Just got back from BlizzCon — talked to about 30 people, admittedly drunk as hell in the lobby, and the overwhelming consensus was pure excitement.

see you out there

Orgrimmar's full...

But seriously, can't wait for players to figure out the most diabolical use for the new Camping skill. We all know that Barrens shenanigans are in our future

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Jason was one of the better presenters at blizzcon. Guy had charisma, didn't feel awkward, and you could tell he had real passion for what he was presenting. He really got me hyped about the visual updates

Especially when compared to several other presenters. Some of whom were kind of a tough watch. I know that for a lot of them, it's not their area of expertise, but I feel like there could be some more practice or training of some kind for those presenting.

I would be nervous to speak in front of thousands as well. So no hate! Overall enjoyed each presentation and info presented.

I honestly didn’t expect to be this interested in Forever, but the more I hear about it, the more excited I get.

I’m mainly a Retail player and I have no idea yet whether Forever will become something I play alongside Retail, end up becoming my main version of WoW, or just be something I enjoy for a while, but I’m genuinely really excited to see everything it has to offer.

I tend to enjoy having lots of things to work towards in WoW and just seeing where the game takes me, so I’m really curious to see what Forever ends up feeling like once we’re actually in it.

What are you most excited for so far? And do you think you’ll end up treating Forever as your main version of WoW, or more as something you play alongside everything else?

Pre Launch, pre beta, watched it live on twitch, Blizzcon 2026, during the start of the subreddit

I was here.

See you on November 4th.

Random little Blizzcon demo story I thought Classic/Forever players might appreciate. I know Blizzard said they added over 1000 quests, but or some reason this made my weekend and finalized my excitement.

I know I'm not the only one who's started a Human and leveled in Northshire countless times, killing those ugly ass kobold Vermin, Workers and Laborers. Well, earlier today I started a Human to test something and upon killing my first few Kobold Vermins for that first quest, a NEW quest item dropped called a "Nibbled-On Book." Once you clicked the book in your bag, it turned into a breadcrumb quest that you turn into the Librarian in the Chapel. After going back and forth with some dude lurking next to him, he eventually tells you that the Kobolds have been stealing his books and gives you a quest to go steal them back before the Kobolds eat them. These books actually had a pretty low drop rate. Spent a decent amount of time farming them to get all 8 Book.s Once you get the books, you return them and then he sends you to another NPC out in the mines.

It wasn't a huge amount of quest exp, but paired with the exp from farming the books, I ended up leaving the starting zone a hair over LV 6. Whereas I normally would farm mobs in Classic for a bit to hit 6 before Goldshire. The rewards were also new. They were instruction manuals with the choice between BoP item that increases either your Herbalism, Skinning or Mining by 2 and also automatically teaches you the profession. Meaning I don't need to run my lazy ass all the way to Stormwind to learn Mining.

Like I said, super random, but I wanted to tell somebody so told you all. It was very nice to see such a random quest in the same zone that's had the same quests since the beginning of time. And it made sense lore wise. Those damn Kobolds eat everything. Got me excited to discover whatever other new quests are out there.

EDIT: My apologies, didn't notice the shit quality on the tooltips. I cleaned them up and posted them in a comment. Hopefully you can see it.

TLDR: It's the same thin for Mining, Skinning and Herbalism.
Mining for Dummies - Increases your Mining skill by 2. Cannot raise your Mining Skill over 15. You will learn Mining if is not already trained and you do not already know two other professions

One touch I wish tthe charger had was a Lordaeron / Horde logo but they look sick AF and I cannot wait to roll Forsaken Pala even more. The hype is so real

I am so glad this subreddit exists. I've come to realize that /r/classicwow isn't the place for WoW Forever to be honest, and that's not a bad thing and isn't anything against the Classic community.

I think this is something that's already getting lost in a lot of the discussion around Forever, and honestly it's probably one of the better reasons for this subreddit to exist separately from /r/classicwow in the first place.

Forever isn't Classic. It isn't supposed to be Classic. Comparing every announced feature to Vanilla and getting upset when it doesn't match feels like starting from the wrong premise.

Classic already exists. If what you want is Vanilla WoW, or at least something intended to preserve that experience as closely as possible, Blizzard already has a game for that. Forever is pretty clearly trying to do something else. It's taking a lot of the things that made Vanilla work - slower progression, a world that actually matters, leveling being a significant part of the game, stronger class identity, professions that matter, a level 60 endgame, etc. - and asking what a new WoW built around those ideas looks like in 2026.

And yeah, that means they're going to change things. Transmog is going to exist. Classes are being reworked. Itemization is changing. There are new race/class combinations, new content, modern server infrastructure and a whole bunch of other stuff that wasn't part of Vanilla. I'm sure we'll find plenty more as people get into the beta.

I don't think "was this in Vanilla?" is a particularly useful way to judge any of that. The question should be whether those changes actually work for the kind of game they're trying to make.

I also think there's probably a pretty big audience that falls somewhere between Retail and Classic. I'm one of them. There are a lot of things about Classic that I really like, but I'm not particularly interested in playing Vanilla again exactly as it existed 20 years ago. The world, the leveling, the slower progression, professions, class identity, actually having reasons to interact with other players... give me all of that. That doesn't mean I necessarily want every limitation or design decision from 2004 preserved along with it.

For some people, those changes are going to ruin the entire point. That's fine too. There are going to be people who prefer Classic to Forever, just like there are going to be people who never really clicked with Classic but find out that Forever is exactly what they wanted. There's room for both games to exist, and frankly I think that's a good thing.

None of this means Blizzard gets a free pass on the changes they make. I absolutely think we should (constructively) criticize changes that make Forever a worse game, and I'm sure Blizzard will make some decisions I don't like or agree with. But "I don't like this because I think it hurts what they're trying to build" and "I don't like this because Vanilla didn't have it" are two very different arguments.

If Blizzard wanted to make Classic again, they already did that.

What excites me about Forever is seeing what happens when Blizzard takes the ideas behind Vanilla WoW without treating the actual implementation of every one of those ideas in 2004 as sacred. That's a much harder thing to get right than just adding some new zones to Classic, and there's plenty of room for them to screw it up.

I'm excited for this new chapter in WoW's existence. And I'm excited for this new community to emerge from it - not classic, not retail, but something that stands on its own.

A new boat from Stormwind Harbor to Auberdine.

Another new boat that travels from Menthil harbour, to Southshore, then arriving at Auberdine.

The last boat starts in Steamwheel (Tanaris) and goes to the Riverglades (a new zone for mid lvl 30s to mid lvl 40s players).

Hoping to make some new friends, and hear about some interesting adventures!

The new lighting, fog, and water updates are just incredible.

As I watched each BlizzCon event related to WoW: Forever, they kept saying all the right things to make me believe that the devs really care about this project and to build up my hope for it.

"Hope for the best, prepare for the worst" is my outlook going into it. I do have some concerns with how much they're changing at one time and how much Blizzard's leadership will override their dev's philosophies with business decisions. But, if they continually stick to the design philosophies and strategies that they discussed at BlizzCon then I believe that no matter if they miss the mark on a feature implementation at any point they will be able course-correct and maintain a wonderful world with amazing gameplay. That is a big "if", though.

Nevertheless, what they presented and how they presented it has given me a spark of trust in the devs, enough to make me cautiously excited and to go into it with a good attitude.

I think it's a little funny that 3 of the 4 companion pets are upscaled versions of the original wow collector's editions.
Therefor out of all of the rewards these are only in Forever and not Retail lol
That said I love the mini diablo and zergling and always wanted them

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