The Biggest Surprises from the War Within Alpha! Saturday WoW News

[@Khether0001]

When I played my first char, a Night Elf, and I arrived at Darnassus for the 1st time asked a guy for a couple coppers that I was short to buy something and he said "Here, have 1 Gold, now you are rich!" *AND I WAS!!!*

[@daverhoden445]

LOL.. I remember when I made my first 40 gold (I'd auctioned one of those STV pages for something like 15g) so I could get that first mount. I was getting congratulations from all over Darnassus.

[@Blabbus25]

Inflation

[@ARpirateant]

When i started in TBC as a nelf I remember how hard gold was getting. It took me pretty much getting to level 40 and selling a lot of stuff to get my basic mount and was broke after that purchase

[@willythemailboy2]

I remember starting my first character in TBC and finding a gold bar in a treasure chest that vendored for 1 gold. I thought I was rich until days afterward I found out I could have AH'd it for about 15g at the time.

[@switchhazel3517]

Many, many years ago I was standing around in Stormwind doing nothing and some random person opened trade with me and gave me 1500 gold to which I "?😲" He said he was quitting the game and giving all his gold to random low levels. I was rich!

[@64rsimpson]

Thanks! It wouldn't be Sunday without watching your Saturday video.

[@Dolphinsz]

Kinda crap she does not say thank you even more upsetting for a very small account too

[@bsnuff2002]

Agreed

[@thisguyhd6591]

@@Dolphinsz I don't even think she has seen any of the comments here yet. I just checked around 300 comments down and not a single hearth or answer

[@SPACEGOD21]

@@thisguyhd6591 who cares

[@BritGirlJay]

Flightstones should be account wide - for those of us levelling alts that would prefer not to do the same bajillion dailies I already did on my 2 or 3 mains.

[@6105boe]

Honestly I agree with Max, flighstones could just be removed and nobody would go “:(“. They’re kind of an arbitrary hurdle it feels so dumb to have the crests you need but be out of flightstones.

[@SeventhSwell]

Those tab prices... Thank goodness I still have my personal guild bank from back in the day (Vanilla and BC) when storage was hell. That'll still work for mats and stuff. Plus my bank alt can access the warband bank which just makes my personal guild bank better.

[@UnciaAmethice]

Yeah, same with my three personal guild banks. I'll be shuffling things in and out like mad, and then probably use the warbank purely for materials I plan to use currently.

[@ButMadNNW626]

I’m a little confused. The two of you (commenters on this thread so far) have enough alts to have guild banks and apparently enough stuff in those guild banks to need them. Have you considered selling some of that stuff to see if you can afford the Warband tabs? 😉 (Speaking of, I need to work on cleaning out my family’s guild bank…)

[@UnciaAmethice]

@@ButMadNNW626 I have a lot of stuff, but it wouldn't sell for 3 million gold. And as mentioned, I'm gradually using it. Sure, I could sell every single thing in my inventory that doesn't make me stronger for the current content, but that is not how I enjoy playing the game - if I'm gradually working on a goal I'm not going to throw that away because Blizzard is pointing me towards their latest event.

[@SeventhSwell]

@@ButMadNNW626 I used to have a lot of stuff, that's why I have the personal guild bank. Like I said in my post, I made it back when storage was awful. It hasn't gotten a whole lot of use since, but I do store some mats and stuff in it. I'm just saying that since I have it I don't have a reason to spend millions on warbands bank tabs.

[@bertjones3010]

@ButMadNNW626 I have four personal guild banks plus belong to a community guld. Been playing since 2007. And yes I tend to have mats from every expand since vanilla. At my age I've maintained them if for no other reason than legacy planning on being able to pass my gold to friends when I leave. With this new account bank, and currently running nine toons weekly, I like the group access of mats, but it will never work for gold storage passthrough to someone not on my account.

[@daverhoden445]

I'd love to see a set of tailoring quests to enlarge the original starting backpack. There could be a set of quests for tailors to improve their own bag and another set so they could do that for other people.

[@dantepeterson556]

We need profession quests back! Huge amount of RP and fun in that.

