WoW Forever Latest Updates
Everything that changed on this site, newest first: new guides, new facts added to the guides they belong in, and changes to the WoW Forever Talent Calculator. Each update links to the page it changed.
All updates
- Class changes: Poised appears in China client 70753 for Rogues at level 18 and Druids at level 32, reducing the next applicable ability’s Energy cost when out of combat at full Energy; availability in other regions remains unverified. Source: wago.tools
- Xbox UK confirms that WoW Forever is coming to PC and Mac through Battle.net, with no Xbox console version. The system requirements guide now explains the platform and controller distinction.
- Riverglades and Mount Hyjal, from Blizzard’s leveling video: the Brotherhood of the Horse at Farholde Keep for the Alliance, the Bolder’ok ogres for the Horde, the Twilight’s Hammer’s two strongholds and an ogre fighting ring; Hyjal’s road opens after five years sealed, with the Guardians of Hyjal reputation. Source: Blizzard
- New article: what the developers said on WoW: Forever Podcast episode 4, the PvP episode: Honor by battleground, premades, rulesets and RP-PvP, world PvP, war games, and the duel arena in Mount Hyjal, with a timestamp for every statement.
- World map: the travel planner has one-click routes between starting zones, such as Teldrassil to Elwynn Forest or Tirisfal Glades to Durotar, for starting next to friends of another race.
- Battlegrounds: premade groups only meet other premades, so a solo queue never faces one, and no protection for low-level players in world PvP is planned (WoW: Forever Podcast episode 4). Source: Wowhead
- Blizzard’s Paladin class deep dive, the last of the series, is now in the talent data: Improved Seals is marked as the renamed Improved Seal of Righteousness, and Consecration, Blessing of Kings and four other Classic talents count as baseline now. Source: Blizzard
- Every race page now has the October 15 racials from beta build 1.60.1.70450: Ruthless, Earth Fury and Savage replace the weapon racials, Touch of the Grave triggers 20% to 30% of the time behind a 25-second cooldown, Tauren Endurance gives bigger crits, and the races overview lists every change in one table. Source: Blizzard
- The Stress Test moves to October 21: 19:00 CEST in Europe and 2:00 p.m. PDT in the Americas, on the launch servers, open to any WoW account for a few hours, and every character is deleted afterwards. Source: Blizzard
- The October 15 beta notes, item by item: every race’s racials reworked, raid-wide auras and totems, Elemental Mastery back, Arcane Wrath and Frost Blast, and wands and Auto Shot that need you to stand still. Source: Blizzard
- The talent calculator now reads beta build 1.60.1.70450: Missile Barrage moves to the top of Arcane, Wake of Fire is Improved Fire Blast again, the Elemental tree is rebuilt around Lava Burst and Elemental Mastery, and Malediction is now Grim Reach. Old build links still open. Source: Blizzard
- Alterac Valley will give a little less Honor and every other battleground much more, Tim Jones said on the WoW: Forever Podcast episode 4, so time in Warsong Gulch, Arathi Basin and the Darkspear Islands pays off too. Source: Blizzard
- No RP-PvP ruleset is planned for now: on the same podcast Josh Greenfield said the roleplay community is small and a realmless ruleset needs a critical mass of players. Source: Blizzard
- The Forever Open, a community 1v1 duel tournament on the beta with a $100,000 prize pool, runs October 17–18: level 30 Horde characters on the PvP ruleset, run by Tips Out, Esfand and Xaryu rather than Blizzard. Source: Warcraft Tavern
- Downranking is much weaker in Forever: since the October 1 beta build, spells far below your level get less from spell power and rarely trigger talents. A rank 1 Frostbolt at 60 can no longer trigger Frostbite. Source: Blizzard
- Blizzard’s promised Server Slam, a few hours when anyone can play the beta, looks set for October 19: the Battle.net launcher now lists a “WoW: Forever - Stress Test” game mode with that date. Blizzard hasn’t confirmed the date or the hours yet. Source: Wowhead
- Blizzard has a new measure against gold buying: an account suspected of buying or selling gold can be put under a Temporary Economy Hold, which restricts trade, mail, guild banks and the Auction House until the case is checked. A hold alone leaves no permanent strike. Source: Blizzard
- Blizzard told Inven that raid gear in Forever won’t be fully horizontal: each new raid tier adds some power, kept as narrow as possible, and some best-in-slot pieces may stay from an earlier tier for a long time. It is too early to say whether gear will get a soft reset. Source: Inven
- The beta client updated on October 13 (build 1.60.1.70374) and Blizzard posted no patch notes. We compared the files: 666 changed, mostly sound files and world map textures, and no talent or spell data. The talent calculator needs no update. Source: wago.tools
- New: Zygor vs RestedXP for WoW Forever, the two paid leveling guide addons side by side with a cost calculator for the months you plan to play, and a pre-release review of RestedXP’s Forever guides. Neither is released and no winner is named; the pages contain affiliate links.
- New: WoW Forever beta patch notes. Every client update newest first, Blizzard’s October 8 notes item by item with a class and a category filter, the builds that came without notes and what their files changed, and the known issues.
- New: a pre-release review of Zygor’s paid in-game guides for WoW Forever. What Zygor says they will cover, what Zygor Elite costs, who can skip it and what is still unknown. The review contains an affiliate link.
