Project Ascension is RIDICULOUS

A private server based on the immensely popular World of Warcraft with some incredible changes.
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Project Ascension is a Classless game that allows you to imagine and build the character of your dreams. Your custom character has any ability or talent within their reach. Imagine your hero and achieve glory!
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[@VagrantVideos]

Do you play Ascension?

[@prince.rastislav]

Never heard of it before but now I definitely will give it a shot

[@user-gh3hq7wn5p]

I've played there for years. BAU Currently on hiatus, as I can't stand Season 9's Game Mode; the lack of Ability Slots you can Card is attrocious, and is the laziest way to balance a game I have ever seen. Hopefully S7 comes back(with Felmode!)

[@ocelotchimes2203]

Fuck no, when I used to play you would need to buy the store shit every season. straight throwing money away. Devs also banned people for dumb shit, it was corrupt. I remember a guy making videos on the state of ascencion and the devs banned him cuz they didn't want him speaking up.

[@highbahamut6188]

yep i made i surprisingly good character build with the hoplite enchant

[@DeltaMarlfox]

Yes. It's easily the best private server simply due to being a Classless systerm.

[@shambleshef]

I play mostly solo, not a very social player, but I still really enjoy the server. 3-4 years and counting. It's fun but I don't usually do group content outside of dungeons because I don't have a friend group, and I have severe PUG anxiety because people in any version of wow can be toxic over the slightest things.

[@packgoat4580]

I dont find ascension players toxic. I played alot through season 7 and 8 and everyone was kind and helpful

[@cujo8343]

honestly most ascension players are actually the nicest wow players i’ve ever met

[@cowardley]

awe dude i wanna get into ascension again for the fun and people, if youre still playing i would love to start a new toon if your also down

[@shambleshef]

I have a pretty good time for the most part. There's been a few toxic players here or there but it's nothing compared to my experiences with retail.

[@shambleshef]

@@cowardley I'd be down to play some tomorrow

[@DumbguyMc]

I played ascension and my biggest gripe is how meta heavy it is when you get to end game. Like i wanted to be a leach magic tank and you can sure build it but if you wanna raid you're either switching to DOTs as a DPS or mitigation and keeping tank. It was amazing leveling and doing dungeons but endgame was a screeching halt that killed it for me.

[@Aequitas887]

personally pvp was fun af until I came across a few broken people that just made the matches unfun. I remember facing a boomkin who could 2-3 shot every other player in BGs during leveling. I came across a potion throwing healer that could keep themselves and their entire team alive. I am not familiar with all the ascension specific stuff to know what is broken and how to break it.

[@jonasc1221]

That's the problem with a game that has "no" classes: It has ONE class, being the build that does the best.

[@bongobong-zo4vl]

yeah only a few builds are viable for each play style (range, melee, tank, healer) out of which should be dozens. none of the classes get the attention they need rather than back door updates 5-10% nerfs/buffs here and there. Prob the best Custom Server out atm, but it still needs some love in regards to balancing. There will always be twinkle in pvp so i’m not too pressed about getting sweaty.

[@user-ks2xq7rv9y]

After playing the server since it was vanilla and not even TBC i have to say it has had a huge issue with getting different viable tank builds. There have been plenty of dps and even healer builds available, but they have always struggled with implementing viable tanking alternatives. Sometimes they get a little close and end up with a few great tank builds for heroics and maybe normal raids. But those builds often fall flat when trying ascended dungeons or higher difficulty raids. Huuuuge shame too cause my first build i made was such a fun tanking build for leveling and lower lvl dungeons but couldn't survive the dmg from heroic dungeons 😢

[@JeremySmith-fo3cj]

Did these guys actually bring back what wow used to be and what it was always meant to be and stay that way? If so then I say they are doing a good thing and better than blizzards sorry good for nothing tails.

[@Zalen88]

I played years ago when it was still early in development, then played again a few years ago. It was really fun as I loved experiementing with different builds, but of course the meta and best builds crept in and that kinda ruined it for me.

[@MarceloYuri]

You got to give credit to the development team from Ascension. Every time I look at the game, it is reworked in a even better way. But, some of the end game gearing process is arcane. If you don't find someone to explain and help, you get very lost in all the enchanting shenanigans that you need/can do. They should streamline that mechanic a LOT to get new players to stay, but the older players that already know the mechanic hate talking about this.

[@demonbear1689]

Idk about the last part, been playing since beta and I always help with new player questions

[@duck_t4039]

I think it's moreso that people who know aren't talking about it, and those who don't aren't sure who to ask about it.

