Talent calculator, journey and raid planner

The Codex now has tools you use while you play, in a new Tools section. You can plan a talent build for any of the nine classes and send it to a friend as a link, press Ding each time you level to see what the trainer has for you, lay out a raid group by group before anyone logs in, and point someone at the exact drop you are talking about.

A talent calculator for all nine classes

Pick a class and its three talent trees open side by side. The calculator keeps to the game's rules: a row opens only once you have spent five points per row above it, a talent that needs another one waits until that one is maxed, and you cannot take back a point that something further down depends on. Any build you make here is one you could take in the game.

Every point you spend is written into the address bar, one digit per talent, the way Classic talent links have always worked. Copy the link, and whoever opens it sees your build.

A second tab holds the class's spellbook: every spell the trainer teaches up to level 60, grouped by the level you learn it at, with the game's tooltip when you hover it. Spells Forever added or reworked carry a New or Reworked badge. Both have since moved onto each class's own page as tabs, such as Warlock talents, and the calculator is still in Tools as well.

A levelling journey behind the Ding button

The levelling journey, called the Companion since 25 September, follows one character. Pick your class, and each time you level in the game, press Ding!. It then answers what you want to know at that moment: which spells the trainer has for you now and what is waiting one level up, which dungeons your level sits inside and which one just opened, how many talent points you have not spent yet, and how far away the raids still are.

Plan a raid group by group

The raid comp planner sizes its board to the raid you pick. Barrow Deeps is 10 players in two groups of five, Hyjal Summit 20 in four, Onyxia's Lair 40 in eight. You fill the groups from a list of specs that you can narrow to tanks, healers, melee or ranged, and a summary under the board counts roles and classes and lists the raid buffs and debuffs. Whatever nobody in the raid brings stays grey. Hover a buff and every spec that provides it lights up: Battle Shout lights all three warrior specs, Trueshot Aura only Marksmanship.

Some buffs only reach the caster's own group of five, such as Battle Shout, the totems and the auras. Those are listed under the group they reach, which is where a raid leader needs them when deciding who sits with whom. Blessings are split into Kings, Might, Wisdom, Salvation and Light, since a paladin can only keep one of them on a target at a time.

The whole board lives in the address bar too, so a raid leader can paste the link into Discord and everyone opens the same plan. Every raid page links to the planner.

Share the exact drop you mean

Hover an item in a loot table and a small link button appears. Click it and the link to that item is copied, with a bubble to confirm it. Whoever opens the link lands on the same page with that item ringed in gold, and the ring stays until they move on, so they can tell which drop you meant in a boss's whole table.

Quest rewards, and quest links that work

Quest lists now show each quest's rewards in a column of their own, so you can see whether a dungeon quest is worth picking up before you set off.

The links from a quest to Wowhead used to go to the Classic version of the page. Forever's own quests do not exist there, so those links were broken. They now go to the Forever version.