Two classes scaled up, six others calmed in the arena
From 20 to 22 August, this Ascension patch pushed 258 lines into the official Changelog channel, spread across twelve classes plus a block of general changes. It is the second-biggest batch of the month, behind the 273 lines of 15 August. Most of it sits in two offensive overhauls, the Stormbringer and the Felsworn, whose damage tables are raised spell by spell. Against that, the run of PvP adjustments announced last week starts landing, class by class.
- The main overhaul The Stormbringer: 108 lines on its own, twelve spell power coefficients revised across ten different spells, and six talents changed.
- The second overhaul The Felsworn: 50 lines, four attack spells raised by a third or more, and a defensive side that trades self-healing for damage reduction.
- The PvP bill Reaper, Tinker, Necromancer, Runemaster and Templar take the adjustments promised last week. None of those five comes out ahead.
- Already live 215 of the 258 lines are active, including every damage increase for the Stormbringer, the Felsworn, the Barbarian and the Primalist.
- Raid content Primal Hakkari Idols now also drop from Jeklik and Venoxis across all four difficulties, and Onyxia’s spear no longer sticks on a tank.
- Worth watching 43 lines were waiting on the realm restart at the time of writing. They carry the « ○ Announced for the next restart » marker in this article.
Taken from the official Changelog channel of the Ascension Discord, 20 to 22 August 2026. No separate announcement accompanies this batch: the panel above is reconstructed from the changelog lines themselves.
There are two ways to read a batch of 258 lines, and they tell different stories. Counted flat, twelve classes are touched. Looked at closely, two of them absorb 158 lines on their own, because a damage increase is written rank by rank, and a spell sometimes has thirteen of them. This Ascension patch is narrower than it looks, and far deeper where it lands.
The Stormbringer is the overhaul of the month. The team did not settle for lifting a few values: twelve lines raise spell power coefficients across ten spells, which means the class now converts each point of gear far better rather than just gaining a flat bonus. Conjure Storm sees its direct damage multiplied by more than one and a half at every rank. Six talents change behaviour on top of that, including Wind Gate: Evacuate moving to two charges. The Felsworn follows the same logic on its offence, with four attack spells raised by a third or more against monsters.
The other half of the patch is markedly less cheerful for those on the receiving end. Last week the team announced PvP adjustments for six classes; five of them are served here, and none gains anything at all. The Reaper loses nearly all of its healing-by-hitting, the Templar watches its comfort mechanics get shaved one by one, the Tinker takes three reductions with no compensation. The Runemaster, meanwhile, goes back over a talent already adjusted five days earlier, a sign the first pass did not do the job.
To place a class before digging into the detail, the Ascension tier list gives the current ranking by game mode, and the Ascension builder lets you test a talent tree before spending a single essence.
How to read this article
General changes
Sixteen class-agnostic lines, along two separate threads. The first extends last week’s Sun Cleric overhaul: seven lines come back to it, including a rewrite of how its abilities trigger the rest of your gear. Glorious Execution, Vow of the Valkyr, Justice, Radiance and Dawnfall were not waking up talents, tier-set bonuses or items properly. That is the kind of fix that changes no displayed number and still weighs heavily on a class’s real damage.
The second thread touches everyone: four damage-over-time spells now scale with Haste, which finally makes them respond to a stat everyone stacks. The rest is raid maintenance: Onyxia’s spear no longer sticks on a tank, Hakkari idols drop from two more bosses, and a tank’s opening threat now follows their health pool instead of staying fixed.
What went up
- ▲Sun Cleric can now wear axes and 2h axes. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▲Overhauled backend proc classification and propagation for Sun Cleric abilities. Glorious Execution, Vow of the Valkyr, Justice, Radiance, and Dawnfall can now properly trigger talents, tier-set bonuses, items and other proc effects.
- ▲Overhauled Glorious Execution’s cooldown-reset behavior, making the ability feel more responsive and fluid to use.
- ▲Holy Giant now doubles the effectiveness of Vow of Light as well. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▲Bushcraft Gliders now have no duration, and instead only break on landing, or damage taken.
