Warbands in The War Within! Account-Wide EVERYTHING*

[@jd52wtf]

I thought the Garrison system was a missed opportunity to have your alts milling around when logged into another toon.

[@Cristian69-96]

wow underrated comment

[@amricatt]

I'm so excited to experience warbands. I love having alts and all of this will be a huge step forward in quality of life options.

[@IkarosTypeAlpha]

as a person with too many alts, I'm really looking forward to this system. I do hope they change the inability to collect other class sets though, soloing certain raids with certain classes can be a pain

[@andrex1456]

Thats what i had thought that system would be when they originally announced it Way less excited for that system if we still cant get other class mogs :(

[@97ladymuse]

I really hope they change the tier set must be collected on that class. Because its so frustating to run a raid time and time again on one class only to run it on an alt of different class to see the piece you need drop

[@chewie__]

@@97ladymuse For you and anyone else who finds this video before WW launches: the devs went back a bit on this and tier set TOKENS will now be warbound. This makes legacy farming a bit easier.

[@marcedmonson]

How much is too many

[@IkarosTypeAlpha]

@marcedmonson when you hit the character cap and have to keep deleting alts to make a new one like me lmao

[@mattb896]

I just want the favorite list to go to 5. Let me make a little dungeon party of my own. EXPERIENCE GAIN ACHIEVEMENT! God, what a good change!

[@Titan.Fox56]

I believe they will add in an extra slot on down the road to have 5 favorite characters instead of 4 plus its good to see blizzard getting out their comfort zone and bringing news things to WoW.

[@gunman292929]

I hope they fix the class set thing, that's the major reason I was looking forward to it. That's also a ton of gold to sink into the bank...

[@Kritigri]

Interesting. I was sat here like "yeah that makes sense, class sets are different". I personally quite enjoying "going shopping" on my different alts for different sets, and this would turbocharge past a point I'm comfortable with. But I'm probably in the minority there.

[@colin5493]

@@Kritigri definitely in the minority. no one wants to run an old raid on all of their characters.

[@MsRafaelRGO]

Man...that was a bucket of cold water to me =/ this is what i want, like not having to run the same place 1000x because 1 item refuses to drop to 1 char =/

[@Dvdh2903]

I think they will actualy fix this in further alpha / beta. Notice the class in “red” on that item, but it still has “Not yet collected” in light blue under the item card. And maybe we can put them in the warband bank, for the alts to pick it up. It’s an early state of the game so calm down a little

[@barneschitown]

yeah all or nothing at all is the way i see it. this is half baked.

[@LeeQuesada-CoTGaming]

7:00 I can already see the amount of achieves pinging off as soon as I log in the first time with account-wide achieves lol

[@Razerien]

going to be like the 4th of July over here :)

[@RyanofAndor]

Like whenever you copy a character to PTR or beta😂

[@YourLocalTrash_Panda]

Oh dear i didnt think about that 💀

[@RandolphGLGuynn]

as a person who has enjoys both factions and play all 13 classes this is awesome.

[@Psichlo1]

About time that we had access to character items account wide, and this also seems incredibly alt friendly, which is nice to see too. Great info.

[@SuperXdrake]

God This is a total god sent, all the features here are stuff I've really wanted to get in here, and with presuming the pre-patch, this can come to fruition! Thank you blizz!

[@Scarbuckks]

It's hard to believe it took them 20 years to add these features, but I'm really glad they did

[@Shiirow]

the warband bank is looking even better, now I can consolidate all my gold into one place rather by realm or connected realm.

[@slicksterprickster2076]

do you know by chance my friend, if an alliance is from a different server, i see i cannot manually join, but, can i be invited by them? we are having an issue, wondering if they are being truthful, they are telling us it is not possible. but that really doesnt make sense, how can they be in our warband, but we cannot merge at all? can we, am i being lied to?

[@despawn7663]

I think they went wit the clean design to avoid any clipping with the VAST variety of transmog that might affect a Character sitting, standing, moving etc.

[@meyelejuega3602]

I get what you're saying but i really wanted to see my characters hanging around instead of standing there like the idiots they are.

[@mateusneves589]

makes sense, but still would be amazing if we could costumize the character screen if we could pick the emte for each char, etc

[@despawn7663]

@@mateusneves589 Christ now your speaking my language, customizable "wow" desktop scene. I swear wow had interactive Desktop plugins back in 2006 ;)

[@Sindragozer]

Looks awesome! Lot's of W's! Great video MrGM!!

[@Anilomu]

Wow these changes will actually get me back into the game!

