Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2022/09/13

General

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[Reaper] Improved VFX of Shudder Scythe

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[Reaper] Updated tooltip of Reap

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[Reaper] Adjusted VFX of Underwalk aura

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[Reaper] Soul Fragments are now stored on the player instead of the player's target

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[Reaper] Now starts with 2 one handed scythes in addition to a two handed scythe

2022/09/12

General

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[Pending Restart] - The Travel Permit can now take you to Ratchet (Faction Neutral) starting zone!

World

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[Pending Restart] - Fixed an issue where some level scaled mobs had non-level scaled followers / pets near Ratchet, the new faction neutral starting area.

2022/09/11

Talents & Abilities

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Reaper - Cleaned up Crimson Pact Visual

2022/09/09

General

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[Reaper] Withering Touch no longer DRs with Soul Shock

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[Reaper] Withering Touch no longer has Grounding

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[Tinker] Bot: Decimate now has a 6 sec CD down from 10 sec

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[Monk] Improved VFX for Left Hook / Right Hook precast

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[Monk] New VFX for Armor of Faith proc

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[Monk] New VFX for Transcend

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[Monk] New VFX for Word of Wrath

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[Monk] Flurry of Blows now also gives CDR to Uppercut and causes it to reduce the enemy's Armor for 5 sec

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[Monk] Uppercut now gives next Combat Move 75% increased damage up from 30%

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[Monk] Uppercut's own damage scaling lowered

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[Monk] Uppercut now costs 3 Holy Runes

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[Monk] Ward Against Harm now correctly permanent when selfcast

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[Monk] Armor of Faith now grants armor from agi, and causes you to deal agi-scaling holy damage to nearby enemies when you generate a Broken Ward stack

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[Cultist] Umbral Voyage CD reduced from 2 min to 1.5 min

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[Cultist] Damage component of Entropic Strike is now on magic hit table

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[Cultist] Umbral Voyage range changed to 0-50yd, from 10-40yd

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[Barbarian] Fixed a bug where Headhunter's Axe would not deal increased crit damage baseline

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[Barbarian] Axe Throw now correctly stacks to 5 (the Headhunter's Axe buff)

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[Barbarian] Fixed tooltip of Axe Throw

2022/09/07

General

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[Reaper] Increased scaling of Reap Magic's heal

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[Starcaller] Updated tooltip of Warrior of Elune

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[Witch Hunter] Momentum stacks now give increased CDR to bolts

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[Witch Hunter] Interrogator now gives 5% atkspeed per stack but stacks 10 times up from 8 times, and lasts 5 sec down from 8 sec

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[Witch Hunter] Base CD of Vanquishing Bolt increased to 90 sec

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[Witch Hunter] Vanquishing SHot now regenerates 15% mana

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[Witch Hunter] Vanquishing Shot is now Vanquishing Bolt, counts as a Bolt ability

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[Witch Hunter] Witchbane no longer has a Cast Time

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[Chronomancer] Added radius to tooltip of Ripple

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[Witch Hunter] Bolts no longer have Cast Times

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[Chronomancer] Improved wording of Sand Blast

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[Chronomancer] Fizzle now has a 6 sec base CD down from 8 sec

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[Chronomancer] Titan's Gaze no longer gets reduced CD in spirit mainstat

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[Chronomancer] Titan's Gaze no longer cleanses magic effects

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[Chronomancer] Titan's Gaze now has a 15 sec CD and 8 sec duration

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[Chronomancer] Infinite Shield no longer has an ICD

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[Chronomancer] Infinite Shield now has 6 charges and heals for 3% hp up from 2% per proc, but only triggers from direct damage

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[Stormbringer] Added Spirit scaling to Invigorating Surge

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[Stormbringer] Fixed Child of the Storm

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[Stormbringer] Dishcarge now totally off GCD but has its own 1 sec CD

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[Stormbringer] Zap Magic now gets a reduced CD in Spirit mainstat

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[SoA] Bloodbomb is now called Atherann's Anguish

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[Cultist] Forbidden Ritual tooltip updated

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[KoX] Consuming Blade tooltip updated

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[SoA] Curse of Blood is now called Taldaram's Torment

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[KoX] Butcher's Blade now Demonfeast, a rage dump lifesteal attack

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[KoX] Fixed tooltip of Oath of War

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[KoX] Improved wording of Hell Scream

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[KoX] Hell Scream now generates 5 Rage every sec while active

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[KoX] Pestilence of Conquest's Unleash effect now also burns 10% mana from the target

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[KoX] Pestilence of Famine's Unleash effect now reduced AP by 50% up from 35%

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[KoX] When Pestilence of Famine's Unleash effect ends, if the affected enemy is still within 10yd of the KoX, they are Stunned for 2.5 sec and have 50% reduced Armor for this duration.

