ALLIANCE · NEW RACE
Skyborne (High Order)Forever's new race: Skyborne who pick the Alliance at character creation join the High Order, with its arcane legacy, and can be Mages. They start on Zephras Isle and require the Skyborne Heroic Pack or a higher edition.
Walk on Air
Instant · 90 sec cooldown. Glide downward through the air for 10 sec while controlling your direction of travel.
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Read Ley Line
2 sec cast, usable while moving · 2 min cooldown. Increases your Health and Mana regeneration by 50% for 15 sec (was 100%). Cannot be used while Innervate is active, which replaces it as the stronger effect. Using it at a ley line also grants "Attuned" for 1 hour: while Attuned, the regeneration increase is 100%. Attuned persists through death and is removed upon entering a raid. Change announced by Blizzard on October 27 for launch.
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Wind Blessed
Passive. Increases your spellcasting, melee, and ranged Haste by 2% (was 3%). Change announced by Blizzard on October 26 for launch.
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Elemental Insight
Passive. Damage dealt versus Elementals increased by 5%.
New in Forever
The Skyborne, also called shen'dorei ("hidden people"), are windswept elves descended from rebels who fled Eldre'Thalas after the War of the Ancients and found refuge in Skywall, where wind spirits anchored their island home, Zephras Isle, in the elemental plane. In Forever they face a crisis: their elemental benefactors have vanished, the pylons holding the isle together are failing, and the High Order, the Windshapers and the Al'Aketh vie for control.
What it was in Classic and what it is now, row by row.
| — | Classic | WoW Forever |
|---|---|---|
| In the game | ClassicDid not exist | WoW ForeverNew Forever race |
| Classes | Classic— | WoW Forever |
| Racials | Classic— | WoW Forever
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Classic data: wago.tools — SpellName and Spell from the Classic Era 1.15.9 client (patch 1.12)
WoW Forever is not free: it comes with your WoW subscription and the editions are optional: Heroic $29.99, Epic $59.99 and Collection $79.99. What each one includes, with images, and which one suits you.
On Zephras Isle, the Skyborne starting zone, a group of frogs on a rock waits for you to sing: a nod to the frog tenors of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. /sing and you get the Musical Gustjumper pet. Where it is, step by step.
How the mage plays in WoW Forever: what changes from Classic and what Blizzard explains, which spells you learn from 1 to 40, a level 30 talent build for each spec (and the 5 Talented points), priorities, stats, gear, races, consumables and macros. With the official client names.
What the October 15 WoW Forever beta update brings: weapon specializations gone for humans, dwarves and orcs, new racials for tauren, Skyborne and trolls, raid-wide buffs, Arcane Blast reworked, Frost Blast for mages, paladin Salvation, weaker hunter pet abilities and the Horde out of Dalaran.
Data from beta client 1.60.1.70685, updated 29 Oct 2026.
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