What to Do at Level 60 in WoW Forever

Level 60 in WoW Forever is where the game opens up. The first raids arrive on December 9, 2026, five weeks after launch, so a fresh 60 has time to gear up in dungeons, finish the Onyxia attunement, earn gold for the epic mount and pick up Legacy Points before the first raid night. Some of this works like Classic, and some of it is new: a weekly quest that pays gold, a dungeon currency, new reputations and a rank system with a weekly cap.

Below, we go through everything there is to do at 60 in the order that makes sense for most players, with links to the guide for each step. One thing to know before you start: quests at level 60 no longer turn their experience into gold, so do not save quests for the cap as players did in Classic.

What to Do at Level 60: Checklist

The table sums up the activities at level 60 and how often each one comes back.

First Things to Do at Level 60

Start in a city. Visit your class trainer for the last ranks of your abilities and spend your 51st talent point. If you leveled with a build made for questing, this is the moment to change it: a talent reset costs 1 gold the first time, and Dual Specialization costs 50 gold and lets you keep a second build for dungeons or PvP. Our WoW Forever talent calculator has the trees of the live game.

• Do not hold quests for gold. In Classic, a level 60 character received gold in place of quest experience. WoW Forever does not have this conversion, and Blizzard has said it will not return. Since November 10, many quests from level 48 up pay gold directly, so finish the ones in your log for their own rewards.
• Finish Mount Hyjal. The new zone has quests up to level 60 and two reputations, and many players reach 60 before they are done with it. One quest there is worth doing even if you skip the rest: Top of the Post takes mail from Everlook to the summit and rewards the Hyjal Postal Satchel, an 18-slot bag, and the Hyjal Postal Clasp, a trinket with 5% running and swimming speed. The steps are in our Top of the Post guide.
• Set your goals. Decide if you gear for raids, for PvP or for both, because the two paths use different gear and different evenings. The WoW Forever gearing progression guide shows where each kind of gear comes from.
• Install a dungeon journal addon. It shows what each boss drops for your class. Our WoW Forever addons guide lists the ones that work.

The Weekly Quest and Tarnished Undermine Real

Pix Xizzix in Booty Bay is the first stop of every week at 60. He gives the weekly quest In Demand - Ancient Elven Curiosities, which sends you to the last bosses of the three Dire Maul wings and pays an Undermine Satchel. The satchel holds one treasure that sells to a vendor for 10, 20, 40 or 100 gold, and which one you get is random. Our WoW Forever weekly quest guide covers the route.

Pix Xizzix stands in Booty Bay at 28.4, 75.8, near the Auction House

He is also the vendor for Tarnished Undermine Real, a currency from the endgame dungeons. He sells pre-raid rings, cloaks, belts and trinkets for 50 to 125 of it, and you can hold up to 165 at a time. Check his list before you plan your dungeon runs: several of his items are among the best you can get before the raids, and they are guaranteed, while a boss drop is not.

Pre-Raid Gear, Tier 0 and Tier 0.5

Your gear for the first raids comes from the level 60 dungeons: Stratholme, Scholomance, Dire Maul, Blackrock Depths and Blackrock Spire, plus the two new ones, Blackmaw Hold in Azshara and Shaper's Terrace in Un'Goro Crater. Aim for two or three good pieces per slot instead of one, because you will swap them for hit, for resistance fights and between specs.

• Tier 0. Every class has an eight-piece dungeon set that drops in Blackrock Spire, Scholomance and Stratholme. The pieces were improved for WoW Forever, and the WoW Forever dungeon sets guide lists every piece and its boss.
• Tier 0.5. A long quest chain upgrades the Tier 0 pieces and ends with Lord Valthalak in Upper Blackrock Spire. It starts once you own the Tier 0 bracers. Finishing it is also a Legacy Challenge.
• Class quests. The class quests in the Sunken Temple give a trinket or weapon that many classes still wear at 60. See Sunken Temple class quests.
• Hit first. Missing attacks is the most expensive mistake in a raid. The WoW Forever hit cap guide gives the number for your class.
• Enchants. Put an enchant on every piece you plan to raid in. The best enchants guide has a cheap and a best option for each slot.

Best-in-slot lists by spec are in our class guides. They start with Warrior and Paladin, for example Fury and Arms Warrior BiS and Holy Paladin BiS.

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Onyxia Attunement and Dungeon Keys

Of the three launch raids, only Onyxia's Lair needs an attunement. Every raid member has to carry a Drakefire Amulet in the bags, and the quest chain behind it takes several dungeon runs, so start it now and not in December. Both chains end with the blood of General Drakkisath in Upper Blackrock Spire.

Alliance: Helendis Riverhorn at Morgan's Vigil (1) starts the chain

Horde: Warlord Goretooth in Kargath (1) starts the chain

The full chains are in our WoW Forever Onyxia attunement guide. The two new raids, the Barrow Deeps and Hyjal Summit, have no attunement. A few keys are worth getting on the way:

• Seal of Ascension. The key to Upper Blackrock Spire in Classic. The item and its quests are in the WoW Forever database, and groups look for players who have it.
• Crescent Key. Opens the West and North wings of Dire Maul, which you need every week for the weekly quest.
• Shadowforge Key and the Scholomance and Stratholme keys. One key per group is enough, but with your own you never wait for someone else.

Where each key comes from is in our attunements and dungeon keys guide.

