Hear ye, adventurers.

[Mac] 8 different graphics bugs, each isolated to one setting — with repro steps for each (reply #577)

The 70338 build that went out recently should have the water in Stormwind fixed. The tinted colors issue is not fixed yet, but I finally have reliable repro steps for the bug and have a fix that can hopefully get deployed next week.

[Mac] 8 different graphics bugs, each isolated to one setting — with repro steps for each (reply #547)

In the most recent build that went out today (Build 79291), the crazy mac shadows issue should be fixed. There are more performance and hitching improvements being worked on still. MSAA bugs have been deprioritized and we disabled MSAA on the most recent build until we can get time to solve them. Th

WoW Forever Beta Known Issues - 1 October (reply #7)

Known Issues - New 8 October • While texture updates to Skyborne druid bear and travel form are updated, texture updates to Skyborne druid cat form, various creatures in Zephras Isle, and some mounts, pets, and other creatures will arrive in a future build. • Hunters who selected the Ferocity talent

WoW Forever Beta Known Issues - October 1 (reply #7)

Known Issues - New October 8 • While texture updates to Skyborne druid bear and travel form are updated, texture updates to Skyborne druid cat form, various creatures in Zephras Isle, and some mounts, pets, and other creatures will arrive in a future build. • Hunters who selected the Ferocity talent

Beta Realm Maintenance - October 8 (reply #551)

Gruulqwas: any news on when the game will be back up Beta realm is back! Here are some notes.

WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated 8 October (reply #5)

Today, we updated the WoW Forever Beta with a new build that includes the following. CHANGE LOG Bug Fixes This build reintroduces Classic looting behavior, where creatures that dropped no loot can still be interacted with. Fixed visual effects flickering on large creatures. Fixed creature behavior t

WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated October 1 (reply #5)

Today, we updated the WoW Forever Beta with a new build that includes the following. CHANGE LOG Bug Fixes This build reintroduces Classic looting behavior, where creatures that dropped no loot can still be interacted with. Fixed visual effects flickering on large creatures. Fixed creature behavior t

The WoW: Forever Podcast: Episode 3 - Dive Into Dungeons With Devs ft. @Hammerdancegaming (reply #4)

Hi All, One thing I did want to make sure we mentioned that did NOT get mentioned in the podcast is that we are also fixing a bug with XP in dungeons. In previous beta builds, the XP earned per kill was awarded based on the highest level person in the group. If you are running, say, Deadmines with 4

The WoW: Forever Podcast: Episode 3 - Dive Into Dungeons With Devs ft. @Hammerdancegaming (reply #20)

Hi All, One thing I did want to make sure we mentioned that did NOT get mentioned in the podcast is that we are also fixing a bug with XP in dungeons. In previous beta builds, the XP earned per kill was awarded based on the highest level person in the group. If you are running, say, Deadmines with 4

The WoW: Forever Podcast: Episode 3 - Dive Into Dungeons With Devs ft. @Hammerdancegaming

Beta Realm Maintenance - 8 October

Starting in one hour at 18:00 CEST, we will take the WoW Forever Beta down for maintenance and updates. We’re starting a bit earlier today than we have on previous Thursdays, because we’ve gathered up several fixes for behind-the-scenes, non-gameplay issues that we’re going to deploy and then test i

Beta Realm Maintenance - October 8

Starting in one hour at 9:00 a.m. PDT, we will take the WoW Forever Beta down for maintenance and updates. We’re starting a bit earlier today than we have on previous Thursdays, because we’ve gathered up several fixes for behind-the-scenes, non-gameplay issues that we’re going to deploy and then tes

World of Warcraft: Forever Class Deep Dives — Mage and Shaman (reply #58)

We’ve made a couple more edits to the Shaman section as follows: Under Baseline Abilities we’ve added Rockbiter Weapon to the Weapon Imbues list. Weapon Imbues: All weapon imbues (Frostbrand Weapon, Flametongue Weapon, Rockbiter Weapon, Windfury Weapon) have their duration increased to 60 minutes fr

World of Warcraft: Forever Class Deep Dives — Mage and Shaman (reply #47)

