What's new · WoW Forever

13 November 2026

A new look for every Forever page (Dashboard, Forever): all of Forever now shares one colour style. Each part of a page sits on its own dark panel and every row, card and tile on light parchment, so lists are easier to scan and item and class colours stay readable. Everything the pages showed is still there, in the same place in the menu.

9 November 2026

Desktop app 0.2.4 (Forever and Retail): the app no longer lists a character's loot finds and guild roster as characters of their own, and it finds the WoW Forever folder by itself, whatever the game calls it. From the Microsoft Store it updates by itself.
A simpler Friends page (Friends, Forever): your invite link on top, then your friends, then what you share with all of them, in one list. What one friend sees of you, the private label you give them and removing them are behind the eye on their card. A character a friend shares whole now shows once.
A picture of the character on the Armory (Armory, Forever): a character read from Battle.net shows Blizzard's own render of it at the top of its page, in the gear and transmogs it wears.
Transmogs on the Armory (Armory, Forever): a character read from Battle.net shows under each worn item what it is transmogrified to, and its Collections tab counts the appearances it has collected, per slot.
The Armory finds players in the other region (Armory, Forever): look up a name Battle.net does not know in Europe and it tries the Americas too, and the other way round.
Three new dungeons filled in (Dungeons & raids, Forever): The Drowned City, Krol'dok Stronghold and Blackmaw Hold now list their bosses, the gear players have seen them drop and their dungeon quests with level and giver, from conquestcapped.com's guides. Not checked in the game yet; drop chances come once our own players report kills there.
Raid prep checked against Forever (Raid prep, Forever): the list now follows Forever's own alchemy and first aid recipes. Healing potions come from First Aid, Mageblood is an elixir, and the four new Natural flasks get a line on Barrow Deeps and Hyjal Summit: +60 Stamina, plus hit, crit, haste or less chance to be dodged inside Mount Hyjal and its two raids. Both raids also list their bosses.
Shen'dralas has a level band (Zones, Forever): about 42 to 45, worked out from its creatures and quest givers, until Blizzard gives one.
Real drops filling in (Dungeons & raids, Forever): the dungeon list shows which instances have the most kills reported so far, each linked to its table of what dropped. Pasting the line from /pv on My characters adds your kills too, not only the desktop app.

8 November 2026

Class quests (Class quests, Forever): every class quest of all nine classes, from Blizzard's own game data, with its level, who gives it and where, and which quest comes first, from warcraft.wiki.gg where it knows them. Signed in with Battle.net, the ones your character already did are ticked.
A quest list beside the world map (Forever): addon 1.24.27 opens a list next to the world map with the quests of the dungeons you filter, where you stand on each, who gives them and where. Click one and the map goes there and the arrow points the way. A second tab lists your class quests, in the order you can take them. A spyglass button beside the map's switch filters the marks: all dungeons, those around your level, or the ones you pick. Update the addon through CurseForge or download it here.
Where inside the dungeon (Dungeons & raids, Forever): a quest given or handed in inside a dungeon says where, like Kharan Mighthammer in the Detention Block of Blackrock Depths. Quests that had no known giver, such as those of the Wetlands excavation and Dalaran, now have one.
City of Dalaran's gear (Dungeons & raids, Forever): what each of its eight bosses drops, from warcraft.wiki.gg. Drop chances are not known yet.
Guildmates once in the addon (Forever): addon 1.24.27 shows a guildmate who uses PatchVault as one row on its Guild tab, with their full name, instead of twice.
Dungeon quests on the world map (Forever): addon 1.24.18 marks every dungeon quest you still have to do on the game's world map, with the game's own quest marks: a yellow ! to pick up, grey when your level is too low, blue when another quest comes first, and a ? to hand in. Hover a mark for the quests, click it for the arrow. A button in the map's corner turns the marks on and off.
Loot tooltips (Dungeons & raids, Forever): hovering an item's icon shows its tooltip too, items seen by players show their real name instead of a number, and the comparison with what you wear has a background of its own and always shows the item you point at.

7 November 2026

See-through addon windows (Forever and Retail): a slider on top of the addon's Extras tab sets how solid the background of every PatchVault window is, from 20 to 100 percent, so the game can show through. Edges and text stay solid. Also /pv opacity 60.
A guild calendar (Guild, Forever): the Guild page has a Calendar tab. Leaders plan raids and other events, also weekly, with the tanks, healers and damage they need. Guildmates sign up with a character and a role; a leader accepts, benches or turns down each sign-up, and can put trusted players on auto-confirm. The guild master decides per rank, and per person, who may plan events and accept sign-ups.
An arrow to the next step of a dungeon quest (Forever): addon 1.24.18 shows an arrow on screen when you click a quest on its Dungeons tab, with the distance, pointing to the quest giver, where the game sends you, or who takes the quest in. With TomTom installed you get TomTom's arrow. Update the addon through CurseForge or download it here.
A quest list that stays open (Forever): addon 1.24.14 adds a Quest list button to its Dungeons tab. It opens a small window with the dungeon's quests that stays open beside the game until you close it, follows your quest log, and points the arrow where you click. Pick the dungeon from a dropdown, there and on the Dungeons tab.
Prequests and quest chains (Dungeons & raids, Forever): a quest that needs another quest first is marked Prequest and says which, and a chain shows once, with the step it is. The addon also says whether you did the prequest already.
Quests that start from a drop (Dungeons & raids, Forever): marked Drop, with the item and who drops it when known, like the Abominable Head from The Baron in Ruins of Lordaeron.

