Your first week in WoW Forever: levelling, dungeons, professions and camps
· ForeverDB
WoW Forever is live. Where to level, the first dungeons and their levels, getting professions going, camps, the Legacy System, and the dates still to come.
WoW Forever has been live since 23:00 UTC last night. This last article in our launch series is about the week ahead. Before it there were what to sort out before launch, how to choose your class and launch night. The whole journey to level 60 is open, with more than a thousand new quests across the old continents.
Levelling
- Our levelling route goes zone by zone for every race, and each class has its own levelling guide on the guides page.
- Dungeon quests give 50% less extra experience than they did early in the beta. Blizzard cut it in the level 30 build after feedback that testers were levelling too fast, so run dungeons for the gear and the fun, and quest for the experience.
- The quest pages show where each quest starts and ends, and the ForeverDB Companion shows them in game.
- The new zones come later on: the Riverglades has more than 150 new quests across the mid-30s to mid-40s. Mount Hyjal and Shen'dralas are new zones too.
The first dungeons
Forever adds nine five-player dungeons between levels 13 and 60. Four of them sit in the first 35 levels, next to the Classic dungeons you know:
| Dungeon | Levels | |
|---|---|---|
| Ragefire Chasm | 13–18 | Classic |
| The Hall of Thanes | 13–20 | New in Forever |
| Wailing Caverns | 15–24 | Classic |
| Ruins of Lordaeron | 15–22 | New in Forever |
| The Deadmines | 17–26 | Classic |
| Shadowfang Keep | 20–30 | Classic |
| Excavation Site: Wetlands | 26–33 | New in Forever |
| City of Dalaran | 28–35 | New in Forever |
Level ranges from ForeverDB's dungeon data. The other five new dungeons are The Drowned City and Krol'dok Stronghold in the Eastern Kingdoms, and Alcaz Prison, Blackmaw Hold and Shaper's Terrace in Kalimdor.
New to dungeons? Your first dungeon covers the roles and what to expect, and the group finder helps you fill a group.
Professions
Each character can learn two primary professions and all three secondary ones: Cooking, Fishing and First Aid. Trainers are in the starting areas and the cities, and a city guard will point you to one. A gathering profession that feeds a crafting one (Herbalism with Alchemy, Mining with Blacksmithing or Engineering, Skinning with Leatherworking) is the usual pairing, and two gathering professions is the usual way to make gold while you level. Both are habits from Classic, not Blizzard advice for Forever. Which professions to pick has every profession's recipe count, including the ones new in Forever.
Camps
A Cooking Basic Campfire turns into a shared camp. Nearby players can each add one profession-made Camp Feature, up to three per camp, and sitting or crafting there for at least a minute gives you their buffs. They don't stack with the matching class buffs. Every profession has a camp feature at skill 20, 140 and 300 in the client, all listed on our camping page.
The Legacy System
Legacy is Forever's account-wide progression, built on Legacy Challenges, Legacy Perks and Legacy Rewards. It rewards seeing more of the game rather than more power. It encourages alts of other classes and professions, but Blizzard says everything can be unlocked on one character. Collections and Legacy Points are shared across rulesets. Our Legacy page lists what's in the client.
PvP
Honor and Rank points come from battlegrounds, PvP quests, weekly seasonal tasks and other PvP activities, with extra on battleground holiday weeks. The new battleground is Darkspear Islands off Dustwallow Marsh: 15 against 15 for levels 30 to 60, with four capture points, a central flag and the first team to 2,000 points winning. Battlegrounds can mix rulesets, except Hardcore.
Coming up
- 9 December: the first raids open for level 60 players: Barrow Deeps (10 players), Hyjal Summit (20) and Onyxia's Lair (40, entered with the Drakefire Amulet).
- After launch: the Hardcore ruleset. Blizzard hasn't given a date.
We'll keep the site's data in step with the live game, and we'll post the results of the class poll once the votes settle. If you haven't voted yet, it's on our forum.
Sources
- Return to Azeroth in World of Warcraft: Forever (Blizzard)
- World of Warcraft: Forever Goes Live Globally November 4! (Blizzard)
- New Player's Starter Guide: Welcome to World of Warcraft: Forever (Blizzard)
- WoW Forever Beta Development Notes, October 1 build (Blizzard)
- World of Warcraft: Forever Raid Overview: Locations, Raid Sizes, and Attunement (Blizzard)
- Choose Your Ruleset in World of Warcraft: Forever (Blizzard)