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The Adventure Begins in WoW: Forever, Stay Connected with Discord, and Taldramir Takes Shape in WoW Weekly
Azeroth has a new home, and the adventure is just getting started! This week in WoW Weekly, discover that World of Warcraft: Forever is now live, join ongoing conversations on Discord in and out of the game, explore another way to play with gamepad support, and more.
Read on Blizzard News (opens in a new tab)WoW: Forever Hotfixes - November 6, 2026
Here you will find a list of hotfixes that address various issues related to World of Warcraft: Forever.
Read on Blizzard News (opens in a new tab)WoW: Forever– Watch Forging Forever
Witness the creation of World of Warcraft: Forever's first legendary: Taldramir, the Whispering Wood.
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November 2026

Dungeon Enemy XP Increased - 8 November
At about 20:05 CET today, we deployed a hotfix that increased kill experience in dungeons by 50%, so it feels better to go back in for more runs. Happy dungeon crawling, and good luck with those Deviate Hides!
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Dungeon Enemy XP Increased - November 8
At about 11:05 PST today, we deployed a hotfix that increased kill experience in dungeons by 50%, so it feels better to go back in for more runs. Happy dungeon crawling, and good luck with those Deviate Hides!
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WoW: Forever Hotfixes - November 6, 2026 (reply #4)
November 6, 2026 Classes Fixed an issue with the Quick and the Dead Legacy Talent where it sometimes did not work as intended. Cooldown Manager The Cooldown Manager will now correctly display the duration of crowd control spells at all times, even when diminishing returns or mechanic reductions (lik
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WoW: Forever Hotfixes - November 6, 2026 (reply #4)
November 6, 2026 Classes Fixed an issue with the Quick and the Dead Legacy Talent where it sometimes did not work as intended. Cooldown Manager The Cooldown Manager will now correctly display the duration of crowd control spells at all times, even when diminishing returns or mechanic reductions (lik
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Class Tuning Incoming - 10 November
Now that players around the world are leveling up in WoW: Forever, we’ve identified a few class issues that we feel need some immediate changes. Today, we’re still investigating these issues and working through them with a plan to release hotfixes on Tuesday, November 10 to address: We’ve seen that
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Class Tuning Incoming - November 10
Now that players around the world are leveling up in WoW: Forever, we’ve identified a few class issues that we feel need some immediate changes. Today, we’re still investigating these issues and working through them with a plan to release hotfixes on Tuesday, November 10 to address: We’ve seen that
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WoW: Forever Hotfixes - November 5, 2026
November 6, 2026 Classes Fixed an issue with the Quick and the Dead Legacy Talent where it sometimes did not work as intended. Cooldown Manager The Cooldown Manager will now correctly display the duration of crowd control spells at all times, even when diminishing returns or mechanic reductions (lik
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WoW: Forever Hotfixes - November 5, 2026
Hotfixes November 6, 2026 Classes Fixed an issue with the Quick and the Dead Legacy Talent where it sometimes did not work as intended. Cooldown Manager The Cooldown Manager will now correctly display the duration of crowd control spells at all times, even when diminishing returns or mechanic reduct
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Known Issues - WoW Forever - Updated Nov. 5
In this thread, we will discuss issues that the WoW Forever team have determined to be notable, impactful, and already tracked with plans to fix in the future. This is not a comprehensive list of issues, and it will be updated regularly. Known Issues Dungeons In Razorfen Kraul, there’s a cauldron ne
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WoW Forever Bug Report Forum Guidelines
Welcome! Please read this before posting in this forum. What follows are guidelines for how this forum should and shouldn’t be used. WoW Forever Bug Report Forum Guidelines: Please do not post off-topic banter or discussions. The purpose of this forum is to report bugs which our Quality Assurance te
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About the WoW Forever Bug Report category
(Replace this first paragraph with a brief description of your new category. This guidance will appear in the category selection area, so try to keep it below 200 characters.) Use the following paragraphs for a longer description, or to establish category guidelines or rules: Why should people use t
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Zeppelins broken? (reply #15)
Hi There, We are aware of some issues with transports such as boats and zeppelins becoming lost in the maelstrom for extended periods of time. As a temporary fix, we’ve spawned portals near most transport docks or inside of the zeppelin towers to help you move between continents if your boat gets lo
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Why do I see maybe 8 people inside the main city? (reply #27)
Hi There, Just wanted to chime in and say that we are aware of some issues with certain areas not feeling as populated as they should. We will be tweaking some numbers tomorrow to help things feel a bit more lively. Thanks for the feedback on this one!