- ▲Decomposition’s damage now additionally scales with Haste Rating. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▲Unmake’s damage now additionally scales with Haste Rating. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▲Melt Reality‘s damage now additionally scales with Haste Rating. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▲Timerend‘s damage now additionally scales with Haste Rating. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▲Tanks « Snap Threat » now scale with their maximum health as well. Gaining more HP each tier will increase the amount of threat you start the fight out with. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▲Primal Hakkari Idols now also drop from: Jeklik and Venoxis on all 4 difficulties. 1 On Normal, 1 to 2 (based on group size) on Heroic, and 1 to 3 on Mythic and Ascended (based on group size). ○ Announced for the next restart
What went down
- ▼Plague Protection value reduced from 25/50% to 15/30%. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▼Sun Cleric – Blessings. Reduced all healing done by 11% in PvP. ○ Announced for the next restart
Reworks and fixes
- ◆Tank killing blows now redirect Onyxia’s Dragon Killer spear to a random alive non-tank.
- ◆Recasting Champion of the Sun now maintains one stack, refreshes its full duration, and can no longer temporarily double its damage or prematurely remove the renewed effect.
- ◆Corrected Hegemony’s Radiance extension behavior. Entering Dawn now adds six seconds to an existing Radiance without overwriting it, while correctly granting a single six-second Radiance when none is active.
Stormbringer
Net buffOne hundred and eight lines, more than twice the second-biggest overhaul in this patch. The Stormbringer is not getting a tuning pass: its entire damage table is being raised, spell by spell and rank by rank. Twelve lines lift spell power scaling across ten different spells, and behind each one follows the full list of ranks. Drown goes from 81 to 122 % scaling, Conjure Storm from 16 to 28 % on its direct damage, and its base damage is multiplied by more than one and a half at every rank.
Six talents also change behaviour, and that is where the class really gains depth. Master Elementalist pulls both its coefficients up to the same value, Storm Clouds doubles Body of Lightning damage, Aurat Scripts gains a Gale synergy, and Wind Gate: Evacuate moves to two charges, a mobility gain rather than one more number.
A single line goes the other way, and it targets player versus player: Arm of Thorim loses 22 % damage against players. It lands in the same breath as a bug fix that was robbing the spell of part of its spell power scaling, which reads less as a punishment than as a correction: the spell gets stronger in PvE, so it gets calmed in PvP before it runs away. The verdict is in no doubt regardless.
What went up
- ▲Master Elementalist increased to 30% scaling for both spells up from 10% and 20%.
- ▲Aeromancy now also increases the damage of Updraft by 25%.
- ▲Comforting Winds has been increased to 2% per stack up from 1%.
- ▲Storm Clouds now also doubles the damage of Body of Lightning.
- ▲Wind Gate: Evacuate now has 2 charges.
- ▲Aurat Scripts now has an additional effect with Gale synergy.
- ▲Fixed a bug where Arm of Thorim was receiving less spell power scaling than stated in the tooltip. It now correctly scales with 120% of your spell power.
- ▲Spellpower scaling for Call Lightning increased from 84% to 105%.
- ▲Spellpower scaling for Volt increased from 15% to 22.5%.
- ▲Spellpower scaling for Forked Lightning increased from 49% to 71.25%.
- ▲Spellpower scaling for Stormflow increased from 14.4% to 21.6%.
- ▲Spellpower scaling for Drown increased from 81% to 122%.
- ▲Spellpower scaling for Deluge direct damage increased from 14% to 18%.
- ▲Spellpower scaling for Deluge periodic damage increased from 24% to 31%.
- ▲Spellpower scaling for Torrential Wrath increased from 115% to 143.75%.
- ▲Spellpower scaling for Shock increased from 55% to 63.25%.
- ▲Spellpower scaling for Brine increased from 54% to 63%.
- ▲Spellpower scaling for Conjure Storm direct damage increased from 16% to 28%.
- ▲Spellpower scaling for Conjure Storm periodic damage increased from 9% to 10.5%.
- ▲Damage dealt by Call Lightning Rank 1 was increased from 46 to 51.
- ▲Damage dealt by Call Lightning Rank 2 was increased from 91 to 101.
- ▲Call Lightning rank 3: damage increased, the exact value having been cut off in the original message.
- ▲Damage dealt by Call Lightning Rank 13 was increased from 1615 to 1793.
- ▲Damage dealt by Arm of Thorim Rank 1 was increased from 135 to 141.
- ▲Damage dealt by Arm of Thorim Rank 2 was increased from 161 to 167.
- ▲Damage dealt by Arm of Thorim Rank 3 was increased from 255 to 265.
- ▲Damage dealt by Arm of Thorim Rank 4 was increased from 359 to 372.
- ▲Damage dealt by Arm of Thorim Rank 5 was increased from 463 to 481.
- ▲Damage dealt by Arm of Thorim Rank 6 was increased from 579 to 602.
