Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2017/05/23

World

Change

Lowered the damage of the Hive'Ashi Ambushers by about 3%.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Fine tuned Gehennas' Incinerate ability.

Change

Fixed issue where Gehennas would often stop moving after reset.

Change

Fixed issue where Gehennas' Balls of Flame would often stop functioning all together.

Change

Improved targeting and movement of Gehennas' balls of flames.

Change

Added the Arcane Missile ability to Shazzrah.

Change

Shazzrah's hard mode mechanic now applies Arcane Instability.

Change

Added an emote to signal detonation in Shazzrah's hard mode mechanic.

Change

Increased the movement speed of the Magma Spawns by about 200% and their health by about 100%.

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Removed the additional Core Hounds from Golemagg's hard mode, and substituted them with an additional mechanic.

Change

Randomized the shield type granted by Majordomo Executus.

Change

Added the Shield of Dispersion ability to Majordomo Executus.

Change

Polished the Willix the Exporter escort quest in Razorfen Kraul.

Change

Polished the events following Grand Crusader Dathrohan/Balnazzar's death.

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Guard Mol'dar will now properly call for help once he is lowered to 50% HP.

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General Drakkisath now has a leash range.

Change

Lord Blackwood now properly uses his ranged attacks when his target is too far away.

Change

Added a Frost Bolt and Frost Nova ability to Kormok's Bone Mages.

Change

Jarien will now use all of his blizz-like abilities.

Change

Mor Grayhoof will now use all of his blizz-like abilities.

2017/05/17

Dungeons & Raids

Change

Added a new mechanic to Golemagg's encounter, and with it, reverted the Magma Splash duration back to 30 seconds.

Change

Majordomo Executus' Damage Shield now reflects 300 damage, up from 100 damage.

Change

Majordomo Executus' Spell Shield now has a 100% chance to reflect spells.

Change

The Feather of Ancients and the Scroll of Unlearning now have descriptions that are easier to notice/understand.

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Garr's normal Disproportionate Fortitude now ticks every 500 ms, down from 750ms.

Change

Reduced the radius of Baron Geddon's Living Bombs from 18 to 15.

Change

Fixed and polished the CC immunity given to the Flamewaker Healers after 4 of Majordomo Executus' adds die.

Change

Removed the CC reduction in Majordomo Executus' encounter.

Change

Solved some performance issues tied with Majordomo Executus.

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Majordomo's Hot Coals now deal 1500-2000 damage up from 700-750.

Change

Increased the damage of Sulfuron Harbinger's Flamewaker Priest's Shadow Word: Pain from 1500 per 3 seconds to 2000.

Change

Sulfuron Harbinger's Flamewaker Priests no longer cast Shadow Word: Pain on all players.

Change

Re-tuned Shazzrah's Arcane Explosion and curse timers, so that there will not be an arcane explosion immedietally after a curse. Additionally, the time between Arcane Explosions was increased.

Change

Lowered the radius of Shazzrah's regular Arcane Explosion ability from 30 to 20 yards.

Change

Increased the health value of the Onyxian whelps from approximately 5200 to 9800.

Change

Added a Fireball-type ability to the Onyxian Whelps.

Change

Added Disproportionate Strength to Garr (enrage mechanic).

Change

Tuned the enrage timers of all Molten Core bosses except for Ragnaros.

Change

The Avatar of Hakkar Trigger can no longer be targeted/attacked.

2017/05/14

Talents & Abilities

Change

Portals and Teleport spells will no longer be unlearned when you unlearn Portal Mastery, but will require Portal Mastery to use them.

World

Change

Various camps in Western Plaguelands have been adjusted for proper mob placement.

Quests

Change

All Warlock Pet Summoning quests should now be complete-able and categorized correctly. (They do not rewards spells now either)

2017/05/07

Item Changes

Change

Item: Abyss Shard will now require you to have Summon Voidwalker learned to use it's effect.

2017/05/05

General

Change

You no longer start with Parry. It can be found in the general tab and costs 2 AE to learn.

Change

You no longer have 20% faster cast speed baseline. Instead you can learn Spell Mastery in the general tab which gives 20% spell haste when you have a Staff or caster Off-Hand equipped.

Change

You no longer start with Dual Wield. It can be found in the general tab and costs 1 AE to learn.

