The new WoW Weekly rounds up links to five articles from the Forever team — how to pick a ruleset, the new naming system, the Skyborne race, and Legacy — and announces the launch of the Forever Podcast with Aggrend, Tim Jones, Countdown To Classic, and Xaryu.

Blizzard released a fresh WoW Weekly for September 25, 2026, and the lion's share of the issue is about World of Warcraft: Forever. Instead of the usual "what's new in retail" roundup, readers get a set of links to five articles from the Forever team plus the announcement of the first episode of the Forever Podcast.

The recording of the podcast's first episode is already out — it's a conversation between senior game designer Josh "Aggrend" Greenfield, lead Classic designer Tim Jones, and two content creators, Countdown To Classic and Xaryu. Blizzard hasn't said anything about the format or topic of the first episode.

What else is in the issue for Forever

The rest of the WoW Weekly Forever coverage is five standalone articles on Blizzard's site, all built around the theme of "your first choices in a reimagined Azeroth":

• Choose Your Ruleset — how ruleset selection works in Forever and why characters now have a set of rules tied to the account instead of a server.
• Create a Name of Your Own — why Blizzard is moving to a two-part character name and how that ties into the "serverless" world structure.
• Create the Hero You Want to Be — race and class combinations, including the ones that have reopened, plus a dedicated piece on Skyborne as a brand-new race with its own story.
• Meet the New Skyborne — a deep dive into the race: the tale of wind and ancestors, the starting zone of Zephras Isle, and the fork between Horde and Alliance.
• Get to Know the Legacy System — how account-wide progression works via the Legacy system.

Alongside Forever, the issue also covers retail — that's not our beat, and those pieces won't show up in the Forever feed.

In practice

• The beta is live, with the November 4, 2026 release just weeks away — WoW Weekly has rounded up five Forever team articles that are the best place to start: ruleset selection, the new naming system, race and class combos, Skyborne, and Legacy. Think of it as the required reading before you roll a character.
• Want to hear the team in their own words — Forever Podcast Ep. 1 is already available, with Countdown To Classic and Xaryu joining Aggrend and Tim Jones. It's the first episode to bring two external content creators onto the show.