[@DEichenberg]

The ton of new classes they added are amazing.

[@otakujaywrath6739]

shout out to the OG Guild wars within the first few seconds of the video. Never knew you were a og player, much respect V

[@VagrantVideos]

I played it a bit here and there as a kid, my dad’s PC couldn’t run it well. Recently went back and got my LDOA!

[@bsstyle123]

ya underrated game

[@HawsDaBaws]

Love it just wish they would add custom races like ogre and all the races from retail. Also would love custom zones. Maybe that’s something for after northrend.

[@richarddugger303]

Been playing for a couple seasons. So much fun

[@Iratorum2]

Played a good chunk of ascension for the past 2 seasons, and I'd highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys WoW and always wanted that extra bit of customisability

[@KimoPeralta]

As someone who has played wow in it's "golden years" im going to give this a swing

[@babaganoush6378]

i have never played wow should i play this? like is the base stuff and story in this?

[@louizi7972]

@@babaganoush6378 theres every quests that you can find up until Burning Crusade in this, theres a ton of content and challenges and at first you can overload informations but its very enjoyable and you should give it a try considering its free and fast to dl

[@onlineperson1144]

​@babaganoush6378 for the most part, yes. You can do the quests, follow storylines, and fight endgame raid bosses. A lot of the leveling is streamlined, but nothing stops you from going zone to zone for story. The leveling zones even scale with you, so if you really like a zone, you can continue to play there even after leveling quickly.

[@Airbag888]

Where are the ascension servers located? Curious about latency, any AU servers?

[@burstmashine1779]

Specific project The developers made a mistake and rolled out an update. At high risk, the scrolls for training abilities and talents began to fall. The developers took and banned all the players, those who farmed these scrolls.

[@Titan5837]

seems odd to ban people for a developer mistake...if anything, they should roll back the update and take the items away?

[@nicolaspierre5630]

@@Titan5837 They didn't ban those who had drops , they banned those who abused and took advantage of the mistake to get an edge over others players.

[@Titan5837]

@@nicolaspierre5630 that makes more sense.

[@shawnproctor213]

You left out the fact that people took advantage of this, specifically the fact that epics and scrolls shouldn't drop in high risk raids. It even says it on the item. Raids were formed and farmed out 1000's of scrolls and 1000's of gold by selling the epics. It was and exploit and people got banned rightfully.

[@trgo7813]

W

[@apollonian8768]

thanks for this comprehensive synopsis, I've been considering it for the past years. i was just hesitant.

[@BobbyFlay14]

I just started playing the game looks really good like it’s had a runelite added to it.

[@vanhasydan4754]

Experimenting with specs, i created a DW melee that was tough enough that in battle grounds, after a few whole enemy groups would single me out because they were afraid of not doing so

[@oJackOfSpades]

I really understand the difficulties in joining in on classic era wow if you haven't played it before or if you haven't read/played the lore of wc1-3. For me, I love the race+class requirements. I like when the class and race are lore-accurat and when a class is integral to one aspect of the game. Such as warriors being great DPS and tanks, but lack any solo capabilities or utility and is essentially worthless on their own.. as opposed to a paladin which can tank, heal and even in some dungeons DPS quite well, albeit the paladin isn't the same combat beast, instead they bring tons of utility. When class fantasy and lore gets diluted to fit a newer and perhaps lore-unknowing playerbase, I instantly lose interest in the said game. Hence why I quit wow in wrath because it simply wasn't fair for a paladin to outdps a warrior which could only do that. I'm glad that there are these kind of servers to pool the players that dislike the original way of wow and prefer, to a certain degree, a different game.

[@forwenein2669]

Maybe it is not "fair", but seeing most raids be 80% Warriors(because they're the best tanks, and best dps) is kind of a bad design

[@oJackOfSpades]

@@forwenein2669 Sure it´s bad design but allowing for hybrid classes to outperform non-hybrids in their respective field is even worse class design. I concede that perhaps warriors shouldn´t be so overly OP tanks too. I think it´s fair for each class to excel at 1 role, not dominate on 2 when it comes to PvE. Because warriors are so bad in pvp in any scenario where they haven´t got a pocket healer though, I really don´t mind those poor souls dominating where they can.

[@laerendor793]

Great video! I've been playing this server since season 3. One of the best parts is that cash shop items can be bought for gold on the AH, even the COA server access pass and exp boosts. This can save 50 bucks.

