WoW Forever class changes
Every class change from the Blizzard developer notes, by date. Updated automatically each morning when new notes are posted.(Last updated November 12)
Warrior20 changes· Latest November 10
- Arms: Sweeping Strikes no longer spends a charge when it fails to hit a second target
Paladin24 changes· Latest November 11
- Judgement now counts as a ranged attack — no melee item/effect procs, uses ranged hit
- Retribution: after the Holy Strike Windfury fix, Unsealed Fury no longer echoes Windfury Totem attacks
Hunter20 changes· Latest November 11
- Volley no longer triggers procs and now stops channeling when you move
Rogue10 changes· Latest November 6
- Shank tooltip now shows Rank 1 and Rank 2
- Shank shows the correct combo points granted with the Boot Knife talent
Priest16 changes· Latest November 11
- Gnome Confounding Flash usable in Shadowform; Holy talent Twilight Focus works in Shadowform
Shaman25 changes· Latest November 12
- Weapon imbues and weapon totems can be used together
- Enhancement: Stormstrike 150% → 100% weapon damage, cooldown 6 → 8 sec
Mage21 changes· Latest November 9
- Arcane Concentration no longer rolls 10% on cast plus 10% per missile — the chance is now split
- Flamestrike ground ticks no longer consume Clearcasting
Warlock19 changes· Latest November 10
- Affliction: Wrack damage −30% and it no longer amplifies your periodic damage
- While channeling Wrack, Drain Life, Corruption and Bane of Agony tick 100% faster
Druid28 changes· Latest November 11
- Feral: Rend and Tear now works with the Pounce bleed
All classes
Races
November 9
- Tauren: Cultivation's cooldown starts only after the cast finishes
November 6
- Night Elf: Shadowmelded Druids could use Ravage and Pounce — fixed
- Orc: some Warlock demons got too much from Command — fixed
November 2
- The racial pass announced on Oct 26–27 ships in this build
- Undead Cannibalize usable while immune to physical damage; Touch of the Grave proc rate and visuals fixed
- Skyborne base stats corrected
October 27
- Addendum to the October 26 racial pass — three missed changes and a Skyborne buff rule
- Orc: Blood Fury cooldown 3 min → 2 min
- Troll: Berserking duration 10 sec → 15 sec
- Undead: Touch of the Grave internal cooldown 25 sec → 15 sec
- Skyborne: Charged and Attuned persist through death but drop when you enter a raid
October 26
- Direction: give each race a slight edge in certain roles by restoring racials that had become too generic (weapon specs excluded)
- Human: Ruthless crit 2% → 1%; The Human Spirit 5% → 10% Spirit
- Dwarf: Earth Fury (2% crit damage/healing) removed; new Artisan's Precision — 1% hit with spells and attacks
- Orc: Savage (1% crit) removed; Command returns — +5% Warlock and Hunter pet damage
- Tauren: Plainsrunning 1% → 2% per stack, cap 30% → 60%, no mounted speed / Endurance is just 5% Health (no hit or crit damage bonus)
- Skyborne: Wind-Blessed haste 3% → 2% / Read Leyline regen 100% → 50% (15 sec, not with Innervate), 1-hour "Attuned" at a Ley Line restores 100% / Skysight speed 10% → 15% (15 sec), 1-hour "Charged" at an elemental convergence gives 30% — both persist through death
October 15
- Human Sword Specialization → Ruthless: 2% crit chance
- Orc Axe Specialization → Savage: 1% crit; Blood Fury on a 3 min cooldown
- Dwarf Mace Specialization → Earth Fury: 2% crit damage and healing; Find Treasure finds extra chest loot
- Tauren Endurance: 2% crit damage and healing; War Stomp 90 sec; Plainsrunning adds 3% mounted speed
- Troll Regeneration up to 20%; Night Elf Quickness stacks with other speed effects
- Gnome Eureka becomes an 8 sec buff; Undead Touch of the Grave tidied up; several Skyborne traits buffed
Systems & leveling
November 12
- The Enhancement Shaman changes from the Nov 10 hotfix were delayed and went live in all regions on Nov 12, 10:45 a.m. PST
November 11
- Item restoration service paused while a major bug is investigated
- Mounts work again in parts of Shen'dralar
November 10
- The class tuning announced on Nov 6 ships as a hotfix
- Auction House changes were pulled and are planned for the Nov 17 weekly maintenance
- Wrong graveyard on death fixed; innkeepers now point you to dungeons you can explore
November 9
- Crowded zones get lower player caps, cut further on PvP rulesets
- Camp Taurajo → Thunder Bluff flight path no longer clips through objects
November 6
- Ships in a hotfix on Tuesday, Nov 10; more notices if new problems show up over the weekend
- Further balance changes will be bundled into Tuesdays as needed
- No exact numbers published yet
November 6
- Quick and the Dead legacy talent no longer intermittently fails
- Cooldown Manager now shows crowd-control durations correctly, accounting for diminishing returns and Orc stun resistance
November 2
- Rolls up 2.5 weeks of fixes, class polish and Beta feedback since Oct 15
- Within a Classic-sized power budget, several classes deal more damage and high-level mobs get more health to match
- No major tuning before raids open except bugs and big outliers; larger tuning after post-30 data comes in
October 31
- Changes with no Blizzard post — found by fan sites (wowforevertalents, Playfulls) diffing the Oct 30 server hotfix data
- Items where the sources disagree are left out; values may change again before launch
- The racial side matches what Blizzard posted on Oct 26–27
October 30
- Changes found in build 1.60.1.70707 data; no Blizzard post (unofficial)
October 15
- Wands and Auto Shot fire only after standing still for 0.5 sec
- Many party buffs from Warriors, Hunters, Druids and Shamans are now raid-wide
October 8
- Party XP now uses each player’s own level (Classic style)
- Rage gain bugs fixed; crit Rage bonus 100%
- Legacy Challenge granted (16 points); cheapest Legacy re-spec 1 silver
October 1
- Level cap 30
- Dungeon quest bonus XP cut about 50%
- PvP gear Honor costs up ~50%; Honor cap 25,000
September 24
- Re-spec from 1 silver during the Beta
- Cooldown Manager available for testing
- Campfire buff no longer interrupts crafting or casting
Source: Blizzard developer notes on the official forums. Items are short summaries written by Forever Assist, not translations. Check the original for exact numbers.