[@captainexistence]

Adding all the classes in the game into the appearance tab is going to be a massive quality of life change. I'm a huge tmog collector and I'm constantly logging between characters to check raid sets etc. I cannot wait for this change.

[@DankMemes-xq2xm]

The achievement that increases your xp gains once you hit max level on a character is exactly what I've been asking for since I started. It's what heirloom gear should have always been. Amazing feature, easily one of the best things for altoholics ever added.

[@airallieman]

I hope they add a garrison like region where your characters can interact and do different professions with out having to switch characters. Like I could walk up to my enchanter and get access to his enchanting/disenchanting abilities.

[@ackoh14]

At 4:12 you said the Warband Toy has a 3min cooldown when it's 3hr

[@MrEverynameistaken64]

i cant wait for the Xmog part of it. i have tusks sitting in my DH bags just waiting /giggle :)

[@Felsparx]

As someone who has reached the 50 character max on my account (all level 70 with so much time on them over 20 years) this is the absolute best feature of the entire expansion.

[@readifdumb]

The amount of time this will save players is absolutely insane

[@slicksterprickster2076]

do you know by chance my friend, if an alliance is from a different server, i see i cannot manually join, but, can i be invited by them? we are having an issue, wondering if they are being truthful, they are telling us it is not possible. but that really doesnt make sense, how can they be in our warband, but we cannot merge at all? can we, am i being lied to?

[@christianclark8599]

I want to be able to customize the camp my characters are in and unlock different backgrounds. For example, should be able to unlock blood elf themed camp items and flags and a silvermoon background through a questline/challenge/rep with the different silvermoon reputations like the city, sunreavers wrath, sunreavers mop, etc. Also would be cool to display a favorite mount or 2

[@caderoster8333]

Worried that’s gonna be a paywall thing

[@JoaoJMatias]

When they first announced them i thought we were going to be able to create an actual warband (party) and do dungeons and stuff with our alts. How cool would that be?

[@gphunter99]

The Warbands system is a great start but I hope they build upon it over time - for example, taking your Warband into a (followers) Dungeon as a group and earning experience and loot as a group.

[@steezygaming1726]

Being able to see other class sets is wicked i hated logging into alts just to see sets. I have way too many alts so im really pumped for this

[@rtheactech]

i know what i want the most....account wide reputations.

[@fcspartacus88]

Super hyped for Warband! But i dont understand why the reagent bank isn't warbanded by default and why old school class tier sets aren't "transmoggable" by your other alts...

[@The69Oskar69]

The xp boost is great, all my 13 characters (one for each class in the game) that are currently at 70 will be happy to level up faster than ever :D

[@MrTkrenzke]

That cost for bank slots just deflated my excitement for storage.

[@OhNoTheFace]

lol worrying about money

[@prevbean]

@@OhNoTheFace i know right just buy more tokens like a cuck

[@geekychik86]

Same. I already have my own guild bank and that cost me nothing to get.

[@eodyn7]

@@Mysterious-Fox-01You don't need every single tab.

[@StillProtesting]

​@Mysterious-Fox-01 If you don't spent weeks farming and time selling stuff on the AH, why do you need all 5 tabs?

[@FiresideCatsmile]

I don't mind running a raid multiple times to get specific class sets but I always found it sad when while doing so something neat dropped that I couldn't equip with my current character and it just went to waste so it's nice that this won't be the case anymore!

[@rickatyahoo]

I wonder if the gear that I have collected, that were soulbound and didnt fit my current character, will be retroactively added to the collections.

[@DaZe40k]

They had this nice screen with all the chars.... now they stand around like they wait for the bus....

[@yanomamo89]

Yeah they are waiting the expansion to release.

[@GalaxyProne]

Bro it’s alpha

[@_bm1tv]

it’s alpha not the full release my guy, don’t think their priorities r the animation of characters on the character screen

[@deathlordicelord8402]

southpark be like

[@sir_quirkus7206]

What a thing to complain about lol

[@Vyce_M]

Do we know if the collecting appearances of weapons and armor for other classes will be retroactive? For example if I have a bow on my paladin sitting in my bank can I get its appearance or do I have to get a fresh drop of that bow?

[@zuror9148]

I hope they still work on the screen. The one they showed on blizzcon was much better imo. What I think would also be nice and would add flair to it, would be that you can choose your char on the screen. And maybe they do zoom in on it or the char gets ready.

[@m4d44]

Or you collect stuff and can customize your screen. E.g. dining room from a palace or a loch chamber or just a forest with campfire and tents.

[@zuror9148]

@@m4d44 I like it, could be a new take on WoW Housing / Garrison.

