![]() I’m marking characters that are capable (i.e., fully blinged-out champions, lots of resources) of running Legion missions to help with gold and reputation tokens, and after Shadowlands launches I’ll be favoriting those with plenty of BFA resources to help me farm the still-relevant Polished Pet Charms. Since any of your characters can be favorites, you can use whatever reasoning you want. By indicating characters as favorites by tapping the little heart on their nameplate, they are always sorted at the top, with the last login sort still in effect with them. Characters are no longer sorted by level and name - instead, your list of characters are based on when you last logged on to them, with popular ones at the top and those you’ve forgotten at the bottom, regardless of level. One final UI improvement that I find very helpful is the ability to “favorite” characters. I don’t know if the intention is to eventually make the horizontal scroll only show “high priority” news articles, but right now it’s a waste of space.įun fact: I keep crashing out the App if I try to scroll too far down the list of news articles! I wonder what’s so devastating from July that my phone doesn’t want me to read it? It’s a bit wonky in the presentation, though: the top third of the screen is taken up by an automated horizontal scroll of news articles that has the same content as the scrollable vertical preview of news articles below it. The news option is similar to the loading screen, although you can now read the full article within the App. Social and calendar work the same as before, although it appears it’s not synched to your communities in-game so you’ll need to add them manually until such time that Blizzard fixes this. There are now four functions across the top: News, Social, Expansion, and Calendar. When it does finish loading, the first main difference you’ll see is below your character name. How does the update compare to the original? In case you were wondering, the load time both into the App and switching characters does not appear to be substantially reduced with this update, so if you were annoyed by it before, you’ll continue to be annoyed. You can’t navigate from the loading screen, so you’re just seeing short headlines and a small blurb, but if you are genuinely interested in more information we’ll cover the news function shortly. The first thing you notice upon logging in is that as the App loads you are treated to a scrollable feed of the latest news. Now live and working - at least when the servers are working - let’s take a look at what the Companion App can do for us. Fortunately, Blizzard has a plan for our resources, and that’s to give the WoW Companion App access to multiple expansions in the latest update. The downside, though, is that you can’t run any last minute Legion missions with the app: it’s all Battle for Azeroth from here on out.Now that the Battle for Azeroth has ended and Sylvanas is out and about kidnapping faction leaders, it’s time to reflect on all the war resources we’ve earned and wonder what the heck we’re going to do with them in Shadowlands. While you can’t use all of the features yet, they’ll come in handy when you start running missions and doing research. If you had the Legion version of the app, check for updates to find the new version - and if you didn’t search for WoW Companion App to find it in your app store of choice. If you want more comprehensive info, you’ll still have to go to the web. You can’t look up other characters or guilds, and you can’t see any of the other information you’d find in the Armory on the web. If you click on the menu button in the upper left, you can review your gear, but only your gear. Some Armory features are here, too, though they’re a bit hidden. All of your research is gone, replaced by the new research tiers. Calendar and social tabs are labeled as “coming soon.” The Missions, Recruits, and Champions have all been emptied, waiting to be filled with new Battle for Azeroth missions and companions. Broken Shore maps have been replaced with Kul Tiras and Zandalar, which will show World Quests when they’re available. While you can’t access all of the features yet, the app will be ready to go when the expansion launches. ![]() It’s available now for Android and iOS, so grab your phone and check for updates, though you may have to delete your current app and install the new one from scratch. ![]() It’s called the WoW Companion App, which suggests it will be sticking around through expansions. ![]() If you’ve been using the mobile Legion companion app to run mission, then you’ll be excited by this news: the app has been updated for Battle for Azeroth.
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