- ▲Damage dealt by Arm of Thorim Rank 7 was increased from 725 to 752.
- ▲Damage dealt by Arm of Thorim Rank 8 was increased from 876 to 909.
- ▲Damage dealt by Arm of Thorim Rank 9 was increased from 1033 to 1073.
- ▲Damage dealt by Volt Rank 1 was increased from 25 to 28.
- ▲Damage dealt by Volt Rank 2 was increased from 39 to 43.
- ▲Damage dealt by Volt Rank 3 was increased from 53 to 59.
- ▲Damage dealt by Volt Rank 4 was increased from 68 to 75.
- ▲Damage dealt by Volt Rank 5 was increased from 85 to 94.
- ▲Damage dealt by Volt Rank 6 was increased from 100 to 111.
- ▲Damage dealt by Volt Rank 7 was increased from 122 to 135.
- ▲Damage dealt by Volt Rank 8 was increased from 145 to 161.
- ▲Damage dealt by Volt Rank 9 was increased from 162 to 180.
- ▲Damage dealt by Volt Rank 10 was increased from 190 to 211.
- ▲Damage dealt by Forked Lightning Rank 1 was increased from 69 to 77.
- ▲Damage dealt by Forked Lightning Rank 2 was increased from 128 to 142.
- ▲Damage dealt by Forked Lightning Rank 3 was increased from 193 to 214.
- ▲Forked Lightning rank 4: damage increased, the end value having been cut off in the original message.
- ▲Damage dealt by Deluge Rank 2 was increased from 165 to 183.
- ▲Damage dealt by Deluge Rank 3 was increased from 225 to 250.
- ▲Damage dealt by Deluge Rank 4 was increased from 291 to 323.
- ▲Damage dealt by Deluge Rank 5 was increased from 343 to 381.
- ▲Damage dealt by Deluge Rank 6 was increased from 432 to 480.
- ▲Damage dealt by Torrential Wrath Rank 1 was increased from 111 to 123.
- ▲Damage dealt by Torrential Wrath Rank 2 was increased from 192 to 213.
- ▲Damage dealt by Torrential Wrath Rank 3 was increased from 301 to 334.
- ▲Damage dealt by Torrential Wrath Rank 4 was increased from 419 to 465.
- ▲Damage dealt by Torrential Wrath Rank 5 was increased from 531 to 589.
- ▲Damage dealt by Torrential Wrath Rank 6 was increased from 646 to 717.
- ▲Damage dealt by Torrential Wrath Rank 7 was increased from 767 to 851.
- ▲Damage dealt by Torrential Wrath Rank 8 was increased from 900 to 999.
- ▲Damage dealt by Torrential Wrath Rank 9 was increased from 990 to 1099.
- ▲Damage dealt by Torrential Wrath Rank 10 was increased from 1119 to 1242.
- ▲Damage dealt by Shock Rank 1 was increased from 15 to 17.
- ▲Damage dealt by Shock Rank 2 was increased from 23 to 26.
- ▲Damage dealt by Shock Rank 3 was increased from 53 to 59.
- ▲Damage dealt by Shock Rank 4 was increased from 108 to 120.
- ▲Damage dealt by Shock Rank 5 was increased from 181 to 201.
- ▲Damage dealt by Shock Rank 6 was increased from 256 to 284.
- ▲Damage dealt by Shock Rank 7 was increased from 315 to 350.
- ▲Damage dealt by Shock Rank 8 was increased from 386 to 428.
- ▲Shock rank 9: damage increased, the original message being truncated at this point.
- ▲Damage dealt by Forked Lightning Rank 5 was increased from 385 to 427.
- ▲Damage dealt by Forked Lightning Rank 6 was increased from 507 to 563.
- ▲Damage dealt by Forked Lightning Rank 7 was increased from 572 to 635.
- ▲Damage dealt by Stormflow Rank 1 was increased from 14 to 16.
- ▲Damage dealt by Stormflow Rank 2 was increased from 17 to 19.
- ▲Damage dealt by Stormflow Rank 3 was increased from 23 to 26.
- ▲Damage dealt by Stormflow Rank 4 was increased from 28 to 31.
- ▲Damage dealt by Stormflow Rank 5 was increased from 40 to 44.
- ▲Damage dealt by Stormflow Rank 6 was increased from 56 to 62.
- ▲Damage dealt by Stormflow Rank 7 was increased from 80 to 89.
