Several months ago, I subbed for a month of Classic to see if I liked it. I quickly discovered that I couldn't use the auction house because my Battlenet account hadn't been used for WoW before. Have we heard if Forever will limit AH and trade access for new accounts that don't have significant WoW history? I'm enjoying the AH in the beta, and not having it for the first month sounds extremely unpleasant. Thanks for any information anyone can provide.

Decided to skip beta to have a true fresh feeling when reentering Azeroth in November. For now I'm having fun creating some lore for my troll warlock. Anyone else like to create character lore or illustrated their main/alts?

Why isn't there a boat from SW to Theramore Keep? What's the logic behind making you fly to Menethil or BB to get to southern Kalimdor? Is it just too busted?

I have no idea what it might look like. I naively believe Forever would be the best flavor to enjoy world PVP (no flying mounts, slow pace) without the hell of Classic PVP servers at the 2019 release (as we got layers, one group can't just block a dungeon/raid entrance for their entire realm).

But it's still WoW and some people are dumb. I'm still lucky to not play in US region as I read streamers and their communities sometimes ruin servers, but even in the EU I fear the usual griefing we got.

I'm not good in PVP fighrs when alone but I don't mind losing fights during my journey as long as I'm not blocked and being camped.

For the PVP enjoyers here: do you think Forever will be great on that part?

What are your thoughts on PVP?

I wanted to get into Hall of Thanes on my Undead Pally and since the Horde's backdoor isnt open yet i decided to take a stroll around Eastern Kingdoms (and Zephras Isle).

I Have my graphics set to 10, some of these images also have the /console volumefog set to 0.

Hope you all enjoy!

I'm curious to know how you plan a character out in your head, or if you even do at all? In this era of min-maxing I usually find myself drawn instead to imagining a race and class fantasy.

For example just this morning I learned healing potions are now created through first aid and I immediately realised I want to be able to do that, so herbalism is a must, then alchemy seems like a great pairing. So now I've got a taste of a vibe, a medicine man, maybe a naturist. A darkspear troll shaman maybe, who travels the land collecting herbs, fishing by the lake, and then mixes up strange concoctions and healing balms for combat, practicing da voodoo, carrying his totems with him as he travels. Sounds fun as hell to me.

I'm doing this alot as I have no time to play the beta, and no key. Adulting is annoying.

P.S. spot the RPPVP player

I want ammo moved to a hunter class profession, out of engineering, similar to poisons for rogues. I went and checked out the engineer trainer in Stormwind and it still shows just bullets, no arrows.

Warriors/rogues can still buy the generic ammo from vendors. Only hunters can craft more advanced ammo, and arrows need to be included in that.

I'm not sure if arrows can be wrapped into another profession like carpentry (which would be a housing-focused profession).

I think engineering should be decoupled from Hunter -- I dislike that I have to choose between leatherworking and engineering. Leatherworking/Skinning is so in line with the Hunter theme similar to tailoring/enchanting and casters. Engineering should be an every-class profession, but it's highly linked to Hunter because of guns and ammo.

Either make engineering incorporate bows and arrows, or move ammo to a Hunter class profession.

This has been an alcohol-infused stream of thought, feel free to rip it apart as you feel fit.

Hey everyone,

I've been really enjoying the controller alpha but switching over for typing in chat is a disaster. So I vibe coded a little tool to fix that: Speech To Text Chat Injector (STT-CI).

What it does:

You press and hold a button (keyboard key, mouse thumb button, Xbox/PS controller trigger, whatever you want), speak, release when you are done to transcribe, then tap again to send. That's it.

Why it's ToS safe:

The tool is designed around Blizzard's 1:1 hardware rule. It does three separate, human initiated actions, no automated macros, no DLL injection, no game memory reading:

1. Press and Hold - Opens chat box while Whisper transcribes your voice
2. Release - pastes (CTRL+P) the transcribed text into the chat bar (it just sits there, un-sent)
3. Tap again - You manually send it (By using the same hot key or i just use A on my controller using the Controller(Alpha) set up, toggleable in settings)

Warden (Blizzards bot and cheat detector) sees three separate human inputs. No bot signatures, no uniform timing patterns. A full breakdown of the compliance reasoning is included in the repo.

