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Legacy, camping, realmless, cooldown manager, gamepad and more. What Forever adds on top of Classic.
Legacy
Account-wide progression that rewards leveling and completing challenges.
What your account earns and each character spends
Leveling classes and professions, exploring the world, PvP, dungeons and raids: each of the 65 challenges adds one point to your Battle.net account, and it only counts once.
Every character invests those points in perks of its own across three trees: Professions, Adventure and Resourcefulness. An alt can specialize in something completely different.
A toy, a pet, a tabard and a mount unlock from the running total your account collects. Spending on perks never takes anything away from it.
- Account-wide challenges earn Legacy Points.
- Each character spends them independently across three trees: Professions, Adventure and Resourcefulness.
- At launch: 16 points per character, up to 65 across the account.
- Cosmetic rewards unlock from the total points your account collects.
- Example perk: Well Rested (increased rested XP).
Official Blizzard article: Get to Know the World of Warcraft: Forever Legacy System (September 23, 2026)
Camping
The Cooking Fire becomes a campsite with services.
- The Cooking Fire becomes a Basic Campfire and creates a campsite.
- Vendors, repairs and profession workbenches at the campsite.
- Other players craft up to 3 objects (one per player) that give one-hour buffs.
- Blueprint recipes for advanced objects drop from dungeon bosses.
- Since build 70009 you can buff, cast and craft while waiting.
- Since build 70170 (October 1), campfires deal no damage to characters below level 5 and less damage to anyone under 90% health.
- The Boosted Rest debuff caused by the campsite has a new icon and a clearer tooltip, and its texts now say "mutually exclusive" instead of just "exclusive".
Realmless
You choose a ruleset instead of a realm.
- Five rulesets: Normal, PvP, Roleplaying, Roleplay-PvP and Hardcore (post-launch).
- Grouping is restricted to your ruleset.
- Collections and Legacy Points are shared across rulesets, except Hardcore.
- PvP allows a single faction at creation. Normal and Roleplaying allow both.
- Names use a two-part format and are unique per region.
Cooldown Manager
Cooldown and buff tracking in a customizable location.
- In Gameplay Enhancement settings, disabled by default.
- Testable in the beta on Druid, Mage, Rogue, Priest, Warrior and Warlock; the rogue arrived with build 70170.
- Since build 70170 it supports racial abilities and no longer repeats an entry for every rank of a spell.
- Does not track pet cooldowns yet.
Gamepad support
Official gamepad support with class-specific flyouts.
- Flyouts for Shapeshift, pet, Aura and Stance.
- Compact Action Bar, Fixed Party Targeting and swappable modifier sides.
- Controller navigation in character selection and in the Map and Quest Log.
- Since build 70170, the pet stable and the compact raid and party frames work with a gamepad, and the gamepad UI bindings are fixed: rebinding only affects the keyboard and mouse interface.
Lighting and models
A new lighting pass over the old world, with a Classic option.
- Global illumination, volumetric fog, god rays, flowing water and terrain shadows.
- Modern or Classic presets. HD or SD character models with Classic animations.
- Rivers flow in Elwynn, mist on Darkshore and moonlight in Ashenvale.
Transmog and mounts
Opt-in transmog and mounts that come with the riding skill.
- Transmog is opt-in. Epic raid appearances unlock only for looters.
- Your mount comes with the riding skill. No flying mounts.
- Since build 70170, selling a Bind on Equip item whose appearance you have not collected to a vendor makes it soulbound (it used to become Bound to Account).
Mounts, pets, toys and other new items → · Transmog: sets and appearances → · Mounts: level and price →
Professions
More than 600 new recipes and expanded progression.
- Crafted food gives a small XP bonus.
- Each profession gains a new passive bonus.
- A Professions tree inside Legacy.
- Since build 70170 several Blacksmithing and Leatherworking recipes meant as random dungeon drops are available, and each creature can once again be skinned only once.
Forever profession guides → · Merchant’s Favor: writs and crates →
PvP
A new 15 versus 15 battleground.
- Darkspear Islands: 15v15 with control points and flag capture.
- PvP season refresh in spring and summer 2027.
- Since build 70170, PvP gear and upgrade tokens cost roughly 50% more Honor, and the Honor cap rises from 15,000 to 25,000.
Stats and combat
In Forever, hit is one stat for spells, melee and ranged, and so is crit.
- Blizzard explains it in the Deep Dive Panel Recap: it helps hybrid specs such as Retribution paladins or Enhancement shamans, and makes tools such as Taunt, poisons or traps more reliable.
- Talent trees keep the Classic structure and add a 16-point milestone.
- Two class presets for leveling.
- New Statistics tab in build 70009.
- Since build 70170, the character sheet explains that spells of ranks far below your level get less from your spell damage and healing and are less likely to trigger your talents and class abilities.