Editor-picked WoW: Forever news — launch dates, beta builds, class changes and dev interviews.
Enhancement Shaman's class weapon Rage of the Storm was hotfixed on the Weekly Reset, raising attack speed from 2.3 to 2.6 and swapping +12 Intellect for +16 Strength ahead of the wider class tuning.
Blizzard's November 9 Forever hotfixes fix a bug that made creatures in The Drowned City hit about 30% harder, cut Deathless Marrow enemy health by 25%, and lower zone populations.
Blizzard is making character creation on the more populated faction on Forever PvP realms harder, aiming for a closer 50/50 split. Horde is the larger faction on NA PvP and Alliance on EU RP-PvP.
Blizzard raised kill experience from dungeon creatures by 50% with a hotfix deployed at about 11:05 PST, making repeat dungeon runs more rewarding.
The Darkmoon Faire makes its first Forever appearance in Elwynn Forest, running for one week from Monday, with world buffs usable in the open world but not in raids.
Kris Zierhut and Josh Greenfield tell MrGM that Forever's Black Market Auction House launches with only a few mounts and pets, while raids go global on December 9 with longer, more demanding encounters.
Five players synchronized their leveling and claimed the World First level 60 in WoW: Forever after about 52 hours, pulling and AoE-ing mobs with a Paladin and two Mages.
Blizzard plans Forever hotfixes on November 10 to make Hunter and Warlock Voidwalker pets sturdier as tanks, curb Affliction's always-on Wrack, and shift Enhancement Shamans toward Strength and Attack Power.
Crix's interview with Kris Zierhut and Tim Jones covers Forever's Tier 1 set spread across three raids, Shaman and Warlock pet tuning, Frost Mage PvP, and the roadmap of two content updates.
Blizzard is fixing a brief glitch that duplicated NPCs and mobs across every layer, creating dangerous clusters of clones, and says all zones are being "de-blipped".
Kris Zierhut confirms WoW: Forever's Auction House minimum deposit will return from 1 Silver to 1 Copper, though no date is set yet.
Blizzard's Kris Zierhut says Shaman talents could be revisited early next year via a patch, with Enhancement's spell power gear and Elemental's Lava Burst under watch, after the Shaman Classic Discord shut down in protest.
The Attack!, the iconic Alliance quest in WoW: Forever, gets quality-of-life changes: a party-ready dialogue option, and the quest can be shared and picked up during the event.
Forever's first hotfix batch corrects several NPC respawn and spawn issues, speeds up Deathstalker Erland for his escort quest, and stops Plainsrunning from stacking.
Listing any item on the Forever Auction House costs at least 1 silver in deposit, far above the vendor-based formula, and Wowhead notes it may be a leftover from the Retail client.
Blizzard is investigating escort quests in WoW: Forever that fail when their NPCs despawn at zone borders, plus an Undead Paladin quest where healing NPCs sometimes grants no progress.
Two Horde Ruins of Lordaeron dungeon quests, The Wrath of Rath'mael and The New Plague, now require quest chains on live Forever servers, where they were available right away on the beta.
Blizzard's WoW: Forever known issues list covers a stuck cauldron in Razorfen Kraul, unavailable PvP vendors in all hubs, and a crash that has disabled Vorsha the Lasher in Ashenvale.
Temporary portals now sit near most transport docks and inside zeppelin towers while Blizzard works on a proper fix for boats and zeppelins getting lost in the Maelstrom.
Blizzard says it knows certain areas feel less populated than they should and will tweak some numbers tomorrow to make them feel livelier.
