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 started emailing WoW Forever Invite-A-Friend Launch Codes on October 20. Each code gives one friend free WoW Forever access from November 4 to November 11 with no subscription, but no Skyborne, no beta and no name reservation. How many codes each pack includes, where to find codes that never arrived by email, and the open questions.
TechRadar ran a six-part interview with the WoW Forever team between October 7 and 12. The parts players are arguing about: no races from WoW's expansions, no summoning stones, respecs that get expensive fast, weekly balance changes for six months, and a frank admission that Season of Discovery went 'too far'.
The $29.99 Heroic Pack does not include the beta. The $59.99 Epic Pack does. What each of the three packs and the physical Collector's Edition actually grants, when, and what carries to Modern WoW or Classic.
Where the 1,000 new quests live. Four new zones, nine new dungeons with level ranges, the December raid wave, the Darkspear Islands battleground, and who the Skyborne elves actually are.