{"id":91496,"date":"2026-10-16T14:01:39","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T18:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91496"},"modified":"2026-10-16T14:37:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T18:37:13","slug":"wow-forever-just-changed-the-math-on-what-race-to-play-in-a-big-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=91496","title":{"rendered":"WoW: Forever Just Changed The Math On What Race To Play In A Big Way"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/wow-forever-is-more-than-classic-its-wow-2\/\">World of Warcraft: Forever&#8217;s<\/a> beta is set to end in just a few days on October 21, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped Blizzard from making some major changes to the game&#8217;s various racial abilities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unlike in the modern version of WoW, where racial abilities are so minor that they mostly feel cosmetic, racial abilities in WoW Classic (and now in Forever) are a big part of why players choose to play a particular race. Some races synergise better with certain classes or playstyles. Others even benefit more from using specific types of weapons.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or at least they used to. In Forever&#8217;s latest beta update, developer Blizzard has overhauled many of the MMO&#8217;s racial abilities to remove weapon-specific buffs and improve some abilities that were seen as lackluster by the community.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The removal of weapon-based passives for humans, dwarves, and orcs is a significant change. Orcs used to favor axes, humans swords and maces, and dwarves guns. In WoW Classic, that meant an increased weapon skill when using those weapons, resulting in a better chance to hit and increased damage.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=miSndSl23bI  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That changed for WoW: Forever&#8217;s beta. Blizzard kept some of the weapon-specific flavor, but instead of weapon skill, pivoted<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World of Warcraft: Forever&#8217;s beta is set to end in just a few days on October 21, but that hasn&#8217;t stopped Blizzard from making some major changes to the game&#8217;s various racial abilities. Unlike in the modern version of WoW, where racial abilities are so minor that they mostly feel cosmetic, racial abilities in WoW&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":91498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=91496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91499,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91496\/revisions\/91499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/91498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=91496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=91496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=91496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}