[@hiltz0007]

subbed... great content... downloading now

[@VagrantVideos]

Appreciate you checking out the video 🤝

[@9and12wholepizzas]

If u need gold free let me know

[@saveenly4332]

superb content my boy

[@Lellerinoo]

This video is making me give it a try. I had never heard about this and the whole appeal for wow (for me) has always been being creative while constructing my character

[@ExelArts]

im surprised how they never got shut down

[@Jubafree]

They can't

[@ExelArts]

@@Jubafree how so

[@Jubafree]

@@ExelArts they can just order the server host to shut it down but most private servers have backups so they can just set it up an be online within days. The devs of those private servers are not within the jurisdiction of blizzard a lot of them are from Russia. Blizzard can't win they would even make the problem bigger with promoting these servers with a big lawsuit.

[@ExelArts]

@@Jubafree im surprised they haven't gone to the US gov to stop Internet access to those sites but then that promotes vpns and companies already hate those and don't wont to promote vpns either so it all makes sense I guess

[@aranil89]

In addition to the legal constraints mentioned, since Ascension doesn't hurt Blizzard in any way is better and easier to let them run and benefit from seeing how players react to Ascension features to later on "steal" ideas, is like free beta test for crazy ideas. xD

[@5csandaskunk]

Lived and breathed it for four or so years. It has the largest learning curve of any pvp scene I've played. That being said, the pvp is really really fun.

[@VagrantVideos]

I bet, the constant changing meta has to be insane.

[@Shaynate87]

Great video !

[@silverfox8484]

I started today after watching this! 😀 Is pvp active? There seems to be quite a bit to learn. Looking to make a dot caster that can go invis.

[@FizzySodaPop-nz2jq]

Oh it's active!

[@Lushtergamer]

The Ascencion devs did a very great job over the years changing and adding to the original WoW gameplay, the new boss mechanics, updated talents, QOL changes, righ risk, their new profession recipes and of course the mysthic enchants. but my biggest problem with ascencion is the Mysthical enchant system itself. The legendary Enchants basically ARE your build and often determine all the core spell your character will use, leaving almost no room for experimentation(the thing that the devs say that their server has a lot). I will use the "White Walker" build for exemple, if you read the enchant description you know that you will use: S. Srike, Eviscerate, Ice Lance, Deep freed, Cone of Cold, Slice and Dice, Frost Bolt and for some reason i need to wield a single two-handed weapon. I have everything i will need right on my face and i have no need to experiment or think about what could be the best option of spells to use(i can't even chose the type of weapon im going to use) The only choice i have is what legendary i will use and i can only hope the one i like will not be nerfed and pray to the devs to release something new that appeals to me(they will release another hunter/rogue + another class flavored enchant once again). This problem simply gets worse when you play in the wildcard realm, since you can't simply chose your spells, you have to chose the legendary that is closest to what you drafted or grind until you have the needed spellls yo play what you want. It would be really nice to se some enchants that still have their unique theme, but leave room how i will play. Using "White Walker" again as an example, it would be very cool to not be limited to S.Strike, eviscerate and 2-handed weapons(change it to any "combo point generator", any "finishing move" and remove the fucking weapon limitation), this simple change would open a lot of room for experimentation and player expression, whitout changing the core theme of the enchant

[@Chrisclimbsclouds]

Definitely gunna try it out!

[@dalemarcum16]

I love Project Ascension, I play both wildcard mode and regular.

[@TheXxemarosaxx]

what game were you playing at the start of the video?

[@VagrantVideos]

Guild wars

[@user-hv2fw9xt2j]

installed it twice, necver played it past lvl 5 it is fun and all but I got no time for it atm, when my WOW love rekindles I will play it because it is insanely good

[@DoorknobTheOgryn]

bruh this is badass i think ill try it

[@Teufel9000]

i always come back to ascension every few seasons and this latest season stuff is pretty neat!. also i got into their custom class COA (work in progress) and i think its cool trying new classes they made up. ive put in hundreds of hours for freee and recently i decided throw them some $$ because i wanted to show support. the fact blizzard effectively semi-ripped off mystic enchants for Season of discovery shows that ascension has a good idea of what players like and what the game could become. ascension i believe is the #1 custom private server thats here to stay for the long run.

