What are you planning?

None. Forever has no realms. At character creation you choose a ruleset instead: Normal, PvP or Roleplay, with Hardcore following after launch. Each ruleset is one large ecosystem, so you can group, run dungeons and raid with anyone who chose the same one. Across rulesets you cannot group, and Horde and Alliance stay separate as before. Hardcore is sealed off, but a Hardcore character that dies may move to another ruleset.

Names have two parts, a first and a last name, and they are unique per region rather than per realm - which takes much of the pressure out of name reservation. You also pick a language preference, and the game places you among players who share it.

Sixteen per character, out of 65 you can earn. The 65 is not an estimate: there are exactly 65 Legacy Challenges across six categories - Classes, Tradeskills, PvP, Dungeons, Raids, Adventure - and each one awards exactly one point. The system unlocks with your first point, for most players at level 25. The points are shared across all your characters, while each one spends them separately across the Professions, Adventure and Resourcefulness trees. Alts are not required for it: a single character can reach up to 29 points, which is above the spending cap. Blizzard intends to raise the cap and add trees in later patches.

WoW: Forever launches globally on November 4, 2026 at 3:00 pm PST, which is midnight CET on November 5. The beta runs from September 17 to October 23, 2026, capped at level 20 at first and at 30 since the build of October 1.

Only if it is not too old - Forever raises the floor. From launch the game supports cards built on the AMD Graphics Core Next 1 (2012), NVIDIA Maxwell (2014) and Intel Skylake (2015) architectures or newer; anything older drops out. The reason is named outright: the new renderer needs RGBA16F UAV support in compute shaders, which arrives with those generations. Read the numbers correctly, though - Blizzard notes itself that cards which only just clear that line are still well below the game's minimum requirements. The architecture is a cut-off, not a recommendation.

Three raids unlock on December 9, 2026, but only two of them are new: Barrow Deeps for 10 players and Hyjal Summit for 20 players. The third is Onyxia's Lair, the existing 40-player Classic raid, which the roadmap lists as a raid unlock on the same date.

No. While WoW: Forever itself comes with a subscription, the Skyborne race and the Zephras Isle starting experience require the Skyborne Heroic Pack or higher. Horde Skyborne unlock Shaman, Alliance Skyborne unlock Mage.

It is one of six new race/class combinations, and the one Blizzard has said the most about. The path rolls straight out of the Warcraft III campaign Forsaken Kingdom and asks what it means to channel the Light in undeath; Bandarion Keep in the Whispering Wood of Tirisfal Glades is the key location for that experience. At level 60 the paladins of the Forsaken ride in the name of Retribution, while the Alliance counterpart rides in the name of Redemption.

No. There are no flying mounts. There is also no zone scaling; the world keeps its fixed level ranges.

Blizzard has stated that the level cap stays at 60 permanently. Content grows horizontally instead, through new areas and systems inside the existing level range.