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WoW Forever Beta Known Issues - Oct 8 PDT

Bugs & issuesPosted Sep 18, 2026 1:25 AM PDT

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Blizzard opened the beta with the following known issues. Items marked “next build” are already fixed internally.

Interface & general

• Legacy panel: opening it with the Y hotkey before level 25 causes LUA errors on tabs 1 and 3.
• Barber chairs cause a LUA error.
• Character friends are disabled in the beta.
• The minimap may be partially off the screen.
• The character pane doesn’t display level, class or titles (work in progress).
• Guild charters can’t be signed. For now, a charter can be handed in with no signatures.
• Coldridge Valley doesn’t reveal on the map when explored (next build).

Classes & combat

• Vengeance (Retribution Paladin) can activate off periodic critical strikes (next build).
• Holy Strike doesn’t feel great per rank (next build).
• Starshards (Night Elf Priest racial) doesn’t benefit from Twilight Focus (next build).
• Create Firestone ranks 3-4 don’t show the conjured item tooltip (next build).
• Hunter & Warlock pet stats on the character sheet (mana, health scaling, hit, expertise, movement speed) are missing or wrong (work in progress).
• Caster glancing blow chance and damage reduction are wrong at all levels; melee glancing damage reduction is wrong against higher-level targets, so the character sheet values are off too.

Quests & items

• Waylaid Crates don’t work on items whose max stack is smaller than the required quantity (next build).
• Waylaid Crate: Apprentice Curiosities rejects Greater Magic Essence and targets Lesser Magic Essence (next build).
• Teldrassil: in “Escaping Ban’ethil”, Sentinel Lynessa Duskblossom runs too fast and spams Strike (next build).

Added on September 18

• The Cooldown Manager is still in development, and how complete it is varies by class.
• Armor bonuses from consumables and buffs are multiplied by the Bear Form armor multiplier.
• Queuing an on-next-swing ability (Heroic Strike, Cleave, Raptor Strike) turns off the spell queue window.
• Taking damage while channeling Arcane Missiles fires full-damage missiles instead of reduced ones.
• Resurrection Sickness has the wrong duration at low levels.

Added on October 1

• Chaining Spells together does not play the precast spell effects and sounds of the next cast until the first cast finishes.
  For example: When you cast Fireball and cast another Fireball right away, you finish your Fireball cast, your hands won’t glow or make the crackling sound of the new Fireball you’re casting, and then once your hand comes down from the first Fireball cast, you then begin the precast animation of the next Fireball spell.
• Enemies can Parry and Block from behind if the player is close to them. Until this is fixed, it can be avoided by not being too close to targets.
• The size of the total installation of WoW: Forever is larger than intended. Blizzard is working to reduce it in a future Beta update.
• Switching to or from Gamepad UI mode resets the active edit mode layout to the default preset.
• Scroll of Liminal Passage does not function correctly.
• Dwarf player-characters do not have updated splash sounds in water (later build).
• Eureka does not affect every Damaging Spell or Healing Spell for some classes (later build).
• Multiple debuffs like Faerie Fire and Demoralizing Shout don’t cause threat.
• Mages who learn Research can be prevented from accessing it.
• Warriors’ Dual Wield Specialization is granting both your Main hand and Off-hand 2/4/6/8/10% hit chance. It should only be granted to your Off-hand.
• Retribution Aura uses the target’s spell power instead of the Paladin’s.
• The Taillasher Eggs for the quest “Break A Few Eggs” do not respawn as quickly as intended (later build).
• Anduin Wrynn and many other children unintentionally have hats. Blizzard is in the process of removing them, but they keep giggling and running away, so this is going to take a while.

Added on October 8

• While texture updates to Skyborne druid bear and travel form are updated, texture updates to Skyborne druid cat form, various creatures in Zephras Isle, and some mounts, pets, and other creatures will arrive in a future build.
• Hunters who selected the Ferocity talent will not see the critical strike chance of their pet increase on the character sheet. This is a visual bug only.
• Some of the icons in the Professions window appear broken.