[@RicardoMoreiraKrahnin]

My saturdauly is never completed without Hazel's video

[@tuffigk8235]

the unicorn skyriding animations are making me cry. the little girl in me that used to play with toy ponies is so happy dude. thanks Hazel for the news ♡

[@MaxGrey03]

Regarding the warband bank and the feature to deposit gold for access by all characters on account. I wonder if they will implement a feature similar to guild banks that will allow for repairs to be made from the warband bank.

[@danetenshijanai]

I hope they’ll have the dmf tickets transferable. It’d be nice to aggregate them on my shadow priest, whom has the most so I can knock out the expensive mount off my list faster.

[@toxidoti]

YAY for that we'll get a Warband bank! I'm not worried about the price, it's only the last one that's an eye dropper. I may be in a bit of the miniority, but I'm not super keep on the bonus XP thing unless you can turn it off, I play a lot more than some people I game with and this means I when we play together we won't level at the same rate. I wonder if there will be way to turn it off. Thank you so much for the updates, sounds like it was a very exciting week. Gratz on getting Taivan! Woohoo!

[@ButMadNNW626]

I understand the concern; the MoP rep bonus meant I leveled through the cloud serpent quest line much faster than my sister did when we were trying to do that together. However, I feel like XP is less of a concern for this. You won’t be locked out of doing quests if you’re level 80 and the person you’re playing with is still 78, plus Party Sync exists. 😊

[@toxidoti]

@@ButMadNNW626 That's a great point that there still is the ability to quest together, although sometime the higher level person has access to stuff earlier. I always forget about party sync! Thanks for the reminder and the tip! :)

[@d3Rm0Nk]

As someone who couldn't even afford the Yak in the years since MoP ... yeah I'll be happy with one or two bank slots

[@mjt3241]

Not that hard to farm gold….😂

[@EclipseWarlord]

​@@mjt3241Not hard, true. Not everyone has the time however. Some people just want to play for enjoyment in the few hours they get and may not enjoy gold farming activities.

[@hunterman458]

@@mjt3241 Every guide to farm gold just becomes washed out due to so many people doing that. Farming 2.5mil gold is not something that everyone can do

[@Beer_Wolf]

You literally make 25+k per week doing the gold WQs in DF that only takes 30 minutes per character

[@bertjones3010]

I'd take issue with that half hour figure especially on slow respawns on daily quests like this week.

[@Chun-1208]

Those crabs are actually spiders in disguise. If you cut open one, it ain't crabmeat.

[@tri1937]

i hope they look back at the certain reps being character locked. The one that stuck in my mind was when they mentioned aldor and scryer. Why can’t they be account wide and just still make your character make the choice? it just feels weird that some reps will be account wide and some won’t.

[@Travis-Barth]

9:01 im glad for the warband bank for that because right now, if i want to send gold from a horde character on 1 realm to an alliance character on another i have to trade a friend, since you cant mail gold cross server.

[@ryant271]

Thanks for the Saturday videos, concise and to the point every time!

[@MarcusTheDorkus]

Thanks for keeping this non-spoilery!

[@StFeenix]

Question: do you think follower dungeons will be a thing in War Within as well, or maybe if they are planning to expand follower dungeons in older expansion too? Personally I love follower dungeons, since I am shy and want to learn every dungeon in my own pace before venturing there with unknown people. 🙈

[@StFeenix]

@loveyourself3246 That is fantastic news! Mostly lore reasons I have love follower dungeons so much, and I'd hate to wait until I can solo those.

[@christopherdaffron8115]

You summed up a typical experience in the Siege of Boralus Dungeon perfectly :)

[@CertavusGrey5450]

Evoker being able to fly on their own reminds me of that one April fools post from years ago. Where player would have angel wings on their backs and be able to fly that way.

[@UltimateGamerCC]

that still might be a thing someday.

[@mlwgurl]

I'd just like to say thanks for the gold making tips/addons (quite a while ago). You helped me hit gold cap! :)

[@bertjones3010]

@mlwgurl I do not understand what you mean by gold cap. Is that a cap on an individual character? I have four personal banks and I think the gold cap on each of those is $10M each. Thinking the warbank should expand that yeah?

[@scajl]

I suspect you can turn on/off awakened, like they did for SL raids.

