WoW Forever Dungeons Guide: All 9 New Dungeons, Levels, Loot and Runs

World of Warcraft: Forever launched on 4 November 2026 at 3:00 PM PST with 9 new dungeons on top of the Classic ones. All 9 are open from launch day. Each is built for a group of 5 players. The beta cap rose from 20 to 30 on 1 October. Testers ran Hall of Thanes, the Ruins of Lordaeron and the Excavation Site: Wetlands, listed at levels 24 to 29 in Blizzard's 20 October dungeon overview (the 1 October beta build ran it at 26 to 31), plus the Classic Razorfen Downs and Uldaman. From the 8 October 2026 build, the City of Dalaran dungeon was open for testing too.

Where each new dungeon is

6 of the 9 sit in the Eastern Kingdoms. Alcaz Prison, Blackmaw Hold and Shaper’s Terrace are in Kalimdor.

The raids open on 9 December, 5 weeks after launch, and every raid needs a level 60 character. The 2 dungeons for 55 to 60 are where a fresh 60 collects its 1st blue gear before that date. Blizzard’s roadmap adds 2 more dungeons in spring 2027 and 2 more in summer 2027, unnamed so far. The PAX Aus keynote aired on 8 October 2026 at 6:00 PM PDT. Blizzard’s Clay Stone walked through Krol’dok Stronghold, an ogre fortress for levels 40 to 45 whose route now climbs to a summit, and showed pictures of 5 bosses without names.

The stress test ran on 21 October at 2:00 PM PDT (21:00 UTC), moved from 19 October. No subscription was needed, and characters, names and guilds were wiped after it. The beta closed on 23 October.

Hall of Thanes lies under Ironforge, the resting place of the dwarven monarchs. Someone broke in, and Blizzard points at the Dark Irons. It is an Alliance story, and a Horde group has to sneak or fight its way in.

Ruins of Lordaeron is the Forsaken reclaiming their capital. Scourge still lurk in the corners and a necromancer has moved in. Horde players take up arms with the Forsaken; Alliance players find a way in uninvited.

Excavation Site: Wetlands sits above Whelgar’s Excavation. A strange mist comes down from the mountains, lights flash on the horizon and Titan constructs guard whatever is up there.

Since the 15 October build, members of the Horde are attacked on sight in Dalaran, but the City of Dalaran dungeon stays open to them.

City of Dalaran is the whole city as a dungeon. The Kirin Tor raised a barrier to hide the restoration after the Third War, the barrier is down, and enchantments, arcane constructs and demonic energy are running wild inside. Blizzard’s 20 October dungeon overview names the attunement quests: Alliance take An Alarming Request from Emissary Jacques in Southshore, Horde take Key to the City and Prison Break-In from Magus Wordeen Voidglare in Tarren Mill. Your group then enters through the sewers. Our City of Dalaran guide walks through each attunement and the bosses inside.

The Drowned City is a troll city that rose out of the ocean off the Stranglethorn coast. Trolls and naga hold it, and a pirate ship crashed into it. It was the playable dungeon on the BlizzCon show floor. You dive under the water to find its entrance. As you clear it, mist and rain build into a full storm before the last boss.

Krol’dok Stronghold is an outdoor dungeon in the Riverglades, run by an ogre clan that kidnaps travellers. Strange chanting comes from it at night. Blizzard built it as the alternative to running Scarlet Monastery again. Our Krol’dok Stronghold guide covers the climb, the 5 bosses and the 2 keys.

Alcaz Prison is the island prison where the Defias once held nobles for ransom. The Defias and the naga are fighting inside, and you can finally go in. Our Alcaz Prison guide names its bosses and tells the story of its prisoners.

Blackmaw Hold is the furbolg city in Azshara, behind the gate you could never open in Classic. The furbolgs are fighting a corruption, and the tunnels under the hold run deep into the mountain, toward the Barrow Deeps. On Blizzard’s 8 October 2026 podcast, the designers said Blackmaw Hold was not built as a mega dungeon, though its footprint is probably bigger than Blackrock Depths. They expect a group to clear it in 1 long session and to be comfortable inside at level 60.

Shaper’s Terrace is a Titan site in the hills of Un’Goro Crater: old Titan buildings, power crystals and wildlife running between them. Consoles inside the terrace run on power crystals. Gather them across Un’Goro before you go in. It is the last dungeon before the raids. Our Shaper’s Terrace guide lists the crystal colours and 4 of its bosses by name.

For Scholomance, a Classic dungeon, our Scholomance guide covers the key, the quests and the bosses.

There is no level scaling. A dungeon is as hard as its level says, and the levels above are Blizzard’s own.

Blizzard designed dungeon gameplay to be tactical. Crowd control matters: you polymorph, banish, root and trap to keep the healer alive and the tank standing. Threat matters: a tank holds 3 or 4 targets at once, so nobody pulls a whole dungeon. Combat pacing is a little slower, and a solo player takes about 15 seconds to kill a normal mob.

So a group wants a class that can sheep, sap, fear or trap, and it wants to talk before the pull. Blizzard lists all 9 new dungeons as 5-player dungeons. On the 8 October podcast, the designers said dungeon maps probably will not come and meeting stones do not summon players.

