What Forever adds

The one new playable race in Forever, and the only race that picks its own side. Faction choice changes both a class option and a racial, so it is a real decision rather than a cosmetic one.

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Classes

Six of the nine classes, then. No Paladin, Priest or Warlock.

Racials

Racial	What it does	Available to
Elemental Insight	Damage dealt versus Elementals increased by 5%.	Both factions
Read Ley Line	Attempt to tap into the power of a nearby ley line, increasing your Health and Mana regeneration by 100%. Lasts 15 sec if no ley line is nearby, and 15 min if one is found.2 min cooldown	Alliance only
Skysight	Attempt to draw power from a convergence of elements and receive its blessing, increasing your movement and mounted movement speeds by 10%. Lasts 30 sec if no elemental convergence is nearby, and 15 min if one is found.2 min cooldown	Horde only
Walk on Air	Glide downward through the air for 10 sec while controlling your direction of travel.2 min cooldown	Both factions
Wind Blessed	Increases your spellcasting, melee, and ranged Haste by 1%.	Both factions

The one new playable race in Forever, and the only race that picks its own side. Faction choice changes both a class option and a racial, so it is a real decision rather than a cosmetic one.

Three shared, one per faction, read from the Forever client alongside every other race's. All nine races' racials.

Druid forms

Skyborne Druids get shapeshift forms built for the race rather than reskins:

• Bear
• Cat
• Travel
• Moonkin

Starting zone

Skyborne characters level 1–12 on Zephras Isle, a floating island, before joining the rest of Azeroth.

How to unlock

The race is tied to the edition you buy, not to the base subscription:

A standard subscription alone does not unlock Skyborne or the Zephras Isle starting experience.

6 combinations that were not possible in Classic. Each one is a deliberate break with a rule that held for twenty years.

Combination	Faction	Why it matters
Dwarf Shaman	Alliance	Breaks the Horde-only Shaman rule that stood since Vanilla.
Human Hunter	Alliance	Humans get a ranged physical class for the first time.
Undead Paladin	Horde	The most lore-disruptive of them, by some distance.
Gnome Priest	Alliance	Gnomes gain a healing class.
Orc Mage	Horde	Orcs gain an arcane caster.
Troll Warlock	Horde	The third Horde race able to roll Warlock, after Orc and Undead.

The Skyborne add more on top of these. They are a full race rather than a combination, so they have a section of their own.

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  Mount Hyjal

  Opened as a levelling and raiding zone. Home of the Hyjal Summit raid.

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  Zephras Isle

  Levels 1–12

  Skyborne starting zone.

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  Riverglades

  New questing zone. Blizzard's press screenshots file it as Riverglades; the fact sheet calls it the Riverlands.

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  Shendralas

  Named in a press screenshot. Nothing else announced yet.

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  Skywatch

  Named in a press screenshot. Nothing else announced yet.

More of these places

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  The Barrow Deeps

  10 player

  Tied to the Emerald Dream and the Barrow Dens beneath Hyjal.

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  Hyjal Summit

  20 player

  The larger of the two launch raids, at the peak of Mount Hyjal.

More of these raids

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Boss lists and loot are not announced. They will land here when they are real, not before.

Nine new dungeons, listed here by the level range Blizzard gave. The dungeon page has all 29 including the Classic ones, filterable.

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  Darkspear Islands

  15v15

  The first new battleground since Classic. Size sits between Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin.

More of the battleground

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All 12 are reworked: 9 primary and 3 secondary. Every one gains a passive bonus, three campsite objects (36 in all) and a share of the 600+ new recipes. It is the first time in Classic that your profession choice matters at low level.

Tier 1 campsite recipes are learned at skill 20 from camping NPCs or profession trainers. Higher tiers drop from specific dungeon bosses.

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Primary

Profession	Passive bonus	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3
Alchemy	Mixology: increased duration and effect from elixirs and flasks	Mana Well	Fermenter	Alchemy Laboratory
Blacksmithing	Repair All (8h cd rank 1 / 4h rank 2); Belt Buckles (Silver, Iron, Mithril, Arcanite)	Sharpening Wheel	Anvil	Master Forge
Enchanting	Ring enchants (Spell Power / Attack Power / Stamina, 5 tiers); shard transmutes (20h shared cd)	Enchanted Lute	Arcane Salvager	Arcane Forge
Engineering	No stat bonus; keeps Goblin/Gnomish specializations	Reagent Bot	Repair Bot	Anarchist's Workbench
Leatherworking	Bracer armor kits (SP/AP/Stam); saddle up to +5% mounted speed	Camp Tent	Tanning Rack	Sewing Machine
Tailoring	Cloak embroidery (SP/AP/Stam, 5 tiers); cloth scavenging from humanoids	Faction Banner	Spinning Wheel	Loom
Herbalism	Natural Talent: magic resistance scaling with skill; improved Black Lotus chance; herb creatures	Incense Candle	Greenhouse	Seed Hybridizer
Mining	+5% total health; Arcanite Lodes (experimental); mineable creatures	Lodestone	Rock Garden	Molten Foundry
Skinning	+5% damage to Beasts and Dragonkin; rare hides gain value	Camp Chair	Field Guide	Trapper's Workbench

