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2026-10-04Tavern BulletinHunter and Druid Deep Dive: Every Change in Forever's First Class BreakdownBlizzard's first class deep dive lists every Hunter and Druid change: Aimed Shot becomes a level-20 baseline ability, pets scale with gear, traps work in combat, and Druid shapeshifting opens up potions, enchants and racial spells.2026-09-29Tavern BulletinForever in a Day: Gold Buyers Face Action, a Mega Dungeon Tease, and a Make-A-Wish Quest's ReturnBetween the evening of Sep 28 and the morning of Sep 29, Forever news landed fast on Wowhead: Blizzard will start actioning gold buyers (not just sellers), Josh Greenfield teased a BRD-style mega dungeon, a new dungeon deep dive is coming at PAX Aus, the druid cat form quest bug was fixed within a day, and the fan-favorite Make-A-Wish quest is on its way back. One post covers it all.2026-09-28Tavern BulletinTalent Respecs for 1 Silver: This Week's Forever Beta Dev NotesThis week's beta update temporarily cuts the most-requested price: the first respec costs 1 silver and repeated respecs within an hour cap at 5 gold. The retail Cooldown Manager arrives with five classes in the first wave, plus a batch of under-the-hood fixes including a memory leak and Mac display issues.2026-09-28Tavern BulletinForever Beta Class Tuning: Holy Strike Buffs, Wrath +50%, Gnome Racial Nerfed HardA roundup of this week's beta build datamine and official notes: druid Wrath base damage up about 50%, paladin Holy Strike damage up at every rank, mage Hot Streak window extended — and the gnome racial Eureka! takes the biggest hit, its cost reduction slashed from up to 50% to a flat 10%. Druids can now also use consumables while shapeshifted.2026-09-28Tavern BulletinGroup Quest Farming Without the RNG: Forever's Quest Drop ProtectionThe classic group tragedy — 'he's 8/10, I'm 1/10' — finally has an official answer in Forever: quest drops now rotate more evenly between party members. Developer Josh Greenfield explains the thinking: keep the vanilla grind, but encourage people to group up and make friends.2026-09-28Tavern BulletinForever Beta Is Packed: Population Cap Raised Again, Queue Bug FixedGame director Holly Longdale confirmed the beta population cap has been raised yet again, and the re-queue-after-disconnect bug is fixed. Meanwhile classic raid populations dip as testing moves on, and 0.18% of rule-breaking character names were banned in beta. One post covers the whole beta ecosystem.2026-09-27Tavern BulletinWoW Forever vs Vanilla 60: What's NewWhat did Forever actually change? A full dig through the client data answers it: an early pass miscounted 105 custom abilities, and the corrected tally is just 16 true additions — half of them hunter pet skills. Includes the complete spell list, the re-issued skills and the talent redesign log.2026-09-27Tavern BulletinThe WOW Forever Player Site Is LiveFour sections open today — news analysis, DPS guides, gear research and exploration notes; every conclusion ships with sources, the game version it applies to, and reproducible conditions.