Ascension Changelog

View all of our changes in a minimal format.

Sorted in chronological order.

2024/09/17

Talents & Abilities

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[Witch Doctor] Vitality of Sseratus (Loa's Brew) duration reduced by 10 sec.

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[Witch Doctor] Vitality of Sseratus scaling reduced from 36.8% per tick to 18.5%. Per level base scaling increased from 0.65 to 2.5.

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[Starcaller] Swift Strikes now reduces the cooldown of Warden's Blade by 1 second per proc, down from 2, to balance out the new amount of procs.

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[Starcaller] Swift Strikes can now trigger off any critical strike, not just specific abilities.

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[Stormbringer] Unshackle now increases spell haste by 30%

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[Stormbringer] Increased the cooldown on Airlock to 30 sec

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[Barbarian] Savagery not being tagged for scaling and receiving automatically assigned scaling fixed.

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[Barbarian] Surging Fury no longer also reduces the energy of Brutality abilities.

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[Barbarian] Incursion no longer makes you trigger Surging Fury

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[Cultist] Added ranks to Reaving Blade, Hammer of Twilight, and Netherstrike

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[Venomancer] Scarabs summoned by Spider Lord now have the expected AoE reduction that pets and summons have.

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[Venomancer] Impale no longer costs rage

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[Venomancer] Reduced the cooldown of Burrow to 2min from 3min

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[Venomancer] Surprise Attack is now Surprise Strategy

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[Venomancer] Reduced the cooldown of Gripping Webs to 25 sec from 40 sec

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[Venomancer] Reduced the cooldown of Down the Water Spout to 1min from 2min

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[Cultist] Increased the knock back of Shattered Void Rune

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[Bloodmage] Reduced the cooldown of Transfusion to 45 sec from 1min

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[Sun Cleric] Sun Down should now properly go off even if your target LoS's you

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[Sun Cleric] Sun Down now has a 45 sec cd down from 90 sec

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[Templar] Divine Intervention now has an 18 sec cooldown from 30 sec

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[Templar] Spiritual Abdication no longer costs energy and now reduces damage taken by 10% up from 5%

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[Templar] Silverhand Incantation now works with Brand of Aggramar instead of Light Stride

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[Primalist] Geode Barrage can now trigger Geode Lord.

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[Primalist] Fury of the Wild now also reduces the cooldown of Primal Charge by 8 sec

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[Barbarian] Reduced the cooldown of Impaling Leap to 40 sec from 1min

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[Witch Hunter] Magical Blasting Powder fixed. Now additionally affects Witchblaster.

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[Witch Hunter] Expert Shot now additionally increases damage of Flintlock Shot.

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[Witch Hunter] Witchblaster RAP scaling increased by 5%.

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[Witch Hunter] Darkness tree repathed.

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[Witch Hunter] New node Lethal Pursuit added to capstone row.

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[Witch Hunter] Decimate moved out of capstone row. Value of damage increase reduced by 10%.

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[Witch Hunter] Houndfeeder now under Anguish. Value reduced by 10%.

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[Witch Hunter] Lord of Torture now instead increases your shadow damage dealt against the target.

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[Witch Hunter] Lord of Torture can now proc from any periodic damage dealt instead of just Agony.

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[Witch Hunter] Silver Bullets now reduce the cooldown of Quickdraw by 4 sec and cause Quickdraw to generate an additional stack of Blasting Powder.

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[Witch Hunter] Pure Agony (Flintlock Shot extends the duration of Anguish by 2 sec) now built into Anguish baseline.

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[Witch Hunter] Rage cost of Anguish increased by 10.

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[Witch Hunter] Hail of Gunfire now causes Quickdraw to increase the haste of next 5 ranged attacks by 20%. (was passive 10% while under effect of Blasting Powder)

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[Witch Hunter] Houndmaster's Call RAP scaling increased by 10%. Level scaling increased by 0.85 points per level.

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[Witch Hunter] Duration of Anguish increased by 1 sec.

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[Witch Hunter] Reduced the cooldown of Burrow Bolt to 24 sec from 30 sec

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[Witch Hunter] Reduced the cooldown of Interrogate to 20 sec from 30 sec

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[Witch Hunter] Reduced the cooldown of Pursuit to 14 sec from 20 sec

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[Witch Hunter] Increased the maximum range of Pursuit to 30 yds from 25 yds

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[Witch Hunter] Reduced the cooldown of Darkslayer's Lantern to 1min from 2min

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[Witch Hunter] Reduced the cooldown of Burning Light to 30 sec from 1min

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[Knight of Xoroth] Added a form of the old ability Hellhaul to the talent tree as a switch node with Fist of Xoroth

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[Knight of Xoroth] Adjusted the scaling of Firemaw, increasing its absorb by ~15%