- ▲Damage dealt by Stormflow Rank 8 was increased from 188 to 209.
- ▲Damage dealt by Drown Rank 1 was increased from 83 to 92.
- ▲Damage dealt by Drown Rank 2 was increased from 132 to 147.
- ▲Damage dealt by Drown Rank 3 was increased from 186 to 206.
- ▲Damage dealt by Drown Rank 4 was increased from 257 to 285.
- ▲Damage dealt by Drown Rank 5 was increased from 281 to 312.
- ▲Damage dealt by Drown Rank 6 was increased from 337 to 374.
- ▲Damage dealt by Brine Rank 7 was increased from 602 to 668.
- ▲Damage dealt by Conjure Storm Rank 1 direct damage was increased from 15 to 25.
- ▲Damage dealt by Conjure Storm Rank 2 direct damage was increased from 55 to 91.
- ▲Damage dealt by Conjure Storm Rank 3 direct damage was increased from 95 to 157.
- ▲Damage dealt by Conjure Storm Rank 4 direct damage was increased from 152 to 251.
- ▲Damage dealt by Conjure Storm Rank 5 direct damage was increased from 219 to 361.
- ▲Damage dealt by Conjure Storm Rank 6 direct damage was increased from 294 to 485.
- ▲Damage dealt by Conjure Storm Rank 7 direct damage was increased from 387 to 639.
- ▲Damage dealt by Conjure Storm Rank 1 periodic damage was increased from 10 to 17.
- ▲Damage dealt by Conjure Storm Rank 2 periodic damage was increased from 17 to 28.
- ▲Damage dealt by Conjure Storm Rank 3 periodic damage was increased from 31 to 51.
- ▲Damage dealt by Conjure Storm Rank 4 periodic damage was increased from 46 to 76.
- ▲Damage dealt by Conjure Storm Rank 5 periodic damage was increased from 63 to 104.
- ▲Damage dealt by Conjure Storm Rank 6 periodic damage was increased from 83 to 137.
- ▲Damage dealt by Conjure Storm Rank 7 periodic damage was increased from 104 to 172.
- ▲Damage dealt by Call Lightning Rank 11 was increased from 1453 to 1613.
- ▲Damage dealt by Brine Rank 6 was increased from 525 to 583.
- ▲Damage dealt by Call Lightning Rank 10 was increased from 1302 to 1445.
- ▲Damage dealt by Call Lightning Rank 12 was increased from 1621 to 1799.
- ▲Damage dealt by Deluge Rank 1 was increased from 106 to 118.
What went down
- ▼Arm of Thorim now deals 22% less damage in PvP.
Felsworn
Net buffThe Felsworn picks up thirty-five lines of pure damage increases, out of fifty in total. Four attack spells see every rank climb by a third or more against monsters: Twin Slice, Felrend, Annihilan Strike and Azzinoth’s Assault. Felrend very nearly doubles at each rank. Bane of Chaos gets the same treatment, plus three seconds of duration and a periodic coefficient going from 16 to 26 %.
The defensive side is the only place the class gives anything up, and the trade is explicit. Hateforged Barrier no longer heals but cuts physical damage taken by 10 %, and Demonic Will stops healing entirely. In exchange, Anti-Magic climbs to 15 %. The Felsworn is moving away from passive self-healing towards damage reduction: less self-sufficient, but far easier to read for a healer who has to keep it alive.
Every one of the eight remaining talents goes up: Agility converted into crit, physical damage, doubled Oblivion duration, Chaos damage on critical auto attacks. Across this whole patch, a class gaining that much on offence while giving up only convenience healing comes out ahead.
What went up
- ▲Anti-Magic Magic Damage taken reduction increased from 10% to 15%. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▲Unbound now once again grants 15% of your Agility as critical strike rating.
- ▲Fel Instincts increased to 20% from 10% increased damage to Azzinoth’s Assault.
- ▲Fel Monstrosity now also gives 10% increased Agility.
- ▲Pitlord’s Rage now grants 25% increased Physical Damage up from 15% and 15% increased critical strike chance up from 6%.
- ▲Increased the duration of Oblivion to 8 sec from 4 sec.
- ▲Pit Lord’s Strength now additionally increases your Physical damage dealt by 3/6%.
- ▲Felcaked Blades now additionally grants you additional Chaos damage on critical auto attacks.
- ▲Increased Twin Slice Rank 1 flat damage from 6 to 8 against monsters.
- ▲Increased Twin Slice Rank 2 flat damage from 10 to 14 against monsters.
