Blizzard's third version of WoW, built on the original two continents with a level 60 cap, rebuilt talent trees, no realms, nine new dungeons, over a thousand new quests, and a promise of no gear resets. Included with a normal subscription. Launches November 4.
Revealed as a permanent third version of WoW alongside retail and Classic.
BlizzardAccess is in the Skyborne Epic Pack and the Warcraft Forever Collection only. Runs to October 21.
BlizzardOn the Warcraft Twitch and YouTube channels, the same day beta opens.
BlizzardThree characters per account, first come first served. Names are first and last, unique per region.
BlizzardIncluded with a standard subscription. Level cap 60, four rulesets, no realms.
BlizzardThe Barrow Deeps (10) and Hyjal Summit (20) per Blizzard; the roadmap adds a 40-player Onyxia's Lair.
BlizzardA sealed permadeath world. Nothing carries in; dead characters can transfer out.
ReportedTwo new raids, two new dungeons, new zone content, a legendary questline, PvP season refresh.
RoadmapA revamped iconic vanilla raid, one more new raid, two dungeons, professions and Legacy updates.
RoadmapAll 27 trees from the BlizzCon demo, 470 talents, with new, reworked and removed talents marked against Classic 1.12 and a shareable link for every build. Pick a class, then check every racial for every race before you commit.
The pillar guide to World of Warcraft: Forever. Realmless rulesets, a fixed level 60, rebuilt talent trees, merged hit and crit, the Legacy system, nine new dungeons, and what Blizzard left alone.
Launch on November 4, beta from September 17, three paid packs, a $30 race, and a roadmap through summer 2027. The dates, prices and facts Blizzard actually confirmed, plus the reaction.
All 27 WoW Forever talent trees compared to Classic 1.12: the 14 new capstones, the new spells, the 81 talents that got cut, and what it means for how each class plays.
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.
One class had all three of its 31-point talents rebuilt, had its mana problem fixed five different ways, and gears every role off a single stat. Roll a Horde Orc Shaman on November 4.
Forever leveling and endgame guides land as the beta gives us something to test. Until then each class has its rebuilt trees, its demo spellbook, a tier on the buff list, and our Classic Era guide.
PaladinClassic: Alliance onlyHoly · Protection · Retribution52 talents, 20 new →Level 38 spellbook →Classic guide →S
HunterBeast Mastery · Marksmanship · Survival50 talents, 14 new →Level 38 spellbook →Classic guide →B
ShamanClassic: Horde onlyElemental Combat · Enhancement · Restoration50 talents, 12 new →Level 38 spellbook →Classic guide →S
WarlockAffliction · Demonology · Destruction52 talents, 19 new →Level 38 spellbook →Classic guide →AWe published a ten-part Classic+ collection five days before BlizzCon: what the community wanted, what the evidence said, and what a permanent Azeroth would need. It stays up as the record.
Dates and features come from Blizzard's own recaps and pre-purchase page. Level ranges, talent counts and anything labelled "reported" comes from press and community trackers who played the demo. Talent data is from talentsforever.com (CC BY 4.0). We update after the September 17 Q&A and each beta build.
Save builds, publish them under any name, and upvote the ones that hold up. No account needed. Browse published builds →
Every spell on the level 38 demo characters, tab by tab, with tooltips read off the footage. All nine spellbooks →
Over 600 new recipes, a passive bonus for training each profession, and campfires that hold crafted objects with hour-long buffs. Every profession bonus, camp object and Legacy perk →
Every race now has two actives and two passives, the Skyborne come in two flavours, and six new race and class combos are in. All the racials, with Wowhead tooltips →
The Classic Era class guides cover the 1.12 trees Forever replaces, and the realm population census tracks where people are now.
