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Posts of Blizzard employees from the official US and EU forums.
We’re taking the WoW Forever Beta offline in a few minutes for maintenance. We’re going to run some internal tests, and we don’t expect it to be down for more than a couple of hours. Beta realms should go offline at 8:00 a.m. PDT. We’ll see you on the other side!
Hello! Some players have started to encounter our latest weapon in our efforts against the Real Money Trade (RMT) aka gold buying. If your account is suspected of being involved in RMT, either the selling or receiving of illicit gains, you may find your account subject to a Temporary Economy Hold. …
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 tale…
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…
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 behavio…
Join WoW: Forever Podcast host Countdown To Classic and special guest Hammerdance as they sit down with Senior Game Designers Josh “Aggrend” Greenfield, Jay Hartman, and Rowan Ryder as they dive into dungeon leveling, questing, and more. View Full A…
Our World of Warcraft: Forever class deep dive series continues with developer insights into Mages and Shaman. Learn how Mage updates expand Arcane, Fire, and Frost magic with new hybrid possibilities like Frostfire Bolt, and how Shaman…
Masters of subtlety and destructive power take center stage in this World of Warcraft: Forever class deep dive. Explore how updates to Rogues and Warlocks build on the defining tools, tactics, and playstyles of each class. View Full …
Get insights from the World of Warcraft development team on refining the Skyborne visual style, revisiting High-Definition Druid forms, and expanding player choice with Standard-Definition character models. View Full Article
Stake your claim in the Darkspear Islands, a new 15v15 battleground in World of Warcraft: Forever where teams fight to control strategic points, capture the flag, and earn reputation rewards with the Darkspear Raiders or Theramore Expe…
World of Warcraft: Forever reimagines PvP (Player vs. Player) progression with an approachable system built around Honor, Rank Points, seasonal goals, and familiar original ranks. Players can earn rewards through battlegrounds, PvP quests, we…
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…
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.
Who broke it? Gnomes, of course. But earlier this afternoon, we fixed it. Thanks for your reports!
We’ve fixed the bug that was causing this.
A new week brings even more to discover across World of Warcraft. Explore the latest WoW: Forever class spotlights featuring the Hunter, Druid, Priest, and Warrior, and tune in for episode 2 of the WoW: Forever Podcast. Then, see wha…
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 w…
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.
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 crack…