#Datamining
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Six Forever item sets that care where you stand, and one that just gets angry
A saved extract of Forever's client data lists seven item sets. Six have bonus descriptions that mention places: mana, regeneration, healing or critical strike doubled in named kinds of area, and speed in the Plaguelands, the Barrens and Stonetalon. The seventh, Partners in Crime, is a two-piece Strength pair. Recorded definitions, not tested effects.
World, items and secrets
Six pieces, bonuses at five: how Forever's client lays out 18 Tier 1 sets
A saved extract of Forever's client data lists 18 six-member Tier 1 sets whose bonuses stop at five pieces, labelled by class and specialisation: four for Druid, three each for Paladin and Shaman. Healer, tank and form bonuses are recorded definitions, not tested gear.
Raids, dungeons and guilds
Six locked items, six professions: a matched set of conditions in the Forever client
Six readable condition records each pair a crafting profession at skill 300 with an encrypted item, spell and previous quest. What the matched structure shows, and why a coordinated profession quest line is only a hypothesis.
World, items and secrets
Dreambound Pinnacle: a readable place name that points to an encrypted map record
Area record 17845, Dreambound Pinnacle, is readable, but the map record 2981 and parent area record 16597 it points to are encrypted. It is the only one of 1,375 readable area records with such a reference, and only the child area’s name was recovered.
World, items and secrets
Lunar Saturation: a readable Elune aura beside a locked Forever item
A readable aura called Lunar Saturation, whose text mentions the light of Elune, appears in a condition alongside encrypted item 266151 and an encrypted quest. A lunar quest context is plausible; the item itself stays unnamed.
World, items and secrets
63 encrypted item detail records, not 12,619: an exact count from the Forever client
Readable section metadata in the Forever client’s item tables, reconciled with the readable rows, counts every locked row without decrypting it: 63 locked item detail records in ItemSparse and 68 locked base item IDs in Item. The 12,619 readable items without details are absent, not encrypted.
World, items and secrets
Protector mail before level 30: what an archived Forever item table lists
Forever build 1.60.1.70532’s item tables hold nine Protector-named mail records with required levels from 12 to 25, seven of them tagged with spell power. They are datamined records, not confirmed gear: what they show, and what still has to be checked in game.
Classes, races and leveling
Blizzard on datamined beta art: some of it is not meant for Forever
A 16 October staff note says a number of art assets datamined from the latest Forever beta build are not intended for this version of WoW. What the note covers, what it leaves out, and how to read the next find.
Design and community