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This week in Forever

WoW: Forever launches4 Nov, 23:00 UTC
Raids open: The Barrow Deeps, Hyjal Summit, Onyxia's Lair9 Dec 2026(Korea, Taiwan: 10 Dec 2026)
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  1. Early Name Reservation opens: Europe

    EuropeOfficial

    Details

    Owners of a Forever pack (Skyborne Heroic or Epic Pack, the Warcraft Forever Collection or the Collector's Edition) can create and name up to 3 characters in total across all rulesets, on the WoW account the pack was bought for. The window runs through 3 Nov; Blizzard has not given the closing hour. Install the World of Warcraft: Forever game version in the Battle.net app first. Blizzard plans to offer the new Roleplay-PvP ruleset during the reservation too.

    Sources: Blizzard (20 Oct 2026), Blizzard (22 Oct 2026)

  2. Early Name Reservation opens: Americas & Oceania

    Americas & OceaniaOfficial

    Details

    Owners of a Forever pack (Skyborne Heroic or Epic Pack, the Warcraft Forever Collection or the Collector's Edition) can create and name up to 3 characters in total across all rulesets, on the WoW account the pack was bought for. Blizzard gives this time for North America; Latin America and Oceania are part of the same region. The window runs through 3 Nov; Blizzard has not given the closing hour. Install the World of Warcraft: Forever game version in the Battle.net app first. Blizzard plans to offer the new Roleplay-PvP ruleset during the reservation too.

    Sources: Blizzard (20 Oct 2026), Blizzard (22 Oct 2026)

  3. Early Name Reservation opens: Korea

    KoreaOfficial

    Details

    Owners of a Forever pack (Skyborne Heroic or Epic Pack, the Warcraft Forever Collection or the Collector's Edition) can create and name up to 3 characters in total across all rulesets, on the WoW account the pack was bought for. On Blizzard's Korean site the window runs through 4 Nov (3 Nov on its English site); no closing hour is given. Install the World of Warcraft: Forever game version in the Battle.net app first. The Roleplay-PvP ruleset that Blizzard's English articles add for launch is not on its Korean site yet.

    Sources: Blizzard (20 Oct 2026), Blizzard (20 Oct 2026), Blizzard (22 Oct 2026), Blizzard (21 Sept 2026)

  4. Early Name Reservation opens: Taiwan

    TaiwanOfficial

    Details

    Owners of a Forever pack (Skyborne Heroic or Epic Pack, the Warcraft Forever Collection or the Collector's Edition) can create and name up to 3 characters in total across all rulesets, on the WoW account the pack was bought for. On Blizzard's Taiwan site the window runs through 4 Nov (3 Nov on its English site); no closing hour is given. Install the World of Warcraft: Forever game version in the Battle.net app first. The Roleplay-PvP ruleset that Blizzard's English articles add for launch is not on its Taiwan site yet.

    Sources: Blizzard (20 Oct 2026), Blizzard (20 Oct 2026), Blizzard (22 Oct 2026), Blizzard (21 Sept 2026)

  5. Call to Arms: Arathi Basin week

    Datamined

    date announced; hour not yet

    Details

    The game files give Arathi Basin the Call to Arms bonus (more Honor and Rank Points) from 3 Nov to 10 Nov, so the week starts before launch. Arathi Basin needs level 20. The hour the week switches, and whether it follows your region's weekly reset, is not confirmed (see the notes).

    Sources: Blizzard (7 Oct 2026), Forever Codex (25 Oct 2026), ForeverDB (24 Oct 2026)

  6. WoW: Forever launches

    Official

    Details

    All four regions open at the same moment. A Subscription or Game Time is all you need; the Forever packs are optional. A few of Blizzard's pages give a time one hour earlier; we follow the time most of them give (see the notes).

    Sources: Blizzard (12 Sept 2026), Blizzard (12 Sept 2026)

  7. First weekly reset after launch: Americas & Oceania

    Americas & OceaniaDatamined

    Details

    The newest game files set this region's weekly reset to Tuesday 15:00 UTC. Blizzard has not confirmed the day or the hour. Weekly limits start over at the reset; raid lockouts only begin when the raids open.

    Sources: Forever Codex (25 Oct 2026), Forever Codex (25 Oct 2026), Blizzard (20 Oct 2026)

  8. First weekly reset after launch: Europe

    EuropeDatamined

    Details

    The newest game files set this region's weekly reset to Wednesday 04:00 UTC. Blizzard has not confirmed the day or the hour. Weekly limits start over at the reset; raid lockouts only begin when the raids open.

    Sources: Forever Codex (25 Oct 2026), Forever Codex (25 Oct 2026), Blizzard (20 Oct 2026)

  9. Raids open: The Barrow Deeps, Hyjal Summit, Onyxia's Lair

    Americas & OceaniaOfficial

    date announced; hour not yet

    Details

    Three level 60 raids open: The Barrow Deeps (10 players), Hyjal Summit (20) and Onyxia's Lair (40). For the Americas & Oceania, Blizzard gives 9 Dec without an hour. All three are planned to reset weekly. To enter Onyxia's Lair, every raider must carry the Drakefire Amulet from a long faction quest chain.