- The Legacy Calculator now opens the Legacy page: the three Legacy trees to click through like a talent tree, with the 16-point budget, a perk search and a build link, before the guide. Old build links still open.
- City of Dalaran: the dungeon page now has Wowhead’s walkthrough: tactics for seven of the nine bosses, how to summon the secret boss Lyn the Ignored with a book from Shadowfang Keep, and the Horde’s five-quest chain for the Dalaran Sewer Key. Source: Wowhead
- More of the site in Spanish: the race pages with the racial comparison tool and the nine class pages are live at /es/races/ and /es/classes/.
- The site now speaks Spanish: the talent calculator for all nine classes is live at /es/, with talent names and descriptions from the Spanish client. More Spanish pages follow in batches.
- The site now speaks German: the talent calculator for all nine classes, the class pages and the race pages are live at /de/, with talent and ability names from the German client. More German pages follow in batches.
- New tool, rare spawns: 331 rare and rare-elite creatures by zone and level, with spawn points, respawn times, the drops worth the trip, the 62 a Hunter can tame, and a checklist you can share. Classic Era data, labelled so; Forever’s client lists no rares of its own.
- New tool, the trainer finder: say what you play and what you want to learn (a weapon skill, class abilities, a profession tier, riding) and get the trainers with zone, coordinates, cost and a map link. Classic Era data, labelled so. In four cities whose map Forever redrew, both coordinates are shown.
- New tool, the quest database: 4,236 Classic Era quests to search by name or NPC and filter by zone, level, faction and class, with chains, rewards, where to pick them up and a route list you can share. Forever’s client holds 1,802 new quest IDs without names, so new quests can’t be listed yet; the page says what it can’t see.
- New pages, professions by class: for each class and talent path, which crafting profession makes the best piece for the most slots in your level range, ranked only on gear. What else a profession offers (consumables with your stats, devices, camp objects) is listed with counts, unranked.
- Talent calculator checked against the first server hotfixes on build 1.60.1.70291 (October 9): no talent and no trained ability changed. The four pushes touch two creature abilities, a quest spell and two potion debuffs. A new build, 1.60.1.70334, changes no talent or spell table either.
- The GDKP ban covers North American and European realms only and does not apply in other regions, Blizzard’s Clay Stone told 4Gamers, as Wowhead reports. And Horde access to the city of Dalaran in the October 8 build “isn’t really intended”, designer Josh Greenfield said: the Dalaran dungeon page and both news articles now say so. Source: Wowhead · Our news article
- New page, the WoW Forever beta: where it stands today with a countdown to its last day, a three-question check of whether you can get in, each build with its level cap and headline changes, a checklist of what to test, and 51 known issues you can search.
- Talent path pages: a level slider. Pick any level from 1 to 60, your race and two professions to see what the trainer teaches then, your talent points, the best gear per slot, mounts, dungeons that open and your camp objects, on all 27 pages. Paste your own build to follow it point by point.
- A page for each of the 19 Classic dungeons, from Ragefire Chasm to Scholomance: the bosses the beta client lists, the group finder’s level range, and a loot browser by boss, slot and class that scores each drop for your talent tree. Drop sources are Classic Era’s and are labelled so.
- New tool, the item database: search 9,863 equippable items from the beta client by name, slot, class, stat, quality and source, sort them by your talent tree’s weights and pin up to three to compare. 2,007 are new in Forever and 388 were changed from Classic Era.
- New page, the Cooldown Manager: pick your class and race to see every ability the built-in Cooldown Manager tracks, 374 in all, grouped as the client groups them; paste a talent build to hide talents you don’t have. Only 15 trained abilities with a long cooldown aren’t tracked, and the page lists them.
- New page, reputations: 54 factions, 8 of them new in Forever, with the 637 items their standings unlock. Pick a faction and your standing to see what you can buy now and what the next standing adds, filtered to what your class can use.
- New tool, the consumables finder: 740 potions, elixirs, flasks, foods, bandages, scrolls and explosives from the beta client, by effect, level and the profession that makes them; 190 are new in Forever. Crafted ones open in the crafting planner.
- New page, companion pets: all 113 in the beta client, 42 of them new in Forever, with the item that teaches each one and where it comes from when the client or a Classic Era source says, and a checklist that remembers what you have.
- World map: a travel planner. Pick a start, a destination and your faction and it lists the flights, boats, zeppelins and walks between them and draws the route, for both factions and the new flight points. Distances and flight costs are the client’s; it shows no minutes because the client holds no speeds or timetables.
- New tool, the PvP rank planner: set your rank and your target and see the Rank Points still missing, the week the weekly cap first allows it, and what each rank unlocks on the way. Every rank’s points (750 for rank 1, 24,750 for rank 14) and the weekly caps are read from the beta client.
- Camping planner on beta build 1.60.1.70291: three Cooking requirements went up by 5, Journeyman Campfire to 95, Cookie's Feast to 145 and Expert Campfire to 205. Read from the client; Blizzard’s October 8 notes don’t mention it.
- BiS lists, weapon planner, sets, recipes and item tooltips now read beta build 1.60.1.70291: ten dungeon quest rewards are Uncommon instead of Rare with lower stats, three sets show their set bonuses, and 176 recipes in the crafting planner show the icon of what they make. No best-in-slot pick changed.
