Glacial has been changed to have fewer but higher impact upgrades. So there's less upgrades in total (14 to 7) and they have higher stat increases per upgrade. Stats on the items have been re-distributed between the upgrades so base glacial has lower stats than before, the higher stat increase per upgrade means the current max upgrade is still mostly the same as before, so there's no major changes with the highest upgrade.

We were able to reduce the total upgrades from 14 to 7 as stated earlier, which means we were also able to cut some dungeons and use the rest for starter dungeons. New characters start with a regular starter set and will have to complete quests in the starter dungeons to get Glacial.

There's almost too many smaller changes to list, but here's an outline of the more important things:

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New dungeon list:

Starter dungeons:

• Fantasy Jungle
• Dragonmaw Hold
• Shadowfang Keep

Glacial upgrade dungeons:

• Stonecore
• Blackfathom Deeps
• The Botanica
• Drak'Tharon Keep
• Bastion of Twilight
• Grim Batol
• The Ruby Sanctum

General changes:

• Magisters' Terrace rebalanced to allow for earlier Magic Rucksack progression.
• New offsets added, including Haste and Attack/Spell power proc trinkets.
• Weapons changed back to Frozen, with the frozen weapon system being integrated into the starter dungeons instead of the old frozen cave.
• New currency used for Glacial upgrades(IceGold for now, name could change later). Right now it can't be traded, but we plan to expand the currency and slowly phase out Magic Gold.
• IceCold Teleporter and Upgrader changed back to their original names.
• New intro quests and dungeons with BoE gear sets and account bound gear tokens.
• Haste gear changed to a combination quest system instead of having players spawn with it automatically.

With this being done, we are going to focus on getting a new world boss and Firelands out. If there are any problems with this update or you have more ideas for changes you can post them on the feedback page as always or our discord server.

Based on player feedback, we are adding haste scaling to the following spells:

Druid:

Rip
Lacerate
Rake
Pounce

Hunter:

Serpent Sting
Immolation Trap
Black Arrow
Wyvern Sting
Explosive Shot

Mage:

Ignite
Blastwave
Frostfire Bolt

Rogue:

Rupture
Garrote
Recuperate - Duration has also been changed to a flat 10s
Deadly Poison

Blade Flurry has also been enabled after some thorough testing. The only change is a custom proc chance has been added (80%). We will continue to monitor the spell's performance and will make additional changes if needed.

Death Knight:

Frost Fever
Blood Plague
Unholy Blight

Other changes:

Priest:

We've made a custom change to make Shadow Orbs permanent, players will still have to proc them but spells will not remove Shadow Orb charges and they have an unlimited duration.

Several spells have had their damage scaling reduced to make up for the increase in tick speeds.

Ice-Eternian has been growing, and going through some adaptations as it is going. One of these adaptations is the removal of custom bags.

The main reason we are commencing this change is to allow better gear restrictions on instances, to make things a bit more challenging for you, and to put that preciously farmed Ice Warden's gear to the test.

We are going to change all currently customized bags into a token, and the description will read: "Create an Admin Support Request to redeem this token. You will be allowed one free item change for the bag token we create."

IMPORTANT: Create an admin ticket with the title "Bag Evolution" to be serviced on the matter. Any requests without this title may be disregarded.

Any tickets that are for customizing an item into a bag will be denied and closed. Any tickets requesting additional stats to a custom bag will be denied and closed.

We apologize for the inconvenience, and thank you for your time.

Please be patient if you have an admin ticket, because there may be a heavy amount of tickets open at any given time.

Today it was brought to our staff meeting: Staff may not use special spells on players, so if a staff member is using special, non-class or non-generic, spells on players in an abusive matter please address it by reporting it in the Report Player/GM forum section.

Secondly, with the new content recently added, it has come to our attention that some newer rules may need to be released to the public to avoid any confusion. IceCold-WoW has a general rules list here, which do apply, but there are special rules related to recent events and content. Please read the below CAREFULLY.

As a general rule, GRIEFING players or staff is now going to be our general punishable offense.

Define it:

Player/Staff offending another player/staff to an excessive extent, to which the person is feeling uncomfortable, damaged or unsafe.

Examples:

This could be unavoidable harassment, forced targetting, or other forms of intentional damage to a player's ability to play without negativity. Be aware, stealing the tag of creatures in farming zones, just for the shear pleasure of taking something from someone else is Griefing. Camping may be considered harassment, if it specific to one person for a prolonged period. Reports with screenshots are always preferred for this kind of behavior.

The punishments for Griefing include two categories:

- Physical Grief -

• First Offence: 30 minute Character Ban
  
• Second Offence: 2 hour Account Ban
  
• Third Offence: 12 hour Account Ban
  
• Fourth Offence: 24 hour Account Ban
  
• Last Stage: 7 day Account Ban
  

(the last stage will be the same punishment for every offence after 4 offences)

- Verbal Grief -

• First Offence: 30 minute Mute
  
• Second Offence: 2 hour Mute
  
• Third Offence: 12 hour Account Ban
  
• Fourth Offence: 24 hour Account Ban
  
• Last Stage: 7 day Account Ban
  

(the last stage will be the same punishment for every offence after 4 offences)

I was asked to address sniping in the arena. The matter was discussed and sniping is reportable, and punishable as an unfair advantage over other players. Here is an escalation of the punishments:

- Sniping -

• First Offence: Warning and/or Kick
  
• Second Offence: 30 minutes Character Ban
  
• Third Offence: 2 hour Character Ban
  
• Fourth Offence: 12 hour Character Ban
  
• Last Stage: 24 hour Character Ban (account ban may be considered)
  

(the last stage will be the same punishment for every offence after 4 offences)