World of Warcraft: Forever Deep Dive Outlines Camping, Legacy Progression, Realmless Play, and Class Changes
The World of Warcraft: Forever team has shared a broader look at how its reimagined version of original Azeroth will work, with several major systems now confirmed. The deep dive covered camping, expanded professions, account-wide Legacy Points, realmless rulesets, transmog options, itemization changes, new race and class pairings, and a closer look at Paladins.
Camping is one of the bigger social systems. The old Cooking Fire is being expanded into a Basic Campfire, letting players create campsites where others can rest, sit for a short time, and gain one-hour buffs. Nearby players can also add crafted campsite objects, with each profession getting its own utility or buff. Cooks can eventually make upgraded campfires that support more objects, while some advanced recipes will come from dungeon boss Blueprint drops.
- Professions are getting more than 600 new recipes across different level ranges.
- Crafted food can provide small experience bonuses and stat boosts.
- Legacy Points are earned through challenges such as leveling classes or reaching profession milestones.
- Each character spends shared Legacy Points separately in trees like Professions, Adventure, and Resourcefulness.
- At launch, characters can spend up to 16 Legacy Points, while players can earn up to 65 for the Legacy Reward Track.
Forever is also dropping traditional realm selection in favor of rulesets. Players will choose between Normal, PvP, Roleplaying, and Hardcore, though Hardcore is coming after launch. Cross-ruleset grouping won’t be supported, and factions still can’t group together. Names will use a two-part format and be unique per region, which should help with availability in a larger connected environment.
Transmog will be optional in a more literal sense. Players can use a transmogrifier in certain cities, or disable the system so they only see other characters in their equipped gear. Classic Mode will start with transmog disabled. Dungeon Uncommon and Rare bind-on-pickup appearances will be granted to eligible looters when the item is looted, while epic raid appearances go only to the player who receives the item.
Combat is still being pitched as Classic-paced, with normal solo enemies taking around 10 to 15 seconds to kill and dungeon pulls leaving room for crowd control and threat management. Itemization is being reworked across the game, including combined hit and crit stats, adjusted weapon skill bonuses, more useful dungeon drops, new rare creature loot, and quest rewards aimed at more roles.
The team also confirmed six new race and class combinations: Gnome Priest, Human Hunter, Dwarf Shaman, Orc Mage, Troll Warlock, and Undead Paladin. Racial abilities are being revised so each race has two active and two passive abilities.
Paladins got the deepest class preview. They’re gaining Holy Strike at level 6, baseline Consecration at level 20, Seals that are no longer consumed by Judgment, and a new Seal of Fury aimed at Protection tanking. Holy, Protection, and Retribution all get new tools, but the team says Paladins will still keep some Classic limitations, including no interrupt and limited slows.
Further reading: Official Forever Deep Dive panel recap
