November 2 Spell and Talent Scope

The active Spell Bonus calculator uses Wrack's 0.286 Spell Power coefficient per second, removes Binding Heal and Lava Burst, and removes Riptide's initial heal. Its remaining periodic coefficient retains the dated client evidence; the patch does not supply a new one.Blizzard: November 2 beta development notes, post 9, post 30732723, published November 3 UTC, retained source checked November 3, 2026.

Talent counts and comparisons remain historical snapshots. Starting racial-stat corrections do not establish new class conversion constants. The 70205 and selected 70450 files remain separate historical downloads.

Beta Class Distribution by Level

Publisher's snapshot label: October 7, 2026. These class breakdowns use the retained ClassicPlus.io census counts. That label is separate from the API's UTC timestamp. They count sampled characters, not unique players, accounts or everyone online now. Each share divides by the characters in that table's faction, ruleset and level range. Percentages round independently to one decimal place.

Choose Horde PvE levels 20 to 30, Horde PvE levels 25 to 30, PvE level 25+ or Alliance level 20+. The retained snapshot has no characters above level 30, so 25+ and 25 to 30 cover the same levels here. These are dated comparisons, not a forecast of launch class population.Source: ClassicPlus.io per-combo census levels, snapshot October 7, 2026; retrieved October 8 and independently recounted from retained data October 13, 2026. WFG sums levels and races for each class, faction and ruleset. (reported)

Horde PvE Class Distribution: Levels 20-30

Hunter leads with 5,680 of 36,201 Horde PvE characters (15.7%), followed by Shaman at 14.1%. This table includes level 20 through level 30, Horde only, on the PvE ruleset.

ClassCharactersShare
Hunter5,68015.7%
Shaman5,10014.1%
Paladin5,08314.0%
Druid4,19911.6%
Warrior4,10011.3%
Warlock3,3369.2%
Priest2,9988.3%
Rogue2,9138.0%
Mage2,7927.7%
Total36,201100.0%

Horde PvE Class Distribution: Levels 25-30

Hunter leads with 2,378 of 15,619 Horde PvE characters (15.2%), followed by Shaman at 14.8%. The denominator includes only Horde characters from levels 25 through 30 on the PvE ruleset.

ClassCharactersShare
Hunter2,37815.2%
Shaman2,31314.8%
Paladin2,13513.7%
Druid1,93012.4%
Warrior1,63510.5%
Rogue1,3778.8%
Priest1,3398.6%
Warlock1,3158.4%
Mage1,1977.7%
Total15,619100.0%

PvE Class Split: Level 25 Plus

Across both factions, Hunter leads with 5,867 of 36,266 PvE characters at level 25+ (16.2%). Paladin follows at 13.6%. This table combines Alliance and Horde; its percentages do not describe either faction alone.

ClassCharactersShare
Hunter5,86716.2%
Paladin4,93713.6%
Shaman4,42312.2%
Druid4,35712.0%
Warrior4,29211.8%
Priest3,3169.1%
Rogue3,1058.6%
Mage3,0788.5%
Warlock2,8918.0%
Total36,266100.0%

Alliance Class Breakdown: Level 20 Plus

Hunter leads with 22,055 of 134,357 Alliance characters at level 20+ (16.4%), followed by Paladin at 12.7%. This table combines the PvE and PvP rulesets and includes level 20 itself.

ClassCharactersShare
Hunter22,05516.4%
Paladin17,02612.7%
Warrior16,33012.2%
Druid15,26711.4%
Rogue13,88510.3%
Priest13,69410.2%
Mage13,2529.9%
Shaman13,1579.8%
Warlock9,6917.2%
Total134,357100.0%

How the Numbers Are Counted

For our charts, we calculate every number from the site's own data files each time the site builds, and our tests recount each one from its source. The class distribution by level tables above use an independent recount of the retained October 7 census. Numbers that come from the game files rather than from Blizzard say so and carry the Reported icon.

Talents

Talent numbers come from the community WoW Forever Talents dataset, which compares each talent in the beta client (build 1.60.1.70009) with Classic Era (build 1.15.9.69722). Blizzard's corrections from the September 24 beta notes are applied first.

A talent counts as changed if its name, rank count or any rank's text differs from Classic Era. That includes small wording edits, so changed does not always mean redesigned. The 7 talents that differ only in capitalization count as unchanged, as they do on every class page. The class pages and the talent calculator call changed talents Reworked.