- Talent calculator on beta build 1.60.1.70291, Blizzard’s October 8 build: Impale needs Deep Wounds again, Feral’s Predatory Instincts is renamed Natural Instinct and adds spell healing from Intellect, Reckoning gets a 1.5-second cooldown and Expose Prey lasts 10 seconds. Old build links still open. Eight class pages list the build’s class changes. Source: Blizzard · Our news article
- Beta build of October 8: creature XP in dungeons up about 20% and party XP back to the Classic Era rule, the City of Dalaran dungeon open for testing, 16 Legacy Points for every tester, PvP critical strikes at full strength again, and dungeon quest rewards cut from Rare to Uncommon. The leveling, dungeons, Legacy, PvP and macro pages are updated. Source: Blizzard · Our news article
- News: the WoW Forever Podcast episode 3, on dungeons: why dungeon XP went up about 20% but grinding dungeons won’t be the fastest way to level, no dungeon maps, meeting stones that don’t summon, the Onyxia attunement staying per character, racial ability changes planned for next week’s beta build, and what the designers said about each new dungeon. Source: Blizzard · Our news article
- New tool, the crafting planner: pick any of 2,151 beta recipes across nine professions, enter what is already in your bags, and get the list of materials still missing. Bars, bolts and powders made on the way are worked out for you, and each one can be switched to bought.
- Shaman and Rogue: Blizzard corrected its class deep dives. Elemental Mastery and Nature’s Guidance are confirmed removed, with Blizzard’s reason for cutting Elemental Mastery; Rockbiter Weapon joins the weapon imbues that last 60 minutes; Combat and Subtlety support every weapon type; and Puncturing Wounds raises Mutilate’s critical strike chance, as the client’s tooltip says. Source: Blizzard
- Talent calculator: talents Blizzard’s class deep dives call renamed, reworked or made baseline are now marked that way instead of counted as one removed and one new. The talents themselves didn’t change; the counts did: 115 new talents (was 141) and 46 removed (was 107), with 19 renamed, 7 reworked and 22 now baseline. Paladin waits for its deep dive. Source: Blizzard
- Frost Mage: Wowhead’s level-30 Frost build is added, so all 27 talent paths now lead with a level-30 community build. Source: Wowhead
- Weapon planner: 108 weapons that need a PvP rank or a reputation are no longer shown as plain vendor gear. They are hidden at first, with a switch and their requirement on the card. A Hunter’s best ranged weapon at levels 20 and 40 changes.
- New tool: WoW Forever BiS lists, one for each of the 27 talent paths. Gear for every slot at any level from 1 to 60, ranked by stat weights shown on the page that you can change; by default only gear you can go and earn (quests, dungeons, vendors, crafting), with each item’s source. World drops, unannounced items and rank or reputation rewards can be switched on. Source: wago.tools
- Weapon planner: 683 weapons read from Classic rows now carry their stats, so caster and Feral weapon rankings include them. Some best-at-level picks change, for example a Mage’s at level 20 and a Feral Druid’s at 20, 30 and 60.
- PvP: Blizzard’s two October 7 articles are on the PvP page and in a news article. Rank Points raise your rank and Honor buys gear; the official reward for each of the 14 ranks; a blue and an epic PvP set with rank-gated Emboldened Seals; the Darkspear Islands is 15v15, levels 30–60, first to 2,000 points, off Dustwallow Marsh. Source: Blizzard
- Rogue and Warlock: Blizzard’s October 7 class deep dive is on the class pages and guides. Rogues can learn one-handed axes (now official), Sap no longer breaks Stealth and poisons hold more charges; Warlock pets take a share of their master’s stats and Life Tap scales with Spirit. Where the article and the beta client differ, the pages say both. Source: Blizzard
- Mage and Shaman: Blizzard’s October 7 class deep dive is on the class pages and guides. Shamans keep shields, two-handed weapons and Parry (now Spirit Weapons) without talents; totems get a 1-second global cooldown; Mages get the Comprehension profession and Frostfire Bolt details. Where the article and the beta client differ, the pages say both. Source: Blizzard
- Skyborne models: Blizzard says SD Skyborne player characters and SD Druid forms are in development for early 2027, and it is reworking the HD Skyborne Druid forms. Source: Blizzard
- Talent calculator: the Warrior trees now carry the rework Blizzard hotfixed into the beta. Fury gains Lingering Rage, Furious Precision and Gore Drinker and loses Improved Cleave, Boundless Rage and Precision; Bloodthirst no longer needs Death Wish; Protection’s rows are rearranged and Toughness is gone. Wowhead’s level-30 Fury and Protection builds are added. Source: wago.tools
- Community builds: 25 level-30 builds from Wowhead’s new class guides (October 6) now lead the talent path pages, their trees and 1–60 timelines, and the talent calculator pages. Fury and Protection Warrior wait for the hotfixed Warrior talents; Frost Mage has no level-30 guide yet. Source: Wowhead
- Druid and Priest: from Blizzard’s Class Highlights video (part 3). Druids can use potions while shapeshifted, the weapon counts in Bear Form, Feral Charge works in Cat Form; Vampiric Embrace can trigger Spirit Tap. Source: Blizzard
- New page: WoW Forever sets and set bonuses. The beta client holds 536 item sets and 122 are new or changed from Classic; filter by class, armor, level and source, and see each changed bonus beside Classic’s. Source: wago.tools
- Skyborne: Blizzard’s Skyborne video adds their backstory (exiled from Eldre’Thalas, lifted into Skywall by the Spirit of the Four Winds), the NPC who teaches Walk on Air, and that the Galestrider mount is a crane. Source: Blizzard
- Mage: Blizzard’s Class Highlights video (part 2) calls the reworked Fire talent Hot Streak; in the beta client it is Heating Up, the same talent. Source: Blizzard
- Classic mode: the beta’s character creation screen now has SD portraits beside the HD ones (Wowhead). The Skyborne still have no SD models of their own, and Blizzard says more on their models is coming. Source: Wowhead
- French: thirteen news articles and the six new race and class combination pages are now in French.
