Azeroth Survivors guide

Where to play Azeroth Survivors

The game's only home is wow.aethus.pl. Other sites use its name, but the game's own code starts only on that page (or from a copy on the player's own computer) and shows a fake-website notice anywhere else, so go straight to the official page.

It needs a browser with WebGPU. The official page asks for an up-to-date version of Chrome, Edge or Safari, and does not mention Firefox; on Linux, Chrome needs WebGPU switched on in its flags. The same page offers a Windows version to download, packed as a .rar archive, which we have not tried.

On busy days you may see a message that too many people are playing. The official page shows it when it reaches its daily request limit, and points to the game's Discord and the Windows version instead.

Azeroth Survivors and WoW Forever

The names sound alike, but they are different games. WoW Forever is a World of Warcraft game from Blizzard Entertainment; Forever Calc began as a talent calculator for WoW Forever, and that is still most of this site. Azeroth Survivors is a separate fan-made browser game by Aethus, with its own classes, talents and zones, which this guide covers.

How to play

• Move with W, A, S and D, or hold both mouse buttons.
• Press 1, 2 or 3 to take one of the three spell cards on a level-up, and R to reroll them.
• Press Enter on the main screen to start a run.
• Press Esc during a run to pause it; the pause menu can resume the run, open Options or end the run.

What a run looks like

1. Choose a class and a zone on the main screen. At first only Elwynn Forest is open.
2. The run starts as soon as you move. Your spells attack by themselves; your job is to steer and stay alive.
3. Each level-up pauses the run and offers three cards. A card teaches a new spell or ranks up one you already have, and its rarity sets the size of the bonus. We saw common, uncommon, rare and epic cards, and the same Multi-Shot card showed +18% damage as uncommon and +25% as rare.
4. You can hold six spells at most: a card for a new spell shows the slot count you would reach, for example 2/6.
5. Rerolls are a budget for the whole run. Our new account started with three; a reroll swapped all three cards, and the one we used was still gone at the next level-up. The Second Thoughts perk adds more (see achievements and perks below).
6. Levels also add a little power for the rest of the run. In our Hunter run each level gave +3% damage, +9 maximum health and +0.08 health per second.
7. A clock at the top counts down to the next boss. In Elwynn Forest the bosses are Hogger at 3:00, Mother Fang at 6:00, Rhahk'Zor at 9:00, Mr. Smite at 12:00 and Edwin VanCleef at 16:00. Elites can arrive much earlier: one reached us 32 seconds in.
8. When you fall, a summary shows your time, kills and damage, and the talent experience the run earned.

The nine classes

Every class starts with one spell and draws its level-up cards from its own pool. The numbers below are from the game's class and Armory screens. Paladin has the most health (245) and Warlock the least (165).

Which class is best?

We do not rank them. We have played too few runs to back a ranking, and the game is still being updated. The numbers above and the talent milestones below are what the game itself shows; pick the class whose trees appeal to you.

Talent trees and milestones

Talents are earned per class between runs. Every class has three trees, up to 51 points in all and 3 spec slots to keep different setups. A tree opens a new row for every 5 points you put into it. At 10, 20 and 30 points in a tree, a one-point milestone talent opens, and those milestones change the way your spells work. Resetting talents is free.

These are the milestones of every tree, by name; hover over a talent in the game to see what it does. Where the game shows two talents at one milestone, we list both with a slash as it does; we did not test whether you get both or choose one.

Zones in unlock order

There are 12 zones. Each one opens when you beat a named boss in the zone before it, and zones open per class: the main screen counts them for the class you have picked, and co-op lobbies check the same.

1. Elwynn Forest: open from the start.
2. Duskwood: beat Edwin VanCleef in Elwynn Forest.
3. Warsong Gulch: beat Morbent Fel in Duskwood.
4. Un'Goro Crater: beat Lord Kazzak in Warsong Gulch.
5. Arathi Basin: beat King Mosh in Un'Goro Crater.
6. Feralas: beat Lord Aliden Perenolde in Arathi Basin.
7. Gurubashi Arena: beat King Gordok in Feralas.
8. Scarlet Monastery: beat Hakkar the Soulflayer in Gurubashi Arena.
9. Alterac Valley: beat High Inquisitor Whitemane in Scarlet Monastery.
10. Blackrock Mountain: beat Azuregos in Alterac Valley.
11. Gates of Ahn'Qiraj: beat Nefarian in Blackrock Mountain.
12. Naxxramas: beat C'Thun in Gates of Ahn'Qiraj.