    Sources: Blizzard (20 Oct 2026), Blizzard forums (12 Sept 2026)

  10. Raids open: The Barrow Deeps, Hyjal Summit, Onyxia's Lair

    EuropeOfficial

    date announced; hour not yet

    Details

    Three level 60 raids open: The Barrow Deeps (10 players), Hyjal Summit (20) and Onyxia's Lair (40). For Europe, Blizzard gives 9 Dec without an hour. All three are planned to reset weekly. To enter Onyxia's Lair, every raider must carry the Drakefire Amulet from a long faction quest chain.

    Sources: Blizzard (20 Oct 2026), Blizzard forums (12 Sept 2026)

  11. Raids open: The Barrow Deeps, Hyjal Summit, Onyxia's Lair

    KoreaOfficial

    date announced; hour not yet

    Details

    Three level 60 raids open: The Barrow Deeps (10 players), Hyjal Summit (20) and Onyxia's Lair (40). For Korea, Blizzard's Korean site gives 10 Dec (9 Dec on its English site), without an hour. All three are planned to reset weekly. To enter Onyxia's Lair, every raider must carry the Drakefire Amulet from a long faction quest chain.

    Sources: Blizzard (20 Oct 2026), Blizzard (20 Oct 2026)

  12. Raids open: The Barrow Deeps, Hyjal Summit, Onyxia's Lair

    TaiwanOfficial

    date announced; hour not yet

    Details

    Three level 60 raids open: The Barrow Deeps (10 players), Hyjal Summit (20) and Onyxia's Lair (40). For Taiwan, Blizzard's Taiwan site gives 10 Dec (9 Dec on its English site), without an hour. All three are planned to reset weekly. To enter Onyxia's Lair, every raider must carry the Drakefire Amulet from a long faction quest chain.

    Sources: Blizzard (20 Oct 2026), Blizzard (20 Oct 2026)

  13. Hardcore ruleset: later, no date yet

    Official

    No date announced yet

    Details

    Hardcore arrives some time after launch. Blizzard's roadmap lists it under "Winter", after the raids, with no date. It is a closed world of its own, and a Hardcore character that dies can move to another ruleset, PvP included.

    Sources: Blizzard (22 Oct 2026), Blizzard forums (12 Sept 2026)

First-week tasks

  • Pick the same region and ruleset as your friends before you create a character. Players in different regions cannot play together at launch; groups, guilds and mail only work inside one ruleset; and you cannot move a character to another ruleset later. On the PvP ruleset, your account can only have characters of one faction. Official
  • Set Preferred Online Language (Esc, Options, System, Languages and Social) before you look for groups. It helps match you with players who share that language, covers your whole account and has a 24-hour cooldown. Official
  • Learn Cooking, First Aid and Fishing early: they do not use your two primary profession slots. Cooking turns your cooking fire into a campfire, and sitting or crafting at a camp for 1 minute gives its camp buffs. Official
  • Visit your class trainer as you level and buy each new spell rank, then put it on your action bars yourself: since the launch notes, new spells no longer go there by themselves. Official
  • When players compete for the same monsters, form a group. Only the first player or group to hit a monster gets the kill credit, and everyone in the group shares it if they are close by. Community
  • Log out in an inn or a capital city. Rested XP builds there while you are offline, and it doubles the XP from kills until it runs out. Community
  • Never buy gold or accept gold you cannot explain. Buyers and receivers risk gold removal, suspension or account closure, and a suspected account loses trade, mail, guild bank and Auction House while it is checked. Official
  • Install only addon files made for Forever. Addon files made for Classic Era or Anniversary do not load in Forever. Community
Not confirmed yet (8)
  • Who can create characters when the reservation opens: Blizzard's reservation article says pack owners only, while the end-of-beta post says character creation opens on 27 Oct, "allowing everyone plenty of time" to choose. Check when your region opens. Conflict

    Sources: Blizzard (20 Oct 2026), Blizzard forums (23 Oct 2026)

  • Launch hour: one moment in every region. Blizzard's launch article gives 3:00 p.m. PST on 4 Nov, which is 23:00 UTC, 00:00 CET and 08:00 in Korea on 5 Nov. Official

    Sources: Blizzard (3 Nov 2026)

  • Weekly reset in the Americas & Oceania (Tuesday 15:00 UTC) and in Europe (Wednesday 04:00 UTC): both times come from the game files (build 1.60.1.70245), not from Blizzard. One beta build moved them to 16:00 and 07:00 UTC and a later one moved them back, and Forever Codex's Today page still shows the older values. Blizzard has only said the raids are planned to reset weekly. Datamined

