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Watch the World of Warcraft: Forever Podcast, Ep. 1
Join Senior Game Designer Josh “Aggrend” Greenfield, Lead Classic Designer Tim Jones, and content creators Countdown To Classic and Xaryu in the first episode of the World of Warcraft: Forever Podcast.
Read on Blizzard News (opens in a new tab)Increased weather effects are coming to WoW
Increased weather effects are coming to WoW: Forever Beta Zones
Read the storyGet to Know the World of Warcraft: Forever Legacy System
Explore the Legacy System in World of Warcraft: Forever, an account-wide progression system that lets you complete challenges, earn Legacy Points, unlock character-specific perks, and collect cosmetic rewards as you adventure across Azeroth.
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September 2026
September 2026

WoW Forever Beta - Account Actions For Name Violations
We are in the process of issuing forced name changes to characters found to be in violation of our character naming policies that were created in the Forever Beta. Additionally, we have removed beta access for some users who created names that were far outside of our Code of Conduct. The use of dual
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WoW Forever Beta - Account Actions For Name Violations
We are in the process of issuing forced name changes to characters found to be in violation of our character naming policies that were created in the Forever Beta. Additionally, we have removed beta access for some users who created names that were far outside of our Code of Conduct. The use of dual
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Beta is Up - Development Notes Posted
WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated September 24 WoW: Forever Beta Discussion Today, we updated the WoW Forever Beta with a new build that includes the following updates. Change Log Bugfixes Fixed a bug with casters not playing their precast animations and sometimes standing while casting.
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Beta is Up - Development Notes Posted
WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated 24 September WoW Forever Beta Discussion Today, we updated the WoW Forever Beta with a new build that includes the following updates. Change Log Bugfixes Fixed a bug with casters not playing their precast animations and sometimes standing while casting. C
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WoW Forever Beta Known Issues - 24 September (reply #5)
Resolved Issues Teldrassil - During the quest “Escaping Ban’ethil”, Sentinel Lynessa Duskblossom runs a bit too fast and spams her Strike ability. This is fixed in the next beta build. Loch Modan - “Snowbound” gives more XP than intended. This is adjusted in the next beta build. Known Issues - New S
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WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated 24 September
Today, we updated the WoW Forever Beta with a new build that includes the following updates. Change Log Bugfixes Fixed a bug with casters not playing their precast animations and sometimes standing while casting. Changed the sound effect that plays while jumping in water to be more aesthetically ple
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WoW Forever Beta Known Issues - September 24 (reply #5)
Resolved Issues Teldrassil - During the quest “Escaping Ban’ethil”, Sentinel Lynessa Duskblossom runs a bit too fast and spams her Strike ability. This is fixed in the next beta build. Loch Modan - “Snowbound” gives more XP than intended. This is adjusted in the next beta build. Known Issues - New S
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WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated September 24
Today, we updated the WoW Forever Beta with a new build that includes the following updates. Change Log Bugfixes Fixed a bug with casters not playing their precast animations and sometimes standing while casting. Changed the sound effect that plays while jumping in water to be more aesthetically ple
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Beta Realm Maintenance is Underway - 24 September
We took the Beta down for maintenance and to deploy a new build. We don’t have an ETA just yet, but it should take at least a couple of hours. We’ll have a full change log (development notes) as well as updated known issues post here soon.
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Beta Realm Maintenance is Underway - September 24
We took the Beta down for maintenance and to deploy a new build. We don’t have an ETA just yet, but it should take at least a couple of hours. We’ll have a full change log (development notes) as well as updated known issues post here soon.
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Increased Weather Effects
Coming soon to the Beta
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Auto-shoot Bug and Fix Incoming
We’ve been tracking an issue in the WoW Forever Beta where the 0.5-second cast time that precedes a Hunter’s auto-shot or the use of a wand is not functioning properly. Due to a bug, these auto-shots are currently incurring a much shorter cast time, which in practice means that Hunters and wand user
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Beta Client Update - 23 September
A few moments ago, we made a new client build available to Beta testers: WoW Forever 1.60.1 Build 69977 Exit the Beta, go to your Battle.net App, and update your client to this new build to test fixes for: Fixed some display issues and stability issues on Macs. Controller navigation should now work
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Beta Client Update - September 22
A few moments ago, we made a new client build available to Beta testers: WoW Forever 1.60.1 Build 69977 Exit the Beta, go to your Battle.net App, and update your client to this new build to test fixes for: Fixed some display issues and stability issues on Macs. Controller navigation should now work
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[Mac] 8 different graphics bugs, each isolated to one setting — with repro steps for each (reply #97)
Bloodyniku: Where I’ve guessed at a mechanism I’ve said so explicitly. I just want to thank you and others who have provided us with such incredibly detailed and useful reporting. We have multiple different analyses (and potential fixes) for Mac issues underway, and posts like yours are extremely he
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DC/Game Fix then game broke - Stuck on login/character list retrieval (reply #3)
With an issue like this one, we would really appreciate as much detail as you can provide in your report. Please feel free to let us know exactly when this happened, your character’s full name, and where in-game you were at the point that the character because inaccessible. Thank you!
