
Account Actions and Forced Name Changes Issued in Forever Beta
Blizzard is issuing forced name changes and removing Forever Beta access for players whose character names violate naming policies or the Code of Conduct.
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Blizzard is issuing forced name changes and removing Forever Beta access for players whose character names violate naming policies or the Code of Conduct.

Forever Beta’s updated known issues list includes fixes for Teldrassil’s “Escaping Ban’ethil” and Loch Modan’s “Snowbound,” plus tracking, world-instance, minimap, and combo-point problems.

Wowhead's WoW: Forever World Map Tool now shows boat and Zeppelin routes, including Gadgetzan's new path to The Riverglades.

Wowhead’s new WoW: Forever World Map tool is live, featuring shareable coordinates and layers for zones, dungeons, class trainers, rares, and more.

WoW Weekly recaps BlizzCon 2026, the WoW Forever beta launch, the Midnight Season 3 dungeon pool preview, and other announcements.

Wowhead's Forever sweepstakes offers six Warcraft Forever Collections, 50 Skyborne Epic Packs, and 10 beta codes; comment with your planned class and race to enter.

Wowhead Client helps document WoW: Forever Beta's encrypted gear, while Blizzard's Aggrend explains the plan to keep item stats and raid bosses mysterious.

Blizzard answers community questions about Midnight and World of Warcraft: Forever in a live Q&A, with the Forever beta going live afterward.

Forever’s Ion Hazzikostas and Holly Longdale interview covers disconnected regions, staggered updates, and a spookier, torch-lit Duskwood; Modern WoW’s stat squish is separate.

WoW: Forever will adopt Midnight’s addon API restrictions, including secret values and AuraContainer changes, forcing Classic addons and WeakAuras to adapt or be remade.

Forever dominates BlizzCon Day 2 with deep dives on camping, Legacy, realmless rulesets, transmog, classes, itemization, and new zones. Beta begins September 17; launch follows November 4, 2026.

Forever Talent Calculator is updated with near-perfect talent trees from the BlizzCon demo, though rank scaling and some damage values may still be inaccurate before beta data arrives.

Wowhead launches a WoW: Forever webhook, letting Discord servers automatically receive the latest Forever news with customizable categories and layouts.

World of Warcraft: Forever gets a live reveal of its vision, with Ion Hazzikostas and Tim Jones discussing a permanent home for Classic Plus and deeper mysteries in Azeroth.

Undead Paladins are coming to World of Warcraft: Forever, revealed during the game's Cinematic Launch Trailer.

Warcraft Forever launches November 4, with its beta starting this Thursday. Classic+ brings Undead Paladins, a new race, and more.