SYSTEM SCOPE
All specializations
Blizzard’s product description says the updates apply across specializations.
CLASSES / TALENTS
Talents in WoW Forever
The confirmed scope of Forever’s talent and skill changes, plus the community tools that should be treated as provisional.
STATUS / OFFICIAL SCOPE
Every specialization is in scope, but no final trees are published.
The product page promises gameplay updates across all specializations, and the trailer shows New Skills & Talents. A community calculator now reports all 470 talent slots with per-class new, changed, and verified-same counts, but it remains a link-first planning tool rather than a final Blizzard data release.
QUICK REFERENCE
The short version
TRAILER
New Skills & Talents
A confirmed card appears in the official gameplay trailer.
REPORTED COVERAGE
470 slots
127 new, 217 changed, and 122 verified same across nine class calculators.
CALCULATORS
Link-first
Use the buddy calculators for exploration; do not treat their pre-beta values as final authority.
CONFIRMED
The shape of the change
The announcement is broad; the implementation is still hidden.
All specializations
Forever is not described as changing only one class. Blizzard’s wording covers gameplay updates across every specialization.
New skills and talents
The trailer confirms a new skills-and-talents message, but a headline card is not a spell list.
New race/class choices
Dwarf Shaman, Forsaken Paladin, and the Skyborne class options are confirmed separately from the exact talent changes.
COMMUNITY-CROSS-CHECKED
Talent coverage index
The buddy calculator reports every slot covered and marks each talent as new, changed, or verified same. We link to the interactive tools rather than duplicating all 470 talents before a data-sharing and maintenance agreement exists.
COMMUNITY-CROSS-CHECKED
Warrior calculator coverage
11 new, 30 changed, and 13 verified same talent slots. No Classic placeholders remain in the reported dataset.
Open class calculator ↗COMMUNITY-CROSS-CHECKED
Paladin calculator coverage
20 new, 16 changed, and 16 verified same talent slots. No Classic placeholders remain in the reported dataset.
Open class calculator ↗COMMUNITY-CROSS-CHECKED
Hunter calculator coverage
15 new, 16 changed, and 19 verified same talent slots. No Classic placeholders remain in the reported dataset.
Open class calculator ↗COMMUNITY-CROSS-CHECKED
Rogue calculator coverage
10 new, 25 changed, and 18 verified same talent slots. No Classic placeholders remain in the reported dataset.
Open class calculator ↗COMMUNITY-CROSS-CHECKED
Priest calculator coverage
14 new, 27 changed, and 12 verified same talent slots. No Classic placeholders remain in the reported dataset.
Open class calculator ↗COMMUNITY-CROSS-CHECKED
Shaman calculator coverage
15 new, 25 changed, and 10 verified same talent slots. No Classic placeholders remain in the reported dataset.
Open class calculator ↗COMMUNITY-CROSS-CHECKED
Mage calculator coverage
8 new, 30 changed, and 16 verified same talent slots. No Classic placeholders remain in the reported dataset.
Open class calculator ↗COMMUNITY-CROSS-CHECKED
Warlock calculator coverage
23 new, 26 changed, and 3 verified same talent slots. No Classic placeholders remain in the reported dataset.
Open class calculator ↗COMMUNITY-CROSS-CHECKED
Druid calculator coverage
15 new, 22 changed, and 15 verified same talent slots. No Classic placeholders remain in the reported dataset.
Open class calculator ↗REPORTED
Early class details
The only circulated class-specific details found in the audit are reports, not Blizzard tables.
Paladin reports
Secondary coverage describes a new tanking seal, a Holy Strike ability, longer Blessings, and a Judgement interaction change. Keep all four reported until beta tooltips verify them.
Calculators
Wowhead and wowtbc.gg host Forever-labeled talent calculators. They are fan tools built ahead of a complete first-party data release.
Profession talent claim
Community discussion applies the talent-tree idea to professions too, but no named first-party source has confirmed that connection.
- Final tree names, row requirements, point totals, and respec rules.
- Whether Primary and Secondary tabs shown in presentation material represent a real player system.
- How new race/class combinations interact with class, racial, or profession talents.
SOURCE TRAIL
Where these notes came from
We use official material first, then identify community reports and tools separately. A source link is a trail back to the evidence, not an endorsement of every claim on that page.
OFFICIAL
Forever gameplay trailer
The New Skills & Talents trailer card.
Open sourceOFFICIAL
Forever product page
The all-specializations scope and new combination language.
Open sourceCOMMUNITY REFERENCE
Talent calculator data notes
Methodology, source chain, and the 470-slot coverage report.
Open sourceREPORTED TOOLS
Forever coverage reference
A secondary reference tracking the two calculators and reported Paladin details.
Open source