[@ZegeriusBlack]

@@zuror9148 yeah a player housing UI is what we really want ^^

[@LemurFrenzy212]

The main 4 characters I tend to focus on ar a DK/Druid/Hunter/Mage so they just happen to be one of each armour class so getting mogs and stuff should be GREAT, warbands and WW in general looking hype

[@RaimaNd]

The older WoW gets the more things I wish and suggest (in detail) are implemented into the game. I always suggest such things in the wow forum and received so much hate and backfire for it but whenever it gets released people love it. Can't wait for warbands.

[@user-kg8id]

as I understand you. If you are familiar with the Warhammer universe, there is such a game - Total War Warhammer 2. I specifically studied how to create mods. created a new game mode - you don’t just need to destroy all factions to win, but capture territories and hold them while receiving victory points(+VP for control/-VP if not). the entire tabletop Warhammer Age of Sigmar is built on such mechanics. I created several game scenarios. but players told me that this is not total war. modders did not participate in the project. after 2 years went by. The 3rd version of the game TWW3 has been released. to which the developers added such a mode. Now these people have opened their mouths and don’t know what to say. as Osho said in Asmongold's video - people are stupid.

[@Snuzzled]

But what happens to the old flight path map toys?

[@xaourhgaming8645]

The gold amount for the tabs is beyond stupid

[@js11t]

beyond stupid is an understatement i would say, like wtf? Maybe they are trying to remove gold from the game, like i.e introduction of the gold-sink mounts? Can't understand their thinking sometimes at all

[@williamcolgin1987]

The last two tabs are specifically gold sinks that wouldn’t have otherwise been made available. The warband bank is designed as a means for sharing crafting mats. That much gold is nothing to a crafter.

[@js11t]

@@williamcolgin1987doesn't take away from the fact that it's still an absurd amount for ONE slot! Not to mention the total gold spent to unlock the previous ones

[@DerekScottBland]

Not really, seeing as the amount of gold you get for quests and selling items and such goes up with every expansion. Also, your warband bank doesn't replace your personal bank or guild bank. If you really need 4 or 5 more tabs to store things amongst 5+ toons, then you have a hoarding problem and need to clean out your banks.

[@LadyLunarella]

Agreed! im not able to waste time getting lots of gold if they want that then increase the gold dropped from everything!

[@caderoster8333]

I know most people are super psyched but I’m wondering if there are altoholics who are a little nervous about the overwhelming amount of stuff that will get lumped together

[@roninhare9615]

The way they set up the warbands favorites, makes me wonder if they will incorporate your alts for delves or solo dungeons with ai Allies. Heck, why not call a favorite warband buddy while you’re out in the world soloing quests, dailies, or resource farming. That way, you always have a buddy with you.

[@slicksterprickster2076]

do you know by chance my friend, if an alliance is from a different server, i see i cannot manually join, but, can i be invited by them? we are having an issue, wondering if they are being truthful, they are telling us it is not possible. but that really doesnt make sense, how can they be in our warband, but we cannot merge at all? can we, am i being lied to?

[@C0PIUM.FINESSE]

This sounds like Diablo inventories with the warbound until equipped thing, I like that

[@Infernoblade1010]

Altaholics are going to have fun this time around!

[@craighunter9066]

I can’t believe it’s took so long for them to do this. I hope they include other class sets appearances though

[@KouD3Graw]

I wanted this since WoD with Garrisons.

[@exxor9108]

This is so damn cool. My Alliance main and my Horde main are gonna be like bros man. XD

[@ruairidhkoch7875]

To clarify. I can warband toon from server A and server B, C and so on?

[@weirdodude1173]

I love it. Thumbs up!!

[@brayandrq]

What about quest? I dont want to do the same quest 10 times... they should give us an option for that

[@fish_bacon]

why not add the option to create a character levelled already to 70 while at it?

[@beeurd]

I have a lot of alts, so I love the XP bonus for each max level character... Maybe The War Within will be the expansion that I finally manage to get every class to max level. 😅

[@samrobotsin]

Turalyon to Wrathion: "Did you start a war that killed thousands of Draenei? ....Let's be best friends"

[@baileywilliams3197]

I play a lot of alts I’m so excited for this! The account bound achievements is a top of my list wants for a long time hell ya

[@LeeQuesada-CoTGaming]

11:30 quick question... Is Brann Bronzebeard mining for you to receive the materials???

[@LeeQuesada-CoTGaming]

11:34 holy shit he is, i just seen it hit your inventory.. WHAAAAAAT now that's a QoL feature.. holy crap...