The dataset covers only the talents Forever ships, so removed Classic talents are not counted. A capstone is the last talent in a tree: one per tree, 27 in all.

Races and Classes

Blizzard's September 22 tables give 52 race and class combos, counting Skyborne once for each class either faction can play. The beta client's table lists 56 rows, because Alliance and Horde Skyborne have separate race IDs.

The Classic Era count, 40, comes from the Era client's race and class table (build 1.15.9.69722). Every Classic combo is still in Forever. The race and class combos tool has the full matrix with Blizzard's faction split.

Dungeons

The level ranges are the ones Blizzard posted on September 15, after it corrected Krol'dok Stronghold to 40 to 45, with one exception: Excavation Site: Wetlands uses the 26 to 31 range from Blizzard's October 1 beta notes; the September 15 post said 24 to 29.Source: WoW Forever Beta Development Notes, October 1, Changes and Updates, checked Oct 1, 2026. The dungeons guide covers each one, and the raid sizes come from Blizzard's roadmap card.

Crafting Recipes

Recipe counts compare the beta client's profession tables with Classic Era's, across 12 professions. A recipe here is anything in a profession table that makes an item or applies an enchant, so new rank spells and utility spells such as Find Fish are left out. The profession guides count every new entry, rank spells included, so their totals run a few higher.

Changed means different reagents, skill levels, product or tools than Classic Era. Gone means a Classic recipe the beta files retire or no longer list. A recipe in the files may not have a trainer, drop or vendor yet, so the count is what the beta holds, not what you can learn today.

Blizzard's own number is "over 600 new recipes across professions and level ranges", from its BlizzCon Deep Dive recap.Blizzard: World of Warcraft: Forever Deep Dive Panel Recap. It is a separate count from the client's, made before the beta opened, and the recap does not say what it includes. The professions guide has the per-profession detail.

Dates

Blizzard gives its dates in Pacific time. Days between two dates count from one to the other, so the reveal on September 12 and the launch on November 4 are 53 days apart. A span such as the beta counts its first and last day. Blizzard's text ends the beta on October 21, its last full day of testing, while the roadmap image shows October 22; we show both. The roadmap tracker has every window.

Character Stats

The stat guide uses the character-sheet files from beta client 1.60.1.70205, pulled read-only on October 4. Forever's own versions, in the Camelot folder, load after the shared, Vanilla and Cata files, so a value in an earlier file may not be the one Forever uses. The public mirror we link matches our extract except for line endings.Reported, press or datamine, not confirmedSource: Blizzard character-sheet overrides, PaperDollFrame_SetStatTooltip2 and GetEnemyCritChance; extracted and compared Oct 4, 2026.

Each calculator runs only the arithmetic shown beside it, from the same files and class data. Stats with no formula in those files, such as Armor, Dodge and Haste, get none. Stamina and Spirit have no fixed rate there, so their calculators take one from you. The Defense calculator uses formulas in the game code that the tooltip never calls, for enemy crit, miss and crushing blows. It doesn't simulate server combat, recommend gear or promise anything about raid attacks. The Attack Power by class table comes from the same build's ChrClasses table, before talents, forms and buffs. Spell coefficients are raw client values, not final damage after rank penalties, other modifiers or server tuning. The Spell Bonus calculator lists every spell rank on a class skill line with a damage, healing or absorb coefficient in build 70205: 114 spells and 638 ranks. Over-time effects multiply by the tick count, which is the spell's duration divided by its tick interval. Warriors and Rogues have none, physical attacks don't scale with spell power, and ground-targeted channels such as Blizzard, and totems, don't store a usable coefficient.

The Intellect chart uses total Intellect, not one item's bonus. The first 20 points give 1 Mana each and the rest give 15 each, for classes that use Mana. Already past 20? Each new point gives 15, before multipliers. Pets scale separately from player Mana.Reported, press or datamine, not confirmedSource: Blizzard attribute constants, INTELLECTBREAK and MANAPER_INTELLECT, checked Oct 4, 2026.