[@pacoroldan1897]

I played a ton, got rank 14, raided in all difficults and have lot of fun. Also you can play awesome builds and very easy to get spot for raid. Started at season 6, grinded a lot season 7 and make a break season 8, returned to season 9 and going to another rank 14 tittle i love prestige bgs with my twink

[@peanutbutterjelly5861]

what's the popular level range for twinking in Ascension? loved lvl 19 twinking back in mop/wod days. i cant pvp at the higher levels there are just too many spells

[@pacoroldan1897]

@@peanutbutterjelly5861 ín ascension you cant block xp gain, but you level very fast here. XP is boosted here, and there items who increse more your xp like an aura or xp pot. When you get 60 you can keep or you can prestige, if you prestige you keep all your stuff less skills and talents. Then you go lvl 1 again and can try another build or the same or whatever. Can stack gear and use on different brackets.

[@timon9193]

@@peanutbutterjelly5861twinks come in all ages up to 35 😊 hope this helps

[@MrDudeBro]

this seems hype

[@h131_1]

Fully custom WC classes is all I ever wanted!

[@Zalazim]

I think you really missed the point that WoW classes first matched the lore. Like Taurens were sunwalkers paladins. Trolls couldn't because they did not worship any king of light forms for example.

[@unclenickdr]

i want to play that... thats for sure

[@steveperson5686]

Dark Age of Camelot>Everquest>Heroes Online>WoW> DCU>DDO> Zenith The Last City> Ilysia Was my own journey! Considering the internet was LITERALLY invented to connect to others over long distances quickly!

[@VagrantVideos]

Man I’d love to cover DAOC one day.

[@zooleebest]

i had cold sweat when youtuber made review on any of the private server.

[@illest-Gaming]

Ascension is amazing! I haven't had this much fun with WoW since possibly Vanilla! Dragon flight was fun for a while, then I got bored and stopped for over a year. Some friends were playing hardcore classic recently and wanted me to join them but I really didn't want to resub. I liked the idea of classic SoD but again, didn't think it'd be worth the monthly cost. Then I remembered there were free servers and stumbled upon Project Ascension. It has consumed me! lol The prestige system along with wildcard/free-pick is just genius! I'm currently trying to get my friends to join me but they've never tried a "free server" before. I'll send them this video!

[@dependentmany8359]

Good to see you went from Dcuo to World of Warcraft (even if it's not the real wow), that's a major upgrade. I did the same thing a month back, finally quit Dcuo and went back to playing Wow retail again! World of Warcraft was actually my first MMO and it's what got me to try out Dcuo is the first place, i played both of them for years!

[@Eyrothath]

I never got into WoW either, I played Ultima Online which I guess Runescape was inspired by..

[@dailymind77]

I am downloading it now because I am amazed !! Never heard of something like the Ascension project before, and I played wow for a very long time in the past. Grew up with cataclysm and played until dragonflight

[@bChuraful]

How does Blizzard allow this community project to stay alive when they have their “donation” shop, clearly monetizing it? I personally don’t mind but I’m used to corporations shutting down these kind of* projects when monetized

[@remoh4258]

IIRC it's run out of a country where blizzard has no reach

[@kokojack]

It's donation, not monetizing ;) Ascension is in the business since 2016, doing heavy advertisement over Facebook and KZbin. It's obvious that Blizzard doesn't care -or can't do anything about it-

[@shawnproctor213]

Also, they have the COA server which is so heavily modified that its no longer considered blizzards ip.

[@kokojack]

​@@shawnproctor213 COA is still wow though, just not with any original classes but 21 new ones having each their own mechanics, abilities, spells and specs.

[@shawnproctor213]

@@kokojack yeah I know, I'm just saying that's why bliz can't shut them down.

[@Zaela_Zhezzaia]

I play off and on to see what new things they have updated on.

[@MrEsalone]

I've been playing Ascension sicne 2019. I would recomend anyone to this Private Server. It's free, and I never spend IRL money myself, and have a fun time with it! - I agree, them spiltting the player base between seasonal, and live servers are something I dislike. I only play during the new season releases, where to level cap is 60 and they go through Raid phases/releases of Molten Cote - Naxx. My personal favorite part about Ascension isn't the PvE content (Which is amazing btw). It's the High Risk PvP, it's a ton of fun to go out into the High Risk world, and farm to earn tons of gold risking it all against other players. Overall 10/10!

[@Toxic-Masculinity]

High-Risk is not Hardcore, or permadeath, and you don't lose everything. and I'm not Kaladin, you can't prove it.

[@philophobic8023]

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[@pabloaguila5099]

I did did try it a year or so ago, did not quite catch me then. Came back like 2 monts ago and im loving it. Have played retail wow a lot every few years, and this is the most fun i have had in a decade, to say the least. Can't wait to see wotlk content implemented, but that could be a rlly long shot tho. Still,tbc and the additions thay made are just amazing, blizz o any mmorpg games company for that matter, should be taking notes.