- French: the beta datamine section, the mounts page, the talent updates log and this page are now in French.
- French: editions and prices in euros, Forever vs Classic, PvP, Hardcore, Classic mode, the class quiz, secrets and the Hunter pets section are now in French.
- French: the leveling guide, the world map and the Legacy page with its planner are now in French.
- French: the dungeons guide with its nine dungeon pages, the raids guide with its three raid pages and the zones guide with its four zone pages are now in French, with dungeons, bosses, zones and items named as the French client names them.
- French: the professions section is now in French: the hub and the twelve profession pages with the recipe library, leveling routes and gathering tools, every recipe and item named as the French client names it.
- Macros: 293 macros now, 30 to 40 for each class, grouped by talent tree, utility and PvP. New kinds: Shift + Ctrl, targeting, racial with trinket, weapon and shield swaps. Filter by kind or search by spell name.
- New tool: the Legacy planner. Tick the 65 Legacy Challenges your account has done, plan one character’s perks under the 16-point cap with the beta client’s gates and ranks, and see how far the next reward is. Perk ranks and values now follow the beta client (Fortitude 8% a rank, Field Guide 8 / 17 / 25%). Source: wago.tools
- New page: WoW Forever mounts. The beta client lists 141 mounts, 42 not in Classic; an extra 60% mount is priced at 20 gold (80 in Classic) and a swift one at 200 (1,000 in Classic). Pick a faction, race and class to see your first mount. Source: wago.tools
- French: the camping planner, release date, name reservation, servers and system requirements pages are now in French, with Paris time, euro prices and Blizzard’s French sources.
- Secrets: Student Fodder from the Cozy Sleeping Bag chain no longer gives rested experience in Forever. It restores health and your class resource, and its Trail Snack buff heals over time with a short burst of movement speed. Source: Wowhead
- French: the nine class weapon planners and the 27 talent path guides are now in French, with weapons, zones, camp objects and professions named as the French client names them.
- French: the class pages are now in French: the class hub, a guide for each of the nine classes and their ability pages, with every spell and talent named as the French client names it.
- French: the tier list is now in French, with talent trees, spells and talents named as the French client names them.
- Talent path pages: pick your race and professions above the 1–60 timeline. A race adds its racials at level 1, its camp quest giver with map coordinates at level 4 and its faction’s weapons and dungeons; a profession adds its camp objects. The camp quest is level 4, not 5, and two-hand melee paths no longer list staves.
- Talent path pages: the 1–60 timeline of all 27 paths now also shows what the world opens at each level, each linked to its page: the first camp quest, the Cozy Sleeping Bag quests, the nine new dungeons, Dual Specialization at 40 and the raids; and the best weapon to pick up every four levels, with its tooltip.
- New page: the WoW Forever tier list, ranked by the targets Blizzard’s designers gave (Rogues the top single-target DPS, pure damage classes next, hybrids about 5% behind, Warriors the best at cleave), with every talent path’s beta bugs, buffs and plans under its name. Source: Blizzard
- Excavation Site: Wetlands: the dungeon page now has what the beta shows: tactics for three of the four bosses, the level 31 final boss, four Horde and seven Alliance quests with where each starts, and the first loot. Source: Wowhead
- French: a news section, starting with the two WoW Forever Podcast episodes written for French players, spells and talents named as the French client names them.
- News: the WoW Forever Podcast episode 1, read in full: why the Skyborne exist and split by faction, how layering works, level 20 in 20.5 hours against Classic Era’s 20.4, and fewer blue quest rewards at low level. The leveling, servers and Skyborne pages carry its facts. Source: Blizzard
- French: the 177 class macros are now in French, with a switch between the French and the English client’s spell names, since many French players run the game in English.
- News: what the developers said about every class on the WoW Forever Podcast (episode 2): the 3–4 button rule, the 5% hybrid cost, Recklessness, Death Mark for Subtlety, more stable slots, and the bugs being fixed. Each class page links to it. Source: Blizzard
- French: the race pages are now in French, the overview with every racial compared and the nine race pages, with racials named and quoted as the French client writes them.
