WoW Forever
Patch notes Page 2
Older WoW Forever updates, from October 15, 2026 to October 27, 2026, newest first: buffs, nerfs and changes for each class and race, with the new and changed items.
- Build 1.60.1.70634
Read from the client, Blizzard having posted no notes for it: the server hotfixes of October 16 to 23 are now in the client itself, Eureka!’s tooltip now says its 8 sec, and no talent, class spell or item reads differently. The racial pass Blizzard announced for launch is not in it.
Gnome
Eureka!: Its tooltip now says the 8 sec the October 15 update gave it.Not in Blizzard’s notes, found in the game.
ItemsNo item reads differently: the build writes the October hotfixes into the client.
- Announced for launch
Blizzard’s notes of October 26 announce a last pass on the racials for launch: role racials come back where a generic one had replaced them, weapon specializations stay out, and some passives are tuned. These changes are in no client yet. The lines below say what changes at launch, and the Races page shows them under each racial.
Human
The Human Spirit: Raises Spirit by 10% (was 5%).
Ruthless: Gives 1% critical strike chance (was 2%).
Orc
Blood Fury: Its cooldown is 2 min (was 3 min).
Savage: Removed. Command comes back: Hunter and Warlock pets deal 5% more damage.
Dwarf
Earth Fury: Removed. In its place, Artisan’s Precision gives 1% hit chance with spells and attacks.
Undead
Touch of the Grave: Its internal cooldown is 15 sec (was 25 sec).
Tauren
Endurance: Only the 5% Health stays. The 2% critical damage and healing bonus is gone.
Plainsrunning: Each stack gives 2% movement speed (was 1%), up to 60% (was 30%). It no longer adds mounted speed.
Troll
Berserking: Lasts 15 sec (was 10 sec).
Skyborne
Wind Blessed: Gives 2% haste (was 3%).
Read Leyline: Raises Health and Mana regeneration by 50% (was 100%), for 15 sec. Read at a leyline, it also makes you Attuned for 1 hour, and the bonus is 100% while Attuned. Attuned survives death and ends when you enter a raid. It cannot be used under Innervate, which replaces it.
Skysight: Gives 15% movement speed (was 10%), for 15 sec. Used at an elemental convergence, it also makes you Charged for 1 hour, and the bonus is 30% while Charged. Charged survives death and ends when you enter a raid.
- Hotfix
A hotfix to the October 22 build, first seen on October 23, which Blizzard’s notes do not mention: paladins learn Righteous Fury at level 10 instead of 16.
- Build 1.60.1.70532
The beta moved to the build the live game’s stress test used on October 21. Its game data is the same as the October 16 build’s: talents, spells and items did not change.
- Hotfix
A hotfix to the October 16 build, first seen on October 22, which Blizzard’s notes do not mention: 127 items for the beta only, copies of Molten Core’s loot and its legendary weapons at item level 30 that need level 1, the nine Tier 1 sets with Classic’s bonuses, and elixirs, one of which triples experience for an hour. They say nothing about Molten Core on the live realms. The beta closed on October 23, and Blizzard says they will not be in WoW Forever after launch.
- Hotfix
A hotfix to the October 16 build, first seen on October 21, which Blizzard’s notes do not mention: rank 4 of Hunter’s Mark gives twice the ranged attack power it did, and rank 3 of Lava Burst gains 20% from Flame Shock, like the other ranks.
Shaman
Lava Burst: Rank 3 deals 20% more damage to a target with Flame Shock instead of 54%, like the other ranks.
- Hotfix
A hotfix to the October 16 build, first seen on October 20, which Blizzard’s notes do not mention: the mage loses Piercing Ice, Elemental Precision gives 2% hit a rank, and Ice Barrier, Frost Ward and Frost Warding get stronger.
MageFrost
Elemental Precision: 3 ranks of 2% hit each, up to 6% (was 5 ranks of 1%).
Ice Barrier: Absorbs 10% more (493 instead of 448 at rank 1) and raises your Frost damage by 3% for 1 min, 3% more while the shield holds.
Frost Ward: Absorbs 10% more (178 instead of 162 at rank 1), plus 10% of your Frost spell power.- Frost Warding: Also raises what your Ice Barrier and Frost Ward absorb by 10 or 20%. Frost Ward’s chance now negates the spell instead of reflecting it.
Piercing Ice: Gone from the Frost tree: it gave 2/4/6% more Frost damage.
Frost Channelingmoved: Moves from the second to the first column of row 3.
Improved Blizzardmoved: Moves from the fourth to the second column of row 3.