[@Beer_Wolf]

iirc it's on rotation in DF.

[@Xavittan]

why aint blizz hiring this woman already?

[@alwaysyouramanda]

You haven’t heard? 🤭

[@CinHotlanta]

Just got my very good boy yesterday, thrilled and also ready to work on wrapping up the SL meta :)

[@KarnivoreHG]

This expansion is bringing me back. Ever since they announced and confirmed "THe Last Titan". The last true big battle.

[@shaun2312]

5:29 Oooooohhh - I asked if the transmog would be limited to the 4 in the warband, and if i swapped a char out of the warband, of the transmog would be removed, thanks for clearing that up

[@haste1407]

Nice seeing people still play this game. ♥ Hope WoW comes back again.

[@404MULTIFAIL]

Back in wod I bought two guildies mammoths because I found out they didn't have any repair mounts at all, we were progressing Mannoroth and they were popping Jeeves on cooldown or asking for someone to get on a yak every few pulls and that was just sad.

[@muffin2995]

Thank you for answering my question, hoping this will help with the farm :D

[@lxbjerre]

get an alchymist to make a Crystalline Phial of Perception, get a Khaz'gorite Fisherfriend and enchant it with perception. And have the harpoon from Iskhaar fishing tools in your inventory. I went from getting almost 0 /1h without that to getting 40 cunches in 1 hour by fishing at a rich fishing area.

[@muffin2995]

@@lxbjerre thank you, still cant find any in tackleboxes so im happy to try this out.

[@Culdcepter]

@@muffin2995 Don't forget to turn on Track Fish to find the tackleboxes, assuming you got the "Fish Don't Leave Footprints" achieve. :)

[@cosmo_tauro]

The best source of WoW news on the internet. Thanks!

[@charlesvincent4127]

Warband banks, Great another gold sink to go with all the other mount and black-market gold sinks.

[@cassileigharts]

Getting Tavian was probably the most satisfying. I do love the whelps on strings colorful floaty float. I think this whole expansion, my favorite is dragon riding. I have Gold in everything and Northrend is next! - Kickapoosas - Blackrock

[@runswithwands]

QUESTION: Do we have any sense of an update or more information on when we will be able to more easily solo certain legacy raids? Uldir--for example--is still a headache with Mythrax and G'huun mechanics with the respective MC and orb running. Thanks!

[@officermalloy4201]

You remind me of a Guild Leader from the early days of WoW that my wife and I enjoyed so much, calm, cool, and collected, he would gladly share all loot with pickups when going through dungeons and he just had one of the best attitudes. You have a glow when you speak, and it shows through. My favorite character is a Hunter, but Pallys are fun and tough too. Take care fellow explorer.

[@arcadialive4265]

Wow, this makes my wow life easier! Thank you blizzard! I have gold on some characters I just can’t ever use, because I won’t level them or pay to transfer them to where I play today. But maybe this will help.

[@redrenegade13]

You don't have to transfer the characters now that gold is tradable across realms, all you need is one person you trust to hold your gold while you log from the stranded alt onto whatever character you want to actually keep the money.

[@arcadialive4265]

@@redrenegade13 hehe, your a funny man 😂. Not only is that annoying for them but also would require both of us to write down amounts in order to keep track. I have wow gold stuck on multiple characters on different realms that I’ve stopped playing over the years. If we could just send our own gold to ourselves. Makes almost zero sense why we can’t. I lost out on an auction the other day being a little short. Would be nice to have a solution.

[@SethWildCard]

thankyou for clarifying warband. Ive had to say all of that in my guild multiple times. Warband is just the name of the system they use to describe account wide progress. in other games its just called account progress. so, if this was another game, they would just say that lots of things would become account-wide.

[@Wilber84]

love to see the cat chilling on your lap... he he

[@Shorroth]

Huh, the reputation change is something I suggested almost four years ago on Reddit, this expansion is looking better and better feature wise.

[@UltimateGamerCC]

Blizzard has finally loosened up and changed it's philosophy, also helps that Blizzard is no longer under Bobby or Activision's hooves.

