What changed
Updated Oct 28The simulator now runs Top Gear, Droptimizer, talent compare and stat weights for damage specs.Damage specs only, not healers or tanks. Every one of those specs is still "not yet" measured, and raid drops are thin until the re-itemised tier is curated.
Two dungeon level ranges revised: City of Dalaran 28 to 30, Krol'dok Stronghold 40 to 55.Both the old and the new ranges come from a single outlet. Blizzard has never published dungeon level ranges.
Three Forever talent calculators are live, all built from demo footage.Rank scaling in all three calculators is estimated in places.
The Forever beta has a free opt-in; the packs only guarantee a seat.Reported by press coverage of the Battle.net page rather than by a Blizzard news post.
Hardcore is coming to Forever after launch, with a safe layer refresh and one-way Legacy.Blizzard's written recap covers the ruleset and the transfer rule. The layer-refresh system, the one-way Legacy detail and the Mak'gora tease come from panel coverage, not from a Blizzard post.
Every dungeon drop re-examined; unique boss items are rare quality.The four item names from the live panel log are reported by one outlet only.
Legacy: 65 points earnable at launch, 16 spendable per character, three trees.The point totals and tree names are Blizzard's. The individual perks, their ranks, and the Merchant Favor crate economy come from one demo transcription.
Name reservation covers up to three characters, first come first served.The three-character figure is reported by one outlet and is not in Blizzard's own pre-purchase post.
Blizzard has not ruled out a new class, correcting announcement-day coverage.The survey numbers and the quote come from live coverage of the panel, not from a Blizzard post.
Every race gets two active and two passive racials; weapon-skill racials now give crit.Blizzard confirmed the structure and the Dwarf and Undead examples. The per-race numbers are demo transcriptions by Icy Veins and Talents Forever, and the two differ on Gnome, Night Elf and Troll values.
Blizzard says the Skyborne are not a neutral race, and the two factions differ.The faction-specific second racial comes from one demo transcription and is not in any Blizzard post.
Transmog is opt-out, not opt-in: it is on by default and can be disabled.Supersedes the Sept 12 entry that recorded transmog as opt-in.
Added reported level ranges for all nine new dungeons.Reported by one outlet, not yet confirmed.
Forever announced at BlizzCon. Beta Sept 17, launch Nov 4, level 60 forever.Four new zones, nine dungeons, two raids, Darkspear Islands battleground, 1,000+ quests.
Skyborne Heroic Pack priced at $29.99, Epic Pack at $59.99.Pack contents are from Blizzard's own post; the USD prices are press-reported and consistent across outlets, not stated verbatim in Blizzard's copy.
Transmog reported as opt-in; disabling it shows everyone's real gear.Reported from the What's Next panel by one outlet. Superseded on Sept 13: Blizzard's own Deep Dive recap describes transmog as on by default and opt-out. Kept as a record of what was reported on the day.