For some, the journey deep within Azeroth to confront the building forces of the Void begins as The War Within early access is now live!

Players who purchased either the physical collector’s edition or the Epic Edition digital bundle are now able to begin their levelling journey four days in advance of global launch on 27 August AEST. As the first part of the new multi-expansion story arc, the Worldsoul Saga, players can look forward to:

• New Continent: Khaz Algar
  • Off the western shores of Pandaria lies the island of Khaz Algar, on which the surface-level city of Dornogal will serve as a new main city hub. Begin to explore what dwells beneath the surface in the lava-fuelled forge of The Ringing Deeps, the lush Hallowfall, and the pinnacle of Nerubian society, Azj-Kahet.
• New Class Feature: Hero Talents
  • A new level of class specialisation customisation, Hero Talents, are modelled after well-known archetypes from the Warcraft universe, including Dark Ranger, Farseer, and more.
• New World Content Feature: Delves
  • New bite-size adventures seamlessly integrated into the world, which flexibly scale to support 1-5 players, and offer meaningful progression (with a new rewards track in the Great Vault).
• New Feature: Warbands
  • Players will see account-wide changes that will transform character management to include a warband bank, an increased number of achievements and reputations that are now account-wide, a new character select screen and more!
• Expanded Feature: Skyriding
  • Introduced as dragonriding in Dragonflight, skyriding expands the number of mounts that can be used with this system with more on the way as the expansion progresses.
  • The previous flight system is now referred to as steady flight.

For more information check out the World of Warcraft website.