Systems
Group finder, instance difficulty, raid sizes and the rules on gold-bid raids.
State of research: 26 Sept 2026, beta build 1.60.1.70009.
The BlizzCon demo had the Classic-style Looking for Group listing but no automatic dungeon finder, no teleport to instances and no summoning stones. Players travel to entrances themselves. Blizzard has not published a written statement on this.
Blizzard's pillars stress social friction: no flying, no level scaling, deliberate convenience choices.
Official: Barrow Deeps is a 10-player raid, Hyjal Summit a 20-player raid, and Onyxia's LairOnyxia's LairNo tooltip in this build. returns as a 40-player raid on 9 December 2026. Per the community transcript of the developer Q&A, every instance has a single difficulty, there is no flexible raid size at launch, and each future tier is planned with a 10- and a 20-player raid.
Per the community transcript of the developer Q&A, Josh Greenfield said GDKP will not be allowed and gold buyers will be punished severely. There is no written Blizzard policy for Forever yet.
