WoW Classic Forever Beta Patch Notes 24 Sep 2026

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug with casters not playing their precast animations and sometimes standing while casting.

Bugfixes

• Changed the sound effect that plays while jumping in water to be more aesthetically pleasing.

Bugfixes

• Adjusted Human death sounds.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where attempting to craft items or cast spells was causing players to stand up while waiting to obtain their Campfire buff.

Bugfixes

• Resolved an issue where Huey Sunnydale’s legs failed to render properly.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue that made a Season of Discovery rune ability visible.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where Pet Happiness was not decreasing once your pet was at max loyalty.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue causing the Undercity Canal ooze to be much brighter than intended.

Bugfixes

• Removed a setting that could disable fog in an unintended manner.

Bugfixes

• Resolved a water display issue and fixed various other display artifacts on Mac.

Bugfixes

• Fixed a memory leak causing gradual performance degradation for some players.

Bugfixes

• Fixed an issue where in-game mail could ignore surnames.

Classes

• If you have not recently changed your talents, the cost is now 1 silver to re-spec. This is temporary for the Beta only. After your first talent reset, the subsequent cost will be much higher, but it will drop to 1 silver after 1 hour has passed.

• Corrected an issue and now Rejuvenation can land critical hits.
• Corrected an issue and now Tranquility can land critical hits.
• Wrath base damage increased ~50%.
• Thorns will now dynamically update its values based on the caster’s spell power.
• If the caster cannot be found or is too far away, Thorns reverts to its base values.

• Mangle has been renamed Primal Bite. Its signature debuff has been removed, so the former name no longer accurately represented the ability.
• All talents referencing Mangle now reference Primal Bite.
• The Primal Fury talent has been renamed and the icon replaced with the original Blood Frenzy name and icon.
• Fixed a bug where Feral Charge (Cat) could be cast on allies.

• Corrected an issue and now Wild Growth can land critical hits.

• Talenting out of Lone Wolf will no longer cause the Hunter to have -4% damage while their pet is active.

• Arcane Missiles no longer checks line of sight on each missile, just once at the beginning of the channel. So targets moving out of line of sight during the channel will not prevent the missiles.

• Wake of Fire buff duration has been increased to 30 seconds (was 20 seconds).
• Hot Streak buff duration has been increased to 20 seconds (was 15 seconds).
• Ignite no longer double dips on % damage increase modifiers.

• Retribution Aura will now dynamically update its values based on the caster’s spell power.
• Fixed a bug causing the Flash of Light cast animation to not play at the end of the spell cast.
• Fixed various issues with Consecration.
• Fixed an issue where Consecration would fail to apply its increased damage effect to some targets.
• Fixed an issue where Consecration’s Z axis wasn’t functioning consistently.
• Fixed an issue where Consecration could pull targets vertically above or below the caster.
• Holy Strike’s % of weapon damage per rank changed to 25%/29%/32%/36%/39%/43%/46%/50% (was 25%/25%/30%/30%/35%/35%/40%/40%).
• Developers’s notes: This increases Holy Strike’s damage at all points while leveling, and increases how much it contributes to your rotation. Early ranks of Holy Strike didn’t always feel like an upgrade when purchasing a new rank, and we wanted to adjust that.
• Fixed a bug with Echo of Justice, causing it to have a higher than intended chance to activate.
• Righteous Fury: Holy threat increase increased to 60% (was 90%).

• Vengeance now activates off of non-periodic critical strikes.
• Vengeance’s maximum stacks lowered to 3 (was 5).
• Two-Handed Weapon Specialization’s damage increase reduced to 2/4/6% (was 3/6/9%).
• Sacred Arbiter now increases the damage of Holy Strike by 20% (was 10%).
• Twist of Light now additionally reduces the Mana cost of your Seal spells by 20%.

• Corrected an issue and now Renew can land critical hits.
• Power Word: Shield can now always overwrite an existing Power Word: Shield on a target that does not have Weakened Soul.

Gnome

• Corrected an issue and now Contingency Plan can land critical hits.
• Confounding Flash now has a cast visual. The casting visual is now more Holy oriented than Arcane and the sounds have been updated to match.

Night Elf

• Starshards now correctly gains resistance to spell pushback from the Twilight Focus talent.

Undead

• Dark Sacrifice no longer breaks Crowd Control that breaks on damage.
• Dark Sacrifice’s tooltip now correctly displays that the Mana gained from the ability scales with Spirit.

• Sap now correctly flags the Rogue for PvP when used on a target that is PvP flagged.

• Lightning Bolt: Damage on ranks 3 and 4 increased to make these spells always upgrades over previous ranks (despite changing cast times).
• Windfury Totem: Buff from this spell now displays as “Windfury Totem” instead of “Windfury Totem Passive”.
• Flametongue Totem: Buff from this spell now displays as “Flametongue Totem” instead of “Flametongue Totem Effect”.
• Flametongue Totem no longer has a duration and is instantly replaced when placing another totem.
• Flametongue Totem is no longer able to be stacked by repeatedly casting Flametongue Totem.
• Flametongue Totem no longer stacks with Flametongue Weapon.
• Flametongue Totem no longer stacks with Windfury Totem.
• Tranquil Air Totem, Windfury Totem, and Grace of Air Totem no longer stack together even if used by different Shamans in the same group.

• Corrected an issue and now Riptide can land critical hits.

• Tooltip of Life Tap has been updated to correctly display the amount of Life converted, and only states that it scales with Spirit.
• Voidwalker Sacrifice now correctly scales with 10% of the Warlock’s spell healing.

• Swapped the positions of the Bastion (Row 5) and Focused Rage (Row 6) talents.

