Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2023/07/25

General

Change

Mutilate can now be learned at level 20

Change

Penance can now be learned at level 30

Change

Divine Storm can now be learned at level 30

Change

Crusader Strike can now be learned at level 1

Change

Ice Lance can now be learned at level 40

Change

Mangle can now be learned at level 20

New

Ferocious Bite can now be learned at level 10.

Change

Increased the base healing of healing spells between 60 to 70 to closer match the percentage of health gained during those levels. This will keep heals getting progressively stronger while leveling and early end-game while still maintaining the intention of the changes to fix one-shot reaction based healing metas end-game.

Change

Reduced Physical Damage of TBC Heroic Dungeons by 25% and Mythic Dungeons by 10% to come in tandem with the healing overhaul, this will reduce overall damage taken while placing more emphasis on mechanics.

Talents & Abilities

Change

[Replenishment] In addition to its previous effects Replenishment now also grants 3% of your base mana every 5 seconds for 15 seconds.

Website

Change

[Web Builder] Fixed missing talents after update in Area52 and Thrall.

Change

Fixed unix launcher crash.

Item Changes

Change

[Pending Restart] Two-handed heirloom weapons will provide 6% extra EXP (increased from 3%) to compensate for the empty off-hand slot. Note: Equipping 2x Two-handed heirloom weapons will still provide 6% extra EXP.

Mystic Enchants

Change

[Vampire Lord] Beacon of Shadow now transfers 25% of the damage dealt to healing up from 15%.

Change

[Vampire Lord] Increased the Damage > Healing transfer from your Vampire Lord buff from 3% to 5%.

2023/07/24

General

Change

[Pending Restart] - [Area-52]- Fixed an issue where surpassing the item level "bracket" for callboard caches in the most recently released tier would result in an empty callboard cache. Callboard Caches should now always have the correct loot in them.

New

[Area52] + [Area52] Freezing blood (Frostbolt) damage reduced in pvp by 50%

Change

[Pending Restart] - Heirloom 2 Hand weapons that had EXP bonus on them will now give 6% EXP bonus up from 3%. (This is to match the effect and keep you in sync with others using two one-handed heirlooms).

Change

[Crow's Cache] - [Area-52] - [Live Now] - Fixed an issue where Crow's Cache would sometimes not give loot

Change

[Pending Restart & Patch Update] - Fixed an issue where the Gylph Enchantments were showing up on Area-52. This was not intended because they are not usable by the Hero class.

New

[Area52] Freezing blood damage reduced in pvp by 50%

New

+ [Pending Restart] Hazardous escape now reads "Your Sprint leaves behind a trail of poison that damages foes and reduces the cooldown of sprint by 1 second everytime it deals damage (the effect has a 1 sec icd against monsters)." Its Attack power and spell power coefficients have been increased from 0.05 to 0.12.

New

[Pending Restart] Hazardous escape now reads "Your Sprint leaves behind a trail of poison that damages foes and reduces the cooldown of sprint by 1 second everytime it deals damage (the effect has a 1 sec icd against monsters)." Its Attack power and spell power coefficients have been increased from 0.5 to 0.12.

New

[Pending Restart] Hazardous Escape now reads "Your Sprint leaves behind a trail of poison that damages foes and reduces the cooldown of sprint by 1 second everytime it deals damage it reduces the cooldown by 1 second (the effect has a 1 sec icd against monsters). " Also increased its AP and SP coefficient from 0.5 to 0.12

New

[Requires Launcher Update] Added a new option for Mouseover Casting [Esc -> Interface -> Mouseover Casting]. When enabled, your spells and macros will target your mouseover target first, if you have one. This is the same behavior as a [@mouseover,exists] macro. If no mouseover is found, it will cast as normal at your target.

New

[Area52] Ice lash No longer reduces the damage of frostbolt and ice lance against players.

New

[Pending Restart] PvP Mount Rewards have been moved to "Merul" In Booty Bay And Shattrath.

