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WoW Forever: forgotten dungeon loot arrives by mail on the beta
On the WoW Forever beta, dungeon loot you leave behind is mailed to you by the Steamwheedle Lost and Found. Blizzard has said nothing about it yet.
On the WoW Forever beta, dungeon loot that a player leaves behind is now sent to them by in-game mail once they leave the dungeon. The letter comes from the Steamwheedle Lost and Found, has the subject Lost Item and is signed by the goblin Rix Xizzix. The item is attached to the letter. The letter itself says the Lost and Found is contractually obliged to return what you lost.
In Classic WoW a forgotten item could be lost for good. If you noticed too late, the body with the loot could despawn, and the only way back was to run the dungeon again and hope the item dropped. According to the report, the Lost and Found also returns items a player could not take because their bags were full.
A similar feature already exists in modern WoW. Players may know Rix Xizzix from WoW Classic, including Season of Discovery, where he sells back lost quest rewards in Booty Bay.
As of 24 September we found nothing from Blizzard about the feature: it is not in the beta announcement, the list of known issues or the notes for the beta client update of 22 September. For now it is known only from one report with screenshots of the letter taken on the beta. The report says any loot left in a dungeon comes back, from Uncommon to Epic, but it shows a single letter. It does not say whether quest items are included, whether raids work the same way, or how long after leaving the dungeon the letter arrives.
The beta runs until 21 October, and WoW Forever launches on 4 November. Blizzard has not said whether the Lost and Found will be part of the launch version.
What it means for gold
The Lost and Found adds no new loot: it only returns items that already dropped and that a player would otherwise have lost. What it saves is time, because a forgotten item no longer means another run of the same dungeon. If the feature reaches launch, some items that used to vanish would reach players instead. The report does not say whether any of them can be traded and gives no figures, so we will not guess at an effect on WoW Forever gold prices.
Source: Wowhead