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WoW: Forever Beta build notes — September 24, 2026

Posted by Blizzard (Kaivax) on Sep 24, 2026, 3:23 PM PT, edited Oct 15, 2026, 5:15 PM PT. Read the official post.

147 lines. Class lines: Warrior 8 · Paladin 19 · Hunter 8 · Rogue 1 · Priest 9 · Shaman 12 · Mage 5 · Warlock 5 · Druid 12.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug with casters not playing their precast animations and sometimes standing while casting.fix source
• Changed the sound effect that plays while jumping in water to be more aesthetically pleasing.fix source
• Adjusted Human death sounds.Humanfixuncertain source
• Fixed an issue where attempting to craft items or cast spells was causing players to stand up while waiting to obtain their Campfire buff.fix source
• Players may now buff each other, cast, and craft while waiting for their Campfire buffs.fix source
• Players may now obtain a Campfire buff if they are sitting, sitting in a chair, sleeping, lying down, or using the kneeling emote.fix source
• Resolved an issue where Huey Sunnydale’s legs failed to render properly.fix source
• Fixed an issue that made a Season of Discovery rune ability visible.fix source
• Fixed an issue where Pet Happiness was not decreasing once your pet was at max loyalty.fix source
• Fixed an issue causing the Undercity Canal ooze to be much brighter than intended.fix source
• Removed a setting that could disable fog in an unintended manner.fix source
• Resolved a water display issue and fixed various other display artifacts on Mac.fix source
• Fixed a memory leak causing gradual performance degradation for some players.fix source
• Fixed an issue where in-game mail could ignore surnames.fix source

Classes

• If you have not recently changed your talents, the cost is now 1 silver to re-spec. This is temporary for the Beta only. After your first talent reset, the subsequent cost will be much higher, but it will drop to 1 silver after 1 hour has passed. source
• Corrected an issue and now Rejuvenation can land critical hits.Druidfix source
• Corrected an issue and now Tranquility can land critical hits.Druidfix source
• Wrath base damage increased ~50%.Druid source
• Thorns will now dynamically update its values based on the caster’s spell power.Druid source
• If the caster cannot be found or is too far away, Thorns reverts to its base values.Druid source
• Mangle has been renamed Primal Bite. Its signature debuff has been removed, so the former name no longer accurately represented the ability.Druid source
• All talents referencing Mangle now reference Primal Bite.Druid source
• The Primal Fury talent has been renamed and the icon replaced with the original Blood Frenzy name and icon.Druid source
• Fixed a bug where Feral Charge (Cat) could be cast on allies.Druidfix source
• Corrected an issue and now Wild Growth can land critical hits.Druidfix source
• Furious Howl Attack Power bonus reduced 40%.Hunter source
• Sonic Blast ability now properly available to Bat pets.Hunter source
• Tame Beast no longer works on Beasts that are higher than the Hunter’s level.Hunter source
• Talenting out of Lone Wolf will no longer cause the Hunter to have -4% damage while their pet is active.Hunter source
• Corrected an issue and now Lacerating Strikes can land critical hits.Hunterfix source
• Strider Kick now increases movement speed by 30% for 3 seconds.Hunter source
• Arcane Missiles no longer checks line of sight on each missile, just once at the beginning of the channel. So targets moving out of line of sight during the channel will not prevent the missiles.Mage source
• Wake of Fire buff duration has been increased to 30 seconds (was 20 seconds).Mage source

  Developers’ notes: Wake of Fire was difficult to make proper use of while leveling, due to the Mage needing to restore mana between combat. The increased duration should help smooth out the experience.

• Hot Streak buff duration has been increased to 20 seconds (was 15 seconds).Mage source
• Ignite no longer double dips on % damage increase modifiers.Mage source
• Retribution Aura will now dynamically update its values based on the caster’s spell power.Paladin source
• Fixed a bug causing the Flash of Light cast animation to not play at the end of the spell cast.Paladinfix source
• Fixed various issues with Consecration.Paladinfix source
• Fixed an issue where Consecration would fail to apply its increased damage effect to some targets.Paladinfix source
• Fixed an issue where Consecration’s Z axis wasn’t functioning consistently.Paladinfix source
• Fixed an issue where Consecration could pull targets vertically above or below the caster.Paladinfix source
• Holy Strike’s % of weapon damage per rank changed to 25%/29%/32%/36%/39%/43%/46%/50% (was 25%/25%/30%/30%/35%/35%/40%/40%).Paladin source

  Developers’s notes: This increases Holy Strike’s damage at all points while leveling, and increases how much it contributes to your rotation. Early ranks of Holy Strike didn’t always feel like an upgrade when purchasing a new rank, and we wanted to adjust that.

