Ascendance

Ascendance
	Ascendance; Row 8 Elemental shaman talent; Row 8 Enhancement shaman talent; Row 10 Restoration shaman talent; 3 min cooldown; Instant; Transform into a Flame Ascendant for 15 sec, replacing Chain Lightning with Lava Beam, removing the cooldown on Lava Burst, and increasing the damage of Lava Burst by an amount equal to your critical strike chance.; ; When you transform into the Flame Ascendant, instantly cast a Lava Burst at all enemies affected by your Flame Shock, and refresh your Flame Shock durations to 18 sec.; ; Transform into an Air Ascendant for 15 sec, immediately dealing (187.5% of Attack power) Nature damage to any enemy within 8 yds, reducing the cooldown and cost of Stormstrike by 60%, and transforming your auto attack and Stormstrike into Wind attacks which bypass armor and have a 30 yd range.; ; Transform into a Water Ascendant, duplicating all healing you deal for 15 sec and immediately healing for (876% of Spell power). Ascendant healing is distributed evenly among allies within 40 yds.;
Properties
Class	Shaman
School	Physical
Cooldown	3 minutes
Talents
Talent required	Elemental:; [Power of the Maelstrom] or [Master of the Elements]; ; Enhancement:; [Stormflurry] or [Crashing Storms] or [Lashing Flames]; ; Restoration:; [Earthen Harmony]
Improvements	[Oath of the Far Seer], [Static Accumulation]
Related buffs
	; Ascendance ; Transformed into a powerful Fire ascendant. Chain Lightning is transformed into Lava Beam. ; Duration: 15 seconds ; ; ; Ascendance ; Transformed into a powerful Air ascendant. Auto attacks have a 30 yard range. Stormstrike is empowered and has a 30 yard range. ; Duration: 15 seconds ; ; ; Ascendance ; Transformed into a powerful Water Ascendant. Healing you deal is duplicated and distributed evenly among nearby allies. ; Duration: 15 seconds ;

Ascendance is a shaman talent found in all three talent trees. Its benefits vary by the shaman's specialization.

It is an exclusive choice node with [Deeply Rooted Elements] for Elemental and Enhancement.

Lore

Shaman who have spent their lives dedicated to the path of Air, Water or Fire can beseech the elements to Ascend them, as a more co-operative, though temporary, form of ascension, that making them become powerful but short-lived forces. The ritual of ascension is not to be requested lightly.^[1]

Trivia

In Mists of Pandaria, the Enhancement version of Ascendance changed the shaman's auto-attacks and Stormstrike to deal pure Nature damage. This synced extremely well with [Mastery: Enhanced Elements]. [Glyph of Fire Elemental Totem] was commonly used to reduce Fire Elemental's cooldown to 3 minutes, making it match Ascendance's. Combining those two with [Bloodlust], [Feral Spirit], [Stormlash Totem], and [Ancestral Guidance] at the beginning or during the burn phase of an encounter resulted in very high burst damage while also healing one's self and his or her allies. Blizzard decided it was too much and began with increasing the Glyph of Fire Elemental Totem's reduction effect in Patch 5.4.0. It continued in Patch 6.0.2 with the re-working of Ascendance and the general nerfing of off-healing abilities across all non-healing specializations for all classes, including the removal of Stormlash in Warlords of Draenor.

Patch changes

Hotfix (2023-08-21): Enhancement's immediate damage is reduced by 50% in PvP combat.
Hotfix (2023-07-24):
- The range of Restorative Mists heals from Ascendance is now 40 yards (was 20 yards). The initial burst healing from Ascendance remains at 20 yards.
- When gaining the Ascendance effect, [Lava Burst] will no longer automatically be cast on a player target affected by crowd control that breaks from damage.
Patch 10.0.7 (2023-03-21): Now shows on the Personal Resource Display.
Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 8 Elemental/Enhancement talent and a row 10 Restoration talent (was a level 50 talent for all specs).
Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13):
- Now available at level 50 (was 100).
- Elemental: Now fires a Lava Burst at all of your [Flame Shock] targets, and refreshes their Flame Shock durations to up to 18 seconds upon activation.
- Enhancement: Now causes you to explode with Nature damage upon activation, dealing damage to all enemies within 8 yards.
Patch 8.1.5 (2019-03-12):
- Restoration: Ascendance now additionally causes an instantaneous heal divided over all nearby allies.
- Ascendance no longer replicates healing from [Spouting Spirits].
Hotfix (2017-06-14): Ascendance reduces the cooldown and Maelstrom cost of [Stormstrike] by 50% (was 80%) in PvP situations.
Patch 7.2.5 (2017-06-13): Ascendance no longer generates 12 Maelstrom/second, and now reduces the cooldown and cost of Stormstrike by 80%.
Patch 7.1.5 (2017-01-10): Asecndance now generates 12 Maelstrom per second (was 10).
Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): Now a level 100 talent (was a level 87 ability). Mana cost removed. Cooldown increased to 3 minutes for all specs.
- Elemental: now also increases the damage of Lava Burst by an amount equal to critical strike chance for the duration.
- Enhancement: now also generates 10 Maelstrom per second for the duration.
Hotfix (2015-07-20): Ascendance now has a 2-minute cooldown (down from 3 minutes) for Elemental Shaman.
Hotfix (2015-03-05): Ascendance for Elemental Shaman should now correctly have its cooldown reset at the end of a raid encounter.
Hotfix (2015-03-03): Ascendance transformation should now correctly have priority over cosmetic transformation effects.
Patch 6.0.2 (2014-10-14): Ascendance for the Enhancement specialization now changes the shaman's auto attacks and Stormstrike to deal Wind-based physical damage that bypasses armor.
Hotfix (2014-02-26): Resolved an issue where the duplicated healing done by the Restoration version of Ascendance was incorrectly factoring in [Battle Fatigue] and healing reduction effects on allied targets a second time.
Hotfix (2013-05-21): Fixed an issue for Restoration Shamans where Ascendance did not divide the amount healed by Restorative Mists among nearby allies properly.
Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Added.