The War Within: Warbands Preview

I want this so much so I can finally do instances.

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I’m very curious about this too, since my main (Druid/Leather) has been around for-freaking-ever and has done quite a few quests that either don’t exist anymore or would be tedious to do all over again, such as the OG Loremaster pre-Cataclysm.

The article did say that the first time you log in it would take a while as it reconfigures all of your character and account data, so I would hope retroactive-quest-transmog would be included, but clarification on this topic would be highly appreciated.

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There isn’t even clarity on if the warband xmog will be backwards compatible. It never specifies and specifically says, “in The War Within any character can collect any item appearance, regardless of if they can equip the item or not.”

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Well then… I feel silly for selling all the cool gear I couldn’t unlock transmogs for on my main.

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According to the article, yes. Quoted from the transmog section, between the pictures of the appearances window and the weapon transmog roll.

Existing gear in your character-level bank or bag inventory will be automatically added to your transmog collection when you first log into that character.

And thank goodness for this too. I have so much old RP gear on alts that don’t “match” the armor type from the class, I’m glad it can finally be added to my wardrobe!

WHY FOR GOD SAKE IS IT STILL REGION LOCKED??? I have a EU and US account, i understand that i cant send stuff to other regions, but why is my collection, mounts, achivments not bound to my battle net? when i get twitch drops i get the item on both accounts too, there its not region locked why cant that be the case for other stuff, i just want my collection, mounts etc. on both accounts i dont care for currency or gold, just the mog and so on, blizz please

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Use the item restore feature. It’ll mail you back any item you’ve vendored or disenchanted, COD for the amount of gold/shards you got from it.

I apparently missed that bit. It was a long read. :sweat_smile: Thank you for pointing this out. Guess I better get to farming then!

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Please reconsider the Furbolg and Glimmerogg racing decision. The decision around the fantasy of this feels very arbitrary for two of the worst rep grinds in Dragonflight.

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Item restore only goes so far back. My cool The Black Hand is no longer there.

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I actually have this gold sat around waiting to go, there aren’t that many gold sinks in the game so this although is pretty high price, I’m okay with it!

Please reconsider the decision around Diplomacy. It’s an iconic and well-loved human trait. While some players might choose to play human to optimize reputation gains, most people will not change their race for this.

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Derp, I somehow assumed you meant for recent Dragonflight gear, my bad. I totally feel your pain on this one…so much old transmog I’ll have to refarm, because I vendored it even before the Wardrobe system came out to make it all account wide in the first place.

Still happy for the feature going forward, though.

Even moreso if they change their mind on tier/token appearances in solo legacy content (at the very least).

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They are operating under the old adage that “given the chance, players will optimize all fun out of the game.”

But not realizing those who are prone to doing that are going to do it regardless.

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I really hope the Warband camp character screen isn’t just them all standing there oddly.

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OMG. I dearly hope that it IS. It gives me Dragon Age vibes and I dig it.

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I was hoping the character select would be updated to make seeing all/more characters easier. Scrolling through 40-something characters is gonna get annoying.

I wouldn’t mind a t-pose option for the lols.

Please reconsider the notion of “taxing” currency exchange. This has always been an awkward part of WoW and I’m not sure of the value when “playing the account” vs. “playing the character.”

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Will the class quest titles achievements finally apply to all of that specific class account wide?