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Published on July 24th, 2024 | by Adrian Gunning

Prepare for The War Within with the Pre-Expansion Update Now Live! 

The Champions of Azeroth begin their final preparations for the journey deep within the world to confront the forces of the Void gaining strength as the pre-expansion update for The War Within is now live!

This update is the first of two that brings big changes to World of Warcraft as players inch closer to global launch on 27 August at 8:00 a.m. AEST (and early access starting on 23 August). With today’s update, players can look forward to:

  • New Feature: Warbands
    • Players will see account-wide changes that will transform character management to include a warband bank, an increased number of achievements and reputations that are now account-wide, a new character select screen and more!
  • Expanded Feature: Skyriding
    • Introduced as dragonriding inDragonflight, skyriding expands the number of mounts that can be used with this system with more on the way as the expansion progresses.
    • The previous flight system is now referred to assteady flight.
  • Class Balance and Changes
    • In advance of Hero Talents that will be available during the level-up experience after launch, all new adjustments and changes for classes and specialisations will be available for players to explore.
  • Dragonflight absorbed into the base subscription
    • Ahead of the pre-expansion update,Dragonflight will no longer be offered as a standalone expansion offering and will transition into the base subscription.
    • Additionally, new and returning players will now seeDragonflight as the default 10-70 levelling expansion, which was Battle for Azeroth

Coming on 31 July with the second part of the pre-expansion update:

  • New Event: Radiant Echoes
    • Confront the memories of Azeroth and earnResidual Memories to purchase new items to add to the warband collection.
    • This event is open to all players level 10-70, regardless of whether they own The War Within.

For more information on the pre-expansion update, check out the World of Warcraft blog here.


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Adrian lives in Melbourne Australia and has a huge passion for gaming, technology and pop culture. He recently finished his a Bachelor of Journalism and is currently focusing on games journalism. When not writing and playing video games, Adrian can be found in Comics 'R' Us debating the pros of the DC Universe and cons of the Marvel Universe.


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