[@Scottietada]

Great, about time accounts are finally seen as "A player" not 20 per server! I have had a server based bank for years, Get a nice guild charter get it signed add a friend or family member invite all your alts then let every signer gquit and do the same for your family member and they also have a server/faction bank.

[@LeeQuesada-CoTGaming]

Yea I did this. lol. And it's just about filled most of the time lulz. but then again I have 25 characters that utilize the bank( horde and alliance of each class on same server, used to not be like that, but the dicks at blizz banned my main account for language)

[@gilanafaye]

You can have a max of 60 characters account wide with no server limit. They got rid of server character limits a while ago. They've probably been moving towards this for a long time.

[@ndi88]

I wonder can you make different tabs(like templates) with your favourites characters or you stuck with one and you always have to toss in/out characters manually?

[@jonathanargueta1640]

Thanks for the update :)

[@ragingcyclone369]

SWTOR has had this system for 13 years, the Legacy system, but they were smart enough to keep the bank limited to server since I can see with the account wide gold in Warbands you'll see some server economies crash as player consolidate their gold all onto one server and crash the markets.

[@kekenoob]

That is unlikely to happen. Much more significant changes have been made to cross-server economy, including cross server trading, cross server auction houses etc. In every instance people have been doomsaying about how it will crash markets. None of that occurred. Account wide gold will certainly be the least impactful of these changes, there is almost no possibility that markets will be significantly affected by this. For anyone that studied economics, you would also know that expanding the market and increasing liquidity almost invariably improves the health of the market.

[@eodyn7]

You seem to have out of date information.

[@chaoscommentz4582]

hope the chromie timewalking diolouge is this Dragon Isles Expedition "Explore a island full of wonder, mystery & a place of Draconical descent, the dragon aspects want to reclaim what's theirs as well, so you'd ought to help them." "There's a secret in Valdrakken's Roasted Ram, just look for a Statue!"

[@codernerd7076]

Looks great!

[@mm_rocha1909]

Has anything been said about Garrisons? How are they going to work in warbands? Thank you in advance.

[@brianwebb9343]

soooo does this count for specific crafted gear that you cant normally wear? i.e. engineering goggles? i need those to help my trasmog count +

[@Dylinto]

ohhh hohohohoho 2.5mil for a bank tab, im rich but im not insane 🎅

[@Kritigri]

I can't help but think about how games like Path of Exile sell bank tabs for real money. With WoW Tokens, this is essentially the same.

[@alanurbina7057]

the first 3 tabs are pretty cheap. We also need to know how much gold we will be making during the expansion, could be something like Legion.

[@TehSuperHero]

So all of my characters across my entire account will benefit from the warband, even if they aren't in the warband? Or do I need to pick my top 4 favorite toons and just stick with those?

[@Titan.Fox56]

ALL of them will benefit from the warband the top 4 favorites are just the 4 you like playing the most.

[@TheNameOfJesus]

What shows up when you click on the REALMS button @1:40?

[@tristanmilner9511]

8:51 So if I'm hearing this correctly, Illidan's swords that my Warrior has will be moggable for my Demon Hunter, yes?

[@xXxFiercedeityxXx]

Sounds good. Does this mean that a any character can use any transmog? Like plate on a priest?

[@Momoka7]

10:00 Honestly with Blizzard planning to continue, WoW had over the years so many really good mechanics and things, all usually discontinued. Some things where discontinued with the next expansions, some stayed a few expansions and then got dropped. The bad stuff, like the Mission Tables... for some reason kept clinging around.

[@travsgamingclub8957]

Don’t know how the war band will be for me I have been stuck at two characters since vanilla

[@caderoster8333]

Having had the max possible characters since vanilla I’m having the opposite concern

[@christopherrobin4619]

So... using the warband bank.. for reagents you go from a single tab per character to one tab for all your characters? How does that make sense? unless blizz are going to increase the stack sizes of things.. that a net loss if you have more then 3 or 4 toons...

[@Wereshaman]

You get your 1 Tab per character and then buy up to 5 tabs for all your characters. So you still have personal bank space on each toon, being your main tab + 7 bags, and reagent tab, then you add in up to 5 Warband tabs.

[@Mewi987]

4:14 toy says 3h cd but u said 3min is it tooltip error or :O

[@flyingkiwi8441]

So should we keep all transmogs we collect till WW? Or does it only work on transmog that you acquire after the prepatch?

[@Mortal14]

with a cloth main like mage can i deposit gear into the bank that switches to leather when i log in on a rogue? that would be huge for alt gearing

[@YulRun]

Are you seeing socketing in a similar fashion to MOP Remix? Im curious about that as those characters will transfer when WW launches.

