War Within 11.2 is the third season update for The War Within. Blizzard calls it Ghosts of Karesh. It adds a new zone, a new raid, a new dungeon, and updates to nearly every system you use each week. You also get an artifact cloak called Reshii Wraps that unlocks a new mode of play named Phase Diving.
This guide explains what changes in War Within 11.2 how to start on day one, and how to gear fast. It is written for returning veterans and brand new players. When details are not confirmed we keep it general and point to the official notes.
Quick Summary Of War Within 11.2
- New zone on the Ethereal homeworld Karesh, with Tazavesh as your hub.
- New raid Manaforge Omega, themed around the return of Dimensius.
- New artifact cloak Reshii Wraps that enables Phase Diving and is required for the raid.
- New delve The Archival Assault set in the Azure Vaults.
- New outdoor system Ecological Succession with weekly goals and rewards.
- Season 3 begins with a new Mythic Plus dungeon pool and a new dungeon named Eco-Dome Aldani.
- Warbands and delves see more account wide benefits and catch up options.
- Class tuning, PvP season updates, UI improvements, and lots of new collectibles.
Release Timing And How To Start In War Within 11.2
The content patch lands first. Season 3 begins the following week. That week opens Manaforge Omega on Normal, Heroic, and Mythic, and starts the new Mythic Plus season. Raid Finder wings unlock over the next two resets. Check your in game calendar for your region.
When you first log in, pick up the 11.2 intro quest in your capital city. The quest sends you to Tazavesh, now a floating city hub for Karesh. From there you begin the campaign, unlock world quests in the new zone, and meet the Karesh Trust faction vendors.
Very early you receive the artifact cloak Reshii Wraps. This cloak is central to War Within 11.2. You need it to enter the raid. It also powers Phase Diving, a new overlay layer where you shift into an energy form to interact with special objectives, rares, and warrants. Progress on the cloak is shared across your warband, and there is a built in catch up.
You do not need a specific item level to start the story or the outdoor loop. As you play, you will collect gear from world quests, events, delves, and weekly caches. Use those pieces to reach entry levels for Raid Finder and low Mythic Plus keys, then climb from there.
New Raid Overview For War Within 11.2
Manaforge Omega is a raid set on Karesh. It is an ethereal megastructure that harvests cosmic energy. A hostile ethereal faction and their shadow guard want to revive the Void Lord Dimensius. Your goal is to break their defenses and stop the ritual. The raid features a mix of boss styles, add waves, movement checks, and mechanics that support your cloak and Phase Diving theme.
The raid has eight bosses. The encounter order is flexible through wings. Bosses include Plexus Sentinel, Loomithar, Soulbinder Naazindhri, Forgeweaver Araz, The Soul Hunters, Fractillus, Nexus King Salhadaar, and Dimensius the All Devouring. We do not list ability details here because they change during tuning and you should learn them from the live journal on release.
The difficulty unlock schedule matches recent tiers. Normal, Heroic, and Mythic open in week one, plus the first Raid Finder wing. Additional LFR wings open over the following two resets. Story Mode opens during the second week for an accessible narrative clear.
You must wear Reshii Wraps to enter Manaforge Omega. Progress on the cloak is warband wide. There is also a raid renown track named Manaforge Vandals. As you clear each week you earn practical perks, from skips to conveniences like an auction house pad near the entrance. Tier sets return and now line up with hero talents instead of your base specialization. Do not treat early set tooltips as final until you see the live notes.
Week one plan for raiders:
- Craft two high impact items using the new or updated spark for the season. Weapons and trinkets are often best.
- Pre buy enchants and gems for all likely upgrades. Bring extra for alts and friends.
Stock flasks, feasts or personal food, and combat potions. Use oils or whetstones if your class supports them. - Finish the campaign to unlock world content, then run delves and outdoor events to farm early crests and Valorstones for upgrades.
- Do a few low Mythic Plus keys to fill weak slots and seed your weekly vault.
Read your boss role tips in the adventure guide. Practice interrupts and defensive rotations.
Mythic Plus Season Details
Season 3 starts with War Within 11.2. The keystone pool rotates and includes one brand new dungeon. Waystones replace invisible checkpoints. They show on the map and reduce confusion after wipes. There is also a new penalty system for frequent leavers. If you try to abandon a key without a group vote, you can receive a deserter style stigma that flags you as someone who leaves often.
The dungeon pool for Season 3:
- Eco-Dome Aldani, the new Karesh dungeon.
- The Dawnbreaker.
- Ara-Kara, City of Echoes.
- Priory of the Sacred Flame.
- Operation Floodgate.
- Halls of Atonement.
- Tazavesh Streets of Wonder.
