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WoW Forever build 1.60.1.70755 datamine: the launch client

A fire elemental: a painting from the WoW Forever client's credits

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Blizzard's last client before launch is a small one: a new Poised passive for Rogues and Feral Druids, new looks for the Premier PvP sets, a launch celebration item that turns campfires violet, and a Hyjal Summit mechanic.

Blizzard put WoW Forever build 1.60.1.70755 on its servers on 3 November, the same build in every region, the day before launch. It is almost certainly the client we will all play on tomorrow. Compared with 1.60.1.70707 it is small: 177 changes, and most of them are new looks for PvP armour. The site's data is now rebuilt from it, in all five languages.

Client files only. The game can't be logged into until launch, so this build's server-side changes (hotfixes) aren't in our data yet. We'll rebuild again once the realms open.

Poised for Rogues and Feral Druids

Both classes get a new passive called Poised. While you're out of combat at maximum Energy, your next ability costs 10 less Energy. Rogues learn it from the trainer at level 18 as part of Subtlety's abilities; Druids get their own Poised in Feral Combat at level 32. Neither is a talent, so every Rogue and every Feral Druid gets it. It makes your opener cheaper whenever you wait for full Energy before a pull, which you were probably doing anyway.

New looks for the Premier PvP sets

155 of the changes are the epic level 60 PvP armour, the Premier sets, getting new appearances: Premier Field Marshal's, Marshal's and Knight-Captain's pieces on the Alliance side, Warlord's, General's, Legionnaire's, Centurion's and Champion's for the Horde, and the Knight-Champion, Lieutenant Commander and Chevalier pieces. Only the look changed. Stats, item level and the level 60 requirement are the same as before.

A launch celebration item

One new item, Pouch of Violet Dust, with the text "Many gathered. Many watched." It casts Throw Violet Dust: you throw a handful into a campfire and its flames turn violet. The spell says it needs the "WoW: Forever Launch Celebration", so it looks tied to a launch event. The client doesn't say how you get the pouch or how long the celebration runs; we'll add both once someone finds out in game.

Raid and dungeon spells

  • Emerald Stasis: "Commune with the Emerald Dream to subdue Nythus." Nythus the Dreambound is one of the 13 Hyjal Summit bosses, so this looks like part of that fight. Hyjal Summit opens on 9 December.
  • Boiling Water: water that boils and deals Physical damage every few seconds to anyone standing in it. The client doesn't say which encounter uses it, and neither does Boiling Scream, which arrives with it but has no text.
  • A new Camping spell with no text yet, next to the existing campsite spells.

Holy Shield's tooltip

Paladin Holy Shield (rank 4) now has its full tooltip: the block chance reads 30% where it showed a placeholder, and the client now lists a 10 sec cooldown and a 240 Mana cost for that rank.

What isn't in it

Nothing in the talent trees changed since 70707. So the talent changes in Blizzard's launch development notes that our calculator doesn't show yet are still missing from the client files: they'll arrive as server-side changes at launch, or later. Our class pages and their talent calculators follow the client and will change as soon as they do.

Every change is listed on the datamine page. The earlier 70707 datamine covers the previous client.

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