We’ve updated the section for Elemental Combat for Shaman to account for the missing Elemental Mastery talent removal note. Our apologies for missing that one. Removed talents: Elemental Mastery. While this talent was a signature mainstay of Elemental Shaman, especially in PvP, it was also a problem

World of Warcraft: Forever Class Deep Dives — Rogue and Warlock (reply #33)

We’ve corrected the following line to say the following. This was purely human error. Combat and Subtlety have support for all weapon types, with Combat focusing on hard hitting direct damage and little bit of cleave damage with Blade Flurry, and Subtlety focusing on combat tricks and Bleeds. We’ve

World of Warcraft: Forever Class Deep Dives — Rogue and Warlock (reply #15)

The incorrectly posted section has been updated and should now have the correct information pasted in.

[Mac] 8 different graphics bugs, each isolated to one setting — with repro steps for each (reply #520)

The build that just went out, 70245, has the fix for “Secondary Lighting” incorrectly using RAID graphics settings, even if RAID graphics settings are disabled. This could be the source of some of the performance regressions reported since this could easily make Secondary Lighting run on “Good” even

Brief Beta Realm Maintenance - 6 October (reply #3)

A couple more fixes going in with this restart: Fixed a bug that could occasionally disconnect you when riding an elevator or transport. Addressed an error that could occur when joining or leaving a guild.

Brief Beta Realm Maintenance - October 6 (reply #3)

A couple more fixes going in with this restart: Fixed a bug that could occasionally disconnect you when riding an elevator or transport. Addressed an error that could occur when joining or leaving a guild.

Brief Beta Realm Maintenance - 6 October

We’re planning to do realm restarts at 23:59 CEST (about 40 minutes from now), to pick up some priority fixes for the Beta. One of the fixes is intended to address quests where quest items are intended to be restocked in a chest, but have gone missing. If you’re in-game in the WoW: Forever Beta, you

Brief Beta Realm Maintenance - October 6

We’re planning to do realm restarts at 3:00 p.m. PDT (about 40 minutes from now), to pick up some priority fixes for the Beta. One of the fixes is intended to address quests where quest items are intended to be restocked in a chest, but have gone missing. If you’re in-game in the WoW: Forever Beta,

Brief Realm Maintenance - 6 October

We’re going to do realm restarts in a few minutes, to apply some fixes that should improve the quality of the game service. Beta testers who are in-game will see server messages counting down to the restart time. And the Beta will re-open a few minutes after it goes offline.

Brief Realm Maintenance - October 5

We’re going to do realm restarts in a few minutes, to apply some fixes that should improve the quality of the game service. Beta testers who are in-game will see server messages counting down to the restart time. And the Beta will re-open a few minutes after it goes offline.

Gnomeregan, Who broke it?! (reply #6)

Who broke it? Gnomes, of course. But earlier this afternoon, we fixed it. Thanks for your reports!

Dialog Bug for Australian Testers -- fixed (reply #38)

We’ve fixed the bug that was causing this.

[Mac] 8 different graphics bugs, each isolated to one setting — with repro steps for each (reply #434)

Oh, I see the bug in code. It’s trying to use the raid secondary lighting setting for non-raid and visa-versa. The workaround would be to enable raid settings and make the raid settings the same as non-raid settings in the settings UI. Oops!

[Mac] 8 different graphics bugs, each isolated to one setting — with repro steps for each (reply #424)

Performance being worse for some hardware in the new 70205 build is certainly unexpected. We’ll look into it next week.

[Mac] 8 different graphics bugs, each isolated to one setting — with repro steps for each (reply #414)

Shakemilk: Separate FPS issue since the Oct 1 update: on my M4 Air, gx.log shows the GPU as family:Unknown and the client falls back to mtl_1_1 shaders (~24 ms GPU/frame on lowest settings). If you’re seeing an FPS drop too, check your gx.log and add it here: [Mac] FPS regression since Oct 1: M4 GPU

[Mac] 8 different graphics bugs, each isolated to one setting — with repro steps for each (reply #401)

The new build went out sooner than I expected. The 70205 build that just went out should have some performance improvements. Positive or negative tint issue reports that are definitely on the new build would be greatly appreciated.

