Forever beta verification hit list — 10 claims to check on Sep 17

By WoW Tracker Editorial · September 14, 2026

September 14, 2026 — The Forever beta opens Thursday, September 17 (level 20 cap, rising to 30). Our coverage carries a running set of flagged claims. This is the consolidated hit list — what to check first when the client is dataminable, in priority order.

Settle on day one

1. Onyxia's Lair date. September 12 roadmap transcription placed the raid on December 9. (September 24 primary-source check) Blizzard's September 23 official video says the 40-player raid is "available at launch," while the What's Next recap still says new raids unlock December 9. Keep both dated first-party claims until Blizzard clarifies the conflict.
2. Beta close: Oct 21 vs 22. Purchase terms say 21, roadmap graphic 22. In-client messaging or server broadcasts should resolve it.
3. Skyborne subtype names. Resolved Sep 22: Blizzard article 24304075 names Horde-aligned Windshapers and Alliance-aligned High Order officially.
4. Legacy perk ranks. All 17 perk effects and ranks (0/1 through 0/5) rest on captured pre-release tooltips. (September 13 pre-release read, superseded September 24.) Blizzard's September 23 official article names 21 perks across Professions, Adventure and Resourcefulness. Numeric rank curves remain beta-client reads until the UI confirms them.

Verify within the first week

5. Dungeon roster and entrances. Nine destinations are official; the Whelgar's-site dungeon is unnamed and Timbermaw Hold rests on Inven reporting. Zone maps and dungeon entrances settle both.
6. Spearing Strike. Warrior anti-mount talent known only from Xaryu's creator footage (40% weapon damage, dismount, 15 Rage/20s). Talent calculators and tooltips confirm or kill it.
7. Heroic $29.99. Storefront reporting (Icy Veins), never Blizzard-quoted; the live shop either prints it or doesn't.
8. Racial leftovers. Dwarf/Undead entries are now official; remaining question is which Classic-only racials (Command, Diplomacy, weapon specs) survived. Creation screens answer it.
9. Forsaken Paladin mount. "Retribution" mount quest is Found Photos-recap official; the mount model itself (Icy-Veins first look) wants in-client confirmation.

Lower priority (beta can't fully answer)

10. Spring/Summer 2027 fine print. Roadmap-graphic transcription only; beta contains launch content, not 2027 plans. This one waits on Blizzard, not datamining.

Round 1 resolves (Sep 17)

The beta client is out and the first datamine pass is done — round-one datamine. Two items moved:

• Item 5 (dungeon roster) — mostly resolved. All nine announced destinations check out in the data. The Whelgar's-site dungeon has a working name — "Excavation Site" (24–29, "above Whelgar's Excavation", Wetlands, per classicwowforever) — and Inven's furbolg-city dungeon maps to Blackmaw Hold (Azshara), not a Timbermaw Hold dungeon. Entrances still want in-game confirmation.
• Item 4 (Legacy perk ranks) - superseded by official structure (Sep 24). The beta spell census counts 10 "Legacy Perks & Boons" spells in the build, confirming Legacy spells exist in the files, but the 17 perk effects and their ranks (0/1-0/5) still wait on the in-game Legacy UI. Blizzard's September 23 article now names 21 perks, seven per tree, and confirms the three-tree structure. The beta spell census remains useful for implementation checks, not for counting the official launch perks.
• Item 4 count note (updated Sep 24). The old 17-versus-19-versus-27 discrepancy is no longer an open structure question. The official article resolves the named launch structure at 21 perks. Full numeric rank values, tree gates and connector layout remain beta-client reads until the in-game UI confirms them.

Still open: 1 - Onyxia's date now has two first-party claims: the September 23 official video says "available at launch," while the September 12 What's Next recap says new raids unlock December 9. Do not silently select either date; 2 - beta close Oct 21 vs 22 (Blizzard's forum launch post also reads Oct 21, and talentsforever's beta-client page says the beta runs until 21 October: five voices for 21 against the roadmap graphic and Tavern's 22; still no in-client message); 6 - Spearing Strike; 7 - Heroic $29.99 storefront price; 9 - the Forsaken Paladin mount model (possibly among the roughly 3,300 sealed files); 10 - 2027 fine print. Item 3 is resolved by Blizzard's official race article; item 4 is resolved in Round 7 below.

