WoW Forever DB

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WoW Forever DB

Blizzard's World of Warcraft: Forever news and blue posts, summarised, and class and race guides written against the beta client and kept current as it patches.

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Kaivax

Blue post , updated

Beta Realm Maintenance - October 15

On 15 October Blizzard took the Beta down at 1:15 p.m. PDT to deploy and test a new build with many changes and fixes. A follow-up on 16 October said realms were back and that players not on client 70425 should update through the Blizzard app.

Kaivax

Blue post , updated

WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated October 15

This is Blizzard's running development notes thread for the WoW Forever beta, with posts on 24 September, 1 October, 8 October and 16 October. Early builds covered class fixes and balance, Cooldown Manager and gamepad work, and quest fixes. Later builds raised the beta level cap to 30, added dungeons, and the 16 October build reworked racial abilities, made several group auras raid-wide, and made UI and Auction House changes.

Kaivax

Blue post

WoW Forever Stress Test October 19

Blizzard announced a WoW Forever Stress Test on 19 October. The Beta goes offline first, then the game opens on the regional hardware it will use at launch. Any player with a WoW account can join without an active subscription. When it ends, all characters, including names, are wiped and the Beta reopens.

All WoW Forever news

Site updates

  • News and blue posts: The home page and a new News page gather Blizzard's WoW Forever news and blue posts, each with our own summary and a link to the original.
  • Races: All ten races, with their racial abilities, lore, starting zones, the classes each can be and the ones each suits best.
  • Launch countdown: Every page now counts down to the WoW Forever launch, in your own time zone.
  • A guide per spec: Each spec has its own overview, rotation, leveling, spells or abilities and talents pages.
  • WoW Forever DB opens: Guides for all nine classes, written against the beta client and kept current as it patches.

Guide changes

  • Warrior: Battle Shout now buffs the whole raid, not just your party.
  • Warrior: Damage and spell pushback no longer interrupt or push back Slam's cast.
  • Warrior: Ruthless changed to +2% crit on every attack, replacing Sword Specialization.
  • Warrior: Earth Fury changed to +2% critical damage and healing, replacing Mace Specialization.
  • Warrior: Quickness movement speed now stacks with other speed increases.
  • Warrior: Eureka! changed from a buff for the next 3 attacks to an 8-second buff with no charges.

What each guide covers

  • Leveling 1–60: zones for every race, dungeons by faction, and the spells, ranks and talents each band brings.
  • A guide per spec: strengths and weaknesses, stat priority, tips and pitfalls.
  • Rotations: single target, packs, cooldowns, leveling priorities and macros.
  • Every spell and ability: the level of each rank and what Forever changed from Classic Era.
  • Talent trees: the beta trees with leveling orders and builds you can step through by level.

Zone guides, tier lists and a full talent builder are on the way.

Races

All ten races, Alliance and Horde: their racial abilities, lore, starting zones and the classes each can be.

Browse the races

Forever is in beta and patches weekly. A guide's changes page says which client build it describes and what changed on the way.