Summary
- Patch 11.1.5 in WoW adds Shadowlands factions to Warbands, making nearly every faction from this expansion shared.
- World of Warcraft aims to expand shared factions in future updates, with no timetable for factions from earlier expansions.
World of Warcraft is adding a bunch of factions from Shadowlands to the list of Warband reputations in Patch 11.1.5, including the Ascended, the Undying Army, the Court of Harvesters, and the Wild Hunt. While the main Shadowlands Covenants is not included in this, nearly every other World of Warcraft faction from this expansion will soon be shared across a single account.
During the Pre-Patch for The War Within, World of Warcraft introduced the Warbands system. Marketed as “account-wide everything,” one of the biggest parts of this feature was that most reputations from then on would be shared across all characters. What’s more, most Dragonflight factions were grandfathered into this system, with Blizzard planning to go back and make even more legacy factions shared across the Warband in the future.
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Now, it seems like Blizzard is getting ready to add the next big chunk of reputations to the Warbands system. World of Warcraft recently revealed patch 11.1.5, the next content update for The War Within, and began testing it on the Public Test Realm. On these servers, nearly every Shadowlands reputation faction is now shared across an account. This includes the Ascended, Undying Army, Court of Harvesters, and The Wild Hunt – the four main factions associated with each realm – along with the Ve’nari Maw reputation, and both The Archivist’s Codex and The Enlightened from Patch 9.1 and 9.2 respectively.
Warband Reputations in World of Warcraft Patch 11.1.5
- The Ascended
- The Undying Army
- The Wild Hunt
- Court of Harvesters
- Court of Night
- The Avowed
- Ve’nari
- Death’s Advance
- The Archivist’s Codex
- The Enlightened
Notably, this list does not include the Kyrian, Necrolord, Night Fae, or Venthyr Covenants. This is because these Shadowlands factions use an early version of the Renown system that is not tied to reputation, unlike modern World of Warcraft Renown factions like the Cartels of Undermine, making it much harder to share. That said, reaching maximum Renown with a Covenant on a single character already makes most faction-locked rewards usable on any alt, regardless of their current Covenant, so this shouldn’t be too much of a problem for most players.
While many currencies in Shadowlands are already transferable via the Warbands system, World of Warcraft is making Stygia, the main currency collected in the Maw, shareable as well. What’s more, several Battle for Azeroth currencies, such as Prismatic Manapearls, Coalescing Visions, and Echoes of Ny’alotha, will also become transferable in Patch 11.1.5.
While there is no timetable for it, World of Warcraft wants to make as many reputations shared across the Warband as possible. Though it may be a long time before fans see factions from Wrath of the Lich King, The Burning Crusade, or even Vanilla WoW expanded in this way, players are excited to see Blizzard continuing the process in this next update.
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