[@JohnAlpha1]

Can you clarify for us if we can add any soulbound equipment to the war-band bank? (Example: adding a soulbound dungeon drop I got on my hunter, so I can use it on my shaman) while levelling 1-70

[@travisshannon9040]

Pretty well got my warband thought out! Just need one more toon.. Pally my main with BS/Mining, Shaman with JC, Lock with Enchant/Tailoring. I can' think of my last class with what profession.

[@Titan.Fox56]

MONK or Druid TWO of the best classes to farm with. Monk with the Ox totem aoe taunts mobs, and Druid with the flight farm with mining and herb in till you gather enough points to unlock herb/mining without being dismounted off your dragonriding mount. Druid would be my alch/herb sense potions/vials are always needed throughout the expansion and a decent money maker at the beginning of the season due to the race to world first guilds will buy it no matter the price cause well they're loaded with gold and don't have time to farm

[@Zmeowe]

So what about the characters that's not in the warband. Can you still log-in to them or are they just in dormant till you put them into the warband?

[@Wereshaman]

Did you listen to the video? All characters are part of your warband, the 4 that are shown are the favorites list.

[@dustinmorse7975]

cant remember if you mentioned but they changed spellbook to be in the talent tab, as well as how it looks, i like it alot more tbh

[@williamcolgin1987]

How will the guild panel display the achievements tab of the roster? If I’m the top achievement earner will all my 12 guilted alts be listed sequentially at the top or will there be 1 account listing?

[@driveltwaddle7286]

In addition to the map, I hope they also add a “Complete All Quests Completed by Warband”-toy (without rewards, obviously).

[@preacherbillf]

excellent video.

[@netherialdreyrimani]

yeah those bank tabs arent gold sinks, they are wowtoken sellers. Probably sell bank slots for it directly too

[@Archon762]

The big thing I'm looking toward is if we already have something on a character they can't use, will selling it in TWW still unlock it? I have the LFR Greatsword from ToT on my Warlock, I want that mog for my warrior lol

[@dmrukifellth]

I'm so curious if the Lord of War achievement and title will be account wide after this. I have it on an old druid I never play anymore...

[@KodekTheCasual]

I wonder if the experience buff would also stack with the War Mode exp buff.

[@Fuzzle1985]

The Everything All at Once reference is to the movie that won an Oscar in 2023.

[@xbon1]

How do betas for wow work? Will it just be a short period or will it stay open all the way to launch once it goes live?

[@crimsonwolf3421]

Should have done top 5 since we do a 5man party system T_T

[@therealtrexofficial]

Major W in my books

[@empjorium]

Bright future for us, altoholics!

[@DerekScottBland]

It shouldn't be too hard to make older content from raids in the same system as everything else, it seems they just have to change the tag from soulbound to warband bound. I hope they do that, because when this was first announced everyone's immediate thought was that it would make it so much easier to collect classic raid transmogs.

[@snowballandpals]

If they made crests and flight stones in Dragonflight account-wide, that would make things 1000% better

[@colinwoods5663]

the bank is for alliance toons can send to your horde toons right

[@Risingdoom1]

I would love to be able to unlock other backgrounds for the login screen warband

[@vincenthoeven653]

Is the warband bank for both factions? So if I have alot of gold on my horde, can my Ally take it aswell?

[@jonathanbaily]

will you be able to skip the campaign/certain quest if you main has finished it? For me the most boring part of wow is doing quests twice! Like, first time: oh cool, second time: ....

[@TheBruceGday]

They should have warband raids

[@OwlNightMoon]

Once said rep would only TWW or DF. But I hoped other oldest rep get account-wide well. My Main had 60+ rep exalted. Wanted for alts get exalted from all rep. Do blizzard will make this?

[@Dahkeus3]

I mean, there’s some nice quality of life stuff, but I am still having trouble feeling hyped for this expansion. This stuff just feels small and it doesn’t really feel like the “warband” is anything more than branding on just making unlocks account wide.

[@ianhorne9594]

I just hope they will add different environments for the character select. It would be cool if they had one with your 4 characters sitting at a bar in a tavern

[@DrPluton]

Dang. I was hoping all my paladin and mage exalted reps would immediately apply to my other characters. Alas!

[@lucasmachadoh]

I would love to know if someone can explain to me, i have made the foolish mistake of finishing the Thunderfury, blessed blade of the wind seeker on my shaman. Will i unlock its transmog when war within launches or should i go back to molten core and start farming again?

[@oblivionsmuse]

Man, I want warbands right now SO BAD. lol Can't wait for launch.