WoW Forever News
Official announcements and blue posts about World of Warcraft: Forever, summarized for players. Every article links its sources.
Sep 30, 2026
WoW Forever's talent trees are 51-point trait trees, and respecs run on 10 rechargeable charges
The beta client builds WoW Forever's nine class trees on the modern trait system: a 51-point currency spent between levels 10 and 60, with gates that need 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 points spent before the next tier opens. Respecs are metered by two hidden currencies capped at 10 charges, one returning every hour for class talents and every week for Legacy. That is the machinery behind the 1 silver respec price testers saw in build 70009.
Source: Daybreak Forever datamine
Sep 30, 2026
A $50,000 duel tournament made beta gold worth buying, and the WoW Forever forums want bans
A $50,000 duel tournament at level 30 has given beta gold real value, and players say streamers suddenly appeared with hundreds of gold handed over by level 1 characters. At least one had the gold removed, leaving silver behind. Blizzard has not commented on any named player, and claims of a ban have no source.
Source: Official WoW Forever forums (US), youtube, Official WoW forums
Sep 30, 2026
Mount prices are in the WoW Forever files: 20 gold at level 40, 200 gold at level 60
The beta client prices eighteen of WoW Forever's new mounts. The 60% versions cost 20 gold and need Riding 75 at level 40; the 100% versions cost 200 gold and need Riding 150 at level 60. Classic asked roughly 80 gold and 900 gold for the mounts on top of training. Reputation-gated mounts like the Pack Kodo and Spectral Bear carry no price at all. The same sweep confirms that 107 cooked foods carry a 5% experience boost.
Source: Daybreak Forever datamine
Sep 29, 2026
Gilneas is sitting in the WoW Forever client: a 10-player battleground row and a sealed zone
Build 70009 of the WoW Forever beta client holds a Battle for Gilneas battlemaster row under a Forever-only id, capped at 10 players, plus the Ruins of Gilneas zone map and a Gilneas screen effect. None of it is on Blizzard's PvP page, and a streamer who tried to walk in was caught by developers.
Source: youtube, WoW Forever beta client
Sep 29, 2026
A Blackrock Depths-sized mega dungeon is being teased for WoW Forever, and PAX Aus gets the reveal
Senior game designer Josh Greenfield has teased a mega dungeon for WoW Forever, the Blackrock Depths kind: a five-player instance that takes as long as a raid. He posted an image that looks like a Timbermaw-style entrance, and BlizzCon already mentioned Blackmaw Hold for level 55 and up. The next official beat is PAX Aus from October 9 to 11, where Holly Longdale and Clay Stone present keynotes and a new Forever dungeon is on the bill.
Source: Blizzard Entertainment, PC Gamer
Sep 29, 2026
WoW Forever quietly round-robins quest drops in groups, with bad luck protection built in
Quest drops in WoW Forever are not random per player the way they were in Classic. Senior game designer Josh Greenfield says the game round-robins quest items across a group under the hood, with bad luck protection when someone has not seen a drop while others pull ahead. The grind itself stays, deliberately, but the classic situation where one player has 8 of 10 and another has 1 should be much rarer. The system is still being tuned.
Source: GamesRadar+
Sep 29, 2026
Blizzard will now take the gold back: WoW Forever buyers face account closures too
In a post on an 8,500-view thread about gold buying, Blizzard reiterated its position on real money trading in WoW Forever. Sellers have always been actioned, but buyers increasingly will be too: the illicit gold is removed from the recipient, and further action can include closing the account. Blizzard also warns players to be careful with gifts from strangers and one-sided trades, because a recipient who should have known better can be actioned as well.
Source: Official WoW Forever forums (US)
Sep 29, 2026
A goblin in Riverglades sells a 15-day mount speed buff for 150 gold, and caps the crafting market
A black market goblin called Mister Graphed has been found in the new Riverglades zone. He sells rare crafting materials for 20 gold and up, including two new ones named Fel Crystal and Stranglevine, which players read as a price ceiling that stops the auction house running away with them. He also sells Gift of Galloping: 150 gold for 10% mounted movement speed that lasts 15 days, which has no Classic equivalent.
Source: PC Gamer
Sep 29, 2026
Blizzard is putting the Make-A-Wish kodo quest back into WoW Forever's Mulgore
A thread asking for the Kyle the Frenzied questline in Mulgore got a two-line answer from Blizzard: we are working on it, stay tuned. The quest, given by Ahab Wheathoof, was added in The Burning Crusade as a Make-A-Wish request, which is why it is missing from a game built on the 2004 world. The thread has passed 11,000 views, and the request came from a player posting on behalf of her husband, who had beta access but no game time.
Source: Official WoW Forever forums (US)
Sep 28, 2026
Druids can drink potions in form now, and the beta cannot decide if that makes them strong
Two of the busiest druid threads in the WoW Forever beta reach opposite conclusions. One lists the buffs: potions work while shapeshifted, forms scale with your weapon, Insect Swarm moved to Balance and stacks, and Entangling Roots works indoors. The other, with 170 replies, is players quitting at level 10 because Wrath hits for a fifth of a mage's Frostbolt. Both are right, and the reason is the same change: druid forms now scale with the weapon you carry.
Source: Official WoW Forever forums (US)
Sep 27, 2026
WoW Forever's food XP buff is real, lasts 15 minutes, and almost nobody can keep it up
Cooked food in the WoW Forever beta grants an experience buff on top of its usual stat bonus. It runs for 15 minutes and stacks with the Cozy Sleeping Bag's 3%, for 8% together. The problem is uptime: one tester reports keeping the buff for roughly a quarter of their play time, because reagents do not drop fast enough. A trinket in the files points at Blizzard's own answer, and the beta files do not yet show which foods carry the bonus.
Source: Official WoW Forever forums (US), Daybreak Forever datamine, PC Gamer
Sep 27, 2026
A week on, WoW Forever's dungeon XP nerf has over 1,000 forum posts and no Blizzard reply
The argument about dungeon experience in the WoW Forever beta has grown into four threads and more than a thousand posts, led by one with 784 replies. The complaint has shifted: players no longer only say dungeon mobs give too little, they say the nerf pushes leveling towards quest-share boosting while punishing players who mix dungeons with questing. Tanks and healers have the least reason to re-run a dungeon. Blizzard has not replied in any of the threads.
Source: Official WoW Forever forums (US)