Beta Census

The census charts come from the ClassicPlus.io WoW Forever census, snapshot October 7, 2026: 644,211 characters from scans its owner uploads, with the Forever Census addon searching the /who list. The page embeds a count for every race and class combo and every level, split by PvE and PvP ruleset. We sum those counts, take faction from race and calculate every share. One person can own several characters, and the site publishes no scan count or region, so this is the characters its scans found, not the beta's population. Blizzard has published no player count for the beta.

Beta Character Sample

The October 6 snapshot of WoW Forever Builds & Tools statistics records nearby sightings and /who searches, with each encountered character counted once according to the collector. We recalculate percentages from the complete denominator and retain the Alliance-only scope. The source calls its unit players, but it has no account identity or public deduplication implementation, so WFG uses observed characters. The sample and limits explain the five-build window, unknown region and ruleset, selection bias and the unexplained level-60 entry. Source statistics use CC BY 4.0; WFG redraws charts and recalculates shares.

What We Checked

Population totals, queue sizes and DPS-ranking numbers remain unknown. The Beta Census ranks classes, races and factions across 644,211 scanned characters; the Beta Sample category separately shows character observations from a smaller Alliance-only community sample. Neither can measure players or accounts. Blizzard's "over 1,000 new quests" is its announcement, not our count of beta content.

On October 4 we reread Blizzard's race and class tables, the dungeon clarification, the October 1 and 2 beta notes, the release article and the roadmap. We also checked the public 70205 build, read the current character-sheet code and class data, checked the three US digital prices and reran the older calculations. Talent and recipe counts still come from 1.60.1.70009, with their original read dates; we haven't recounted them on 70205. A checked date means we verified the page that day, not that every count uses the newest build. We didn't recheck the Collector's Edition price, so it keeps its older date.

Spot a number that doesn't match its source? Tell us on the contact page. We log fixes under Revisions.

Plan Your Leveling

Planning around the dungeon levels? The leveling guide maps the zones in between. Want a route to follow? Compare the two addons in Zygor vs RestedXP, or start with the RestedXP guide to see what its Forever routes cover.