6 November 2026

An Armory page for every WoW Forever character (Armory, Forever): not only for PatchVault players. Any character Battle.net knows gets a page from Blizzard's public armory: gear, stats, reputation, professions with their recipes, PvP and talents. Search by part of a name among every character the site knows, including your whole guild; a full name nobody here knows yet can be looked up on Battle.net. Reading a page again from Battle.net, and looking a name up, needs an account.
Your whole guild's crafting (Guild, Forever): the Crafting tab now also shows what guildmates without PatchVault can make, from Battle.net, and every name on the roster opens that character's Armory page.
Your WoW Forever characters from Battle.net (My characters, Forever): sign in with Battle.net and every WoW Forever character on your account comes in by itself, no addon needed: level, gear with enchants, stats, reputation, professions with their recipes (so you show up on Crafters too), PvP, talents, achievement points, and how many quests, mounts and pets. A character the addon also sends stays one card: Battle.net keeps its level, gear and professions up to date, the addon still brings bags, bank, money and played time. A bar on My characters says how old the reading is, reads it again by itself after an hour, and has a Refresh button. Already linked Battle.net before today? Sign in with it once more.
Under level 10, Battle.net shows little (Forever): Blizzard publishes a character from level 10 on. Below that its card shows only name, level and class, and says so; it fills in by itself at level 10, or right away when you use the addon.
Bigger numbers on Population (Population, Forever): a count held back so a small one beside it cannot be worked out now says how many at least, "2533 or more" rather than "5 or more".

5 November 2026

Your whole guild on the Guild page (Guild, Forever): the roster now lists everyone in the guild, not only the guildmates who share. Those who use PatchVault and share are marked PatchVault and keep their gear, item level and professions; the rest of the guild follows with name, rank, level and class, as the game's own Guild window shows them. Only guildmates the game's member list confirms can see it. A member list read before today shows names only, until one of you syncs again.
Your whole guild in the addon too (Forever and Retail): addon 1.24.4 lists every guildmate on its Guild tab and marks who uses PatchVault, also those who have not shared a profession yet. Update the addon through CurseForge or download it here.

30 October 2026

Who in your guild can craft what, in the game (Forever and Retail): addon 1.24.3 adds a Guild tab. Type an item or an enchant and it lists the guildmates who can make it, online first, with their profession and rank; click a name to whisper them. Item tooltips name them too. Click a name to browse everything they make, profession by profession, or pick a profession on top to see everyone who has it. Hover an item to see what it takes and how much of it you carry. The window can be made bigger from its bottom right corner. It works without the website and without the desktop app: guildmates who run PatchVault tell each other over the game's hidden addon channel, so nothing shows in chat and nothing comes to this site. Guildmates who are offline are passed on by whoever is online. Update the addon through CurseForge or download it here, and open each profession window once so your guild sees yours.

23 October 2026

Population counts the players you meet (Population, Forever): with addon 1.23.0, the players you target, hover, pass or group with in WoW Forever are counted too, as totals per realm under "Seen in game". Never a name or a guild, each player counted once however many people met them, and numbers under five stay hidden. Turn it off on the addon's Extras tab.

18 October 2026

New artwork for WoW Forever (WoW Forever, Forever): every Forever page now sits on a painted night landscape with a glowing vault gate, and the welcome panel shows four adventurers in front of it. The panels are darker so text stays easy to read on top of it. Links to PatchVault Forever shared on Discord or social media show the new picture too.

16 October 2026

Patch 12.1.5 on the loot page (Loot & item level, Retail): the Labyrinth of Kindo’jan and the new raid, The Unbinding of Kith’ix, have their own tables. For the Labyrinth: what 3 chambers on tier 11 pay in crests, how chambers count for the Great Vault, and the Hero and Myth items from soul fragments. The Delves row of the Great Vault now says the Labyrinth counts for it. Numbers nobody has confirmed yet are marked as such.
Addon 1.22.4 for 12.1.5 (Retail): the game no longer marks PatchVault as out of date. Nothing else changed.
Crest chips after the cap is lifted (Retail): when Blizzard lifts the crest cap in the week of 20 October, the chips on your characters show what you hold instead of a cap of zero.

