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Every dataset here names where it came from and what it is licensed under. Facts are not copyrightable; our wording, structure and design are our own. Blizzard-owned names and icons stay Blizzard’s.

Talent trees (six recorded classes)

Self-sourced facts — our structure

Talent nodes, ranks, positions, prerequisites and the level→point budget for six classes in the current calculator snapshot.

Transcribed into our own structure from the public Forever beta-client snapshot, then cross-checked against Blizzard beta notes. No third-party prose or artwork is redistributed; our model covers level 10–60 with one point per level.

Attribution to reproduce: WoW Forever Manual talent data, assembled from Blizzard and named community sources. · last checked 2026-09-28

Racial abilities

Self-sourced facts — our wording

Active and passive racials for all ten playable races.

Our own summaries of each racial's effect, cooldown, duration and its Classic comparison, written from Blizzard's official reveal and beta notes plus named community references.

Attribution to reproduce: WoW Forever Manual racial reference, written from Blizzard and named community sources. · last checked 2026-09-26

Ability reference & Forever-vs-Classic changes

Self-sourced facts — our wording

Baseline and spec abilities, how each changed from Classic, and the patch records behind every change.

Compiled by us from Blizzard's official announcements and beta development notes, then cross-checked against named community reporting (Wowhead, PCGamesN, Polygon).

Attribution to reproduce: WoW Forever Manual ability reference, compiled from Blizzard and named community sources. · last checked 2026-09-26

Release & editions data

Self-sourced facts — our wording

Launch facts, editions, prices and the pre-launch timeline.

Sourced directly from Blizzard's official store and announcement posts, with community guides cited where they add detail.

Attribution to reproduce: WoW Forever Manual release reference, sourced from Blizzard. · last checked 2026-09-26

Class guidance (what to play)

Original editorial — CC BY 4.0

Editorial difficulty and performance judgements with a confidence label on each.

Our own opinion, built from Blizzard beta notes and named community tier lists. Every judgement is tagged "reported" and links its sources so you can weigh it yourself.

Attribution to reproduce: WoW Forever Manual class guidance. Credit "WoW Forever Manual" with a link and note any changes. · last checked 2026-09-26

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Class, race and ability names, and in-game descriptive text
The names "World of Warcraft", "Warcraft" and "WoW Forever"

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Reusing our original work

Except for facts and Blizzard material, our original contributions are licensed under CC BY 4.0 — Credit "WoW Forever Manual" with a link back to this site, and note any changes. This covers:

Original editorial writing, guides and analysis
Dataset structure, schemas and normalization
Site design, source code and tooling

Third-party datasets

We currently assemble our data independently from primary Blizzard sources and named community reporting; we do not copy another fan database. The following upstream datasets are tracked here for transparency:

Talents Forever (CC BY 4.0) — Community dataset transcribed from BlizzCon 2026 demo footage. Not ingested at this time.

Corrections

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