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Kaivax, Community Manager · Blue post

Actions Taken Against Botting and RMT

Since our previous note on the subject of addressing Real Money Transactions (RMT) in WoW: Forever, we have been continuously actioning accounts that were found to be botting to amass gold in the WoW: Forever Beta, as well as the accounts of those who were found to have purchased or knowingly…

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Kaivax, Community Manager · Blue post

Beta Update Maintenance - October 1

We think we’ll take the Beta offline in about 45 minutes. See you on the other side!

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Kaivax, Community Manager · Blue post

The WoW: Forever Podcast: Episode 2 - Speed Running Classes ft. ‪@sodapoppin‬

[Speed Running Classes ft. @sodapoppin | Episode 2 - The WoW: Forever Podcast]

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Kaivax, Community Manager · Blue post

Beta Update Maintenance - October 1

Tomorrow morning PDT, we will take the WoW Forever Beta offline for maintenance. Several hours later, the Beta will resume with an updated build that includes changes and fixes, with the level cap raised to 30. We’ll have all the details here tomorrow .

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Nethaera, Community Manager · Blue post

World of Warcraft: Forever Class Deep Dives — Hunter and Druid

Subjective, but all in good time, friend. We plan to cover them all but these take a bit of work to pull together and the caveat is that things could still change during beta.

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Nethaera, Community Manager · Blue post

World of Warcraft: Forever Class Deep Dives — Hunter and Druid

Jokes on you… no intern… BUT I did get the correction from the dev team and updated it in the article. It should have said “more damage than Aimed Shot”. Thanks for caring enough to point it out so we could get it corrected. Sniper Shot: New talent in 31-point gold medal slot. Pre-requisite of T…

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Nethaera, Community Manager · Blue post

World of Warcraft: Forever Class Deep Dives — Hunter and Druid

I hate that I had to stop using them because of people spamming about AI. I used them all the time too and it was hard to stop lol You do what you want to do. Proper punctuation is a gift. You’re supposed to use gifts, right?

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Nethaera, Community Manager · Blue post

World of Warcraft: Forever Class Deep Dives — Hunter and Druid

I (a human) have used em dashes for many many years. You can’t have them. They are mine. But thanks for noticing the work done.

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Kaivax, Community Manager · Blue post

Can we put the Kyle Questline back into Mulgore?

We’re working on it. Stay tuned!

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Kaivax, Community Manager · Blue post

Gold buying rules

Hello. We just want to reiterate some key points about this subject. Real money transactions (RMT) are not acceptable in World of Warcraft, and we’re taking steps to address RMT in the WoW: Forever Beta, and of course, when WoW: Forever goes live and beyond. It’s important to know that while we ha…

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Kaivax, Community Manager · Blue post

Realm is full

We looked into this, and found an issue that was causing the queue to fill, and we just fixed the issue. Thanks for testing with us!

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Kaivax, Community Manager · Blue post

Beta Realm Restarts Incoming - Sept. 25

To implement fixes that should address stability issues, we will shutdown and restart the Beta in the next few minutes. The maintenance period should be very brief.

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Aggrend, WoW Game Developer · Blue post

What insights would you like to see in a future episode of the WoW: Forever Podcast?

Greetings! We’ve been super excited about the reception to our first episode of the WoW: Forever Podcast and are already gearing up for next week’s show! This next episode is going to focus heavily Class Design with special guests from our systems design team, so please look forward to that! Look…

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Kaivax, Community Manager · Blue post

Game is unplayable today

We’re tracking server issues that are affecting some Beta testers, and our fix for this will almost certainly result in restarting servers today. Thank you for these reports.

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Fwoibles, WoW Developer · Blue post

WoW Forever Beta - Account Actions For Name Violations

We are in the process of issuing forced name changes to characters found to be in violation of our character naming policies that were created in the Forever Beta. Additionally, we have removed beta access for some users who created names that were far outside of our Code of Conduct. The use of…

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Kaivax, Community Manager · Blue post

Beta is Up - Development Notes Posted

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Kaivax, Community Manager · Blue post

WoW Forever Beta Known Issues - October 8

Resolved Issues Teldrassil - During the quest “Escaping Ban’ethil”, Sentinel Lynessa Duskblossom runs a bit too fast and spams her Strike ability. This is fixed in the next beta build. Loch Modan - “Snowbound” gives more XP than intended. This is adjusted in the next beta build. Known Issues - New…

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Kaivax, Community Manager · Blue post

Beta Realm Maintenance is Underway - September 24

We took the Beta down for maintenance and to deploy a new build. We don’t have an ETA just yet, but it should take at least a couple of hours. We’ll have a full change log (development notes) as well as updated known issues post here soon.

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Kaivax, Community Manager · Blue post

Increased Weather Effects

Coming soon to the Beta [Increased weather effects are coming to WoW: Forever Beta Zones]

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Kaivax, Community Manager · Blue post

Auto-shoot Bug and Fix Incoming

We’ve been tracking an issue in the WoW Forever Beta where the 0.5-second cast time that precedes a Hunter’s auto-shot or the use of a wand is not functioning properly. Due to a bug, these auto-shots are currently incurring a much shorter cast time, which in practice means that Hunters and wand use…

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