15 October 2026

Population counts every character (Population, Forever): characters you pasted on the site were left out of the totals, only the ones the desktop app sent were counted, so about a third was missing. Both are counted now.
Crafters and Friends show pasted characters (Crafters, Forever): the same gap as Population: characters pasted on the site before addon 1.22.3 were missing from Crafters, from what friends see and from your share link. They are in now, with their professions and skill ranks. Their recipe lists only come in with the next sync from the addon.

12 October 2026

Add an email address to a Battle.net account (Account): Blizzard never shares your email address, so accounts made with Battle.net had none and we could not reach you. You can now add one on the Account page; it is added once you open the link we mail to it. Right after signing up with Battle.net the page asks for it, and you can skip that.
Feedback asks for your email (Feedback): every message now needs an address, so we can tell you when there is an answer. Signed in with an account that has one, nothing changes. On a Battle.net account without one, you can tick a box to add it to your account too.
Battle.net finds US characters (Retail): signing in with Battle.net only looked for characters in Europe, so players in the Americas were linked without a single character and their gear, item level, class and Mythic+ never showed. It now looks in both regions. Already linked? Sign in with Battle.net once more and your characters appear.

11 October 2026

Your beta, kept (Your WoW Forever beta, Forever): when the beta characters are cleared after the beta ends, every account keeps its own beta recap: each character you played, with its gear, stats, reputation, professions and recipes as they were at the end, plus totals for level, time played and gold. Only you can see it, you can download it as a file, and you can delete it. Until the reset the page shows a preview of what it will keep. You find it on your Account page.
Your Alt planner is kept for live (Alt planner, Forever): plans you make now stay when WoW Forever goes live. Only the beta characters are cleared on launch day; your plan is not. Your plan is also a table now, one row per alt with its race and class, faction, role, professions, realm and whether you made it yet. What you will have now counts only your plan and your live characters; beta characters are left out.

10 October 2026

A new character sheet (My characters, Forever): the sheet under a character has a new look. A header with the level, who it is and buttons for its bags, bank and Forget; tabs with counts; stats as cards with the class's main stats marked; gear as a paper doll with the real item icons, the average item level, the quality mix and the two lowest slots; reputation and skills as bars; recipe materials as chips; PvP as tiles and raid lockouts per boss. The Armory page, the friends link and the recipe link now sit together on a new Sharing tab. Armory pages and a friend's full view use the same look.
A bigger Armory search (Armory, Forever): filter by class, faction and level as well as name, region and realm, and sort by latest sync, name or level. Results come 50 at a time with Show more for the next ones. Cards on top count the characters, guilds and realms on the Armory for the region and realm you picked; the guild count never says which guilds.
Get your character found (Armory, Forever): the Armory now tells visitors without an account how to get their own character a page, and search engines can read the characters on it.

9 October 2026

Armory pages for everyone, and an Armory search (Armory, Forever): every WoW Forever character synced to PatchVault now has a public Armory page by default, like the WoW Armory, with its gear, stats, reputation, professions and recipes. Gold, bags, the bank, zone and played time are never on it. The new Armory in the menu (under Players) looks a character up by name, region and realm. A new page joins the search once its character has synced again on a later day. Don't want it? Press Turn off at the top of the character's sheet, or Turn them all off on the notice that explains the change.
Crafters per profession (Crafters, Forever): a row of badges at the top shows, for the region you picked, how many characters know each profession, with its icon. Players with an open profile and players counted without a name are both in the number; nobody is named by it. Click a badge to show only that profession, click it again to show all.
Pasting counts as a sync (Forever): with addon 1.22.3 the line from /pv carries everything the desktop app sends: the character sheet, its recipe lists, the boss kills it saw and its guild's member list. Paste it while signed in and your characters reach Crafters, your friends and your guild just as a sync from the app does, and your recipes show on the character sheet. On Retail a pasted line now reaches your account the same way.
Surnames in the Alt planner (Alt planner, Forever): a planned alt's name now fits a first name and a surname, as Forever has them. A plan with only the first name is still marked as made once that character syncs with its surname.

8 October 2026

Old character data is marked (Great Vault, Retail): when the character you are looking at has not synced from the addon since the weekly reset, a notice above the vault says when it last did and which addon version sent it, so an old vault, checklist or wallet is no longer mistaken for this week's. After two weeks the notice turns red, the character's button gets a !, and its currencies on the character card say how old they are.
A welcome mail with the three steps (Account): a new account made with an email address now gets one mail with how your characters get in (the addon, /reload and /pv, or the desktop app), and one reminder a few days later if none has come in. The reminder asks, in one click, what held you back, so we can fix it. Each mail has a link to stop them; Battle.net accounts have no address and get none.