[Mac] 8 different graphics bugs, each isolated to one setting — with repro steps for each (reply #381)

Bantsbert: 61.9, 64.9 is a spot where if i stand still and jump while turning the camera, the game will crash. I just replicated it right now, here’s a report ID: 7AFB5957-8700-4901-A826-C76C44B90A7B For that specific crash issue, all of the reports I’m seeing are from macOS 12 and 13. Upgrading to

[Mac] 8 different graphics bugs, each isolated to one setting — with repro steps for each (reply #373)

Next week’s build should have some major performance improvements. The green/magenta tint issue is still a mystery to me. I’ve been unable to reproduce the issue locally (testing on an M1 Ultra and a 2019 Mac Pro on macOS 26) and our QA team also hasn’t been able to reproduce the issue, testing on v

Warrior Updates in Today's Beta Build

A number of additional updates for Warriors in WoW Forever made it into today’s new Beta build, and we just added all of the following to our Development Notes for today. Warrior Additional Rage generated from landing Critical Strikes increased to 100% increased Rage (was 75%). Fixed a bug that was

Warrior Updates in Today's Beta Build

A number of additional updates for Warriors in WoW Forever made it into today’s new Beta build, and we just added all of the following to our Development Notes for today. Warrior Additional Rage generated from landing Critical Strikes increased to 100% increased Rage (was 75%). Fixed a bug that was

Beta Service Issue - 2 October

We’re aware of and working to address an issue that appears to be preventing testers from logging into the WoW: Forever Beta. We will continue to work to fix this as swiftly as possible.

Beta Service Issue - October 1

We’re aware of and working to address an issue that appears to be preventing testers from logging into the WoW: Forever Beta. We will continue to work to fix this as swiftly as possible.

WoW Forever Beta Known Issues - 1 October (reply #6)

Known Issues - New 1 October Chaining Spells together does not play the precast spell effects and sounds of the next cast until the first cast finishes. For example: When you cast Fireball and cast another Fireball right away, you finish your Fireball cast, your hands won’t glow or make the cracklin

WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated 1 October (reply #4)

Today, we updated the WoW Forever Beta with a new build that includes the following. CHANGE LOG Bug Fixes Improved rain visibility. Removed the ‘Ray Traced Shadows’ option. This setting will be re-added to the game in a future update, after the functionality is fixed. Fixed an issue where the Night

Temporary Dialog Bug for Australian Testers

Update 04:00 AEDT October 4 We’ve fixed the bug that was causing this. With the new build of the WoW Forever Beta, we have an unexpected bug where Australian players are being presented with a dialog when they log in telling them their social features are locked down. This is not the case, of course

WoW Forever Beta Known Issues - September 24 (reply #6)

Known Issues - New October 1 Chaining Spells together does not play the precast spell effects and sounds of the next cast until the first cast finishes. For example: When you cast Fireball and cast another Fireball right away, you finish your Fireball cast, your hands won’t glow or make the cracklin

WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated September 24 (reply #4)

Today, we updated the WoW Forever Beta with a new build that includes the following. CHANGE LOG Bug Fixes Improved rain visibility. Removed the ‘Ray Traced Shadows’ option. This setting will be re-added to the game in a future update, after the functionality is fixed. Fixed an issue where the Night

After WoW:F Podcast, I'm feeling a ton of confidence in this dev team (reply #3)

Greenpaw: where can i find the podcast? The WoW: Forever Podcast: Episode 1 - Unpacking Beta Launch ft. ‪@Xaryu‬ World of Warcraft: Forever General Discussion [Unpacking Beta Launch ft. @Xaryu | Episode 1 - The WoW: Forever Podcast] The WoW: Forever Podcast: Episode 2 - Speed Running Classes ft. ‪@s

Legacy Points for Beta Testing

Over the first two weeks of the WoW Forever Beta, we’ve seen an increasing number of testers pushing to earn points in the Legacy system. In a future week of the Beta, we’re planning to grant all testers 16 Legacy points so that the system can be tested without first requiring a great deal of leveli