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[KoX] Pestilence of Death's Unleash effect now deals significantly more damage and scales directly with Strength

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[KoX] Pestilence of War's Unleash efffect now heals for 20%

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[KoX] Screamin' Demon now reduces the CD of Hell Scream by 60% down from 100%

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[KoX] Fist of Xoroth can no longer be dodged, blocked or parried

2022/09/06

General

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[Cultist] Replaced old Eldritch Knight passive in the tree with a melee curse that deals damage over time. This is something I think we can expand on to tie melee cultist together a bit better (different kinds of melee curses with unique effects and different ways to apply/refresh/spread them)

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[Cultist] Netherstrike now gives the caster a buff that causes their attacks to deal bonus damage against shielded enemies for 6 sec

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[Cultist] Reduced CD of Entropic Strike from 30 sec to 15 sec

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[Cultist] Improved Eldritch Strike is now called Eldritch Knight, and has the effect of the old Eldritch Knight passive in addition to its normal effect

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[Chronomancer] Shield of Ages primary buff now only has 3 charges

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[Chronomancer] Shield of Ages' proc now gives 25% reduced damage taken and 20% increased healing taken but stacks 3 times

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[Chronomancer] Trying a change to make Shield of Ages proc before the crit occurs

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[Chronomancer] Shield of Ages now has a 20 sec CD down from 30 sec

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[Runemaster] Improved the VFX of the shards launched by primordial blast

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[Runemaster] Using Thaumaturgy to unleash Ace of Fire/Frost/Magic deals significantly increased damage when in the correct attunement

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[KoX] Bouncing Blade is now a 12 sec base CD and deals 125% weapon damage

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[KoX] Torn Flesh's perioic proc now refreshes 4 sec of Bouncing Blade's CD

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[KoX] Consuming Blade's buff charges can now also be used to cast Demonstrike with no CD

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[KoX] Consuming Blade's buff now also affects Meatsaw

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[KoX] Butcher's Blade now gives your next 3 KoX melee attacks (not including autos) increased damage instead of giving increased ap to next 4 attacks

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[KoX] Butcher's Blade now does bonus physical damage in addition to % weapon damage

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[KoX] Butcher's Blade now gets 2 sec of its CD refreshed from crits instead of having a reduced cd after critting

2022/09/05

General

Change

[Chronomancer] Added new VFX for Ripple's channel, and the Heal at the end of it

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[Chronomancer] Ripple now only heals if you channeled for at least 1.5 sec, and its base healing effect is scaled up significantly

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[Guardian] Motivation stacks now give 2% increased healing done

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[Guardian] Inspiring Speech now does a flat 30% bonus on allies with Motivation, not based on stacks

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[Primalist] Primal Weapons are now all death persistent

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[Cultist] Test of Pride can no longer miss

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[SoA] Liquify's Root effect now correctly called Liquify as well

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[SoA] The leap triggered by Curse of the Worgen can no longer miss

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[Ranger] Fixed a bug where Spread Arrows didn't correctly debuff the damage of Hail projectiles

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[Ranger] Fixed a bug where Deepwood Poison would still scale with SP

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[Starcaller] Proccing Moonwater's heal effect will no longer proc Aspect of the Moonwell (instantly refunding the expended stack)

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[Demon Hunter] Normalised all Breaths to a 12yd cone

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[Tinker] Magnetic Beacon now has 99% magic damage reduction

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[Tinker] Gunsling now gives Blackpowder Shots a chance to reset the Cooldown of Gunsling for 8 sec after use

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[Tinker] Preloaded Magazines now correctly increases the amount of Standard Ammunition given by Reload

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[KoX] Butcher's Blade now incurs a reduced Cooldown if used directly after a Critical Strike

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[KoX] Butcher's Blade now has 4 charges up from 3

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[KoX] Triggering Molten Hellrain no longer forces your character to do a cast visual instead of normal Infernal Strike attack animation

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[KoX] Increased tickrate of Torn Flesh and slightly reduced its scaling

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[KoX] Improved VFX of Bouncing Blade