7 October 2026

A page for every dungeon and raid (Dungeons and raids, Forever): each instance now has a page of its own, such as The Deadmines, with where it is, its levels, the gear each boss drops, its quests and the other dungeons of its level band, all on one page to bookmark or share. Real drops and the upgrade marks for the character you are playing work there too. The list still has everything together; a dungeon's name now opens its page.
Features opens faster: the Features panel in the menu now loads its cards when you open it, so every other page is lighter to load.

6 October 2026

A dashboard for Forever (Dashboard, Forever): Forever now opens on a dashboard of blocks: the character you are playing with its XP and rested bar, account totals, who is most rested, your characters, raid lockouts, professions per character, your planned alts, what happened since your last visit, your crafter profile and the countdown to launch. Press Customize to drag the blocks around, make each one S, M, L or XL wide, or hide the ones you do not need. Your layout follows your account.
My characters (My characters, Forever): the character table, every sheet, bags and bank, reputation and the account-wide professions moved from the home page to a page of their own, in a new Characters group in the menu together with the Alt planner. Old links to a character's sheet still open it.
Alt planner (Alt planner, Forever): plan the characters you have not made yet, with a name, race, class, professions, secondary skills, role, realm and a note. Only race and class combinations Forever allows can be picked. Put them in the order you want to play them; once you make one in the game and it syncs, it is marked as made. A grid shows every class and primary profession: which you already play, which are planned and which nobody covers yet. Kept in your browser and synced with your account.

5 October 2026

A clearer Battle.net button (Account): signing in with Battle.net and linking it now use a blue Battle.net button with the Battle.net logo, so the other way in is easy to spot next to the email form.

4 October 2026

Addon 1.22.1: the lag is gone (the download button and CurseForge): the addon could make the game stutter while hovering items or looting, and the window was slow to open, since 1.21.4. Found and fixed. On Retail the addon is back to the weekly progress and the Great Vault only: the character sheet, bags, Alts tab and item tooltip lines no longer run there (the site reads Retail characters from Battle.net anyway). WoW Forever keeps everything.
Addon 1.21.4 is out for everyone (the download button and CurseForge): everything from the betas of the last days in one update. A new look for the window, a minimap button, German, French and Spanish, an Alts tab and item tooltips that know your characters, and on Forever a Gear tab, dungeon quests and loot, and zones in the game. It also sends icons for brand new Forever items, files professions correctly on non-English game clients and keeps keys off the Bank tab. A What's new window in the game lists it all the first time you log in.
"No skill sheet" fixed (Forever, addon 1.21.3, a beta on CurseForge): since addon 1.18.0, characters with a profession arrived without their skills, so the character table said "no skill sheet" and those characters were missing from professions, Crafters, Gear finder and Population. With 1.21.3, log in once on each character (or press Sync now) and they come back. Addon 1.16.2, the version on the download button, was never affected.
Gear, dungeons and zones in the game (Forever, addon 1.21.0, a beta on CurseForge): the addon window gains a Gear tab with upgrades for the character you are playing (from your bags, your alts, what your characters can craft and nearby dungeons), a Dungeons tab with each dungeon's quests and its loot by boss with your upgrades marked, and a Zones tab with every zone's levels and faction. The same lists and rules as Gear finder, Dungeons and raids and Zones here. See The addon in the game.
The addon gets a new look (addon 1.20.0, a beta on CurseForge): the PatchVault window in the game now looks like this site, with dark panels, fine gold edges and the tabs down the left side, in Forever's colours on WoW Forever. After an update, a What's new window shows what changed since the version you had (type /pv whatsnew to see it again).
Alts, quests and tooltips in the game (addon 1.19.0, a beta on CurseForge): the PatchVault window gains an Alts tab with every character's level, rested XP, gold, raid lockouts and when you last played it. Item tooltips can say which of your characters carry an item, and on Forever which of them can craft it and whether it is an upgrade for the character you are playing (the same rules as Gear finder). On Forever a Quests tab shows each dungeon's quests, done, in your log or still to pick up and from whom, and entering a dungeon prints a one-line summary. Each extra has its own switch on the new Extras tab, and starts off if you already run an addon that does the same job, like BagSync, Altoholic, Pawn or Questie. See Alts, quests and tooltips in the game.