- Hunter guide: all 18 pet families as cards from the beta client, each with its diet, the shared abilities it learns and the ability only it has (the new Fox’s Trickster’s Dance among them), with the client’s tooltips. Source: Blizzard
- System requirements: Forever won’t run on graphics cards older than AMD Graphics Core Next 1, NVIDIA Maxwell or Intel Skylake; a new section lists Blizzard’s examples of cards that work and cards that don’t. Source: Blizzard
- More from the October 1 beta notes: campfires no longer hurt players below level 5 (camping), respawns are faster in seven leveling zones (leveling), low-rank spells trigger talents less often (macros), and an uncollected bind-on-equip item sold to a vendor becomes soulbound (Forever vs Classic). Source: Blizzard
- Dungeons: a new section shows every dungeon open in the beta at its level cap of 30, three new ones with art and eleven from Classic; Razorfen Downs opens at 25 and Uldaman at 30. Source: Blizzard
- Class pages: every class’s list of changes now carries Blizzard’s October 1 beta notes beyond talents, such as shapeshift forms immune to Disarm, pets’ Aggressive mode back, Hellfire able to crit and Devouring Plague able to crit. Source: Blizzard
- Paladin weapons: Verigan’s Fist gained a proc in build 1.60.1.70170 (Holy Forgefire, 39 to 59 damage, tripled against Fire and Earth Elementals); the page now has a section on it and on the new Paladin-only Moonsilver Blade. Source: wago.tools
- Professions: a creature can be skinned only once again (groups could skin one corpse several times in the beta’s first two weeks), crafted Enchanting wands now sell for 1 copper, and starter areas have fewer Poor Copper Veins. Source: Blizzard
- News: Field Researcher’s Loop, the Agility ring for 20 library books, is no longer Rogue-only in build 1.60.1.70170; every class can pick it. Source: wago.tools
- Dungeons: Excavation Site: Wetlands is now a level 26–31 dungeon (it was 24–29) and is open in the beta, per Blizzard’s October 1 notes. Source: Blizzard
- Item data moved to beta build 1.60.1.70170: the Horde relics on Zephras Isle are now Idol of Shifting Tides and Totem of Charged Flames (uncommon, and the totem also covers Flame Shock), and the library book rewards were lowered (necks uncommon at item level 23, rings item level 35). The secrets page and both news articles follow. Source: wago.tools
- Gnome: Eureka! no longer boosts periodic effects such as Rend, Rupture and Garrote; it works on your next 3 non-periodic abilities. Source: Wowhead
- City of Dalaran: the dungeon isn’t in this week’s beta build; Blizzard’s Josh Greenfield says it comes in a later update. Excavation Site: Wetlands is the new dungeon this week. Source: Wowhead
- October 1 beta build: dungeon quests now give half the extra experience they did, after feedback on leveling speed. The leveling and dungeons pages say so. Source: Blizzard
- PvP: the Honor cap rises from 15,000 to 25,000 and most PvP gear and upgrade tokens cost about 50% more Honor. Source: Blizzard
- Secrets: Savory Whimsyfin Delight now gives an orc ninja or pirate outfit; Blizzard says the murloc and ogre forms were placeholders. Source: Blizzard
- Talent data moved to beta build 1.60.1.70170 (October 1): Shifting Power and Improved Shifting Power join the Feral tree, King of the Jungle and Tiger’s Fury are gone, Hot Streak is now Heating Up, and Redoubt, Holy Shield, Champion of the Light, Deflection and Combustion have new numbers. The Warrior rework in Blizzard’s notes isn’t in the client yet. Source: Blizzard
- The talent calculator is now in French: the calculator and the nine class talent pages, with every talent and spell named as the French client names it. More French pages follow.
- New: class macros. 177 ready-to-paste macros for the nine classes, built from the beta client’s spell names, filtered by talent path, level and PvP, each with the rule it is built on and why.
- Rogue guide: Energy now recovers continuously instead of every two seconds, from Blizzard’s class highlights video. Source: Wowhead
- Druid guide: Blizzard says the next beta build removes Tiger’s Fury for Shifting Power, a new Feral talent that grants 40 Energy, and Furor now empties your Energy when you go Bear. Source: Blizzard
- Warrior guide: Blizzard’s new Rage rules (armor and absorbs no longer cut Rage from being hit, crits give 75% more) and the Rage bugs it is still tracking down in the beta. Source: Blizzard
- Dual spec is confirmed: Dual Specialization opens at level 40, and talents change at a class trainer in a major city. Source: Blizzard
- Secrets: two new pets in the capital cities: the Baby Crocolisk from Sewer Beast in the Stormwind canals, and the Excitable Slime you dance with in the Undercity canal. Source: Wowhead
- Dungeons: the leveling roadmap can now show Classic's dungeons beside the new ones, with their Classic Era level ranges, and cards for the two Forever changes (Deadmines and Wailing Caverns).
- Dalaran is open in the beta: the City of Dalaran page now says how to get into the city and down to the dungeon (Alliance through the sewers, Horde from outside with the Dalaran Sewer Key), and the PvP page that its Underbelly queues every battleground. Source: Wowhead
- Secrets: Savory Whimsyfin Delight, a cooking recipe from random mobs that turns you into a murloc or an ogre for an hour. Source: Wowhead
- PvP FAQ: the lower crit damage against players in the beta is a bug, Blizzard game designer Zirene said on September 29, and it won’t stay. Source: Wowhead
- New: a secrets page for hidden pets, quests and collectibles. Each card has a zone map with its own pins, the steps, the rewards with tooltips and its sources, and you can tick off what you’ve found.
