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News · Oct 9, 2026 · build 70291 · 2 min
Call of the Ancestors is the level 30 totem set. Blizzard's post says Call of the Spirits.
Blizzard's Oct 7 Shaman deep dive swaps the names of the second and third totem sets. In every beta build, Call of the Ancestors comes at 30 and Call of the Spirits at 40.
News · Oct 9, 2026 · build 70291 · 2 min
Feint and Fade shed five times their Classic threat. Blizzard announced double.
Blizzard's deep dives say Feint's and Fade's threat reduction doubled. In build 70291 every rank went up five times, so rank 5 Feint drops 4,000 threat where double would be 1,600. Disengage and Cower doubled as announced.
Change report · Oct 9, 2026 · build 70291 · 3 min
Shield Wall stops 60% of damage, down from 75%. The class deep dives don't say so.
Most of Blizzard's four class deep dives match the files. The lines that don't run from Shield Wall's smaller cut and Arcane Focus at half strength to Chain Lightning rank 3's swapped digits and Demonic Knowledge's full-level cap.
Change report · Oct 8, 2026 · build 70291 · 5 min
Build 70291 cuts every Penance rank, including the two Blizzard says heal more
Blizzard's Oct 8 notes say Penance ranks 2 and 4 heal more. In the files every rank heals less per tick, and rank 3 loses the most. Armor buffs and debuffs also moved to a new effect type the notes skip.
Change report · Oct 8, 2026 · build 70245 · 2 min
The Group Finder suggests every new dungeon 2 levels past Blizzard's range
Blizzard posted level ranges for the nine new dungeons. The game's Group Finder agrees on the bottom and runs 2 levels higher at the top. Two Classic dungeons open earlier, and the Legacy dungeon challenges cut the levels their own way.
Guide · Oct 8, 2026 · build 70245 · 3 min
Every racial Forever changed: 16 reworked, 14 new, 11 gone
The resistance racials are gone, weapon skill bonuses became crit, and every old race gained a new active or passive. The full list from build 70245, race by race, before name reservation opens on Oct 27.
Deep dive · Oct 8, 2026 · build 70245 · 2 min
Last Stand kept Classic's tooltip and changed its heal, until build 70291
For most of the beta, Last Stand's buff used an aura that in later WoW keeps your health percentage, a much smaller save at low health. Build 70291 put Classic's aura back; Blizzard calls it a fix. The cooldown is 3 min, was 10.
News · Oct 8, 2026 · build 70245 · 3 min
Dungeon kill XP up 20%, dual spec at 40 and no dungeon maps, says Blizzard's podcast
In episode 3 of Blizzard's podcast, kill XP goes up about 20% (dungeon kills, as the Oct 8 build shipped it), dual spec opens at 40, Onyxia attunement stays per character, and dungeons get no maps or summoning stones.
Change report · Oct 8, 2026 · build 70245 · 2 min
Blizzard's notes say 5 minutes. Contingency Plan and Divine Grace say 10.
Blizzard's Sep 30 Priest deep dive gives the two new racial Priest spells a 5-minute cooldown. Build 70245 says 10. Five spells the post calls unchanged also changed, from Hex of Weakness to Feedback's mana cost.
Explainer · Oct 8, 2026 · build 70245 · 1 min
Shred dropped from 225% to 155% weapon damage. Your weapon decides if it hits harder.
Blizzard says Shred's damage went up a lot. In build 70245 its multiplier went down on every rank. The difference is the swing underneath it, which in Forever follows your equipped weapon's DPS.
News · Oct 8, 2026 · build 70245 · 1 min
Trueshot Aura rank 5 gives 50 ranged attack power. Rank 4 gives 75.
In build 70245 the top rank of Trueshot Aura is weaker than the rank before it, and the aura no longer helps melee. Blizzard's Sep 30 Hunter deep dive calls it otherwise unchanged.
News · Oct 8, 2026 · build 70245 · 1 min
Precision is gone, and off-hand Rage is back at half
The Oct 2 server hotfix deleted Fury's Precision talent and gave Dual Wield Specialization half of its off-hand Rage back. Blizzard's Oct 1 and Oct 2 Warrior notes mention neither.
Change report · Oct 8, 2026 · build 70170 · 2 min
Build 70170 quietly marks every tank stance, and Aquatic Form shrugs off disarms
Blizzard's Oct 1 build gave Defensive Stance, Bear Form, Dire Bear Form and Righteous Fury the same new effect, one named after a test spell called IsEffectivelyTank. The notes mention neither it nor Aquatic Form's new disarm immunity.