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WoW: Forever Is Cranking Up The Weather And Players Are Losing Their Minds

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WoW: Forever Is Cranking Up The Weather And Players Are Losing Their Minds

Blizzard is about to make a slight tweak to World of Warcraft: Forever to enhance one of the game’s most beloved features: its weather.

In an extremely simple post to the WoW subreddit yesterday, the official WoW developer account shared that “increased weather effects” would be coming to certain zones in WoW: Forever‘s ongoing beta:

Starting soon you will see increased weather effects in certain WoW: Forever Beta Zones!
byu/WarcraftTeam inwowforever

Let me tell you something: WoW players, we love weather. We’re always asking for more of it! The original version of World of Warcraft had fairly intense weather effects patched in pretty early on in certain zones. Like blizzards in Dun Morogh:

Critically, this weather was dynamic: sometimes it would rain, sometimes it wouldn’t. This, combined with the day and night cycle, meant that zones across Azeroth had different looks and feels to them depending on when you explored them, which added to the sense of Azeroth being a real place.

Unfortunately, as time went on, Blizzard stopped including such intense and varied effects in new zones, and in the retail version, a lot of the existing effects were removed. You can still get weather in some zones (I remember really loving the brief downpours in Zul’dazar several expansions ago), but it’s selective, and not nearly as common in the old world anymore.



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