- Zephras Isle: how to get the Musical Gustjumper frog pet (/sing at the singing frogs), and the island and the Riverglades are now marked as in the beta. Classic Mode answers whether there’s a Classic UI option: no, the developers leave it to addons. Source: Warcraft Tavern
- Blizzard will increasingly act against gold buyers in Forever, not just sellers: the gold is removed and accounts can be closed, and taking gold from strangers counts too. Added to the GDKP ban article. Source: Blizzard · Our news article
- On the release timeline: Holly Longdale’s PAX Aus keynote on October 8 at 6:00 PM PDT, with Clay Stone’s deep dive into one of Forever’s new dungeons. Source: Wowhead
- The library books article adds where to turn books in (Garion Wendell in Stormwind, Owen Thadd in the Undercity) and Wowhead’s account of the Mage Study ability. Source: Wowhead · Our news article
- Ruins of Lordaeron now shows the beta: boss types and tactics, the level 20 final boss, and nine quests with their faction, XP and rewards from Wowhead’s walkthrough. The Blackmaw Hold page notes the developers’ “BRD-like mega dungeon” tease, and the Druid guide covers the level 20 Cat Form quest. Source: Wowhead
- New on every profession page: a recipe library of every recipe in the beta client, with what it makes, reagents, skill colors and game tooltips. Filter by category, show only what’s new in Forever or whose reagents changed (Enchanting now uses Mote of Magic instead of Strange Dust), and search a recipe or reagent.
- Race pages checked against the beta client: every racial now shows its client value and cooldown, a few demo values were corrected (Touch of the Grave, Shadowmeld, Contingency Plan, Plainsrunning) and Priest racial spells show their top-rank numbers. Source: wago.tools
- New: a camping planner. Pick a campfire, add up to five players with their professions and see the camp objects each can place, the buffs at your level, which class buffs they don’t stack with, and how long the camp and its buffs last. Every object and value comes from the beta client; camping now has its own page.
- New on the races page: compare every race’s racials side by side. Pick a class and talent path to rank races by how many racials work with its talents, switch on Classic to see what each racial was, and pin up to three races.
- New: a class quiz. Answer eight picture questions about role, range, pets, PvP and what’s new in Forever, and see your top three classes with how well each fits, the race for your faction and a link you can share.
- New: a page for each of the 27 talent paths, such as Feral Druid or Protection Paladin: the tree drawn like the calculator with a community build, a level 1–60 timeline of talents and trainer abilities, weapons per level, fitting races and every talent Forever added, changed or removed.
- News: a Black Market Auction House at Powderfuse Port in the Riverglades, and a vendor beside it selling Black Lotus and Arcane Crystal for a fixed 50 gold. The Riverglades page and Forever vs Classic are updated too, with Druids now able to drink potions in forms. Source: Wowhead · Our news article
- A new header menu: every class links straight to its guide, abilities and weapon planner; a World menu for the map, zones, dungeons, raids and PvP; a Tools menu with the calculator, weapon planner, map, profession and Legacy planners and the beta datamine; and the guides in three groups.
- New: a weapon planner for every class. Pick your playstyle and level and see every weapon of the beta client on a DPS chart, the next upgrade and where to get it, with the weapons Forever added or changed marked against Classic.
- Drop quests in a group: developer Josh Greenfield says Forever spreads quest items more evenly between group members, with bad luck protection for whoever is behind. Added to the leveling guide and the Forever vs Classic comparison. Source: Wowhead
- Every zone page and the Krol’dok Stronghold, Drowned City and Blackmaw Hold pages now show the beta client’s zone map with its areas, flight points and entrances. The editions page shows Blizzard’s pack and box art, Hardcore gets the official panel image, and the leveling roadmap has a picture for every zone and dungeon.
- Herbalism, Mining, Skinning and Fishing now show every material as a card with its beta-client tooltip, grouped by skill, with a “your skill” box that dims what you can’t gather yet. The beta datamine tables got icons and tooltips, and the item news cards absorbed their duplicate tables.
- Every news article now leads with a picture: item cards with the beta client’s tooltips for the item stories, and Blizzard’s own images, credited and linked, for the rest. Onyxia’s Lair gets its loading screen, boss card and signature items.
- Boss cards from the beta client on five more dungeon pages: every boss of the Ruins of Lordaeron (7), Excavation Site: Wetlands (4) and City of Dalaran (9), and the known bosses of Alcaz Prison and Shaper’s Terrace, with the end bosses the game tracks in Statistics marked.
- Servers page checked against Blizzard’s new ruleset article: battlegrounds mix rulesets except Hardcore, the PvP ruleset allows one faction per account, and where the Preferred Online Language setting is. Source: Blizzard
- Name reservation page: Blizzard’s naming article on hiding your second name (Options, Nameplates) and the filter reading both names together, and Tom Ellis’s note that 0.18% of beta names cost their owners the beta. Source: Blizzard
- What’s new next to Classic: inspect now shows talents, a Recent Allies list, a Statistics tab and the Cooldown Manager; the professions page adds recipe tracking, profession links and filters. Source: Wowhead
- Four new dungeon pages now show their loading screens from the beta client, and Hall of Thanes’ bosses and quests are cards you can scan at a glance.
