The beta's first bug list

Blizzard’s Kaivax posted a known issues list for the Forever beta on its opening day. Barber chairs currently cause a Lua error, and opening the Legacy panel with its “Y” hotkey before level 25 also throws Lua errors on two of its tabs. The character pane doesn’t yet show level, class, or titles, and Coldridge Valley doesn’t reveal on the map when explored.

Several issues touch class mechanics: Night Elf Priests’ Starshards racial doesn’t benefit from the Twilight Focus talent, Retribution Paladins’ Vengeance talent can proc off periodic critical strikes, and pet stats for Hunters and Warlocks are missing or misdisplayed on the character sheet. For casters, Glancing Blow chance is listed as wrong at every level and its damage reduction as wrong too, while for melee only the damage reduction against higher-level targets is off.

As a workaround for a guild charter bug, Blizzard has temporarily allowed charters to be handed in with no signatures. Blizzard says the post will be updated as issues are fixed or added.

Update, September 18: Kaivax added five more the next day. The Cooldown Manager is unfinished, and how complete it is depends on the class. Bear Form’s armor bonus multiplies the armor that consumables and buffs add. Queueing an on-next-attack ability such as Heroic Strike, Cleave or Raptor Strike switches off your spell queue window. Getting hit while you channel Arcane Missiles launches a full-damage bolt where a reduced one should fire, and resurrection sickness lasts the wrong time at low levels.

Update: Kaivax has since edited the opening post. The list also notes that character friends are disabled in the beta and the minimap can sit partly off screen. It says the next beta build fixes Starshards, Vengeance and the Coldridge Valley map from the list above. That build fixes three more: the way Holy Strike felt to rank up, the conjured-item part missing from the Create Firestone rank 3 and 4 tooltips, and Sentinel Lynessa Duskblossom running too fast and spamming Strike in the Teldrassil quest “Escaping Ban’ethil”. Two Waylaid Crate bugs are fixed in that build as well: crates fail on goods whose maximum stack size is smaller than the amount required, and Waylaid Crate: Apprentice Curiosities turns down Greater Magic Essence while letting you target Lesser Magic Essence.

Why it matters: beta testers hitting barber chairs, the Legacy panel, or class talent oddities in week one are seeing known bugs, not something to report as new.