WoW Forever PvP Guides
Class talents and abilities, battlegrounds, ranks and rewards for WoW Forever PvP, built from Blizzard's beta announcements and datamined beta data.
New to PvP in Forever
How to join, what Honor and Rank Points do, and what each rank unlocks.
PvP basics
Rulesets, flagging, and your first match.
Battlegrounds
Four maps, level brackets, and how to queue.
Honor and Rank Points
How to earn and use Honor, Rank Points and marks.
PvP ranks and weekly caps
Rank Points, titles and seasonal resets.
PvP gear and vendors
Rank rewards, item costs and vendor locations.
PvP glossary
Definitions of PvP terms and abbreviations.
Class guides
Talent trees and races for every class →Talents worth taking, key abilities with cooldowns, best racials and recent changes for each class.
Druid
Form rules, Shifting Power and what Druids can use while shapeshifted.
Hunter
Pets, traps, the dead zone and the new Sniper Shot.
Mage
Polymorph, Frost control, Frostfire Bolt and casting changes.
Paladin
Holy Strike, Seals, blessings and the class’s limits.
Priest
Shields, Binding Heal, Penance and race-specific Priest spells.
Rogue
Stealth openers, stuns, Setup and poison changes.
Shaman
Totems, stacking rules, Water Shield and Shaman PvP gear.
Warlock
Fear, Banes and Curses, demons and Life Tap.
Warrior
Mortal Strike, stance Rage and the new Protection side tree.
Prepare and play
Darkspear Islands
The new 15 v 15 battleground: bases, the central flag and rewards.
Races and racials
Every racial in Forever, the Skyborne and which racials matter in PvP.
Combat mechanics
Stuns, fears, interrupts, dispels and the PvP changes in Forever.
PvP preparation
Trinket, potions, bandages, engineering items and Legacy perks.
Professions for PvP
Engineering, Alchemy, First Aid, Enchanting and camps.
PvP controls and macros
Keybinds, mouseover macros, weapon swaps and the Cooldown Manager.
PvP rank calculator
Estimate the season week you reach your target rank from your starting rank and weekly Rank Points.
How we source these guides
Blizzard comes first: talent and ability changes are from its dated beta notes and class previews. Levels, cooldowns and other values Blizzard has not published come from datamined beta data in Wowhead's Forever database or wago.tools, and we say so. Other guides, such as Icy Veins, are named where we use them. We have not tested the guides in game, so each page has a beta note, and short notes mark the values that are still open:
- Not confirmed yet
- Blizzard has not published the value or rule, or it has not been measured.
- Conflicting sources
- Two sources disagree. We say which one we list.
- Beta bug
- A problem Blizzard lists as a known issue.
- Reported, not confirmed
- A value from another guide or database that Blizzard has not confirmed.
- Calculator assumption
- A rule the rank calculator assumes until Blizzard confirms it.
Library changes
: Added nine class guides, the class index and six shared guides, and updated the beginner guides with Blizzard's October announcements.
Image credits
Arathi Basin and Alterac Valley screenshots are © Blizzard Entertainment, from its Arathi Basin and Warsong Gulch / Alterac Valley articles. They show WoW Classic locations, not confirmed Forever visuals. Diagrams are original WoW Honor illustrations, not game UI.