WoW Forever beta known issues: check these before comparing builds

October 23 update: Blizzard confirmed that the WoW Forever beta closed on October 23, 2026. The fixes, reports and testing advice below are beta history, not a verified launch bug list. See the current access guide for name reservation and launch planning.

An unexpected threat or healing result can be a beta bug rather than a bad build. Start with Blizzard’s named October 15 corrections, then check the date beside the older reports below. A listed fix does not establish that every similar symptom is resolved.

October 15: combat fixes to check before a respec

Blizzard lists fixes for Faerie Fire threat in Bear and Dire Bear Form, Hunter pets benefiting from Expertise and inheriting the higher of melee or ranged critical-strike chance, and Power Word: Shield overwriting Seal of Fury. Inner Focus should apply to only one spell, including when another spell is queued during Penance.

If you are returning to a Bear tank, a Hunter pet setup or a Priest–Paladin group, repeat the affected action before changing your allocation to work around the old bug. These are Blizzard’s announced corrections; ForeverAtlas has not independently tested them in combat.

October 15: gamepad layouts and quest hand-ins

The October 15 notes fix the gamepad action bar disappearing after relogging with a custom Edit Mode layout, quest-reward selection blocking completion, and hand-ins to objects or other non-character quest givers. Using a ground-targeted item a second time now confirms its placement.

Try the named action again in the updated client. If it still fails, report the quest or layout, your controller and the build shown in your own client. The patch does not name every trigger-toggle symptom from the October 10–11 player reports.

October 15: retry the named quest step

For Body and Heart, Cenarion Moondust is no longer consumed at the stone, allowing another Lunaclaw summon. For Love Eternal can be turned in to Cerellian Whiteclaw at any time. The Attack! is now shareable even during its event and is no longer an escort quest; speak to Tyrion to start an inactive event.

If Lunaclaw defeated you, keep the Moondust and return to the stone to try again. For The Attack!, check whether the event is already running before speaking to Tyrion; the quest can now be shared during the event.

Blizzard fixed missing furbolg-camp credit for How Big a Threat?, Lord Melenas evading at low health in Twisted Hatred, and Novice Warriors flagging players for PvP in Sparring Match. Raene’s Cleansing has more Bloodtooth Guards, and several Wetlands areas have increased or more even respawns, including Incendicite Ore.

These corrections are specific to the named objectives. If one still fails, include the quest name, objective and client build in a beta report. They do not establish that every older quest-progression report is resolved.

Earlier client references for historical bug reports

October 14 observation: Blizzard’s public beta manifest lists client 1.60.1.70374 for the US, EU, Korea and Taiwan regions.

October 13 observation: Blizzard’s public beta manifest lists client 1.60.1.70338 for the US, EU, Korea and Taiwan regions.

These are historical feed observations, not the current client recommendation, proof of realm availability or a fix. Use the build shown by your own client and your region when reporting a bug.

October 12: Lone Wolf icon missing after death

On October 12, Kenpachi reports that Lone Wolf’s buff icon did not return after dying and reviving. The author says their own comparison found the talent effect remained active without the icon.

Do not respec on the missing icon alone. The author reports restoring it by logging back in or summoning and dismissing a pet. Those are reported icon-recovery options, not a guaranteed fix; the post gives no measurements or client build.

If you reproduce it, include your exact client build and whether the icon or talent effect changed in the original discussion.

October 12: Cat Feral Charge — trying Prowl during the leap

Trying to land in stealth? Ravien suggests starting Cat Feral Charge, then activating Prowl while airborne. In a later October 12 reply, Chombi reports trying stealth during the leap and says it worked in their test.

Read Ravien’s suggestion and Chombi’s later test. Neither supplies an exact client build; these player reports do not establish an official bug, intended behavior or guaranteed result.

October 11: character creation stalls at Finish

Players report Finish going grey after a green name check, leaving character creation incomplete. KaThooLu says an earlier 20-minute wait, cache clearing and reinstalling did not help, then reports success after leaving the creation screen open for 30 minutes. Kozzae describes getting through after a couple of minutes.

For this specific stage, leaving the creation screen open is a reported option to try before another reinstall. Those timings are individual outcomes, not a guaranteed recovery or a 30-minute timeout. This differs from being unable to retrieve the character list or enter the world with an existing character.

Include your exact client build, ruleset and elapsed wait, and say whether the name check passed, when reporting a stall in the original discussion.

October 10–11: controller toggle and missing HUD

Two players report that HUD Press to Toggle still requires holding a trigger to cast spells. Two report the controller HUD failing to appear after logging back in.

Include your controller model, operating system and exact client build in a bug report. For toggle trouble, name the affected trigger and action; for a missing HUD, say whether it disappeared after logging back in or switching UI mode. Keep those symptoms separate from the older saved-layout issue below. The thread does not establish a reliable recovery method.

October 10–11: whispers and group invites arrive late

Players report whispers and group invitations arriving minutes late while forming beta dungeon groups. Several describe waits of roughly two to five minutes.

