Blizzard has released extensive development notes for The War Within Pre-Patch PTR, detailing all the major changes coming with the expansion pre-patch event!
The War Within Pre-Expansion PTR Development Notes
NEW FEATURES - WARBANDS
Expand the potential of your alts with account-wide progression across your family of characters on your Battle.net account, regardless of their Faction. Share Warband Bank access, War Within Renown, achievements, collections and more.
Warbands will be converted upon login and may take some time. Please be patient.
Your account may take several minutes to gather and convert all characters on first log in. - Not-yet-implemented: There will be a dialog letting you know your characters are being added to a Warband.
Please reply to the Feedback: Warband Conversions thread and let us know your feedback, along with the answers to the following questions:
- For any achievements that are newly account wide, did they combine correctly across your characters?
- Did your Dragonflight reputation progress combine correctly (furthest progress on any character)?
- Do you have flight paths from all your merged characters?
SKYRIDING - Explore the stunning new zones of Khaz Algar from the saddle of hundreds of in-game mounts, now with skyriding (previously dragonriding) capabilities first introduced in Dragonflight.
CHARACTERS - New Human Racial: No Place Like Home – Your Hearthstone cooldown is reduced by 5 minutes and gains an additional charge. Replaces Diplomacy.
CLASSES - The amount of talent loadouts that can be saved on a per character basis to has been increased to 40 (was 10).
- Talents that increase melee range have been removed.
Developer’s note: We are removing increased melee range talents across the game, such as Astral Influence and Acrobatic Strikes. Default melee range has increased since these talents were originally created, so they now allow specs to attack from well outside where it appears they should be able to. They make the
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