Welcome! This page covers the basics about Ascension, and it can get you started if you're a new player.

Welcome to Ascension!

What is Ascension?

Ascension is a Classless World of Warcraft Mod with over a million players since 2016. You can pick from any of the existing spells and talents from all classes, and play through the best WoW expansions: Vanilla (Current for seasonal), Burning Crusade (Current for free-pick), and Wrath of the Lich King. This is World of Warcraft done your own way.

Ascension is currently in Vanilla for the seasonal server and in The Burning Crusade expansion for free-pick using the Wrath of the Lich King Spells and Talents on the 3.3.5 WoW Client.

Crafted by a professional full-time indie dev-team, Project Ascension is the premier custom WoW mod with fast dedicated servers, 24/7 Support, a dedicated Balance team and Quality Assurance team.

Project Ascension Classless has features like:

Seasonal Realms for a fresh start
Mystic Enchants to augment your build
Optional High-Risk PvP (Loot on Death)
Free-to-Play, Not Pay to Win
Unique Customized raid Mechanics
High Player Population

Learn more about all of Ascension's features here.

Getting Started

Registering your Account

You can register for an Ascension account here. Fill in your username, email and create a strong password. Click Create My Account. This will complete account creation and send you to the launcher download!

Downloading and Installing the Game

You can download the Ascension Launcher here. Once installed, it will handle installing the game for you, and it will check for new updates before you play.

If you don't have a 64-bit Operating System, you can find links for a manual install in the same link — it is more work, but it will allow you to play. The same link also has information to help you install the game on Linux.

Having any issues installing the game? You can reach out to us in the Ascension Support page.

Choosing a Server

Area 52

Area 52 is Ascension's Free-Pick server. It is its longest-running server, with new players starting on it every single day. Create your character here if you want the freedom of Free-Pick: pick and choose any ability and talents you want, from any classes, combined with Mystic Enchants to form your absolutely unique hero! You can use the Hero Architect for inspiration on builds, or to use somebody else's build if you want to play a unique build without putting all the pieces together.

Thrall

Thrall is Ascension's Draft server. It is its current Seasonal Server (Season 8). Like Area 52, many new players are creating characters here every day. Create a character here if you want the excitement and emergent gameplay from picking your abilities from groups of randomly selected ones. You can browse the Hero Architect for inspiration, but you will have to work with what you're given. Do you accept the challenge of creating your hero under the luck of the draw? You'll be surrounded by heroes that are all more unique and interesting than the last.

Seasonal Servers on Ascension are fresh start realms that typically feature a unique game mode or new features and progress until the seasonal realm is 1 tier behind Legacy Server content. Players are able to compete for Server firsts and earn exclusive rewards that transfer with their seasonal character to the legacy realms at the end of the server. Seasonal Servers are always a clean slate: this means everyone starts at level 1, collections tabs from Legacy do not transfer over, and all Server First Achievements are reset and ready to be earned by heroes ready to compete for them.

Alphas and Mini-Seasons

While Area 52 and Thrall are Ascension's current main servers, and where we recommend you start, you can acquire access to other servers currently in the Alpha phase: Rexxar, our Conquest of Azeroth server which features 21 unique classes, and Grizzly Hills, our Wrath of the Lich King server.

Mini Seasons have begun on occasion, which usually include a brand new server which is up for a more limited amount of time. Currently there are no mini Seasons in progress.

Main Unique Gameplay Mechanics

Beyond WoW's core mechanics Ascension is built on, it has Ascension-exclusive gameplay mechanics to enable the Classless playstyle and enable new ways to play the game.

Mystic Enchantments

Mystic Enchants, sometimes called Random Enchants (or "RE's" for short) are used to increase the overall power, durability and utility of your character. They are the main way to define your character's fighting style and utility outside of the abilities and talents you pick. Mystic Enchants can be found on items dropped by monsters at random or by consuming Mystic Runes (or gold) to re-randomize the current enchant on a piece of equipment.

To apply Mystic Enchants to pieces of gear, or to extract them to learn the enchantment, you will need to use a Portable Mystic Altar. These are placed by players, most frequently in the main hub of main cities.

The full list of Mystic Enchantments can be found in the Ascension Build Calculator page.

High-Risk and Low-Risk

You can play the game as usual in Low-Risk, either with PvP enabled or disabled in the open world. However, if you're looking for intense challenges, you can activate High-Risk mode. You can switch risk modes in any capital city by opening your PvP menu (by default 'H'), navigating to the "PvP Ruleset" tab, and selecting your preferred risk there.

Activating High-Risk enables tougher opponents all over the world, much more powerful gear drops and crafting materials than normal. But most importantly, it enables players that kill each other to steal items, equipment, and gold from the defeated player.

Learn more about risk modes in the Hybrid Risk System page.

New Dungeon & Raid Difficulties

You can revisit all the classic dungeons and raids in their original difficulties with your unique classes in Normal mode. Daring adventurers can visit the Heroic and Mythic versions of all of these! — And those looking to push their unique classes to their limit can delve inside Mythic Plus dungeons and Ascended raids.

Mythic+ are dungeons pushed to their, and your, limit. They have stronger enemies, and a time limit to beat. With every successful run, you gain the opportunity to enter into a higher Mythic+ dungeon, with even stronger enemies. Additionally, every week features new affixes that switch up the flow of combat and the strategies you must utilize for victory. How high can you go?

Ascended difficulty raids are the ultimate raiding challenge. 10 to 25 heroes have to face the hardest raiding experiences Ascension has to offer. Are you ready? Find out more in the Raid Difficulties article.

Transmogrification

Unique classes wouldn't be complete without unique styles. Ascension transmog has no class limits; you can use any piece of gear found in the game to put together any look you want. Read about Ascension's transmog system here, and get ready to feel good winning while looking good.