World of Warcraft’s Warbands system has been a reasonably strong win for the getting old MMO, including a complete layer of alt friendliness to the sport—I’ve significantly loved having the ability to huck loot at my alts willy-nilly, and the stacking XP bonus you get for hitting degree cap on every of your characters is not unhealthy, both.
Well, there’s some extra performance coming to the system with Patch 11.1. As per Blizzard’s personal patch 11.1 PTR notes, two main upgrades will likely be arriving alongside Undermine(d), which’ll be right here early subsequent yr.
Firstly, because the notes learn: “Additional camp teams can now be created on the character choose display with a most of 20 teams. Groups might be renamed or deleted by proper clicking the group header button.” Previously, whereas your whole characters had been thought of in your Warband, you’d solely be capable of prepare 4 of them within the login display’s campsite. Good for memes, not so nice for the sensation of amassing a military of alts.
Now you’ll group them. Which may not appear to be an enormous deal at first, however as a long-time MMO participant, I do know the attract of glamour techniques and magnificence flexing. There will likely be a big subsection of gamers arranging their motion figures—I imply, World of Warcraft characters—in themed squads. Count on it.
Oh yeah, about that—the second improve are these backgrounds, because the notes learn: “New Warband campsite backgrounds can now be unlocked for the character choose display. A listing of accessible campsites might be present in a brand new tab within the Warband Collections pane.” Once you have collected a campsite, you’ll assign them through the character choose display.
We additionally know roughly what these campsites seem like, due to WoWHead’s crack staff of dataminers. Patch 11.1 can have your default camp, a camp on the deck of the Nightfall Sanctum in Hallowfall, what seems to be a goblin rave—most likely from Undermine(d)’s new raid—and two flavours of Dornogal.
Slim pickings for now, however I can solely think about now that the tech’s right here, Blizzard’ll be hucking fistfuls of those at gamers quickly: They’re doubtless straightforward sufficient to make with current property and areas.
All in all, it is neat to see Warbands get expanded upon—and sooner, quite than later. The complete system is probably the largest proof level that Blizzard has chilled the hell out previously few years and, identical to Dragonriding, has the potential so as to add a ton of evergreen goodness to a recreation that is one way or the other nonetheless on high of the MMO market, 20 years later.
