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Testing WoW Forever Today (October 21)

Blizzard community manager Kaivax posted at that the WoW Forever Beta would go offline within minutes, to make way for today’s Stress Test.

What this means for players

  • The Beta goes offline within minutes of the post. You cannot play the Beta until the Stress Test ends at , and the Beta reopens after that.
  • The Stress Test begins in the Americas region at . As announced earlier, the Americas, Oceania, Taiwan and Korea start at the same moment, and Europe starts earlier at .
  • To get in as soon as it starts, open the Game Version selector on the WoW Forever screen of the Battle.net App ahead of time, then choose and install the Stress Test. As in the picture below, the Beta and the Stress Test appear side by side.
  • Characters and names created in the test are all deleted when it ends.

The full regional start and end times and joining steps are in our earlier post Heads Up: WoW Forever Stress Test on October 21.

Announcement

The WoW Forever Beta is going offline in a few minutes.

In this region, the Stress Test will begin at .

To prepare for that, go to your Battle.net App and look for Stress Test under the Game Version selector on the WoW Forever playscreen.

It should look like this:

The Game Version selector in the Battle.net App, with WoW: Forever - Beta and Stress Test side by side and Stress Test selected