- Hotfix
A hotfix to the October 16 build, in the game by October 18, which Blizzard’s notes do not mention: the first rank of Holy Fire deals a little less damage.
- Build 1.60.1.70450
A small client update. It only adds cosmetic items whose source Blizzard has not given yet: three mounts (Verdant Sea Turtle, Crimson Rooster, Spectral Wolf Pack), three companions (Blossoming Ancient, Gill’el, Pinky), two transmog sets (Gilded Blademaster’s Armor, Stillwater Fisher Attire) and Adventurer’s Tent, a toy that changes the look of your Camp Tent. Talents, spells and the other items did not change.
- Hotfix
A hotfix to the October 15 build, sent on October 16 with the fix for the Cat Form relics, which Blizzard’s notes do not mention: Champion of the Light gives 20/40/60% of Intellect again, Frost Blast can trigger Missile Barrage, and Amplify Curse raises Curse of Exhaustion by 20% instead of 50%.
PaladinRetribution
Champion of the Light: Gives spell damage equal to 20/40/60% of your Intellect again, as before October 15 (10/20/30%).
- Build 1.60.1.70425
From Blizzard’s notes:
General
- A new tutorial for new players.
- Wands now need you to stand still for 0.5 sec before they shoot, as in early World of Warcraft.
- Horde players can no longer gain Kirin Tor reputation, monsters regenerate health out of combat again, drink tooltips show the right total mana, and the fog is no longer too bright at low shadow settings.
Items
- Mystic Mushroom and the Insight enchant now raise Spirit as they should. Scrolls now trigger the global cooldown.
- Many crafted items sell to vendors for less.
- Draught of Predatory Senses becomes a potion, shares the combat potion cooldown, and lasts less.
Legacy
- Bartering no longer discounts training and repairs. Master Chef and Luremaster move one column left on the tree (they already needed only 5 points). The Quick and the Dead affects more Priest spells.
PvP
- Battleground Marks of Honor stack to 30 (was 20).
Quests
- Dalaran: the Horde is attacked on sight in the city, whatever the quest. The City of Dalaran dungeon stays open to them, but the Dalaran Sewer Key questline no longer opens the city in the open world.
- More Bloodtooth Guards for “Raene’s Cleansing” (Ashenvale).
- The furbolg camps of “How Big a Threat?” give credit (Darkshore).
- “For Love Eternal” can always be turned in.
- Cenarion Moondust is no longer used up in “Body and Heart”.
- The Novice Warriors of “Sparring Match” no longer flag you for PvP (Mulgore).
- “The Attack!” is no longer an escort and can be shared (Stormwind).
- Lord Melenas no longer evades in “Twisted Hatred” (Teldrassil).
- Faster respawns in the Wetlands.
- Halaan’s Gift works again for “The Anchors of Zephras”.
Interface
- Hunters can turn on an Auto Attack/Auto Shot setting that switches between the two on its own, gamepad included.
- Bloom Intensity becomes a slider, in the Advanced graphics options.
- New unit frames and minimap header.
- The Auction House gets a column for the level needed to equip, and shows the stats of random-suffix items (“of the Monkey”).
- Level-up messages show stat gains and talent points again.
- /who finds subzones.
- Spell ranks count as one entry in the Cooldown Manager.
- Enemy and NPC nameplates far above or below you show at a shorter distance (your target’s is unchanged).
- More Scrolling Combat Text options.
- Gamepad: a swing timer on the center reticle, and trade, guild, chat channels and transmog windows usable with a gamepad.
Found in the game:
- Nine white items become green, with a stat: Ice-covered Bracers, Royal Frostmane Girdle, Wendigo Fur Cloak, Wispy Cloak, Ghostly Bracers, Ratty Old Belt, Lithe Boots, Fingerless Gloves and Staff of the Mountain.
- The Tinkerbox, its three modules and their seven engineering schematics are gone from the client, as are the Disorienting Smog Potion and its recipe.
- Sixteen centaur items (Kolkar and Magram) now need level 35, and twelve of them drop to item level 38 or 42 (was 43).
WarriorArms
Overpower: Can trigger against much lower level enemies again.
Weaponmaster: Its Sword Specialization can no longer trigger from Shield Bash and Shield Slam.
Fury
Battle Shout: Now covers the whole raid.
Slam: No longer suffers spell pushback.
Lingering Rage: No longer stops your health regeneration after combat.
Improved Berserker Rage: Removes movement-impairing effects again.
