Riverglades in WoW Forever: What Blizzard Has Announced

What Blizzard Has Announced

Riverglades is a planned region that Blizzard's September 12 recap puts across much of the mid-30s to mid-40s experience, with more than 150 new quests but no exact starting or ending level. That What's Next recap lists it among the new regions planned for the original world. It describes a frontier of waterways, grasslands, trade routes, struggling communities, and old grudges.

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The later Found Photos recap calls Riverglades a mid-level zone roughly the size of Stranglethorn Vale. It describes a ship route from Tanaris through the Steamwheedle Cartel to Riverglades, with Powderfuse Port as the named destination. Its Riverglades paragraph also names Powderfuse goblins, gnolls, ogres, the Twilight's Hammer, and the Brotherhood of the Horse. For more of that announcement's travel and story, read the Found Photos recap guide.

Share Image: Riverglades river valley with a stone watchtower on a hill, red-tiled farmhouses, a windpump and rounded blue-green hills

That gives you the feel of the planned region and how you get there. It doesn't give a complete map, a route through the zone, or the order of its quests. For other announced regions and the level details still missing, see the WoW Forever zones guide.

Two Official Quest Totals, One Open Question

Blizzard's September recaps give two quest figures for Riverglades, more than 150 and nearly 200, and you should keep them separate. The table lists each with its own scope, so the later number doesn't quietly replace the earlier one.

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Both figures describe planned content. Blizzard hasn't said whether they count different scopes or whether the later total revises the earlier one. Keep them separate, because adding them, averaging them or picking a winner would give an answer the sources don't.

What the Level Band Does and Does Not Tell You

Use the mid-30s to mid-40s band as a broad planning window, not a level 35 to 45 bracket. The earlier recap says Riverglades covers much of the mid-30s to mid-40s experience. The later source calls the region mid-level and doesn't narrow the endpoints.

None of the sources we reviewed gives a minimum level, a maximum level, a faction-specific route, or an ordered quest chain. A detailed leveling walkthrough would have to guess at those, so this guide sticks to the published band and setting.

Which spelling does Blizzard use?

Blizzard's recap and official trailer use Riverglades. A community post says Riverlands, but that spelling is unverified, and our research record has no first-party confirmation of it. This guide uses Blizzard's published spelling.

• 00:43 labels the sequence NEW ZONES.
• 00:58 displays the RIVERGLADES card.
• 01:04 labels EXPANDED ORIGINAL ZONES.

The official trailer guide lists the other cards shown in that video.

How Blizzard Categorizes Riverglades

Blizzard files Riverglades as new but familiar: a fresh story grounded in existing Warcraft places. The Found Photos recap sorts Forever's new content into three buckets: anticipated, new but familiar, and unexpected. Riverglades is its example of "new but familiar," a fresh story grounded in existing Warcraft places.Blizzard: World of Warcraft: Forever Found Photos Panel Recap, checked Sep 13, 2026. Mount Hyjal is the anticipated example, and Zephras Isle the unexpected one.

The recap says the zone is "built from a previously inaccessible part of the Classic world."Blizzard: World of Warcraft: Forever Found Photos Panel Recap, checked Sep 13, 2026. It names the Burning Steppes, Redridge Mountains, Swamp of Sorrows and Badlands as surrounding regions. It publishes no map and doesn't say whether any of them has a land path in.

Share Image: Riverglades world map from the WoW Forever beta client, a parchment view of winding rivers with Badlands, Burning Steppes and Redridge Mountains at its edges

How Players Reach Riverglades

The Steamwheedle Boat From Tanaris

A planned boat route starts with the Steamwheedle Cartel in Tanaris and ends at Powderfuse Port, Riverglades' harbor. It's one of three new ship routes the recap describes; the other two, Stormwind Harbor to Auberdine and a Menethil, Southshore and Auberdine line, link the two continents. All three are planned.

