World of Warcraft’s subsequent main replace is coming August 5, and now Blizzard has revealed two shock quality-of-life modifications that can arrive alongside the brand new content material and season–a financial institution overhaul and a significant replace to Valorstones.
As introduced in a forum post, within the Ghosts of Ok’aresh replace, banks are getting a major facelift. For so long as Blizzard’s MMORPG has existed (that’s, over 20 years), gamers have needed to buy further bag financial institution slots after which place baggage inside them to get extra storage. That can now not be the case come replace 11.2, which is able to change bag slots with purchasable storage tabs extra much like stash tabs from Blizzard’s Diablo collection.
The replace will moreover take away the reagent financial institution and Void Storage, two bank-adjacent storage choices that have been extra restrictive. Whereas some gamers have been initially involved they is perhaps dropping cupboard space when listening to that information, as damaged down in a put up by Reddit user SpartanG01 (and highlighted by Icy Veins), the brand new financial institution system appears to be a straight improve.
Buying financial institution tabs is cheaper than shopping for bag slots and customers are general gaining a further 50 slots with none of the restrictions beforehand related to Void Storage or the reagent financial institution. Any financial institution tab can now be a reagent tab if one chooses, however with the additional advantage of not having to make use of it solely for reagents. It is also much less complicated, as all banking can now be executed with one system versus additionally utilizing void storage, which was accessed by way of a very totally different NPC and just for sure gadgets. Funnily sufficient, this new financial institution overhaul that removes Void Storage is the primary main change to merchandise banking because the addition of Void Storage again in 2011 as a part of WoW’s Cataclysm enlargement.
That, nevertheless, is not the one shock Blizzard had in retailer. Blizzard additionally unceremoniously introduced within the recreation’s 11.2 public-test-realm patch notes that WoW’s predominant gear improve currencies, Valorstones, will now not reset between seasons.
Blizzard did not elaborate on the change in philosophy, but it surely’s an enormous change, as beforehand initially of every new season gamers would want to grind Valorstones with a purpose to begin upgrading their gear. With this transformation, gamers can now replenish on Valorstones forward of time with out having to fret about them being erased in a number of months, permitting gamers to extra simply put together for future updates.
Whereas it is an excellent change that can permit gamers to get a headstart on gear upgrades, it seems Valorstones are nonetheless capped at 2,000, that means gamers can solely stockpile a lot. Perhaps that can change sooner or later, however for now, Blizzard is at the very least making Valorstones a non-seasonal forex.
WoW’s Ghosts of Ok’aresh replace will take gamers to the shattered homeworld of the Ethereals to cease the Void Lord Dimensius. Along with new content material and the quality-of-life options outlined above, the replace may even lastly add a highly-requested emote. In the meantime, Blizzard continues to share extra details about WoW’s upcoming housing system and is gearing as much as totally reveal the sport’s subsequent enlargement, Midnight, at Gamescom in August.