WoW Forever Patch Notes and Hotfixes
Every WoW Forever patch note and hotfix, newest first: the October 15 beta update with its racial changes, then each update since September 17.
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The newest WoW Forever patch notes are Blizzard's October 15 beta update, posted at 5:15 PM PDT. Build 1.60.1.70425 went up 35 minutes later and build 70450 on October 16. The update reworked racials, made Battle Shout, Trueshot Aura and several Druid and Shaman buffs raid-wide, and gave Auto Shot and wands a half-second wind-up.
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00:15 UTC · 02:15 CEST, Oct 16
Builds 70425, 70450Blizzard forums: Development Notes, updated October 15
Several classes
Battle Shout, Trueshot Aura, Moonkin Aura and Leader of the Pack now reach your whole raid, and so do Strength of Earth Totem, Grace of Air Totem, Windfury Totem and Flametongue Totem. Grace of Air stacks with either weapon totem, Windfury and Flametongue still don't stack with each other.
Auto Shot and wand attacks fire only after you stand still for half a second.
Warrior
Slam is no longer pushed back by damage you take, Improved Berserker Rage now frees you from slows, and Lingering Rage no longer stops your health regeneration after combat.
Paladin
Salvation and Mass Salvation replace the Blessings of Salvation and no longer take your Blessing slot.
In build 70450 Righteous Fury adds 90% Holy threat (was 60%), Reckoning stores up to four extra attacks for your next swing, and Champion of the Light drops to 10/20/30% of your Intellect.
Beta dataPaladin talents
Hunter
Pets now use Expertise and the higher of your melee or ranged crit chance, and you can have one Fire trap and one Frost trap out at the same time.
Build 70450 tones down three pet abilities: Dismember cuts healing by 25% for 6 sec on a 15 sec cooldown, Sonic Blast slows casting by 30% for 20 sec on a 1 min cooldown, and Mine! disarms for 3 sec on a 1.5 min cooldown.
Beta dataPet abilities
Rogue
Sap no longer sets off your weapon procs, and your poisons no longer go off just because an enemy hits you.
Priest
Dark Inspiration is a new Shadow talent in the fourth row.
In build 70450 Devouring Plague has a 24 sec cooldown, Shadow Word: Death 18 sec and Vampiric Embrace 30 sec.
Beta dataPriest guide
Shaman
Fire Nova hits for less: its spell power coefficient drops from 0.214 to 0.143.
Build 70450 makes Lava Burst the 21 point Elemental talent and brings Elemental Mastery back as the 31 point talent.
Beta dataShaman talents
Mage
Build 70450 teaches Frost Blast at level 24 with a 40% slow, lowers the Ice Lance bonus against frozen targets to 200% (was 300%) and adds Arcane Wrath as the 16 point Arcane talent.
Beta dataMage talents
Warlock
Build 70450 swaps Malediction for Grim Reach, which adds range to Affliction spells, and Shadow Mastery now gives up to 10% Shadow damage (was 5%). Soul Link can be cast on your demon again.
Beta dataWarlock talents
Races
Eureka! lasts 8 sec and has no charges anymore, and Quickness stacks with other movement speed bonuses.
Build 70450 swaps the weapon racials for crit: Ruthless gives Humans 2% crit chance, Earth Fury gives Dwarves 2% more critical damage and healing, and Savage gives Orcs 1% crit chance.
Beta dataBest race for every class
Tauren Endurance gives 2% more critical damage and healing instead of hit chance, and Wind Blessed gives the Skyborne 3% haste.
Beta data
Dungeons, quests and zones
Horde players are attacked on sight in Dalaran now and no longer gain Kirin Tor reputation. The way into the City of Dalaran dungeon stays the same.
Several Wetlands areas respawn faster and more evenly.
PvP
Build 70450 lets Marks of Honor stack to 30 (was 20) and lowers 13 PvP reputation rewards from level 60 to 55.
Beta dataBattlegrounds
Systems, UI and professions
The Auction House shows the level you need to equip an item, and new players get a new tutorial.
Bartering now takes its discount off vendor goods only, no longer off training or repairs.