PaladinGeneral
Salvation: Replaces Blessing of Salvation, and Mass Salvation replaces Greater Blessing of Salvation: cast the same way, but they no longer take a Blessing slot. You also learn Revoke, which removes them from a party or raid member.
Sense Undead: Is no longer in the spellbook.Not in Blizzard’s notes, found in the game.
Holy
Seal of Righteousness: Got almost twice the spell damage it should: fixed. Judgement of Righteousness and Judgement of Fury get the instant-spell coefficients.
Consecration: Gets 4.2% of spell power per tick (was 9.5%).
Infusion of Light: No longer gives Holy Shock 50% more damage against enemies. Light’s Vigil works with focus macros.
Protection
Righteous Fury: Holy damage threat raised to 90% (was 60%).
Shield Specialization: Restores 4% mana (was 6%), still every 3 sec at most.
Seal of Fury: Is no longer overwritten by Power Word: Shield. Its rank 3 is trained at level 26 (was 25).
Reckoning: Stores up to 4 charges again, as in Classic Era: each trigger adds one, and your next swing spends them all as extra attacks.
Retribution
- Champion of the Light: Gives spell damage equal to 10/20/30% of your Intellect (was 20/40/60%).
Sanctified Judgement: Its mana return no longer generates threat.
HunterGeneral
Pets: Benefit from Expertise, and take your higher critical chance, melee or ranged (was always melee).
Dismember: Crocolisk ability: healing reduction 25% (was 50%), 6 sec (was 10), 15 sec cooldown (was 6).
Sonic Blast: Bat ability: cast slow 30% (was 60%), 20 sec (was 30), 60 sec cooldown (was 30).
Mine!: Bird of Prey ability: 3 sec (was 4), 90 sec cooldown (was 60).
Bows: Show the arrow while drawn.
Beast Mastery
Summon Hawk: Spawns the hawk at your target and keeps it there.
Improved Mend Pet: Lowers Mend Pet’s mana cost instead of raising it.
Marksmanship
Trueshot Aura: Now covers the whole raid. Sniper Shot benefits from the Marksmanship talents it missed.
Multi-Shot: Is now instant (was a 0.5 sec cast).Not in Blizzard’s notes, found in the game.
Auto Shot: Needs you to stand still for 0.5 sec before it shoots, as in early World of Warcraft. You still fire it while casting Aimed Shot or Sniper Shot.
Survival
Immolation Trap: Fire traps scale with attack power, and you can have one fire trap and one frost trap out at once (was one trap in all).
Strider Kick: Can be used while disarmed or with no main-hand weapon, and Resourcefulness lowers its cost.
Resourcefulness: Triggers on critical strikes again, but only from melee and ranged abilities, not traps.
Predator's Edge: Its tooltip now says it only raises your abilities’ critical damage.
RogueGeneral
Poisons: No longer trigger against targets attacking you, and Sap no longer triggers weapon procs.
Energy: Swapping specializations no longer keeps it full.
Assassination
- Cold Blood: Is spent when Mutilate crits.
PriestDiscipline
Power in Light: Also raises Smite and Penance on a target with Holy Fire or Shadow Word: Pain.
Silent Resolve: Its threat reduction applies to all spells.
Twin Disciplines: Also works with Shadow Word: Death, Mind Flay, Starshards and Penance.
Inner Focus: Is spent on one spell only, even when a spell is queued during Penance. Divine Aegis’s tooltip says it needs a non-periodic critical heal and gives its shield’s maximum.
Mental Strengthmoved: Moves to row 2 (was 4) and raises Intellect by 2/4/6/8/10%. Improved Power Word: Shield moves to row 3 (was 2).
Holy
Renew: A high rank no longer stops other priests’ Renew.- Holy Fire: Rank 5 no longer ticks harder than rank 6.
Shadow Magic
Devouring Plague: Cooldown drops to 24 sec (was 1 min).
Shadow Word: Death: Benefits from Shadowform’s critical damage bonus.
Vampiric Embrace: Can’t be resisted, and its cooldown drops to 30 sec (was 1 min).
Dark Inspiration: New Shadow talent on row 4: Mind Blast and a full Mind Flay raise your party’s Spirit by 3/6/9/12/15% for 10 sec.
Devouring Contagion: Spreads to 2 targets, and the copied Devouring Plague no longer costs mana or puts yours on cooldown.- Shadow Word: Death: Cooldown rises to 18 sec (was 12).
Mind Vision: No longer makes the target stand up and stop drinking.
