Walk straight into the launch raids

Lead Software Engineer Ana Resendez and Associate Production Director Clayton Stone told But Why Tho? that Forever’s launch raids will not require attunement. They didn’t commit either way on raids beyond launch.

The pair also described the team’s approach to difficulty: encounters won’t open with complex mechanics, they’ll be challenging but approachable with a group of friends, and difficulty won’t scale or adapt to a player’s level, so a raid can be out-geared or out-leveled over time rather than staying a moving target.

On class design, they said Forever ships with pre-Season of Discovery content: they saw SoD’s changes as pushing about as far as they could go, so Forever is more conservative for now, keeping each class’s original specialties intact while still making changes, with a stated intent to bring more SoD-style ideas into classes later.

Why it matters: skipping attunement for the first tier removes a common early gatekeeping step for guilds getting into raiding, even if it may return for later raids.