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By Stan
We’ve put together a detailed preview of Warbands, the "everything account-wide" feature launching with the War Within pre-patch, which is expected to go live on July 23.
New Character Screen
When you first log in after the War Within pre-patch, you’ll see an updated character screen displaying your favorite four characters from your Warband standing around a campfire.
We’ve already clarified that your Warband includes all characters across your entire account, not just the four shown around the campfire.
Warband Bank
A new Warband Bank has been added where you can deposit and withdraw gold and items. All characters will have access to it, and there’s even a Deposit All Warband Items option to save time.
Warbound Until Equipped Gear Type
A new gear type called Warbound Until Equipped has been introduced. This applies to gear from the War Within pre-patch event as well. It means the gear is "account-wide" until equipped. You can deposit such gear in your Warband Bank, and when an alt equips it, it becomes Soulbound.
Warband Factions
Not all factions will be account-wide at launch. The War Within factions will be account-wide from the start, with more factions being added over time.
When you open the Khaz Algar Summary tab, you’ll learn more about the Warband Factions.
Transmog
Collecting items for transmog is now easier than ever. Quests will give you all the quest reward appearances, and the Appearances tab has been updated with a new filter to let you choose from different classes.
The same update applies to the Sets tab, where you can now preview sets for all classes!
With Warbands, you can also learn cosmetic items that you can’t equip. These appearances will be collected and available for your alt that can equip them.
Warband XP Bonus
Warbands come with a stacking buff that increases your experience gains by 5% for each character that reaches level 80, up to a maximum of 25%.
When you earn the Five Warband Mentors: The War Within achievement by reaching level 80 with five characters, your characters will receive a 25% additional experience bonus!
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By Stan
Let's take a closer look at the latest Druid changes from the War Within Beta!
Latest Druid Changes
Moon Guardian - Free automatic Moonfires from Galactic Guardian generate 5 Rage. Moonfire and Starfire generate 2 additional Astral Power Astral Insight - Increases the duration and number of spells cast by Convoke the Spirits by 25%. Incarnation: Chosen of Elune and Incarnation: Guardian of Ursoc increase Arcane damage from spells and abilities by 10% while active Lunation - Your Arcane abilities reduce the cooldown of Fury of Elune by 2.0 sec and the cooldown of New Moon, Half Moon, and Full Moon by 1.0 sec. Your Arcane abilities reduce the cooldown of Lunar Beam by 3.0 sec. Stellar Command - Increases the damage of Fury of Elune and Full Moon by 15%. Increases the damage of Lunar Beam by 30% and Fury of Elune by 15%. Lunar Calling - Starfire deals 40% increased damage to its primary target, but no longer triggers Solar Eclipse. Thrash now deals Arcane damage and its damage is increased by 12%. Photosynthesis - While your Lifebloom is on an ally, your periodic heals on them have a 4% chance to cause it to bloom. While your Lifebloom is on yourself, your periodic heals heal 20% 10% faster Implant - Your Swiftmend causes a Symbiotic Bloom to grow on the target for 4 secs sec. Boundless Moonlight - [ Fury of Elune Fury of Elune now ends with a flash of energy, blasting nearby enemies for ( 212% of Spell Power ) Astral damage. Full Moon Full Moon calls down 2 Crescent Minor Moons that deal ( 116.6% of Spell Power ) Astral damage and generate 3 Astral Power. Power.] Lunar Beam Lunar Beam now causes you to leech life equal to 10% of all damage dealt to enemies within the beam. The Eternal Moon - Further increases the power of Boundless Moonlight Fury of Elune The flash of energy now generates 6 Astral Power or 6 Rage and its damage is increased by 50%. Full Moon New Moon and Half Moon now also call down 1 Crescent Minor Moons. Lunar Beam Lunar Beam increases Mastery by an additional [ 1,400% of mas ]%, deals 30% increased damage, and lasts 3 sec longer. Entangling Vortex - Damage may cancel the effect. Enemies pulled into Ursol's Vortex are rooted