Improved Fade: Removed, as is Shadow Affinity (Blizzard’s notes call it Shadow Infinity). Improved Mind Blast moves to row 2 (was 3).
Improved Mind Flay: Each Mind Flay tick deals 10/20% more than the one before.
ShamanGeneral
- Lava Burst: Its first rank is learned at level 30 (was 40) and costs 135 mana (was 165), for 114 to 145 damage (was 150 to 192).Not in Blizzard’s notes, found in the game.
- Lava Burstmoved: Moves from row 7 to row 5 as the 21-point gold medal talent, with no prerequisite and a new rank 4.
Elemental Combat
Chain Lightning: Costs about 35% less mana at every rank.
Elemental Mastery: Returns as the 31-point gold medal talent: Lightning Bolt and Lava Burst cast 0.5 sec faster and Chain Lightning has no cooldown for 15 sec, 3 min cooldown. Needs Lava Burst.
Elemental Reach: Also lowers Totemic Projection’s cooldown by 10/20 sec, and Call of Flame extends Flame Shock by 3/6/9 sec.
Lightning Overload: No longer spends Clearcasting, and Elemental Focus can no longer be spent on the Fire Nova that triggered it.
Fire Nova: Much lower base damage and mana cost, and 14.3% of spell power (was 21.4%).
Elemental Fury: Needs Lightning Overload, which needs Elemental Alacrity. Elemental Alacrity moves to row 2, Elemental Warding to row 3, Earthbound becomes the 16-point gold medal talent on row 4, and Call of Thunder is removed.
Enhancement
Grace of Air Totem: Now covers the whole raid, as do Strength of Earth, Windfury and Flametongue Totems. It no longer excludes Windfury and Flametongue, which still exclude each other, and those two only affect players.
Fire Resistance Totem: Also covers the whole raid.Not in Blizzard’s notes, found in the game.
Grounding Totem: Is destroyed after redirecting a spell. Totemic Recall costs 22 silver at the trainer (was 70).
Stormstrike: Costs 8% of base mana (was 125 at every level). Its debuff is no longer spent by a spell that misses, or by other players and pets.
Restoration
Mana Tide Totem: Gets a new rank at level 38 (ranks at 25, 38, 48 and 58).- Restorative Totems: Raises all of Healing Stream Totem’s healing (was its base value).
Water Shield: Can trigger from any of your spell crits (was heals only).
Tidal Focusmoved: Moves to row 1 and Totemic Focus to row 2.
MageGeneral
- Frost Blast: New spell at level 24: a 1.5 sec cast that deals damage and slows by 40%, and benefits from every Frostbolt talent. It replaces rank 1 Frostbolt’s use, now that downranking is penalized, with a higher cost and a little more damage.
Arcane
Arcane Wrath: New Arcane 16-point gold medal talent: a 3.5 sec cast with Fireball-like damage, plus spell power equal to 5% of your maximum mana. 6 sec cooldown.
Arcane Concentration: Its Clearcasting no longer rolls once per target hit, triggers from Dampen or Amplify Magic, or triggers out of combat.
Arcane Blast: Is redesigned: a 1.5 sec cast; each cast adds spell damage equal to 15% of your Intellect and raises its cost, up to 4 times, for 15 sec from the first stack. Same mana cost, but damage and spell damage coefficient 40% lower.- Presence of Mind: Is spent by spell casts, and Missile Barrage no longer lowers the cost and duration of a second Arcane Missiles.
Missile Barragemoved: Moves to row 1 as a 2-point talent. Blizzard’s notes say Arcane Missiles hits can trigger it too, but the game’s tooltip no longer does.
Fire
Heating Up: Is no longer spent when Presence of Mind is used on Pyroblast, and Fire Blast always adds a charge (a Fire Blast crit gives 2).- Critical Mass: Goes to 5 points, 10% critical chance in all.
Improved Fire Blast: Wake of Fire becomes Improved Fire Blast again: no bonus on kills, and Fire Blast gets 8/15 yards more range.
Fire Power: Is redesigned, 3 points: 1/2/3% more Fire damage for each of your Fire effects on the target (Ignite, Improved Scorch, Fireball, Pyroblast, Impact), up to 12%. Frostfire Bolt benefits but doesn’t count.
Frost
- Frost Channeling: Lowers your threat as it should.
Frostbite: Can trigger from Ice Armor and Frost Armor, as can Fingers of Frost.
Cone of Cold: Slows its first 4 targets by 10% more, for 3 sec longer.
Ice Lance: Deals 200% more to frozen targets (was 300%).
