Warbands

The new Character selection screen in The War Within allowed to view characters across all realms.

Warbands is the an accumulation of account-wide game systems changes that will come with The War Within expansion. Its name refers to all of a players many characters as a "Warband" that share progress with each other. Its implementation is with the intent to allow players to switch between alts more easily and bring clarity to account-wide versus character-specific aspects of the game. It includes changes in design moving forward into The War Within, and many retroactive changes to legacy content.

Warbands will bring numerous changes:

• Warband-wide progress for many reputations
• Clarifying and streamlining which achievements are part of a character's progression, and what are part of the players
• Sharing flight path knowledge across all characters
• The ability to transfer currencies between characters in the user interface, without the need for intermediary items
• The introduction of the Warband bank interface
• The introduction of Warbound until Equipped (WuE) gear
• The ability for characters to obtain transmogrification appearances regardless of their armor type

Trivia

• Before warbands, intermediary items were used to transfer currencies between characters, like  [Paracausal Crate]

Gallery

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  The Warband character select screen concept, from BlizzCon 2023.