World of Warcraft recently shared a full preview of the Warbands system coming in The War Within. This alt-friendly feature will allow World of Warcraft players to share tons of things from toon to toon, and makes having multiple characters significantly easier.
Among the major features coming in World 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 Warcraft has 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, and Warbands are meant to help share that World of Warcraft progression across an account. Most currencies, flight points, and even achievement progression and rewards from Dragonflight onward 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. Once The War Within launches, these changes will happen the first time players log in.
All the Dragonflight Reputations, 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 Warcraft plans to gradually make older reputations account-wide in the future, save character-specific ones like Covenants from World of Warcraft: Shadowlands or Aldor and Scryers from Burning 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 earn a bunch of World of Warcraft achievements they 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 Within will only have a single campfire background to start, but Blizzard plans to add more so that World of Warcraft collectors can customize their screens even more in the future.
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.
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