Mage in World of Warcraft: Forever

• Alliance

  • Human
  • Gnome

• Horde

  • Undead
  • Troll
  • Orc new one of the six new combinations in Blizzard’s Deep Dive recap; shown in the announcement trailer. Blizzard — Deep Dive panel recap · Blizzard — race and class chart · Game Informer · PC Gamer

• Skyborne

  • Skyborne new (Alliance-aligned only) Alliance-aligned Skyborne only. Blizzard — What’s Next panel recap · Blizzard — race and class chart · Wowhead — Skyborne First Look

Every pairing per Blizzard — race and class chart, checked 2026-10-15. Pairings marked new are the ones Forever adds to Classic's. See every race and class combination, or filter all nine classes in the class picker.

• Alliance-aligned Skyborne “pursue the arcane legacy of their ancestors and gain access to the Mage class.”

  Confirmed Blizzard — What’s Next panel recap

• Frostfire Bolt arrives at level 40, a spell that counts as both Fire and Frost, with a 3-second cast that hits up front and then leaves a debuff that deals damage over time and slows movement, always using the Mage’s higher Fire or Frost bonus. Comprehension, a minor tradeskill only Mages have, deciphers scrolls looted from creatures, and Arcane Blast returns as a new talent whose stacks raise the damage of the Mage’s other spells.

  Confirmed Blizzard — Class Deep Dives: Mage and Shaman

• Since the October 1 beta build, Fire’s Hot Streak is called Heating Up, Combustion has 3 charges again, and no Mage scroll from Comprehension can be cast while moving.

  Confirmed Blizzard — WoW Forever Beta Development Notes, October 1

• Since the October 8 beta build, the low ranks of Frostbolt and Fireball (1 to 5) and Arcane Missiles (1 to 3) grow more evenly, so each new rank is an upgrade, and Impact no longer triggers from Flamestrike’s periodic damage.

  Confirmed Blizzard — WoW Forever Beta Development Notes, October 8

• Since the October 15 beta build, Frost Blast, learned at 24, slows by 40% and takes Frostbolt’s talents. Arcane Blast is a 1.5-second cast that stacks Spell Damage from Intellect, Arcane Wrath is a new 16-point gold medal talent, Critical Mass takes 5 points and Fire Power is a 3-point talent.

  Confirmed Blizzard — WoW Forever Beta Development Notes, October 15

• Blizzard’s Deep Dive recap names six new race and class combinations: Gnome Priest, Human Hunter, Dwarf Shaman, Orc Mage, Troll Warlock and Undead Paladin, “with more planned for future updates.”

  Confirmed Blizzard — Deep Dive panel recap

• Blizzard’s race and class chart (22 September) lists every pairing Forever offers, one chart per faction: Classic’s pairings, the six new ones, and the Skyborne on both sides, as Windshaper Shaman for the Horde or High Order Mages for the Alliance.

  Confirmed Blizzard — race and class chart

• Talent trees keep Classic’s structure: the same number of rows, milestone talents at 11, 21 and 31 points, and a new 16-point milestone. Some talents are unchanged from patch 1.12, some adjusted, and key class buffs (Divine Spirit, Blessing of Kings, Improved Mark of the Wild) are now baseline. Each race gets two active and two passive racial abilities, reworked to be stronger and more distinct.

  Confirmed Blizzard — Deep Dive panel recap

• Combat keeps Classic’s pace: an ordinary creature takes a solo player “roughly 10–15 seconds to defeat,” crowd control still matters in dungeons, and damage dealers still respect threat. Spell, melee and ranged hit chance are combined into one stat, as are the three crit chances. Paladins are the first class detailed; “more class and race details are planned through future videos and articles.”

  Confirmed Blizzard — Deep Dive panel recap

• Blizzard: class identity “remains central,” with “new abilities, new race and class combinations, and updates designed to preserve the feel of the original game.” The updates “focus on talents and abilities you notice, meaningful trade-offs, and reasons to value what each class brings.”

  Confirmed Blizzard — What’s Next panel recap

• The Battle.net Shop describes “updated class design” and “an expanded list of race and class options, including Dwarf Shaman and Forsaken Paladin.”

  Confirmed Battle.net Shop — product page

• Every class is being revisited from the original game, Blizzard says: the foundation players remember stays, and the updates aim to give more choice, a stronger identity and room to experiment.

  Confirmed Blizzard — Class Deep Dives: Hunter and Druid

• Changing talents, Legacy talents included, takes a visit to a class trainer in a major city, and Dual Specialization opens at level 40.

  Confirmed Blizzard — Class Deep Dives: Hunter and Druid Blizzard — Class Deep Dives: Priest and Warrior Blizzard — Class Deep Dives: Mage and Shaman Blizzard — Class Deep Dives: Rogue and Warlock

• Blizzard intends to review whether party buffs, Shaman totems among them, should remain party-wide, Wowhead reported on 5 October from Blizzard’s latest podcast.

  Confirmed Wowhead — What’s best for WoW: Forever, party buffs or raid buffs?

• Blizzard says it isn’t modernizing Forever’s classes. It errs toward simpler classes with engaging depth: some Classic classes that were too simple have gained a few mechanics, and it wants to keep the original’s pacing and combat speed, Blizzard told TechRadar.

  Confirmed TechRadar — interview with Blizzard: classes, respecs and encounters

• Keeping each class feeling distinct, rather than letting them blur together, matters most, Blizzard’s Clay Stone told Inven Global: every spec should have a reason to exist, even if it is not the best pick for every fight.

  Confirmed Inven Global — interview with Holly Longdale and Clay Stone