Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2024/10/03

General

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[Barbarian] Crushing Slam now hits 8 targets, up from 5.

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[Barbarian] Shattered Spear is no longer affected by Carnage stacks, but has had its damage increased to compensate.

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[Barbarian] Gutspiller no longer hits allies when it expires. xd

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[Barbarian] Crushing Slam's AP scaling increased from 34.5% to 40%.

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[Barbarian] Warlord now properly gives you stacks of Surging Fury.

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[Barbarian] Ripper now properly goes on cooldown if you use it at 8 stacks of Ripping Frenzy.

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[Reaper] Self damage of Slaughter lowered for the early ranks.

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[Reaper] Ghost Claw is now baseline for Reapers and learned at level 26. Soulless is moved from the Soul tree to its spot

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[Reaper] Masochistic Rage duration increased from 5 sec to 15 sec.

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[Reaper] Crimson Harvest fixed to receive its scaling value.

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[Reaper] Gravesite now triggers rank 6 of Soulrot instead of rank 1.

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[Reaper] Gravesite's debuff now says that it increases shadow damage taken from the reaper.

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[Felsworn] Wrath of Tichondrius combo now properly works with Chaos Incursion, instead of only working with Doomglaive.

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[Pyromancer] Slagmending is no longer consumed if it triggers midcast.

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[Felsworn] Fel Magician is no longer consumed if it triggers midcast.

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[General] The spell power on Purified Vitae Chalice from Karazhan Crypts is now properly a passive Equip buff and not a Use.

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[General] Darkbargainer "Gemstone" is no longer unique-equipped with Briarwood Reed.

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[General] The Warrior t1 tank set 8 piece bonus now only gives 5% block and 15% of your shields armor value, down from 10% and 30% respectively.

2024/09/28

General

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[Chronomancer] Upheaval has been removed from the tooltip of Sandblast and Chronobeam as this effect no longer is used.

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[Chronomancer] The Artificer spec passive now properly causes Discordance to give you an Orb of Fate.

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[Primalist] Eruption no longer tries to tell you that it has a pending rank available.

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[Barbarian] Surging Fury now properly refreshes a charge of Axe Volley.

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[Barbarian] Axe Volley now properly consumes stacks of Surging Fury.

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[General] The Glorious Bauble of Sorcery can now trigger from periodic effects.

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[General] Enabling Status Text to see the values on your health bar/resource bars no longer causes a mess of overlapping bars for resources that you do not have.

Talents & Abilities

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[Barbarian] Savage Massacre now reduces the duration of Disembowel, but now deals significantly more damage and scales with AP.

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[Stormbringer] Power Sphere will now spawn at a random location around the Stormbringer within 5-8 yds

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[Stormbringer] Reduced the proc chance of Spheres of Power to 15% from 20%

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[Chronomancer] Artificer's Amplification is now baseline for Artificer Chronomancers at level 40, replaced with new talent: Wand Mastery

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[Primalist] Earthshard now has an 80% PvP Mod up from 60, Terrasurge now has a 90% PvP mod up from 60%

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[Primalist] Increased the damage of Geode Barrage by ~20%

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[Primalist] One With The Earth now also works with Earthshard

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[Primalist] Rumbler now gives Stoneshard crits the abilty to make your next Geode Barrage instant cast, free of cost, and deal more damage

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[Primalist] Stoneshard no longer has a cooldown

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[Guardian] Battlemaster: Maces now has a 3 sec icd

2024/09/27

General

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[General] Gravity has returned to the world of Azeroth. Do not go splat!

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[Venomancer] Venomtip Poison now hits 25 targets as Fortitude, up from 12.

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[Primalist] Quake now hits 25 targets, up from 8.

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[Guardian] Defender of the Meek now also increases your hit rating by 12% of your Strength.

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[Guardian] Warquake now hits 25 targets as Vanguard, up from 10.

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[Sun Cleric] Protector of the Flame now also increases your hit rating by 12% of your Strength.

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[Sun Cleric] Seraphim's Light now hits 25 targets, up from 8.

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[Bloodmage] Eye of the Lycan reduced to 12% Agi>Hit, down from 15%.

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[Bloodmage] Goldrinn's Rage now hits 25 targets, up from 5.

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[Felsworn] Stomp now hits 25 targets, up from 12.

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[Templar] Sacred Slam now hits 25 targets as Discipline.

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[Reaper] Dreadwake now hits 25 targets as Domination, up from 8.

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[Knight of Xoroth] Black Skull Shield now also increases your hit rating by 12% of your Strength.

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[Knight of Xoroth] Meatsaw now hits 25 targets as Defiance, up from 8.

