Travel Rules
How travel works in Forever (mounts, flight, hearthstones).
17 entries
| Class movement · 3 | ||
| Druid travel | Classic: Teleport: Moonglade at 10; Aquatic Form at 16; Travel Form at 30 (+40% run speed, outdoors); no flight form exists in Classic or Forever. Druid-only flights link Nighthaven with Rut'theran Village and Thunder Bl… | Unchanged-baseline |
| Hunter Aspect of the Cheetah / Pack | Classic: Aspect of the Cheetah (+30% run speed, dazed when hit) and Aspect of the Pack for the group. No Forever change reported. | Unknown |
| Shaman Ghost Wolf and Astral Recall | Classic: Ghost Wolf at level 20 (+40% speed outdoors); Astral Recall at level 30 (hearth-like). No Forever change reported. | Unknown |
| Flight paths · 1 | ||
| Flight path discovery | Classic: you must speak to a flight master to learn its node before you can fly there; fares depend on distance, with reputation discounts. No Forever change reported, and no Forever flight path additions have been publi… | Unchanged-baseline |
| General · 1 | ||
| Travel design philosophy | Blizzard: 'the journey before the destination'; new ships 'preserve the feeling of crossing a large world while making it easier for friends to meet'. Guided.news: make travel easier 'without diminishing the scale of the… | Confirmed |
| Group travel · 2 | ||
| Meeting Stones do not summon; LFG does not teleport | Kotaku: 'Meeting Stones still exist at the front of dungeons, but they don't let you summon other players.' Warcraft Tavern: 'players must physically travel to the entrances of dungeons and raids'. Ana Resendes (Inven): … | Unchanged-baseline |
| Warlock Ritual of Summoning is the only player summon | Requires the warlock plus two other party members present; costs a Soul Shard. | Unchanged-baseline |
| Mounts · 4 | ||
| No flying mounts | Blizzard: 'no flying mounts, no level scaling'. Tim Jones (Wccftech): 'no flying mounts and no level scaling, full stop.' | Confirmed |
| Paladin and Warlock class mounts | Classic: Paladin Warhorse (40) and Charger quest (60); Warlock Felsteed (40) and Dreadsteed quest (60). Forever: Found Photos panel shows level-60 charger quests, 'Redemption' for Alliance and one 'in the name of Retribu… | Changed |
| Riding levels, gold costs and mount speeds in Forever: unpublished | LFCarry: 'Blizzard has not published the gold cost at 40 or at 60, or whether those remain the unlock levels.' Classic 1.12 baseline: level 40 apprentice riding for 60% speed (about 100g total with mount), level 60 epic … | Unknown |
| Riding uses Burning Crusade-style cost: gold goes into training and a mount is granted when you learn riding | Blizzard deep dive: 'adopting the Burning Crusade-style mount-cost approach, shifting the up-front mount cost into training and granting a mount when players learn the riding skill.' Kotaku dev quote: 'we've readjusted t… | Changed |
| Profession · 1 | ||
| Engineering teleporters | Classic: Dimensional Ripper - Everlook (Goblin) and Ultrasafe Transporter: Gadgetzan (Gnomish), both at 260 Engineering. No Forever change reported. | Unknown |
| Racial movement · 2 | ||
| Skyborne racial: Skysight (Horde) | Active racial for Horde Skyborne: 'grants a blessing of the elements that increases run speed by 10%'. Duration, cooldown and stacking with Travel Form/Ghost Wolf unpublished. Alliance Skyborne instead get Read Ley Line … | New |
| Skyborne racial: Walk on Air | Active racial for both factions: glide downward for 10 sec (wow.gg: 'lets you glide down through the air for 10 seconds'). It is not flight. Cooldown unpublished. | New |
| Starting zone · 1 | ||
| Zephras Isle exit | Skyborne start on Zephras Isle (1-12), a flying island in Skywall, the Elemental Plane of Air. How players leave, where each faction lands, and whether other races can visit are unpublished. PewPewShop: 'Blizzard has not… | Unknown |
| Teleport · 2 | ||
| Hearthstone | Classic: 10 sec cast, 60 min cooldown, returns you to your bound inn. No Forever change reported. | Unknown |
| Mage teleports and portals | Classic: teleports to the faction capitals at 20 (Stormwind/Ironforge, Orgrimmar/Undercity) and 30 (Darnassus, Thunder Bluff); portals at 40 and 50. No Forever change reported. | Unknown |