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World of Warcraftrecently shared a full preview of the Warbands system coming inThe War Within. This alt-friendly feature will allowWorld of Warcraftplayers to share tons of things from toon to toon, and makes having multiple characters significantly easier.
Among themajor features coming inWorld of Warcraft: The War Within, Warbands are one of the most exciting. Marketed by the developers as “account-wide everything,” the first glimpses players have seen included some promising new features that would make playing more than one character simpler and more rewarding than it already is.
Now,World of Warcrafthas given fans an in-depth look at what to expect with Warbands. According to the blog and video it shared, more than half of all players have two or more characters, andWarbands are meant to help share thatWorld of Warcraftprogressionacross an account. Most currencies, flight points, and even achievement progression and rewards fromDragonflightonward are now shared across all characters on an account. Fans can also use the Warband bank to easily move items and gold, and can unlock transmogs on any character, regardless of class. OnceThe War Withinlaunches, these changes will happen the first time players log in.
World of Warcraft: The War Within Warbands Features
All theDragonflightReputations, save some like Winterpelt Furbolg and Glimmerogg Racer, will be set to the highest Reputation level across all characters in one’s account.World of Warcraftplans to gradually make older reputations account-wide in the future, save character-specific ones likeCovenants fromWorld of Warcraft: Shadowlandsor Aldor and Scryers fromBurning Crusade.
Over 2000 new achievements are being made account-wide as well, meaning players will be able to benefit from rewards such as Mythic teleports on all characters. Additionally, achievement progression will be combined across all characters, meaning fans might earna bunch ofWorld of Warcraftachievementsthey partially finished on several toons just by logging in.
Finally, the character select is being updated with a new UI that provides more information, brings characters from multiple Realms on the same list, and allows fans to choose up to four favorite characters to display together in a special scene.The War Withinwill only have a single campfire background to start, but Blizzard plans to add more so thatWorld of Warcraftcollectorscan customize their screens even more in the future.
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight
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World of Warcraft: Dragonflight was developed by Blizzard Entertainment and is the ninth expansion pack for the iconic massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft.Dragonflight features an overhauled user interface, raises the level cap to 70, and introduces a new race and class.