Share Image: Goblin harbor town in Riverglades with a giant wrench crane on its sandy wall and red-sailed ships at the quay

Wowhead's September 27 beta report is more specific: players "can make their way directly to Powderfuse Port by taking the boat from Steamwheedle Port in Tanaris." That names the departure dock. Reported.

What Beta Testers Can See so Far

Beta testers can see Powderfuse Port, but Riverglades' mid-30s to mid-40s quests sit above what they can level into. The beta opened with a level 20 cap and Blizzard raised it to 30 with the October 1 update, confirmed in its forum post. A September 18 player post on Blizzard's beta forum says "there appears to be no flight path in this goblin city." That is an unconfirmed community report, and Blizzard hasn't replied.

We found no Riverglades leveling route in the material we checked for this page. The RestedXP and Zygor Guides pages track what each guide maker says its Forever routes will cover.

What the Beta Database Already Shows at Powderfuse Port

Wowhead's beta database reports neutral Fishing and Mining trainers at Powderfuse Port, plus a vendor for high-end crafting materials. Wowhead's Forever database, built from the beta client, already lists these NPCs in the zone. Treat these as reported: they come from a beta build, and details can change before launch.

• Krix, a new "Superior Fisherman," teaches Apprentice and Journeyman Fishing.
• Grungle is a neutral Mining trainer.
• Mister Graphed sells high-end crafting materials without a stock limit.

Neutral trainers for Fishing and Mining mean either faction can train on arrival, at least in the current build.

The Reagent Vendor

Wowhead says Mister Graphed sells reagents such as Black Lotus at fixed prices, which it reads as a cap against price gouging. Its report lists his stock as Black Lotus, Arcane Crystal, Pristine Leather and Frilled Lichen, plus new materials such as Fel Crystal and Stranglevine, and ties the cap to the price gouging seen in Classic 2019. Blizzard hasn't explained the vendor.

The list includes Pyrite, which Wowhead says beta miners already gather and can sell to a vendor for 1 silver. Mister Graphed charges 5 gold for it, a gap Wowhead reads as protecting miners who farm it themselves.

He also sells Gift of Galloping for 150 gold. It's a 10% mount speed consumable that lasts 15 days of real time and, Wowhead says, stacks with other mount speed bonuses.

Who and What Fills the Zone

Blizzard's two recaps describe Riverglades as a frontier where gnoll camps carry on the conflicts of neighboring lands and ogre threats add quest hooks. The What's Next recap's one-line pitch is to "build a future on the Riverglades frontier."Blizzard: World of Warcraft: Forever What's Next Panel Recap, checked Sep 26, 2026. The Found Photos recap says gnoll camps continue the conflicts of neighboring lands, and "fresh ogre threats" add tension and quest hooks.Blizzard: World of Warcraft: Forever Found Photos Panel Recap, checked Sep 13, 2026.

The recap also names the new Powderfuse goblins, the Twilight's Hammer and the Brotherhood of the Horse, which tie the area to Warcraft's history "in different ways."Blizzard: World of Warcraft: Forever Found Photos Panel Recap, checked Sep 13, 2026. It never says how, and no reputation or reward track has been announced for any of the three.

Riverglades' Quests in Context

Riverglades' 150 to nearly 200 quests would be at most 15 to 20 percent of Forever's new quests, so treat that as a rough scale, not a published share. The What's Next recap promises "more than a thousand new quests" across the level 1 to 60 journey.Blizzard: World of Warcraft: Forever What's Next Panel Recap, checked Sep 26, 2026. Because that total is a floor, the percentage is a ceiling. Blizzard gives no per-zone split for Mount Hyjal, Shen'dralas, Riverglades and Zephras Isle.

What Remains Open

These details remain open:

• Exact minimum and maximum levels
• Questline order and named chains
• A complete map and internal travel routes
• Faction-specific paths through the zone
• Whether the quest totals use different scopes
• Whether Riverlands is more than a community spelling

Until Blizzard fills in those gaps, treat the mid-30s to mid-40s phrase as broad guidance and both quest counts as separate announcements.