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Issues Resolved for Invite-a-Friend Players
With a hotfix that is now live, we’ve fixed an issue where players who joined WoW Forever by using an Invite-a-Friend Code were unexpectedly restricted from using certain chat channels, leveling past 10, participating in guilds, forming parties, or trading items with other players. If you experience
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Language and Social Settings
It’s always a good idea to go over your settings in-game when you first get started. Today, we’d like to suggest that players take a close look at these settings in particular. image898×713 128 KB If any of them are not defaulted to your preferred language, you can change them and log out and back i
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World of Warcraft: Forever - Información e incidencias conocidas
¿Estás por dar tus primeros pasos en World of Warcraft? ¿Regresas a Azeroth? Hay un lugar para ti en World of Warcraft: Forever. Explora un Azeroth nuevo y rediseñado a tu propio ritmo, descubre zonas nuevas o revisita tus lugares favoritos y conoce a otros aventureros en el camino. Explora World of
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WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated 3 November (reply #10)
We’ve added this section to the previous post. User Interface and Accessibility Swing Timer bar will no longer fade out due to distance until the swing finishes. When combined bag is enabled, the background art of the inventory slots are updated to show which bag the slot is from. Fixed an issue whe
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WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated November 2 (reply #10)
We’ve added this section to the previous post. User Interface and Accessibility Swing Timer bar will no longer fade out due to distance until the swing finishes. When combined bag is enabled, the background art of the inventory slots are updated to show which bag the slot is from. Fixed an issue whe
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World of Warcraft: Forever Launch Time
WoW Forever launches simultaneously in all regions today at 3:00 p.m. PST. That’s: Time Zone Location Time Date HST Honolulu 1:00 p.m. Nov. 4 AKST Juneau 2:00 p.m. Nov. 4 PST Los Angeles 3:00 p.m. Nov. 4 PCT Vancouver 4:00 p.m. Nov. 4 MST Denver 4:00 p.m. Nov. 4 CST Dallas 5:00 p.m. Nov. 4 EST Montr
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[CS Lounge] Centaurian Forever Celebration!
I figured it has been a while since I started one. I will be gone for the rest of the week, but I hope everyone who is going to be exploring World of Warcraft: Forever has a great time! For the new thread, whoever is the last to post in the next CS Lounge thread when it closes please be sure to quot
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WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated 3 November (reply #9)
Since the last full update to the Beta on October 15, we’ve continued to work to solve issues, refine classes, improve gameplay in all areas, and address feedback we received from Beta testers. What follows are the updates and changes that have been developed over those last 2.5 weeks. We’ve include
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WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated November 2 (reply #9)
Since the last full update to the Beta on October 15, we’ve continued to work to solve issues, refine classes, improve gameplay in all areas, and address feedback we received from Beta testers. What follows are the updates and changes that have been developed over those last 2.5 weeks. We’ve include
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October 2026
October 2026

Overly Restrictive Name Check and Fix Incoming - 28 October
In WoW Forever, we’ve been working on the restricted name list, which is a list the game uses to check for non-profane names that we wish to restrict, such as major Warcraft lore characters or names that are blocked for technical reasons. Today we’ve determined that we have a bug in the process that
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Overly Restrictive Name Check and Fix Incoming - October 27
In WoW Forever, we’ve been working on the restricted name list, which is a list the game uses to check for non-profane names that we wish to restrict, such as major Warcraft lore characters or names that are blocked for technical reasons. Today we’ve determined that we have a bug in the process that
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Name Reservation Issue for Oceanic Players
Attention Oceanic players connecting to Australian-based servers! Due to a bug, you must create any characters on Roleplay or Roleplay-PvP rulesets before creating characters on Normal or PvP rulesets. If you first create a character on the Normal or PvP ruleset, the Roleplay and Roleplay-PvP rulese
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Namensreservierung für WoW: Forever verzögert
Hallo allerseits, die Namensreservierung für WoW: Forever verzögert sich leider immer noch. Die Techniker arbeiten auf Hochtouren an einer Lösung. Es gibt ein Problem, dass bei Vorbestellern der „Spielen“-Button ausgegraut ist, wenn der Battle.net Launcher nicht auf EU eingestellt ist. Die Lösung da
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WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated 26 October (reply #8)
