World Of Warcraft’s Highly-Awaited Cross-Faction Grouping Feature Drops Next Week

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After nearly 20 years of animosity, Horde and Alliance players will finally be able to team up to take on the myriad of challenges available in World of Warcraft. Cross-faction grouping officially rolls out next week with the release of Shadowlands Patch 9.2.5.

Note that players can only group up with members of the opposite faction by directly inviting them using their BattleTag or Real ID or if they’re members of the same cross-faction WoW Community. The Group Finder will also allow pre-made groups with members from different factions although the group leader has the option to limit applications to the same faction only.

Guilds, as well as random matchmaking activities like Heroic dungeons, Random Battlegrounds, and Skirmishes, will remain same-faction. This also applies to the following instances:

  • Trial of the Champion
  • Trial of the Crusader
  • Vault of Archavon
  • Icecrown Citadel
  • Baradin Hold
  • Siege of Boralus
  • Battle of Dazar'alor
  • Darkmaul Citadel (Exile's Reach dungeon)

The patch will also introduce the new Enigma Crucible arena along with new questlines for the Blood Elves and the Dark Iron Dwarves races which will reward them with new mounts, new weapon appearances, and the Blood Knight armor set for Blood Elf Paladins.

Patch 9.2.5 is still available for testing on the Public Test Realm and is scheduled to roll out on the live servers on May 31st. In the meantime, you can check out the official release notes on the World of Warcraft website.