WoW Forever: Blizzard removes the murloc and ogre forms

Blizzard has taken the murloc and ogre transformations out of Savory Whimsyfin Delight, a dish made with Cooking on the WoW Forever beta. In the development notes for the beta build of 1 October, Blizzard says the dish now uses an orc version of the Ninja and Pirate outfits that Savory Deviate Delight gives, and that the earlier transformations were a placeholder: a stand-in left in the build while the real thing was being made, and not something players were meant to get. Blizzard adds that it may bring similar transformations back in a later update.

The dish was found in the game data of the beta on 29 September, and until the new build it worked as described. Which of the 2 forms a character got depended on the body type chosen at creation: Body Type 1 became a murloc, and Body Type 2 a large ogre. The transformation lasted 60 minutes, or until the character died. Murlocs and ogres, ogres above all, were among the races players had most asked to play in Forever, so the find drew a lot of attention.

Blizzard's notes mention no other change to the dish. The recipe still drops at random from ordinary creatures, among them the Great Goretusk in Redridge Mountains, and in the game data it needs a Cooking skill of 85 and is made from 1 Whimsyfin, a new fish, and 1 Mild Spices. Savory Deviate Delight stays in the game too, so the ninja and the pirate are still there.

Cooking has other new uses in Forever as well: some cooked food also gives bonus experience. The beta is still changing week by week, so other finds in the game data may end the same way. The beta runs until 21 October, and WoW Forever launches at 23:00 UK time on 4 November, which is midnight on 5 November in Central Europe.