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Beta Update Maintenance: level cap going to 30
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Blizzard community manager Kaivax announced the Beta maintenance on .
Tomorrow morning PDT, we will take the WoW Forever Beta offline for maintenance. Several hours later, the Beta will resume with an updated build that includes changes and fixes, with the level cap raised to 30.
Update: when the maintenance starts
The notice said “tomorrow morning” with no time, so on the day of the maintenance the thread kept asking when exactly the Beta would go down. Players pointed out that regular maintenance usually starts at 7 AM PDT and nothing had happened, asked for a time frame, and complained that “morning PDT” left hours of uncertainty. Kaivax replied in the thread on :
We think we’ll take the Beta offline in about 45 minutes. ↗
See you on the other side!
Right after the reply, players joked about the servers going down before lunch and posted their own estimates of when the Beta would go down and come back. Elsewhere in the thread, some players argued that characters should be reset because others had saved up completed quests at level 20 to turn in all at once when the cap rises, while others argued that testing the 20 to 30 range without a reset is the better use of the Beta. Blizzard did not say anything about a reset in this thread.
When the Beta is down
- Maintenance starts around . From then on you cannot log in to the Beta.
- Blizzard did not give a time for the return beyond saying the Beta comes back several hours later, so expect it back sometime between .
- What actually changed in this build will follow in the development notes after the maintenance.
What the level 30 cap opens up
The Beta has been capped at level 20 until now. At 30 you get more talent points and can reach the upper tiers of the trees, and the dungeons and battlegrounds that were out of reach at 20 open up: Blackfathom Deeps (22), Stormwind Stockade (23), Razorfen Kraul (24), the Excavation Site (24), Gnomeregan (25), Dalaran (28) and the four wings of Scarlet Monastery (30).