Talents
467 talents in Forever
- 118 new
- 302 changed
- 83 removed
What changes from Classic to Forever: talents, abilities, items, dungeons, races and Legacy, with the numbers from the game client and Blizzard’s announcements. Further down, every change with the Classic value next to it.
WoW Forever is not a mode, a season or another version of Classic: Blizzard describes it as a new permanent home for World of Warcraft, next to modern WoW and WoW Classic. Its launch date is November 4, 2026, and a WoW subscription or Game Time is all you need to play. It goes back to the original Azeroth with the level cap at 60, no flying mounts and no level scaling, but a lot of what you knew changes: the original races gain 6 new race and class combinations, there are new zones such as Riverglades, Shen'dralas, and Mount Hyjal, 9 new dungeons and 2 new raids, and all 9 classes get revised talents and abilities. Racials are updated too, realms are gone (you pick a ruleset instead) and new systems arrive, such as Legacy, which rewards leveling alts, and Camping, which gives professions more to do. The exception is the new Skyborne race and its starting zone, Zephras Isle: they are not part of the subscription and come with the Skyborne Heroic Pack or a higher edition, bought separately.
Based on Blizzard’s official articles:
| In the game | Classic | Forever |
|---|---|---|
| Playable races | 8 | 9+1 |
| Race and class combinations | 40 | 52+12 |
| Dungeons | 20 | 29+9 |
| Talents | 432 | 467+35 |
| Class abilities | 439 | 476+37 |
Talents and class abilities: counted in the game client and in Classic Era. Races, combinations and dungeons: as listed on our race and dungeon pages. The Skyborne count as one race even though they have an Alliance and a Horde version, and their combinations are the 6 classes they can be across both versions.
467 talents in Forever
476 abilities in Forever
3,701 new or changed items
These are the items with their own page on the site. They leave out consumables (food, potions, scrolls…), test and poor-quality items and the Season of Discovery leftovers the client still carries. The item search does not make the same selection, and opens the changed list with “Only with a known source” ticked, so its numbers are not exactly the same.
Item search29 dungeons
2 new raids
See the raids5 new zones
9 playable races
65 challenges
952 new recipes
803 changes with their Classic value
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