Round 2 resolves (wowforeverclassic crawl, Sep 17)

A full crawl of wowforeverclassic.com (its confidence grades: Official/Verified/Reported/Unconfirmed) corroborates round one and moves two items:

• Item 5 (dungeon roster) — name variance documented. wowforeverclassic reads the Whelgar's-site dungeon as "Whelgar's Excavation" (24–29, a Titan site "trapped in time"); classicwowforever's beta data calls it "Excavation Site" (24–29, "above Whelgar's Excavation"). Same band and location, different working name — Blizzard names only the site, not the dungeon. No outlet discloses boss lists or Blueprint drops for the nine.
• Item 4 (Legacy structure) - official article supersedes the old count. wowforeverclassic reads the same 16-point spend and 65-point earnable caps, the Spectral Bear collection track, and names 10 perks (Field Medicine shortens Recently Bandaged). Exact effects and ranks (17 perks, 0/1-0/5 per classicwowforever) still wait on the in-game Legacy UI. Blizzard's September 23 article confirms 65 Challenges, 21 named perks, 16 spendable points per character, up to 29 points on one character, and four launch rewards. Numeric rank values remain beta-read data.

New open items:

• Alcaz Prison's 48–53 bracket is reported-only. wowforeverclassic grades it "reported"; no Blizzard source pins the range — the nine-dungeon list is official, this one is not.
• Krol'dok note. wowforeverclassic's table still shows pre-correction 40–55 (flagged 35–40 conflict) despite its September 17 check date; our 40–45 stands on Blizzard's forum clarification — treat that table cell as stale, not the whole page.

Round 3 resolves (wowforeverclassic /racials table, Sep 17)

• Item 8 (racial leftovers) — resolved on structure. The 40-racial table (17 new, 15 changed, each graded with sources) lists Command and Diplomacy in no race's set: dropped. The Classic weapon-skill specializations became crit-based (Sword +2%, Axe +1%, Mace +1% spell-and-ability crit). Per-race hub bullets and grades stand.
• Item 7 (Heroic $29.99) — corroborated, not official. wowforeverclassic (reported) reads Heroic $30 / Epic $60 / Collection about $80 ($79.99); the hub keeps the storefront figures and Blizzard's silence on printed prices.

New open: one report (wowforeverclassic, reported) counts Epic at 2 Invite-A-Friend codes vs Blizzard's official 3 — flagged on the hub.

Round 4 notes (three-site crawl, Sep 19)

Full pass over classicwowforever.com/updates, wowforeverclassic.com and warcrafttavern.com/news. No hit-list moves:

• Item 2 (beta close) stays open, split now mapped. wowforeverclassic's homepage timeline reads beta ends Oct 21, matching the purchase terms; the roadmap graphic and Tavern's beta guide read 22. Two sources each way, still no in-client message to break it.
• Item 1 (Onyxia Dec 9) stays reported-only. wowforeverclassic's timeline repeats Dec 9 for Barrow Deeps, Hyjal Summit and Onyxia's Lair 40-player, all sourced to the roadmap slide. Corroboration of the transcription, not new confirmation.
• Cap 20 rising to 30 now has a second independent read (wowforeverclassic homepage: "capped at level 20 and rising to 30 after a couple of weeks"). Still pre-release until the cap actually moves.
• Player workarounds (crash lighting toggle, VPN lag fix, contested addon carryover) are new coverage, not hit-list items: player workarounds. Systems detail (Familiar Faces, reagent bag, bank size, profession patterns): systems roundup.
• Item 2 update (Sep 19): classicwowforever's beta guide reads beta ends Oct 21, making it three sources for 21 (purchase terms, wowforeverclassic timeline, classicwowforever) against two for 22 (roadmap graphic, Tavern guide). Still no in-client message, so still open.
• New watch item: Server Slam open window. Blizzard's beta-live post confirms a Server Slam opening the beta to everyone for several hours later in the test, date TBD (via wowforeverclassic's beta guide). Official, awaiting a date.
• New watch item: teased Legendary. wowforeverclassic reports Blizzard teased a new Legendary with identity and raid link unrevealed (single report). No detail to verify against yet.
• New watch item: bank size conflict. Beta-reported 48-slot bank (classicwowforever Sep-22 series) vs Aggrend's ~96-slot estimate (MMORPG.com interview). Genuine pre-release number conflict, both sourced.
• New watch item: Tarnished Undermine Reals. Named as unknown in classicwowforever's GDKP-economy piece (Sep-22). Single mention, no detail.