• Fixed a bug with Echo of Justice, causing it to have a higher than intended chance to activate.Paladinfix source
• Righteous Fury: Holy threat increase increased to 60% (was 90%).Paladin source
• Holy Strike’s cooldown lowered to 10 seconds (was 12 seconds).Paladin source
• Improved Holy Strike removed from the Talent Tree.Paladin source

  Developers’ notes: Even though there are sometimes cases where talents feel ‘required’ by classes, like Relentless Strikes for Rogues, having one that reduces the cooldown of a core ability so early on in a healing talent tree made this feel like a talent that was required. So we’ve removed it and made its behavior baseline.

• Light’s Vigil’s tooltip has been reorganized to make it more clear that the damage component is the only version that returns some of the Mana cost.Paladin source
• Holy Power now increases the Critical Strike chance of Holy Strike by 15% and retains all of its old effects.Paladin source
• Vengeance now activates off of non-periodic critical strikes.Paladin source
• Vengeance’s maximum stacks lowered to 3 (was 5).Paladin source
• Two-Handed Weapon Specialization’s damage increase reduced to 2/4/6% (was 3/6/9%).Paladin source
• Sacred Arbiter now increases the damage of Holy Strike by 20% (was 10%).Paladin source
• Twist of Light now additionally reduces the Mana cost of your Seal spells by 20%.Paladin source
• Corrected an issue and now Renew can land critical hits.Priestfix source
• Power Word: Shield can now always overwrite an existing Power Word: Shield on a target that does not have Weakened Soul.Priest source
• Corrected an issue and now Contingency Plan can land critical hits.PriestGnomefix source
• Confounding Flash now has a cast visual. The casting visual is now more Holy oriented than Arcane and the sounds have been updated to match.PriestGnome source
• Starshards now correctly gains resistance to spell pushback from the Twilight Focus talent.PriestNight Elf source
• Dark Sacrifice no longer breaks Crowd Control that breaks on damage.PriestUndead source
• Dark Sacrifice’s tooltip now correctly displays that the Mana gained from the ability scales with Spirit.PriestUndead source
• Sap now correctly flags the Rogue for PvP when used on a target that is PvP flagged.Rogue source
• Lightning Bolt: Damage on ranks 3 and 4 increased to make these spells always upgrades over previous ranks (despite changing cast times).Shaman source
• Windfury Totem: Buff from this spell now displays as “Windfury Totem” instead of “Windfury Totem Passive”.Shaman source
• Flametongue Totem: Buff from this spell now displays as “Flametongue Totem” instead of “Flametongue Totem Effect”.Shaman source
• Flametongue Totem no longer has a duration and is instantly replaced when placing another totem.Shaman source
• Flametongue Totem is no longer able to be stacked by repeatedly casting Flametongue Totem.Shaman source
• Flametongue Totem no longer stacks with Flametongue Weapon.Shaman source
• Flametongue Totem no longer stacks with Windfury Totem.Shaman source
• Tranquil Air Totem, Windfury Totem, and Grace of Air Totem no longer stack together even if used by different Shamans in the same group.Shaman source
• Swapped the positions of the Elemental Fury (Row 3) and Elemental Alacrity (Row 6) talents.Shaman source

  Developers’ notes: Critical Strike damage increases early on in trees are exciting for other specializations, but its not as exciting for the core specialization while leveling, since they don’t have enough critical strike chance to really appreciate it. So we’re moving one of the better talents for Elemental Shaman functionality, earlier in the tree, to allow them to feel like they’re hitting important progression moments (something Elemental has lacked in the early levels). We understand that this affects Enhancement Shaman’s critical strike damage with spells, but we will use this room created to add more to Enhancement Shaman in the future.