We’ve updated the previous post in this thread with some additions that were intended to be listed. Additional updates to Racial Abilities and Talents include: Orc Blood Fury’s cooldown reduced to 2 minutes (was 3 minutes). Troll Berserking duration increased to 15 seconds (was 10 seconds). Undead T
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WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated October 26 (reply #8)
We’ve updated the previous post in this thread with some additions that were intended to be listed. Additional updates to Racial Abilities and Talents include: Orc Blood Fury’s cooldown reduced to 2 minutes (was 3 minutes). Troll Berserking duration increased to 15 seconds (was 10 seconds). Undead T
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WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated 26 October (reply #7)
As we approach the launch of WoW Forever, we’ve been reflecting on feedback we’ve heard on racial abilities and passive traits: Some players have expressed that some of the new racial traits feel too generic, while others have raised concerns that some are objectively stronger than others. In taking
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WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated October 26 (reply #7)
As we approach the launch of WoW Forever, we’ve been reflecting on feedback we’ve heard on racial abilities and passive traits: Some players have expressed that some of the new racial traits feel too generic, while others have raised concerns that some are objectively stronger than others. In taking
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Thank You For Testing the WoW Forever Beta
The WoW Forever Beta is now closed, and we’re incredibly grateful to everyone who joined us over the last five weeks of playtesting, data gathering, bug reporting, and feedback. We’re now quickly moving into a period of a few short days where we will do some focused work on priority issues and the g
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Thank You For Testing the WoW Forever Beta
The WoW Forever Beta is now closed, and we’re incredibly grateful to everyone who joined us over the last five weeks of playtesting, data gathering, bug reporting, and feedback. We’re now quickly moving into a period of a few short days where we will do some focused work on priority issues and the g
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Thank You For Testing the WoW Forever Beta
The WoW Forever Beta is now closed, and we’re incredibly grateful to everyone who joined us over the last five weeks of playtesting, data gathering, bug reporting, and feedback. We’re now quickly moving into a period of a few short days where we will do some focused work on priority issues and the g
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Thank You For Testing the WoW Forever Beta
The WoW Forever Beta is now closed, and we’re incredibly grateful to everyone who joined us over the last five weeks of playtesting, data gathering, bug reporting, and feedback. We’re now quickly moving into a period of a few short days where we will do some focused work on priority issues and the g
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Beta Realm Restart Today At 23:00 CEST
In about 40 minutes, at 23:00 CEST, we will quickly restart the WoW Forever Beta. Players who are currently in game will receive messages from our server team warning them of the restart, beginning 15 minutes before the Beta goes offline. See you on the other side!
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Beta Realm Restart Today At 2:00 p.m. PDT
In about 40 minutes, at 2:00 p.m. PDT (4:00 p.m. CDT, 5:00 p.m. EDT), we will quickly restart the WoW Forever Beta. Players who are currently in game will receive messages from our server team warning them of the restart, beginning 15 minutes before the Beta goes offline. See you on the other side!
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The WoW Forever Beta Celebration is Underway
The WoW Forever Beta will end 24 hours from now, at 19:00 CEST on Friday, October 23, and until that fateful moment, we’re celebrating the joy and wonder of WoW Forever with 24 hours of shenanigans and upheaval in Zephras Isle, Dun Morogh, Elwynn Forest, Teldrassil, Durotar, Tirisfal Glades, and Mul
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The WoW Forever Beta Celebration is Underway
The WoW Forever Beta will end 24 hours from now, at 10:00 a.m. PDT on Friday, October 23, and until that fateful moment, we’re celebrating the joy and wonder of WoW Forever with 24 hours of shenanigans and upheaval in Zephras Isle, Dun Morogh, Elwynn Forest, Teldrassil, Durotar, Tirisfal Glades, and
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The WoW: Forever Podcast: Episode 5 - End of Beta Special
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The Roleplay-PvP Ruleset is Coming to WoW Forever
Greetings, In a recent episode of the WoW Forever Podcast we discussed some of our concerns with adding a Roleplay-PVP ruleset in WoW Forever, but we also mentioned that we were still discussing the topic internally and watching player feedback. Over the last few days, we’ve carefully examined what
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Forever Beta Will Return Shortly
Good evening folks, We hit a small snag while turning the WoW Forever Beta back online. We’re working right now to get it back. In the meantime, you can speed this up by fully exiting the Battle.net Desktop App to force the update to happen manually. Thanks!