in place for 3 secs sec. Thriving Growth - Wild Growth, Regrowth, and Efflorescence healing has a chance to cause Symbiotic Blooms to grow on the target, healing for [ 120% of Spell Power ] over 6 sec. Multiple instances of these can overlap. Rip and Rake damage has a chance to cause Bloodseeker Vines to grow on the victim, dealing [ 135% of Attack Power ] bleed Bleed damage over 6 sec Restoration Druid - Restoration Druid core passive: Improved Regrowth and Regrowth Increases periodic damage/healing by 25%: Improved Regrowth and Regrowth Increases periodic damage/healing by 68%: Incarnation: Tree of Life and Rejuvenation Increases damage/healing by 90%: Incarnation: Tree of Life and Wrath Increases periodic damage/healing by 15%: Incarnation: Tree of Life and Wild Growth Increases damage/healing by 73%: Ferocious Bite and Incarnation: Avatar of Ashamane Increases damage/healing by 96%: Improved Prowl and Shred Increases damage/healing by 31%: Improved Prowl Increases periodic damage/healing by 44%: Improved Prowl Increases damage/healing by 8%: Cultivation, Efflorescence, Improved Regrowth, Incarnation: Tree of Life, Lifebloom, Reactive Resin, Regrowth, Rejuvenation, Spring Blossoms, Tranquility, Wild Growth Increases periodic damage/healing by 8%: Cultivation, Efflorescence, Improved Regrowth, Incarnation: Tree of Life, Lifebloom, Reactive Resin, Regrowth, Rejuvenation, Spring Blossoms, Tranquility, Wild Growth Moondust - Enemies affected by Moonfire are slowed by 30% 20%. Atmospheric Exposure - Enemies damaged by Full Moon, Lunar Beam or Fury of Elune or Lunar Beam take 4% increased damage from you for 6 sec. -
By Stan
Blizzard has added a useful Map Legend in War Within, informing you about all the icons you see on the world map!
Many map icons have been updated in the War Within and Blizzard implemented a new Map Legend for easier navigation. You can access it from within the map. The Map Legend Button is located right next to the Map Pin.
Quests
Campaign - Quests that continue the main story Important - Quests that unlock important features and rewards, or teach you about major mechanics. Legendary - Quests that give legendary rewards. Meta - Time gared quests that give valuable end game rewards. Local Story - Quests that explore local cultures and side adventures. In Progress - Quests that are currently in progress. Limited Time Activities
World Quest - Open world activities that give varying rewards. World Boss - A difficult open world boss that drops valuable loot, intended for large groups of players. Bonus Objective - Bonus open world activities that give XP and varying amounts of rewards. Event - Various patch specific activities that provide valuable rewards. Rare - A special creature that provides various rewards. Rare Elite - A rare special creature that has a chance of dropping valuable loot. Activities
Dungeon - Content designed for a party of five adventurers, and provides loot. Raid - Challenging content that is intended for large groups of players, and provides valuable loot. Hub - A central location with NPCs, activities, and available quests. Digsite - An archaeology location where you can dig for artifacts. Pet Battle - Challenge NPCs to pet battles. Movement
Teleport Point - Teleports you to a different region. Cave Entrance - The entrance to a cave or different zone. Flightpoint - Transports you to a different area in the same region. -
By Staff
We have more adjustments to Survival Hunters in this week's War Within Beta build. Blizzard respond to player feedback on changes made on the Beta so far, as they're reverting last week's change to Flanking Strike and comment they might have more changes for it later on. Mongoose Bite and Mongoose Fury are also being reverted, as the team look for better solutions.
Survival (Source)
Hello Survival Hunters!
We’ve been reading your feedback regarding the recent changes to Mongoose Bite, Mongoose Fury, and Flanking Strike and want to provide an update regarding those changes.
One of our goals with the Survival Hunter spec tree update was to better define niches for each of Survival’s tandem pet-and-hunter attack abilities. Since then, we’ve made changes to Coordinated Assault and Spearhead to better define their use cases as well as the narrative sell of their effects, and last week we felt that it was Flanking Strike’s turn for an update.