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[Knight of Xoroth] Hellfire Juggernaut now only reduces the cooldown of Path of Hel'nurath by 5 sec, down from 15

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[Knight of Xoroth] Added scaling to Greater Imp's abilities

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[Knight of Xoroth] Infernal Pummeling now works with Flames of Xoroth instead of Infernal Strike

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[Knight of Xoroth] Path of Hel'nurath now has a 30 sec cd down from 1min

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[Knight of Xoroth] Burning Rage is now baseline for KoX, its talent has been replaced with a new passive called Mounted Champion

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[Knight of Xoroth] Burning Rage no longer generates rage and instead makes you immune to Banish effects

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[Knight of Xoroth] Fist of Xoroth now lasts 4 sec up from 3 sec

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[Knight of Xoroth] Bouncing Blade no longer costs rage

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[Knight of Xoroth] Added ranks to Flames of Xoroth and Skulltaker

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[Pyromancer] Haste removed from Flames of the Firelord

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[Knight of Xoroth] Reduced the base cooldown of Meat Hook to 20 sec from 30 sec

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[Tinker] Turret Upgrade Z-15 now increases the targets chance to be critically struck by anyone, not just the turret which cannot crit in the first place.

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[Pyromancer] Added a small amount of Spirit scaling to Slagmend

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[Tinker] Mechanics Tinker spec passive now also increases attack power by 50% of Intellect

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[Tinker] Added ranks to Spanner Smash

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[Felsworn] Blood of Mannoroth and Blood of Azzinoth have had their effects swapped

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[Felsworn] Corruption now has Trickery synergy

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[Felsworn] All Felsworns now learn the Demon Skin passive baseline

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[Felsworn] Felhoof Charge's root now lasts 2 sec up from 1 sec

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[Felsworn] Flames of Azzinoth now procs off damage dealt instead of on cast, allowing you to get 2 Felstrikes instead of 1

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[Felsworn] True Form now increases the effectiveness of talents that augment Fel Empowerment by 50% and is now a capstone

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[Felsworn] Felhoof Charge's combo now stuns for 4 sec up from 3 sec

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[Felsworn] CDR on Azzinoth's Assault moved to the Fel Doom talent

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[Felsworn] Reachwalker now has Wrathglaive and Annihilan Strike synergy

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[Felsworn] Wrathglaive now stacks twice

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[Felsworn] Demonic Machinations now has Glaive Throw and Felrend synergy

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[Felsworn] Doomglaive now also heals for 25% of the damage dealt

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[Felsworn] Blood of Mannoroth is no longer a capstone, but no longer casts Glaivestorm

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[Felsworn] Added ranks to Felrend, Wrathglaive, and Doomglaive

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[Felsworn] Reckless Assault now increases the damage of Azzinoth's Assault and Annihilan Strike. The cooldown reduction from this effect has been baked in baseline.

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[Felsworn] Nether Champion now also increases the tick rate of Sargeron Smite

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[Felsworn] Abyssal Destruction now has Illidan's Guile synergy

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[Felsworn] Fixed a bug where Felguards damage reduction never worked

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[Felsworn] Glaiving now also increases the damage of Glaivestorm by 15%

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[Felsworn] Fel Blades now reduces armor per stack rather than increasing haste

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[Felsworn] Slice % Dice now also increases your Agility by 5%

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[Felsworn] Fel-Wrought Wound now has Azzinoth's Assault synergy, its switch node has been removed

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[Felsworn] Azzinoth's Rage now causes Azzinoth's Assault to ignore a % of the enemy's armor

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[Felsworn] Fel Napalm now works with Wrathglaive

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[Felsworn] Trickery is now baseline, but drains mana instead of reducing attack power and is learned at level 30 and its spot in the tree has been replaced with a new active

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[Felsworn] Warlock's Bane replaced with Illidan's Guile

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[General] You can now use the Ctrl+Alt click function to collect the appearances of weapons that you are not proficient in.

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[Mythic+] The Draining Touch affix now properly lowers your parry and dodge chance, instead of increasing it.

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[General] Benediction, Anathema, Shadowstrike and Thunderstrike can now no longer converted to the other weapon while in combat. This is to prevent a bug where the item just poofs out of existence.

2024/09/14

General

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[Witch Doctor] Healing Ward level scaling fixed (double scaling from spell and creature)

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[Chronomancer] Chronostatis slow reduced by 10%.

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[Necromancer] Bug preventing you from learning the last intended rank of Flesh to Worms fixed.

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[Necromancer] Lichplague cooldown reduced by 15 sec.

Talents & Abilities

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[Chronomancer] Clasp of Infinity now lasts 3.5 sec down from 5 sec

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[Stormbringer] Invigorating Surge cooldown increased to 18 sec up from 14 sec

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[Stormbringer] Invigorating Surge now does 20% less healing in PvP