{"id":92055,"date":"2026-10-26T18:48:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T22:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92055"},"modified":"2026-10-26T19:36:42","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T23:36:42","slug":"wow-forever-just-got-another-major-racial-ability-shakeup-before-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=92055","title":{"rendered":"WoW: Forever Just Got Another Major Racial Ability Shakeup Before Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/world-of-warcraft\/\">World of Warcraft: Forever&#8217;s<\/a> release is just around the corner, but developer Blizzard is making one final pass at the game&#8217;s racial abilities before launch in response to beta feedback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/eu.forums.blizzard.com\/en\/wow\/t\/wow-forever-beta-development-notes-%E2%80%93-updated-26-october\/631316\/7\">forum post<\/a>, WoW community manager Kaivax posted a list of significant changes to many of each race&#8217;s unique abilities that players expressed concerns about during Forever&#8217;s beta. Those changes include tweaks to tauren, humans, orcs, dwarves, and Skyborne elves.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;In taking a final pass on these, we&#8217;ve prioritized racial identity, which means that some races will naturally be slightly more effective than others at certain combat roles,&#8221; Blizzard said. &#8220;In some places where we had replaced role or class-focused racials with generic ones, we&#8217;re rolling those changes back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  https:\/\/youtu.be\/miSndSl23bI?si=kQoKkM4LGLofOsk-  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The exception to that mindset is weapon-specialization abilities, Blizzard said, which existed for humans and orcs both in WoW Classic and early on in Forever&#8217;s beta and made each race more effective with specific types of weapons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;While those have a strong fantasy component to them, it is not healthy in the long run for future raid and dungeon loot tables to be evaluated through the lens of &#8216;required&#8217; weapon types,&#8221; Blizzard said. &#8220;At the same time,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World of Warcraft: Forever&#8217;s release is just around the corner, but developer Blizzard is making one final pass at the game&#8217;s racial abilities before launch in response to beta feedback. In a forum post, WoW community manager Kaivax posted a list of significant changes to many of each race&#8217;s unique abilities that players expressed concerns&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":92057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92055","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\/92055"}],"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=92055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92058,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92055\/revisions\/92058"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/92057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}