2 October 2026

New dungeon data (Forever): Excavation Site: Wetlands, open in the beta since 1 October, now has its 14 quests and its loot on Dungeons and raids, with Blizzard's new level band of 26 to 31. City of Dalaran shows its 5 quests, Hall of Thanes, Ruins of Lordaeron and The Deadmines each gained a new Forever quest, and Razorfen Kraul's three missing drops are back. On Zones, Zephras Isle is the Skyborne starting zone (so the route builder now plans a Skyborne party too), Riverglades sits at 36 to 44 and Mount Hyjal is a level 60 zone.
PatchVault in German, French and Spanish: every page, the character sheets, the messages and the mails, in your language. Pick it at the bottom of the menu and the site remembers it; if your browser asks for one of them, the site offers it once. Item, boss and quest names stay as the game's English data has them. The addon follows your game's language from version 1.18.0, now as a beta on CurseForge, which also fixes professions missing from the site for players on a German, French or Spanish game client.
Friends see your characters by default (Forever): a new friend now sees your Forever characters' whole sheets (gear, stats, reputation, professions, recipes and history) and your loot finds without you switching each one on. Gold, bags and bank, and zone stay private. Switch any character off on Friends or on its sheet, choose per friend as before, or turn the default off for every character you never switched. A one-time notice explains it with a button to show friends less.
Guild shows the basics by default (Forever): guildmates the game's member list confirms now see your characters' level, class, rank, gear and profession ranks, much of what the game shows them anyway. Reputation and recipes still need Share everything with my guild. Turn the basics off on Guild or on the one-time notice.
Population (Forever): a new page under Players with how many Forever characters PatchVault has seen per region and realm, by faction, class, level, race and profession. No names, and any number under five shows as "fewer than 5".
Ask crafters without a name (Forever): Crafters now also finds players who sync their recipes but never opened a profile. Search for a recipe and it says how many of them can make it per realm and faction, for example "2 crafters on Classic Beta PvE 2", without names. Press Ask and your message goes to them (up to five at once). They see who you are; you see who they are once they answer. If your profile is private, your own recipes count this way too: you can turn that off on Crafters under Your profile, and a one-time notice explains it. You can send five requests a day.

1 October 2026

Armory page (Forever): show off a character with one public page, like the WoW Armory, at an address with its region, realm and name (for example /forever/armory/eu/realm/name/). Press Show off this character with an Armory page on its sheet and anyone can see its level, item level, gear with tooltips, stats, reputation, professions and recipes, and search engines may list it. Gold, bags, the bank, zone and played time are never on it. In Discord or another chat the link shows a preview card with the character, its best gear and its professions. Stop sharing ends it at once.
Invite friends with a link (Forever): Friends now has one invite link you can send anywhere, as an easier alternative to trading a code. Pick which of your characters it shows and what people who join through it see. Whoever opens it accepts with one click (signing in first if needed) and picks what you see of them. Shared in a chat, the link shows a preview card with that character and what joining gives. Codes still work too.
Choose per friend what they see (Forever): every friend card has What they see. Leave a friend on your standard settings, or choose just for them, per character, whether they see its professions, its whole sheet and its loot finds, and what whole sheets keep private. Professions can now be shared with one friend without a public link. Each card says in one line what they show you and what you show them.
Cleaner preview cards: the rounded boxes on link preview pictures no longer have darker seams and corners.

30 September 2026

Clearer when signed out: on Forever, Friends and Messages now have a Sign in link, and a button you cannot use yet looks greyed out instead of gold. On Zones, the pick-your-own-character box only shows once you have characters, and the button now says Suggest a route. On Retail, Characters offers Sign in and See the preview when you are signed out.
Small fixes (Forever): Crafters now counts the crafters it shows and the players they belong to, Gear finder only offers the dungeon and raid upgrades button once a character is picked, and on a phone Find an item gives the item name its own line.

A tidier menu: on a computer the class list in the left menu now sits under a Classes heading that folds open and shut (it remembers which), so the menu fits a laptop screen. The Playing as box no longer cuts off its text.
Great Vault slot lists (Retail): the Delves and world activities slots no longer list 279 Veteran 1/6 twice. What you picked before still shows the same.
Smaller fixes: on a phone, the item level and Mythic+ rating in the every alt's week list now say which is which, and the password hint on Create an account sits under the password box.
Pages load faster: the site's script and styles are about a third smaller to download, and the Forever Dungeons page is a tenth of its old size, with the loot and quest lists loaded only when they are needed.
Status notices: when something needs to be said right away, like a new Forever build that breaks part of the addon, a short line now shows at the top of every page of that game. Close it with the × and it stays closed in this browser, until there is a new notice.
Forever home for new visitors: with no characters yet, the Forever home now opens on what PatchVault does there, the days to launch, a Get the addon button and the preview, plus three Getting started steps that tick themselves off as you go. Once a character is in, the page is the same as before.
Classes (Forever): a new page with which race can be which class, per faction, as Blizzard published it, the new combinations and the Skyborne included. Per class its roles, armor, weapons, talent trees, resource and colour, and every race's racial traits; what is still Classic's and not confirmed for Forever is marked.
Wide tables on phones: a table that scrolls sideways now fades out at the edge that has more to see, so you know to swipe. The fade goes once you reach the end.
Help updated: Getting started now points to the Addon sync button in the Great Vault panel on Retail, with a fresh picture of the Addon sync window.
Dungeons and raids loads faster (Forever): Wowhead's tooltips now load for a loot card or quest list when you open it, not for all of them at once. Quest rewards Wowhead's Forever database does not have yet link to Classic's page, and switch to Forever by themselves once it does.
Dire Maul's quests at a glance (Forever): Dire Maul's wings have no loot list yet, but their card now opens on the names of the zone's quests. A loot card that cannot load its full list still shows each boss with its items by name.
Raid prep, Classic's rules (Forever): the elixir advice no longer uses The Burning Crusade's battle and guardian split. Each flask and elixir now says what it does and where Classic's recipe drops, and the checkboxes match the rest of the site. Ticks you set before this change are cleared once.
Zone links fixed (Forever): nine zones on Zones linked to the wrong Wowhead page.
A more believable preview (Forever): the demo characters now wear dungeon gear instead of Molten Core sets, one of them is a level 22 in Wailing Caverns and Deadmines blues, and their Reputation tab shows a pace.

