Talent Data Updates

All talent data updates

1. Sep 17, 2026

   Beta client, build 1.60.1.69893

   Talents, rank texts and icons are now read from the World of Warcraft: Forever beta client. What changed

2. Sep 15, 2026

   BlizzCon demo data, rebuilt

   Rebuilt from updated community transcriptions: 405 talents confirmed by three or more sources, up from 381. Higher ranks the demo didn't show went from 80 to 62, Riposte and Quietus gained their prerequisites, and estimates that couldn't be right, such as a chance above 100%, were dropped.

3. Sep 13, 2026

   First dataset, from the BlizzCon 2026 demo

   470 talents across 9 classes, from community transcriptions of the demo, cross-checked.

From the BlizzCon demo to the beta client

On September 17, 2026 the talent data behind the calculator and every talent and class page was rebuilt from the World of Warcraft: Forever beta client, build 1.60.1.69893. Before that it came from community transcriptions of the BlizzCon 2026 demo. Compared with that demo data:

Talents

468

470 in the demo data

Rank texts

1322

all but 1 rendered from the client

Estimated ranks

0

688 in the demo data

New icons

58

same talent, the client’s icon

Demo talents the beta client doesn’t have

Talents that moved

The other 461 talents are in the same tree and spot in both, with the same max rank and prerequisites.

Rank texts, icons and names

• Rank texts from the client. Each rank’s tooltip text is rendered from the client’s own spell data, with that rank’s numbers. For 31 ranks the numbers depend on the character, such as damage that grows with level or spell power, so the tooltip shows a level 60 reference character’s values and says so.
• Text from the demo. The client data can’t fill in 1 rank of Riposte, so that rank keeps its text from the BlizzCon demo and is marked.
• No estimates. The demo data had 688 estimated ranks, 62 of them with no text at all; now there are 0. Where the client’s text differs from the demo’s, the client’s is used: of the 466 talents in both, 406 have the same rank 1 text word for word.
• Icons. 58 talents show a different icon than in the demo data, now the one the client uses.
• Chinese names. The Chinese versions of the calculator now use the talent names and rank texts from the client’s own Chinese text, and translate only what the client doesn’t have in Chinese yet.

Build links made before this update

Links made with the demo data still open. Points in a talent that was removed or replaced are dropped, points in a renamed talent move to its new name, and points in a talent that moved stay with it. The calculator shows one notice when it opens such a link: how many points were dropped, or that the link was converted to the current trees.

How this update was checked

• The beta client’s talent tables for build 1.60.1.69893 were read through public exports of the client data and compared with the demo data talent by talent: tree, spot, max rank, prerequisites, icon and every rank’s text. The tables above list every difference in the trees.
• Where the client and the demo disagree, the client wins. New and changed talents are still measured against the Classic Era client, build 1.15.9.69722, so those marks follow the new data.
• Every build link of the demo data with a single point was opened on the new trees: each point came back as its own talent or its renamed one, or was dropped with the notice, never as a different talent.
• How the talent data is sourced and checked at every stage is on the About page.