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Dark Transformation
Achievement boss festergutrotface
  • Dark Transformation
  • Row 3 Unholy death knight talent
  • 100 yd range
  • 1 min cooldown
  • Instant
  • Your ghoul deals (44.73% of Attack power) Shadow damage to 5 nearby enemies and transforms into a powerful undead monstrosity for 15 sec. The ghoul's abilities are empowered and take on new functions while the transformation is active.
  • Rank 2: Dark Transformation grants your ghoul 100% energy.
Properties
Class Death knight
School Shadow
Cooldown 1 min
Talents
Talent required Inv pet ghoul [Raise Dead]
Rank levels 52 (rank 2)
Improvements Spell shadow fumble [Commander of the Dead], Ability warlock baneofhavoc [Ghoulish Frenzy], Ability rogue deadlymomentum [Unholy Command], Spell shadow deathsembrace [Unholy Pact]
Related buff
Achievement boss festergutrotface
  • Dark Transformation
  • Transformed into an undead monstrosity.
    Damage dealt increased by 200%.
  • Duration: 20 seconds

Dark Transformation is an Unholy death knight ability that transforms the ghoul into a powerful undead monstrosity for 20 sec, empowering and transforming its abilities and increasing damage dealt by 200%.

Notes[]

During the Dark Transformation the ghoul transforms into a plague eruptor model.

Gallery[]

Patch changes[]

  • Dragonflight Patch 10.1.5 (2023-07-11): Damage increase to the Death Knight's primary pet is now 50% effective in PvP combat.
  • Dragonflight Patch 10.0.0 (2022-10-25): Now a row 3 Unholy talent (was a level 32 Unholy ability).
  • Shadowlands Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13):
    • The ghoul now deals shadow damage to nearby enemies when it transforms.
    • Now learned at level 32 (was 74). Rank 2 added at level 52.
  • Battle for Azeroth Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Duration decreased to 15 sec (was 20).
  • Legion Hotfix (2016-10-26): Fixed a bug that caused Dark Transformation to not trigger some additional effects, and not correctly transform abominations into flesh golems.
  • Legion Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): No longer costs a Rune, and lasts for 20 seconds (was 30). Now increases the ghoul's damage by 200% (was 100%).
  • Warlords of Draenor Hotfix (2015-03-19): Fixed an issue where both Spell shadow requiem [Shadow Infusion] and Dark Transformation could be active at the same time.
  • Mists of Pandaria Patch 5.0.4 (2012-08-28): Damage increase increased from 60% to 100%.
  • Cataclysm Hotfix (2011-02-18): Death knight Ghouls under the effects of Dark Transformation can no longer cast Gnaw while it's on cooldown.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.6 (2011-02-08): Now increases pet damage by 80%, down from 100%.
  • Cataclysm Patch 4.0.1 (2010-10-12): Added.

See also[]

  • Dark Transformation (Crown of the Heavens), TCG card

External links[]

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