- Tazavesh So’leah’s Gambit.
Affixes and timers see tuning rather than a brand new seasonal affix layer. Expect values to adjust during the first weeks. Rewards follow the same idea as earlier in The War Within. End of run items land in one band, and your weekly vault offers a higher band based on the highest keys you complete. Crests and Valorstones cover upgrades at vendors. You do not need perfect gear to start. Run a few +2 or +3 keys, learn the routes, and climb.
New players should set two goals in week one. First, finish the campaign and unlock your cloak so you can enter the raid and the delve. Second, learn two or three dungeons on low keys. Turn on voice in guild groups if you can. Ask for what stops and crowd control you should bring. Mythic Plus success in War Within 11.2 comes from teamwork as much as damage numbers.
Delves And Warbands Updates
Delves remain a flexible source of gear and currency. War Within 11.2 adds The Archival Assault, a new delve inside the Azure Vaults. Ethereals, ethereal pirates, and brokers are raiding the vaults for magic. Using your cloak opens special challenge gates and rooms. You can even see echoes of friends as they run the delve. Season 3 also features a duel with Nexus Princess Kyveza for the season boss fantasy.
Warbands gain more account wide perks this patch. Cloak progress is shared. Several unlocks from the new zone and renown help all characters once you earn them once. If you plan to play alts, log each one during week one. Complete the short onboarding to claim any free warband items, then park them near the new hub for fast access later.
Outdoor Content And Events
Karesh is a shattered world touched by the void. You stage from Tazavesh, a shielded city that serves as a full hub. The Karesh Trust is the main outdoor faction. You raise renown with them for cosmetics, profession recipes, upgrade reagents, and even a mount. Vendors in Tazavesh sell many of these rewards.
Ecological Succession is the new weekly system. Ve’nari returns to restore life inside eco-domes. You collect creatures from around Azeroth and help them adapt to Karesh. The loop offers gear, currencies, and collectibles. You can make real progress with short play sessions. If you prefer big public events, join the zone wide activities that pop on timers each day.
Phase Diving is part of the outdoor loop. Activate your Reshii Wraps to enter an energy form and shift into a parallel layer. In that layer you find new objectives, rares, world quests, and warrants. Warrants are bounties handed out by a constable in Tazavesh. Hunt targets for extra rewards. You will use Phase Diving even inside the raid, so it is worth learning the controls on day one.
Story And Campaign
The campaign for 11.2 picks up after the last chapter in Undermine. Alleria Windrunner and Locus Walker join you to chase threats on Karesh. Ethereal factions are divided. A shadow guard group tries to bring back Dimensius. The final campaign steps lead you toward Manaforge Omega and connect to the boss roster.
Follow the quest chain by taking the first quest in your capital, then using the portal to the new hub. Stick to the main story beats first. Side activities are easy to revisit. On alts, you can use a built in skip once your warband has finished key steps. This saves time while keeping your cloak progress and zone unlocks in sync.
We avoid plot spoilers here. Expect a clear setup for the raid finale and a bridge toward the next chapter of the Worldsoul Saga.
Professions And Crafting
War Within 11.2 adds profession recipes tied to Karesh and the raid. Expect a new potion, a Vantus Rune for Manaforge Omega, and new optional reagents that influence stats or item level bands. The Karesh Trust vendors in Tazavesh sell some recipes and provide profession knowledge catch up items at specific renown ranks.
Crafting still uses a spark system for high item level pieces. The season also uses crests and Valorstones for upgrades. Some crafted items can be pushed higher with special reagents, including an enchanted crest you can earn from renown. Submit work orders with optional reagents if you want a custom stat mix.
To save gold during week one:
- Farm your own rare materials during peak prices.
- Craft your two biggest slots first, such as weapons or key trinkets.
- Hold extra reagents for a few days to catch the best sell window.
- Focus your crafter on two or three in demand recipes. Advertise during raid nights.
Classes And Hero Talents
Class tuning arrives with War Within 11.2. Several specializations receive changes that adjust how they play in raids and keys. Blizzard has called out Shadow Priest, Brewmaster Monk, Frost and Unholy Death Knight, and others for notable updates. More specs see number tuning. The exact values can shift during the first resets.
Tier sets now connect to hero talents. This means your set bonus changes based on which hero tree you pick. The goal is to keep more builds viable in both raids and dungeons. Test your preferred hero talent in outdoor content first. Then take it into a normal raid or a low key to confirm it feels right.
Tanks, expect stability and mitigation tools tuned for heavy magic hits. Healers, watch for resource smoothing and stronger burst windows. For damage dealers, anticipate target swapping checks and movement tests in both the raid and Eco-Dome Aldani.
