WoW: Forever Field Guide

Dated changes to this guide, newest first. The game changes made during the beta are listed on the beta page; every correction is on Corrections.

1. 24 Oct
   Read from the game’s own data for the latest client build (1.60.1.70532): every talent tooltip checked against the client, with fixes to Winter’s Chill, Ice Barrier, Elemental Precision (now 3 ranks), Champion of the Light and others. Source tier A — official Blizzard or live client data: A Talent Calculator · 2 corrections
2. 24 Oct
   Recipe Database: all twelve professions, 2,492 recipes from the client’s tables, and the camp objects’ materials for every profession. Source tier A — official Blizzard or live client data: A Recipe Database · Camping
3. 23 Oct
   Launch-day price estimate for materials and consumables, with a low–high range, built from the beta’s auction history. Our estimate, not data: it will be checked against launch prices, then retired. Source tier D — our analysis: D Launch-Day Estimate
4. 23 Oct
   Recipe Database: 1,098 recipes, now with Alchemy, from the final beta client; real item names instead of item numbers, priced from the Market. Source tier A — official Blizzard or live client data: A Recipe Database · 1 correction
5. 23 Oct
   Choosing a Class rewritten answer-first: role picks and solo levelling speed up top, one card per class. The two duo pages are now one Duo Leveling Guide, and the Guides menu is grouped by topic. Choosing a Class
6. 23 Oct
   Racials and race picks updated for the 15 October build — the weapon passives are gone, Wind Blessed is +3% haste, Blood Fury is on a 3-minute cooldown — and every class page's best-race table re-ranked. Source tier A — official Blizzard or live client data: A Races · 10 corrections
7. 23 Oct
   Name reservation guide. Opens 27 October at 1:00 p.m. PDT; three characters in total across all rulesets, step by step. Source tier A — official Blizzard or live client data: A Name Reservation
8. 23 Oct
   The beta has closed (extended from 21 to 23 October), and Blizzard added a Roleplay-PvP ruleset for launch. Pages now describe the beta in the past tense. Source tier A — official Blizzard or live client data: A Launch Day
9. 23 Oct
   Talent trees checked against the 15 October client: every talent's name, ranks and position confirmed, two Frost Mage talents moved to where the game has them. Source tier A — official Blizzard or live client data: A Talent Calculator
10. 23 Oct
    Dungeon quest XP after the 1 October cut, measured from the client: the bonus was halved exactly. Source tier A — official Blizzard or live client data: A Dungeon Guides

What changed during the beta → · What is still unknown →

Not a Classic re-run and not a new expansion. A permanent third branch alongside Retail and Classic, included with the standard subscription, that takes the original Azeroth and grows it: four new zones, nine new dungeons, three raids, 1,000+ quests, and a level cap that stays at 60 forever.

Because the cap never rises, everything that would normally be "the next tier" has to come from somewhere else. Three systems carry that weight: Legacy (account-wide horizontal progression), Camping (profession objects placed in the world), and a deliberate itemization rework intended to break twenty years of solved gearing. How the systems work →

It is also realmless. You pick one of four rulesets rather than a server, and characters carry two-part names, so the launch-day name scramble largely evaporates.

Forever has not launched yet and a lot of what circulates about it is unsourced. The beta was dataminable, so much of this guide is read from the client rather than from BlizzCon slides — but not all of it. Every significant claim carries a tier marker so you can tell what is load-bearing:

• Source tier A — official Blizzard or live client data: A
  Official or first-hand — Blizzard's announcements and blue posts, or data read directly from the beta client.
• Source tier B — verbatim reporting or hands-on testing: B
  Verbatim reporting — outlets quoting Blizzard developers directly, or hands-on beta testing by a named writer.
• Source tier C — provisional or placeholder data: C
  Provisional — talent-calculator values Wowhead itself stamps as placeholders, BlizzCon demo notes, and Classic 1.12 baselines Forever appears to preserve but has not confirmed.
• Source tier D — our analysis: D
  Analysis — our reading of the above. Argued, not asserted.