- ▲Increased Twin Slice Rank 3 flat damage from 21 to 29 against monsters.
- ▲Increased Twin Slice Rank 4 flat damage from 42 to 59 against monsters.
- ▲Increased Twin Slice Rank 5 flat damage from 74 to 104 against monsters.
- ▲Increased Twin Slice Rank 6 flat damage from 103 to 144 against monsters.
- ▲Increased Twin Slice Rank 7 flat damage from 160 to 224 against monsters.
- ▲Increased Twin Slice Rank 8 flat damage from 189 to 265 against monsters.
- ▲Increased Felrend Rank 1 flat damage from 5 to 10 against monsters.
- ▲Increased Felrend Rank 2 flat damage from 7 to 14 against monsters.
- ▲Increased Felrend Rank 3 flat damage from 9 to 19 against monsters.
- ▲Increased Felrend Rank 4 flat damage from 13 to 25 against monsters.
- ▲Increased Felrend Rank 5 flat damage from 17 to 32 against monsters.
- ▲Increased Felrend Rank 6 flat damage from 23 to 40 against monsters.
- ▲Increased Felrend Rank 7 flat damage from 30 to 50 against monsters.
- ▲Increased Annihilan Strike Rank 1 weapon damage from 145% to 210% against monsters.
- ▲Increased Annihilan Strike Rank 2 weapon damage from 150% to 220% against monsters.
- ▲Increased Annihilan Strike Rank 3 weapon damage from 155% to 225% against monsters.
- ▲Increased Annihilan Strike Rank 4 weapon damage from 160% to 230% against monsters.
- ▲Increased Annihilan Strike Rank 5 weapon damage from 165% to 240% against monsters.
- ▲Increased Annihilan Strike Rank 6 weapon damage from 170% to 245% against monsters.
- ▲Increased Annihilan Strike Rank 7 weapon damage from 180% to 260% against monsters.
- ▲Increased Azzinoth’s Assault Rank 1 flat damage from 18 main hand and 15 off hand to 26 main hand and 22 off hand .
- ▲Increased Azzinoth’s Assault Rank 2 flat damage from 25 main hand and 21 off hand to 36 main hand and 30 off hand .
- ▲Increased Azzinoth’s Assault Rank 3 flat damage from 33 main hand and 28 off hand to 48 main hand and 41 off hand .
- ▲Increased Azzinoth’s Assault Rank 4 flat damage from 45 main hand and 38 off hand to 65 main hand and 55 off hand .
- ▲Increased Azzinoth’s Assault Rank 5 flat damage from 61 main hand and 51 off hand to 88 main hand and 74 off hand .
- ▲Increased Azzinoth’s Assault Rank 6 flat damage from 81 main hand and 68 off hand to 117 main hand and 99 off hand.
- ▲Increased Azzinoth’s Assault Rank 7 flat damage from 109 main hand and 91 off hand to 158 main hand and 132 off hand.
- ▲Increased Azzinoth’s Assault attack power scaling from 30% to 40%.
- ▲Increased the damage of Chaos (the Inner Demon trigger effect from Bane of Chaos) by 200 base damage (scaling with level) and it now has 58% SP scaling up from 30%.
- ▲Increased Bane of Chaos Rank 1 damage over time from 108 to 168-174.
- ▲Increased Bane of Chaos Rank 2 damage over time from 174 to 276-282.
- ▲Increased Bane of Chaos Rank 3 damage over time from 252 to 402-408.
- ▲Increased Bane of Chaos Rank 4 damage over time from 318 to 504-510.
- ▲Increased Bane of Chaos Rank 5 damage over time from 432 to 690-696.
- ▲Increased Bane of Chaos Rank 6 damage over time from 558 to 888-894.
- ▲Increased Bane of Chaos periodic spell power scaling from 16.15% to 25.84%.
- ▲Increased the base duration of Bane of Chaos to 21 sec up from 18 sec.
- ▲Fel Cannon value increased to 20% from 15%.
What went down
- ▼Demonic Will no longer causes you to heal. ○ Announced for the next restart
Reworks and fixes
- ◆Hateforged Barrier no longer heals while it holds, instead reduces Physical Damage taken by 10%. ○ Announced for the next restart
Templar
Net nerfThe imbalance is obvious as soon as you look at what each side touches, across the class’s twenty-one lines. The thirteen increases, with one exception, all land on two spells: Argent Blade and Scarlet Hammer. Generous numbers, but numbers. The seven decreases go after mechanics instead. Blade Sermon procs Zealotry half as often, Chakra of Light returns half as much cooldown, and Deep Secrets stops affecting Testaments.