PvP Season And Changes
A new PvP season begins with War Within 11.2. Honor and conquest tracks reset. Vendors in your capital sell the starter honor set and the conquest set. The upgrade rules keep PvP item levels high in PvP combat so you can focus on playing rather than chasing PvE upgrades.
There are updates to PvP talents for multiple classes. A new outdoor PvP point of interest named Vanquishers Wake opens with a world quest. Turn on War Mode and head there for fast action. If you are new to PvP, start with brawls and random battlegrounds to learn your tools, then try solo shuffle for quick queues.
Gearing And Upgrades In War Within 11.2
Fresh level 70 players can gear up fast with a simple loop. Here is the practical path.
First, complete the intro to get your Reshii Wraps. Without it, you cannot enter the raid and you will miss Phase Diving rewards. Second, run world quests and the new zone events for starter items. Third, do delves to earn crests and Valorstones. Fourth, craft two items using the new spark and optional reagents. Pick slots with weak stats or low item level. Fifth, join a few +2 or +3 keys and time them to fill your vault.
Upgrades use crests plus Valorstones at the vendor. Items have rank caps based on their source. Your vendor preview shows how high you can push each piece. Do not hoard upgrade currency for weeks. Spend to hit thresholds that let you join more content now.
Simple week one checklist:
- Finish the 11.2 campaign and unlock world content in Karesh.
- Get Reshii Wraps and learn Phase Diving basics.
- Craft two high impact items with the new spark.
- Run delves and outdoor events to stock crests and Valorstones.
- Do three to five low Mythic Plus keys.
- Clear Raid Finder wing one when it opens to begin tier set progress.
- Enchant and gem your new items before raid night.
Mounts Pets Toys And Collectibles
Karesh is full of new things to collect. The Karesh Trust sells cosmetics, including cloaks and shoulder looks, and a mount at higher renown. Another mount drops from rare activities deeper in the renown track. The raid has its own cosmetic and mount drops across difficulties. There are also toys and transmog sets tied to the eco-domes and warrants.
To begin, talk to the collectors in Tazavesh. They point you to the first target for mounts or pets. Save your event currency to buy vendor mounts early if you want guaranteed progress. Hunt treasure icons in the new zone for toys. Check the world boss each week for a chance at a pet or a cosmetic weapon. Achievement hunters can chase meta goals in the zone and the raid.
Quality Of Life And UI Changes
Waystones appear inside dungeons to mark checkpoints. This makes regrouping after a wipe faster and clearer. The group finder gets better filters so you can find keys and raids that match your role and level. The banking UI changes in a big way. Void Storage goes away and your bank expands into tabbed storage, similar to the warband bank. The result is more room with less fuss.
When you first log in, open Edit Mode and save a layout for raiding and a second for leveling. Turn on cast bar latency and personal resource display. In Accessibility, adjust camera shake and text speed. These small tweaks make long sessions easier, especially in busy events on Karesh.
Tips For Returning Players
Since 11.0 and 11.1 the big systems to focus on are warbands, the upgrade track with crests and Valorstones, and sparks for crafted gear. You can ignore most older grinds. You do not need to chase dozens of renown tracks. Stay current in Karesh and you will be fine.
Use the Adventure Guide for a weekly checklist. It lists raid, dungeon, delve, and outdoor activities. Spend your first spark on a weapon or a trinket. Those slots give large gains. Use the story skip on alts once your main has finished the campaign.
Frequently Missed Details
- There is a skip for alts that grants a fresh set of Reshii Wraps once your main has advanced the campaign. Talk to the right NPC in Tazavesh.
- The Manaforge Vandals raid renown unlocks a helpful auction house pad inside the raid. Use it for last minute supplies.
- Karesh Trust renown ranks include profession knowledge items. Do those on crafters early.
- World boss rotations may drop cosmetics or pets. Do not miss weekly tags.
Set your hearthstone to Tazavesh for fast routing between the hub, the raid, and eco-domes.
Conclusion
War Within 11.2 delivers a clear plan for every type of player. If you raid, Manaforge Omega brings eight bosses and a strong theme that ties into the cloak and Phase Diving. you push keys, the new pool and Waystones make learning routes less painful. Prefer outdoor play, Karesh offers a deep loop with eco-domes, warrants, and renown. The upgrade path stays simple. Spend crests and Valorstones as you play, and craft a few key slots with sparks.
Your best start is simple. Finish the story, unlock your cloak, craft two items, and pick your lane. Keep your expectations steady as tuning and hotfixes land during week one. Help your group with utility and communication. You will gear fast and be ready for whatever comes next in the Worldsoul Saga.