Round 5 resolves (Blizzard official racials, Sep 22)

Blizzard article 24304075 (via Icy Veins, first-party copy throughout) closes three items at once:

• Item 3 (Skyborne subtype names) — resolved official. "Horde-aligned Windshapers" and "Alliance-aligned High Order Skyborne" in Blizzard's own text, with backstories (Windshapers as shen'dorei elemental seekers; High Order as Eldre'Thalas scholars seeking self-reliance). Fan transcription no more.
• Gnome Engineering conflict — resolved for reliability. Official: "More reliable engineering devices" (not +10 skill).
• NE Quickness conflict — resolved 1%/2%. Official: "1% increased Dodge chance and 2% increased run speed" (not 2%/2%).
• Corroboration sweep. The official tables match the hub's verified entries throughout: Shatter Curse, Touch of the Grave, Cultivation, Plainsrunning, Eureka!, Big Game Hunter, Rapid Regeneration at 50%, full 6-combo matrix plus both Skyborne splits. No contradictions found.

Round 6 notes (beta build + mount catalog, Sep 23)

• Item 9 (Forsaken mount) — name resolved, model still open. Tavern's pre-beta datamine (Luxrah, Sep 16) lists the spell string "Summon Forsaken Charger": the mount's name is now a file read. The model itself stays open, possibly among the sealed files. Full catalog in the mount post.
• Item 2 (beta close) update. wowforeverclassic's timeline now cites Blizzard's official What's Next recap for the Oct 21 close: six voices for 21 (purchase terms, forum launch post, talentsforever, classicwowforever, wowforeverclassic timeline, official recap) against two for 22 (roadmap graphic, Tavern guide). Still no in-client message, so still open.
• Legacy data note (Sep 23, updated Sep 24). The beta client exposes full rank curves for all 21 perks via Wowhead's Legacy calculator, cross-checked on classicwowforever. Blizzard's September 23 official article now confirms the 21-perk structure; every rank-1 value still matches our beta reads, and the only moved value is Talented, whose max rank starts talents at level 5 (ranks 9/8/7/6/5) rather than level 9. Hub and Legacy guide updated, no other structural conflicts.
• Build watch. Blizzard shipped beta build 69977 (Mac fixes, controller char-select repair) plus an "A Firm Response" hotfix unblocking Windshaper Skyborne: roundup. Memory-leak acknowledgment still missing. Update September 25: the next official development-notes post lists a memory-leak fix, along with broad class tuning, Campfire changes, a limited Cooldown Manager, and gamepad updates.

Round 7 resolves (official Legacy article, Sep 23)

Blizzard's first-party Legacy article closes the old structure discrepancy and creates one smaller verification task:

• Item 4 count and caps - resolved official. The article names 21 perks, seven in each of Professions, Adventure and Resourcefulness; confirms 65 Challenges, 16 points spendable per character, up to 29 points on one character, level-25 access for most players, and four launch rewards.
• Old values retained. The September 13 pre-release claims of 17 perks and Talented at level 9 remain struck through above. The official article says Talented unlocks talent points up to five levels earlier than normal; the beta rank curve reads levels 9, 8, 7, 6 and 5.
• Remaining beta check. Numeric rank values, tree gates, connector layout and reward thresholds still come from beta-client reads. The official article confirms names, structure and broad effects, not every rank number.
• Camping remains separate. The article does not add a new Camping ruleset. Existing Deep Dive and beta coverage remains the source for camp objects, profession contributions and buff interactions.

Round 8 resolves (official explainer video, Sep 24)

Blizzard's September 23 official video adds a primary-source claim that changes how the Onyxia item should be graded:

• Item 1 (Onyxia date) - launch wording verified, date conflict open. At 00:03:54 the video says, "The 40-player raid, Onyxia's Lair, is available at launch." The official September 12 What's Next recap still says new raids unlock on December 9. The old December 9-only transcription is struck through above; both first-party claims remain visible.
• Official video context. The video says most raids are designed for 10 or 20 players, with more 10- and 20-player experiences arriving through content updates. It gives no Server Slam date or level-cap activation date.
• No new Server Slam or cap evidence. The official news index, Blue Posts surfaces, and current beta references still do not provide either date.