Progress between runs

Kills, bosses, a win and the time you survived all add talent experience for the class you played, and harder zones add more. Our first run lasted 49 seconds and earned 14 (10 for the time, 4 for kills); the first talent point needed 80.

Bosses drop gear for your class and you keep it. Each class collects its own: 54 for most classes and 60 for the Rogue and the Shaman. Both the gear and the appearance you pick belong to that class.

Run Options make runs harder: more enemies (up to 500%, and each kill then counts for less), more enemy health (up to 500%), harder enemy hits (up to 300%) and faster enemies (up to 150%). Harder settings raise talent experience and boss loot chances, to at most double; beyond that, a harder setting adds difficulty with no extra reward.

Your race adds passive bonuses. The Armory showed four Alliance and four Horde races, and we read the bonuses of two. Human: +15% damage for 10 seconds every 30 seconds, +10% experience and +20% gold. Dwarf: a shield that absorbs 30% of maximum health every 45 seconds, +6% damage and +30% pickup range. You choose race, gender and look in the Armory.

Progress is stored in your browser. Options, then Saves, exports it as a file you can import on another computer or browser, and the game saves a backup for each hour of play, keeping the five most recent.

Achievements and perks

The game has 98 achievements worth 2,270 points, in six groups: Zones (24), Classes (20), Collection (7), Feats (21), Lifetime (12) and Co-op (14). They count for the whole account, whichever hero earns them, and their points buy perks on the Rewards tab.

Each perk opens once you earn a named achievement, and some have several ranks you buy one at a time. What the first rank does, in our words:

• Second Thoughts (3 ranks, 15 points a rank; unlocked by the achievement Regular): an extra free reroll in each run.
• Banish (3 ranks, 20 points a rank; unlocked by the achievement Elwynn Forest): once a run, take a card out for the rest of that run and get a new hand.
• Skip (1 rank, 15 points; unlocked by the achievement Duskwood): turn down a hand of cards for a little gold.
• Opening Hand (1 rank, 30 points; unlocked by the achievement Slaughterhouse): the first level-up of each run offers four cards instead of three.
• Veteran's Lessons (2 ranks, 20 points a rank; unlocked by the achievement Warsong Gulch): 20% more talent experience for any class behind your best one.
• Keen Eye (2 ranks, 20 points a rank; unlocked by the achievement Collector): makes each boss drop 5% more likely.

The Rewards tab also has companions, tabards and appearances, and each save can reset its perks twice to spend the points again.

Co-op

The Co-op button on the main screen lists public lobbies for the same game version, with tabs to host a lobby or join one by code. You can filter lobbies by zone, by zones you have unlocked and by password, and you can only join a zone your class has already opened. The lobbies we saw had room for five players.

Co-op also has its own group of achievements: 14 of them, worth 495 points.

Tips for your first runs

• Keep moving. The run starts when you move and your spells fire without input, so all your attention can go to dodging.
• Expect elites before the first boss. An elite beast caught our first run at 0:32 and ended it 17 seconds later.
• Read the rarity as well as the spell: a rarer copy of the same card gives a bigger bonus.
• Rerolls do not come back at the next level-up, so keep them for a hand with nothing you want.
• Short runs still count. Even a quick death pays talent experience toward that class's next talent point.
• Raise Run Options only once a zone feels easy; the extra rewards stop at double.
• Export a save before you clear your browser data or switch browsers.

Frequently asked questions

How we checked

We first played version 0.115.0 on 25 October 2026, then rechecked every fact on this page against version 0.119.0 at wow.aethus.pl in Chrome on 26 October 2026: Hunter runs in Elwynn Forest, plus the class, talent and Armory screens of all nine classes and the zone, Run Options, co-op, saves, achievements, rewards and pause screens. The run examples, such as the 49-second first run, come from our first runs. The names on this page are the game's own; the descriptions are ours. For the game itself, we link only to its official page.

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