New

[Pending Restart] Lava Sweep no longer reduces the damage your Fire Blast, Fireball and Pyroblast deals to players by 20%.

New

[Pending Restart] Lava Sweep - Eruption now grants 2 stacks against players

New

[Area52] Eviscerate (disembowel) Damage reduced by 20% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Starfire Damage reduced by 5% in pvp combat.

Website

Change

We've resolved an issue where downloads could sometimes fail if they were interrupted and then resumed.

Change

Fixed the export function on website builder. Builds made on the website and exported, now properly import into the game.

2023/07/23

Talents & Abilities

Change

[Pending Restart] Piercing Howl, Dragon Roar, Battle Shout, Commanding Shout, Demoralizing Shout, Challenging Shout, Demoralizing Roar, Challenging Roar can now be used when silenced (but no longer when pacified like other melee abilities).

2023/07/22

General

New

[Area52] Hack and slash damage increased by 50% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Elemental Rend (Frost) Damage increased by 20% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Elemental Rend (Fire) Damage increased by 20% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Elemental Rend (Nature) Damage increased by 20% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Titantic Strike Damage increased by 10% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Lighting Blade (thunder slam) Damage increased by 10% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Backstab Damage increased by 10% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Chimera Shot Damage increased by 30% in Battlegrounds and open world pvp.

New

[Area52] Shadow Crash (pure shadow) Damage increased by 30% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Focused Burst damage increased by 10% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Energy bolt (Elemental Destruction) Damage increased by 5% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Hazardous Escape Damage increased by 20% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Ice lash damage increased by 10% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Titanic Mutilate damage increased by 5% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Mongoose Bite Damage increased by 5% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Overpower Damage increased by 5% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Colosus Smash Damage increased by 5% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Whirlwind Damage increased by 5% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Cleave Damage increased by 5% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Execute Damage increased by 10% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Sinister Strike(Rank 10) Damage increased by 10% in pvp combat.

New

[Area52] Pistol Whip (defias Gunslinger) Damage increased by 10% in pvp combat

New

[Area52] Pistol Shot (Defias Gunslinger) Damage increased by 10% in pvp combat

New

[Area52] Draconic Slam Damage increased by 5% in pvp combat

New

[Area52] Demolisher Strike damage increased by 10% in pvp combat

New

[Area52] Slam Damage increased by 10% in pvp combat

New

[Area52] Mortal Strike Damage increased by 10% in pvp combat

Talents & Abilities

Change

[Pending Restart] Intercept now has a 2 sec stun duration, changed from 3.

Change

[Pending Restart] The recent Intercept cooldown change has been reverted. It now again has a 30 sec cooldown.

Change

[Pending Restart] Removed the range increasing capstone of Improved Intercept.

2023/07/21

Talents & Abilities

Change

[Pending Restart] Intercept now has a 35 sec cooldown, changed from 30.

2023/07/20

Website

Change

Fixed an issue that prevented some architect builds from loading on the website.

2023/07/19

General

New

[Pending Restart] Hell scream is no longer affected by silence

New

[Pending Restart] Intimdating Shout is no longer affected by silence

New

[Pending Restart] Lingering Shadows can no longer trigger procs such as Shadow embrace.

New

[Pending Restart] Intimdating Shout is no longer affected by silence

New

[Pending Restart] Lingering Shadows can no longer Trigger's procs such as Shadow embrace.

New

[Pending Restart] Hell scream is no longer affected by silence

New

[Pending Restart] Intimdating Shout is no longer affected by silence

New

[Pending Restart] Hell scream is no longer affected by silence

New

[Pending Restart] Lingering Shadow's no longer Trigger's procs such as Shadow embrace.

Mystic Enchants

Change

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Consumed By Fire's bonus damage to Pyroblast and Meteor worked versus players.

2023/07/18

General

Change

Chromie now will only display for sale the heirlooms you do not currently possess. This aims to reduce the chance you'll purchase a second heirloom you already bought and have in your bags.

