WoW Forever Races and Classes
You can finally roll a Forsaken Paladin or a Dwarf Shaman. Check the full race and class choices, including how Skyborne differ between factions.
News & guide updates
Catch up on beta changes, follow a new discovery, or see what we’ve added to a guide you read earlier.
WoW Forever vs Classic: What Is Changing?
Your old Classic habits will only get you so far. Here is what changes when you choose a character, spend talent points or put a dungeon group together.
WoW Forever leveling: is another dungeon run worth it?
Prepare a dungeon route by separating kills, quest turn-ins, loot and group time. The beta closed October 23; its XP changes are dated evidence, not final launch values.
Level 30 beta: Dalaran testing and dungeon XP changes
The beta closed October 23. Keep its level-30 cap, dungeon XP changes and Legacy testing grant separate from launch planning.
Outlaw Sabre and Thrash Blade: check the October 9 corrections
Moon says Outlaw Sabre remains blue; he also rejects the non-rare Thrash Blade image. Check these dated clarifications before changing a weapon plan.
Four Classic habits to reconsider before your next Forever dungeon
Shield the Warrior? Pick a Priest race for Fear Ward? Ignore a Feral weapon’s damage? Blizzard’s first four class deep dives give familiar dungeon decisions a different answer.
Herb seeds in WoW Forever: check the Greenhouse blueprint before you wait
Blueprint: Greenhouse points Herbalists toward Shadetooth and skill 140. New hands-on reporting explains the growing time and why a camp break is the moment to try a seed.
Mage and Shaman in WoW Forever: what to prepare before the pull
Elemental Mastery is back, raid buffs reach beyond your party, and Grace of Air can accompany a weapon totem. Recheck your tree and preset before the next dungeon.
WoW Forever Professions: New Recipes, Blueprints and Camping
Share profession buffs around a campfire, discover recipes as you level and find Blueprints on your next dungeon run.
WoW Forever Legacy System: Points, Trees and Rewards
An alt can benefit from Legacy Points you earned on another character. Here’s how to unlock them and decide where to spend the 16 points available at launch.
WoW Forever PvP: spend Honor, earn ranks and prepare for Darkspear Islands
Honor buys gear; ranks unlock upgrades; Darkspear reputation has its own rewards. Use the announced systems to prepare for launch after the October 23 beta closure.
Krol’dok is level 40–45: Blizzard clarifies all nine new dungeon ranges
Check the nine dungeon ranges, start Dalaran’s attunement in Southshore or Tarren Mill, and bring Un’Goro crystals for Shaper’s Terrace.
Rogue and Warlock in WoW Forever: prepare control, curses and weapon effects
Sap preserves Stealth, poisons and stones can coexist, and Warlock Banes have a per-target limit. Agree on control and utility before the first pull.
Beyond the queue: what to try first in WoW Forever
The beta gives you a chance to try the character you usually talk yourself out of playing. Here is where we would start.
Inside Zephras Isle: a new home in the clouds, and trouble on the ground
A closer look at the Skyborne starting zone: its island map, blue-canvas camps and two early quests worth picking up together.
WoW Forever launches November 4 — beta comes first
Blizzard’s next Azeroth adventure runs alongside modern and Classic WoW. Here are the launch plans, beta window and subscription details.
WoW Forever Beta Has Ended: What Comes Next
The beta is closed. Check name-reservation eligibility and regional times, then prepare your character for the November 4 launch.
WoW Forever FAQ: Servers, Beta and Gameplay
The beta is closed. Check name reservation, choose a ruleset with friends and understand what carries between characters.
Past event: Forever’s Final Stand — October 16–17
Historical guide to ARPC’s October 16 beta event. October 22 correction: Blizzard has since announced RP-PvP for launch; current planning advice is linked inside.
WoW Forever beta known issues: check these before comparing builds
Before changing a build or reinstalling: check the October 15 fixes for Bear threat, Hunter pets, shields, gamepad layouts and quest hand-ins against older reports.
Blizzard explains WoW Forever beta launch queues and disconnects
The opening night was rough. Blizzard has now detailed three separate problems behind it: a Battle.net connection limit, slow PTR database queries and a WORLD-server resource leak.
