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The World of Warcraft: The War Within will give us a new Season and a new raid to explore -- Nerub-ar Palace.

I know that every single one of your characters is in your Warband now, but it still seems like the ones who get to sit around the campfire on your character select screen are the A-team.

With the Radiant Echoes pre-patch event in full swing, hopefully you've earned enough Residual Memories to gear up your Warband and secure yourself a tiny memory-ghost Hogger.

WoW Remix ends on August 20 at 7am pacific, at which point all of your new (and overpowered) alts will transition into the standard game.

With The War Within's release date rapidly closing in on us, the World of Warcraft team has been pushing little teasers and images and rundowns to pique our collective appetite for the upcoming expansion, and Alleria: Light and Shadow may be the pinnacle.

There are four new Renown factions in The War Within that players will become familiar with when the expansion begins on August 26 -- the Council of Dornogal, Assembly of the Deeps, Hallowfall Arathi, and the Severed Threads.

I'm making some assumptions here, but I think it's a pretty safe assumption that Khadgar's day is not going to improve from this point on.

Next week is the early access launch of The War Within, the latest expansion for World of Warcraft.

The World of Warcraft servers went offline for another long Tuesday maintenance this morning, scheduled through 3pm pacific (6pm eastern) — but the servers came online about an hour early, around 2pm pacific.

Prior to the imminent release of The War Within, the World of Warcraft team released a short cinematic to catch you up on the lore of the last few expansions which led us up to here.