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Known issues as the Forever beta opens

A reply in Blizzard's thread WoW Forever Beta Known Issues - October 8

Kaivax

Summary

Blizzard's original post

Blizzard opened the WoW Forever beta with a list of known issues. They range from a Barber Chair Lua error and friends being switched off to wrong Glancing Blow values and pet stats missing from the character sheet. Several were already marked as fixed in the next beta build.

Highlights

  • Barber Chair Lua error, and character friends switched off on the beta
  • Glancing Blow chance and damage wrong for casters, and the melee penalty wrong against higher-level targets
  • Hunter and Warlock pet stats incomplete on the character sheet
  • Escaping Ban'ethil, Starshards with Twilight Focus and Vengeance fixed in the next beta build
  • Guild charters can be turned in with no signatures as a stopgap

What this means for players

This is a beta bug list, so most of it should not carry into your plans. Glancing Blow numbers on the beta's character sheet should not be trusted until Blizzard says they are fixed.

How the list works

Blizzard posted this list as the beta opened and says it will update the post as issues are added or resolved. Several of the first entries were marked as already fixed in the next beta build at the time they were listed.

Still open

User interface

  • Using a Barber Chair throws a Lua error. Reported
  • The minimap can sit partly outside the screen. Reported
  • The character pane leaves out Level, Class and Titles; listed as work in progress. Reported
  • As a result of the Glancing Blow problems, the Glancing Blow chances on the character sheet cannot be trusted; listed as work in progress. Reported

General fixes

  • Character friends are switched off on the beta. Reported
  • Some players cannot sign guild charters. As a stopgap, Blizzard has made it possible to turn in a charter that has no signatures; listed as work in progress. Reported

Items

  • Waylaid Crates fail for items whose maximum stack is smaller than the amount the crate asks for. Blizzard says the next beta build fixes it. Reported
  • Waylaid Crate: Apprentice Curiosities refuses Greater Magic Essence and wrongly lets you target Lesser Magic Essence. Blizzard says the next beta build fixes it. Reported

World and quests

  • In Teldrassil, during the quest Escaping Ban'ethil, Sentinel Lynessa Duskblossom moves a little too fast and uses her Strike ability over and over. Blizzard says the next beta build fixes it. Reported
  • Exploring Coldridge Valley does not uncover it on the map. Blizzard says the next beta build fixes it. Reported

Priest

Paladin

  • The Retribution talent Vengeance can trigger from periodic critical strikes. Blizzard says the next beta build fixes it. Reported
  • Gaining a rank of Holy Strike does not feel good enough. Blizzard says the next beta build fixes it. Reported

Warlock

  • Ranks 3 and 4 of Create Firestone are missing the part of the tooltip that describes the conjured item. Blizzard says the next beta build fixes it. Reported
  • On the character sheet, Warlock pets show no Mana resource, no note of how they scale from their master, and the wrong Health-from-Stamina scaling; listed as work in progress. Reported

Classes

  • For Hunter and Warlock pets, the character sheet omits the master's scaling coefficient for Hit chance and does not show Expertise at all; listed as work in progress. Reported
  • Pet Movement Speed on the character sheet shows the wrong base values in yards per second; listed as work in progress. Reported
  • For casters, the chance of a Glancing Blow is wrong at all levels, and the damage a glancing blow removes is wrong too; listed as work in progress. Reported
  • For melee, Glancing Blow chance is right at all levels and so is the penalty against targets of equal level; only the damage penalty against higher-level targets is wrong. Listed as work in progress. Reported

Legacy

  • Pressing Y opens the Legacy System before level 25, and doing that causes Lua errors on its first and third tabs. Reported

Guides this affects

This is our own summary of what Blizzard posted, not Blizzard's text. The original is the authority.