[@joffa99m44]

I played it and was happy to immerse myself in the world. But it was very confusing to me how to pick a playstyle or mode. I will probably hop on again and search for new players by any means.

[@PapaBadger823]

Is there an OCE server/playerbase for this? Being from New Zealand makes it really really hard to get into these sorts of packs. people think that OCE is a small gaming region but it really isn't. there are just no OCE players on it because there are never any servers :P

[@VagrantVideos]

Being a private server, maybe? It’s just mixed with anyone who plays lol.

[@campbellhodgson9858]

yeah there 2 or 3 active OCE guilds

[@hiltz0007]

The temporay realm toons get rolled into area 52 correct at end of season? What rewards do you get for doing that content thats unique?

[@VagrantVideos]

Cosmetics as far as I’m aware.

[@user-ux3jp9oo7r]

its like PoE seasons if u ever played it

[@TheMotherStory]

Yo the RS kid go hard

[@xTheToolx]

Is this sanctioned? What does Blizz say or have they not said anything? Always sucks to invest private to lose it all a few years later from C&Ds.

[@igorthelight]

Ascension is working still 2016 at least ;-)

[@RyseNN493]

Because copyright law requires a 15% change or more to be fair use. Ascension is well over 15% and do not directly accept money from blizzards assets which is also another portion of a no go. Its a very grueling process for both parties to sue and counter over a private server because you have to prove malicious intent and blizzard would have to prove that ascension is stealing money from WoW by using their assets which they couldn't do.

[@random33E]

I tried to get into it and love the idea of it, but leveling is just way too fast to really make it worthwhile to group up with (exception would be dungeons). Like, ridiculously fast.

[@GoonBayBee]

Ascension has a content creator's discord. If you submit this video you'll earn some DP (donation points) that you can use to buy stuff in ascension.

[@Trexlight]

Its always been weird to me that this is still going whereas the other Classic server was shut down hardcore by Act/Blizz. The concept is absolutely fantastic and the folks behind the scenes are doing a great job. But its similarly why I didnt support CoH Homecoming, it wasn't licensed or legal. Certainly joining servers like this, you take the chance of repercussions, if any. Personally i never wanted to take the chance or even lose all the progress if something were to happen.

[@VagrantVideos]

Homecoming finally got accepted by NCSoft though so that will in theory never get CND. Edit: lol couldn’t remember the name so I just said arena net

[@Trexlight]

@@VagrantVideos yeah super happy for them to get that license. NCSoft actually did a smart move there lol

[@YoureSoCreezy]

Its smart to not get invested in private servers, but they are always worth a bit of your time as they are often extremely fun and interesting. Usually private servers are safe from being shut down if they diverge from blizz-like servers which ascension has done from the beginning and continues doing today. The classic server that was hugely popular was blizz-like and blizzard had every right to shut it down sadly

[@mateo7445]

I've been playing since a month ago, awesome server

[@Duncanthestampede]

I played back in 2017 or 18? i cant remember how long ago. But I do know that I used to be in an officer in a large alliance PvE guild called The People (when the no risk realm was called Andorhol) and I ended up becoming public enemy number 1 because i made a raiding DPS build using Shadow Priest and Affliction Warlock telents and a few other things. I was taking heavy advantage of the bug with resistances that classic wow just has never been able to fix and my DoTs were doing insane amounts of damage and healing with Vamp Embrace. A horde guild named Oak really wanted me to share the build and were actively sending PvP hit squads to try and bully me into explaining what I was doing. I quit the game for FF14 after a few months and took the secret to my accounts grave. The bug apparently has long since been fixed and I have no idea if any of these guilds still exist. I had a lot of fun and have not had as much fun on wow since my Ascension days.

[@tigregaming]

Just tried it out a few days ago! Already level 70 and grinding in Area 52! SUPER FUN HIGHLY RECOMMEND!

[@OldieWan]

Warrior + Priest = Bad ass.

[@azuraquinlilax1245]

That’s a paladin

[@passiondpete1624]

Right hes wasting a class slot, just do pally shammy ​@@azuraquinlilax1245

[@hiltz0007]

Do you have to worry about gear synergy with abilities? Like a warrior with spells would be a problem for gear synergy?

[@VagrantVideos]

There is a system where you choose a main stat: agility strength intellect or spirit. There is a lot of gear and enchantments that can synergize that play style.