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Profession	Passive bonus	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3
Cooking	Almost all crafted food grants a stat boost plus a small XP buff	Basic Campfire Kit	Journeyman Campfire Kit	Expert Campfire Kit
First Aid	Restored to 1.12 form incl. Triage quest; bandage healing increased for TBC stamina scaling	First Aid Kit	Toxin Study	Plague Doctor's Laboratory
Fishing	Tackle Boxes; lava fishing (special rods); dailies in Blackmaw Village; 'Salty' meta achievement	Fish Bowl	Fishing Rack	Fishing Hut

Engineering is the exception: it gains no passive stat bonus, keeping its Goblin and Gnomish specialisations as the draw instead.

16 factions Forever adds and 5 it rewrote, out of 56 in the client. The reputations page has all of them, including Classic's, with every reward a standing unlocks.

• Barkskin Burrow New no rewards yet
• Bolder'ok Clan New no rewards yet
• Brotherhood of the Horse New no rewards yet
• Cenarion Scouts New no rewards yet
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• Earthen Ring New 8 rewards
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• Guardians of Hyjal New 1 reward
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• High Order New no rewards yet
• Kirin Tor New 9 rewards
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• Nightclaw Druids New 49 rewards
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• Powderfuse New 1 reward
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• The Watchers New 18 rewards
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• Theramore Expeditionary Force New 22 rewards
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• Windshapers New no rewards yet
• Darkspear Trolls Changed no rewards yet
• Orgrimmar Changed no rewards yet
• Ravasaur Trainers Changed no rewards yet
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• Wildhammer Clan Changed no rewards yet

A faction with no rewards has nothing in the client gated behind it yet. Read from the Forever client, so this is the list a character can see rather than a list of what is worth grinding.

All fourteen rank names are vanilla's, unchanged. What sits under them is not: the weekly standing formula is gone, and rank is a track you buy with Rank Points. 5 of the fourteen also pay a Legacy Point.

Two purses

Honor and rank are no longer the same number.

Both descriptions are the client's own words.

The fourteen ranks

1. 1 Private Scout 750 Faction Tabard
   • Private's Tabard
   • Scout's Tabard
2. 2 Corporal Grunt 900 Insignia Trinket
   • Insignia of the Alliance
   • Insignia of the Horde
3. 3 Sergeant 1,050 Faction Cloak +1 Legacy Point
   • Sergeant's Cape
   • Sergeant's Cloak
4. 4 Master Sergeant Senior Sergeant 1,200 Faction Necklace
   • Master Sergeant's Insignia
   • Senior Sergeant's Insignia
5. 5 Sergeant Major First Sergeant 1,350 Combat Potions
6. 6 Knight Stone Guard 1,500 Elite Faction Tabard
   • Knight's Colors
   • Stone Guard's Herald
7. 7 Knight-Lieutenant Blood Guard 1,650 Battle Standard +1 Legacy Point
8. 8 Knight-Captain Legionnaire 1,800 Elite Wrist Upgrade
9. 9 Knight-Champion Centurion 1,950 Elite Boot Upgrade
10. 10 Lieutenant Commander Champion 2,100 Elite Glove Upgrade +1 Legacy Point
11. 11 Commander Lieutenant General 2,350 Black War Mounts
    • Commander's Steed
    • Lieutenant General's Mount
12. 12 Marshal General 2,500 Elite Leg Upgrade
13. 13 Field Marshal Warlord 2,650 Elite Chest Upgrade +1 Legacy Point
14. 14 Grand Marshal High Warlord 3,000 Weapon Arsenal +1 Legacy Point

The unlock is the client's own wording and carries no item id. Forever's own sets sit at ranks 10 and 13; the pieces the client still lists at other ranks are Classic's old gates and no longer match what the rank actually unlocks.

Blizzard's own summary calls out new lighting and global illumination, volumetric fog and god rays, water that flows and catches the light, and terrain that casts real shadows. These are their screenshots of the same zones you already know.

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Water, reworked:

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Launches

4 November 2026

Beta from

17 September 2026

Costs

Nothing extra. An active subscription or game time covers it

Level cap

60

New quests

Over 1,000

5 zones, 9 dungeons, 2 raids, one battleground, one new race and 6 race and class combinations. All of it announced publicly. Where Blizzard have not stated a number this page leaves it out rather than guessing, so some rows are shorter than you might want.

Lifted from Blizzard's own press fact sheet, not from coverage of it. The game itself costs nothing beyond a subscription; beta access is the exception. Blizzard name the Skyborne Edition and the Warcraft Forever collection as granting it. Their fact sheet lists no prices and does not say whether other editions do too, so this page does not either.