Forever's level 60 dungeon blues are not the Classic ones: 122 items read from the live servers

WoW Forever’s client files do not hold every item. Many are sent by the live servers only when a player actually meets them: a quest reward, a vendor or a drop. With players now reaching level 60, a lot of high-level gear has been seen for the first time.

The community datamine of the live client 1.60.1.70862, generated on November 7, picks up 162 new items and 122 more Classic items with their Forever stats, all read from the live servers. Our gear pages and item pages now include them.

The client itself barely changed: builds 1.60.1.70840 and 1.60.1.70862, both from November 7, only fix tooltips (Thorns, Bear Form, Ravage, Gore Drinker, Kidney Shot, Gouge and Shank, several of them listed in the November 6 hotfixes) and lower the Abominable Head’s level to 15. Nothing in them changes how a class plays.

Classic blues gained a stat

The 122 re-itemized Classic items run from item level 39 to 63. Most of the high ones are familiar Classic drops from Blackrock Depths, Blackrock Spire, Scholomance and Stratholme. The pattern is almost always the same: the Classic stats stay, and one stat Classic never had on the piece is added.

• Cape of the Black Baron: 15 Agility → 15 Agility and 20 Attack Power.
• Crown of Tyranny: 20 Stamina and -10 Spirit → 25 Stamina, -9 Spirit, 14 Critical Strike and 40 Attack Power. On a mail helm, that is a big upgrade for Hunters and Shamans.
• Ironweave set pieces keep their Intellect and Stamina and add Armor plus one caster stat each: Spell Power on the Cowl and Mantle, Hit on the Pants, Boots and Bracers, Spell Penetration on the Robe, Belt and Gloves.
• Necropile pieces all gain Spell Power, up to 15 on the Robe.
• Skul’s Fingerbone Claws: 10 Stamina → 5 Intellect, 10 Stamina and 42 Attack Power.
• Songstone of Ironforge: 7 Intellect, 4 Spirit → 7 Intellect, 18 Spell Power and 2 Spell Penetration.
• Voone’s Vice Grips gain 15 Hit, Will of the Martyr gains 30 Attack Power, and Animated Chain Necklace gains 33 Healing.

A few pieces traded Spirit or Agility for something better. Halycon’s Muzzle goes from 22 Intellect and 5 Spirit to 19 Intellect and 15 Spell Power, and Gargoyle Slashers swap 5 Agility for 14 Critical Strike.

What it means: a Classic pre-raid best-in-slot list from memory is out of date. Many items that were filler in Classic now carry Attack Power, Spell Power or Hit. Check the Forever stats on our gear slot pages before you farm a piece because it was good twenty years ago.

Two new sets

Two new five-piece sets show up with full names and bonuses:

• Krol’dok Battlegear (plate, required level 40–41): +100 Armor at 2 pieces, +5 Defense at 3, a small heal on block at 4 (doubled in Strongholds and Cities), and a Stamina stack when you take damage at 5, up to 20 Stamina for 30 seconds. It shares a name with Krol’dok Stronghold, the level 40–55 dungeon; the client does not say where the pieces drop.
• Defias Enforcer’s Garb (leather, required level 48–50): Fire Resistance, Stamina and +1 Swords, and at 5 pieces a melee proc for 2% Critical Strike chance that is doubled in swamps.

The rest of the 162 new items are mostly greens and blues for levels 30 to 50, plus a level 60 healing ring, High Clerist’s Seal.

Three level 60 trinkets lost stats

Three item level 65 rare trinkets show lower stats on the live servers than the earlier data had:

• Adaptive Combat Assistant: Expertise 20 → 11.
• Serenity Field: Healing 42 → 21, Spell Damage 14 → 7.
• Weakness Analyzer: Spell Power 22 → 18.

Their on-use effects did not change. Blizzard has not listed these in a hotfix post, so we only know the new values, not the reason.

One limit applies to everything above: the client data has no drop sources. We know what each item is, not yet where it comes from. As more players reach 60, the list will keep growing, and we will refresh the gear pages with it.