What the beta client says about hammerdance's 10 hidden WoW Forever features

2026-10-20 · ForeverDB

Community creator hammerdance walks through twelve quality-of-life features in the WoW Forever beta (the video's title says ten), from situational transmog to mouseover casting and a 40-slot quest log. Most are options the beta client (build 1.60.1.70450) names in its own interface; a few are numbers or behaviours only a player can show in game.

This is a community video by hammerdance, not a Blizzard announcement, so everything here is their finding. We checked each claim against the WoW Forever beta client (build 1.60.1.70450) and the site's data. Beta data can change before launch.

hammerdance says they have put over 150 hours into the beta and only found some of these features a couple of days ago. Most of the ten are interface options, and the client's menus name nearly all of them, which confirms they exist. For a handful of numbers and behaviours the client text doesn't spell out, we only have hammerdance's in-game observation for now.

The short version

• Most of it is backed by the client's own options: transmog, a "View Talents" option, an "Equipment Manager", a "Secondary Name" toggle, "Chat Style" (IM against Classic), "Status Text", and "Always Show Buttons" in Edit Mode.
• For situational transmog, the client lets you change your own look with transmog turned off, which Blizzard's BlizzCon Deep Dive also said. hammerdance shows outfits that swap on their own by weather, time of day and place. That automatic switching is their finding; our client text doesn't lay it out.
• Mouseover casting is in the client: hold a modifier key and your spell lands on whoever your cursor is over, no target needed. hammerdance shows it with a druid's Regrowth.
• We can't confirm the 40-quest log (up from 20) from the client yet, but crafting while you sit at a campfire is intended: the client's campfire kits say crafting nearby counts.
• hammerdance says feral combat is a weapon skill that starts at 0 at level 10. The client has a "Weapon Skill" rating, but the 0-to-50 detail is their in-game observation.

Claim by claim

Twelve features from a video titled "10 Things". Levels and spell numbers are from the client; the quest-log and feral numbers are hammerdance's.

The interface options

Transmog that changes itself

hammerdance says there is "situational transmog" in the game: at a transmogrifier you can set an outfit to appear on its own in rain, snow, sand or clear weather, at a time of day such as morning or night, while mounted or swimming, or in a place like a battleground. Their example is a hood that appears when it starts raining. The client does have a transmog system, and Blizzard's BlizzCon Deep Dive already said you can keep transmog off for other players yet still change your own character's look. Our interface text names the transmog option but not the per-situation switches, so treat the automatic weather and time swapping as hammerdance's finding until a beta player or the client's options confirm the rules.

See anyone's talents, and link map pins

The client has a "View Talents" option, which matches what hammerdance shows: right-click a player you have inspected, or a party member's portrait, and you can read their exact talent build from anywhere. They also show map pins: hold Ctrl and left-click in a zone like Wetlands to drop a pin, then shift-click the pin to drop it into chat as a link others can click to ping the spot. The client has map pins and chat; the exact keybinds are hammerdance's demonstration, not something our data lists.

Gear sets, names, whispers and bars

• Gear sets are built in: the client has an "Equipment Manager" and a "New Set" button. hammerdance makes a PvP set and a casual set and swaps them with one click, no addon needed.
• hammerdance says characters carry two names and you can hide the second on your own screen with the client's "Secondary Name" option. That others still see both is a behaviour our text does not state.
• For classic whispers, "Chat Style" offers "IM Style" and "Classic Style", and there is a "New Whispers" setting as well. Switching to classic and setting whispers inline puts them back in the chat box instead of a pop-up window.
• The client's "Status Text" option, with "Numeric Value" and "Health Value", lets you show health and mana as numbers, a percentage or both on your unit frames.
• To hide empty slots, hammerdance right-clicks a bar and unchecks "Always Show Buttons", which sits in "Edit Mode", using Hunter's Mark and Concussive Shot as the example buttons.

For casters and druids

Mouseover casting

hammerdance turns on the client's Mouseover Cast option and picks a modifier key (they use control); after that a heal lands on whoever is under the cursor without a target. They show it with a druid's Regrowth, learned from the trainer at level 12, and with Rejuvenation. It skips the targeting step, which helps healers and anyone who dispels or buffs. See the Druid page and the Balance Druid simulator.

Feral combat as a weapon skill

hammerdance says a druid's feral combat, the attacks you use in Bear Form (a quest reward at level 10), counts as a "weapon skill" that starts at 0 and caps at 50 at level 10, so you have to auto-attack to raise it before your hits land well. The client backs the skill itself: it has a "Weapon Skill" rating and a Druid-only "Feral Combat" skill listed with the weapon skills, separate from the Feral Combat talent tree. In Forever, Bear Form's tooltip only changed its wording, not its numbers. Neither the 0-to-50 figure nor the raising mechanic is in the client text, so the starting value and cap are hammerdance's in-game observation. See Druid changes in the client, the Druid talent calculator and the Feral Combat Druid simulator.

The 40-quest log and campfire crafting

hammerdance says you now have a "40 quest log", double the old 20, and that you can craft while you sit at a campfire for its buffs, though they are not sure whether that last one is intended. The client has a Quest Log, but the 40 limit is a number our data does not carry, so that one needs a check in game. As for the campfire, the kits in the client say "Players sitting or crafting nearby for 1 min will gain benefits from other camp features", so crafting by the fire is meant to work. More on camps: Camp features.

What the level cap leaves out

The beta's level cap is 30, so a druid's higher feral ranks and the places some of these outfits key off, such as raids and higher battlegrounds, could only be tested in part during the beta.

Sources

• 10 Things You DIDN'T KNOW Existed in WoW Forever (hammerdance, YouTube)
• Druid: changes from Classic Era (ForeverDB, from the client)
• Hunter: changes from Classic Era (ForeverDB, from the client)
• Deep Dive recap: opt-in transmog and more (ForeverDB)