Among the various features that World of Warcraft: The War Within adds to the game, warbands have been eagerly awaited, and for good reason. Warbands are a way to connect all characters on your account through currencies, reputation, and gear. Since their introduction, they have been available to ⛎everyone at all times and are the game's gold standard going forward.

The introduction of the Warband system has also modified how you view and sort your characters on their select screen, allowing you t𝓡o see your characters together for the first time in Warcraft's storied history. Here's everything you need to know about the Warband system.

What Are Warbands?

The warband system is one that connects all characters on your account like never before. Although the poster-image for the system shows four of your characters sitting around a campfire on the character select screen, your warband includes all of your characters, no matter how many you have.

The four sitting together are your favorites, and you can swap them with any of your other characters at any time. Clicไking on these characters or selecting their𝓰 names on your character list will allow you to enter Azeroth and play them.

For your non-favorites, you simply need to scroll down your character list to find them in order to do the same. With the introduction of warbands, all your characters will be listed together, no matter what realm (server) they hail from.

Mousing over your characters on the character select screen will show you how much gol🃏d they have and what professions they know, as well as what their current class specialization is.

How To Unlock The Warband Bank

Upon logging in on one of your characters, a quest called Warbands: Warbanding Together will appear in your quest log. This quest requires you to meet up with Blue, a dracthyr located in tܫhe inn of Gadgetzan in Tanaris (The Road Warrior).

She and her friends will let you help them with setting up their Warband Bank, by completing a couple of quests for them in the desert surrounding the goblin city. After doing so, you will gain access to your own Warband Bank.

The quests and their requirements are:

How To Use Warbands

All of your characters being connected creates novel ways for you and your characters to interact with each other and the worlds of 🔥Warcraft.

While each of your characters maintains their own inventory and currencies, being in a Warband lets them share and move items and currencies between each other.

Before warband♓s, only select currencies like gold were able to be mailed𒐪 between your characters.

In a world with Warbands, the currencies tab of your character interface shows you what currencies can be transferred between your characters. Currencies with a red campfire icon﷽🅺 next to them allow you to transfer funds from other characters with that currency.

Since the addition of warbands, most in-game items are Warbound, meaning they can be mailed between characters, even ones on different realms.

Additionally, achievement progress is shared between all your characters with the introduction of wa𒁃rbands, making progress toward the more difficult ones a team effort.

Gear and weapons are also an important part of the warband system. Going forward with the system, your character can unlock the transmog appearances of any weapon or piece of gear that falls into their hands, no matter their class or armor skill.

Because of this, the appearance interface now has options to view the armor sets and appearances of any class on any character, making transmog hunting more managea﷽b🧔le and streamlined.

Warbands can also share gear more easily, making the process of gearing alts more efficient. If a weapon or gear piece falls into your hands that your character cannot use or that you think is needed more by another one of your characters, you can simply mail it to them or summon your Warband Bank and place it in there.

The🌌 Warband Bank is not just for gear, however, and crafting reagents and other useful items can be deposited, so your alts can withdraw them 🎀later.

The Warband Bank is on a 2-hour cooldown and allows you to access it for 10 minutes at a time. The more ꦑcharacters you have,🦄 the shorter the cooldown becomes.

Certain reputation factions are also affected by the warband system. Renown factions, like the major factions of the Dragon Isles, are shared throughout your warband, making access to gear and other benefits easie🐽r and quicker to achieve for your altꦓs.