Round 9 resolves (official development notes, Sep 24)

Blizzard's Kaivax posted a full first-party development-notes update for the next beta build. It changes the status of several previously open beta observations:

• Memory leak claim - now officially acknowledged and fixed in the notes. The September 20 player report behind hour-long FPS decay is no longer an unacknowledged lead. Retest results can still vary by hardware and client state.
• Cooldown Manager - limited implementation confirmed. It is available for Druid, Mage, Priest, Warrior, and Warlock, disabled by default under Gameplay Enhancement. Spell-rank support, pet cooldowns, and item enhancements remain incomplete.
• Campfire restrictions eased. Players can buff each other, cast, and craft while waiting for the Campfire buff, and can obtain it while sitting, sleeping, lying down, or kneeling.
• Gamepad support expanded. Class-specific flyouts, Compact Action Bar, party-targeting controls, and new gamepad options are now in testing. This is an active beta feature, not a launch-completeness guarantee.
• Class tuning is moving. Highlights include Druid Wrath base damage up about 50 percent, Feral Mangle renamed Primal Bite, Hunter Furious Howl Attack Power bonus reduced 40 percent, Paladin Holy Strike cooldown and rank changes, and early Shaman and Warrior changes. Treat all values as beta-build data until launch.

The notes still do not provide a Server Slam date, level-30 activation date, or a new Onyxia resolution. The date conflict and other open claims remain tracked above.

Round 10 resolves (notes read item by item, Sep 26)

Re-reading Kaivax's September 24 notes line by line against the hub turned up three hub values that were already stale, plus one new open item.

• Gnome Eureka! - superseded. The notes change Eureka on every class to a 10% discount on Mana, Rage or Energy abilities. The September 22 read ("next 3 spells or abilities cost less and deal 10% more damage or healing") and the class-scaled percentages are struck through on the hub. Official and current.
• Undead Touch of the Grave - narrowed. It no longer breaks crowd control and no longer activates from spells and abilities with no damage component. Shadow Word: Pain procs it on cast but not on periodic damage; Distract, Pick Pocket and Polymorph cannot activate it. Official and current.
• Tauren Cultivation - gated. Every herb now requires a character level equal to one fifth of that herb's Herbalism requirement, and herbs needing more than 300 Herbalism unlock at level 60. Official and current.
• Items - two caster corrections. Wizard Oils revert to Classic Era values (Minor 8 spell power, Lesser 16, Wizard 24, Brilliant unchanged) and wands no longer gain damage from the user's spell damage.
• New open item: the auto-shot and wand cast bug. Kaivax confirmed on September 23 that the 0.5-second cast before a Hunter auto-shot or wand use is not functioning, and the September 24 notes do not fix it. Tracked in its own post.
• Client-file reads, not official. Community talent trackers report Crusade missing from the Retribution tree in this build, and the build's talent tables still show Bastion and Focused Rage in their pre-swap rows even though the notes say they swapped. Both stay reported until an in-game tooltip or a notes line confirms them.
• Still open after this pass. Server Slam date, level-30 activation date, the Onyxia launch-versus-December-9 conflict, the beta close-date split, Spearing Strike, the Heroic price, the Forsaken mount model, the Legendary questline and the 2027 fine print.

Round 11 partial (Windows Central developer interview, Sep 22)

A first-party interview with lead game designer Tim Jones and lead software engineer Nora Valleta moved three items and opened none.

• Class viability, upgraded from paraphrase to direct quote. Jones: "Every single one of our 27 talent trees is now viable for all content in WoW: Forever," with the qualifier that they are not equal and none so strong a raid would stack them. Valleta names Retribution Paladin as raid-viable via seal twisting. This is a design-intent statement, not a balance verification, so beta values still govern every number.
• Raid structure, third independent statement. "We're going to consistently deliver new 10 and 20 player content every patch. Onyxia will be our 40 man raid." The cadence matches the Kotaku and September 17 Q&A versions.
• Onyxia date, narrowed but still open. "Onyxia will be our 40 man raid" carries no date. Four signals now lean launch and the December 9 recap still stands. No first-party source names a date, so the conflict is unchanged.
• New open item: the Timbermaw Hold naming. Jones asked the reporter "What was that weird gate in Azshara all that time, for example? That's now Timbermaw Hold, right?" The beta data and Blizzard's dungeon list read the same location as Blackmaw Hold. A developer naming it does not settle it, because the sentence is a question and no official list has been published. Both names stay visible on the hub.
• New watch item, not a commitment: sub-60 zones after launch. "We might add an update where we put in a new zone designed not for level 60, but for level 27 to 32 for example, with a new dungeon." Direction, not schedule.
• Recorded, not scheduled: player housing. Jones would like to bring Player Housing into the Classic world and sees Camping as the likely retail-to-Classic bridge. Retail's Midnight housing system is not on the Forever roadmap.
• Unchanged. Server Slam date, level-30 activation date, beta close-date split, Spearing Strike, Heroic price, Forsaken mount model, Legendary questline, 2027 fine print.