[@joelechi]

A few seasons ago they change the way the spells scale, I mean, now you can play a shadow warrior for example and all your magic spells will be scaling with str or agi :D

[@edwin4625]

Do you think Activion B will shut it down?

[@VagrantVideos]

It’s always a chance but it’s been around for like 3+ years.

[@thehungryman9247]

I’ve played ascension since 2016

[@mithril45]

They advertise constantly on Facebook and the comments are always super negative and tagging Blizzard. I'm sure they have noticed and probably just don't care.

[@SPTX.]

I was looking to get back into wow but that sounds much better

[@yuenasiaide488]

I'm actively playing it, already dumped over the years at least 1.5k € in it nad am not stopping anytime soon

[@captianbacon]

the draft mode lvl up sounds so fun...

[@TheFalloutization]

Is this worth playing? Or will it get shut down and you just lose all that time.

[@VagrantVideos]

Who knows. Personally I dip into p servers when I want to check out something new but I am playing retail as well.

[@ChryI]

Ascension is my go to private server whenever I get that WoW itch. Making your own customized character is great. I remember being very surprised when I could do the Stockades on my own at the appropriate level simply due to the skills available. Very fun stuff. What bothers me a bit, if you are just starting out or you start on one of the seasonal servers, it'll be a while before you get enough bag space and loot especially armor and weapons drops like crazy on Ascension. You constantly have to play inventory manager or go back to a hub and sell your stuff. You can't miss out on the currency you'd lose by trashing things. That stuff gets annoying really fast. It's turned me off from playing on new seasonal servers quite a bit. I also don't understand the draft mode. Seasonal servers are usually locked into it. What it means is that you can't freely pick your skills and talents, you are instead given random ones at set intervals. There are ways to reroll those and a function to limit as to which ones show up but only at the start? And you need these cards equipped you get from the Darkmoon Faire or something of which there are regular and gold versions you acquire through booster packs. It's just so convoluted and to me defeats the entire point of what Ascension is about. Say you play a melee character and you could've gotten something useful like Charge yet since it's random you end up with Auto-Shot. Sure makes me wanna continue playing.

[@DreamZzZ55]

What's to keep blizzard/microsoft from shutting this down just like Elysium?

[@VagrantVideos]

Technically nothing but it’s been around for years. It’s similar to other mmo private servers like Warhammer AOR, Toontown, etc.

[@raduradu334]

Server its in Russia😂

[@Cynwale]

Disappointed by a single thing, I LOVE summons in video games. I base all of my custom games/campaigns around them, all my characters/mods are also based on them. I expected Ascension to allow me to have a lot of summons/pets, I was shocked to see it didn't work.

[@shirokasute1520]

I downloadded is because of a YT Ad and never played WoW but FF14 for over 5 Years. So Project Ascension took me with Free 2 Play, so I can explore Azzeroth without spending money

[@Kdjjdjsklslsa]

İs it playable on mac

[@joepalma8641]

Played a few years back had fun then moved on. The whole rng spells and abilities grinded on me after a while when i kept getting trash abilities and spells. So coul never really get what i wanted

[@Straza7]

you know that there is a free pick server where you can choose what abilities you want & talents ? You even have builds pre made by people, you can create your build and share it to

[@random33E]

The thousands of players online may be true. However, in my experience with it, that's totaling of all their servers, not individually.

[@zelow79]

Been playing Ascension for years now. Personally I don't feel like the servers are dead at all, sure the chatter can be to a min on a server like A52 when a new seasonal server drops, but you don't normally have to wait long to get a dungeon finder queue to pop either. Ascension is a love letter to anyone who loved WoW during it's TBC and WotLK days.

[@ZargorrOG]

Started playing Project Ascension 3 years ago. I always dive into it for a couple of weeks, get bored and then come back after a big update. I've never played it enough to get to the endgame tho, my builds always sucked and I don't have the patience to make up another one or level up again (doesn't matter anyway, you can't do endgame content unless you have a meta build). The lack of endgame experience actually made me want to try retail for the first time when dragonflight launched, and I still play it to this day. Season 9 is currently VERY rng heavy and I'm not a big fan of that, so I'm waiting for the open alpha of their other big server, Conquest Of Azeroth.

[@AldentePrime]

I played long ago, waiting for CoA now, but here in video I saw (3:48) Death Knight (finally) tab. Does that mean that they finally added Death Knight abilities in the random ability server?

