Summary
World of Warcraftis adding a bunch of factions fromShadowlandsto the list of Warband reputations in Patch 11.1.5, including the Ascended, the Undying Army, the Court of Harvesters, and the Wild Hunt. While the mainShadowlandsCovenants is not included in this, nearly every otherWorld of Warcraftfaction from this expansion will soon be shared across a single account.
During the Pre-Patch forThe War Within,World of Warcraftintroduced the Warbands system. Marketed as “account-wide everything,” one of the biggest parts of this feature was that most reputations from then on would be shared across all characters. What’s more, mostDragonflightfactions were grandfathered into this system, with Blizzard planning to go back and make even more legacy factions shared across the Warband in the future.
Now, it seems like Blizzard is getting ready to add the next big chunk of reputations to the Warbands system.World of Warcraftrecently revealed patch 11.1.5, the next content update forThe War Within, and began testing it on the Public Test Realm. On these servers, nearly everyShadowlandsreputation faction is now shared across an account. This includes the Ascended, Undying Army, Court of Harvesters, and The Wild Hunt – the four main factions associated with each realm – along with the Ve’nari Maw reputation, and both The Archivist’s Codex and The Enlightened from Patch 9.1 and 9.2 respectively.
Warband Reputations in World of Warcraft Patch 11.1.5
Notably, this list does not include the Kyrian, Necrolord, Night Fae, or Venthyr Covenants. This is because theseShadowlandsfactions use an early version of the Renown system that is not tied to reputation, unlike modernWorld of WarcraftRenown factions like the Cartels of Undermine, making it much harder to share. That said, reaching maximum Renown with a Covenant on a single character already makes most faction-locked rewards usable on any alt, regardless of their current Covenant, so this shouldn’t be too much of a problem for most players.
While many currencies inShadowlandsare already transferable via the Warbands system,World of Warcraftis making Stygia, the main currency collected in the Maw, shareable as well. What’s more, severalBattle for Azerothcurrencies, such as Prismatic Manapearls, Coalescing Visions, and Echoes of Ny’alotha, will also become transferable in Patch 11.1.5.
While there is no timetable for it,World of Warcraftwants to make as many reputations shared across the Warbandas possible. Though it may be a long time before fans see factions fromWrath of the Lich King,The Burning Crusade, or even VanillaWoWexpanded in this way, players are excited to see Blizzard continuing the process in this next update.
World of Warcraft: The War Within
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In this opening chapter of The Worldsoul Saga, you’ll journey through never-before-seen subterranean worlds filled with hidden wonders and lurking perils, down to the dark depths of the Nerubian empire, where the inscrutable Harbinger of the Void has gathered her arachnid forces to bring Azeroth to its knees.
