World of Warcraft: Forever has been live since November 4, 2026 at 3:00 p.m. PST (23:00 UTC). This is the first-weekend record: what Blizzard changed, what it still lists as broken, what is timed, and what players have actually finished. Blizzard's statements and ForeverDB's client comparison stay separate below, because they are not the same kind of evidence.
The live track moved twice
The player-facing wowf track carried 1.60.1.70790 on launch day, 1.60.1.70840 on November 6 at 23:22 UTC, and 1.60.1.70862 on November 7 at 04:43 UTC. The beta track stayed on 1.60.1.70532 and the dev track on 1.60.1.70707, which is why a "latest build" line that reads the beta branch has been wrong since launch. Our CDN panel now leads with the live track.
ForeverDB has published a comparison of 70862 against 70790. It is a client data diff, not a Blizzard patch note, and it should be read as one: 3 class abilities changed, 1 talent changed, 24 spell rows (1 added, 23 changed), 621 item rows (147 added, 474 changed), and 1 armor set changed. The item count is the loud part. ForeverDB also lists specifics including Bear Form's tooltip health reading 20 instead of 180, Ravage flat damage cut on all four ranks, Shank gaining Rank 2 at level 44, Gore Drinker listing Reckless Swings, six new epics, Krol'dok Battlegear filled in, and four flask recipes moved to Rare.
We do not have a published ForeverDB comparison for 70840, so we are not describing what changed in that build. Blizzard has not published notes keyed to either build.
Blizzard's November 6 hotfixes
Blizzard's November 6 hotfix pass fixed Druid, Mage, Rogue, Warlock and Warrior abilities, dungeon and quest bugs, and several world issues. A November 7 hotfix on build 70862 added nine more epics and a long list of rares without shipping a new client. Corrected November 9: no such first-party post exists. The November 6 article was published on November 7 and contains only November 6 and November 5 sections. The next Forever hotfix post is the November 8 dungeon kill experience increase. The item changes visible in the client data belong to ForeverDB's 70862 against 70790 comparison above, not to a Blizzard note. The November 6 pass is the substantive class and world change of the week, and the larger announced class tuning is dated November 10.
Tuning dated for November 10
Per Kaivax's post, the next tuning pass brings Hunter pets and Voidwalkers to Classic Era durability, adjusts Affliction's Wracks against other damage over time effects without changing total output, and moves Enhancement Shaman toward Strength over Intellect and spellpower. Those are statements about the next build, not changes already live.
The current Known Issues list
The thread is titled Known Issues - WoW Forever - Updated Nov. 5 and its first post was last edited on November 5 at 22:07 UTC. It lists the Razorfen Kraul cauldron, an error when deleting more than one rare or epic item, the push-to-talk prompt, PvP vendors unavailable in Orgrimmar, Stormwind and Dalaran, Stormwind guards misdirecting players to Fyrenz Stagazer instead of Fyrenz Vishonar for transmogrification, "Vorsha the Lasher" disabled, bank tabs outside the frame, and Stormwind Keep flashing textures. An earlier revision also carried an Xbox Elite 3 controller entry, which the current list omits. Corrected November 9: the earlier revision and the controller entry are not supported by the thread. We are citing the November 5 thread on its own date rather than describing it as a November 8 revision.
Taldramir is the first legendary
Blizzard's November 6 WoW Weekly names Taldramir, the Whispering Wood as Forever's first legendary, forged by Wētā and shown in the "Forging Forever" video. Blizzard has not published its stats, source or acquisition path, so the name and the maker are the whole verified record. Anything about how it drops is still a guess.
The Twitch drop runs to November 12
The launch Twitch drop is the Pouch of Violet Dust, available from November 4 at 4:30 p.m. PST to November 12 at 4:30 p.m. PST. It requires four hours watched and grants a purple campfire with a one hour camp benefit. Blizzard says it will be removed in early December. It is a cosmetic camp feature, not a power item.
The first level 60s
Five players reached level 60 first on the EU Normal ruleset in 52 hours: Jokerd, Cloudbells, Vitochie, Lmgd and b_urning. Three were Mages, one a Paladin and one a Shaman.
A first solo level 60 was reported on November 8: KSuper2, a Night Elf Beast Mastery Hunter. Icy Veins noted help from players outside the party, so we are not calling it a pure solo run. The distinction matters, because assistance outside the party still changes the run.
Developer comments, not shipped changes
In Wowhead's November 6 coverage, Kris Zierhut told Crix that the auction house minimum deposit will drop from 1 silver to 1 copper soon, and that Shaman talents will be revisited no sooner than early next year. In Wowhead's November 8 interview coverage from MrGM, Blizzard said the December 9 raids open simultaneously in every region and that a Black Market Auction House is planned. These are developer statements. None of them is a shipped change yet.
What we are not claiming
Two things stay out of this record. First, the 70840 build has no published diff, so we do not describe its contents. Second, community claims about duplicate NPCs and mobs, an Origins WoW Asia directory listing, and the Hyjal and Greyhaven projects did not meet our first-party bar this week and are withheld rather than repeated. The correction policy is the same as it was before launch: dated readings, visible corrections, and no invented detail.
SOURCES: Blizzard's November 6 hotfix notes, read November 8 2026 and rechecked November 9; the Known Issues thread titled Updated Nov. 5 and last edited November 5 2026, read November 9; Kaivax's November 8 dungeon kill experience post; Blizzard's November 6 WoW Weekly for Taldramir; Blizzard's launch Twitch drop post; Blizzard's November 10 tuning post via Kaivax; ForeverDB's 70862 changelog (November 7 2026) for the client comparison, labelled as such above; Wowhead's November 6 Crix interview and November 8 MrGM interview coverage for the developer statements; Icy Veins' November 8 report for KSuper2; our own CDN watch for the build history. Related: the launch-day brief, the dungeon XP brief, the Forever hub, the tracker, and the launch calendar.