The class is fresh out of a full overhaul published in early August, and it was already on the list of six classes flagged for PvP adjustments. Here they are: Libram of Tenacity sees its damage reduction halved against players, and Libram of Grace loses on both of its scalings at once. Coming out of this patch, the Templar is still fearsome on raw damage, but the team is methodically stripping away what made its overhaul comfortable.
What went up
- ▲Lorescribe AGI -> SP scaling increased from 25% to 35%. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▲Increased Argent Blade Rank 1 flat Holy damage from 15 to 20.
- ▲Increased Argent Blade Rank 2 flat Holy damage from 38 to 51.
- ▲Increased Argent Blade Rank 3 flat Holy damage from 67 to 90.
- ▲Increased Argent Blade Rank 4 flat Holy damage from 103 to 139.
- ▲Increased Argent Blade Rank 5 flat Holy damage from 179 to 241.
- ▲Increased Argent Blade Rank 6 flat Holy damage from 240 to 324.
- ▲Increased Argent Blade Rank 7 flat Holy damage from 312 to 421.
- ▲Increased Argent Blade weapon damage from 160% to 215%.
- ▲Increased Argent Blade attack power scaling from 35% to 47.25%.
- ▲Increased Argent Blade spell power scaling from 100% to 135%.
- ▲Increased Scarlet Hammer weapon damage from 155% to 190%.
- ▲Increased Scarlet Hammer flat Holy damage from 35 to 42.
What went down
- ▼Blade Sermon chance to proc Zealotry reduced from 10/20% to 5/10%. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▼Force of Golganneth periodicity reduced from 0.5 sec to 1 sec. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▼Libram of Tenacity DR value is now halved in PVP. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▼Testament of Faith CD increased from 3 mins to 4 mins. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▼Deep Secrets no longer affects Testaments. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▼Cooldown reduction of Chakra of Light reduced from 30/60 to 15/30 sec. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▼Libram of Grace SP scaling reduced from 0.25 to 0.15 and base value reduced by 50 at level 60. ○ Announced for the next restart
Reworks and fixes
- ◆Priest Training now heals for a flat amount instead of percentage missing health. ○ Announced for the next restart
Barbarian
Net buffSixteen of the twenty-five lines are nothing but the ranks of two spells, Breath of the North and Keg Smash, both raised by roughly a third and given better attack power scaling. In this patch Keg Smash also costs fifteen less energy, which changes how often you press it far more than its damage does.
The six remaining mechanical changes are worth far more than their number. Ancestral Combat becomes passive, freeing an action bar slot, and Improved Ancestral Combat disappears in favour of a brand-new ability, Ancestral Evolution. Thane’s Grip stops reducing your damage dealt: its historic penalty is simply gone. Nothing goes down in this section, and a class that gains a new ability while shedding a penalty needs no long calculation.
What went up
- ▲Increased Breath of the North Rank 1 damage from 31-33 to 42-45.
- ▲Increased Breath of the North Rank 2 damage from 42-48 to 56-64.
- ▲Increased Breath of the North Rank 3 damage from 57-66 to 77-90.
- ▲Increased Breath of the North Rank 4 damage from 76-88 to 102-119.
- ▲Increased Breath of the North Rank 5 damage from 101-118 to 136-159.
- ▲Increased Breath of the North Rank 6 damage from 130-160 to 175-216.
- ▲Increased Breath of the North Rank 7 damage from 190-232 to 256-313.
- ▲Increased Breath of the North Rank 8 damage from 267-327 to 360-441.
- ▲Increased Keg Smash Rank 1 damage from 21-22 to 25-27.
- ▲Increased Keg Smash Rank 2 damage from 32-34 to 39-43.
- ▲Increased Keg Smash Rank 3 damage from 47-53 to 57-65.
- ▲Increased Keg Smash Rank 4 damage from 64-73 to 78-90.
- ▲Increased Keg Smash Rank 5 damage from 87-101 to 106-124.
- ▲Increased Keg Smash Rank 6 damage from 117-137 to 142-168.
- ▲Increased Keg Smash Rank 7 damage from 155-184 to 189-225.
- ▲Increased Keg Smash Rank 8 damage from 221-263 to 269-321.
- ▲Increased Breath of the North attack power scaling from 20% to 27%.
- ▲Increased Keg Smash attack power scaling from 15% to 18.3%.
