Esfand's video from the final hours of the WoW Forever beta: GM bosses and level 60 loot

2026-10-23 · ForeverDB

Esfand posted a video from the last day of the WoW Forever beta, when the GMs ran a server-wide event: level 60 raid gear dropping off low-level mobs, invisible GM bosses, an "infected grain" crate, and a bugged level 28 priest that grew with every stack up to 99. A one-off live event is not in the client, so most of this is a player report. We checked the names and items that are in the client: Molten Core, the Great Axe, Stormwind, and the Mind Control and Heal the players used.

This is a community video by Esfand, not a Blizzard post, so every claim here is the creator's. A one-off live event in the final hours of the beta is not in the client data, so most of it is a player report we can't test. We checked the names, items and abilities that are in the WoW Forever beta client (build 1.60.1.70532). Beta data can still change before launch on 4 November 2026.

Esfand's 8-minute video is from the final hours of the Forever beta, when the GMs ran a server-wide event. They say the GMs put level 60 raid gear on low-level mobs, summoned bosses, left an "infected grain" crate lying around, and that a bugged low-level priest grew huge with every kill. None of that is something the client can confirm, because it was a live event the servers ran once. What we can check are the names and items Esfand shows, and the Priest abilities the players were using.

The short version

• Esfand says that for the last 24 hours of the beta, the GMs put level 60 raid gear (Lawbringer, tier sets and Molten Core loot) on every low-level mob. A live GM event is not in the client, so that is a player report.
• Esfand says the gear's stats were scaled down but the procs were not, and that no Lawbringer piece had any plus damage. Item stats and procs for an event like this are set by the server, so we can't check them.
• Molten Core, the Great Axe and Stormwind are all in the client, and we link them.
• Esfand shows a bugged level 28 priest that would not die and grew with every stack, and says it caps at 99 stacks. That is a live bug, not something in the client.
• Below we check every claim against the client, and list what the client has and what it can't show.

Claim by claim

Esfand's claims are the creator's report. The client can only confirm the names and items that exist in its own data, not a one-off live event.

The final-hours event

Esfand opens on low-level mobs wearing and dropping level 60 raid gear. They read it as the old level 60 itemisation scaled down, pointing out that an undead in Lawbringer looks out of place and that the pieces give only about "two more agility" than a blue item.

the last 24 hours of the beta and like all the Lawbringer gear, all the tier set, a bunch of gear from Molten Core, they just put it on every low-level mob. Esfand, Blizzard Summoned The BIGGEST Boss Ever to End WoW Forever Beta.. (0:00)

Esfand's reading is that the gear's stats were scaled down but the procs were not, which is why a low-level Hand of Ragnaros could still proc. We can't check that: the stats and procs for an event like this are worked out by the server, and the client only holds the normal level 60 versions of these items.

A server message then asked everyone to help by running across a border. Esfand reads it out as players gather at the gates of Stormwind.

Please help with fixes. Run across the border of Stormwind back and forth. Esfand, Blizzard Summoned The BIGGEST Boss Ever to End WoW Forever Beta.. (0:55)

Next they find an invisible GM outside Undercity whose abilities still hit players, and later a crate of "infected grain". Esfand wonders aloud whether the GMs are about to run a Stratholme or Lordaeron style zombie event.

Loving the final hours frenzy. Found this crate. Should we unleash it? Esfand, Blizzard Summoned The BIGGEST Boss Ever to End WoW Forever Beta.. (5:10)

The last stretch is a bugged level 28 priest that will not die and grows bigger with every kill. Esfand keeps feeding it until the stacks stop climbing, and reads the cap off the buff count.

I wanted to see if we can make him as big as possible. Okay, I think it caps at 99 stacks. Esfand, Blizzard Summoned The BIGGEST Boss Ever to End WoW Forever Beta.. (7:17)

The abilities players used

In the boss fights the players kept warning each other to crowd-control, not kill, anyone who got mind controlled. In the client, Mind Control Mind Control is learned from the trainer at level 30, so a beta player at the level 30 cap only has rank 1: it controls a humanoid up to level 32 and lasts up to 1 min, for 350 Mana over a 3 sec cast at 20 yd.

Players also called for heals through the fights. The client teaches Heal Heal at level 16, healing 250 to 290 at rank 1. Its top rank inside the beta cap is rank 4 at level 34 (above the level 30 cap), which heals 611 to 691; that is less than Classic Era's 712 to 804.

One note on the name: Esfand calls the event "the final hours frenzy". That is the event's nickname, not the Hunter pet talent Frenzy Frenzy, which the client places in the Beast Mastery tree at level 35, above the beta's level 30 cap.

What we have, and what we don't

The client gives us the fixed pieces of this story, but not the event itself.

• What we have: Molten Core as a 40-player raid from Lucifron to Ragnaros, the Great Axe, Stormwind, and the Mind Control Mind Control and Heal Heal the players used.
• What we don't: live GM events, server broadcasts, scaled-down event gear and its procs, the invisible GM, the infected grain, and the bugged growing priest. All of those are set by the server for a one-off event, not stored in the client.
• Why players can't test it: the event ran once in the final hours of the beta, and the beta cap is level 30, so the level 60 raid gear and its procs are out of normal reach anyway.

More on our pages

• Hunter changes in the client and the Hunter talent calculator
• Priest changes in the client and the Priest talent calculator

Sources

• Blizzard Summoned The BIGGEST Boss Ever to End WoW Forever Beta.. (Esfand, YouTube)
• Molten Core in the WoW Forever client (ForeverDB)
• Great Axe in the WoW Forever client (ForeverDB)
• Stormwind in the WoW Forever client (ForeverDB)
• Esfand: Blizzard Summoned The BIGGEST Boss Ever to End WoW Forever Beta.. (YouTube)