Winter's Chill: Redesigned: no more critical chance. Frostbolt, Frost Blast and Fingers of Frost Ice Lances have a 20/40/60/80/100% chance to apply it, up to 5 stacks, each raising your next Cone of Cold’s damage by 5% and its spell damage by 7%, spent by that Cone of Cold.
Ice Block: Is less transparent.
WarlockAffliction
Shadow Mastery: Raises Shadow damage by 2/4/6/8/10% (was 1/2/3/4/5%).
Amplify Curse: Raises your next Curse of Exhaustion by 50% (was 20%).Not in Blizzard’s notes, found in the game.
Grim Reach: Replaces Malediction: 10/20% more range for Affliction spells.
Demonology
Soul Link: Can be cast on your pet again.
Summon Incubus: Is no longer free of Soul Shards with the Reagent Economy Legacy perk, and Curse of Recklessness can no longer stack twice on a target.
Portal of Summoning: Costs 100% of base mana (was 12%) and has a 1 hour cooldown (was 2 min).Not in Blizzard’s notes, found in the game.
Destruction
Destructive Reach: 10/20% more range for Destruction spells.
DruidBalance
Faerie Fire: Generates threat in Bear and Dire Bear Form (it only started combat), and can no longer be on a target twice.
Omen of Clarity: Can no longer trigger from Faerie Fire in Cat, Bear or Dire Bear Form.
Moonkin Form: Its aura now only raises spell critical chance, and covers the whole raid. Several Insect Swarms no longer stack their hit reduction.
Feral Combat
Shred: Rank 1 is learned at level 20 (was 22).
Furor: Keeps the Energy you had in Cat Form through Bear and Dire Bear Form (Energy still doesn’t regenerate in them).- Leader of the Pack: Now only raises melee and ranged critical chance, and covers the whole raid.
- Shred: Its tooltip now counts Savage Fury in its flat damage (the damage was already right).
Restoration
Rejuvenation: A high rank no longer stops other druids’ Rejuvenation.
Heart of the Wild: Applies again after logging in, as do Feral Swiftness, Thick Hide and Leader of the Pack.
Human- Ruthless: Replaces Sword Specialization: 2% critical strike chance.
Orc- Blood Fury: Cooldown rises to 3 min (was 2).
- Savage: Replaces Axe Specialization: 1% critical strike chance.
Shatter Curse: Now dispels Curses and Banes (it gave immunity), and lowers magic damage taken by 5% (was 15%).
Dwarf
Find Treasure: Also gives a chance at extra items in most chests.- Earth Fury: Replaces Mace Specialization: 2% more critical damage and healing.
Night Elf
Quickness: Stacks with other movement speed bonuses. Night Elves no longer show their shield in Wisp Form.
Undead
Will of the Forsaken: Can’t be used under Scatter Shot.- Touch of the Grave: Procs more evenly: a 30% chance for casters and 20% for Paladins, Rogues and Warriors (Blizzard’s notes call it Touch of the Dead), with a 25 sec internal cooldown. It no longer scales with Shadow damage bonuses, and no longer loses power with a lower spell rank.
Tauren
Cultivation: Cooldown drops to 15 min (was 60).
War Stomp: Cooldown drops to 90 sec (was 2 min).- Endurance: Gives 2% more critical damage and healing (was 1% hit chance).
- Plainsrunning: Also gives 3% mounted speed, which stacks with other mount speed bonuses. It now needs you to keep moving a minimum distance each second: stutter-stepping no longer keeps it up.
Gnome- Eureka!: Becomes an 8 sec buff with no charges, with the same effect on damage and costs, and now also works with Power Word: Shield.
Troll
Regeneration: Raises health regeneration by 20% (was 10%).
Skyborne- Wind Blessed: Gives 3% haste (was 1%).
- Skysight: Can be cast while moving.
- Read Leyline: Can be cast while moving and lasts at least 30 sec (was 20).
Walk on Air: Cooldown drops to 90 sec (was 2 min).
Elemental Insight: More Elemental Convergences and Leylines spawn in most zones of the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor.
Items5 new items, 139 changed itemsNine white items become green with a stat, the Tinkerbox and its schematics are gone, and sixteen centaur items now need level 35.
New items
- Blue Firework
Other
- Green Firework
Other
- Red Firework
Other
- Red Streaks Firework
Other
- Yellow Rose Firework
Other
Changed weapons and armor
Changed consumables and other items
70 other items only change their sell price. 27 other items only reword their tooltip, with the same numbers.
Hunter's Mark
The beta dates and how players got in are on the Beta page.