- ▲Reduced the energy cost of Keg Smash by 15.
- ▲Breaking Morale now also increases the damage of Ancestral Strike and Smash by 25%.
- ▲Ancestor’s Fury now also increases your Frost critical strike chance.
- ▲Ancestral Combat is now passive.
- ▲Thane’s Grip no longer reduces your damage dealt.
- ▲Rage of the North now additionally gives you the ability to cast Ale of the God-King on a friendly nearby player when you cast it.
Reworks and fixes
- ◆Improved Ancestral Combat has been replaced with a new ability called Ancestral Evolution.
Reaper
Net nerfTen lines, eight of which take something away, and they all aim at the same thing: the Reaper’s ability to heal itself by hitting. Limbo no longer heals at all, Essence Invigoration drops to 3 %, Doomrend’s absorb stops scaling with Strength, and This Is My Domain sees its healing bonus fall from 75 to 30 % inside Harvesting Grounds.
Mobility takes a hit too, in a subtler shape: Damned trades five seconds of slow immunity for three seconds of raw speed. On paper it is a swap; in practice an escape tool becomes a gap-closer. Only the 6 % reduction in damage taken in PvE goes the other way, and it does not offset the rest. The Reaper was one of the six classes flagged for PvP adjustments, and this patch presents the bill.
What went up
- ▲Domination Reaper damage taken reduced by 6% in PVE. ○ Announced for the next restart
What went down
- ▼Limbo no longer heals. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▼Movement speed steal of Ghost Claw reduced from 50% to 40% (Movement speed difference between target and you totals from 100% to 80%). ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▼Doomrend healing absorb no longer scales with Strength. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▼Ghastly Form AP scaling reduced from 33% to 20%. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▼This Is My Domain healing increase in Harvesting Grounds reduced from 75% to 30%. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▼Essence Invigoration healing reduced from 5% to 3%. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▼Dark Passage cooldown reduction reduced from 2 sec to 1 sec. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▼You can now only pull the same enemy with Harvesting Grounds once every 5 sec.
Reworks and fixes
- ◆Damned now increases your movement speed by 30% for 3 seconds instead of preventing you from being slowed below 100% speed for 5 seconds. ○ Announced for the next restart
Primalist
Net buffEight lines, eight increases, no downside. Bash doubles its weapon damage, Terrasmash doubles its proc chance, and four mountain talents each gain an extra effect: crit, damage dealt, haste, then Stamina converted into attack power for King of the Mountain.
The last line is the most interesting one for anyone who plays the class: Stone Skin and Earthbreaker now work with geodes. Two talents that ignored a central mechanic of the tree finally start talking to it. That is the kind of fix that opens whole builds.
What went up
- ▲Bash now deals 100% weapon damage up from 50%.
- ▲Earth’s Rage now gives 3% Haste up from 2%.
- ▲Terrasmash now has a 60% chance to proc up from 30%.
- ▲Mountain Mover now also gives 5% more Wildclaw damage per stack.
- ▲Resources of the Earth now also gives 4% critical strike chance.
- ▲Call of the Mountain now also gives you 5% increased damage dealt.
- ▲King of the Mountain now also grants you 30% of your Stamina as attack power.
- ▲Stone Skin and Earthbreaker now both also work with Geodes (such as those triggered from Terrasmash).
Necromancer
Net nerfFive decreases and one neutral adjustment, all aimed at the minions. Raise: Ghoul heals 30 % less, undead take extra damage in PvP, their movement speed falls back in line, and Mass Grave waits ten more seconds between uses.
The heaviest line is presented as a fix: Life For Power was triggering at any health level when it was only ever meant to work below 50 %. A talent that ran permanently becomes conditional. The team calls it a bug; the builds that lived on it will call it a straight loss. Across this whole patch, only Plague Science goes up, to 125 %, and one isolated increase does not overturn six reductions.
What went up
- ▲Plague Science has been buffed to 125% from 100% to really bring death upon your foes.
What went down
- ▼Raise: Ghoul healing done reduced by 30%. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▼Undead: Assault speed value reduced from 50% to 30%. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▼Life For Power fixed to only apply below 50% health (Was previously mistakenly applying at any health value). ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▼Mass Grave cooldown increased from 30 sec to 40 sec. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▼Undead minions now take additional damage in PVP. ○ Announced for the next restart
Reworks and fixes
- ◆Undead minions now move at a more standard pace across them. (100% to 120% from 100% to 200% ranges). ○ Announced for the next restart
Knight of Xoroth
Net buffFour clear increases, and one bug fix. Decimation is by far the most spectacular: it goes from 25 to 100 % bonus damage in PvE, across five attacks instead of one. The spell is unchanged against players, which shows exactly where the team wants to push the class.