• Bloodthrill’s chance to activate increased to 4/8/12/16/20% (was 2/4/6/8/10%).
• Bloodthrill only activates off of Main Hand melee attacks. This includes Cleave and Heroic Strike.
• Slam’s cooldown has been increased to 18 seconds (was 15 seconds).
• Improved Slam now reduces the cooldown of Slam by 1.5/3 seconds.

Gnome

• Changed Eureka on every class to a 10% discount on Mana, Rage, or Energy abilities.

Human

• Changed the Will to Survive visual to match Dispel Magic instead of Will of the Forsaken.

Races

• Tauren

Races

• Cultivation now has a player-level requirement for every Herb. The level required is equal to the Herb’s level required to pick it divided by 5. Herbs that require a higher than 300 Herbalism skill to pick can be Cultivated at player level 60.

Races

• Touch of the Grave no longer breaks CC or activates from spells and abilities that don’t have a damage component to them.

Cooldown Manager

• Druid, Mage, Priest, Warrior, and Warlock are available for testing the Cooldown Manager.

Cooldown Manager

• Additional classes will become testable in future updates.

Cooldown Manager

• The most desired feedback for this feature is currently: spells that you wish were tracked by default.

• The Cooldown Manager does not yet support spell ranks. This will be resolved in a future Beta update.

Gamepad Support

• Class specific flyouts have been added to the action bar interface of some classes.

Gamepad Support

• Shapeshift flyout for Druids.

Gamepad Support

• Pet control and pet spell flyouts for Hunters and Warlocks.

Gamepad Support

• Aura flyout for Paladins.

Gamepad Support

• Stance flyout for Warriors.

Gamepad Support

• The pet bar no longer replaces the bottom gamepad action bar for Hunters and Warlocks.

Support

• New options have been added to the Gamepad (Alpha) section of the game options.

Gamepad Support

• Use Compact Action Bar: Replaces the normal gamepad action bar layout with one that only shows the currently active action bar at any given time.

Gamepad Support

• Fixed Party Targeting: While in a non-raid party, rather than having the directional pad act as directions in the party interface, each button on the directional pad is assigned to a specific party member.

Gamepad Support

• Swap Target Modifier Sides: Swaps sides of the friendly and hostile targeting modifiers, putting friendly targeting on the right and hostile on the left.

Gamepad Support

• Swap Friendly Target Action Sides: Swaps the directional pad and face button actions when using the friendly targeting modifier.

Gamepad Support

• Swap Hostile Target Action Sides: Swaps the directional pad and face button actions when using the hostile targeting modifier.

Gamepad Support

• Fixed an issue preventing edit mode layouts from being applied while the gamepad UI is enabled.

Gamepad Support

• Updated Map and Quest Log bindings.

Gamepad Support

• New hover functionality for POI pins.

Gamepad Support

• Updated support for Compact Raid Frame Manager and Role Poll Frames.

Items

• A handful of guns and bows were not correctly consuming or using ammunition. They have been corrected.

Items

• A number of quests have had their rewards updated to be the correct item level.

Items

• A small number of early caster rewards have been adjusted.

Items

• Wizard Oil: Minor Wizard Oil has been reverted to Classic Era value of 8 spell power, Lesser Wizard Oil to 16, and Wizard Oil to 24. Brilliant Wizard Oil remains unchanged.

• Quests

• Resolved an issue where several dungeon quests were shareable, which granted the receiving player a quest item when shared.

• Dalaran - Faction adjustments. Spawns are now present in the area just outside the city entrance.

• Dun Morogh - Snow Leopard Prowler has a much faster respawn time.

• Dun Morogh - Resolved an issue where some players were unable to loot the rifle for “Treacherous Cold”.

• Elwynn Forest - The quest “Book Return” now properly removes the extra Book Bag from the player’s inventory when the quest is completed.

• Elwynn Forest - Murloc camps around Crystal Lake should respawn more quickly. Mrrglrlrlrmgrr!

• Elwynn Forest - Mother Fang respawns a bit more slowly, and does not always drop a green item.

• Elwynn Forest - Shinyfinder Narf respawns more quickly. The quest item may now be looted by all party members.

• Elwynn Forest - Nimsy now respawns more quickly.

• Elwynn Forest - You can now learn skinning from Helene Peltskinner even while you have a quest with her.

• Elwynn Forest - Jasperlode Mine and Fargodeep Mine are a little more deadly than intended for solo players, so we’re taking their candles away. We do not anticipate any fallout from this theft.

• Mulgore - Water Pitchers now respawn faster for the quest “A Humble Task”.

• Silverpine Forest - Pyrewood Village worgen respawn more quickly.

• Undercity - The Skyborne quest “Exploring the Horde” now completes the objective to talk with Lady Sylvanas Windrunner. Dark Lady watch over you

• Zephras Isle - The High Order Skyborne quest “Catching Wind” has been redesigned and adjustments were made to the spawns at the Overlook Standing Stones in Shen’dar Highlands.

• Zephras Isle - The druids of Nightclaw Cavern now award credit for “Wounds of Betrayal” properly when healed.

• User Interface

• Updated the Nameplate selection display.

• Personal Resource Display textures are updated.

• Banes and Curses do not properly track if you drop your target and re-acquire a target with an existing bane or curse.

• Healthstone cooldown cannot be tracked.

• Priest tracks all spells by default.

• Arcane Blast cannot be tracked.

• Mana gem requires an additional spell to be cast by the mage to properly begin tracking its cooldown.

• Creating or changing party composition may transfer players to a different world instance. We’re working on improvements and will provide an update soon.

• Pet cooldowns cannot be tracked.

• Item enhancements (such as Windfury or rogue poisons) cannot be tracked

• The minimap in Stormwind has display issues and will be fixed in a later build.

• Personal Resource Display doesn’t show combo points.