{"id":1447,"date":"2026-10-23T00:00:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2026-10-23T00:00:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T00:00:35","slug":"wow-forever-is-keeping-its-secrets-close-to-the-chest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/?p=1447","title":{"rendered":"WoW: Forever Is Keeping Its Secrets Close To The Chest"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/games\/world-of-warcraft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">World of Warcraft: Forever<\/a> players may have searched its beta with a fine-toothed comb, but Blizzard said there are still plenty of secrets waiting to be found come launch and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uOlxa3xvNq4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WoW: Forever Podcast<\/a> dedicated to the end of the beta, Blizzard made clear it&#8217;s keeping many of the game&#8217;s surprises close to its chest. Senior game designer Josh Greenfield said Blizzard had disabled some items and secrets for the beta. He gave an example of a new torch item that was originally turned off for the beta&#8217;s first week, but later enabled to test out Forever&#8217;s new lighting and fog tech. He said players can expect more of those types of surprises.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;There&#8217;s definitely some secrets and stuff that we had turned off,&#8221; Greenfield said when asked about still to be discovered secrets in the level 1-30 zones. &#8220;There&#8217;s going to be things to discover that we didn&#8217;t surface, suffice to say that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"End of Beta Special ft. @Meeix | Episode 5 - The WoW: Forever Podcast\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uOlxa3xvNq4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Forever&#8217;s beta had a maximum level of 30, meaning there is still a huge chunk of the game, including new zones, quests, dungeons, and raids, players haven&#8217;t fully explored yet. When asked about items like a newly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/classicwow\/comments\/1wmw0c0\/is_battle_mage_happening_look_at_this_weapon\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discovered sword<\/a> in the beta that could potentially enable new playstyles, like a melee-focused &#8220;Battle Mage&#8221;, Greenfield opted not to elaborate further.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It&#8217;s hard to talk about secret stuff,&#8221; Greenfield said. &#8220;It&#8217;s secret, right? We want people to find it. There&#8217;s some really, really, really cool, and really, really, really well-buried stuff out there that&#8217;s probably going to take people a long time to find. If we tip our hats to it too much, it&#8217;s just going to take the fun away.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unlike in past WoW releases, most of the items on Forever&#8217;s beta were hidden from dataminers using a new system that hides an item&#8217;s name and stats until it&#8217;s discovered by the community. At the start of the beta, over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/wow-forever-is-keeping-more-than-12500-items-secret\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">12,500 items were kept hidden<\/a>. As a result, players don&#8217;t know what items drop from dungeon bosses or what some of the best quest rewards are. The game is still a mystery, something Greenfield said is cool to experience &#8220;organically&#8221; for those who know WoW Classic like the back of their hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blizzard did give some more concrete teases towards the end of the podcast. Lead encounter designer Michael Nuthals said Blizzard is already laying the groundwork for Forever&#8217;s future, and as such players may find examples of places that could be future dungeons already in the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;There might be some homes, some manors, out there that folks have found that might be something interesting in the future,&#8221; Nuthals said, seemingly referencing the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/wow\/comments\/1wk1fe1\/wow_forevers_manor_mismantle_cinema\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Manor Mistmantle<\/a> in the game&#8217;s Duskwood zone. &#8220;You might have seen some instance portals hiding in some inconspicuous spots. There are some things coming in the future and we&#8217;re really excited to share those as we get there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A roadmap released during BlizzCon 2026 shows Blizzard is planning to release new dungeons and raids for Forever next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">WoW: Forever launches November 4. In other Forever news, Blizzard announced a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/wow-forever-is-getting-a-new-server-option-by-popular-demand\/?_thumbnail_id=1929917\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new server ruleset<\/a> that will make PvP players happy. As for where Forever will take players in the future, Blizzard said in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/how-wow-forever-is-pushing-the-envelope-and-what-comes-after-launch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> with GameSpot that while the team is committed to staying on Azeroth, it&#8217;s open to exploring places players may have already seen before in other WoW expansions. Meanwhile, a leaked survey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/alleged-wow-forever-survey-teases-11-new-classes-including-some-deep-cuts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed 11 new classes<\/a> that could potentially come to Blizzard&#8217;s old-school MMO.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World of Warcraft: Forever players may have searched its beta with a fine-toothed comb, but Blizzard said there are still plenty of secrets waiting to be found come launch and beyond. In a new WoW: Forever Podcast dedicated to the end of the beta, Blizzard made clear it&#8217;s keeping many of the game&#8217;s surprises close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-news"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aimoneylab.ai\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}