Lost? Now it looks like PatchVault: a mistyped address or a locked folder shows a proper page with the menu and a way home, instead of the server's bare error. /friends/ now takes you to Friends in Forever.
Less stale text: the Retail card on the game picker no longer shows the Season 2 start dates, and the sign-in banner says what is really kept in your browser.
Blocks cover professions too (Friends): when you or a friend blocked the other on Messages, their professions no longer show on your Friends page, the same as their fully shared characters already did.
Privacy page updated
Your vault pick, exactly (Retail): with addon 1.16.1 the addon notes which Great Vault item you choose the moment you choose it, so Vault history marks it "Taken" even when you open the vault, pick, and log out without syncing in between. The week also shows up in history with everything the vault offered, where before it could be missing entirely. Get it from CurseForge or the download on the home page.
Mark what you took (Retail): for a week in Vault history where the site could not tell which item you picked, "Mark what you took" lets you say it yourself. It never overrides a pick the addon saw being made.
Full bags show up again (addon 1.16.2): a character with very full bags could sync with no bag contents at all, so its bags looked empty on the site. The addon now leaves out item names when space runs short instead of the whole list; every item still shows with its icon and tooltip.
Link previews for a shared vault: a vault link pasted in a chat app now shows the character's name and that week's items, with the one taken marked.
Share your vault (Retail): a "Share this vault with a link" button on both "What is in it" and Vault history. Whoever opens the link sees that character's weeks: what the vault offered and which item was taken, nothing else. The link from "What is in it" opens on this week. "Stop sharing" ends it for everyone.

29 September 2026

The desktop app is in the Microsoft Store: the Windows app was approved today. Every "desktop app" download on the site now opens its Store page, and the Store keeps it up to date and trusted by Windows, so no more "unknown publisher" warning. Find it at apps.microsoft.com.
Addon sync tucked away (Retail): the Addon sync card beside the Great Vault is now a button in the vault panel's header that opens the same window Forever uses, so the vault screen is shorter.