The rest follows the same direction: Knight of Pestilence doubles its critical damage bonus, Consuming Blade hands a little more crit to Gore, and Mutilation extends to Infernal Strike. As for the Render talent, it was failing to update your attack speed correctly, a flaw that cost damage without ever being visible.
What went up
- ▲Consuming Blade now gives 30/60% critical strike chance to Gore up from 25/50.
- ▲Knight of Pestilence now gives 100% increased critical damage with Pestilences up from 50%.
- ▲Mutilation now also works with Infernal Strike.
- ▲Decimation now works on your next 5 attacks in PvE and deals 100% increased damage up from 25%. Against players this spell is unchanged.
Reworks and fixes
- ◆Fixed a bug where the Render talent wasn’t correctly updating your attack speed.
Tinker
Net nerfThree lines, three decreases, and one common theme: control and passive survivability. Scrapshielding gets a ten-second internal cooldown, which stops it re-arming on loop under fire. Freeze Bomb Launcher slows less hard and for less time, and Build: Mechsuit loses a third of its movement speed.
Nothing compensates. The Tinker was also on the list of classes flagged for PvP adjustments, and these three lines of the patch read more like a down payment than a final bill.
What went down
- ▼Scrapshielding now has a 10 second internal cooldown. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▼Build: Mechsuit movement speed increased reduced from 15% to 10%. (Doubled with Turbo Upgrade!). ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▼Freeze Bomb Launcher slow value reduced from 15% per stack to 10%. Duration reduced from 10 sec to 8 sec. ○ Announced for the next restart
Chronomancer
Net buffThe Chronomancer only gets two lines, and both aim at the same ability, in the right direction. Incarnation of Chaos now lets you cast Chromatic Shard while moving, baseline, a comfort you previously had to go looking for elsewhere.
Chaos Infusion is reworked alongside it: three extra seconds on Incarnation, and above all no cooldown on Melt Reality while it holds. The talent stops being a passive bonus and becomes a damage window you open on purpose. Add that Melt Reality now scales with Haste, a line filed under this patch’s general changes, and that window turns genuinely dangerous.
What went up
- ▲Incarnation of Chaos now allows you to cast Chromatic Shard while moving baseline.
Reworks and fixes
- ◆Chaos Infusion has been reworked – it now increases the duration of Incarnation of Chaos by 3 sec and removes the cooldown of Melt Reality while active.
Runemaster
Net nerfBoth Runemaster lines are about player versus player. Hurricane deals 20 % less damage to players, and Residual Power sees its value reduced in the same context.
That second line is worth pausing on: Residual Power was already adjusted on 15 August, in the patch that overhauled the class. The team is back on it five days later, a sign that the previous tuning did not land as intended. The Runemaster keeps its PvE power intact; the bill comes due in the arena.
What went down
- ▼Hurricane now deals 20% less damage versus players. ○ Announced for the next restart
- ▼Residual Power value is now reduced in PVP. ○ Announced for the next restart
Sun Cleric
Net buffA single line is filed under the class itself, and it goes up: Valkyr’s Grip raises off-hand weapon damage by 30 or 60 % depending on rank, instead of 20 or 40 %. For a healer the team has been pushing towards a hybrid style that hits as hard as it heals, that is one more piece in the same direction.
Most of the work on this class sits in the general changes at the top of the article, though: seven lines there fix how its abilities trigger the rest of your gear, and an eighth cuts its healing by 11 % in PvP. Taken together those lines weigh more than this one, but the changelog filed them outside the class, and this article leaves them where the team put them.
What went up
- ▲Valkyr’s Grip offhand weapon damage increase up to 30/60% from 20/40%. ○ Announced for the next restart
Word from the Ascension teamThe team announced last week that six classes would each get their own PvP adjustments in the days that followed. Five are served here, which leaves the Felsworn still waiting for its own, right after receiving fifty lines of increases. That is most likely where this goes next. On the PvE side the logic runs the other way and reads perfectly clearly: the classes that were not on that list see their damage raised, sometimes massively.
As always with an Ascension patch this size, the numbers announced here can still move before the next realm restart, and 43 of these lines were waiting on exactly that to take effect. To dig further, head to the Ascension hub.
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