THE STORIES BEHIND THE GAME
Good reads for your next queue.
Guides, big moments, and the people behind them.
World of Warcraft: Forever rebuilds every talent tree, drops realms, adds nine dungeons and a thousand quests, and keeps level 60. We went through every change against Classic, and we kept the collection we wrote before the reveal.
Blizzard posted a final racial tuning pass on October 26, the night before name reservation and with the beta already closed. Every change for Human, Dwarf, Tauren, Orc and Skyborne, why Blizzard says it made them, what the 300-post reaction thread is angry about, and what it means for the race you reserve today.
The October 15 WoW Forever beta build deleted the weapon specialization racials and replaced them with flat crit and crit damage, slowed Blood Fury, put a 25 second cooldown on Touch of the Grave and buffed Troll, Skyborne and Gnome. Every change, what it means for your race pick, and why the forums lit up overnight.
Gnome Priest, Human Hunter, Dwarf Shaman, Orc Mage, Troll Warlock and Undead Paladin. What each combo actually gets from its racials, which ones are upgrades, and which are just new.