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Testing WoW Forever Today - 21 October (reply #131)
Valestrion: Roleplay ruleset is still down. The Roleplay ruleset will be unavailable for the duration of this Stress Test.
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Testing WoW Forever Today - 21 October
The WoW Forever Beta is going offline in a few minutes. In this region, the Stress Test will begin soon thereafter, at 19:00 CEST. To prepare for that, go to your Battle.net App and look for Stress Test under the Game Version selector on the WoW Forever playscreen. It should look like this: image959
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Testing WoW Forever Today - October 21
The WoW Forever Beta is going offline in a few minutes. In this region, the Stress Test will begin at 2:00 p.m. PDT. To prepare for that, go to your Battle.net App and look for Stress Test under the Game Version selector on the WoW Forever playscreen. It should look like this: image959×389 52 KB
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[Mac] 8 different graphics bugs, each isolated to one setting — with repro steps for each (reply #682)
There’ve been some technical difficulties with getting a build with the next round of fixes out. At this point, it’s unfortunately not going to be deployed until Thursday, after the server slam test is over. I’m hopeful this next round of fixes will address the color/tint issues.
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Heads Up -- WoW Forever Stress Test on 21 October
Tomorrow, October 21, we will take the WoW Forever Beta offline and we will then open WoW Forever on its proper regional hardware. Date Timezone Stress Test Start Time End Time October 21 CEST 19:00 03:00 October 21 BST/IST 18:00 02:00 October 21 EDT 5:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. October 21 CDT 4:00 p.m. 8:00
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Heads Up -- WoW Forever Stress Test on October 21
Tomorrow, October 21, we will take the WoW Forever Beta offline and we will then open WoW Forever on its proper regional hardware. Date Timezone Stress Test Start Time End Time October 21 CEST 19:00 03:00 October 21 BST/IST 18:00 02:00 October 21 EDT 5:00 p.m. 9:00 p.m. October 21 CDT 4:00 p.m. 8:00
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[Mac] 8 different graphics bugs, each isolated to one setting — with repro steps for each (reply #658)
Build 70450 that just went out has a test that I suspect will not fix the tint/color issues, but confirming that the issue is not fixed in this build is important data to get. It’ll help narrow down where the source of the errors is a lot. If people could make sure they’re updated to that build and
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WoW Forever Stress Test 19 October (reply #19)
Please note that we will do the Stress Test on October 21, not two days earlier as previously stated. Thank you!
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WoW Forever Stress Test October 21 (reply #39)
Please note that we will do the Stress Test on October 21, not two days earlier as previously stated. Thank you!
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Datamined in the Latest Beta Build
A number of art assets were recently datamined in the latest Beta build of WoW Forever. While we appreciate the feedback and discussion online, please be advised that these assets are not intended for this version of World of Warcraft.
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Druid cat form quest (reply #3)
We sent a hotfix to the Beta a few minutes ago that fixed the bug preventing druids from looting the relics necessary to acquire Cat Form. Thank you for the bug reports.
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Druid cat form quest (reply #56)
We sent a hotfix to the Beta a few minutes ago that fixed the bug preventing druids from looting the relics necessary to acquire Cat Form. Thank you for the bug reports.
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[Forever Beta 1.60.1.70425] Client imposes 60 FPS “thermal” cap at 32°C — NVIDIA API_TRIGGERED status (reply #16)
I see the issue, we’ll get a fix into a beta build soon
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Beta Realm Maintenance - October 15 (reply #1169)
Realms are back up from maintenance, thanks for being patient while we got this build out the door. If you’re not on client 70425, make sure you exit the game and update via the bnet app.
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WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated 15 October (reply #6)
We’ve updating the WoW Forever Beta with a new build that includes the following. CHANGE LOG Bug Fixes Resolved an issue with extra bright fog at lower shadow settings. Fixed an issue allowing Horde players to gain Kirin Tor reputation. Creatures will now properly regenerate health when out of comba
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WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated October 15 (reply #6)
We’ve updating the WoW Forever Beta with a new build that includes the following. CHANGE LOG Bug Fixes Resolved an issue with extra bright fog at lower shadow settings. Fixed an issue allowing Horde players to gain Kirin Tor reputation. Creatures will now properly regenerate health when out of comba
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