Overview
- Blizzard deployed a live beta update that raises the World of Warcraft: Forever level cap to 30 and opens three dungeons, including a new Excavation Site in the Wetlands plus Razorfen Downs and Uldaman.
- The patch cuts extra experience from dungeon quests by 50 percent to slow fast dungeon‑based leveling and change how players progress through zones.
- Developers applied broad class balance changes, notably making Warriors generate 100% more Rage on critical strikes and removing a Cannibalize interaction that affected Undead Paladin self‑healing.
- The update also adds UI and quality‑of‑life tweaks such as new barbershops in Darnassus and Thunder Bluff, clearer camping tooltips, and campfire damage reductions, while listing multiple bug fixes and known issues.
- Blizzard says the staged, paid public beta will keep iterating on visuals, progression and server capacity as it prepares for the full PC launch on November 4.