We don’t feel that our previous iteration of Flanking Strike fits perfectly within Survival’s kit, but given your feedback, we also don’t think that it being an occasional replacement for Kill Command is a better direction. We plan on reverting Flanking Strike to its previous iteration, where it will remain a separate ability that doubly benefits from Tip of the Spear. We’ll put more thought into Flanking Strike’s place in Survival’s kit in the meantime, but we don’t expect to have a new iteration on this ability’s direction any time soon.
Similarly, we don’t love how Mongoose Fury and Tip of the Spear can pull you in a separate direction rotationally (as previously stated). It’s clear that this new direction for Mongoose Bite invalidates an iconic part of the Survival Hunter experience. For now, we plan to return Mongoose Bite and Mongoose Fury to their previous iterations. We’ll spend time finding a more elegant way to meld the two rotational styles that simultaneously preserves their gameplay.
That’s all for today. We appreciate your continued feedback! Thank you!
And here are the tuning changes for Hunters in general and Survial specifically, from the development notes:
Tuning (Source)
HUNTER
New Talent: Blackrock Munitions – The damage of Explosive Shot is increased by 8%. New Talent: Implosive Trap – Hurls a fire trap to the target location that explodes when an enemy approaches, causing Fire damage and knocking all enemies up. Limit 1. Choice node with High Explosive Trap. Territorial Instincts has been redesigned – Casting Intimidation without an active pet summons one from your stable. Talent nodes in Gate 2 have been repositioned. Concussive Shot and Wilderness Medicine now connect to Scare Beast and Scout’s Instinct respectively. The following talents have been removed: Steel Trap Death Chakram Developer’s note: One of the biggest complaints we’re seeing in the Hunter community is button bloat. Death Chakram was a relatively high-frequency button that you had to click before all of your damage abilities, creating something of a launch sequence for every Hunter specialization. Its removal will let us bake the lost power into each spec’s kit while also reducing the button-presses required before you can begin damage. Survival
Sic’ Em has been redesigned – Kill Command has a 15% chance to reset the cooldown of Kill Shot, make it usable on targets regardless of Health, and strike up to 2 additional targets. This chance is doubled during Coordinated Assault. Coordinated Assault initial damage increased by 60%. Coordinated Assault has been redesigned – You and your pet charge your enemy, striking them for combined Physical damage. You and your pet’s bond is then strengthened for 20 seconds, causing you and your pet to deal 20% increased damage. While Coordinated Assault is active, Kill Command’s chance to reset its cooldown is increased by 15%. Developer’s note: Coordinated Assault’s previous iterations have been disproportionately complex relative to its output. Our goal with these changes is to simplify Coordinated Assault’s effects, increase the power gain from Coordinated Assault, and disjoint it from Kill Shot so that you can opt-in to Kill Shot bonuses as you see fit. We also believe that the increased Kill Command reset chance will be more broadly appealing with the new talents introduced in the Survival update. Symbiotic Adrenaline has been updated – Additionally causes Coordinated Assault to grant 3 stacks of Tip of the Spear. Quick Shot has been updated – Now has a 30% chance to fire an Arcane Shot when you cast Kill Command (was when Kill Command reset). Butchery damage increased by 100%. Flanking Strike now replaces Kill Command after casting Kill Command 3 times. Flanking Strike range increased to 25 yards (Medium-Short range). Flanking Strike no longer benefits from Tip of the Spear and now generates 15 Focus. Flanker’s Advantage no longer grants additional reset chance based on your critical strike. This effect also had a bug that was causing you to roll for Kill Command resets twice per cast of Kill Command, which was creating substantially increased Kill Command resets. Mongoose Fury now refreshes its duration when a new stack is applied. Mongoose Fury max stacks reduced to 3 (was 5). Mongoose Fury duration reduced to 10 seconds . Developer’s note: The previous design of Mongoose Fury was rewarding you for pressing nothing but Mongoose Bite in your damage window while the new Tip of the Spear is asking you to weave in Kill Commands. These two designs were pulling your rotation in two separate directions, and these adjustments should help to harmonize these two mechanics. Wildfire Infusion’s Kill Command reset chance reduced to 10% (was 15%). Wildfire Infusion’s Wildfire Bomb cooldown reduction reduced to 0.5 seconds (was 1 second). Developer’s note - We’re still making adjustments to Survival’s action economy and reducing how crowded the rotation feels. Part of this is reducing the increased access of Wildfire Bomb from the various spec tree changes we’ve made, particularly through Wildfire Infusion. Many effects that were consuming multiple stacks of Tip of the Spear have been fixed. Spearhead now only makes your pet charge. Spearhead description updated. Spearhead visuals and sound effects updated.
