Editor-picked WoW: Forever news — launch dates, beta builds, class changes and dev interviews.
Blizzard has changed Forever's dungeon XP nullification so mobs grant zero experience only when the highest-level player is more than 12 levels above them, not when they turn grey.
Krol'dok Stronghold is a new level 40-45 dungeon in Riverglades for WoW: Forever, with six bosses, a long Alliance and Horde quest chain, and rock-on-stick weapon rewards.
Dungeon mobs in WoW: Forever now grant zero experience to the whole party if any member is high enough level to make them trivial, a hotfix that can cut a lot of XP from a run.
Blizzard's November 13 WoW: Forever hotfixes cover dungeons, quests, enemies, items and classes, including Wild Growth's healing coefficient rising to 6.6% and Judgement of Command now counting as melee.
Blizzard is refunding gold to WoW: Forever players who lost skill training during the November 9 server issues, with payouts sent by in-game mail.
Skyborne players don't get the 10% reputation discount on riding training in WoW: Forever, because their racial Riding Trainer has no faction affiliation, leaving them paying full price for mounts.
Blizzard is taking all WoW: Forever realms down for emergency restarts to fix an urgent server crash, with about 30 minutes' notice and roughly an hour of downtime.
The Might of Stormwind world buff returns to Alliance players in WoW: Forever, mirroring the Horde's Warchief's Blessing and obtained by looting Rend Blackhand's head in Upper Blackrock Spire.
Wit's Edge, a level 60 sword in Forever, grants a 15% chance of Clearcasting on melee swings, making Battle Mage playstyles viable. It's crafted from a Scroll of Wit and a Witchblade dropped by Darkmaster Gandling in Scholomance.
Enhancement Shaman changes are now live in Forever: Stormstrike drops to 100% weapon damage with an 8-second cooldown, and Maelstrom Weapon gets a rank-scaled proc rate.
Josh Greenfield says Horde players who haven't made a character on most PvP and RP-PvP realms should "start making other arrangements" as Blizzard locks faction creation to fix balance.
Restoration Druid Wild Growth can no longer be cast while moving in WoW: Forever, but its spell power coefficient doubles from 0.033 to 0.066 to offset the change.
Blizzard's November 11 Forever hotfixes raise the material costs and slot counts of several Tailoring bags and disable Item Restoration while a critical bug is investigated.
Dual spec arrives in WoW: Forever at level 40, with the class trainer selling the secondary talent tree for 50 gold, which stacks up fast alongside the 100-gold Apprentice Riding mount.
The Drowned City, a level 37-42 dungeon off Stranglethorn Vale's west coast in WoW: Forever, brings six bosses, five quests and Deathless Marrow, which Wowhead calls the hardest boss at its level.
Hunter pets drop from 150% to 115% of normal health, and Enhancement Shaman's Stormstrike and Maelstrom Weapon are reworked in Forever's November 10 hotfixes.
Blizzard is hotfixing extra gold rewards into most Forever quests above level 48, including quests that never paid gold, after removing the XP-to-Gold conversion at max level.
Blizzard says Forever's dungeon kill XP is now 60% of Classic Era values after a November 8 hotfix, and feels the leveling pace fits the rest of the game.
Iron Grenades' vendor price cut in the first live Forever hotfixes kills the Iron Grenade shuffle, turning 5 silver of materials into just 3 silver and 75 copper.
Warlock and Hunter tuning is live in Forever: Wrack's damage per tick drops, but Corruption, Siphon Life and Bane of Agony tick twice as fast while channeling, and Hawk and Arcane Shot mana costs are flattened.
