So that pretty much covers the new player experience on WoW Ascension. One of the best things about WoW is logging on to find you have a load of gold in your mail box from successful auction house sales :). I guess its also worth mentioning that the low level items I have listed on the Auction house sold pretty fast. My talent trees are mostly a mix of Restoration Shaman and Fire mage which is a freaking awesome build ,fun for soloing and more than powerful enough for healing dungeon groups. I'm using the mages Pyroblast talent for soloing as it kills most mobs my level in 2 or 3 hits. The hotbar in the screenshot above shows. I'm currently using a mixture of Restoration Shaman, Priest and Mage abilities and I still have the Warlock Imp pet. You can watch this first dungeon run here.Īfter learning that the server population is healthy and active enough to find groups for the lower level dungeons I decided to deck my character out in healer gear. We killed the end boss of Ragefire Chasm and after it cleared the Deadmines, unfortunately I ran out of hard drive space while recording with fraps and missed the last boss fight in the Deadmines. I was using the Shamans healing wave spell and the priests renew spell. I took the role of healer even tho I didn't really have the gear for it at the time. On a Wednesday evening UK time it took about 20 minutes of waiting to get a group together. The server is really popular ,I was curious to see how long it would take to find a group for the lowest level dungeons like Ragefire Chasm and Deadmines. There are also no bind on pick up items which means you can trade most of the blue items that drop in dungeons and you can find most of them already on the auction house. The random enchants make each item more unique which really is a nice addition to the game. There is no soul binding on an item once you equip it which means when you out level your gear you can sell it on the Auction house or give it away to a new player. I started the video in the Ironforge auction house so I could show how different the loot is here. In the video above I have started a Dwarf character since the Dwarven starting area is the one I'm most nostalgic for. Loot drops are far more common here and what got me really excited to keep playing is that most of the items have random mythic enchants on them. Some of the more powerful talents cost a combination of ability points and talent points.Įxperience is gained faster than on a normal server, probably around 10 times faster. The hunters tame pet ability costs 6 points. I've been using the Warlocks summon Imp spell which costs 3 ability points. Most of the spells and skills cost 2 ability points each but others like pet spells have a higher cost. It costs a few silver to do but lets you try many different builds while out adventuring. You can unlearn spells really easily just by clicking on them and selecting unlearn. Talent trees open up at level 10 and require talent points which are also earned as you level past 10. You don't earn the 10th ability point until level 10 then each level after 10 grants a new ability point. You also need to pick a starting stat from either intelligence, agility, strength or spirit, this will be the main stat that increases as your character levels. When you start the game at level 1 you have 9 ability points to play around with. There are no classes to pick at the start of the game, instead you have ability points to spend on the skills you want. It is set in the Wrath of The Lich King era. So what's this Ascension server all about then? When Shadowlands released last year I checked out the new starter island which was fun but I didn't really enjoy the content which followed it. I haven't played retail WoW since around 2011 when Cataclysm was the newest expansion. When mentioned this was a classless server I got intrigued enough to download the client and check it it out. Last week I saw a couple of post's by covering a World of Warcraft private server named Ascension.
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