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[Witch Hunter] March of the Black King now hits 25 targets, up from 8.

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[Starcaller] Nightborne Armaments increased to 12% Int>Hit conversion, up from 8%.

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[Starcaller] Rain of Comets now hits 25 targets as Moon Guard, up from 8.

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[Cultist] Wave of Doubt now hits 25 targets, up from 12.

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[Tanks] All tanks now have at least one source of high target counts, and a standardized 12% hit rating conversion talent. Details below.

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[Ranger] Thalassian Brand swapped with Warband

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[Cultist] Eldritch Devastation now turns off your auto attack.

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[Cultist] Abyssal Destruction reworked

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[Cultist] Ancient Curse now lasts 15 sec up from 12 sec, scaling increased by ~30% on the damage portion

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[Cultist] Eldritch Symbiosis now has a 3 sec icd

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[Cultist] Obliteration Beam now has ranks

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[Cultist] Eldritch Velocity now also works with Eldritch Mending, but now procs off Gaze of C'thun

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[Cultist] Psychic Leech can now only affect 1 enemy at a time

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[Cultist] Recurring Nightmare now only procs off Horrorbolt, but now procs off crits

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[Cultist] Unrelenting Void now lasts 10 sec up from 3.5 sec

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[Cultist] Unrelenting Void now also increases the critical strike chance of Horrorbolt, but only increases the damage by 5% down from 10%

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[Stormbringer] Updated the visual for Torrential Wrath - it is now 69% cooler than before

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[Stormbringer] Maelstrom capstone positioning has been adjusted with the above changes in mind

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[Stormbringer] Stormcloud now has a 90 sec cooldown, and a new additional effect

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[Stormbringer] Conductor In Charge has had its secondary effects moved to replace Shockingly Powerful, as a precapstone node

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[Stormbringer] Added a new talent to Maelstrom capstones: Sphere of Power

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[Stormbringer] Water Sphere cooldown is now 30 sec from 1min

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[Barbarian] Impaling Spear adjusted.

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[Barbarian] Blood and Glory damage reduction reduced by 5%.

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[Barbarian] Level acquisition of Brutal Swing fixed.

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[Barbarian] Surge of Vigor cooldown increased by 10 sec.

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[Barbarian] Savage Massacre reworked - now has Disembowel and Ripper synergy

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[Barbarian] Frothing now allows Savage Strike to strike 1 additional target per rank, instead of reducing the cooldown by 3 sec

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[Barbarian] Added Spear Shards talent to Headhunting

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[Barbarian] Added ranks to Savage Strike and Ripper

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[Barbarian] Savage Strike cooldown is now 6 sec baseline down from 12

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[Reaper] Jailer's Bargain moved up in the tree

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[Reaper] Jailer's Bargain now only removes 10% health baseline, down from 20%

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[Felsworn] Fel Riposte can no longer trigger from triggered effects, to prevent it from going infinite with other procs like Slayings spec passive.

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[Reaper] Hard Bargain reworked

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[Pyromancer] Eye of Deathwing's slow has been separated from its mortal strike effect to allow it to apply to slow immune enemies.

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[Pyromancer] Legacy of Deathwing now triggers from any effect that generates a Breath Charge, instead of only Draconic Fang.

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[Pyromancer] Hellrazer now specifies that it only increases spell damage and not spell healing.

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[Sun Cleric] Piety Tree adjusted

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[Sun Cleric] Solar Empowerment *should* no longer break Radiant Surge.

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[Sun Cleric] Moment of Triumph no longer affects Flash.

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[Sun Cleric] You are now immune to silences and interrupts when casting Sun Down

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[Sun Cleric] Acute Faith is now 30% for all 3 casts, rather than 45/30/15%

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[Sun Cleric] Moment of Triumph re-added to the Piety tree as a pre-capstone, adjusted.

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[Sun Cleric/Pyromancer] Burning Crescendo no longer disables Purgation.

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[Sun Cleric] Solar Wrath no longer automatically acquires a target, sometimes pulling things you aren't in combat with yet.

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[Sun Cleric] The Seraphim spec passive now specifies that it allows your Gavel of Atonement to cleave up to 2 additional nearby targets. This is not a new effect.

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[Sun Cleric] Damnation, the proc from 5 stacks of Purgation, no longer affects Solar Wrath.

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[Sun Cleric] Damnation's tooltip corrected.

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[Sun Cleric] Radiant Flame, when instant cast through an Opulence proc, no longer also consumes a stack of Acute Faith.

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[Sun Cleric] Solar Shower removed.