Six days after launch, Blizzard has scheduled WoW: Forever's first class balance pass. Kaivax posted "Class Tuning Incoming – November 10" on the official forums at 21:11 UTC on November 6, naming exactly three problems the team intends to fix with hotfixes on Tuesday, November 10 — and, unusually for an announcement this early in a launch, telling players to change how they gear up in the meantime.

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The three changes coming November 10

The post frames all three as issues spotted "now that players around the world are leveling up in WoW: Forever" — that is, from live launch data, not from the beta that closed on October 23.

1. Hunter pets and Warlock Voidwalkers are too fragile as tanks. Blizzard says both pet families "are not as durable as tanks as we would like them to be," and states the target explicitly: their effectiveness should end up "relatively the same as in Classic Era." Stats will be adjusted as necessary to get there. This matters more than it sounds — in Classic-era content, pet tanking is a legitimate leveling and dungeon strategy, and if pets die in two hits, that whole playstyle collapses.

2. Affliction Warlocks only need to channel Wrack. Player reports showed that "always channeling Wrack" outperforms also casting damage-over-time spells like Siphon Life, Corruption, and Bane of Agony. Blizzard will adjust so the DoTs "are always worthwhile to cast combined with Wrack, without affecting Affliction Warlocks' total damage output." Note the constraint: this is a rotation-health fix, not a buff or nerf to the spec's overall numbers.

3. Enhancement Shamans are wearing caster gear. Intellect and Spellpower are currently outperforming Strength and Attack Power for Enhancement. Blizzard plans to flip that: Strength should become "always their strongest stat," and Enhancement Shamans should stop preferring gear itemized for Mages and Warlocks. The post includes the actionable part in bold: leveling Enhancement Shamans should start collecting Strength and Attack Power gear now, because the swing is coming. Ideally, Blizzard says, an Enhancement player's best items have Strength or Attack Power with some Intellect and/or Spell Power on the side.

The post also sets a cadence: class balance changes on Tuesday, "and then on future Tuesdays if necessary." That is the first explicit statement of a weekly balance rhythm for Forever since launch, and it matches the four-month content cadence the developers described before release — our roadmap coverage has the broader schedule.

A November 6 hotfix already previewed the pet fix

The tuning announcement did not come out of nowhere. In the second post-launch hotfix batch, posted to the official thread at 01:07 UTC on November 7 and dated November 6, Blizzard already shipped a stopgap for the exact pet problem it now promises to finish:

• Voidwalker base health increased by about 40 at all levels — the first live adjustment to pet durability
• Soul Siphon no longer incorrectly causes Wrack to increase its own damage — a bug fix touching the same Affliction rotation the November 10 pass will rebalance

The ~40 HP per level is a nudge, not the announced fix. The blue post promises stat adjustments "as necessary" to reach Classic Era-equivalent tanking effectiveness, which implies more than one flat health bump. If you are leveling a Warlock, expect your voidwalker to get sturdier again on Tuesday.

What the post does not say

There are no numbers in the announcement — no health percentages, no stat-weight targets, no exact hotfix time — and no mention of classes beyond the three named. Blizzard explicitly leaves the door open: "We may find new issues over the weekend, and we will keep you updated." Anything you read this weekend about specific November 10 values is speculation until the patch notes land. For context on how Forever's class design was rebuilt in the first place, our October 31 datamine coverage lists what shipped at launch.