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WoW Forever Triple Spec? Blizzard Has Commitment Issues

31 October 2026 · Short · Watch on YouTube

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Blizzard's Kris Zierhut told IGN that Season of Discovery's eight-to-ten-week content pace felt "way, way, way too fast", so WoW Forever aims for a new raid tier about every four months, or 17 weeks. In the same interview: talents should stay a commitment, dual spec is in at launch, and a third spec? "I wouldn't take that off the table." An obituary, read by the deceased.

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Season of Discovery, we cut it down to closer to that eight week or 10 week schedule. It felt way, way, way too fast.

IGN, The Big World of Warcraft Forever Interview With Blizzard · Kris Zierhut to IGN · 2026-10-27

Would we ever want to have a third spec, for example? I wouldn't take that off the table.

IGN, The Big World of Warcraft Forever Interview With Blizzard · Kris Zierhut to IGN · 2026-10-27

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  1. IGN · Jacqueline Thomas · 2026-10-27 But Season of Discovery, we cut it down to closer to that eight week or 10 week schedule. It felt way, way, way too fast.
  2. IGN · Jacqueline Thomas · 2026-10-27 we're fairly convinced the correct rate is something closer to once every four months or 17 weeks or three times a year
  3. IGN · Jacqueline Thomas · 2026-10-27 So I think we do want to keep talents being a commitment.
  4. IGN · Jacqueline Thomas · 2026-10-27 The first thing is that we have dual spec in the game at launch.
  5. IGN · Jacqueline Thomas · 2026-10-27 Would we ever want to have a third spec, for example? I wouldn't take that off the table. We don't need it now

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  • SignsOfKelani: “Triple Spec, Faster Raid Tiers & Weird Class Nerfs Just Before Launch | WoW Forever” (YouTube, 2026-10-30)

Transcript

Obituaries — I counted

I counted. Three ways. Blizzard's Kris Zierhut, to IGN, on Season of Discovery's pace: "way, way, way too fast"1. One way per spec. So Forever gets a raid tier every "four months or 17 weeks"2. Goldilocks, with a tier set.

Obituaries — the commitment

Zierhut wants talents to stay "a commitment"3. Dual spec at launch4. And a third spec? "I wouldn't take that off the table"5.

Division. Over a third talent page.

Obituaries — cause of death

Four months suits me. I want Forever alive in ten years. But a commitment you can triple is a situationship. Cause of death: commitment issues.

I'll be here. Forever.