Changes

12 Oct 2026

The sim now has its own free addon for exporting your character: type /dnsim in the game and paste the text on the sim page. The sim help explains how to install it.

New on the sim: change any gear slot by picking an item by name or typing an item's stats, and build a character without an addon export.

11 Oct 2026

Fixed: the sim's Hunter numbers. Hunters now start at their range, so their shots count. The comparison card also says more plainly what it compares.

The sim now runs the engine of our 11 Oct run, so your number compares with our newest numbers.

Sim numbers across the site now come from the 11 Oct run.

New: the sim. Paste your character's export and see its damage as a level-60 character. It runs in your browser; your export isn't sent to us.

Beta population updated: the census of 11 Oct.

Our PvE picks: Survival for Hunter and Arcane for Mage, the specs that sim best on the 9 Oct run.

News: a hidden boss, Lyn the Ignored, found in the City of Dalaran dungeon.

10 Oct 2026

News: Blizzard is weighing an earlier unlock level for dual spec.

News: a Paladin class quest now ends with a Divine Storm cloak, for Alliance only so far.

Beta population updated: the census of 9 Oct.

9 Oct 2026

News: the weekly roundup points to the Mage, Shaman, Rogue and Warlock deep dives and podcast episode 3.

News: a leveling video shows more zone quests, 9 dungeons and a travel stop in Hillsbrad.

News: the GDKP ban applies to North American and European realms only.

News: low spell ranks now gain less from spell power and proc less often.

News: the Shaman weapon quest chain gets easier in the beta.

News: three new dungeon gear sets found in the beta.

Talent pages no longer flag tree differences between beta builds; those changes are listed here instead.

Talent trees updated to the beta client of 8 Oct: Druids get Natural Instinct in place of Predatory Instincts, Impale needs Deep Wounds again, and Furor, Expose Prey, Reckoning, Penance, Demonic Brand and Spearing Strike have new texts.

Beta population updated: the census of 8 Oct.

Sim numbers across the site now come from the 9 Oct run.

News: Blizzard says Horde access to Dalaran was not meant to happen, and the team will review it.

News: a PAX Aus keynote with a new dungeon, and Wolfshead Helm's bonus moves to Shifting Power.

News: Horde characters can enter Dalaran after a quest chain, and more on the beta's 16 Legacy Points.

News: lower rarity for Excavation Site: Wetlands quest rewards, and higher vendor prices for Enchanting wands.

News: the new beta build's notes, with more dungeon XP and Rage fixes, and a level 40 requirement on Truthseeker's Bow.

8 Oct 2026

News: datamined class changes in the newest beta build, and a smaller durability cost at the Spirit Healer.

News: City of Dalaran opens on the beta, and racial changes are planned.

News: Blizzard says dungeon maps are unlikely to be added.

Class tuning updated with the 8 Oct beta build: Rage from damage taken, Penance, Thorns and Retribution Aura, and low spell ranks for every caster.

New: Meta over time. The beta population day by day, and for each class its sim DPS run by run and every tier list's rating by date.

News: Blizzard fixes how dungeon kills award XP in mixed-level groups.

Beta population updated: the census of 7 Oct.

News: over 2,100 beta accounts closed for buying gold, the third Forever podcast, and how the Legacy System works.

News: the Hunter, Druid, Priest and Warrior deep dives from Blizzard, and the reason for today's early beta maintenance.

News: four items, among them the full notes for the level 30 beta build and a plan to grant Legacy points to testers.

News: eleven items from 1 and 2 Oct, among them the Warrior rework, a nerf to the Gnome racial and less experience from dungeon quests.

News: six items from 2 to 5 Oct, among them a temporary look for Shaman Ghost Wolf and lower-quality library book necklaces.

News: seven items from 5 and 6 Oct, among them Shifting Power for Feral Druids, and Blizzard's own post on PvP progress.

News: six items from 7 Oct, among them the Rogue, Warlock, Mage and Shaman changes.

Sim numbers across the site now come from the 8 Oct run.

7 Oct 2026

Sim: the 7 Oct run now includes the hybrid builds.

Hunter: Marksmanship stays our raid pick; Survival sims higher but hasn't been tested in raids.

Sim numbers across the site now come from the 7 Oct run.

Help me choose: when a role leads to a spec that isn't our pick for that activity, the result says so.

Shaman and Priest texts now read correctly for Alliance and Horde.

Priest: our PvP pick is Discipline, on the start page and the class page alike.

Hunter: our PvP pick is Beast Mastery.

New: a talent calculator for every class (the Calculator tab). Click to add points, share the build as a link, and compare it with our builds.

Our Shaman pick now reads the same for Alliance and Horde.

Our Horde race picks are in: a tier for each Horde race, a ranking for each class, and a Horde race for each class in our top 5.

Skyborne cards now say how to get the race: a Skyborne pack or the Warcraft Forever Collection, from Blizzard's post.

Launch date and time now come from Blizzard's own post: 4 Nov, 3 p.m. PST (5 Nov, 00:00 CET).

Horde races are in: which classes each race can play, and every race's racials on both sides, from Blizzard's 22 Sep post and later dev notes. Our Horde race picks follow soon.

Sim numbers now show the DPS and the position within the run, without tier letters.

Druid: our PvE pick is now Feral Combat, our PvP pick Restoration.

6 Oct 2026

All 9 class pages are up as a preview: what four tier-list sites say about each class and spec, side by side with their dates, plus talent trees with each talent site's numbers, builds by level, rotations and gear.