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There are a lot of newWorld of Warcraft: The War Withinfeatures that have been added to the game as of the 11.0 pre-patch update, including avariety of the newTWWsystems. Upon logging in, you will find that some things have changed inTWW– like the new Warband camp in the character select screen.
Thanks to all these changes, you may find it hard to decide what to do first inThe War Withinprepatch. Players returning to the game after a long break toplay the newWoWexpansionwill find it all even more unfamiliar. This guide explains what you should do first inWoW: TWW, including suggestions for new content and features to check out, as well as a basic overview of the Radiant EchoesTWWprepatch exclusive event.
Customize Your Warband Character Select Screen
After getting past the log-in screen, which shows off the newThe War Withinartwork and introduces the newTWWmain menu music, you’ll find that theCharacter Select screen has been radically changed. Instead of static characters in front of a race-related backdrop, four of your characters can be selected to sit in front of a live-rendered fire at a camp.
Drag and drop four of your characters into the “Favorites” tabat the top left of your character list to see them show up at camp. Their position at camp corresponds to their placement on the list – the first Favorite sits on the left, while the last of the four Favorites sits at the far right.
It’s a welcome change to the character select screen that hasn’t seen any major changes (barring the Character Creation UI) in many expansions. Take a minute to set up your main Warband characters, but don’t worry too much about who is and isn’t in your favorites. All of your characters count in yourWarband for the new Warband features, yourtop four favorites are just the characters who are displayedby default on the new Character Select screen.
Try Out New WoW Settings & TWW QoL Options
Set up your new Character Select screen, then log into your favorite character and get ready to take onThe War Withinpre-patch content. Before you get too deep into the new talents, Skyriding system, or the new prepatch event, though, it’s a good idea tocheck out some of the great newTWWquality of life options– and there are a lot of them.
Number one on many players' minds is thenew Arachnophobia mode. This setting turns every single Spider-type enemy in the game into a Crab. It’s debatable how much less scary these enemies are, but for people who are truly disturbed by spiders, Arachophobia Mode is going to be amust-enable setting forThe War Within, especially in Azj-Kahet.
But there are a lot more new options too, some of which aren’t actually highlighted in the normal Settings menus.
Check Out New 11.0 Talents & Re-allocate Points
Upon logging into your characters after the 11.0 update,Talent points will be completely reset. This is because almost everyclass received major class overhaulsThe War Withinwill properly finalize, and acompletely reworked Talent treeon top of that. Though Hero Talents are not yet available as they unlock at Level 71, there is still plenty to parse to get to know your Class as it will work in the nextWoWexpansion.
Some Talents have been removed, changed, or swapped for other places in each Talent tree to allow more choice in how you play your character. It will be impossible to know which specs and Talent arrays are best untilThe War Withinlaunches, but you can use the Prepatch to test out your class, see if the changes work for you, and try out different Talent options before the release of the expansion.
Try Skyriding With ALL Flying Mounts (& Druid Form)
One of the most highly requested features to be made baseline inWorld of Warcraftis the Skyriding system. Introduced inDragonflightas the expansion-exclusive Dragonriding, Skyriding is a completely different form of flying than manyWoWplayers have become accustomed to. Instead of flying from one static point to another relatively slowly, Skyriding lets you ride the winds and use a variety of in-flight mechanics to soar over the landscape.
Originally, you could only use a select number of Dragonriding mounts with this flight system.But as of the 11.0 prepatch, almost allWoWmounts can be used for Skyriding, bringing this speedy and satisfying traversal system to non-Dragon mounts for the first time.
Take some time and look back on some of your old favoriteWoWflying mounts that have been neglected since the launch ofDragonflightand set some new favorites. You might not be able to customize the Clutch of Ji-Kun like you may customize theDragonflightDragon mounts, but it’s definitely nice to be able to choose any Flying mount without worrying about losing out on Skyriding.
If you don’t want to Skyride, look for a new ability in your Spellbook that allows you toChange Flight Style. You must be grounded to use this spell, and it essentially toggles between the old static Flight (called Stable Flight), and the new Skyriding Flight mechanics.
Start The Radiant Echoes TWW Prepatch Event
The Radiant Echoes event istheThe War Withinpre-patch event, which brings players back to iconic locations and landmarks fromWorld of Warcrafthistory.To start this event, you must have completed the Dark Heart questline, after which you may talk to Khadgar again to learn about the Radiant Echoes of Azeroth.
On launch, this event took place once every 90 minutes, however, arecent major update to the event made it constantly rotate in the active zone, rotating zones on anhourlybasis. After this update, you may repeatedly run the same world events in the active zone for more Residual memories, and repeatedly defeat the boss that is summoned at the end of the event until the zone timer runs out. It doesn’t end when the timer runs out, it just goes to the next zone.
There are three Radiant Echoes zones:Dragonblight, Dustwallow Marsh, and the Searing Gorge, each of which can be accessed from the Portal Room beneath Dalaran (Legion). In each zone, players have to complete six world quests to summon a Remembered Boss, one of three of the most iconic enemies inWoWhistory.
Every day you can pick up a quest that grants a ton ofResidual Memories, the primary currency of the pre-patch (this used to be Weekly per character). This new currency can be used to get Raid-ready gear (for the end ofDragonflight), a variety of cosmetics (like Pets and Mounts) with the Azerite effect, and a handful of other handy and even Heirloom-unlocking items.
Start farming this event early to get useful gear that you can trade between your Warband characters, allowing you tojump into the endgameforDragonflightrelatively easily. Remember that you can trade this currency between characters, too.