Technical Notes: Full Methods Wording
  • How the numbers are counted: Every figure in the charts on this page is computed when the site builds, from the site's own data files, and the site's tests recount each one from its source. The class distribution by level tables use an independent recount of the retained October 7 census. Where a figure comes from the game files rather than from Blizzard, it says so and carries the Reported icon.
  • Talents: The talent figures come from the community WoW Forever Talents dataset, which reads the beta client (build 1.60.1.70009) and compares each talent with Classic Era (build 1.15.9.69722). Blizzard's dated corrections from the September 24 beta notes are applied first.
  • Talents: A talent counts as changed when its name, its number of ranks or the text of any rank differs from Classic Era. That includes small wording edits, so changed does not always mean redesigned. The 7 talents whose only difference is capital letters count as unchanged, as they do on every class page. The class pages and the talent calculator call changed talents Reworked.
  • Talents: The dataset lists the trees Forever ships, not the Classic talents it dropped, so this page does not count removed talents. A capstone is the last talent in a tree, one per tree, 27 in all.
  • Races and classes: Blizzard's September 22 tables give Forever's matrix: 52 race and class pairings, counting Skyborne once for each class either faction can play. The beta client's own table lists 56 rows, because the Alliance and Horde Skyborne have separate race IDs.
  • Races and classes: The Classic Era figure, 40, is read from the Era client's race and class table (build 1.15.9.69722). Every Classic pairing is still in Forever. The race and class combos tool has the full matrix with Blizzard's faction split.
  • Dungeons: The level brackets are the ones Blizzard posted on September 15, after it corrected Krol'dok Stronghold to 40 to 45, with one exception. Excavation Site: Wetlands uses the 26 to 31 range from Blizzard's October 1 beta notes; the September 15 post said 24 to 29.(https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/wow-forever-beta-development-notes-%E2%80%93-updated-september-24/2360696/4), Changes and Updates, checked Oct 1, 2026.] Blizzard's list gives each of the nine a lower and an upper level. The dungeons guide covers each one, and the raid sizes come from Blizzard's roadmap card.
  • Crafting recipes: The recipe counts compare the beta client's profession tables with Classic Era's, for 12 professions. A recipe here is a profession row that makes an item or applies an enchant, so the new rank spells and utility spells such as Find Fish are left out. The profession guides count every new row, rank spells included, so their totals run a few higher.
  • Crafting recipes: Changed means the recipe's reagents, skill levels, product or tools differ from Classic Era. Gone means a Classic recipe the beta files retire or no longer list. A recipe in the files may not have a trainer, drop or vendor yet, so the count is what the beta holds, not what a player can learn today.
  • Crafting recipes: Blizzard's own figure is "over 600 new recipes across professions and level ranges", from its BlizzCon Deep Dive recap.(https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/news/24303313/world-of-warcraft-forever-deep-dive-panel-recap).] It is a separate count from the client's, made before the beta opened, and the recap does not say what it includes. The professions guide has the per-profession detail.
  • Dates: Blizzard gives its dates in Pacific time. Days between two dates count from one to the other, so the reveal on September 12 and the launch on November 4 are 53 days apart. A span such as the beta counts its first and last day. Blizzard's text ends the beta on October 21, its last full day of testing, while the roadmap image shows October 22; the page keeps both. The roadmap tracker has every window.
  • Character-stat calculations: The character-stat reference uses the actual 1.60.1.70205 beta client's character-sheet files, extracted read-only on October 4. Their current Camelot overrides load after the shared, Vanilla and Cata implementations. That order matters: a value in an earlier file is not necessarily the value Forever uses. The immutable public mirror matches the extracted code apart from line endings.(https://github.com/Gethe/wow-ui-source/blob/e3ecc27b64d30fdc735a3f6579b866858f9f9df1/Interface/AddOns/Blizzard_UIPanels_Game/Camelot/PaperDollFrameStats.lua), PaperDollFrame_SetStatTooltip2 and GetEnemyCritChance; extracted and compared Oct 4, 2026.] (reported)
  • Character-stat calculations: The Defense estimator uses a conditional formula defined in the current source but not called by the displayed tooltip. It is not a server combat simulator, a best-in-slot recommendation or a promise about every raid attack. The base class AP coefficients come from the same build's ChrClasses table, before talents, forms and buffs. Spell-effect coefficients are raw client fields; their presence does not prove a final damage value after rank penalties, other modifiers or server adjustments.
  • Character-stat calculations: The Intellect comparison uses total Intellect, not an item's incremental bonus. The first 20 total points contribute one Mana each, and the rest contribute 15 each on mana-using player classes. A character already above 20 gets the latter conversion for another point, before multipliers. Player Mana and pet scaling are separate.(https://github.com/Gethe/wow-ui-source/blob/e3ecc27b64d30fdc735a3f6579b866858f9f9df1/Interface/AddOns/Blizzard_UIPanels_Game/Camelot/PaperDollFrameConstants.lua), INTELLECT_BREAK and MANA_PER_INTELLECT, checked Oct 4, 2026.] (reported)
  • What has and has not been checked: There are no population, queue-size, popularity or DPS-ranking figures here. The inspected sources do not establish those measurements. Blizzard's rounded announcement of over 1,000 new quests is labeled as announced scope, not our measured count of beta content.
  • What has and has not been checked: October 4 verification reread Blizzard's racial matrix, dungeon clarification and October 1/2 beta notes, release article and roadmap, checked the public 70205 build, read current character-sheet code and class coefficients, observed the three digital US prices, and reran the old snapshots' calculations. The talent and recipe snapshots remain 1.60.1.70009 with their original read dates; neither received a new 70205 extraction in this pass. A checked date records that verification work, not that every dataset is from today's build. The Collector's Edition price retains its older check date because its current price was not reverified.
  • What has and has not been checked: Found a figure that does not match its source? Tell us through the contact page; corrections are logged under Revisions too.
  • After the numbers: If the dungeon brackets are what you are planning around, the leveling guide maps the zones between them. Players who want a route to follow can compare the two addons in Zygor vs RestedXP, or start with the RestedXP guide for what its Forever routes cover.
  • How many talents changed in WoW Forever?: 385 of 467 talents, 82%, are new or changed from Classic Era: 111 new and 274 with a changed name, rank count or rank text. The count is the community dataset's read of beta client build 1.60.1.70009.
  • How many race and class combinations does WoW Forever have?: 52 race and class pairings, up from 40 in Classic Era. Six returning races gain a class, and the new Skyborne race adds its own pairings across both factions.
  • How many new dungeons does WoW Forever have?: 9 new dungeons, with level brackets from 13 to 60 as Blizzard posted them on September 15, except Excavation Site: Wetlands, which follows the October 1 beta notes.
  • Can I use these numbers and charts?: Yes. Quote and cite any figure with a link to this page, and embed the chart images with their credit link. Every figure has a permalink, and the data behind each chart downloads as a CSV file.
  • Why does my character's Hit or Crit headline differ from a tooltip value?: The current beta sheet shows the highest melee, ranged or spell value as the headline for Hit, Crit and Haste. The tooltip separates the channels. Check the channel your attack uses, your target level, weapon skill, form and talent effects; the headline alone is not a universal cap.
  • Does 440 Defense make every tank immune to critical hits?: It is the level-60-versus-level-63 result of the unused formula in the current client source, not an encounter guarantee. At a different level or attacker level, the threshold changes. Crushing blows and spell mechanics use different rules. The estimator exposes its assumptions and source instead of recommending 440 for every character.
  • Do these graphs tell me which class is strongest?: No. Talent changes measure differences in nodes and text, not DPS, healing, survivability or popularity. Choose a class or tree to inspect the scope of its changes, then use the class and spec guides for context. This page does not manufacture combat rankings from file counts.
  • Introduction as first published: Compare what changed from Classic Era, then read the character stats behind your build. Every number keeps its source, scope and data download. Talent and recipe counts use the dated 1.60.1.70009 comparison with corrections; current combat-stat reference uses beta 1.60.1.70205, checked October 4.
  • Talent counts: WoW Forever Talents dataset: beta client 1.60.1.70009 against Classic Era 1.15.9.69722
  • Race and class matrix: Blizzard's tables of September 22; the Classic Era count is read from the Era client
  • Dungeon brackets: The nine level brackets Blizzard posted on September 15; Excavation Site: Wetlands uses the October 1 beta figure
  • Dates and prices: Blizzard release dates rechecked October 4; US digital prices observed October 4. Collector's Edition price keeps its older check date. Announced dates are not current availability.
  • Character-sheet reference: Current beta 1.60.1.70205: extracted Blizzard UI code and base class coefficients, read October 4; client-source calculations include the unused Defense helper, not measured server combat.
  • October 4 revision: Expanded with talent-tree comparison and class filter, net recipe growth, searchable character/combat-stat reference, base class AP coefficients, Intellect Mana comparison and conditional Defense estimator. Rechecked current 70205 UI and official sources; retained older talent/recipe snapshot dates and individual price dates.

