During a recent interview with MrGM, Blizzard has revealed some more details about how they intend to handle future content in WoW Forever.
Watch the full interview below:
PTR in WoW Forever
Similar to Midnight and modern WoW expansions, the Forever team expects to have PTR cycles for Forever as well. However, there’s a big difference.
Whereas players get to see many new questlines and test new dungeons and raids in modern PTRs, these elements will not be present in Forever PTRs. The PTR’s main goal will be to test stability and internal tools and changes made for the new patch.
New quests, items, and instances will likely be hidden similarly to how they have been for the Forever launch. This means players might have an idea of the number of items being added, but not what these items are, which effectively gives no tools to dataminers and theorycrafters to find out about best builds or BiS lists.
No Raid Testing for WoW Forever
Instances also won’t be tested. Similar to how end bosses haven’t been tested in recent history for modern raids, Forever will expand this philosophy. For Forever, no raids will be tested at all, leaving its maps, content, boss fights, and, more importantly, its loot hidden until release, so the community can find out about it together.
Never Say Never
Blizzard also wants to be clear that these are the current plans of the team, and they will evaluate them as they move forward. They could change them based on feedback and results or based on what they need from a certain PTR cycle.