Epic Mount: What It Costs

At level 60 you can learn Journeyman Riding, which raises your riding speed from 60% to 100%. The training costs 1,000 gold, and unlike the level 40 training it does not come with a mount: a swift mount is another 200 gold. That makes 1,200 gold in total, or 1,080 gold if you are Honored with your home faction, which takes 10% off. Skyborne cannot reach Honored with their home faction easily, so most of them pay the full price.

Paladins and Warlocks have a class quest for their level 60 mount. All prices and the discounts are in our mount cost and riding skill guide.

Making Gold at Level 60

Without the gold from saved quests, a new level 60 character is poorer than in Classic, and the epic mount, enchants and consumables all cost gold. These are the sources that work now.

• The weekly quest. 10 to 100 gold each week for three dungeon runs you would do for gear anyway.
• Dungeons. Sell the bind-on-equip drops and the materials on the Auction House, and disenchant what nobody needs. Righteous Orbs from Stratholme and Dark Runes from Scholomance sell well.
• Farming spots. Devilsaurs, elementals and cloth farms are ranked by gold per kill in our gold farming at level 60 guide.
• Professions. Gathering sells from the first day, and crafting pays once you own rare recipes. The WoW Forever gold making guide compares the methods, and solo farming dungeons covers classes that can clear a dungeon alone.

Professions and Merchant's Favor

Bring your professions to 300 before the raids open. The best recipes for enchants, potions and flasks sit at the top of the skill range, and every crafting profession gives a Legacy Point at 150, 225 and 300. Gathering professions give none.

The new supply factions, the Azeroth Commerce Authority for the Alliance and Durotar Supply and Logistics for the Horde, sell many of the new recipes for Merchant's Favor. You earn it by filling Waylaid Supplies crates, which drop from enemies everywhere, and by crafting for Craftsman's Writs. There is a daily limit on hand-ins, so it pays to start early. See our Merchant's Favor guide, and the best professions guide if you still have a free slot.

Reputations Worth Starting

Reputations are the slowest part of the endgame, so pick one or two that give something your character needs. These are the ones with known rewards at level 60.

Honored with your own capital city is also worth having for the 10% discount on riding.

PvP at Level 60

PvP in WoW Forever has two tracks. Honor is a currency that buys a blue and an epic set of PvP gear, and Rank Points move you through the 14 ranks. Rank Points have a weekly cap, so a few evenings a week keep you at the top of the curve, and nobody can grind past you by playing all night. Our WoW Forever PvP ranks guide has the week-by-week route to Rank 14.

• Battlegrounds. Warsong Gulch, Arathi Basin and the new 15v15 Darkspear Islands have a level 60 bracket, and Alterac Valley is open from level 51. Honor was evened out across the maps, so Alterac Valley is no longer the only efficient queue.
• Alterac Valley quests. The quests Hero of the Stormpike and Hero of the Frostwolf let you choose one item for a victory, and they are picked up at the entrances.
• Honor for gear. What each piece costs is in PvP gear and Honor costs, and the fastest sources are in Honor farming.
• World PvP. The chest in the Gurubashi Arena gives a trinket with a damage shield that is worth having at 60.

The Forever Open, the duel tournament many players ask about, was a community event on the beta in October and is over. Our Forever Open guide has the results.

Legacy Points at Level 60

Reaching 60 completes the third Legacy Challenge of your class, after the ones at 25 and 45. There is no experience after the cap: from here on, Legacy Points come only from challenges. A character can spend 16 points, and one character can earn up to 29 on its own.

• Dungeons. Kill the final boss of every dungeon in a level band. The band for levels 46 to 60 is the one you are farming for gear anyway.
• Professions. 150, 225 and 300 in each crafting profession.
• Adventure. Explore the whole world map, and finish the dungeon set questline with Lord Valthalak.
• PvP. Ranks 3, 7, 10, 13 and 14, Exalted with each battleground faction and three weekly tasks of the season.
• Raids. Onyxia, all 13 bosses of Hyjal Summit and all 8 bosses of the Barrow Deeps, from December 9.

Leveling an alt of another class to 25 is the cheapest extra point of all. The WoW Forever Legacy Points guide explains the system, Legacy Points farming ranks the challenges by time, and Legacy builds shows where to spend the points at 60.

Getting Ready for the Raids

The Barrow Deeps for 10 players, Hyjal Summit for 20 and Onyxia's Lair for 40 open on December 9, 2026, and Blizzard plans a weekly reset for all three. Use the weeks before that for the things that cannot be done in one evening.

• Fire resistance for Onyxia. Blizzard's own raid overview tells players to build fire resistance before entering her lair in Dustwallow Marsh.
• Consumables. A wipe costs you your elixirs and food buff, so stock more than one set per raid night. Raid buffs lists what your group brings.
• World buffs. They no longer work inside a raid instance. See WoW Forever world buffs before you spend an evening collecting them.
• Tier sets. A tier token from a raid starts a quest that ends with the tier piece, and the quest needs group content. WoW Forever tier sets shows the set of every class.
• A guild. A 10-player raid is easy to fill from friends. For the 40-player Onyxia, look for a guild now.

If you would rather skip the dungeon grind, our WoW Forever dungeons tour runs any dungeon with an organized group.

WoW Forever Level 60 FAQ

These are the questions players ask most often after reaching level 60.