WoW Forever beta opens after the September 17 Q&A
Blizzard’s Q&A leads into beta day. Here are the stream times and where to check access.
Past offer: McDonald’s Australia’s WoW Forever beta keys
The MyMacca’s beta-key promotion ended on October 20, and the beta is closed. This article preserves the original redemption instructions.
WoW Forever’s new regions, dungeons and raids
Four named regions, more than 1,000 new quests and nine new dungeons expand the original world. The first new raids have a separate opening date.
Why another elf? The Skyborne answer is more interesting than it sounds
A fresh developer interview adds the practical answer — players like elves — while Blizzard's own lore gives the Skyborne a much stranger foundation in Eldre’Thalas, Skywall and a home literally falling apart.
Warlockguy wins The Forever Open: the final and the builds
Warlockguy beat Neepzen 3–1 after coming through the lower final. The organiser’s bracket links both warlocks’ builds, but their shared 5/21/0 totals hide different allocations.
WoW Forever economy holds: what trading restrictions mean
Blizzard’s temporary holds restrict trade, mail, guild banks and the Auction House during an RMT investigation. A hold alone is separate from a later account penalty.
Listen to the WoW Forever soundtrack outside the beta
Open Blizzard’s full soundtrack video, choose a music service, or jump straight to Zephras Isle, Riverglades and Hyjal.
WoW Forever questing: new routes through familiar Azeroth
New stories can give familiar roads another purpose. Find a reported Torch quest in Duskwood, then plan around the latest dungeon-XP changes.
WoW Forever Q&A: regional GDKP rules, raid sizes and PvP
The September 17 Q&A set out raid and PvP plans. Clay Stone’s October 8 interview adds the regional limit to the GDKP ban.
WoW Forever at PAX Aus: watch the keynote recording
Missed the PAX Aus keynote? The recording is available on Warcraft’s channel. Find the replay, the original stream times and the hands-on dates.
Josh Greenfield teases more for The Missing Diplomat in WoW Forever
An old mystery may have another chapter. Greenfield also points to new quests in Wetlands, Azshara and the early leveling zones.
WoW Forever set bonuses now include a hidden Druid Serpent Form
Raid-set datamining points to role-specific bonuses, while a Wailing Caverns set has produced a hidden Druid transformation in beta.
Mac players are reporting hard crashes in the WoW Forever beta
Apple Silicon players are hitting freezes and WindowServer crashes while entering the world. Setting Secondary Lighting to Fair is helping many players, but it is not a universal fix.
New routes through old Azeroth: Stormwind Harbor, Riverglades and Zephras
Blizzard’s Found Photos panel opens more paths through Azeroth, from new ship routes and expanded old zones to the Skyborne’s island in the clouds.
WoW Forever plans to hide item stats until players find the loot
Josh Greenfield wants the first raid discoveries to come from actual drops, rather than a finished shopping list.
WoW Forever reworks gear stats and adds new caster quest rewards
Combined hit and crit, better healing gear for questing, and new rewards from familiar quests change what’s worth equipping.
Forsaken Paladins get their own level-60 epic mount quest
An undead Paladin means more than a new character-creation option: a local story in Tirisfal and a mount quest built around Retribution.
WoW Forever is an adjacent timeline — and Blizzard is already talking about the roads not taken
A fresh developer interview gives us a much clearer read on Forever’s boundaries: familiar Azeroth first, more quest choices, no wild new class roles at launch, full controller support, and plenty of tempting ideas that are explicitly not promises.
WoW Forever: no current plans for Tokens or paid boosts
Interview coverage says Blizzard wants the level 1–60 journey to matter. “No plans” is the wording to keep in mind.
WoW Forever Talent Calculator
Plan your WoW Forever talents across all nine classes. Spend points, compare talent changes with Classic and share your build using community BlizzCon demo data.
Skyborne, Forsaken Paladins and Dwarf Shamans announced
The original announcement introduced new character options for both factions. The maintained race and class guide now brings the confirmed choices together.