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By Staff
Blizzard have added the previously announced NPC Crafting Orders in this week's Beta build! There will be a set number arriving on a regular basis, with different NPCs asking for different items, some of them offering more reagents than others, and even some offering unique rewards!
Blizzard also explain how specialization knowledge and Artisan's Acuity will work, as well as the catch-up system related to them.
Crafting Orders (Source)
With this week’s build, NPC Crafting Orders are now available for testing! To use the feature, travel to your nearest crafting bench and open the Crafting Order tab. Click the “NPC” tab, which may appear blank at first, and you should start seeing orders appear. If at first you don’t see any orders, please wait a moment and try again.
How it works
NPC Crafting Orders are personal orders that populate on a regular, predetermined cadence. Throughout the week, various familiar characters from the world will submit orders directly to you with a variety of possible rewards. You may discover that some customers tend to be more willing to provide reagents to assist in the final craft than others. Certain customers are very picky, and may only submit orders for very specific items. Although all NPC Crafting Orders offer a small commission, some customers may offer unique bonus rewards for helping them out!
Other than bonus rewards, these orders are nearly identical to player-to-player crafting orders. The recipes requested and reagents involved are ones you already find throughout your adventures. You will gain skill-ups, receive First Craft rewards, and can benefit from profession stats. Specializations will play a part in your success in NPC Crafting Orders, particularly when it comes to guaranteeing quality or unlocking Optional and Finishing Reagent slots. Some customers may provide these extra reagents, potentially affecting the final difficulty of the craft.
NPC Crafting Orders is the primary method for crafting professions to earn specialization knowledge and Artisan’s Acuity in The War Within for all crafting professions (except for Enchanting, which earns their weekly points via Disenchanting items). Each profession has an allotment of knowledge points they can earn in a week (which varies from profession to profession based on the size of their specialization tree). These are delivered through a bi-weekly selection of orders, scheduled similarly to how World Quests populated during Dragonflight. Although specialization orders are generally tuned to be easier than other types, it is possible to be unable to satisfy an order with your given capabilities. Don’t fret! Whether you join the expansion late or had a rough time with a few orders, you may begin seeing catch-up orders as early as the following week. The cadence and quantity of specialization catch-up orders increases as you fall further behind to allow for rapid catch-up especially later in the expansion’s lifecycle. These catch-up orders are also typically much easier to fulfill by requesting more common recipes and cheaper reagents overall.
Once you satisfy the requirements and craft an item, all rewards will be sent to you in the mail; be sure to check it!
We are excited for everyone to get their hands on the system and look forward to your feedback!
Known Issues
The reward preview is not displaying all rewards for a given order. Customer-specific rewards are inconsistently being displayed and awarded. Pocket Lint is not an intended reward. The number of orders on Beta is slightly higher than intended, mostly due to knowledge catch-up orders always being active currently. Knowledge, Catch-Up Knowledge, and Acuity gains are not yet tuned. Non-quality items sometimes request a minimum quality and cannot be fulfilled. In rare cases, the NPCs are overly patient and submit orders with 2-3 month durations. Weekly knowledge tracking is not setup for all weekly knowledge sources resulting in excessive knowledge gain in certain cases. This is affecting more than just NPC Crafting Orders.
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