Beta dataLegacy calculator
After the update
Hotfixes without patch notes
09:51 UTC · 11:51 CEST, Oct 20
Blizzard pushes server hotfixes to the beta without a new build and without a post. The client's hotfix log shows when they land and which data tables they touch.
Hotfix log
Hotfix rows for build 70425, seven hours after the October 15 notes.
Hotfix rows for build 70450 in the item, item stats, crafted item and item search tables.
Player reportPlayers also report value hotfixes on October 16, 18 and 20 that no notes list, for example a weaker rank 1 Holy Fire on October 18 and Frost Mage changes on October 20. We add a change here once the client data shows it.
ComingWhat these rows change in numbers comes next: we compare them with the client data and add each readable change here with our next update check.
October 8 beta update: City of Dalaran
21:32 UTC · 23:32 CEST, Oct 8
Builds 70291Blizzard forums: Development Notes, updated October 8
Several classes
Warriors and Druids get more Rage from the damage they take.
Thorns and Retribution Aura go back to their Vanilla base damage and scale with 6% of your spell damage.
Warrior
Impale needs three points in Deep Wounds again.
Hunter
Entrapment only triggers when Frost Trap first goes off and follows diminishing returns.
Mage
Impact no longer triggers from Flamestrike's damage over time.
Warlock
Your current demon is stunned while you summon a new one.
Druid
Bear Form and Dire Bear Form give a 50% threat bonus, and crits in bear form give 100% more Rage (was 75%).
Dungeons, quests and zones
City of Dalaran opens in the beta.
Dungeon kills give about 20% more XP, and XP for weaker enemies in a group follows each player's own level.
PvP
Critical strikes against players are no longer weakened by a beta bug.
Systems, UI and professions
Every beta player gets 16 Legacy Points to test the Legacy System, and a Legacy respec costs at least 1 silver in the beta.
The Cooldown Manager now covers every class, racials and trinkets.
You can set up the gamepad action bar in Edit Mode, and groups can use Discord voice through the game's voice settings.
After the update
Blizzard may put a temporary hold on an account's trading and Auction House while it checks for real money trading.
October 1 beta update: level cap 30
22:56 UTC · 00:56 CEST, Oct 2
Builds 70170Blizzard forums: Development Notes, updated October 1
Several classes
Hunter pets and Warlock demons have Aggressive Mode again, in the pet tab of the spellbook.
Warrior
A Warrior post on October 2 reworked Fury: critical basic attacks give 100% more Rage, Bloodthirst scales with 45% of your attack power (was 35%), Whirlwind always hits with both weapons, and Lingering Rage, Furious Precision and Gore Drinker are new talents.
The same post reshuffled the Protection tree, and Booming Voice now also lowers the Rage cost of your shouts.
Paladin
Redoubt gives 4–20% block chance (was 6–30%), Holy Shield 30% (was 20%), and Champion of the Light turns 20/40/60% of your Intellect into spell damage.
Hunter
Sniper Shot reaches 45 yards and adds 10 yards to your next three shots, and Deflection gives 1–5% parry (was 2–10%).
Rogue
A missed Expose Armor no longer eats your combo points.
Priest
Inner Focus no longer raises the crit chance of your effects over time.
Mage
Hot Streak is now called Heating Up, and Combustion has three charges instead of four.
Warlock
Soul Harvest gives 50% or 100% more mana regeneration, and Hellfire can crit.
Druid
Crits in bear form give 75% more Rage, Swipe gains 3% of your attack power, Primal Bite makes about twice the threat, and Shifting Power turns 55% of your base mana into 40 Energy in Cat Form on a 16 sec cooldown.
Races
Eureka! no longer boosts effects over time. Channeled spells still count.
Dungeons, quests and zones
The beta level cap rises to 30. Excavation Site: Wetlands opens for levels 26–31, Razorfen Downs from level 25 and Uldaman from level 30.
Dungeon quests give 50% less bonus XP on top of their normal quest reward.
Quest mobs and objects respawn faster in Hillsbrad Foothills, Ashenvale, Wetlands, Duskwood and Thousand Needles.