Revisions

  • First published: talents, races, dungeons, crafting recipes, dates and prices.
  • Excavation Site: Wetlands bracket changed to 26 to 31 from Blizzard's October 1 beta notes (was 24 to 29).
  • Added the talent-tree chart and class filter, net recipe growth, a searchable stat guide, Attack Power by class, the Intellect and Mana chart and the Defense calculator. Rechecked build 70205 and Blizzard's sources; talent, recipe and price check dates unchanged.
  • Added live calculators for Strength, Agility, Intellect, Attack Power, resistances, spell bonuses and Attack Power by class. The Defense calculator now also shows enemy miss and crushing-blow chance.
  • The Spell Bonus calculator now covers every class spell rank with a coefficient in build 70205: pick a class, spell and rank. Calculator number boxes are sized to their values.
  • Intellect, Stamina, Spirit, Defense and Downranking now have calculators in their own cards. Stamina's Health per point and Spirit's regen are inputs, because the game files don't fix them. The page opens on Everything.
  • Calculator results now show labeled numbers and the formula with your inputs, beside the inputs on wide screens.
  • Added Beta Sample: Alliance-only community observations through October 5, with separate class, race and level charts, full denominators, CC BY source attribution and a downloadable source pack. Existing game and mechanic verification dates are unchanged.
  • Added Beta Census: 644,211 characters from ClassicPlus.io on both factions, with faction, class, race, combo, level and daily class-share charts, plus a comparison of six censuses and the StrawPoll class vote, talent builds by class and the busiest locations. Ask the Numbers now answers Horde, faction and least-played questions.
  • Added dated class tables for Horde PvE levels 20 to 30 and 25 to 30, PvE level 25+ across both factions, and Alliance level 20+ across both rulesets. Independently recounted the retained October 7 census; this is not a new census snapshot.