1.60.1.70425

Build of October 16, 2026 — Blizzard: WoW Forever Beta Development Notes – Updated October 15, Kaivax

What changed

• Class Mage: Missile Barrage moves to row 1 with two ranks, Arcane Wrath is new as the 16-point talent, Wake of Fire is Improved Fire Blast again, Critical Mass has five ranks and Fire Power three. Arcane Blast, Fire Power and Winter's Chill are redesigned, and every mage learns Frost Blast at level 24.
• Class Priest: Shadow Affinity and Improved Fade are gone, Dark Inspiration is new in row 4 of Shadow, Mental Strength now raises Intellect from row 2, Improved Power Word: Shield drops to row 3 and Improved Mind Blast rises to row 2.
• Class Shaman: Elemental is rearranged. Lava Burst moves from row 7 to row 5 and needs nothing first, Elemental Mastery returns as the 31-point talent, Call of Thunder is gone and Improved Fire Nova is now called Trial by Fire. In Restoration Tidal Focus and Totemic Focus swap rows.
• Class Warlock: Malediction is replaced by Grim Reach, which only adds range to Affliction spells. Points on a shared link are lost there, as Blizzard calls it a replacement rather than a rename; for Improved Fire Blast and Trial by Fire they move with the talent.
• Systems Races: Human, orc and dwarf lose their weapon specializations for Ruthless, Savage and Earth Fury, which work with any weapon. Tauren Endurance gives 2% critical damage and healing instead of 1% hit, Skyborne Wind Blessed 3% haste instead of 1%, troll Regeneration 20% instead of 10%, and Eureka! is an eight-second buff.
• Client 80 new spells in the tracker's count, among them Salvation, Revoke, Elemental Mastery and a Mana Tide Totem rank, and 318 changed items. Among those are white drops from the starting zones that are now green: Wispy Cloak, Ice-covered Bracers and Royal Frostmane Girdle carry quality 2 and a stat in the client. The notes do not mention it.

In the client, not in the notes

Two things in the trees are not in the notes, and one name is wrong there. Improved Mana Burn changes column in its row in Discipline, which the notes do not mention. And the notes list "Shadow Infinity" as removed - there is no such talent; the client removes Shadow Affinity.

The talent trees, line by line

37 changes across 7 classes, computed by comparing two snapshots of the trees.

Computed from data/talent-snapshots/1.60.1.70291.json against data/talent-snapshots/1.60.1.70425.json - the same files the talent calculator is built from.