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WoW Forever Podcast Episode 4: The Developers on PvP
In episode 4 of the WoW: Forever Podcast, Josh “Aggrend” Greenfield and Tim Jones talked PvP with host Josh Corbett and the content creators Savix and Tips Out. Alterac Valley will give a little less Honor and the other battlegrounds much more, premade groups only meet other premades, there are no plans for an RP-PvP ruleset, arenas or protection for low-level players, and Blizzard showed the duel arena it built in a crater of Mount Hyjal for the Forever Open tournament.
WoW Forever Podcast Episode 3: The Developers on Dungeons and Raids
In episode 3 of the WoW: Forever Podcast, Josh “Aggrend” Greenfield and encounter designers Jay Hartman and Rowan Ryder talked dungeons and raids with host Josh Corbett and Hammerdance. Creature kills in dungeons now give about 20% more experience, the new dungeons get no maps and no working meeting stones, the Onyxia attunement stays per character, and racial ability changes are planned for next week’s beta build.
WoW Forever Beta Build of October 8: Dungeon XP, Dalaran and Legacy Points
Blizzard updated the Forever beta on October 8. Creatures in dungeons give approximately 20% more experience and party experience follows the Classic Era rule again, the City of Dalaran dungeon is open for testing, every tester was granted 16 Legacy Points, critical strikes in PvP are back to full strength, and the Cooldown Manager now covers every class.
Blizzard Details WoW Forever PvP: Rank Rewards and the Darkspear Islands
On October 7 Blizzard published two PvP articles: Honor is the currency for PvP gear, Rank Points move you through 14 ranks under a weekly cap, every rank has a reward, and the Darkspear Islands are a 15v15 battleground for levels 30–60, first team to 2,000 points.
WoW Forever Podcast Episode 2: The Developers on Every Class
In episode 2 of the WoW: Forever Podcast, designers Kris Zierhut and Aidan Moon and Josh “Aggrend” Greenfield answered an hour of class questions from host Josh Corbett and Sodapoppin. They set a 3–4 button rule for core rotations and a 5% damage cost for hybrids, explained Shifting Power and the 30-minute Recklessness, and named fixes and plans for every class.
WoW Forever Podcast Episode 1: Skyborne, Layering and Leveling Speed
In the first WoW: Forever Podcast, Josh “Aggrend” Greenfield and lead designer Tim Jones talked with host Josh Corbett and Xaryu about the beta’s first week: why the Skyborne were made and split between factions, how the new layering works, that reaching level 20 takes as long as in Classic Era (20.5 hours against 20.4), and that early dungeons hand out too many blue items.
A Black Market Auction House at Powderfuse Port
Beta players found two goblins at Powderfuse Port in the Riverglades: Madam Swyndle runs a Black Market Auction House, and Mister Graphed sells top-end reagents at fixed prices, Black Lotus and Arcane Crystal for 50 gold, with no limit.
WoW Forever Beta Build of September 24: Every Class Change
Blizzard put a new build on the Forever beta on September 24 (client 1.60.1.70009) with a long list of class tuning: Druid Wrath hits about 50% harder, Holy Strike gains damage at every rank, two talent pairs trade rows, Improved Holy Strike is gone and Mangle is now Primal Bite. Gnomes lose most of their Eureka! discount, wands stop scaling with spell damage and the Cooldown Manager is in testing.
WoW Forever Collector’s Edition Restocked, Shipping February 2027
Blizzard made more English copies of the $150 World of Warcraft: Forever Collector’s Edition available on September 24. Orders from this batch ship in February 2027, three months after launch, and the Blizzard Gear Store now limits them to one per household. By the next morning the US Gear Store listing showed Sold Out again.
Increased Weather Effects Are Coming to the WoW Forever Beta
Blizzard posted on September 23 that increased weather effects are coming soon to the Forever beta, with a short video of beta zones. The beta client already has 41 weather definitions that no other WoW client we compared has.
A Horde-Only Druid Idol and Shaman Totem on Zephras Isle
In the Forever beta, the quest Meddlesome Mages in Shen’dar Village on Zephras Isle gives Horde Druids an idol and Horde Shamans a totem from level 5. Alliance characters can’t get the quest. Both relics are new items in the beta client and save a little mana.
The Alliance Can Ride a Kodo in WoW Forever: the Pack Kodo
Wowhead found the Reins of the Pack Kodo among the Azeroth Commerce Authority’s rewards in the Forever beta, for 6,000 Merchant’s Favor. The beta client lists it as a new epic mount that needs level 60 and has no race or faction limit.
Barrens Rares Drop a Set with a Zone Speed Bonus in WoW Forever
In the Forever beta, the Barrens rares Humar the Pridelord, Swiftmane and Takk the Leaper drop pieces of a set whose 2-piece bonus is 5% movement speed in the Barrens and Stonetalon Mountains. The beta client names it Blessing of Kalimdor and has two more new small sets built the same way.
Embrace of the Viper Turns Druids into a Snake in WoW Forever
Druids who wear all five pieces of the Wailing Caverns set Embrace of the Viper turn into a snake in the Forever beta, a bonus the tooltip doesn’t show. The listed bonuses changed too: all four differ from Classic Era in the beta client, and the Deadmines’ Defias Leather set was reworked the same way.
Blizzard Lists All 65 Legacy Challenges in WoW Forever
Blizzard’s September 23 Legacy System article lists all 65 Legacy Challenges, 1 point each; one character can earn 29 of them, the system opens with your first Legacy Point, and only crafting professions count.
Library Books Return in WoW Forever, for Every Class
The books scattered around Azeroth that gave Mages runes in Season of Discovery can be collected by every class in the Forever beta: 10 books earn a choice of two necks, 20 a choice of two rings, and all four rewards are new items in the beta client.
WoW Forever Bank, Mail and Lost Loot: What Changes
In the Forever beta the default bank has 48 slots and 8 bank bag slots, loot you leave behind in a dungeon arrives by mail, and mail sent to a name reached the wrong character while two-part names are new.
Addons in WoW Forever: What Works and What’s Restricted
Blizzard says Forever runs modern WoW’s interface and addon API with the restrictions Midnight introduced: addons that automate combat are out, and addons made for Classic Era will likely need new versions.
GDKP Is Not Allowed on WoW Forever’s NA and EU Realms
Blizzard said in the September 17 Live Q&A that GDKP won’t be allowed in Forever, because gold-bid raids push guilds aside, raise the bar for new players and launder gold; there are no plans for a WoW Token or boosts either. Blizzard’s Clay Stone has since told 4Gamers, as reported by Wowhead, that the ban applies only to North American and European realms.