now working as intended.

Change

All ranks of Ignite are now properly declass masked and working as intended.

Change

Fiery Payback now procs off of ranged damage taken.

Item Changes

Change

Instant Poison’s tooltip has been updated to reflect its proper AP scaling.

Change

Blazefury Medalion’s equip effect now works as intended.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Shazzrah hard mode has been reworked to be more consistent.

2017/11/25

Quests

Change

RFK boss will now drop the corresponding Small Scroll for Vanilla content.

2017/11/22

World

Change

Updated the text Griniblix the Spectator is using.

Change

Updated the text Jangdor Swiftstrider is using.

Change

Updated the text Terl Arakor is using.

Quests

Change

The reward emote for the quest "Torek's Assault" has been fixed.

Change

The reward emote for the quest "The Lost Pages" has been fixed.

Change

The reward emote for the quest "Never Again!" has been fixed.

Change

The reward emote for the quest "Diabolical Plans" has been fixed.

Change

The reward emote for the quest "Destroy the Legion" has been fixed.

Change

The reward emote for the quest "Freedom to Ruul" has been fixed.

Change

The reward emote for the quest "Allegiance to the Old Gods (Part 2)" has been fixed.

Change

The reward emote for the quest "Allegiance to the Old Gods" has been fixed.

Change

The reward emote for the quest "The Essence of Aku'Mai" has been fixed.

Change

The reward emote for the quest "Amongst the Ruins" has been fixed.

Change

The reward emote for the quest "Troll Charm" has been fixed.

Change

The reward emote for the quest "King of the Foulweald" has been fixed.