World of Warcraft: Forever Class Deep Dives

With each class update, the goal is to keep the spirit of original World of Warcraft in mind while giving players more ways to make their character feel their own. For Priests and Warriors, that work takes shape in two very different combat identities: one built around Light, Shadow, healing, and protection, and the other around weapons, Rage, stances, and battlefield momentum.

The updates below are focused on broadening useful choices without moving either class away from what makes it recognizable. Priests gain wider access to important tools and new talent options that support healing, utility, and Shadow-focused damage. Warriors see adjustments that make Rage more reliable, bring certain utility forward as baseline functionality, and sharpen the role of each specialization.

Talents become available starting at level 10 and continue using a familiar structure, including one-point milestone talents at 11, 21, and 31 points, now joined by a new 16-point milestone. To change your talents, including Legacy talents, visit a class trainer in one of the major cities. Dual Specialization also becomes available at level 40.

Please note that class abilities and talents may continue to evolve throughout the beta test and are subject to additional changes.

Walking the Path of Light and Shadow with the Priest Class

Priests can shape their path through Discipline, Holy, and Shadow, offering support through protection, healing, and damage. In World of Warcraft: Forever, the Priest continues to draw from the power of Light and Shadow, with updates that expand its toolkit while keeping the class’s familiar role as a versatile spellcaster intact.

Their updates focus on expanding flexibility across Discipline, Holy, and Shadow while preserving the class’s command of healing, protection, Light, and Shadow. Fear Ward and Devouring Plague are now available to all Priests at level 20, Divine Spirit is baseline at level 30, and Shadow Word: Death joins the class as a baseline ability at level 32, while refreshed racial abilities and talent updates add new options for support, healing, and damage-focused play.

Removed talents: Unbreakable Will has been combined into Silent Resolve, Improved Power Word: Fortitude and Divine Spirit are now baseline abilities, Force of Will has been removed.

Removed talents: Improved Prayer of Healing, Lightwell.

Removed talents: Improved Vampiric Embrace.

Priests continue to be the most versatile healer in World of Warcraft which is identifiably their most important strength. While other healers focus on heal-over-time spells (HoTs) or direct heals, Priests can do both while having the unique capability of providing damage absorption shields which provide damage mitigation.

As Discipline, they can lean even more into that strength with talents that improve upon Power Word: Shield. However, Priests are also a very vulnerable class with their limitation of wearing cloth armor and few ways to escape enemies.They instead need to rely on the support of friends with tanking or control abilities, while making those allies even stronger through their buffs and healing capabilities.

As Shadow, Priests can harness the power of darkness to deal powerful damage-over-time (DoT) but lack the full utility in that role that could be found on a class such as the Warlock. Overall, Priests bring a valuable set of tools that make them an asset for any party or raid.

Forged in Battle: Warrior Class Updates

Warriors charge into battle through Arms, Fury, and Protection, turning Rage, stances, and weapon mastery into momentum on the battlefield. In World of Warcraft: Forever, the Warrior continues to stand at the front line with updates that reinforce its familiar role as a durable, hard-hitting combatant while creating more room for each specialization to shine.

First, we want to acknowledge that there are some bugs players are experiencing with Rage generation in the beta, and we are working on tracking down and identifying the root cause. It may take a couple weeks to track down as our engineers work through a variety of tasks.

Removed talents: Axe Specialization, Mace Specialization, Sword Specialization, and Polearm Specialization all removed. These are now a part of the Weaponmaster talent.

Removed talents: Improved Demoralizing Shout and Improved Battle Shout are now Baseline abilities.

Removed Talents: Improved Shield Block and Improved Taunt are now baseline abilities; One-Handed Weapon Specialization has been removed.

Warriors remain the masters of melee combat. They can both dish out melee damage and mitigate damage done to them. They have a unique strength in dealing sustained damage to multiple melee targets, found on no other melee class. They have a powerful toolkit to solve nearly any problem, but they lack the tools to easily recover from taking too much damage. And they have unique buffs and debuffs that only Warriors can supply. Any party or raid is happy to add a Warrior as either a tank or damage dealer.

As beta testing continues, we’ll keep reviewing how these updates play in dungeons, PvP, and the open world. Your feedback will remain an important part of that process, and we look forward to seeing the builds, strategies, and playstyles Priests and Warriors bring to World of Warcraft: Forever.