Boss timers and a threat meter help here, and these addons have Forever builds.

The table below lists WoW Forever dungeon loot for the Ruins of Lordaeron, the Excavation Site and the City of Dalaran. Blizzard re-examined the loot of every dungeon boss in the game. Every unique boss item is now blue, many new items were added, weak items were improved and the old favourites stay. Quest rewards were added across the board too. The 1 October beta notes add more Blacksmithing and Leatherworking recipes as dungeon drops. The new plans, from dungeons and from Merchant's Favor, are in the Blacksmithing guide.

Blizzard has not published boss-by-boss loot tables. On 28 September players had revealed the stats of 4,419 of 12,594 beta items. The launch client already holds the boss loot of 3 dungeons from the beta. The table below lists it. The 5 dungeons from level 35 up keep their loot hidden until players clear them on the live game. The Hall of Thanes loot rules, the dungeon players ask about most, have their own page: Hall of Thanes loot. Which blues land in each spec's pre-raid set: WoW Forever BiS lists.

New boss loot in each dungeon

Rotmender’s Treads belong to the Rotmender’s Raiment cloth set. Its other pieces drop in the Ruins of Lordaeron too.

Dungeon bosses drop Blueprint recipes. Those unlock the advanced camping objects that give 1-hour buffs at a campsite, so a level 60 still has a reason to run Alcaz Prison. How camping works is in the camping guide.

Transmog changed the loot rules in your favour. An uncommon or rare bind-on-pickup item from a dungeon boss unlocks its appearance for every eligible looter, so nobody rolls against you for the look. Epic raid items unlock their look only for the player who loots them. Healing items now carry bonus damage as well, so a healer can quest in dungeon gear.

Ragefire Chasm, RFC for short, is still in Forever. It is the Classic dungeon under Orgrimmar at levels 13 to 18, with the same 4 bosses: Oggleflint, Taragaman the Hungerer, Jergosh the Invoker and Bazzalan. It is the Horde dungeon for that bracket, and Hall of Thanes is the Alliance dungeon at the same levels. Our Ragefire Chasm guide covers the 4 bosses, the quests and the loot.

The beta server dropped 6 RFC boss items. Taragaman drops the Cursed Felblade, Crystalline Cuffs and Subterranean Cape. Jergosh drops the Robe of Evocation, Cavedweller Bracers and Chanting Blade. Each one is item level 18 and needs level 13 to wear.

Oggleflint and Bazzalan have no confirmed Forever loot list yet, so a full RFC table waits for live clears.

Our Blackfathom Deeps guide covers another of the Classic dungeons.

Blizzard confirmed 3 XP facts. The XP curve from 1 to 60 is unchanged from Classic. Dungeon mob-kill XP started below Classic. Quest XP for the 1st run of a dungeon is raised. The 1 October beta build then cut that bonus quest XP by 50%, because testers were leveling too fast.

The consequence is simple. Pick up every dungeon quest before you zone in, clear the instance once, turn in, and go back to the zone. The 2nd and 3rd clears are for a specific blue item or a Blueprint, and they pay less XP than the 1st clear. Chain-running Scarlet Monastery to 60 is over. The 8 October 2026 build then raised XP from dungeon kills by about 20% (still below Classic Era, per Blizzard) and fixed a bug that tied party XP to the highest-level member. Blizzard’s Josh Greenfield says that with perfect play, dungeon leveling is now very close to optimal questing. Blizzard is still collecting feedback, so treat the dungeon XP values as not final.

Forever has no automatic Dungeon Finder. It has a Looking for Group listing tool: you list yourself or browse the listed groups and invite by hand. Since the 1 October build, players on the beta see a required playstyle on every listing: Learning, Relaxed, Competitive or Carry Offered. How the tool works is on the group finder guide. Groups also form in the zone, in cities and at campfires, which is why a leveling character on a quiet ruleset wants a group it can count on. The full 1 to 60 route with the hours per bracket is in the leveling guide.

That route is about 150 hours of play, and the 9 new dungeons are stops along it.

All 3 calendars reach the dungeons in level order, from Hall of Thanes to Shaper’s Terrace.

A dungeon run is a full clear of the instance you name in chat, self-play or piloted, from 4 November 2026. The Pro plays on your ruleset and your faction, because Blizzard allows no cross-ruleset and no cross-faction grouping. Extra runs of the same dungeon are priced as a multiplier on the constructor, for a specific blue item or a Blueprint.

A run in any of the 9 new dungeons with our level-60 Pros is set out on our WoW Forever dungeon boost guide.

Every leveling order already includes 1 clear of each dungeon on the way to 60. The 55 to 60 runs are the pre-raid gear before the raid spots from $399 on 9 December.

Piloted runs are played by a human Pro in our own gaming hubs, on a PC dedicated to your account and a unique residential IP in your city, so every run looks exactly like you playing from home.

Carry Offered is also how Forever players earn gold: they agree a price in LFG chat and carry a group through a dungeon. Our gold service has a Pro run those carries on your own character, so the gold arrives from real runs, never through a trade, the mail or an auction-house dump.