Round 12 (fan-reference audit, Sep 27)

A source audit rather than a new source. Three Forever fan sites were re-read in full and graded against each other and against us. This round changes our confidence in four items, closes two, and narrows two. It also exposes a gap on our side, recorded at the end.

Closed, both sites now agree

• Tauren Cultivation level gate - closed against classicwowforever. It now reads "needs a character level of a fifth of its Herbalism requirement", which matches the September 24 notes. wowforeverclassic still describes the old "bonus herb nodes" behaviour and does not carry the gate, so the dispute is now one-sided.
• Crusade removed from Retribution - closed against classicwowforever. Its talent data carries the change note verbatim, including "renamed Mangle to Primal Bite and Primal Fury to Blood Frenzy", and Blood Frenzy is annotated "Renamed from Primal Fury, back to its Classic name". The September 25 client-read item is confirmed.

Still disputed, and now narrowed by name

• Gnome Eureka! - both fan sites stale, neither has applied build 70009. classicwowforever still reads "cost 10% less Mana, Rage or Energy" and wowforeverclassic reads "cost less and deal 10% more damage or healing", neither with the 10% damage addition. Notably classicwowforever's own homepage advertises "a flat Eureka! discount" as a headline 70009 change, so it knows the value moved and has not applied it. Our corrected value stands: a 10% Mana, Rage or Energy discount plus 10% damage, covering healing for Priests.
• Undead Touch of the Grave - both fan sites lack the corrected interaction. classicwowforever still omits any crowd-control clause; wowforeverclassic reads "5% chance to drain health ... up to 5% of your maximum health" with no class breakdown and no CC note. Our narrowed value stands: does not break crowd control, does not activate from spells with no damage component, Shadow Word: Pain procs on cast but not on periodic damage, and Distract, Pick Pocket and Polymorph cannot activate it.
• Two sites converging on the same two wrong values is itself the finding. They update on different days and track different things, so the shared values most likely come from an early common read of pre-70009 data rather than a shared current source. On datamined combat values we are currently the only up-to-date source of the three.

Source currency, dated

wow-forever.top is a new source. 242 pages, a large database and tool layer, and an explicit policy of "separate official Blizzard information, panel reporting and beta-unverified data". It resolves the raid question the same way the recap does and has nothing on Onyxia anywhere, which is why that conflict is unchanged.

• Beta close date - third read of the same roadmap, still one-sided. All three sites say October 21 and none acknowledges the October 22 variant in the roadmap graphic. Our split stays open, now with three independent reads of the purchase terms against one graphic.
• December 9 raid unlock - corroborated, and Onyxia untouched. wow-forever.top states "Blizzard officially confirms the first new raid unlock date for December 9" and names Hyjal Summit and Barrow Deeps as the two launch raids. Onyxia appears on none of its roadmap, summary or FAQ pages. The Dec 9 reading is stronger for the two named raids; the Onyxia conflict is exactly as open as before.
• Server Slam - no coverage anywhere. Zero mentions across six pages on each of the three sites. Still genuinely unannounced.
• Level-30 activation - unchanged. wowforeverclassic still dates the "rise to level 30 after a couple of weeks" claim to a September 15 developer interview. No date on any of the three.

Gap on our side, recorded

• We do not publish a grading scale. wowforeverclassic documents an A-to-D confidence scale where a position is Reported from one tester and Verified once two agree, and disagreements wait for review. wow-forever.top uses a three-tier split of official, panel and datamined. Both are legible to a reader who has not read ten of our posts. Ours is more rigorous but it is only visible in our prose. This is now an open item for the site rather than for the beta.

Round 13 (launch timezone resolved, Sep 28)

A fan source flagged a discrepancy we had never checked, and the investigation stopped a wrong correction.

