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Your first steps in WoW: Forever
Independent guides for new adventurers, checked against official sources.
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01Launch & getting started · Legendary
WoW Forever Beginner’s Guide: Release, Beta, and Classic Differences
Last checkedUse: What World of Warcraft: Forever is, when it launches, how beta access works, what a subscription includes, and what changes from Classic.
02Launch & getting started · Epic
WoW Forever Release Date: Name Reservation Checklist
Last checkedUse: Plan the WoW Forever launch by date: beta end, Early Name Reservation, Blizzard’s naming rules and launch day, with separate U.S., European and Korean dates from official sources.
03Launch & getting started · Epic
WoW Forever Pricing: Subscription, Bundles, and Refunds
Last checkedUse: Can you refund WoW Forever? Blizzard treats purchases as final but lets you request a refund review on Battle.net Support under Payments, then Refunds. Also: what a subscription or game time covers, the three bundle prices in the U.S., Europe and Korea, and the $150 physical Collector's Edition.
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Classes & races
WoW Forever Classes and Races: Racials, New Combos and How to Choose
Last checked Content changedHow to pick a class and race in World of Warcraft: Forever: the order to decide in, which choices you can’t easily undo, the nine classes and their roles, what Blizzard’s class deep dives say about each class, the stated damage balance for hybrid and pure classes, all 56 race and class combinations, the reworked racials, and the Early Name Reservation dates by region.
Addons & UI
WoW Forever Cooldown Manager: How to Turn It On, Supported Classes and What It Can't Track
Last checked Content changedHow to turn on WoW Forever's built-in Cooldown Manager, which classes it supports since the October 8 beta update, what Blizzard says it cannot track yet, and how it compares with cooldown addons.
Launch & getting started
WoW Forever Layering Explained: World Instances, World Refreshes and Grouping with Friends
Last checked Content changedHow layering works in WoW Forever, from Blizzard’s own posts and videos: realmless rulesets, per-zone layer limits, world refreshes and the warning window, the beta party transfer issue and the October 1 change, and what is still unannounced.
Addons & UI
WoW Forever Macros: What Blizzard Allows, How to Make One and Starter Macros by Class
Last checked Content changedHow macros work in WoW Forever: what Blizzard's EULA and support pages allow, how to make and save a macro, the conditions beta players report working, and starter macros for seven classes, including the Warlock's new Banes.
Classes & races
WoW Forever Rogue Changes: Mutilate, Venom, Hack and Slash and Every Talent Update
Last checked Content changedEvery official WoW Forever Rogue change from Blizzard's Rogue and Warlock class deep dive of October 7: Sap that keeps Stealth, poisons with sharpening stones, one-handed axes, Mutilate and Venom, Hack and Slash, Premeditation and Thousand Cuts, and what daggers, swords, axes and maces now get.
- An active WoW subscription or game time is all you need to play WoW Forever. The paid packs are optional upgrades. (Official source)
- On the PvP ruleset you can only create characters for one faction. (Official source)
- Every character has two names, and the full combination must be unique in your region. (Official source)
- Early Name Reservation lets you create up to three characters. Names are first come, first served. (Official source)
- The 30 days of game time in the Epic Pack and Collection are added at launch, not at purchase. (Official source)
- WoW Forever has no flying mounts and no level scaling. (Official source)
- Plan for 128 GB of free SSD space – the same on Windows and Mac. (Official source)
- Preferred Online Language is account-wide and can only be changed once every 24 hours. (Official source)
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- WoW Forever Beginner’s Guide
- WoW Forever Release Date
- WoW Forever Pricing
- WoW Forever Invite-A-Friend
- WoW Forever Beta Access Guide
- WoW Forever Beta Patch Notes
- WoW Forever System Requirements
- WoW Forever Controller Support
- WoW Forever Realms and Rulesets
- WoW Forever Layering Explained
- WoW Forever Legacy System
- WoW Forever Transmog
- WoW Forever Addons
- WoW Forever Multiboxing Rules
- WoW Forever Gold Buying and GDKP Rules
- WoW Forever Olympus Guild
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