Guides
PLAYER GUIDES / START HERE
Choose a character, understand the new systems, and follow documented rewards through Azeroth. These guides separate announcements and community preview data from observations made in a named game build.
RETURNING TO AZEROTH
Changes from Classic
Find the differences to review before relying on an old guide.
Access and installation
- Beta guide — testing scope, installation, and a practical first session.
- Beta known issues — dated official problems, class notes, and clearly labeled community reports.
- Game access — launch subscriptions, beta eligibility, upgrade differences, and missing-client checks.
- System requirements — Blizzard's published Windows and Mac requirements.
- Release roadmap — dated milestones and the announced plans for later content.
Build your character
- Classes — nine guides explaining preview abilities, specialization choices, and linked talent interactions.
- Race and class combinations — compare the documented options; Races explains the racial references.
- Spellbooks — level 1–20 spell-rank references for all nine classes, with source context and exclusions.
- Talents — individual ranks and prerequisites; Legacy system explains the separate perk trees.
Explore and prepare
- Leveling and experience — XP design, Legacy effects, and practical evidence to record.
- Camping and Professions — documented campsite contributions and crafting changes.
- Recipes — recipe research, named campsite objects, and evidence still needed.
- New zones and travel, Zones, and Dungeons — locations and documented level ranges.
- World maps — three inspected Forever map previews with original source details.
- Raids and Darkspear Islands — announced group-content references.
- Factions — local groups and separately marked datamined reputation names.
- Light's Justice and A Frightened Request — dated Ruins of Lordaeron quest reports and evidence limits.
- Quest rewards and Equipment sources — follow the evidence connecting a reward to its source.
- Dungeon loot — browse source-linked loot records alongside the dungeon directory.
Choose your settings
- Realmless rulesets and Character names — developer comments on world options and naming.
- Transmogrification — the announced approach to appearances.
- User interface and accessibility — documented visual and interface plans.
- Discovery and itemization — understand equipment evidence before using Datamined previews.
Follow changes
Beta changes collects dated source reviews. Project:Beta verification explains how to add a tested route, recipe, quest, or boss strategy without mixing builds. Corrections to wiki pages remain visible in each page's history and Special:RecentChanges.