• Lava Burst damage on ranks 1 and 2 increased to be about 10% more base damage than the Lightning Bolt rank learned around the same level.Shaman source
• Rage of the Far Seer (Row 7) no longer increases the Shaman’s Spell Casting Speed.Shaman source

  Developers’ notes: Rage of the Far Seer’s spell casting speed was not necessary to include for the core functionality of this ability. So we removed it.

• Corrected an issue and now Riptide can land critical hits.Shamanfix source
• Tooltip of Life Tap has been updated to correctly display the amount of Life converted, and only states that it scales with Spirit.Warlock source
• Voidwalker Sacrifice now correctly scales with 10% of the Warlock’s spell healing.Warlock source
• Sunder Armor: Corrected the threat values on all ranks, including a small increase to threat generated from Attack Power.Warrior source
• Swapped the positions of the Bastion (Row 5) and Focused Rage (Row 6) talents.Warrior source

  Developers’ notes: We wanted to give players Focused Rage sooner to smooth out progression, as opposed to more damage from Bastion. This should smooth out some of the feeling while leveling as Protection before obtaining Shield Slam.

• Bloodthrill’s chance to activate increased to 4/8/12/16/20% (was 2/4/6/8/10%).Warrior source
• Bloodthrill only activates off of Main Hand melee attacks. This includes Cleave and Heroic Strike.Warrior source
• Slam’s cooldown has been increased to 18 seconds (was 15 seconds).Warrior source
• Improved Slam now reduces the cooldown of Slam by 1.5/3 seconds.Warrior source

Races

• Changed Eureka on every class to a 10% discount on Mana, Rage, or Energy abilities.Gnome source
• Changed the Will to Survive visual to match Dispel Magic instead of Will of the Forsaken.Human source
• Cultivation now has a player-level requirement for every Herb. The level required is equal to the Herb’s level required to pick it divided by 5. Herbs that require a higher than 300 Herbalism skill to pick can be Cultivated at player level 60.Taurenuncertain source
• Touch of the Grave no longer breaks CC or activates from spells and abilities that don’t have a damage component to them.Taurenuncertain source

  Developers’ notes: This means that Shadow Word: Pain activates it on cast, but not on periodic damage. Distract won’t activate it, you can’t pull Rogues and Druids out of Stealth with Distract and it activating, and you won’t activate it off of Pickpocketing. Spells like Polymorph already didn’t get broken by Touch of the Grave, but Polymorph will no longer be able to activate it.

Cooldown Manager

• The Cooldown Manager in World of Warcraft: Forever is intended to enhance gameplay by pulling critical information from the buff bar or action bar and placing it in a fully customizable location. By default, the Cooldown Manager is disabled, and it can be enabled in Options under the Gameplay Enhancement settings. source
• Druid, Mage, Priest, Warrior, and Warlock are available for testing the Cooldown Manager.WarriorPriestMageWarlockDruiduncertain source
• Additional classes will become testable in future updates. source
• The most desired feedback for this feature is currently: spells that you wish were tracked by default. source
• The Cooldown Manager does not yet support spell ranks. This will be resolved in a future Beta update. source

Gamepad Support

• Class specific flyouts have been added to the action bar interface of some classes. source
• Shapeshift flyout for Druids.Druiduncertain source
• Pet control and pet spell flyouts for Hunters and Warlocks.HunterWarlockuncertain source
• Aura flyout for Paladins.Paladinuncertain source
• Stance flyout for Warriors.Warrioruncertain source
• The pet bar no longer replaces the bottom gamepad action bar for Hunters and Warlocks.HunterWarlockuncertain source
• New options have been added to the Gamepad (Alpha) section of the game options. source
• Use Compact Action Bar: Replaces the normal gamepad action bar layout with one that only shows the currently active action bar at any given time. source
• Fixed Party Targeting: While in a non-raid party, rather than having the directional pad act as directions in the party interface, each button on the directional pad is assigned to a specific party member.fix source
• Swap Target Modifier Sides: Swaps sides of the friendly and hostile targeting modifiers, putting friendly targeting on the right and hostile on the left. source
• Swap Friendly Target Action Sides: Swaps the directional pad and face button actions when using the friendly targeting modifier. source
• Swap Hostile Target Action Sides: Swaps the directional pad and face button actions when using the hostile targeting modifier. source
• Fixed an issue preventing edit mode layouts from being applied while the gamepad UI is enabled.fix source
• Updated Map and Quest Log bindings. source
• New hover functionality for POI pins. source
• Updated support for Compact Raid Frame Manager and Role Poll Frames. source

