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From Blizzard's posts on its WoW Forever forums (opens in a new tab), Blizzard's WoW Forever news, and the bug fixes Blizzard's developer marked on the testers' bug tracker (opens in a new tab). Checked every fifteen minutes.

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WoW Forever Stress Test October 19

Kaivax · Community Manager

Please join us for the WoW Forever Stress Test on October 19.

On that day, we will first take the WoW Forever Beta offline, and we will then open WoW Forever on the regional hardware that it will operate on when the game goes live.

On October 19, the Stress Test will begin at 19:00 CEST for players in the EU region, 2:00 p.m. PDT for players in the Americas+Oceania, and at 5:00 a.m. in Taipei and 6:00 a.m. in Korea on October 20.

Any player with a WoW account is eligible to participate. No active subscription is needed.

Once you’re in, make a character, do a few quests, trade some items, chat, and group up with others to really put the game through its paces. This is a highly valuable event, since you’ll participate in our discovering of issues that would have otherwise happened on launch day.

WoW Forever will be available on production realms for a few hours, and then when we shut down the Stress Test, all characters will be deleted* and we will re-open the Beta.

*This is a complete wipe; names and everything else will be completely removed.

Thank you very much for joining us. We’ll see you there!

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Join the World of Warcraft: Forever Stress Test - WoW

The gates are opening for the World of Warcraft: Forever Stress Test. For a limited time on October 19, all interested players can sign into World of Warcraft: Forever and help us put the servers through their paces. Anyone can take part and no...

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Join the World of Warcraft: Forever Stress Test

The gates are opening for the World of Warcraft: Forever Stress Test. For a limited time on October 19, all interested players can sign into World of Warcraft: Forever and help us put the servers through their paces. Anyone can take part and no subscription, Game Time, invitation, or beta access is required.

Read it on Blizzard's news site (opens in a new tab)

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Beta Realm Maintenance - October 15

Kaivax · Community Manager

We’re planning to take the WoW Forever Beta down in about 15 minutes, at 1:15 p.m. PDT.

This will be a maintenance period that includes deploying and testing a new build of the game, and that build has quite a few changes and fixes.

We’ll have a full update to the Development Notes for you when we get through the updating and the testing. See you on the other side!

Read it on Blizzard's forums (opens in a new tab)

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World of Warcraft: Forever Class Deep Dives — Paladin

Blizzard Entertainment · Blizzard News

Stand as a champion of the Light in this World of Warcraft: Forever class deep dive. Discover how Paladin updates strengthen the class’s distinctive Seals and Judgements while expanding options for Holy healing and spell damage, Protection tanking, and Retribution damage.

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World of Warcraft: Forever Class Deep Dives — Paladin

Stand as a champion of the Light in this World of Warcraft: Forever class deep dive. Discover how Paladin updates strengthen the class’s distinctive Seals and Judgements while expanding options for Holy healing and spell damage, Protection tanking, and Retribution damage.

Read it on Blizzard's news site (opens in a new tab)

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Explore PvP in Episode 4 of the WoW: Forever Podcast

Join WoW: Forever Podcast host Countdown To Classic and special guests Savix and Tips Out as they sit down with Senior Game Designer Josh “Aggrend” Greenfield and Lead Designer Tim Jones as they dive into Player-vs-Player (PvP) in World of Warcraft: Forever.

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Beta Maintenance - October 14

Kaivax · Community Manager

We’re taking the WoW Forever Beta offline in a few minutes for maintenance. We’re going to run some internal tests, and we don’t expect it to be down for more than a couple of hours.

Beta realms should go offline at 8:00 a.m. PDT.

We’ll see you on the other side!

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Temporary Economy Holds For RMT

Kaivax · Community Manager

Hello!

Some players have started to encounter our latest weapon in our efforts against the Real Money Trade (RMT) aka gold buying. If your account is suspected of being involved in RMT, either the selling or receiving of illicit gains, you may find your account subject to a Temporary Economy Hold. You will have restricted use of trade, mail, guild banks and the Auction House while this economic hold is in place.

Our aim with this new system is to aggressively shut down the flow of suspicious gold before it has been transferred or put into circulation into the economy, while providing us the time needed to investigate more thoroughly.

If you are just playing the game normally, it is unlikely you will ever see this restriction applied to your account. If this restriction is applied to your account, it will be either automatically removed when the actions that triggered it have been investigated and found false, or you will receive account actions if found to have been involved in RMT.

This system is new. There may be false positives while things are fine tuned, but merely having a Temporary Economy Hold will leave no permanent strikes against your account unless also later proven to be RMT motivated.

Thank you for joining us! We remain committed to ensure that WoW Forever is not marred by the Real Money Trade, and all of these systems will also be deployed to all versions of World of Warcraft if proven successful.

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Bug fixes

16 issues marked fixed on October 13, 2026

AidanZMoon · on the testers' bug tracker

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