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Joining a group in WoW Forever no longer phases you to them automatically

The Blasted Lands map from the WoW Forever client

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Wowhead reports that when you join a new group in WoW Forever, the game no longer moves you to your group's copy of the world on its own. You trigger the phase yourself, with an arrow at the top left of your chat window.

Corrected 5 November 2026: we first wrote that this change was on the Forever beta. Wowhead says Blizzard made it after the beta, so it's a change in the live game.

Wowhead reports a change to how grouping works in WoW Forever. When you join a new group, the game no longer moves you to the same copy of the world as your group automatically. Instead you trigger that move yourself. Wowhead says Blizzard made the change after the beta and mentioned it on a podcast.

This is a Wowhead report, not a Blizzard post we can quote. We have no matching post from Blizzard in our records, and phasing is handled on Blizzard's servers, so the client files can't confirm it either way.

How to phase to your group

According to Wowhead, an arrow shows up at the top left of your chat window after you join. Click it to move to your group's copy of the world. The popup appears even when you're standing in town doing nothing, so if your group isn't around you, look for the arrow.

Wowhead points out the upside of doing it by hand: if you're out in the world, you can finish what you're on before the phase change, rather than being pulled across the moment you join.

What Blizzard has said about group phasing

Blizzard has flagged party changes moving players between copies of the world as a known issue since the beta's September 24 notes. In the WoW Forever beta known issues list, Blizzard wrote:

Creating or changing party composition may transfer players to a different world instance. We’re working on improvements and will provide an update soon. Blizzard, WoW Forever Beta Known Issues (September 24)

Speculation. The manual arrow looks like the improvement Blizzard promised for that known issue, handing you control over when the move happens. Blizzard hasn't said so in a post we can quote, so treat the link between the two as our guess.

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