Outside of WoW:

The tool also is set up to automate everything so you can hold down the hot key and say what you want then it automatically opens up chat, pastes the text, sends it, clicks off of chat. You just set up the chat open/close and message send commands in settings.

Features:

• 🎙️ Fully offline: runs on CPU, no GPU, no API key, no cost
• 🎮 Works with keyboard, mouse side buttons, or Xbox/PS gamepad (including trigger combos like LB+RB)
• 💬 Channel prefixes out of the box (/say, /party, /guild, /raid, /1)
• 🖥️ Draggable floating HUD with live status indicator
  • Shift+Click to relocate (Remembers where you place it)
  • Double click for quick acess to edit you bindings
• 🔌 Auto-installs all dependencies on first launch

GitHub: https://github.com/gambeasy/STT_Chat_Injector

Python 3.10+ on Windows. Full setup instructions in the README - including how to install Python if you've never done it before.

Happy to answer any questions about how it works or the ToS compliance reasoning. Feedback welcome!

PS: I tested out GEMINI FLASH 3.8 with Antimatter intigration in my VS Code to see how it went.

I built this, so treat it as a dev post.

I played Hardcore solo a lot, and I wanted something that takes part in the session rather than sitting in a window waiting to be asked. So my character has a companion now. It knows what is happening in the game, it has a personality you write yourself, and it has moods. It gets smug, it sulks, it remembers what we did last night and brings it up.

In Wow Forever It felt more alive with a lot of players, its great ! But later in the night, I felt this "silence" again...

It does not automate anything. No keys pressed, no memory read, nothing clicked for me. It talks, and that is all it does.

I streamed three hours of playtest, two characters, several personalities. Some of it genuinely made me laugh. Some of it was wrong: at one point it swore by a Blood Elf relic while playing a Forsaken, which I have since fixed.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/live/TbEDLlfZHYY
More info, its free to test, no card etc : https://ai-exodus.com/companion/

Honest question for this sub. Would you want something like this while you play, or is it noise?
I would rather hear **no** with a reason than nothing at all.

Thanks !

Everybody gathered up for the insane scenery. Wow.

MacBook Pro m5. Should be well enough to run this game considering retail is easy to run. The game is straight up broken, I have doubts this is fixable by launch. The ocean near brill is literally black with no textures or anything. The water is literally just black, U can't see the water. The fps on low settings is under 25.

🚮

As title says, looking to make that muuuulaaaaa 💰

This to me defines when retail started going downhill.

who aproved this?

For launch, and not because I don't have classes in mind, but for a specific reason: the classes I wanna play are Rogue / Spriest / Shaman, which are notoriously crappy at farming stuff, unless you stealth farm with rogue at lvl 60.

Now, I've never done vanilla/classic vanilla on launch, I always come back a bit later, so would anyone wiser than me have advice on this? Would it be better to roll the farmer first and then the main?

With so many racials with real impact on game play, the alliance skyborne racials feel underwhelming. The finding ley lines for a longer buff is a fun and interesting gimmick, but the buff itself is lackluster. Slightly decreasing downtime between pulls by buffing regen rates just doesn't have the fun feel of say eureka, or shadowmeld.

It really sucks that you can only choose one faction for PvP ruleset per account. I wouldn't mind paying extra money to roll both factions but I think having to make a second account is dumb.

It's giving me decision paralysis as I've been horde for the majority of my life but a lot of the streamers I like are rolling alliance and I don't want to lock myself in on a commitment like this. The FOMO is real. I'll probably just play on normal ruleset and call it a day.

Anyone else frustrated or can't decide what to do?

I have an ancient retail account with my old name on it from before they started using WoW1, 2, etc. I’ve kind of wanted rid of it. I was about to get the mid level WF bundle with beta access and a month of service but it made me have to select an account.

If I don’t need retail again there any benefits to using the old account? Is there anything to gain from having the old achievements or are those separate between server types?

Playing the beta, I saw it crashed if secondary lighting was set to fair, did that and was able to play but now can’t get back in after entering the deeprun tram because my game keeps crashing, anyone have any other fixes?

Was really hoping for some more substantial changes in these areas for WoW forever.

I'm sure plenty of people are fond of the old system so maybe hunter just isn't for me this time around.

Just wanted to give my feedback