Actions Taken Against Botting and RMT

Since our previous note on the subject of addressing Real Money Transactions (RMT) in WoW: Forever, we have been continuously actioning accounts that were found to be botting to amass gold in the WoW: Forever Beta, as well as the accounts of those who were found to have purchased or knowingly receiv

Actions Taken Against Botting and RMT

Since our previous note on the subject of addressing Real Money Transactions (RMT) in WoW: Forever, we have been continuously actioning accounts that were found to be botting to amass gold in the WoW: Forever Beta, as well as the accounts of those who were found to have purchased or knowingly receiv

Beta Update Maintenance - Evening of 1 October (reply #13)

We think we’ll take the Beta offline in about 45 minutes. See you on the other side!

Beta Update Maintenance - October 1 (reply #191)

We think we’ll take the Beta offline in about 45 minutes. See you on the other side!

The WoW: Forever Podcast: Episode 1 - Unpacking Beta Launch ft. ‪@Xaryu‬

The WoW: Forever Podcast: Episode 2 - Speed Running Classes ft. ‪@sodapoppin‬

Beta Update Maintenance - Evening of 1 October

This evening CEST, we will take the WoW Forever Beta offline for maintenance. A few hours later, (early in the morning of October 2), the Beta will resume with an updated build that includes changes and fixes, with the level cap raised to 30. We’ll have all the details here tomorrow.

Beta Update Maintenance - October 1

Tomorrow morning PDT, we will take the WoW Forever Beta offline for maintenance. Several hours later, the Beta will resume with an updated build that includes changes and fixes, with the level cap raised to 30. We’ll have all the details here tomorrow.

World of Warcraft: Forever Class Deep Dives — Hunter and Druid (reply #66)

Slimydaniels: Can we talk about other better classes like paladins and rogues? Subjective, but all in good time, friend. We plan to cover them all but these take a bit of work to pull together and the caveat is that things could still change during beta.

World of Warcraft: Forever Class Deep Dives — Hunter and Druid (reply #65)

Girlcute: Sniper Shot: New talent in 31-point gold medal slot. Pre-requisite of Trueshot Aura. Grants a new Shot with a 4 second cast time and 15 second cooldown that deals even more damage than Sniper Shot Have the intern proof read this next time Jokes on you… no intern… BUT I did get the correcti

World of Warcraft: Forever Class Deep Dives — Hunter and Druid (reply #23)

Ralecgos: Nethaera: I (a human) have used em dashes for many many years. You can’t have them. They are mine. But thanks for noticing the work done. I hate that I had to stop using them because of people spamming about AI. I used them all the time too and it was hard to stop lol You do what you want

World of Warcraft: Forever Class Deep Dives — Hunter and Druid (reply #6)

I (a human) have used em dashes for many many years. You can’t have them. They are mine. But thanks for noticing the work done.

Bring back Ahab Wheathoof! (reply #4)

Wildeheart: like this should be part of Forever. We’re working on it. Stay tuned!

Can we put the Kyle Questline back into Mulgore? (reply #31)

Taharken: I do hope they make the exception for the time frame and put him in. We’re working on it. Stay tuned!

The $50k Duel Tournament (reply #47)

Hello. We just want to reiterate some key points about this subject. Real money transactions (RMT) are not acceptable in World of Warcraft, and we’re taking steps to address RMT in the WoW: Forever Beta, and of course, when WoW: Forever goes live and beyond. It’s important to know that while we have

Gold buying rules (reply #43)

Hello. We just want to reiterate some key points about this subject. Real money transactions (RMT) are not acceptable in World of Warcraft, and we’re taking steps to address RMT in the WoW: Forever Beta, and of course, when WoW: Forever goes live and beyond. It’s important to know that while we have

Realm is full (reply #19)

Supersonic: Getting login queue after disconnect We looked into this, and found an issue that was causing the queue to fill, and we just fixed the issue. Thanks for testing with us!

Beta Realm Restarts Incoming - 25 September

To implement fixes that should address stability issues, we will shutdown and restart the Beta in the next few minutes. The maintenance period should be very brief.