The War Within

The War Within is bringing some changes to The Great Vault, making it a bit easier to earn a weekly piece of high-level gear.

As is traditional in World of Warcraft, the pre-patch prior to The War Within expansion came with a limited-time event with gear and collectibles: Radiant Echoes.

In World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, we got used to accessing our Dragonriding — now Skyriding — talents from an easy-to-spot button on the minimap, where we also found our reputation panes for all of the expansion's factions.

With a new expansion comes some returning favorite bosses, now as tameable pets!

A new expansion means a new set of Pet Battle Master Trainers and a whole new set of battle pet achievements, and The War Within's slate includes Battle on Khaz Algar, Khaz Algar Safari, and a new set of Family Familiar achievements.

By the time you read this, people will have already started leveling in The War Within, there will probably be multiple people at level 80 already.

Now that early access for The War Within has launched, you doubtless want to get to Khaz Algar as quickly as you can.

World of Warcraft's latest chapter, The War Within, had our attention from the announcement, but not all of that attention was positive -- for the first time, Epic Edition purchases come with an early access period to the live expansion a few days prior to the expansion release.

It's official!

World of Warcraft's appearance at the Xbox Gamescom stream today was, shall we say, light on new information.