    Sources: Forever Codex (25 Oct 2026), Forever Codex (25 Oct 2026), Forever Codex (25 Oct 2026), Blizzard (20 Oct 2026)

  • Weekly reset in Korea and Taiwan: not known yet. Blizzard has not announced it, and the reads of the game files we know of only give the Americas & Oceania and Europe, so this card shows no reset for these two regions yet. Unverified

    Sources: Forever Codex (25 Oct 2026), Forever Codex (25 Oct 2026), Blizzard (20 Oct 2026)

  • Call to Arms start: the client calendar starts each bonus week on Tuesday at 08:00 realm time (ForeverDB, build 1.60.1.70532), and Blizzard has not said which time zone each region's realm time uses. Forever Codex reads the hour as your region's weekly reset instead, which is not on a Tuesday in every region (Wednesday in Europe, by the game files). So the bonus may switch on Tuesday or on your region's reset day. We check it in launch week. Conflict

    Sources: ForeverDB (24 Oct 2026), Forever Codex (25 Oct 2026)

  • Blizzard's in-game calendar: the Ultimate Calendar addon says it is switched off in Forever, but Forever's interface code still ships the calendar with its own filters for battleground weeks, raid resets and lockouts. We check at launch whether it opens. Conflict

    Sources: CurseForge (25 Oct 2026), GitHub (22 Oct 2026)

  • Raid unlock: Blizzard gives 9 Dec on its English, European and Latin American sites and 10 Dec on its Korean and Taiwan sites, with no hour anywhere. Whether all regions unlock at one moment or each at its own weekly reset is not known. Official

    Sources: Blizzard (20 Oct 2026), Blizzard (20 Oct 2026), Blizzard (20 Oct 2026)

  • PvP Season 1: Blizzard has not said when it starts. If it starts in launch week, the weekly Rank Point cap (2,700 in week 1 in the game files) would allow rank 14 from about 5 or 6 Jan 2027, depending on your region's reset day. If it starts with the raids, rank 14 would open about 9 or 10 Feb 2027. The cap table appears here once Blizzard confirms the start. Estimate

    Sources: Blizzard (7 Oct 2026), Forever Codex (25 Oct 2026)

Datamined calendar Datamined
Week (UTC)Call to Arms
2026-11-03Arathi Basin
2026-11-10Warsong Gulch
2026-11-17Darkspear Islands
2026-11-24Arathi Basin
2026-12-01Warsong Gulch
2026-12-08Darkspear Islands
2026-12-15Arathi Basin
2026-12-22Warsong Gulch
2026-12-29Darkspear Islands
2027-01-05Arathi Basin

Not confirmed by Blizzard. Season total of Rank Points allowed by the end of each week of a PvP season, from the game files (Forever Codex, build 1.60.1.70245; may change at launch). Points never decay, and rank 14 needs 24,750, so week 10 at the earliest. Blizzard confirms a weekly cap but has not given these numbers or the Season 1 start, so the weeks are not tied to dates yet.

Sources (36)

Sources

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  2. Choose Your Ruleset in World of Warcraft: Forever (updated 22 Oct), Blizzard, 22 Oct 2026
  3. Carve a New Path with World of Warcraft: Forever, Blizzard, 12 Sept 2026
  4. World of Warcraft: Forever Raid Overview: Locations, Raid Sizes, and Attunement, Blizzard, 20 Oct 2026
  5. How PvP Progression in World of Warcraft: Forever Works, Blizzard, 7 Oct 2026
  6. Thank You For Testing the WoW Forever Beta, Blizzard forums, 23 Oct 2026
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  8. Time Zone Database (used to convert Blizzard's local times to UTC), IANA, 25 Oct 2026
  9. PvP ranks and the season: weekly cap and Call to Arms weeks (build 1.60.1.70245), Forever Codex, 25 Oct 2026
  10. World events: holidays and Call to Arms (client build 1.60.1.70532), ForeverDB, 24 Oct 2026
  11. Patches: weekly raid reset moved in builds 69977, 70009 and 70170, Forever Codex, 25 Oct 2026
  12. Glossary: Reset, Forever Codex, 25 Oct 2026
  13. Today in Forever (weekly reset box, build 70009 values), Forever Codex, 25 Oct 2026
  14. Ultimate Calendar (addon page), CurseForge, 25 Oct 2026
  15. Blizzard_Calendar in Blizzard's Forever interface code (branch forever, build 1.60.1.70532), GitHub, 22 Oct 2026
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  17. WoW Forever Beta Development Notes (post of 1 Oct: low spell ranks), Blizzard forums, 1 Oct 2026
  18. Spell Ranks Don't Auto-Update for Mana Abilities in WoW: Forever, Wowhead, 19 Oct 2026
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  20. Actions Taken Against Botting and RMT, Blizzard forums, 1 Oct 2026
  21. Temporary Economy Holds For RMT, Blizzard forums, 13 Oct 2026
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Checked 4 Nov 2026