Some of these updates were released before the post date.

1. Legendary Transmog has been released for arena and non-arena!
2. A new race change NPC has been added to the mall. Race changing is no longer a manually requested service -- players can now donate a smaller fee ($4) to purchase a race change in-game. Additionally, you may use vote points to redeem this service as well. Free rename & gender swap included.
3. Gender swapping is now able to be donated for ($1) and also redeemed with vote points.
4. Combat expiration is now 5 seconds, down from 6. Based on sufficient evidence, it has been determined combat during the 2.4.3 game was 5 seconds.
5. Reduced the speed and delay implementations for interrupt spells.
6. Figurine - Shadowsong Panther has been fixed and re-enabled.
7. Tidal Charm & Linken's Boomerang can no longer be used in arena.
8. Issues with personal rating not granting the same amount of new rating calculations has been fixed.
9. Players can no longer lose more than 24 rating if they lose in arena, down from 30.
10. Players will always gain at least 3 rating from a win in arena.
11. Fixed issue with haste rating calculations.
12. Mail delivering rewards such as vote items, compensation packages, etc. will now arrive within 15 seconds, instead of the usual minute.
13. Players now have all 7 bank bag slots default purchased on character creation. Additionally, if you purchase a race change, no longer will your bank bags reset and be mailed to you.

1. Arena rating calculations have been slightly tweaked. You will notice more rewarding rating for winning against higher teams, and less punishment for losing. It is also no longer possible to gain nothing from winning a match.
2. All arena match data is now being recorded into our database. We have plans in the future to integrate a match history feature onto the website.
3. Scarlet Citadel bosses have had their spell resistances significantly lowered. This should make the raids easier for casters. Remember that all SWP weapons still drop from Scarlet Citadel!
4. Snake Trap has now been fixed for Hunters!
5. Arena spectators may now communicate via whispers, guild, group, channels, etc. while spectating; however, they are not allowed to whisper anyone that is currently in arena.
6. We have disabled cross-faction chat while in a battleground. We think players should be focusing on the fight with their faction and not bash-talking enemy players while fighting. Public communication channels, guilds, groups, whispers, etc. are all still accessible cross-faction while in a battleground. Only /say and /yell have been affected.
7. Players will now correctly lose their drink aura when entering combat and not taking damage. Eg: Dispel Magic, Flare, etc.
8. Hunter spell, Intimidation now correctly shares diminishing returns with other stun spells.
9. Pets in defensive stance will no longer automatically attack their owner's victim. This feature was not added until 3.0.2. Pets in defensive stance will still attack if their owner is attacked.
10. Gnomish Net-o-Matic is no longer allowed to be used in arena.
11. Spanish (ES) clients can now properly link spells, talents, quests, etc. from their native clients.

1. Tier 6 is now the main tier of PvE. All Sunwell gear has been removed from players, including the bracers and belts of the Tier 6 set. The boots will remain, despite being from Sunwell. Because of all the removal, we have mailed every player in the game a compensation package containing 100 Badges of Justice, 40 Marks of Honor (10 of each BG), 7 transmog tokens, and Speedy the Turtle pet! We understand this may not fully compensate everyone, but we hope that it is a nice help.
2. Hyjal PvP zone has reopened! Our legacy world PvP zone has been heavily requested by users to come back! We have reworked the quests, added some new ones and added flying zeppelin graveyards that you may parachute down from, or take a portal down to the base from! This is to prevent graveyard farming. Honorable kills are now possible here again!
3. The 250k honorable kill cap has been lifted.
4. Scarlet Citadel's loot tables have been appropriately adjusted to the new loot. There is now a 1% chance drop on the Fiery Warhorse mount at the end of the raid.
5. Tier 6 set pieces now cost 20 more badges. This is due to over the many years the inflation of Badges of Justice, as well as the recent changes with the removal of SWP gear. Bracers and belts are no longer available.
6. Tier 5 vendor has been cleaned up containing only the set pieces. Offset pieces have been moved to a new TK & SSC vendor.
7. You may now convert Sunmotes to Heart of Darkness at the Shattrath profession areas.
8. Season 4 helms lowered to 1110 arena points (down from 2250)
9. Season 4 boots lowered to 675 arena points (down from 2250)
10. Rocket Boots Xtreme (Lite) are no longer possible to use in arena. This was part of the official 2.4.3 patch.
11. It is no longer possible to use the WHO list while in arena, this is to combat knowing your enemy team before the match begins.
12. AddOns such as TF Scoreboard that display who you are fighting against in arena before the match begins will no longer work. The client-side API that retrieves that data has been blocked for arena (blizz-like fix).
13. Liron now properly carries [Timeless Shell] bullets instead of [The Sarge's Bullet].
14. Teleports to Hyjal and Azshara Crater are now instant.
15. An anvil has been added to the Shattrath profession areas and a mailbox to the Quel'Danas profession area.
16. The donor mount, [DNT] Test Mount is no longer a bird, but switches randomly between a Shadowhorn Stag and a Moongraze Stag and is now a 100% mount (ignore the 60% tooltip, it's really 100!)
17. The slow-fall donor mount, Chromatic Mount has been disabled and removed from all players. We feel it is finally time to remove this spell from players as it is extremely large and gives an unfair advantage.

1. Arena season 20 has ended. With the start of 21, we have completely redesigned the way arena will work in the future of Smolderforge. This includes, new rules, criteria, and rewards. Please review these here.
2. A Thrown weapons vendor has been added to the mall.
3. New arena title system added which will handle the expiration of titles after seasons go by. See more information in the arena changes link above.
4. An exploit with being able to drink and regenerate mana while in Druid's travel form or Shaman's ghost wolf has been fixed.
5. We've revised some of our automatic hacking detection in BGs and you should be noticing significantly less of them lately.