Data and sources

Snapshot

Datasets

• Talents, spellbooks, racials, Legacy perks and challenges: Talents Forever export, licensed CC BY 4.0, read from the WoW Forever client (build 1.60.1.70753) with some numbers following Blizzard's 2 November development notes ahead of client data. I normalize the structure, slug every record, compute the Classic diff summaries and keep the per-rank "confirmed" flags; ranks not read from the client are labelled estimates.
• Dungeons, instance quests and items: community loot records and client tables (DungeonEncounter, MapDifficulty) from the beta and launch clients, each item traced to a Wowhead Forever tooltip dated 20 September 2026 or later; quest details from client quest data (build 1.60.1.70338) and public creature-cache reports. Level bands are Blizzard's recommendations (20 October overview, 15 September ranges) or community charts.
• Zone quest tables (30–60): Classic 1.12 baseline from the Classic quest database, kept as the baseline Forever builds on, with Forever changes noted where known.
• Zones: beta client area levels (build 1.60.1.69876) with Blizzard's published ranges where the client has none; new-zone descriptions from Blizzard's What's Next and Found Photos recaps.
• Professions: recipes, reagents, created items and skill ranks from client build 1.60.1.70753, checked 3 November 2026. Acquisition notes are community reports.
• PvP: client build 1.60.1.70450 (17 October) for ranks, map records, marks and set pieces; Blizzard's PvP progression post for the rules.
• Hunter pets and library books: client ability records; book locations are player reports (wow4ever, ForeverChanges) checked 27 October.
• Art: Blizzard Entertainment's official WoW Forever screenshots from its announcement articles; icons are Blizzard's game icons. All © Blizzard Entertainment, used for reference.
• Official text: Blizzard News and forum posts (announcement, panel recaps, beta notes, development notes, raid overview, rulesets, Legacy, launch).

Validation

Builds are replayed point by point through the calculator's rules (five points per row, prerequisites at full rank, rank caps, 51 points) before publication; the source list and the validator are in the repository. Where Blizzard's notes and the client disagree, the client wins on the calculator and the note is shown as a hotfix badge.

Limits

• Nothing is verified by Blizzard. Hotfixes can change numbers before I re-snapshot.
• Drop chances, Favor payouts, riding training prices and exact PvP set stats are not in the data I can read.
• Dungeon boss lists for the five launch-sealed dungeons were not public before launch.

Corrections: contact. Changes: changelog.