28 September 2026

Quests on Dungeons and raids (Forever): a quest marker next to each dungeon and raid opens its quest list: who gives it, what it asks, and what it pays, in a card per quest with the reward items, XP and reputation. Scarlet Monastery, Blackrock Spire and Dire Maul share one list across their wings, since Wowhead does not split it further. Fetched from Wowhead once, not looked up live; where a dungeon's quests are not known yet, it says so.
Gear finder (Forever): a new page bringing together every upgrade for the character you are playing. On your other characters: gear already sitting in another synced character's equipped slots, bags or bank, checked the same way the dungeon loot cards check drops. A tradeable item says which character to send it from; a Soulbound one is shown too, so you know it exists, but is never offered as something to move, since the game will not let it be traded or mailed. Dungeon and raid drops link straight to the upgrades already marked on Dungeons and raids. And something a crafter could make: real recipes players have open on Crafters, each linking to a search for whoever has it. Cross-alt and crafted both need addon 1.16 or newer to know an item's bind status; an older sync shows "bind not known" rather than guessing.
Since your last visit (Forever): a private summary at the top of the home page after you sign in: who joined or left your guild since you were last here, and any friend's new recipes, level-ups or loot finds, for the friends who share that with you. Only you see it, and it moves forward once you have, so nothing repeats on your next visit.
Friends' loot finds (Forever): the Friends page has a new feed of recent notable items your friends found, per character they choose to share it on. It is a separate switch from "Share everything with my friends" and has nothing to do with the anonymous totals on Dungeons and raids: this one always names the friend and the character, only your friends ever see it, and it needs the next addon update to start filling in.
Raid prep (Forever): a checklist for the flasks and potions raiders bring, one per confirmed raid (world buffs are not part of Forever, so they are not on this page). Every tick is yours to set, kept in your browser and synced with your account the same way the old weekly checklist was; nothing on this page is guessed from quest data. Where a slot on your current character should carry an enchant, the page says so, read straight from the item link the addon reports; it needs the next addon update to fill in, so until then it just says "not known" instead of guessing.
Lockouts (Forever): a new tab on your character sheet lists every raid an alt is still saved to this week, which bosses are already down, and when the ID resets, so you can tell at a glance which alt still has a run left in it. Reads the game's own saved-instance ledger; it needs the next addon update to fill in.
Message a guildmate from the Guild page (Forever): every shared, confirmed guildmate now has a Message button on their row, straight into Messages. It uses the same blocking, reporting and rate limits as writing to a crafter or a friend, and only reaches guildmates you can already see there: confirmed by the game's own member list and sharing.
Enchant gaps on Raid readiness (Forever): the Guild page's raid readiness view has a new Enchants column, and the unfolded gear list flags each slot, for the slots Classic-style play normally enchants. Reads the same enchant id the Raid prep page's own check uses, nothing new shared: it was already part of the gear your guildmates see once you share. "Not known" means that character has not synced with addon 1.16 or newer yet.
Season caps on the crest chips (Retail): a crest with a season cap now shows how much of it you have earned right on the chip, like "510 / 700", instead of only in the tooltip, and turns red at the cap.
Which vault item you took (Retail): Vault history now marks the item you picked with "Taken" when it is clear from your gear and bags which one it was. When it could be more than one, it still just says "Claimed" rather than guessing.
Reputation pace (Forever): the Reputation tab now says how many days it will take a faction to reach its next standing (Exalted, if the character is already Revered), worked out from that character's own past reputation readings, the same way the History tab's gold line is. It only shows a number once a full day separates two readings that actually moved; a shorter gap, or a faction that has not moved since its last reading, says so plainly instead of guessing.
Addon 1.16.0 (Forever): the update several of today's Forever features above need. Notes raid lockouts, whether each equipped slot is enchanted, and whether an item is Soulbound, and adds a short list of your recent notable finds for friends who share loot finds with you. This is a beta build for a beta game: tell us if something looks wrong. Get it from the download on the home page or from CurseForge.

27 September 2026

Renamed characters merge the right way (Forever): the merge suggestion now always keeps the name with the surname, with the newest data, and a merge done the wrong way round fixes itself the next time that character syncs.
The message window no longer runs off the bottom of the screen on phones and small laptops.
Vault history (Retail): a new tab on the Great Vault panel shows what your vault offered each week, per character, newest first, with item levels, tracks and tooltips, and "Claimed" once the vault was emptied that week. It needs an account and starts with your next sync; earlier weeks were never kept. Weeks are kept for a year.
Clearer downloads: the Addon sync window and card show the addon (from CurseForge) and the optional desktop app as two plain cards, with the import steps above. The desktop app is awaiting review in the Microsoft Store; its download says so first.
Smarter upgrades (Forever): caster gear is no longer offered to warriors, rogues and hunters (and fighter gear no longer to mages, priests and warlocks), and Forever's green "+Attack Power" and "+Spell Power" lines now count in the upgrade check.
The gear comparison looks like the game's tooltip: the item you wear is shown in Wowhead's own tooltip frame, "Currently Equipped", with the stat changes underneath in green and red. On a phone it shows too: tap an item and it appears under Wowhead's tooltip.
Upgrade badges show the stat changes (Forever): under each upgrade on the loot cards, what the swap adds and takes away, like "+13 Spell power +10 Int -2 Sta", losses in red.
Addon 1.14.0 (Forever): reads your guild, your rank and the guild's member list for the Guild page. Get it from the download on the home page or from CurseForge.
Share a whole character with your friends (Forever): a switch per character, Share everything with my friends, on its sheet and on the Friends page. Your friends then see its full sheet: stats, gear, reputation, skills, recipes, PvP, history, bags and bank, gold, played time and zone, and can compare its gear with their own. Keep gold, bags and bank or the zone private if you like. Off until you turn it on, friends only, never a link.
Forever stays Forever on Help, Feedback, Account, Privacy and What's new (Forever): opened from Forever, these pages keep Forever's colours and menu instead of switching to Retail's, and the Retail | Forever switch on them moves between the two. Feedback sent from there is marked as WoW Forever.
Guild (Forever): your guildmates who use PatchVault and share, side by side: rank, level, item level, gear, reputation and professions, a sortable raid readiness view and a "who can make this" search across the guild. The addon reads your guild and the game's member list, and a guildmate only counts once another player's game lists them. Nobody sees your characters until you share them. It needs addon 1.14 or newer.
PatchVault is on CurseForge. Install the addon from CurseForge and the CurseForge app keeps it up to date. The download on this site stays too.
Addon 1.13.0 (Forever): notes which items bosses really drop, for the loot cards, and /pv now opens the window the first time.
A tidier Forever menu (Forever): pages are grouped under small headings. Your characters first, then the game (Dungeons & raids, Zones), then players (Friends, Crafters, Messages), then PatchVault itself (Account, Features, Help, Feedback). Help is in the menu now too.
Help pages. Short answers on getting started, syncing, your account, sharing, Crafters, Messages, Friends and what to do when a character does not show up. Linked at the bottom of every page.
What's new. This page.
Crafters (Forever): search players who opened their profile, by character, profession, rank or simply the recipe you need, in your own region. Your profile stays private until you open it from the home page.
Messages (Forever): write to a crafter or a friend on the site. They see the character you write as, never your email or BattleTag. Block and report are one click away, and a short mail tells you when somebody wrote, if you want one.
Regions kept apart. Addon 1.12.5 sends the region your game plays in, so Crafters and Friends only show characters from the region you pick.
"Playing as." A plate under the Retail | Forever switch opens a side panel with the character you are playing, its gear, and one click to its sheet, bags, bank, recipes and more. Your choice follows you to every device you are signed in on.
Compare gear on hover. Hover any item on the site and a panel beside the tooltip shows what your character wears in that slot, with item level and every stat up or down. On Retail it needs Battle.net connected.
Upgrades for your character (Forever): pick who you are playing and Dungeons & raids marks every item that is an upgrade for it ("Upgrade for your legs, +12 ilvl"), lists the dungeons at its level that hold the most, and can hide everything else.
Gear by boss (Forever): every instance on Dungeons & raids has a card per boss with its loot, filters for armor type and weapons, and an honest label where the Forever loot is not known yet.
Item links on Forever pages now open Wowhead's Forever database, so tooltips show Forever's stats.
The Features page, a full-screen tour of everything PatchVault does, to send to a friend: patchvaultapp.com/features.
Link previews. Every public page has its own preview picture in chats and on social media. A shared professions link or a Crafters profile now shows who is on it.
A short "are you a person" check when you create an account, reset a password, send feedback or start a new conversation.
Mail from the site (password resets, answers to feedback, message notices) now reaches more inboxes.
Slimmer scrollbars in the site's own colours on panels and pop-up windows.

