Welcome to Project Ascension!
What is Project Ascension?
Project Ascension is currently in The Burning Crusade expansion using the Wrath of the Lich King Spells and Talents on the 3.3.5 WoW Client, and looking forward to the launch of Bronzebeard, a custom classic WoW realm, and Warcraft Reborn features across the rest of Ascension realms.
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 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
- Challenge Modes
- New & Enhanced World Bosses
Worldforged RPG Items
Creature RPG Overhaul
Expanded Open World
Crafting Overhaul
Getting Started
Creating your Account
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
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.Choose 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 pick from Hero Archetypes at character creation for a more structured approach to Classless Ascension.
Elune
Elune is Ascension's Draft server. It is its current Seasonal Server (Season 9). 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.
Bronzebeard
Prepare for a new adventure: a fresh start never before seen on Ascension. Play as any of the Original 9 Classes and embark into a revitalized Azeroth progressing through Warcraft’s most iconic trilogy: Vanilla, The Burning Crusade, and Wrath of the Lich King enhanced with Ascension’s classic+ content.
Conquest of Azeroth (Alpha)
Conquest of Azeroth is a brand new project from Ascension. This new take on classic World of Warcraft invites you back to Azeroth in a completely new way: 21 new classes, polished and customized with never before seen spells, custom visuals, icons, and so much more. Conquest of Azeroth is the new Vanilla WoW, allowing champions across the ages to dive into nostalgic adventures while mastering new skills, new abilities, and new playstyles.
Grizzly Hills, WotLK (Alpha)
Journey to Icecrown and face off against the undead in the most Iconic WoW expansion of all time. Descend into new dungeons, conquer new raids, and perhaps most importantly, augment your classless Hero with new talents and skills. Wrath will see Heroes customizing their characters like never before, creating the ultimate classless champion to tackle the most incredible content ever.
Seasonal Servers
Season servers on Project 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 Area 52 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.
Alpha Realms
While Area 52 and Elune 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. These are in active development, leading up to their eventual releases.Unique Gameplay Mechanics
Mystic Enchantments
The full list of Mystic Enchantments can be found in the Ascension Build Calculator page.
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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.
High-Risk and Low-Risk
Learn more about risk modes in the Hybrid Risk System page.
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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.
New Dungeon & Raid Difficulties
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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?
Transmogrification
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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.
More Information
To learn more about Ascension, you can check out Ascension's Frequently Asked Questions page, and more of this Wiki.Ready to dive into more of Ascension's features? Check out some of these articles:
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Live Realms
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