Experience Preset — Classic
- SD character models
- Quest POI / objective blobs off
- One-bag UI off
- Transmog off
- Camera-turn keyboard binds
- Classic screen UI layout
No realms in the old sense, an account-wide Legacy progression, a rebuilt PvP economy, and a client that lets you choose how much modernity you see.
There is no realm list. Before creating a character you choose a ruleset, and each ruleset functions as its own large ecosystem — its own world, economy and community.
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Challenges across classes, tradeskills, PvP, adventure, dungeons and raids each pay one point into an account-wide pool, and each character spends separately in three perk trees. Open it with the shield icon on the menu bar, or hotkey Y.
Hover a node for its in-game tooltip. Per-rank costs: server-side — unknown for every node.
Your cooking recipes have a 30% chance to create an extra result.
Increases your chance to gain a skill increase from using any primary, secondary, or class-based tradeskill by 10%.
Reduces the gold price of items from all vendors by -10%.
Increases your skill by 1 in your lowest tradeskill among your Primary and Secondary tradeskills. If you have already reached 300 skill in your two current Primary Tradeskills and all three Secondary Tradeskills, you will gain 3 of a random Elemental Essence.
You are 100% more likely to discover Scarce materials from Mining, Herbalism, and Skinning.
You have a 15% chance to receive 100% increased Merchant's Favor when you turn in a crate to the Azeroth Commerce Authority or Durotar Supply and Logistics.
While fishing with a Lure active, you have a 50% chance to catch an extra fish.
Increases your ability to detect nearby targets with Stealth as if your level were increased by 2. Ineffective in Battlegrounds.
Your rested experience accumulates 20% faster and your rested experience cap is increased by 20%.
You gain talent points every level starting at level 5 instead of starting at level 10, but you still may not have more than 51 total talent points.
You gain 5% of your maximum Health and Mana over 10 sec each time you deliver the killing blow to a non-trivial enemy. Ineffective in dungeons, raids, and battlegrounds.
Reduces your cooldown on adding Camp features by 25%
You receive a -50% discount on all flight paths, and your flight path mount flies 20% faster.
Reduces the duration of the Recently Bandaged effect by 10 sec when you use a bandage. Ineffective in dungeons, raids, and battlegrounds.
Increases Honor Points gained by 10%.
Increases the duration of beneficial effects from eating food by 100%.
Your class abilities which grant long-duration stat or attribute benefits to all party or raid members last 100% longer, and the benefits you gain from resting at a camp last 50% longer.
Increases movement speed while dead by 10% and your helpful spells and abilities cost no resources for 2 min after being resurrected or until you enter combat.
Your class abilities no longer require reagents purchaseable from vendors.
You take -20% less durability loss when you die.
Increases your reputation gains by 10%.
21 named perks across the three trees. The trees also carry 6 unnamed nodes — “Unknown — to be added in a future update” — shown in the browser above, not counted as perks. One naming difference: the client calls one perk “Performance Bonus”; the Legacy article calls it “Performance”.
[Replica Ironforge Air Rifle]! · [Spectral Bear Cub]! · [Spectral Bear Tabard]! · [Reins of the Spectral Bear]!
Replica Ironforge Air Rifle (toy), Spectral Bear Cub (pet), Spectral Bear Tabard, Reins of the Spectral Bear (mount) — cosmetics and toys, no competitive advantage; more rewards arrive with content updates.
A 15v15 battleground off Dustwallow Marsh for levels 30–60, and two currencies in place of the old grind. Tick rates, flag values and capture timers: unpublished.
Battle for the Darkspear Islands: control four capture points to score; a flag at the centre can be carried to a point your team holds for more. First to 2,000 points wins — a control game, not a flag race. Queue from any capital battlemaster, or from the faction bases (Darkspear Raiders at the Merchant Coast; Theramore Expeditionary Force at Northwatch), whose reputations sell trinkets, rings, cloaks, weapons, armor and an Exalted tabard questline.
Honor is now a currency — earned in PvP, spent on a blue set and an epic set (the epic pieces upgrade the blue ones with Emboldened Seals, which carry rank requirements; Shaman finally get healer, melee and caster sets). Rank Points advance the original 14-rank ladder under a weekly cap, up to High Warlord / Grand Marshal. Battleground Marks of Honor now stack to 30 (Oct 15 notes), and each PvP season’s weekly journey tasks pay Honor and Rank Points — three of them each season also grant a Legacy Point. Track your standing in the Character Pane’s PvP tab.
Rank-reward ladder: PvP Progression article · 2026-10-07 — Darkspear article · 2026-10-07 — Beta Notes Oct 1/8/15
Four client systems, plus the preset split chosen at first login.
Dual Spec unlocks at level 40; respecs for class and Legacy talents alike happen at class trainers in the major cities.
| Classic Era | Forever | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Single specialization | Not announced — a discounted price seen in beta was explicitly framed by Blizzard as beta-only |
Configure outfits at a transmogrifier in certain cities — or disable the system entirely and see everyone in their real equipped gear. It is a general display choice, not a PvP inspection tool. Disabling it never stops you dressing your own character or hiding helm and cloak. Collection rules: a BoP Uncommon or Rare dungeon drop grants its appearance to all eligible looters; Epic raid drops grant it only to the player the item binds to; appearances still follow item-type rules, and level restrictions on collected appearances lift at 60.
A built-in, fully customizable tracker that pulls critical cooldowns from your buffs and bars into one place (Options → Gameplay Enhancement). By Oct 8 it covered all classes, racials and trinkets, and multi-rank spells show as a single entry.
Controller support ships in beta state: class-specific action-bar flyouts (stances, shapeshifts, pet control, auras), party targeting on the D-pad, and gamepad action bars with Edit Mode layouts saved per interface type.
The up-front cost moved into training: when you learn the riding skill, a mount is granted with it, instead of the Classic pattern of cheap training and a ruinously expensive mount.
Presets are a starting point chosen at first login — every setting can be changed later in Options. HD vs SD models are chosen per character at creation and can be changed in Options or at a Barbershop; appearance only, never power. Choosing the Classic preset disables transmog automatically. Small print: the Auction House gained an equippable-level column (Oct 15); several party buffs and auras became raid-wide in the same notes — Moonkin Aura, Leader of the Pack, Trueshot Aura, Battle Shout and the Shaman totems among them. A built-in damage meter has been reported in coverage of official material — unconfirmed.
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Every batch, every reversion, every value — set against Classic Era 1.15.9.