World of Warcraft: Forever Guild Chat Can Now Link to Discord: How to Set It Up

Guilds in World of Warcraft: Forever can now link their guild chat to a Discord channel, so members can talk to the guild from Discord without logging in, and see those messages in game. Blizzard confirmed on 4 November, the day Forever launched, that Discord account linking and guild chat mirroring work in both Forever and modern World of Warcraft. Modern WoW has had the feature since patch 12.1, Curse of Ula'tek, in August.

It's a different thing from Blizzard's official Discord server for finding a guild. This one connects your own guild's Discord to your guild's chat.

Step 1: link your Battle.net account to Discord

Every player who wants their messages to cross over does this once:

1. Log in to Discord first. The game will ask you to confirm the link there.
2. In game, press Escape to open the Game Menu and choose Options.
3. In the Social tab, turn on Enable Discord Functionality.
4. Follow the extra screens to finish the connection and confirm it in Discord.

If a guildmate hasn't linked their account, their in-game messages won't show up in the Discord channel.

Step 2: set up the Discord channel (server admins)

Whoever runs the guild's Discord server needs to give the channel you want to link these permissions:

• Manage Channels: edit the channel settings
• View Channel: see and read the channel
• Send Messages: post in the channel

Step 3: link the guild (guild leader or officers)

The rest happens in game, done by the guild leader or an officer with the right guild permissions:

1. Press J to open the Guild & Communities window.
2. Select the Roster tab on the right.
3. Click Guild Settings at the bottom right.
4. In the Guild Control dropdown, choose Discord Settings.
5. You'll see every Discord server you're in. Pick the server, then pick a linkable channel from the dropdown and link it.

You can also bring a separate Discord channel into the game as its own chat channel.

How the chat works

• Messages are marked so you can tell whether they were sent from Discord or from the game.
• Guild leaders choose where Discord messages land: in normal /guild chat, or in a new dedicated /discord channel. They can change this at any time.
• You can choose the name shown when your messages arrive from Discord: the game default (currently your last online character), your last online character's name in that guild, or your Discord global name.

If you'd rather keep Discord chatter out of your main window, put the /discord channel in its own chat tab.