[@VagrantVideos]

They added summon zombie but I really only played Area 52. Can't stand the random ability thing honestly.

[@AldentePrime]

@VagrantVideos I guess they still don't have dk yet, probably they will add him in wotlk expansion as it should be. Tho many years have past since I played there and tbc is still up ^^. Atleast they are doing pretty good job with CoA.

[@syler1983]

I stumbled across the name Ascension and immediately thought to myself, what the hell is that? I've never been a fan of mixing classes in MMORPGs. I always thought it was good that certain classes were there for certain tasks, and like all other MMOs where there are no fixed classes Ascension is not the game I would enjoy. Apart from that, I'm always scared of Pay to win on private server hosted Games and I don't think it's good and don't want to support it under any circumstances, but thank you for the very informative video. Thumbs up and keep it up!!

[@LiliumCruorem]

Used to be a lot more fun before they forced the rarity system onto freepick. I get why they did it cause pvp and highrisk meta babies were crying. But as someone who pretty much only prestige leveled it ruined a lot of my fun builds. I hate it when games I like get changed when other people complain when the real problem is those who are complaining just suck. Now freepick basically doesn’t exist and the seasonal random server sucks. Who wants to play classless wow where you can combine anything you want but you don’t get to pick your spells?

[@27Zangle]

I played Project Ascension from late 2020 up until late last year, very on and off but sometimes I'd play for months in each season. It was a gun game for a time but learned that it was just a chaotic mess.

[@sekavuudestaselvyyteen7113]

Ye think you can't know how to respond for other players abilities in pvp think its just offensive bursting with no calculations, would love to try something like affli warlock play in retail

[@blackmagick77]

The cash shop doesnt seem bad. It doesnt seem to give anyone an unfair advantage, just a bit of convenience. I dont care if it takes me an extra week to level up but if you want to pay 5$ or so to make ot a day quicker what ever.

[@luke4260]

In other words, people like this guys don't give a shit about lore and fantasy and want whacky options just to look different, like making an undead paladin, basically an undead who's also an "undead hunter"

[@scotthuffman3462]

A couple things worth noting: Elune is usually about a couple months ahead of A52 in terms of content and has fewer restrictions on abilities Conquest of Azeroth is still in development but DO NOT PAY FOR IT THE DEVS ARE TAKING FOREVER (Same for Wotlk Alpha) Its a lot of fun but its VERY math/theorycrafting heavy and has its issues (PvP is kinda lame here just skip it)

[@Rocksy7]

literally quit the server because of how garbage the pvp was and the fact that everyone gatekept every single build. you had to be like a fat fucker that has nothing to do beside GRIND 24/7 and just fucking test everything in the game to minmax and shit on people that just started on the server. yeah the queue times is shit thus u play against top players. pvp on this server is PURE ASS.

[@kokojack]

CoA is very active, several patches per day. Making 21 unique classes with different mechanics, each classes having 3 specs, each specs its own talent tree. Take some times. Level cap to 60 is due to this year if everything goes well. But yeah, the access is quite pricey and I definitely recommend waiting for it to be released (will be free), unless you want to support the devs ofc

[@justinlami9573]

I joined Discord in 2016 because of this Game. I haven't played it in years though.

[@Mexican00b]

i remember playing ascension in release times.. OP unkillable classes? like 10~~ good times, i may need to give it another chance

[@QinShihuang19949]

I played wow and now playing Ascension.

[@FecalMatador]

It is worth noting that you can easily farm enough gold in a day to buy any of the other realms off the AH

[@evanwright4070]

I'd give this a shot

[@justinjacobson7495]

You mention splitting the player-base, but that's almost a non-issue. Like in many other games that have both seasonal servers and a permanent server, the vast majority of the player-base plays the seasons and basically ignores the permanent server.

[@deltaxhammer6861]

Ascension is a nice server,when i have time i play on CoA,before purchaseing CoA i played on area52 and seasonal servers,overall ascension is rlly good server,and CoA damn is so fckin cool

[@drewmcdonald4082]

Every once in a while I'll play the draft mode but other than that, I just hear about the meta builds people demand in PvE and then in PvP if you're not playing the meta you're dead. Awesome server though.

[@yamahamusicians]

The biggest problem is as you mentioned, all this mix and match seems great at first but you soon realise that your characters are generally underpowered. You feel like you should be hitting harder given the abilities that you have but they are, essentially, window dressing. I still play Ascension from time to time but for now, at least, my Blizzard sub is still rolling.

