WoW Forever: Cooldown Manager Class and Temporary Respec Costs Beta Development Notes | Wowhead report
Wowhead reports on a WoW Forever beta development-notes update covering cooldown-manager work, class changes, and temporary respec costs.
Editorial record
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Wowhead reports that a WoW Forever beta update includes a cooldown manager, class changes, and temporary respec-cost rules. The supplied snapshot identifies the underlying notes as a Blizzard forum post, but this article is summarizing Wowhead’s report rather than treating the linked notes as independently verified Blizzard confirmation.
What Wowhead reports
According to Wowhead’s report, the temporary beta respec rule sets the cost at 1 silver if a character has not recently changed talents. After the first reset, the next cost is described as much higher, then returning to 1 silver after one hour. Wowhead identifies this as a beta-only rule.
Wowhead also reports bug fixes involving casting animations, Campfire buffs, pet loyalty, mail surnames, memory use, and display issues. Its summary of the class section includes changes for Druids, Hunters, Mages, and Paladins.
The reported examples include
Rejuvenation, Tranquility, and
Wild Growth gaining the ability to critically hit; Wrath receiving an approximately 50% base-damage increase; and
Mangle being renamed Primal Bite for Feral Druids. For Hunters, Wowhead reports a lower Furious Howl attack-power bonus, corrected Bat access to Sonic Blast, and a level restriction on Tame Beast. For Mages, it reports a line-of-sight change for
Arcane Missiles and duration or damage adjustments affecting Fire abilities.
For Paladins, Wowhead reports fixes to
Consecration, revised
Holy Strike damage ranks, a shorter
Holy Strike cooldown in the Holy specialization, removal of
Improved Holy Strike from the talent tree, and other listed adjustments. The supplied snapshot ends partway through the Paladin notes, so it does not establish the complete class-change list.
What remains unresolved
This evidence does not establish a beta build number, whether these changes will reach launch unchanged, or the final behavior and availability of the reported cooldown manager. It also does not provide a complete class-by-class change record. The Blizzard forum post is linked because Wowhead names it as the quoted source; the supplied source snapshot does not independently verify that post.