[@sabatykos]

Hey! Mamma Hazel I just had a quick question. Does anybody know if Delves are coming to the old world as well or is that just a War Within feature? Also does anybody know if we're getting (FINALLY I might add) level 1 professions? Thank you for your time Mamma Hazel make sure you n your people are all staying safe! I'm your friend from NY as always!

[@HollyToadstool]

Thank you, Hazel :)

[@banannerz]

Absolutely 100% second the advice regarding ominous conches. I wasted so much time trying to fish and getting the best fish gear to up my chances & testing numerous locations. I then tried lunker farming and just doing the dailies and that was also slow. Initially when I was gathering the tackle boxes I also had very little luck, but the second I picked up the harpoon WHAM, I began getting them every other box! Even got doubles in some!

[@rustblade7]

Cat in your lap!

[@BigSqueeGG]

Such great changes. I haven't looked at war within stuff at all yet. And a nerd with 30, level 70's alt army this is great. Cheers

[@daenerys231]

Tundra mammoth was actually 16k to buy since it required exalted rep which gave a 20% discount.

[@chai4543]

Question: Currently we are only allowed to have one Dracthyr alt (per realm). Do you know if we will be able to have multiple Dracthyr in the War Within?

[@DyreWolfBC]

For those old reps like SL Covenants or Aldor/Scryers, I’m hoping they change it from what they said make it so they’re still warband-wide, but just depend on the faction chosen by the character to leverage the rep. Otherwise those reps will just feel really bad compared to other normal expac reps once all others are converted.

[@PatrickBrophy]

They have to put gold sinks into the game. The warband bank tabs being increasingly more expensive shouldn't really bother anyone. The first three are pretty reasonably priced. This is a feature that we've all been playing without for 20 years. Not having two of the five tabs of something no one has had for the entirety of the game should not be that big of a deal.

[@ButMadNNW626]

Not to mention that the only people who really NEED the fifth tab are those who have that much money anyway because they’re gold farmers or crazy-busy crafters with an army of alts.

[@DerekLippold]

Also, other games already do this so FINALLY here. Though, it does make me wonder if they needed a gold sink to fix something.

[@SanguineViscount]

​@ButMadNNW626 Or, they're buying gold. Because, that's a thing.

[@archerkatoleee]

I am not afraid of spiders in games but I am looking forward to finally exploring the world of the underground crab people!

[@TheSimpsonsMan]

I feel the warbank will be cheaper down the road, but then again who knows

[@dantepeterson556]

I can't seem to find an answer on if leveling an allied race in MoP event will award the armor set. I would love to use that fun to get the last couple.

[@Travis-Barth]

13:47 they have said with 10.2.7 that armor restrictions are going away for transmog, but not class restrictions, so like a wariror csnt learn priest appearances, but can learn cloth

[@ButMadNNW626]

The question answered was specifically about the MoP remix, not Dragonflight.

[@Travis-Barth]

@ButMadNNW626 mop remix will be on patch 10.2.7. Wouldn't make sense for them to be on the same patch and have different transmog rules

[@ChangesOfTomorrow]

I applaud them for the arachnophobia filter but crabs aren't much better 😅I'm not sold on the awakened raids, but at least it sounds interesting

[@ChangesOfTomorrow]

@loveyourself3246 I disagree, they had to do it. Arachnophobia is one of the most common phobias and devs commented it was originally intended as internal due to team members having issues.

[@ChangesOfTomorrow]

@loveyourself3246 did you even read my comment? They did it so people can work on it 🙄So yeah, they had to. But you're right, they didn't HAVE TO make another game, they could just scrap the entire thing 🙄

[@clogs4956]

There’s a basic tenet of anything fantasy, high fantasy, DnD, and S&S: there will be giant spiders 🕷️

[@TaylorBerrey]

People with phobias need to grow up. You're an adult playing a video game. If you don't like it don't play the game. I bet you same whingers also have hold another adults hand when you cross the road or enter a banking branch

[@ButMadNNW626]

@@ChangesOfTomorrow​​⁠Arachnophobia is pretty common, yes. It’s also highly treatable with the right treatment (no, I don’t recommend exposure therapy, that just seems cruel); I have a colleague who’s cured hundreds of phobics in his career as a therapist. I’d link to a resource if KZbin still allowed links, but you can google “Rewind Technique” if you want. People don’t have to put up with living with phobias (especially if they’re severe enough that they impact the person’s life to the point they can’t enjoy a game, as I know some people who freak out at IRL spiders but don’t flinch at pixels in the shape of a spider), but it’s nice that the devs are doing anything to accommodate those who do. (Also, in line with your “the devs said”, did you see the article where they stated they chose crabs because no one was scared of the crabs? The leg shape is different enough that people weren’t bothered. So yeah, crabs are much better.)

