I'm confused about warbands

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Hi.

I haven’t played the game since early BfA, and I’m a bit confused, because it looks like I’ve lost all the campaign progress from Legion and BfA. Uldum and Vale don’t appear to be corrupted, Legion world quest aren’t showing (apart from my Warrior which I played at the time), all my artifact weapon appearances are lost, and such. But at the same time I still have corrupted gear in my backpack, I have my legendary cape and necklace and when I tried playing through the BfA campaign again, the quests show that my warband have already completed every single qust. Also I still have the achievements about completing them.

So I guess my question would be: Does the warband system not apply to older content? If so why does it say warband completed on quests? Am I missing something?

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The account wide things like reputation are not completely retroactive yet. That will take time and is something they will add later. So the most recent expansion is included and Dragonflight.

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Warbands are confusing. No doubt about that. But OTOH I’m not sure what you are saying, exactly.

You haven’t lost Legion progress

nor BfA

Characters in Warbands don’t share EVERYTHING - ALL progress.

If you are bringing a new character into Legion, that character still has to go through the Class Hall introductory quests and the weapon scenarios for the Artefacts.

Since you have already unlocked Legion World Quests, your alt should be able to do them, but it still has to go to Khadgar to pick up the Whistle and open the WQ.

Similarly, a new alt won’t get the Heart automatically dropped into their bags, or see Uldum and Vale in their corrupted phase. That new alt has to work through the story to get there. (Though there is a thing about the alt being able to switch phase by talking to Zidormi once the alt has outlevelled the original levels of the expansion.)

“the quests show that my warband have already completed every single quest”. Yeah, I have no explanation for what the devs were on about there. I find that REALLY annoying! SO WHAT if my Mage did this quest 5 years ago? If I’m coming throughnow on a levelling Druid, why do I want to know about what my Mage did in 2018? Why are they even telling me that?? :woman_facepalming:

Urchhhh. That one really gets me annoyed. WTB an addon to remove that annoying line from EVERYWHERE.

The Warband system really doesn’t do anything about quests, gear, quest progress for each individual character, and it seems tome that you are expecting it to. No, It doesn’t. The character you played BfA on will still have BfA gear, but any new characters just play through as normal, though they may take advantage of SOME - it’s not very consistent - unlocks from your previous characters.

Reading that back, it doesn’t seem any more coherent than your question. :smiley:

In general, when questing in ANY expansion, just assume that the Warband system does nothing.

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I wasn’t exactly sure how what I’m asking either lol. There are many questions I have and I tried to put them all into one.

I’m not expecting a legion artifact to just appear in my bag, I was just wondering why I can’t see world quests in Kul Tiras/Broken Isles on my alt if I’ve already done the campaign on another character. I got a bit confused as I thought that progress got lost somehow, but when I tried to do them on an alt it said my warband has completed that quest. But it’s all clear now :smiley:

A lot has changed since I last played and it’s a bit confusing at times, and there are many things I can’t find any info about anywhere, but I’m getting there :D.

Thanks for your time!

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Right. In those cases, you can, but you have to ask Khadgar, or whoever it is on the Ship in BfA, for the WQ.

The simplest way to look at it is just that Warbandsgive you a Warband bank and shared reputation in TWW, and don’t really do anything else.

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