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"Character with that name already exists" (reply #116)
Shawnwow: What are you doing? Gathering as much information as possible, so that we can be sure of our understanding of both the issue and our fix for it. Thank you for your patience. We recognize that Beta testing is very different than playing a live game.
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"Character with that name already exists" (reply #105)
Chuddi: maybe blizzard can take an hour to just unplug and replug the server About the same time you posted this, a Senior Game Producer told me that he wants to restart Beta realms today. Good thinkin’.
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"Character with that name already exists" (reply #104)
Hopping onto the most prominent of several threads about this– When reporting an issue like this, please provide the name of the Beta character that you’re locked out of, and if possible, the exact time you were last successfully playing the character (and got disconnected). That will help us narrow
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"A Firm Response" Hotfixed
Today, we’ve fixed an issue with the quest “A Firm Response”. The issue was: The event that takes place during “A Firm Response” would become stuck and Windshaper Skyborne on Zephras Isle could not proceed. You’d walk up to talk to Belathaan Brightwish near the Shrine of Akir on Zephras to start the
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A Firm Response unable to progress (reply #37)
Confirming that we implemented fixes for this earlier. The issue was: The event that takes place during “A Firm Response” would become stuck and Windshaper Skyborne on Zephras Isle could not proceed. You’d walk up to talk to Belathaan Brightwish near the Shrine of Akir on Zephras to start the event
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World of Warcraft: Forever Revealed at BlizzCon 2026 (reply #12)
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World of Warcraft: Forever Revealed at BlizzCon 2026 (reply #13)
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Addressing EU Beta Routing Issues
As many Beta testers in this region know, in the first couple of days of the WoW: Forever Beta, we experienced routing issues that impacted testers’ ability to move, interact with the world, and in some cases, to stay connected. We immediately put our engineers on the case and they’ve been working t
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Unable to launch WoW Forever (reply #130)
Dasha: We wouldn’t have access to this forum if we didn’t have beta access. Just want to clarify that this discussion forum is accessible by all players with an active WoW subscription. Ínfinite: My entire Blizzard launcher can’t load any content of any game - “Oops! Something went wrong.” I’m not a
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We can't install World of Warcraft: Forever because your operating system doesn't meet the minimum specs to run (reply #2)
Just want to make sure you’ve seen this, in case it applies to your situation: World of Warcraft World of Warcraft: Forever GPU Requirements - WoW When World of Warcraft: Forever launches GPUs based on certain older graphics architectures that fall well below the game's minimum hardware requirements
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No WoW Account Selector for Multiple Licenses—Second Login Disconnects First Player (reply #19)
Bathered: My dad and I both purchased the beta on our separate WoW accounts, but on the same battle.net account. I’ve been looking into this, and I wonder if you can solve it by doing the following: Log in to your Account page: http://account.battle.net Go to the Games & Subscriptions section. Scrol
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WoW Forever Beta Known Issues - 18 September (reply #4)
Added to the list above: The Cooldown Manager is a work in progress. Complete implementation varies from class to class. Armor bonuses from consumables and buffs are multiplied by Bear Form armor bonuses. Queueing an On-Next Attack ability (Heroic Strike/Cleave/Raptor Strike) disables your spell que
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WoW Forever Beta Known Issues - September 18 (reply #4)
Added to the list above: The Cooldown Manager is a work in progress. Complete implementation varies from class to class. Armor bonuses from consumables and buffs are multiplied by Bear Form armor bonuses. Queueing an On-Next Attack ability (Heroic Strike/Cleave/Raptor Strike) disables your spell que
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Beta Discussion Forum Right This Way
We’ve opened this new forum for WoW: Forever Beta discussions. See you there!
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Almost there! (reply #226)
We almost have the doors thrown open. It’s been more of a smooth and slow opening of the doors than a throw.
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Almost there!
We’re seeing a lot of people waiting to get into the Beta. Thank you for joining us! We’re working through a couple of final issues, and we hope to throw the doors open soon. Thank you for your patience!
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