Editor-picked WoW: Forever news — launch dates, beta builds, class changes and dev interviews.
Blizzard warns Oceanic players on Australian Forever servers that creating a Normal or PvP character first locks out the Roleplay rulesets, and says a fix is being worked on urgently.
Blizzard has delayed name reservations for WoW: Forever, which were due to open today for Skyborne and Warcraft Forever Collection pre-purchasers, citing technical difficulties with no new date set.
Blizzard's Forever tuning follow-up cuts Blood Fury's cooldown to 2 minutes for Orcs and Touch of the Grave's internal cooldown to 15 seconds for Undead, and clarifies Skyborne's Charged and Attuned persist through death.
Blizzard announces a final racial ability tuning pass before WoW: Forever launches, removing Dwarf's Earth Fury and Orc's Savage, re-adding Command, and adjusting Tauren Plainsrunning and Skyborne Read Leyline.
Blizzard thanks players as the WoW: Forever beta closes after five weeks, with character creation and name reservations opening October 27 ahead of the November 4 launch.
Molten Core will get new mechanics in WoW: Forever, Senior Game Designer Josh Greenfield confirms on the WoW: Forever Podcast, so it won't feel like a step back after the new Hyjal raids.
Blizzard's 24-hour End of Beta celebration in the WoW: Forever beta brings Azuregos and Kazzak into seven starter zones before the beta closes on October 23.
Blizzard will add a Roleplay-PvP ruleset at Forever's November 4 launch, with name reservations for it opening October 27 after podcast feedback.
Blizzard is working to bring the WoW: Forever Beta back online after a snag, and the beta is set to officially end October 23rd at 10:00 AM Pacific.
Protection Paladins took a significant hit in the Forever beta: Consecration's spell power coefficient was halved and Shield Specialization mana was cut from 6% to 4%, though Salvation no longer competes with other blessings.
The Camping system in WoW: Forever turns Cooking Fires into shared campsites, where profession-made camp features like Sharpening Wheels and Faction Banners buff nearby players who sit or craft there.
The WoW: Forever Beta goes offline shortly ahead of today's 2:00 p.m. PDT stress test; players can prepare via the Stress Test option in the Battle.net App's Game Version selector.
Early name reservations for World of Warcraft: Forever open October 27 and run through November 3, letting eligible players reserve up to three characters across all Rulesets.
Blizzard has extended the WoW: Forever Beta by two days, so it now goes offline at 10:00 AM PT on Friday, October 23 instead of October 21.
WoW: Forever's stress test starts October 21 as Blizzard moves the beta to regional hardware, and the Forever beta closes for good at 10:00 a.m. PDT on October 23.
Barrow Deeps, Hyjal Summit and Onyxia's Lair unlock for level 60 players in WoW: Forever on December 9, and Onyxia's Lair requires a long faction-specific attunement for the Drakefire Amulet.
Blizzard reveals nine new five-player dungeons for World of Warcraft: Forever, spanning levels 13 to 60 from Ironforge's Hall of Thanes to Un'Goro's Shaper's Terrace.
Blizzard's latest Forever video reveals a Ring of Blood-style quest and arena, the Bloodmasters Ring, coming to the new Riverglades zone around level 36.
Blizzard's teaser video previews the Riverglades and Mount Hyjal zones for the Forever beta's 30-to-60 leveling stretch, including the 10-player raid Barrow Deeps.
Blizzard says solo battleground queues in WoW: Forever will no longer be matched against premade groups, while a small-group option of around 2-3 players is still being decided.