If an invite seems to vanish, record when it was sent and when it arrived. Include your realm ruleset and exact client build, and whether ordinary movement or combat continued. Read the whisper and invite reports and the separate follow-up thread.

October 10: the character list can stall too

Players report being stuck at “Retrieving character list” before entering the world. One MacBook Pro M1 player lists client 1.60.1.70338; another reports character-screen disconnects with WOW51900319 on two PCs, while friends can log in.

In a bug report, distinguish failure to retrieve the character list from a world-loading bar that fills and disconnects. Include your operating system and exact client build, alongside the stage and error message.

One player later reports recovery after a config-file edit, but two replies say that suggestion failed. These accounts do not establish a reliable reset or reinstall fix. Read the original October 10 discussion, including its follow-ups, before treating a single success as a solution.

October 8–9: characters stuck on loading screens

Players report a full loading bar followed by a disconnect after the October 8 beta update. Some can enter other characters while one remains stuck; Deeprun Tram, flight paths and Zephras Isle appear in the reports.

If this happens to you, note the exact client build, ruleset, character’s last location, travel action and error message. Check whether another character can enter, then include that distinction in your beta bug report.

These accounts do not establish a cause or reliable fix. Players report conflicting results from waiting, Scan and Repair and interface resets, including brief recovery followed by another failure. This is a separate symptom from the short Windows freezes recorded below. Read the original beta forum discussion or the separate Reddit reports.

October 8: new issues and named corrections

Ferocity’s pet critical-strike increase is missing from the Hunter character sheet; Blizzard calls this visual only. Some profession icons appear broken. Skyborne Cat Form textures and other creature textures remain future work.

If Ferocity appears to do nothing on the pet sheet, do not reset the build on that number alone. The official list distinguishes the display from the talent’s effect; it does not establish a DPS ranking.

Demoralizing Shout and Roar now generate threat. Retribution Aura now uses the casting Paladin’s spell power.

Taillasher Eggs respawn faster and are more plentiful. Titan Relic returns for Earthen Echo or Prehistoric Prism follow-ups, without requiring another relic. For a missing Titan Relic, check the follow-up before another dungeon clear or abandoning the quest. Those named corrections do not establish that every older Excavation hand-in report is resolved.

Cooldown Manager now supports every class, racial abilities and trinkets; additional consumable support is still planned. Check the built-in tracking for the abilities you need before changing your addon setup. Expanded support does not guarantee every tracking case is bug-free.

October 8 maintenance: the announced window

Kaivax’s October 8 notices schedule beta maintenance from 9:00 a.m. PDT / 18:00 CEST, with an expected return by 3:00 p.m. PDT / midnight CEST on October 9. Updated Development Notes and Known Issues are due later.

For EU players, the announced window was 18:00 CEST on October 8 to an expected 00:00 CEST on October 9 (16:00–22:00 UTC). The later development notes say a new build was applied. Neither that statement nor the earlier EU notice or US notice proves current regional realm access.

October 6 restart: chest items, transports and guilds

Blizzard announced October 6 beta restarts targeting missing quest items in restocking chests, occasional elevator or transport disconnects, and errors when joining or leaving a guild. The notices scheduled EU restarts for 23:59 CEST and US restarts for 15:00 PDT (00:00 CEST on October 7). They announce fixes for the restart; they do not confirm a completed restart or a successful player retest.

If a quest item is missing from its chest, check the EU notice or US notice before another attempt. Blizzard has not named the affected quests, so this does not establish that the Excavation hand-in problems below are resolved. If the problem persists after your region’s restart, include the quest name, chest location and exact client build in a bug report.

October 1 combat list: retained history

This section records the October 1 list and its separately dated follow-up. Read the named October 8 and October 15 corrections above before treating an older entry as current.

• Enemies can parry or block from behind when you stand very close. Blizzard’s temporary workaround is to leave more space.
• The October 1 list included Faerie Fire and Demoralizing Shout threat failures. The later October 15 notes explicitly fix Faerie Fire threat in Bear and Dire Bear Form; that named fix does not establish the status of every older threat report.
• The October 1 list reported Dual Wield Specialization granting hit to both hands. Blizzard’s October 2 Warrior follow-up says that bug was fixed, then removes hit from the talent altogether. Off-hand hit moves to Furious Precision; use the newer notes when comparing builds.
• Retribution Aura uses the target’s spell power, and Eureka misses some damaging or healing spells.

That makes a clean comparison harder: an unusual threat or hit result is not, by itself, evidence that your allocation is wrong.

Penance in the class video: seconds, not minutes

Blizzard’s pinned correction to its October 6 class video says Penance has a 12-second cooldown; the video had shown 12 minutes. This corrects the video tooltip, not an announced cooldown change or proof of a new client fix.

If the preview’s 12-minute tooltip put you off a Priest healing build, check the correction before choosing your talents. The Priest tree in the talent builder already lists seconds; this correction does not change saved builds.

October 1 quest, profession and layout list: retained history

The October 1 list reported inaccessible Mage Research, a non-functioning Scroll of Liminal Passage and slow Taillasher Egg spawns for Break A Few Eggs. The October 8 egg correction is listed above; no named Research or Scroll fix appears in the new notes.

