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World of Warcraft: Forever, what Blizzard has announced

Everything below is sourced. Blizzard's own posts are marked Blizzard; press reports of BlizzCon sessions are marked press; community readings of footage are marked community. The datamined tables of Forever Beta 1.60.1.70532 are published here now, so every line below can be checked against the client’s own data.

Dates and access

Announced at BlizzCon 2026 on Saturday 12 September 2026. Blizzard
Beta begins Thursday 17 September 2026 for players who pre-purchase the Skyborne Epic Pack or the Warcraft Forever Collection. Blizzard
Launches 4 November 2026 at 3:00 p.m. PDT, globally. Blizzard
Access is included with a World of Warcraft subscription or Game Time; the optional packs add cosmetics, early access and beta entry. Blizzard
A third permanent World of Warcraft alongside Modern and Classic, in Blizzard's words not a mode, a season, or a new version of Classic. Blizzard

The world

Levels 1 to 60, set after Warcraft III Reforged: Forsaken Kingdom and before Molten Core, on the original continents plus new regions. Blizzard
Three new zones: Mount Hyjal, Zephras Isle and The Riverglades. press
A new neutral playable elven race, the Skyborne, with a starting experience on Zephras Isle. Blizzard
About 1,000 new quests spread across the whole 1 to 60 bracket. press
Nine additional dungeons, 10 to 20 player raids, and a new battleground on the Darkspear Islands. press
New race and class combinations (an Undead Paladin appears in the trailer) and new reputations that unlock items and account-wide perks. press

Systems

Every talent tree has been reworked, with the stated aim of replacing flat passive percentage bonuses with talents that change how a class plays. press
An SD/HD character model toggle, new lighting and global illumination, volumetric particles, a new water renderer and real-time shadows. press
Community counts from BlizzCon footage: 470 talents across the nine classes, of which 129 are new, 231 rewritten and 110 unchanged from Classic. These are a community reading of footage, not Blizzard data. community

Packs

Skyborne Heroic Pack: Skyborne race access, the Zephras Isle starting experience, early name reservation, the Cerulean Prideclaw ground mount, cosmetics and housing decor, one Invite-A-Friend launch code. Blizzard
Skyborne Epic Pack: everything in Heroic plus beta access from 17 September, 30 days of Game Time from 4 November, additional cosmetics, pets and tabards, three Invite-A-Friend launch codes. Blizzard
Warcraft Forever Collection (limited time): everything in Epic plus Warcraft III: Reforged, the Forsaken Kingdom campaign, and Forsaken and Human figurine decor. Blizzard

What this site shows today

23 builds are published: Classic Era 1.15.9.70576, Forever Beta 1.60.1.70532, Forever Beta 1.60.1.70450, Forever Beta 1.60.1.70425, Forever Beta 1.60.1.70374, Forever Beta 1.60.1.70338, Forever Beta 1.60.1.70334, Forever Beta 1.60.1.70291, Forever Beta 1.60.1.70245, Forever Beta 1.60.1.70235, Forever Beta 1.60.1.70205, Forever Beta 1.60.1.70170, Forever Beta 1.60.1.70124, Forever Beta 1.60.1.70058, Classic Era 1.15.9.70003, Forever Beta 1.60.1.70009, Forever Beta 1.60.1.69977, Forever Beta 1.60.1.69913, Forever Beta 1.60.1.69893, Anniversary (TBC) 2.5.6.69795, Classic Era 1.15.9.69722, Classic Era 1.15.9.69109, Classic Era 1.15.9.69547.

The default view is Forever Beta 1.60.1.70532, compared with Classic Era 1.15.9.69722.

Forever Beta 1.60.1.70532 is here: read from the client's own database tables, compared with Classic Era 1.15.9.69722 and published without anyone touching it. What changed is the whole of it.

The talent calculator has the datamined trees of the current build and a community preview of the Forever trees, attributed to wowforevertalents.com, selectable on each class page.

The watcher checks Blizzard's content network every ten minutes and publishes whatever it finds, unattended.