• The flag: wowforevertalent.com, September 27: "The announcement writes PDT; the What's Next recap writes PST." No other fan source we track had noticed, and we had been printing PST without ever recording that the primary announcement says otherwise.
• First-party check: Blizzard's launch announcement, verbatim: "World of Warcraft: Forever launches November 4 at 3:00 p.m. PDT globally, with beta beginning Thursday, September 17." So the announcement does say PDT. The recap says PST.
• Resolved, and our value was right. US Pacific daylight time 2026 runs March 8 to November 1. Launch is November 4, three days after DST ends, so Pacific is on PST that day. 3:00 p.m. PST is 23:00 UTC; 3:00 p.m. PDT would be 22:00 UTC, an hour early. Our hub, our launch checklist and the countdown (2026-11-04T23:00:00Z) all already said PST and 23:00 UTC.
• What changed: a note, not a number. The hub now carries the announcement's PDT wording struck through with the DST reasoning, so a reader who reads the announcement and arrives here does not think we got it wrong.
• Why this is worth recording: the obvious action here was to "correct" PST to PDT to match the primary source. That would have moved the launch an hour earlier and made our content wrong on the only fact every reader needs on November 4. A source disagreeing with us is a reason to check the arithmetic, not a reason to defer.

Also closed this round

• The Oct 21 versus Oct 22 beta-close split is now acknowledged by a fan source too. classicwowforever.com's key-dates box reads "21 Oct Beta ends (roadmap: 22 Oct)" as of September 26, and states "The exact closing time isn't clear yet." We are not the only readers seeing the conflict, which is corroboration of the observation rather than a resolution. It stays open.

• A new official-attributed line on the beta end: wowforevertalent.com, September 27, citing the official now-live note: "21 October is the last full test day; the Server Slam window is still to be announced." That pins the shape of the final beta day without dating the Slam, and matches our "Server Slam date" open item.

• The countdown is now sourced. classicwowforever.com's key-dates block adds "9 Dec First raids unlock" and "Winter 2026-27 Hardcore planned" alongside the launch, which is the same set we already carry.

• New build 1.60.1.70058 landed on 29 September at 02:26 UTC, up from 70009, on the wowdev2 track with sequence 4045381 preceded by a same-build re-push at 4045250. Our CDN watcher has it; none of the three fan references has published notes. Everything in this round that reads "70009" describes a build that is no longer the one in the test. The auto-shot and wand cast bug is the most testable open item, because Kaivax promised a fix for a future build and this is that build.

Still open after this pass

Server Slam date, Onyxia launch-versus-December-9, the beta close-date split, Spearing Strike, Heroic price, Forsaken mount model, Legendary questline, 2027 fine print. The auto-shot and wand cast bug: wow-forever.top's Sep 26 build page still lists the Cooldown Manager as five classes and does not mention a fix, so it remains unconfirmed either way.

Round 14 (podcast ep 3 + Kaivax beta notes, Oct 8-9)

Two sources moved five items. Blizzard's Forever Podcast episode 3 (dungeons) via Tavern's timestamped reporting, and Kaivax development notes mirrored by a status monitor, both read October 9 2026.

• Timbermaw vs Blackmaw naming: RESOLVED. Podcast ep 3 names the Azshara dungeon Blackmaw Hold, located at the unused Timbermaw Hold entrance, bigger than Blackrock Depths, vertical and non-linear, corrupted furbolgs and demons, comfortable at 60, NOT available during beta. Jones's question is settled by a direct statement: the dungeon is Blackmaw Hold, the gate was Timbermaw's. Discussion at 39:07.
• Onyxia attunement: new information, date still open. The lengthy Classic attunement chain stays and is NOT account-wide at launch; Barrow Deeps and Hyjal Summit have no attunement chains but get unspecified extra steps for the full experience. Discussion at 53:33. This constrains the launch-vs-December-9 conflict without resolving it: an attunement players must complete argues for launch-day relevance.
• City of Dalaran dungeon live in beta with 16 free Legacy points for testing, per Kaivax notes after extended maintenance. A level-30 dungeon west of the Alterac Mountains with a secret summon boss (Lyn the Ignored) via the Tome of Dalaran from Shadowfang Keep.
• Dungeon XP up ~20%, Classic looting behavior restored, weapon swapping within one GCD fixed, party-level XP penalty bug fixed.
• Tome of Dalaran mystery resolved by the community: Black Tome behind Arugal, transformed at the Ambermill Leyline Focus, summons Lyn the Ignored past Atrexis the Grave Knight. Community discovery, not a Blizzard announcement.

Still open after this pass

Server Slam date, Onyxia launch-versus-December-9, the beta close-date split, Spearing Strike, Heroic price, Forsaken mount model, Legendary questline, 2027 fine print, auto-shot and wand cast bug.

How we'll work it

As each item resolves, the Forever hub updates same-day and flags come off. Anything the beta contradicts gets corrected with the old claim struck through, not silently rewritten.

Related: Deep Dive + Found Photos recap, Q&A questions we're asking Sep 17, Q&A answers Sep 17, day-one known issues, round-one datamine.