The War Within Pre-Patch and Beta Test - Warband Conversion and PvP with the Blues

Come help us test the Warband feature on your favorite characters! We want to test how character info on multiple characters merge when it becomes account wide.

This is how the testing will work:

• June 12 – The PTR realms for The War Within Pre-Expansion update (11.0.1) will become available to copy characters only. We will ask that you copy as many characters as you like to the PTR, especially multiple characters that you have played a lot will be particularly helpful for this test.
• June 17 – We will run the conversion and open the servers for logging in.

Please be patient. The Warband conversion may take some time:

• Your account may take several minutes to gather and convert all characters on first log in.
• Not-yet-implemented: There will be a dialog letting you know your characters are being added to a Warband.

When we open the servers for log-in on June 17, please reply to this thread and let us know your feedback, along with the answers to the following questions:

• For any achievements that are newly account wide, did they combine correctly across your characters?
• Did your Dragonflight reputation progress combine correctly (furthest progress on any character)?
• Do you have flight paths from all your merged characters?

You know your character and accounts best, let us know of any problems you see! We will run future tests as needed. Please note that any characters copied after the test will not be accumulated into your Warband until a future date.

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Known Issues

• Copied characters will be missing Dragonflight reputations, any flight points, and certain existing achievement progress.
• Item Sort and Cleanup does not work as expected in all cases.
• Dragonflight reputations will disappear in the reputation tab when logging out.
• Appearance acquisitions are sometimes listed twice in chat.
• Deposit All Warbound Items deposits more than Warbound items.
• Deposit All Warband Items pulls items from Character bank.
• Some reagents cannot be used from the Warbands bank.
• Items cannot be swapped in the account-wide bank.
• Players cannot purchase account-wide bank tabs with money stored in the account-wide bank.

This Friday, June 14, please join members of the World of Warcraft development team in PvP on The War Within Beta Test Realms as we playtest Rated Battleground Blitz and Deephaul Ravine. Rated Battleground Blitz is a new Rated solo battleground game mode and Deephaul Ravine is a new battleground, both coming with the expansion launch. Check out the Beta notes for more information on these features.

We’ll get underway at 2:00 p.m. PDT (4:00 p.m. CDT, 5:00 p.m. EDT) with two hours of playtesting. We’ll start first with playtesting Rated Battleground Blitz for an hour, then continue into Deephaul Ravine for the final hour at 3:00 p.m PDT (5:00 p.m. CDT, 6:00 p.m. EDT).

To playtest this with us, log onto the End Game Realm “These Go To Eleven”, which has max level character templates and access to various vendors. To queue up, open the Group Finder (default hotkey: i), then select Random Battlegrounds and click Join Battle. Deephaul Ravine will be the only battleground available for Random Battlegrounds on Beta.

Before we get things rolling, we recommend taking some time to get your character setup properly for PvP combat. Please check out the various gear and profession vendors in Orgrimmar and Stormwind and utilize the latest trinkets, PvP gear, and class sets in The War Within.

We look forward to playtesting with you and reading your feedback afterward, see you there!