PvP
The Honor cap rises to 25,000 (was 15,000), and most PvP gear and its upgrades cost about 50% more Honor.
Systems, UI and professions
Campfires no longer hurt characters below level 5 and hurt less once you drop below 90% health.
Selling a Bind on Equip item whose look you have not collected yet binds it to you.
Barbershops open in Darnassus and Thunder Bluff, and city guards point you to them. Each creature can now be skinned only once before it disappears.
After the update
Hotfix on the afternoon of October 3 (PDT): Gnomeregan bosses drop their loot again.
Short realm restarts with fixes on October 5 and 6, the second one for what Blizzard called priority fixes. Builds 70235 and 70245 went up on the same days.
September 24 beta update: first balance pass
22:23 UTC · 00:23 CEST, Sep 25
Builds 70009Blizzard forums: Development Notes, updated September 24
Several classes
Wands no longer gain damage from your spell damage.
Warrior
Slam gets an 18 sec cooldown that Improved Slam cuts by 1.5 or 3 sec, and Bloodthrill procs from 4% to 20% of your main-hand hits by rank.
Paladin
Holy Strike has a 10 sec cooldown (was 12) and grows from 25% to 50% weapon damage over eight ranks, Righteous Fury adds 60% Holy threat, and Vengeance stacks up to three times from direct crits.
Shaman
Elemental Fury and Elemental Alacrity swap places in the Elemental tree.
Druid
Mangle is renamed Primal Bite and loses its debuff, Primal Fury is renamed Blood Frenzy, and Wrath deals about 50% more base damage.
Races
Eureka! takes 10% off the cost of Mana, Rage and Energy abilities for every Gnome class.
After the update
Realm restarts for a stability fix. The next build only came on September 29.
Beta start, September 16 to 23
21:47 UTC · 23:47 CEST, Sep 17
Builds 69876, 69893, 69913, 69977Blizzard forums: Known Issues
The beta opened on September 17 with a level cap of 20. The first client builds went up from September 16, and Blizzard posted no notes in that first week.
After the update
Blizzard opens its known issues thread for the beta. A day later it adds that the Cooldown Manager is still being worked on and that Bear Form armor stacks wrong.
Beta Client Update, September 22: Blizzard names WoW Forever 1.60.1 build 69977, so far the only build it named in a post.
Blizzard plans to bring back the intended half-second wind-up of Auto Shot and wands. It returned with the October 15 update.
AnnouncedBlizzard post
Every WoW Forever beta client build
17 client builds from September 16 to October 16, newest first. Only four came with notes, and five of the builds in between changed no talents, spells or items in our client checks. Checked Oct 21, 13:42 UTC.
Beta datawago.tools
| Build | Listed (UTC) | Blizzard post | Client check |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.60.1.70450Current | Oct 16, 22:29 | Notes edited, Cat Form hotfix | New racials, talents and items |
| 1.60.1.70425 | Oct 16, 00:50 | October 15 notes | Changed |
| 1.60.1.70374 | Oct 13, 23:25 | No post | Small changes |
| 1.60.1.70338 | Oct 10, 05:05 | No post | Cosmetic items only |
| 1.60.1.70334 | Oct 9, 22:49 | No post | Small changes |
| 1.60.1.70291 | Oct 8, 20:25 | October 8 notes | Changed |
| 1.60.1.70245 | Oct 6, 23:02 | Maintenance post | 41 of 45 tables unchanged |
| 1.60.1.70235 | Oct 5, 23:37 | Maintenance post | Unchanged |
| 1.60.1.70205 | Oct 3, 01:58 | No post | Talents, spells and 40 more tables unchanged |
| 1.60.1.70170 | Oct 1, 22:54 | October 1 notes | Changed |
| 1.60.1.70124 | Sep 30, 01:57 | No post | 31 tables the same as 70009 |
| 1.60.1.70058 | Sep 29, 16:41 | No post | Same tables as 70009 |
| 1.60.1.70009 | Sep 24, 22:02 | September 24 notes | Base of our first check |
| 1.60.1.69977 | Sep 23, 00:35 | Named in Blizzard's client update post | Before our first check |
| 1.60.1.69913 | Sep 18, 03:02 | No post | Before our first check |
| 1.60.1.69893 | Sep 16, 23:14 | No post | Before our first check |
| 1.60.1.69876 | Sep 16, 18:23 | No post | Before our first check |
EditorialBlizzard named only build 69977 in a post. Which build belongs to which notes we read from the times: every notes build went up within about an hour of its post.
