Dungeon experience buff enters WoW Forever beta

The Blizzard development notes quoted in Wowhead’s report also change party experience calculations. Lower-level enemies are assessed against each player’s level rather than the highest-level member, matching the historical Classic Era behavior described in the notes. A party member who is vastly higher level than the enemy can still cause the group to receive no experience.

The Legacy grant completes the Legacy Challenge for beta players. The notes say the lowest-cost Legacy point respec costs 1 silver during the beta, with the cost reduced by one respec per hour. That is testing access, not evidence that players will receive 16 points when WoW Forever launches.

The same Blizzard notes report the following changes:

• Creatures that dropped no loot can again be interacted with, visual flickering on large creatures is fixed, and unintended long-distance pulls are addressed.
• Players can swap multiple weapons within one global cooldown, including through a macro.
• Cooldown Manager support now covers all classes, racial abilities, and trinkets. Consumable support is planned for a later patch.
• Gamepad updates cover hold-action indicators, inputs after looting, Quest Log focus when opening the map, raid-frame traversal, Gamepad Action Bar edit mode, and layouts saved per interface type. Gamepad Action Bar settings are now managed in edit mode rather than the options menu.
• Rage fixes address damage, health, combat multipliers, critical strikes, crushing blows, absorbs, and level-appropriate values. The notes say typical Warriors and Druids should gain more Rage from damage.
• Druid changes include 100% increased Rage from critical strikes instead of 75%, Thorns returning to Vanilla WoW base damage with a 6% spell power ratio instead of 13.3%, a 50% Bear Form and Dire Bear Form threat bonus instead of 30%, Mana Potion use in forms, and fixes for Cat Form health, shapeshifting overrides, Demoralizing Roar threat, and Wrath rank scaling.

These observations describe a beta development build. They do not confirm final launch values, a release date for the changes, permanent Legacy Point access, or transfer of the temporary points beyond testing.