Blackmaw Hold: WoW Forever Dungeon Guide

What Blizzard has said about Blackmaw Hold

The What’s Next panel took the audience behind a gate in Azshara into what Blizzard called a huge furbolg city, where the furbolgs are struggling against some kind of corruption.

Blizzard made a point of how deep the tunnels under the hold run, and tied them to the Barrow Deeps: the raid has three entrances in the world, one of them in Mount Hyjal, and the tunnels here are hinted to be another way in. What is known about the raid is on the WoW Forever raids page.

It is at levels 55–60 in Kaivax’s September 15 table, and one of the five dungeons with an official screenshot.

On X, Josh Greenfield answered a request for “a good BRD-like mega dungeon” with “Hold our beer(s)” and a spoiler picture. Wowhead reads it as Blackmaw Hold, one of the two level 55–60 dungeons, becoming a Blackrock Depths–sized dungeon; Blizzard didn’t name the dungeon there.

On the WoW Forever Podcast episode 3, its designer Rowan Ryder said Blackmaw Hold was not built as a mega dungeon, but its footprint is probably larger than Blackrock Depths, with a lot of height, and it is meant to be finished in one long session. It is comfortable at 60 and opens a little earlier; the alpha called it Timbermaw Hold.

Where Blackmaw Hold is

The hold is behind a gate in Azshara; Wowhead’s dungeon overview puts that gate — the furbolg gate — in the north of the zone.

The raids it points at open on Dec 9, five weeks after Forever launches.

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1. 1Jagged Reef
2. 2Legashi Encampment
3. 3Bitter Reaches
4. 4Tower of Eldara
5. 5Thalassian Base Camp
6. 6Ursolan
7. 7Timbermaw Hold
8. 8Temple of Arkkoran
9. 9The Shattered Strand
10. 10Valormok
11. 11Bay of Storms
12. 12Ruins of Eldarath
13. 13Haldarr Encampment
14. 14Southridge Beach
15. 15Forlorn Ridge
16. 16Shadowsong Shrine
17. 17Lake Mennar
18. 18Ravencrest Monument
19. 19The Ruined Reaches

• Valormok, Azshara Flight point · Horde
• Talrendis Point, Azshara Flight point · Alliance

Open Azshara on the world map

The other new dungeons

All nine in level order, and what changes for dungeons in Forever, are on the WoW Forever dungeons page.

• Hall of Thanes Levels 13–18
• Ruins of Lordaeron Levels 15–20
• Excavation Site: Wetlands Levels 26–31
• City of Dalaran Levels 28–33
• The Drowned City Levels 35–40
• Krol’dok Stronghold Levels 40–45
• Alcaz Prison Levels 48–53
• Shaper’s Terrace Levels 58–60