- Hall of Thanes now shows what the beta has: its 4 bosses in order from the client (the second is Infurnus in the client, Magmatus in Wowhead’s walkthrough), what to watch for on each, the 5 Alliance-only quests and their rewards. Source: Wowhead
- Name reservation page: Blizzard forced name changes on beta characters that broke its naming policy and removed some testers’ beta access on September 24, with no appeals through Customer Service; an automatic name check is coming. The mail mix-up from shared first names was fixed in the same build. Source: Blizzard
- Talent calculator, class pages and datamine rebuilt from the September 24 beta client (1.60.1.70009): Improved Holy Strike and Crusade are gone, Mangle is Primal Bite, Primal Fury is Blood Frenzy again, Elemental Fury and Elemental Alacrity swap rows, and 18 talents changed. Shared builds keep working. Our news article
- News: the September 24 beta build, class by class. Wrath, Holy Strike and Lava Burst hit harder, two talent pairs swap rows, Improved Holy Strike is gone, Mangle becomes Primal Bite, wands lose spell damage and the Cooldown Manager is in testing. Source: Blizzard · Our news article
- Race pages updated for the September 24 beta build: Gnome Eureka! now saves 10% for every class (it was up to 50%), Tauren Cultivation has level requirements per herb, and Undead Touch of the Grave no longer breaks crowd control. Source: Blizzard
- The Collector’s Edition was restocked on September 24 for North America, the UK, Europe, Australia and New Zealand, one per household, shipping February 2027; the US Gear Store showed it sold out again the next day. The editions page and a news article have the details. Source: Blizzard · Our news article
- New: an interactive WoW Forever world map from the beta client’s own map art. Kalimdor, the Eastern Kingdoms and Zephras Isle, with every zone’s detailed map a click or scroll away, 65 flight points and their paths by faction, boats and zeppelins, and dungeon and raid entrances, the new Forever places marked.
- News: Blizzard says increased weather effects are coming soon to the beta zones. What its post and video say, and the 41 weather definitions in the beta client that none of the other WoW clients we compared has. Source: Blizzard
- News: a Horde-only quest on Zephras Isle gives Druids an idol and Shamans a totem at level 5. The quest steps, both relics’ stats from the beta client and what the totem saves on each Lightning Bolt rank. Source: Wowhead
- News: the Alliance can buy a kodo, the Reins of the Pack Kodo, for 6,000 Merchant’s Favor. The beta client says it’s an epic mount for level 60 with no faction limit; the article covers the supply crates that earn the currency. Source: Wowhead
- News: three Barrens rares drop Blessing of Kalimdor, a set whose two pieces give 5% movement speed in the Barrens and Stonetalon Mountains, plus two more small sets from the beta client, one with mount speed in the Plaguelands. Source: Wowhead
- News: Druids wearing the full Wailing Caverns set Embrace of the Viper turn into a snake. Every bonus of the set, and of the Deadmines’ Defias Leather, against Classic Era, from both clients. Source: Wowhead
- The Legacy System guide now follows Blizzard’s official article: all 65 challenges and their points, 29 for one character in the calculator, the system opening with your first Legacy Point, and tradeskill points for crafting professions only. Source: Blizzard · Our news article
- Correction on Hunters: the shorter Auto Shot and wand cast time in the beta is a bug. Blizzard says the 0.5-second cast stays and a fix is coming in an upcoming beta build; the Hunter pages now say so. Source: Blizzard
- New pages for the six new race and class combinations: Dwarf Shaman, Gnome Priest, Human Hunter, Orc Mage, Troll Warlock and Undead Paladin. Each shows which racials help the class, the talents they pair with, community builds and how the race compares; the Dwarf Shaman page has the totem quests. Source: Warcraft Tavern
- News: the Season of Discovery library books are back for every class in the beta. 10 books earn a neck and 20 a ring; we read the four rewards’ stats from the beta client, where one ring turns out to be Rogue only. Source: Warcraft Tavern
- Correction: the experience needed to reach 60 is the same as in Classic. Wowhead retracted its datamine of a 26% lower curve after Blizzard explained the file isn’t used by the game; the leveling guide and the class guides no longer carry the 26%. Source: Wowhead
- The Skyborne page now lists every appearance option Blizzard published, by body type: faces, skin and hair, ear lengths, eyes, facial hair, feathers, earrings and the Zephyr and Wayfinder body tattoos, plus the barber shop for changing them later. Source: Blizzard
- Blizzard published every race’s classes and racial traits on September 23, and a Skyborne article with their two factions and starting zone. Our race pages matched the numbers word for word, so they are no longer marked as demo values. Source: Blizzard
- New news section: one short article per news topic, each with its facts, what they mean for you, what is still unknown and its sources, plus a weekly recap of what changed on the site.
- Weekly recap for September 16–22: the beta opening, the switch to the beta client’s talent data and the week’s new guides, day by day with their sources.
