A WoW Forever Party is coming to Shanghai this October, with a large in-person event built around WoW Forever: hands-on gameplay, a 1:1 Darnassus-themed area, interactive quests, rideable mounts, and exclusive merchandise. It feels a lot like a mini BlizzCon for the CN WoW community.
While everyone’s attention is on WoW Forever, Titan Reforged just revealed the new Volcano talent and spell for Elemental Shaman, along with a preview of upcoming Survival Hunter spec changes.
Classic is getting interesting on more than one front.
We continue to watch all the beta flurry on WoW: Forever. Then we remind ourselves... IT'S BETA! WTH? I don't want to jinx anything, but methinks launch might be wild...and we are here for all of it, come what may. 💙
Man, it was hard to sleep last night, I was so excited. Beta has been... crazy. The craziest numbers I've seen in 17 years working at Blizzard and almost 8 years on classic.
We've got something really special here.
Shoutout to the WoW devs! Full send on keeping secrets secret! Item data is staying obfuscated so nobody can datamine stats before they're actually discovered in-game, and the Mount Hyjal raid is fully encrypted until launch. \o/
No more spoiled loot tables, no more "solved" bosses before pulling one. Pure blind discovery again. This is how you protect the mystery!
WoW: Forever launches November 4 with:
⛓️ New dungeons
👨👨👦👦 10 & 20-player raids
🪽 Skyborne playable race
🗺️ New & expanded zones
✅ Account-wide perks
💡 Updated world visuals & lighting
��� New race & class combos
❗ 1000+ new quests
Join the Beta September 17!
I bought a Fable dataset from one of the top Chinese LLM routers yesterday.
With just 6TB data, I can take over 7 Chinese/CIS gov entities & 19 top Chinese firms like Xiaomi, Huawei, NIO, Minimax using SSH keys, VPN configs, Aliyun keys, GitLab tokens sent to the router.
Every day I see some Classic players say, "We don't need graphics or a new engine; Classic+ is just 1.15 with new content."
Probably 80% of you will drop hate, and I don't give a f*** about it.
The branch is literally called MainlineCamelot.
MAINLINE. Mainline = 12.1.5. MainlineCamelot = 1.60.x.
Mainline means it follows the retail (WarWithin/Midnight) engine. It's in the name, and you're still arguing.
So to the #nochanges crowd: forget about it. It's over. And I'd bet money they started working on this back in 10.x or 11.x while you were writing paragraphs about how sacred the 2004 client is.
And I personally WANT engine changes. The game needs them to survive next to modern games. I know half of you will hate this, but Blizzard will clearly be hunting a new audience + retail players, not you, not again, for the x time, and let's be honest, you will be there in the modern classic+
tldr: 1.60.x is on the modern client 100%. Probably engine updates too.
Best case, you get an HD/SD toggle like Warcraft 3 Reforged one button, see the world you want with new zones and quests. Meanwhile, I will look at you with my 5k Ultra HDR eyes, and we will both be happy.
Pray for that button. It's the only thing saving you.
Integrated ChatGPT 6 Astra into World of Warcraft Classic
Went to Codex and said "make me a Herdr plugin for WoW. Make it so I can see all my agents and I get notified when they're done
3 minutes later I can now message all my agents in WoW
This is what's beautiful about AI. It allows you to do more of what you love. More of what brings you joy. While still being significantly more productive than you've ever been
Wake up. AI starts building you value autonomously. Do literally whatever you want with your day.
This is the future
Now will I ever get attention from females again now that I announced World of Warcraft brings me joy? No.
Is it still worth it? Yes.
🚨GLM 5.3 can now be run basically uncensored
It will now do offensive cyber, red teaming + agent work that normal models would refuse
This is a frontier model too
Crazy that this is possible