WoW: Forever vs Classic

What’s different

WoW: Forever builds on Classic: it reworks talents and adds a new race, account-wide Legacy perks, Camping, hundreds of recipes, new dungeons and zones, and a mount collection. Each part links to its full page.

From: the beta client, build 70450Compared with: Classic Era

What changes

Everything Forever adds or reworks.

Each card links to the full page, with every number read from the client.

Classes and talents

One talent tree per class instead of three, with 114 talents that aren’t in Classic and 218 Classic talents changed, across 9 classes.

Every class's talents and abilities

A new race: Skyborne

High elves from Zephras Isle, with a version on each faction: High Order Skyborne (Alliance: Druid, Hunter, Mage, Rogue, Warrior) and Windshaper Skyborne (Horde: Druid, Hunter, Rogue, Shaman, Warrior).

Both Skyborne races and their racials

Legacy

Account-wide progression: 66 first-time milestones give Legacy Points to spend on 69 perk ranks in Professions, Adventure and Resourcefulness.

Every Legacy perk and how to earn points

Camping

Campfires in the open world, surrounded by 35 features the professions build, which give everyone resting nearby buffs such as Strength, Intellect or crit.

Every campfire and camp feature

Professions

934 new recipes, 133 Classic recipes with new materials, and 10 no longer in the lists.

Every new recipe, by profession

Dungeons and zones

5 new dungeons so far (City of Dalaran, Excavation Site: Wetlands, Ruins of Lordaeron, The Hall of Thanes and more), 7 new zones and 2 new battlegrounds.

New dungeons with every boss

Gear sets

55 new item sets, including Tier 1 sets made for one specialization, and 148 Classic sets with reworked bonuses.

Every new and reworked set

Pets

A companion pet collection with 118 pets, 47 of them not in Classic, and a new hunter pet family: Fox.

Companion pets and hunter pet families

Mounts

A mount collection, which Classic doesn’t have, with 138 mounts; 39 aren’t in Classic.

The new mounts
What stays the same

Leveling pays the same.

What changes is around it, such as Legacy perks and Camping’s rested experience.

Quest experience

Per quest level, identical to Classic Era’s.

Quest gold rewards

Per quest level, identical to Classic Era’s.

Source

Where this data comes from.

Every number on this page is read from Blizzard's own files.

Every number on this page is read from Blizzard’s client data, the WoW: Forever beta against Classic Era 1.15.9.70003, and updates with each new beta build.