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The hotfix post dated 5 November 2026 covers NPC spawns, items, and Plainsrunning in PvP. This is a digest with dates, not a race to repost Wowhead.

Launch map of the Forever continents from the live announcement — Patch notes and news digest
Roadmap graphic from the BlizzCon 2026 Forever presentation — Patch notes and news digest

5 November 2026

Blizzard's hotfix note for 5 November, also indexed as 6 November in some regions, calls out NPC respawns, item fixes, Plainsrunning interactions in PvP, and quest repairs. I am not expanding that into a spell-by-spell simulator. If a quest you need is in that list, the post itself is the checklist.

Class tuning from the beta deep dives is older than this hotfix and lives on each class page with its own date. Development-note roundups on Wowhead were truncated when I opened them, so I do not treat those headlines as a second numerical source.

Digest
DateTopicSources
5 Nov 2026NPCs, items, Plainsrunning, quests1 official source
Beta deep divesClass changes, see class pagesBlizzard · 1 publisher

Questions

How often will you update this?

When a new Blizzard hotfix post is public. The checked date on the page is the last time I opened the sources.

Where are class numbers?

On the class pages, each tied to that class's deep dive.

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Sources

Checked 2026-11-06. Each row below is a page I opened.