World of Warcraft: Forever · game builds

What each build changed

Every time a new build ships, AHledger reads its item tables and compares them with the last build: items added, items removed, and items whose name, quality, item level, requirement, or class changed. The list is the game's own data, nothing inferred. The newest build is always at one address, and the builds feed announces each one.

How a build is read

Each build ships its own item data. AHledger reads it the same day, compares every item against the previous build, and records three kinds of difference: an item that was not there before, one that is gone, and one whose name, quality, item level, requirement or class changed. Nothing is inferred and nothing is leaked; it is the game's own data, diffed.

What to watch for

A burst of epic gear at one item level is a raid tier being filled in. A run of name changes is placeholders being finished, which usually means the content is close. New trade goods and recipes are the additions that reach the auction house first, because they are what players craft and sell. Each build page says which of these it was.

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