- News: GDKP is not allowed in Forever. Blizzard’s reasons from the Live Q&A, and what else it has said about gold buying, the WoW Token, boosts and dungeon boosting. Source: Blizzard
- News: addons in Forever. The modern UI and API, Midnight’s combat addon restrictions, the built-in damage meter, and what that means for WeakAuras and Classic Era addons. Source: Wowhead
- News: the 48-slot bank, dungeon loot mailed to you by the Lost and Found, and the beta mail mix-up caused by two-part names. Source: Wowhead
- Every class page is now a full guide: is the class for you, its three specs and the Forever talents they rest on, abilities by level from the beta client, the race for your weapon and what changed from Classic. Talent calculators now list the community builds posted for the beta and the races for each class.
- Beta datamine: which announced zones, dungeons and raids the beta client already has maps for, and the places nobody has announced, from a Ruins of Gilneas zone to Manor Mistmantle.
- Beta datamine: every new spell in the beta client, by kind and class, with new Tier 1 set bonuses written per spec, the new mounts and companions, and a new racial for every race.
- New beta datamine series, counted from the beta client’s own tables: first, every new item, by level, slot and armor type, with the new Premier honor gear, Horde Paladin and Alliance Shaman sets and crafting-order writs; plus how we count.
- A Wowhead datamine said the beta needs about 26% less experience to reach 60 (retracted on September 23: the curve is the same as Classic); also the 48-slot bank, mailed dungeon loot, name rules in the beta and the Hunter Auto Shot change. Our news article
- Two new guides: the Hardcore ruleset (not at launch, what happens when you die, Legacy points) and Classic mode (the transmog toggle, HD and SD models).
- New PvP guide: no rated PvP, the seasonal honor track, Darkspear Islands, battleground queues, and the honor ranks and weekly cap found in the beta client.
- New leveling guide: the new zones and dungeons by level, the dungeon XP changes, where the new quests are, Legacy leveling perks and travel.
- Each class now has an abilities page: the trainer abilities that are new, changed or gone in the Forever beta client compared with Classic Era, with the text of both.
- Each profession now has its own page, with its camp objects, Legacy perks and a list of the recipes that are new in the beta client.
- Each launch raid now has its own page: the Barrow Deeps, Hyjal Summit and Onyxia’s Lair, with size, open day, entrances, the demo’s boss names and what is still unannounced.
- New answers: a PvP ruleset allows one faction per player, mob tagging stays unshared, and the beta is hosted in the US with better routing for Europe.
- New professions and camping guide: what stays the same as Classic, the 600+ new recipes, every profession’s camp objects and buffs, campfire sizes and the Legacy perks that go with them.
- Every new dungeon now has its own page: levels, where it is, who Blizzard pitched it to, and what Blizzard has shown of it.
- Each new zone now has its own page: Mount Hyjal, Shen’dralas, the Riverglades and Zephras Isle, with what is in them and how you get there.
- The servers page explains the World Refresh notification: the warning before the game moves you to another copy of your zone, the “Refresh Now” button, and what can be different once you are there. Source: Wowhead
- The calculator and talent pages now read beta build 1.60.1.69913, which changed no talents; the Beta changes sections still compare the BlizzCon demo data with the beta. Source: wago.tools
- The raids, dungeons, release date, Forever vs Classic and zones pages add this week’s developer interviews: the launch raids need no attunement, item stats stay hidden until they drop, and riding training costs 100 or 1,000 gold with the first mount free.
- The beta is open, and the release date page now has Blizzard’s dates for it (September 17 to October 21), how to get in and its known issues list. Source: Blizzard
- The servers, raids, dungeons, name reservation, Legacy and Skyborne pages add Blizzard’s September 17 Live Q&A answers and the beta known issues: shared battlegrounds, one difficulty, a required last name, no GDKP. Source: Blizzard · Our news article
- Each class talent page now lists the talents that differ between the BlizzCon demo data and the beta, and the calculator’s ⇄ toggle marks them in the trees.
- The talent calculator now reads its talents from the beta client (build 1.60.1.69893) instead of transcriptions of the BlizzCon demo. Source: wago.tools
- New talent data updates page: each rebuild of the calculator’s talent data, and what changed from the demo to the beta.
- New raids guide: the Barrow Deeps, Hyjal Summit and Onyxia’s Lair, raid sizes, tier sets and the raid roadmap.
- The dungeons page’s level chart is now a leveling roadmap, with the new zones’ levels beside the dungeons.
- Build links made before the talent trees change still open with their talents; a point the new trees can’t take is dropped with a notice.
- New Forever vs Classic page: what WoW Forever is and what changes from Classic.
- New editions and prices page: what the Skyborne Heroic and Epic Packs, the Warcraft Forever Collection and the Collector’s Edition include.
- New system requirements page: Blizzard’s minimum and recommended specs for Windows and Mac.
- New About page: where our facts and talent data come from, and how we check them.
- New name reservation page: when you can reserve names before launch, and how two-part names work.
- On phones, the talent trees now stack, pages scroll only up and down, and tables turn into cards.
- New zones page: the four new zones, their stories and levels.
- New class changes pages: what changes for each class in Forever, with a page per class.
- New dungeons page: the nine new dungeons in level order.
- New release date page, and a launch countdown in the header.
- New servers page: how Forever works without realms, and its rulesets.
- New Legacy System page: Legacy Points, perks and rewards.
- New race pages: the racials of every race in Forever, including the new Skyborne.