[@SirMalorak]

Ascension also has the issue that all WoW private servers have: Its community is god awful. WoW already attracts some real basement dwellers, but private servers multiply this by 10. It's insane what absolute degenerate shit you can sometimes be confronted with. So Highly recommend finding and 100% sticking to a guild if someone ever was to play it. And yeah, the problem is there's a ton of choices, most of which boil down to "does this fit my Legendary RE?". Now it's replaced by something else this season, cool, but at the end of the day you're STILL playing vanilla WoW and cheesing 90% of all bosses.

[@mrfool21]

Ascension has been around for a long time and there's been an insane amount of "balance" and heavy nerfing. What you might think would be OP probably isn't. There are Metas each Season/Chapter, just like any RPG and/or MMO. It's still an incredibly unique and impressive project and 100% worth a try. Definitely try playing on Elune (Season 9) to see the development teams latest features they're testing.

[@shambleshef]

IMO Even if you're not trying to use something that is overpowered the game is still fun. Getting better gear is important improving your characters in terms of damage dealt and damage taken, it's hard for new players to understand the baseline for where you should be in terms of damage/avoidance wise, when longtime players have set the baseline for experimenting at an already kinda geared level. The nice thing about gear is you're never truly stuck with gear, the new call board quests let you get some decent dungeon gear to help you catch up to heroics as a fresh 60/70. It's a catch 22. The best option is to pick something skill/talent wise that you know is viable, but may not necessarily match your build idea. Either that or you do lower damage overall until you get geared, so it's not a bad idea to take a filler ability/enchant something that can carry you through to where you can fully flesh things out and take the appropriate enchants/talents to improve your damage. Basically synergy between your build idea and the abilities/enchants you pick is everything, so you have to sometimes use abilities/enchants as a sort of package that works as different parts of your build. Like just throwing things together typically will not end well, so if there is something you want to use like a certain idea, you have to kinda work the talent and enchantment system to make the build idea work. For example think like pairing different talent capstones together that work on the same abilities or affects the same modifiers, or enchantments that add or change your talents/abilities. There's tons of different enchantments that affect your build ranging from build changing/enabling to boosting up specific talents with extra ranks. Transmog has also been a useful shortcut for certain specific build ideas, allowing you to take more viable options both gear and build wise while maintaining the look and feel of the character you're going for.

[@CarloBarcial7]

I feel like this is sponsored?

[@VagrantVideos]

Why would they reach out to such a small KZbinr like me? Plus I’ve covered other private servers. SMT: Imagine, Toontown, Dragonball Online, COH homecoming…list goes on with the stuff I’ve made a video on.

[@tylergabriel561]

As someone who just recently attempted to get back into WoW with season of discovery but had to quit do to their horrible policy restricting new and returning players I'm beyond hyped this exists.

[@baalfrit]

I played it but sadly, as much choice as there was, everyone was still playing 1 dps, 1 tank, and 1 heal spec. Everything else is highly looked down upon, and is mostly non-functional.

[@akimomalrov3241]

I have played on and off for a couple of years, usually doing multi month hiatus's as i have sunk 6k hours into retail, its hard to bring myself to replay content i have already played so much, even with the twists to ascension. I have to admit though, Ascension is not as easy as it used to be to get into. Alot of things are left unexplained out of the gate. Like the revamped mystic enchant situations. the last time i played it was all enchanted on gear, and you could remove and change that. no longer the case now, more reminiscent of glyphs i guess? but, starting fresh character, there was no explanation as to how that system worked out of the gate. I wouldn't consider ascension to be a very user friendly experience.

[@xenoclix]

Played it alot and enjoyed it. But got too much for me haha, sometimes too much to do and freedom 😅

[@channelofstuff6662]

FFXI about the most customizable mmo still around.

[@davidsparks6146]

Until this video I had never heard of it... been playing WOW since 2005 Vanilla... before the BC expac... and now been playing classic since it came out... Dragon blight took me away for about 6 months... I leveled one character... but the promise of WOTLK was too strong. Always been satisfied with WOW's system... so Asencion just sounds too complicated.

[@VagrantVideos]

I’ve been okay with retail. It’s still a good mmo imo.

[@AkiRa22084]

Hmm, I should make Tera Ascension.

[@in2it85]

*These Custom stuff sounds like a Nightmare to Balance, one guy super weak, the other super overpowered.* *This is sounds fun and interesting in theory, but in Reality it is a Unfair, Unbalanced Clown-fiesta.* *Ascension? No thanks.* 😂