[@KithAmber]

Thank you hazel!

[@Drekulviin]

Now I understand why Ducks fall from the sky when coming from the south. They arrive at Montréal didn't unlock flying so they fall to the ground.😃

[@JoULove]

Oh Mists of Tirna Scithe... Can't wait to cry tears of frustration at people not understanding the puzzle maze. I wonder how they'll handle the covenant dungeon perks?

[@timothypadgett9881]

I had no idea that warbands applied for ALL of your characters. The video they released certainly made it seem like only 4 This is awesome! I was stressed out on what 4 alts to bring. Thanks!

[@mattb896]

I think the exp bonus should just be 5% per maxed toon, uncapped, for those who are just... insane.

[@bex--]

yeah i have 10 70's and if it was uncapped i'd have so many 80's

[@UltimateGamerCC]

if they did that, the new character limit would have toons leveling at 300% and up.

[@jasonmothershed9084]

Thank you so much for making these videos! It is so hard to keep up with everything on wow and I truly appreciate you taking the time to make these so I can cook breakfast and stay ahead of the curb! :) I hope you keep making them! Did you ever watch Downtime Tuesdays back in the day? kinda reminds me of that and it is such a great way to keep the guild upto date on what to do and when to do it! :) Have a blessed day from me and my kitty!

[@Cayliable]

Question: Will the original bee mount from BFA finally be flyable by Horde characters, since so many other things are being made "Warband-wide"?

[@noxcaelys]

Question - do you think with warbands coming out in prepatch, that the levelling achievements for the warband bank might be attainable then since it doesn't specify level 80?

[@retroa7]

were do I get this pullover from??? I love it.

[@evamuhlhause]

If most mounts are able to skyride do you have to? or will the old way of flying still be available?

[@sarkxyson6113]

the bit about shared gold account wide, that would upset the players who focus the markets and have gold cap on multple characters, but those people must only be a small % of players

[@sebbohnivlac]

I've been thinking about the awakened raids and the timeline for them. By my math (though it could be faulty) we'd finish the second cycle of them with the maintenance period on July 16th. I'm wondering if Blizzard is planning to have the pre-patch out before that.

[@ZomgZomg007]

Correct me if i am wrong, but wasn't there a npc in shadowlands that let you turn off the awakened / empowered feature?

[@ozmcsween]

Why would they not make the reagent tab accessible through all characters as well, instead of having you put reagents into 2 separate tabs. Seems like a design oversight having 3 tabs potentially having the same item in it

[@surestab]

In my opinion, the gold not being auto-shared is a good thing. Accidently buying something from the AH for a massive amount has always scared me, so I try to keep my gold count at a reasonable amount.

[@Mikami_The_Bard]

Do I undestand well that we can have multi-realm characters in the warband and I can exchange items between realms? (i mean transmogs ofc)

[@TarisRedwing]

Are weapon transmogs going to be included into the ability for any class to unlock transmogs feature? I still have a really cool bow for my Hunter ive had in my Druid bank for ever just for this feature.

[@camsmyth101]

yeah tab two is only what Ill be paying

[@christianmatthieu928]

Question: When War With In transmit happens. Will legendary items that I have collected but haven’t been able to equip transmit over? (Ie the Legendary Bow Thori’dal dropped for my warlock, can my hunter then use it?)

[@Veldiirn]

Question: if warbands are account wide, does the warbank span different realms? If so, what items can be placed it? Will I be able to transfer items or gold from realm to realm by this?

