One of the more controversial features from Classic WoW has received drastic changes in WoW Forever. It has been confirmed that World Buffs, significant power buffs obtained from activities in the world, still exist in WoW Forever. However, they will not work in any WoW Forever Raids and Battlegrounds!
World Buffs Do Not Work in Raids in WoW Forever
It has been confirmed that, at least for the three World Buffs you’d get from a Dire Maul Tribute Run (
Mol’dar’s Moxie, 
Fengus’ Ferocity, and 
Slip’kik’s Savvy), they do not work in a raid instance.
In addition to that, two out of the three buffs have received buffs to accomodate more playstyles.
- Fengus’ Ferocity now also gives 230 Spell Damage, in addition to 200 Attack Power.
- Slip’kik’s Savvy now also gives 3% Critical Strike chance to melee attacks and abilities.
The Sayge buffs from the Darkmoon Faire also do not work in raids. With this, we can confirm that no World Buffs will work in raiding environments.
The End of a Long-Standing Debate
Ever since the 2019 Classic WoW launch, World Buffs have been a problem in a raid setting. World Buffs became something impossible to balance around. Players buffed up with them would do significantly more damage than their non-buffed counterparts.
Because World Buffs became such a discrepancy in power creep, Classic WoW players would resort to raid logging after a certain point in the progression, refusing to play the game normally in the name of keeping their World Buffs ready. This was somewhat resolved with the launch of Phase 6 in April 2021, with the implementation of the 
Chronoboon Displacer, which allowed for World Buffs to be stored.
Although the Chronoboon Displacer made world buffs more manageable, it also made them pretty much necessary for any sort of competitive parsing (and led to a lot of frustration with people dying while the world buffs were out).
With this change, World Buffs retain their original purpose of being fun buffs out in the world. They are now something fun to chase while doing dungeons, but not something that completely centralizes endgame progression and parsing.
What are your thoughts on World Buffs? Did you like collecting them and feeling like a God in raids, or did you find them too much hassle for the power they provided?