Quests

Change

Fixed an issue where Ratchet's quests were scaling until level 40, they now scale from level 1~20 like the mobs in the area. This previously allowed for an exploit on leveling. Ratchet is Ascension's neutral faction starter zone and as such like other starter areas, it only scales until level 20 in mobs/quests/rewards.

2023/07/17

Talents & Abilities

Change

[Pending Restart] Fixed an issue where Aimed Shot rank 7 could not be used while silenced.

Item Changes

Change

[A52] Fixed an issue where Incarnation: Moonspirit (Blue) was not getting added to vanity. You may reuse the item and it'll added to your vanity now!

Change

[Thrall] Fixed an issue where Sigil of Goldilocks was not being added/synchronized to vanity. Synchronizing your vanity again after a relog should now display it as in vanity if you already acquire it in other realms before.

Dungeons & Raids

Change

[Pending Restart] [Temple of Ahn'Qiraj] [C'thun] Corrected an issue where C'thun would not restore player to full health afrer forcefully ehecting them from his stomach.

2023/07/16

Mystic Enchants

Change

[Pending Restart] Necromancer's Touch now increases Drain Life damage versus players by 3% per stack, changed from 10%.

2023/07/15

General

Change

[Venomancer] Unintended opposite tree costs for Shadra's Binding and Lord of Decay swapping between trees have been fixed. (pending restart)

Talents & Abilities

Change

[Thrall] Fixed an issue causing Improved Hammer of Justice to be unlearnable.

2023/07/14

General

Change

[Archimonde] Fixed an issue where the base version of the Heirloom "Polished Spaulders of Might" base version was not available in Nozdormu over Marks of Ascension.

New

[Pending Restart] Lay on hands can now be used in arena at 20% effectiveness.

2023/07/13

General

New

[Area52] Deadly poison damage reduced by 15% in pvp combat.

Change

Clarified a variety of pet ability tooltips that shared names with player abilities to make it easier to create macros for them in conjunction with player abilities: Claw, Prowl, Rake, Growl, Pummel, Ravage, Cleave, War Stomp, Disarm, Hamstring, Mind Blast, Enrage, Infected Wound, Mangle, Frenzy, Curse of Weakness Swipe, Mind Sear, Curse of Doom, Rain of Fire, Wild Growth, Thunderclap, Mana Burn, Slow, Fireball, Shadowbolt, Drain Mana, Frostbolt, Chain lightning, Shockwave, Sunder Armor, Shadowstep, Arcane Barrage, Deep Freeze, Cone of Cold, Disarm, Wrath, Veil of Shadow, Shadow Cleave

Quests

Change

Fixed issues with the Horde counterpart of the Nefarian's Head quests delivery creature was wrong in a multiple quest versions.

2023/07/12

General

New

[Area52] Exorcist's Slash damage reduced by 50% in pvp combat.

Talents & Abilities

Change

Fixed an issue where the OG Warlock Create Spellstone skill was generating unusable spellstones.

Item Changes

Change

Fixed an issue where the Thalassian Warhorse was not correctly providing you the correct spell on Live to allow you to mount. If you had this issue you can just redeliver the item from vanity to learn the correct one.

2023/07/11

General

Change

[Area52] Exorcist's Slash damage reduced by 20% in pvp combat.

Change

[Area52] Fixed an issue causing Stormhammer's PvP Mod to not be applied.

Change

[Area52] Charred bite [Lucifer] direct damage reduced by 20% in pvp combat.

Change

[Requires Patch] Renamed Frost Nova on all pets to Frost Nova (Pet). This will allow you to more easily use Frost Nova on macros.

Change

[Requires Patch] Renamed Growl on all pets to Growl (Pet). This will allow you to more easily use Growl on macros.

New

Trial leaderboards are now available in the in-game trial UI. You can find these by selecting a trial and clicking the leaderboard tab. At this time these are sorted and shown as real time and not in-game time.

New

Added an experimental Action Camera to the interface options. This can be found in [Esc -> Interface -> Action Camera]