Housing in World of Warcraft is getting major improvements in a few months. Blizzard is already showing what will change.
The housing in World of Warcraft is a complete success and ensures that many players invest many dozens of hours into designing their small homes. However, what many forget amidst all the commotion in the neighborhoods is that this is just the Early Access. For Blizzard, this is a kind of test run to test server stability and make adjustments. Many great features and improvements are yet to come.
What to Expect for Housing in WoW
In various posts on social media, in the forum, or even in the WoW subreddit, you can see small improvements that have been made to housing in the Midnight beta. Some of these improvements are:
Clear property boundaries: When decorating the garden, everyone has probably encountered the problem at least once. You move a tree or a fence, rotate it to what seems to be the perfect spot – only for it to be reset by ghostly hands because it protrudes over the property line. This is frustrating because you can’t see these boundaries clearly. With Midnight, that will change. In edit mode, you can always see at a glowing mark where your property ends and position objects precisely.
Strong lighting options: Currently, the house level is capped at level 5, but starting from level 6, there will be brand new features. One of them is the “Armillar”. This allows you to provide different lighting for different rooms. A room can either have normal lighting (like during the day) or a significantly dimmer lighting, such as in the evening, or even an unnatural darkness
. This can drastically change the atmosphere of a room, as these examples show:
New rooms: Also new are room types that did not exist before. You already see these listed as rewards at housing level 5, but they cannot be used yet. These are rooms that do not have classic walls but instead use a “skybox” – a background with mountains and clouds.
This allows for rooms to be created that give the impression of being “outdoors” – perfect for a balcony, a courtyard, or a nice garden that avoids the restrictions of the outdoor area.
Is there more to come? Yes. Housing is a long-term project and will be continuously expanded over the coming years. It aims to be a new “evergreen” feature, a new social component of World of Warcraft. That is why housing will be continuously developed, and you will likely receive new decorations and fresh options that are requested by the community with every major patch.
However, not all changes wait for the release of Midnight. With a hotfix, new features have already been introduced. The limit for outdoor decorations has been increased by 25%, and the bug that allowed your houses to fly has been made an official setting.