Items

• A handful of guns and bows were not correctly consuming or using ammunition. They have been corrected. source
• A number of quests have had their rewards updated to be the correct item level. source
• A small number of early caster rewards have been adjusted. source
• Wizard Oil: Minor Wizard Oil has been reverted to Classic Era value of 8 spell power, Lesser Wizard Oil to 16, and Wizard Oil to 24. Brilliant Wizard Oil remains unchanged. source
• Wands: Wands no longer gain any additional damage from the user’s spell damage. source

Quests

• Resolved an issue where several dungeon quests were shareable, which granted the receiving player a quest item when shared.fix source
• Dalaran - Faction adjustments. Spawns are now present in the area just outside the city entrance. source
• Dun Morogh - Snow Leopard Prowler has a much faster respawn time. source
• Dun Morogh - Resolved an issue where some players were unable to loot the rifle for “Treacherous Cold”. source
• Durotar - Reduced the respawn time for the escort NPC for “Lost in the Shadows”. source
• Elwynn Forest - The quest “Book Return” now properly removes the extra Book Bag from the player’s inventory when the quest is completed. source
• Elwynn Forest - Increased the amount of crates for the quest “Stolen Enchanting Supplies”. source
• Elwynn Forest - Murloc camps around Crystal Lake should respawn more quickly. Mrrglrlrlrmgrr! source
• Elwynn Forest - Mother Fang respawns a bit more slowly, and does not always drop a green item. source
• Elwynn Forest - Shinyfinder Narf respawns more quickly. The quest item may now be looted by all party members. source
• Elwynn Forest - Nimsy now respawns more quickly. source
• Elwynn Forest - You can now learn skinning from Helene Peltskinner even while you have a quest with her. source
• Elwynn Forest - Increased the amount of supply spawns for “Stolen Enchanting Supplies”. source
• Elwynn Forest - Jasperlode Mine and Fargodeep Mine are a little more deadly than intended for solo players, so we’re taking their candles away. We do not anticipate any fallout from this theft. source
• Mulgore - Water Pitchers now respawn faster for the quest “A Humble Task”. source
• Silthus - Khonsu’s arrival has been removed from the beta phase, and in the future will return to Azeroth once more. source
• Silverpine Forest - Pyrewood Village worgen respawn more quickly. source
• Teldrassil - The objective count for the quest “Bounty: Gnarlpine Furbolg” has been reduced to 15 (was 20). source
• Undercity - The Skyborne quest “Exploring the Horde” now completes the objective to talk with Lady Sylvanas Windrunner. Dark Lady watch over youSkyborneuncertain source
• Westfall - Increased the spawn rate of the Defias Messenger. source
• Zephras Isle - The High Order Skyborne quest “Catching Wind” has been redesigned and adjustments were made to the spawns at the Overlook Standing Stones in Shen’dar Highlands.Skyborneuncertain source
• Zephras Isle - The druids of Nightclaw Cavern now award credit for “Wounds of Betrayal” properly when healed. source
• Zephras Isle - “A Firm Response” no longer fails to grant credit to players. source

User Interface

• Updated the Nameplate selection display. source
• Personal Resource Display textures are updated. source

New to this build - Known Issues

• Banes and Curses do not properly track if you drop your target and re-acquire a target with an existing bane or curse.known issue source
• Healthstone cooldown cannot be tracked.known issue source
• Priest tracks all spells by default.Priestknown issueuncertain source
• Arcane Blast cannot be tracked.known issue source
• Mana gem requires an additional spell to be cast by the mage to properly begin tracking its cooldown.known issue source
• Creating or changing party composition may transfer players to a different world instance. We’re working on improvements and will provide an update soon.known issue source
• Pet cooldowns cannot be tracked.known issue source
• Item enhancements (such as Windfury or rogue poisons) cannot be trackedknown issue source
• The minimap in Stormwind has display issues and will be fixed in a later build.known issue source
• Personal Resource Display doesn’t show combo points.known issue source
• Our full Known Issues post is here.known issue source

Last updated: Oct 15, 2026, 5:15 PM PT