Change

You no longer start with the ability to Block. It can be found in the general tab and costs 1 AE to learn.

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You no longer lose any rage when changing stances.

Change

Base Parry chance is now 1% down from 5%.

Change

Base Block chance is now 1% down from 5%.

Talents & Abilities

Change

Holy Power now increases critical strike damage bonus of all Paladin Holy spells by 20/40/60/80/100%. (Does not affect Judgements nor Hammer of the Righteous)

Change

Backstab now causes 160% weapon damage up from 150%.

Change

Mental Quickness now has 5 ranks (3/6/9% -> 3/6/9/12/15%)

Change

Sheath of Light now has 5 ranks (3/6/9% -> 3/6/9/12/15%)

Change

Sheath of Light now gives bonus healing power instead of bonus spell power.

Change

Holy Specialization now increases critical strike damage bonus of all Priest Holy spells by 20/40/60/80/100%.

Change

Mortal Strike now does 110% weapon damage up from 100%.

Change

Metamorphosis will no longer benefit from Mail or Plate armor.

Change

Disengage no longer requires combat to be used.

Change

Earthgrab is now on the Diminishing Returns for controlled roots.

Change

Mutilate damage now gets increased by 30% if a target is poisoned, up from 20%

Change

Hemorrhage now causes 100% weapon damage down from 110%.

Change

Close Quarters Combat now gives 2/4/6/8/10% crit up from 1/2/3/4/5%.

Change

Juggernaut no longer increases the cooldown of Charge.

Change

Improved Charge now also reduces the cooldown of Charge by 2.5/5 sec.

Change

Charge cooldown increased to 20 sec from 15 sec.

Change

Warbringer now allows Charge to be used while in combat and removes the stance requirement, but the cooldown on Charge is increased by 5 sec.

World

Change

All Darkmoon Faire vendors are now be available.

Change

Added swim flags to additional creatures both in world and dungeons.

Change

Miss Danna and the children in Stormwind has had their waypoints rearranged.

Change

Reginald Windsor no longer patrols in Stormwind City.

Change

Forzuk now patrols Arathi Highlands.

Change

Moonwell objects are no longer visible.

Change

Extraordinaire quest mounts are now available after reaching 150 Riding skill.

Item Changes

Change

Some Random Enchants should no longer stack. They will visually display this.

Change

Random Enchants will no longer work if you are 20 levels above the required level of the item.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

The Flamewaker Healers do approximately 36% less melee damage.

Change

The Flamewaker Elites do approximately 41% less melee damage.

Change

The Flamewaker Priests do approximately 8.7% less melee damage.

Change

Rhahk'zors adds in Deadmines no longer stack.

Change

The Beast in Blackrock Spire now has a start event.

Change

Vaelan in Blackrock Spire duplicate removed.

Change

Panzor the Invincible in Blackrock Depths has been implemented.

Change

Various creatures in Blackrock Depths now has patrol.

Change

Bridge ambush event in Blackrock Depths had been added.

Change

Houndmaster Grebmar in Blackrock Depths now calls all the remaining hounds in his room when aggroed.

Change

Arena spectators in Blackrock Depths now turn neutral once the arena event has been

Change

Tendris Warpwood in Dire Maul is now linked with the Ironbark Protectors.

Change

Ancient Equine Spirt and Dreadsteed Spirit in Dire Maul is no longer in the instance by default.

Change

Polished the timing on Ragnaros' summoning from both his as well as Majordomo Executus' end.

Change

Added a custom mechanic to Ragnaros' Sons of Flame.

Change

Converted Ragnaros to SAI to allow for more freedom in terms of altering him.

Change

Altered Golemagg the Incinerator's hard mode mechanic.

Change

Built on top of Sulfuron Harbinger's conduit mechanic.

Quests

Change

The quest "Rin'ji is Trapped!" has been fixed.

Change

The quest "Items of Power" has been fixed.

Change

The quest "The Brightcaller Cometh" has been corrected.

Change

Baron Longshore now has three spawn locations.

Change

All Horde races may now obtain Dreadsteed, Venomhide Raptor and Thalassian Charger.

Change

All Alliance races may now obtain Dreadsteed, Winterspring Saber and Charger.