WoW: Forever after level 30: Riverglades, Mount Hyjal and the Barrow Deeps raid

Blizzard released a new WoW: Forever video on October 19 showing what comes after level 30, the point where the beta stops. Your road from 30 to 60 runs through two new zones, the Riverglades and Mount Hyjal, and ends near a new 10-player raid called the Barrow Deeps.

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Riverglades: a new zone for both factions

Blizzard says the Riverglades picks up “where paths may have ended previously in areas like Redridge Mountains”. Like Stranglethorn Vale, it isn’t tied to one faction.

• Alliance players meet the Brotherhood of the Horse, elite Knights of Stormwind who fought at Blackrock Mountain. When Turalyon marched on the Dark Portal, they disobeyed orders to keep hunting the Horde remnants and broke with Stormwind for good. Twenty years later they hold Farholde Keep.
• Horde players meet the Bolder’ok ogre clan, former members of the Twilight’s Hammer who left after the Second War. They compete with the humans of Farholde for the open plains.
• Both sides fight the Twilight’s Hammer, who hold Twilight’s Shroud, the westernmost stronghold of the old Horde, and Krol’dok Stronghold.

The video also shows side quests like wrecking a pirate operation and rescuing a horse, an ogre named Jom-jom, and the Bloodmasters’ Ring, a fighting ring deep in ogre territory where you take on the ogres’ best brawlers.

Mount Hyjal: the end of the road to 60

Malfurion Stormrage and the druids have kept Hyjal sealed for five years. In WoW: Forever the road opens for the first time since the Third War, and you work with the Druids of the Talon and the Cenarion Circle to heal the land after the Battle of Mount Hyjal. Horde and Alliance have shared the area under an uneasy agreement, and Blizzard says those tensions are heating up again. One quest line follows a Curious Crow who has found warlocks and activity tied to the Wild King.

The Barrow Deeps raid

Deep inside Mount Hyjal sits the Barrow Deeps, a new 10-player raid. Blizzard describes it as a prison that once held “Azeroth’s most infamous betrayer”. The video does not name bosses, loot or an opening date, so treat anything beyond that as speculation for now.

What to do before launch

• The free WoW: Forever Stress Test ran on October 21. If you have beta access, you can still try the early zones until October 23 at 10 a.m. PDT.
• Still picking a character? Our class and race guide and the Paladin deep dive help, and the realm type guide covers rulesets.
• Launch time, subscription and bundles are in our WoW: Forever launch guide.

Sources

• Your Leveling Journey Past 30 | World of Warcraft: Forever, official World of Warcraft YouTube channel (October 19, 2026).
• World of Warcraft on X: “Your journey from 30-60 will take you to parts of Azeroth previously unknown” (October 19, 2026).

More on WoW, including retail patch 12.1.5, on our World of Warcraft page.