Known issues Blizzard lists
Blizzard keeps a thread of known issues for the beta. Its newest post is from Oct 8, 2:38 PM PDT. Two items in it touch our guides:
Ferocity works even when the character sheet does not show its pet crit bonus.
Blizzard is still working on textures of the Skyborne.
ConfirmedKnown issues thread
ComingWe list every open item of the thread here once Blizzard posts its next update, and mark the ones a later post resolves.
What comes next
The last days of the beta and the road to launch, one line each.
Blizzard has not said whether the stress test or the launch build come with notes of their own. The next notes go to the top of this page.
How we track Blizzard's changes
- Blizzard's posts
- The Development Notes thread, the Known Issues thread and the blue posts on the US forums. Every update above links its post.
- Client data
- The build list and the hotfix log of the beta client on wago.tools. We compare the data tables of each new build with the build before.
- How often
- From September 28 to October 20 we checked Blizzard's posts and the client 12 times. Every guide shows at the bottom what changed on it and when.
- In German
- Blizzard writes the notes in English only. Our German page uses the names from the German game client.
Every line here is our own short summary, Blizzard's full wording is in the linked post. Each line carries a status:
- Confirmed
- Blizzard said it, and it is in the beta.
- Announced
- Blizzard said it, but it is not in the game yet.
- Beta data
- Found in the beta client, Blizzard has not said it.
- Player report
- Reported by players, not confirmed yet.
- Editorial
- Our own reading of the data.
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Patch notes FAQ
What are the latest WoW Forever patch notes?
Blizzard's October 15 beta update, posted at 5:15 PM PDT. It is the fourth notes post since the beta opened, and build 70450 from October 16 brings more racial and talent changes on top.
What changed in the WoW Forever patch notes of October 15?
Battle Shout, Trueshot Aura, Moonkin Aura, Leader of the Pack and four Shaman totems now reach the whole raid. Auto Shot and wands need half a second of standing still. Eureka! lasts 8 sec, Quickness stacks with other speed bonuses, Salvation no longer takes a Blessing slot, Slam is no longer pushed back, and Horde players are attacked on sight in Dalaran.
What is the current WoW Forever beta build?
Build 1.60.1.70450, listed on October 16 at 22:29 UTC. On October 21 no newer beta build was out. Blizzard named a build in a post only once, 69977 on September 22.
Where does Blizzard post the WoW Forever patch notes?
On the US forums, in one thread called WoW Forever Beta Development Notes. Each update adds a new post there, and the thread title names the newest date. The EU forums mirror it in English, and the known issues have a thread of their own.
Are there WoW Forever patch notes in German?
Not from Blizzard. The notes are only in English, and the German forum has no Forever notes thread. This page has every update in German too, with the game's German names.
Does WoW Forever get hotfixes without patch notes?
Yes. Blizzard pushes server hotfixes to the beta without a new build or a post. The client's hotfix log shows rows for build 70425 on October 16 and for build 70450 on October 20.
What changed for Warriors in the WoW Forever patch notes?
On September 24 Slam got an 18 sec cooldown. On October 2 Fury was reworked: crits with basic attacks give 100% more Rage, Bloodthirst scales with 45% of attack power and Whirlwind always hits with both weapons. Since October 8 the damage you take gives more Rage, and since October 15 Battle Shout reaches the whole raid and Slam is no longer pushed back.
Will there be patch notes after the beta ends?
Blizzard has not said yet how it will post notes for launch and after. During the beta they came as posts in one forum thread. We add the next notes and hotfixes here as soon as they are out.
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