26 September 2026

A new look. The whole site was redesigned: new type, a real layout for phones, and a little motion (switched off when your device asks for reduced motion).
New address: patchvaultapp.com. The old address sends you here. If you use the desktop app, install version 0.2.3 over the old one: older copies still talk to the old address.
Feedback. Send a bug, an idea or a question from the Feedback page, with or without an account. The answer shows up on that page, and by email if you want.
Friends (Forever): trade a code with someone you trust and you are friends on both sides. A friend's professions show up only if their account-wide share is on.
Install it as an app on your phone or computer. The site offers it by itself.
Pages say "Retail" or "Forever" instead of a version number.

25 September 2026

Preview. See the whole site with demo characters, for Retail and for Forever, before you install anything.
Features. A menu item that lists everything PatchVault does, with pictures.
Share all your professions with one link (Forever): one read-only link to every character's recipes, with a "who can make this" search. You choose which characters are in it.
Zones and Level together (Forever): every zone by level band and faction, a route for your party from each starting zone, and routes of your own to save.
Bags and bank are drawn as the game draws them: icons, stack counts and quality borders.
Renamed characters. When a character's name changes, the site offers to merge the old and the new card. Addon 1.12.2 reads Forever names correctly again after Blizzard moved surnames on 24 September.
Each row in the Forever character table takes a dark shade of its class colour.

24 September 2026

Bags and bank (Forever, addon 1.12): two small icons beside a character open its bags or its bank, and "Find an item" searches every character at once.
Forever takes the colours of Blizzard's own Forever site.
Dungeons & raids no longer lists the six raids that are not on Blizzard's roadmap.

23 September 2026

History per character: every level-up with its /played, gold over time, and recipes learned.
Rested XP gets its own column, and characters you have not synced in two weeks stand out.
Tags for your alts (Bank, Crafter, Leveler) with a filter, and reputation across alts.
Professions, account-wide: every character's recipes read together, with a shopping list and what nobody covers yet.

22 September 2026

Recipes (addon 1.11): open a profession window in game and its recipes reach the site.
Share a character's professions with a link that does not expire until you stop it.
The Forever home page became one table with all your characters; the sheet unfolds under the character's row.
Dungeons & raids (Forever): every instance with its level range, group size and where it is.
Forever characters now sync to your account, so they show up on your other devices too.
Battle.net sign-in says why it failed when it does.

20 September 2026

WoW Forever arrives. A Retail | Forever switch at the top of the menu, and a side of the site for Forever in its own colours.
The character sheet from the addon: stats, gear, reputation, skills and XP in numbers.
Retail: upgrade tracks and crafted gear on the Loot page, and crest notes on the vault.

The list starts when WoW Forever arrived. PatchVault was a Retail site before that.

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