[@ButMadNNW626]

The video itself answers your questions. It’s account wide, so clearly it’s cross-realm. Any of your characters can put almost anything that’s not soulbound in it. (At 1:21, you can see Hazel putting warbound gear and crafting materials in it.) And any character can withdraw from it. So yes, you can transfer items and gold between realms. That’s the whole point: you can do things like mine on a Horde character on Realm A, put that ore in the Warband bank, and take it out on an Alliance character on Realm B to craft it into something.

[@chaos696969]

give human a profession buff like scribe

[@faust4456]

The tackle boxes are the best way to get the conches hands down.

[@thiagonascimento9952]

Question: do you know if fyr'alath bad luck protection from current season will roll over to season 4?

[@francovc7082]

Question: do we know if they're doing something with the quest markers on the map for secondary quests and campaign quests as well? I like to level new alts but I'm not so keen on completing all of the quests with all of them. So when I log in with an alt and see a sea of quests on the map it's really off putting. I hope they do something about it.

[@lisekiilstofte5619]

Yes they are.

[@ira8500]

Is warband bank for same realm toons or across your account?

[@Dealtoth]

it would be nice if the dungeons would scale to the amount in yer group from solo to group 2 or more!

[@Aproclivity]

QUESTION: is there an add on that gives you a list of expac specific currencies (anima, crystals from wod etc) on all your characters? Trying to go through 20 years and nine expacs to find who’s got the most of it is frustrating.

[@keithb6344]

Bagsync. It has a currency tab and breaks down each by expac. Just hover over the currency and it shows which character has them and how many.

[@ElizabethHarrell-q6p]

Hazel is the best stream on twitch :)

[@LegomanJ]

Question for you Hazel! I remember watching this videos in season 2 of Dragonflight on you trying to get your legendary for your evoker with no avail. I was just curious if you are going to try again in season 4, and if so, good luck!

[@GreenArtsOrphan]

would the hivemind mount doo skyriding? n if so do it still stack the speed buff when riding with the group you got the mount with??

[@kensg]

Good stuff as always..thank you

[@planetmini417]

Always a delight.

[@Ralledk]

What would you recommend to do to farm/get some gold before War Within? You have always had some great advise for someone who doesnt have too much time to play

[@christmasham4312]

those two SL dungeon's were the best

[@ryzack1012]

really wish they'd just make reagent tab warband wide and gold shared across all toons as well. esp since when buying a wow token if you dont have enough on a single character it'll pull from many

[@zyongli5760]

I wonder how making a new character will work now since you just have one login screen now. Do you pick the server while making the character?

[@lumu42]

how did you get the dungeon part of the achievement done for the mount?

[@geekwars3998]

Am I the only one who stopped playing WoW for years now, but still watches Hazel's videos for the quality James Bond villain cat petting content? Something about it is incredibly relaxing...

[@sorayashahi]

Note that the Yakk was a reforger.

[@miaubella]

I'm guessing there will be a lot of guilds for sale 😆

[@madalleycat8451]

Damn, I had kinda expected that soulbound items would've been transferrable in the warband account. The account bound items can already be traded after all! I thought this could've been a new trick to get items that are no longer obtainable for certain classes transferred to other avatars, in case you wished to clean up your list of alts. I hope it may come next.

[@helixmygod52]

the best part of arachnophobia mode is that mine also happens with other arthropods, like crabs....... crabs are acctually worst.... ty blizz......

[@mC-nf2eo]

so does this mean that if your on the horde side on another server, you can trade things server wide, since its account bound, or is it limited?

[@skodass1]

When they say all alts is in the warband... does that also take other server blades into account? I have characters on tarrenmill eu and anachronos eu...

[@ItsMeSlowbro]

I need this super cool character login screen 😮

[@RoboBongoCuckooCop]

wasn't there an option to toggle the awakened raids off? I think there was in SL season 4...

[@rubirawrs]

I remember loving your content forever and a day ago but i stopped playing WoW just after Jaina's song came out, is it worth getting back into it? or is it an uphill climb just to play catch up?

[@j0tar0u]

What are you supposed to do if you're afraid of crabs but not spiders?

[@Ralledk]

Dont use it 😅

[@sanahlis5322]

Since its a toggle in the options you can choose if you want spiders or crabs.

[@listerrs3580]

gold inflation in wow is insane and needs to be looked at