WoW Forever beta patch notes
4 notes for this build, September 24, 2026 to September 25, 2026.
MaintenanceAnnounced by Blizzard
No new build: Blizzard restarts the beta realms to fix server issues.
AnnouncementAnnounced by Blizzard
Forced name changes and removed beta access for names that break the rules.
Patch notesAnnounced by Blizzard
The first full weekly update: tuning for every class, races, the Cooldown Manager, gamepad, items, quests and interface.
Key changes
Rejuvenation and Tranquility can now land critical heals.
Wrath: base damage increased by about 50%.
Thorns now tracks the caster's spell power in real time; if the caster cannot be found or is too far away, the base values apply.
Primal Bite. The ability's signature debuff was removed, hence the new name; the talents that mentioned it were updated.
Blood Frenzy.
Feral Charge (Cat Form) can no longer be cast on an ally.
Wild Growth can now land critical heals.
Furious Howl's attack power bonus is reduced by 40%.
Sonic Blast.
Tame Beast no longer works on a beast above your level.
Lone Wolf out no longer leaves a 4% damage penalty while your pet is out.
Lacerating Strikes can now land critical hits.
Strider Kick raises movement speed by 30% for 3 sec.
Arcane Missiles checks line of sight only when the channel starts: a target that moves out of sight keeps getting hit.
Wake of Fire buff lasts 30 sec instead of 20.
Hot Streak lasts 20 sec instead of 15.
Ignite no longer double-dips on percentage damage bonuses.
Retribution Aura now tracks the caster's spell power in real time.
Flash of Light plays again.
Consecration: several fixes (a damage bonus that did not apply to some targets, inconsistent height handling, targets pulled above or below the caster).
Holy Strike: weapon damage per rank raised to 25 / 29 / 32 / 36 / 39 / 43 / 46 / 50% (was 25 / 25 / 30 / 30 / 35 / 35 / 40 / 40%).
Echo of Justice no longer triggers more often than intended.
Righteous Fury: the threat bonus on Holy damage drops from 90% to 60%.Holy Strike's cooldown drops from 12 to 10 sec.
Improved Holy Strike is removed from the tree and its effect is now baseline.
Light's Vigil's tooltip is reorganized to make clear that only the damage version refunds part of the mana cost.
Holy Power also raises Holy Strike's critical strike chance by 15%, on top of its usual effects.
Vengeance now triggers on non-periodic critical strikes.Vengeance stacks up to 3 times instead of 5.
Two-Handed Weapon Specialization drops to 2 / 4 / 6% damage (was 3 / 6 / 9%).
Sacred Arbiter raises Holy Strike damage by 20% instead of 10%.
Twist of Light also cuts the mana cost of Seals by 20%.
Renew can now land critical heals.
Power Word: Shield can always replace an active shield, as long as the target does not have Weakened Soul.
Contingency Plan can now land critical heals.
Confounding Flash gets a new cast visual, more Holy than Arcane, with matching sounds.
Starshards now properly gets the pushback resistance from the Twilight Focus talent.
Dark Sacrifice no longer breaks crowd control that breaks on damage, and its tooltip now says the mana gained scales with Spirit.
Sap now correctly flags the Rogue for PvP when the target is PvP-flagged.
Lightning Bolt: ranks 3 and 4 deal more damage, so every rank stays an upgrade despite the cast time changes.
Windfury Totem and Flametongue Totem: the buff now simply shows the totem's name.
Flametongue Totem: no more duration; it is replaced as soon as you drop another totem.Flametongue Totem: no longer stacks by recasting it, nor with Flametongue Weapon or Windfury Totem.
Grace of Air Totem no longer stack with each other, even from different Shamans in the same group.
Elemental Alacrity (row 6) swap places.
Lava Burst ranks 1 and 2 deal about 10% more base damage than the Lightning Bolt rank learned around the same level.
Rage of the Farseer (row 7) no longer increases casting speed.
Riptide can now land critical heals.
Life Tap: the tooltip now shows the right amount of health converted and only mentions Spirit scaling.
Sacrifice now properly scales with 10% of the Warlock's spell healing.
Sunder Armor: threat values corrected at every rank, with a small increase to threat from attack power.
Focused Rage (row 6) swap places, so Focused Rage comes before Shield Slam. The build 70009 files do not show this swap yet: to be confirmed in game.
Bloodthrill's chance rises to 4 / 8 / 12 / 16 / 20% (was 2 / 4 / 6 / 8 / 10%) and now only triggers on main-hand attacks, Cleave and Heroic Strike included.
Improved Slam cuts it by 1.5 / 3 sec.Game filesRead from the game files
The 70009 client files confirm most of the 24 September notes, remove one more Paladin talent and leave the Protection Warrior swap pending.
Key changes
Primal Bite, Primal Fury becomes Blood Frenzy, and the Windfury and Flametongue totem buffs carry the totem's name.Improved Holy Strike is no longer in the Holy tree.Elemental Alacrity swap is in the talent data: Elemental Alacrity on row 3, Elemental Fury on row 6. Call of Thunder now requires Elemental Alacrity at max rank.Wrath, rank 1: 15 to 17 Nature damage, up from 10 to 12.Lava Burst, rank 1: 150 to 192 Fire damage, up from 106 to 134.Lightning Bolt, ranks 3 and 4: rank 3 deals 44 to 52 Nature damage, up from 35 to 41.Slam is at an 18 sec cooldown on all five ranks, and Holy Strike at 10 sec on all eight.
Create Firestone tooltip (ranks 3 and 4), announced as fixed at the opening, does change: it reminds you that conjured items vanish after 15 minutes logged out.
Crusade (Retribution) is no longer in the Paladin tree: the second Paladin talent removed with this build.
Bastion / Focused Rage swap announced for Protection Warriors is not in the talent data: Bastion stays on row 5 and Focused Rage on row 6. To be confirmed in game.Windfury Totem: the tooltip now says it affects party members within 30 yards.