The October 1 list also reported layout resets when switching gamepad UI mode, and delayed preparatory effects on chained casts. The October 8 build adds separate saved edit-mode layouts for each UI type. Check your layout and animation in the current client rather than treating the old report as a new reproduction; the casting entry concerns animation and sound, not a confirmed spell-queue failure.

See the level-30 build summary for the changes that accompany this list.

Excavation hand-ins: player reports, October 2–3

Players report losing the quest item needed for the Earthen Echo follow-up on Horde; an Alliance player reports a missing Prehistoric Prism hand-in item too.

These October 2–3 reports are retained history. For Titan Relic, the named October 8 correction above is now the relevant staff update; check the follow-up before abandoning the quest or repeating the dungeon. The older player discussion contains failed abandonment and repeat-run attempts. Those attempts are not proven resets, and the named relic correction does not establish a fix for every missing hand-in item.

The original player thread alone does not establish a Blizzard-confirmed cause, a working workaround or an affected client build. The separate October 8 staff correction is an announced fix, not ForeverAtlas testing of a recovered quest.

Brief Windows freezes: player reports, October 3–6

Windows beta players report one- to two-second freezes followed by normal play. Their posted error logs identify build 70205 and include a CullMapObjWorker.cpp assertion at line 3364.

In an October 6 follow-up, Darthraziel says the freezes also occurred on build 70235. That reply does not include a new log, and these discussions do not establish a Blizzard-confirmed cause or a universal fix.

If your game pauses briefly and then carries on, include your exact client build, zone and what you were doing in your bug report. Note whether addons were disabled and include the relevant error text if a dump was created. Driver changes and reinstalls have mixed reported results; the threads do not support either as a reliable solution.

These recovering client pauses are a different reported symptom from the older Mac system crashes.

A limited graphics-setting comparison

Darthraziel reports a 10–15 minute Durotar test without freezes using graphics preset 1. In later comparisons, View Distance, Environment Detail and Ground Clutter at 8 stopped freezes, while 9 or 10 reproduced them after restarting the client and turning the camera. The reply does not state how long the three-setting comparison lasted. The author had not yet checked normal play or other zones; this is one short player test, not a general fix.

Want to compare it on your machine? Note your current settings first, change those three values, and check the same route and camera movements. Keep your client build and test duration with the result, then restore the settings if the comparison does not help. The original follow-up does not include a new build log; no Blizzard-confirmed workaround or graphics cause has been established.

September 17–18 snapshot

The following is retained history. Inclusion here does not establish that an older bug remains active or has been fixed.

Bugs listed at the time

A few entries can hit normal play almost immediately:

• Opening the Legacy System with Y before level 25 can cause LUA errors on tabs 1 and 3.
• Barber chairs currently cause a LUA error.
• The minimap can appear partially off-screen.
• The character pane may be missing Level, Class and Titles.
• Character friends are currently disabled in the beta.
• Some players may be unable to sign guild charters; Blizzard has temporarily allowed charters to be handed in with no signatures while it works on the issue.

Combat numbers in the September list

Blizzard is also working on several character-sheet and combat-display problems.

Caster Glancing Blow chance and damage reduction are currently incorrect, while melee characters have an incorrect Glancing Blow damage-reduction penalty against higher-level targets. Blizzard says the displayed Glancing Blow values on the character sheet are therefore not reliable right now.

Hunter and Warlock pets also have several display issues involving Hit, Expertise, movement speed and stat scaling. These are listed as work in progress rather than finished fixes.

That matters if you are comparing builds or trying to reverse-engineer beta balance from the character sheet: some of the numbers you see are explicitly known to be wrong.

Fixes scheduled in that September list

The September 17 list said a later beta build would fix several issues, including:

• two Waylaid Crate problems;
• Sentinel Lynessa Duskblossom running too fast and spamming Strike during Escaping Ban’ethil;
• Starshards not benefiting from Twilight Focus;
• Vengeance activating from periodic critical strikes;
• poor rank-to-rank progression on Holy Strike;
• missing conjured-item tooltip information on Create Firestone ranks 3 and 4;
• Coldridge Valley failing to reveal on the map when explored.

Five additions on September 18

Blizzard added five more items to the known-issues list on September 18:

• the built-in Cooldown Manager is still work in progress and behaves differently across classes;
• Bear Form is multiplying some armor bonuses from consumables and buffs incorrectly;
• queueing an On-Next Attack ability such as Heroic Strike, Cleave or Raptor Strike can disable the spell queue window;
• taking damage while channeling Arcane Missiles can fire a full-damage bolt instead of a truncated one; and
• resurrection sickness can have the wrong duration at lower levels.

The beta is moving quickly, so treat this as a snapshot rather than a permanent bug list. Blizzard says the forum post will be updated as issues are fixed or new ones are added.

For access, test phases and the current level cap, see the WoW Forever beta guide. If you are getting stuck at the front door instead, we are also tracking the opening-night queues and disconnects.