Overview · build 1.60.1.70291
What's new in Forever World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4. It keeps Classic's world and its level 60 cap, and adds a new race, 4 new zones, 9 new dungeons, 2 raids and a battleground, with new systems on top: Legacy, camping and reworked professions. Each line below links to the Blizzard post that says it, or to the page where the game files show it.
Countdown to launch Forever launches November 4, 3:00 p.m. PST, worldwide
Blizzard · Sep 12
Key dates Beta Invite codes Name reservation Launch Invite-A-Friend week Today Sep 17 Nov 4
Sep 17 to Oct 21 Beta , October 21 is the last full day of testing Blizzard · Sep 17 Oct 20 Invite-A-Friend Launch Codes start arriving by email Blizzard · Sep 12 Oct 27 to Nov 3 Early Name Reservation , with an eligible upgrade purchase Blizzard · Sep 21 Nov 4 Launch , 3:00 p.m. PST, worldwide Blizzard · Sep 12 Nov 4 to Nov 11 Invite-A-Friend launch week , codes give invited friends access for the week Blizzard · Sep 12 To come Hardcore ruleset opens , sometime after launch, no date yet Blizzard · Sep 21 Pacific time, as Blizzard gives it.
New places Zones Blizzard counts more than a thousand new quests across levels 1 to 60. Blizzard · Sep 12
Dungeons All 28 dungeons on the road from 13 to 60 , with bosses and what changed from Classic.
Raids and PvP Both raids are still encrypted in the game files, so nothing in them can be read yet.
A new race: the Skyborne One race, two factions: you choose at character creation. Each side has its own racials in the game files.
High Order Skyborne · Alliance Warrior, Hunter, Rogue, Mage, Druid
Elemental Insight, Wind Blessed, Read Ley Line, Walk on Air
Windshaper Skyborne · Horde Warrior, Hunter, Rogue, Shaman, Druid
Elemental Insight, Wind Blessed, Skysight, Walk on Air
New systems Legacy Account-wide points from 66 challenges, spent on perks in 3 trees, up to 16 points, plus a reward track.
Camping Cooking builds a campfire and each profession adds a feature: 36 in all, each a one-hour buff, a station or a service.
Professions 2,209 recipes in the profession windows, 955 of them new, and 602 Classic recipes with new skill colours.
Rulesets You pick Normal, PvP, Roleplaying or, sometime after launch, Hardcore, instead of a realm. Blizzard · Sep 21
Changed from Classic Classes : 93 spellbook changes across the 9 classes, from new spells to abilities that moved levels.Leveling : the same total XP to 60, with dungeon XP moved from the mobs to the quests.Items : 8,060 of the 22,209 items in the files are new in Forever.Blizzard's notes : 1,040 lines of patch and dev notes, each checked against the files.In the files, not announced Show 3 names the game files hold that Blizzard hasn't announced (possible spoilers) Gilneas (zone) Manor Mistmantle (dungeon) · on the dungeon list Battle for Gilneas (battleground) Names in build 1.60.1.70291's files only. Nothing says they'll be in Forever at launch, or at all.
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