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Last chance for preparations for the next expansion of World of Warcraft. We will reveal how to optimally start with the new addon.

Hard to believe, but true: In less than a week the new expansion World of Warcraft Midnight will launch – at least if you pre-ordered the Epic Edition. Then on Friday, February 27, we will return to Quel’thalas to defend the Emerald Forest against Xal’atath and her forces.

But regardless of whether you start on February 27 or wait until the official launch on March 3: To ensure you have the perfect start with the new expansion, you should prepare a little bit. Because there is hardly anything more annoying than realizing on the day of the new expansion that you first have to deal with a lot of other stuff. To free you from that, we have here a list of tasks for you that you should already tackle – then nothing stands in the way of the Midnight launch.

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Distributing Talent Points and Learning Class Again

Not only with patch 12.0, but also with the following smaller patch 12.0.1, the classes in World of Warcraft have changed massively – especially the talent trees. If you haven’t logged in for a long time, you may notice that your talent points have been reset.

Many abilities from back then no longer exist, and there are numerous new talents that you will need to get used to.

So that you have no clue how your favorite class actually works on the day of the Midnight launch, take an hour beforehand to familiarize yourself with the class or at least your chosen specialization.

Redistribute your talent points, adjust your action bars accordingly, and try to get a feel for your character’s rotation. It might also be worth reading a small guide to better understand the changes to the class.

If you want, you can certainly prepare more extensively to have one specialization for questing and another for dungeons – but that might be a bit too much preparation.

Setting Up the Interface

A major change in Midnight is the removal of many beloved interface addons. Although it primarily concerns addons that intervene in combat, a few cosmetic addons have also been affected.

Therefore, you should plan some time to adjust your interface with all the new options that World of Warcraft now offers by default. There is a built-in version of “Boss Mods” with a handy overview of upcoming boss abilities, an internal damage meter, and new ways to customize enemy nameplates.

Since WoW only plays smoothly with a solid interface, it may be worth investing a few more minutes here to have a clean, ready-to-use user interface afterwards. Once you have made a setting, it is best to save it and activate it on your other characters as well.

Cleaning Up the Inventory

It’s a tedious topic, but for many it’s always a problem at the start of a new expansion: the inventory.

While the space in the bags increases with every expansion, somehow junk still collects that you “definitely still need at some point”.

The bitter reality is: No, you will never need it again. The little fun items that you have had in your inventory for years but whose charges are so precious to you that you don’t even use them can simply go in the trash or to the bank.

For some, it’s hard to let go of old items, but set yourself the following goal: You should have at least 100 slots (preferably more) free in your inventory before starting the new expansion. Otherwise you will have to manage your inventory every half hour, get pulled out of the quest flow, and spend all the time playing inventory Tetris instead of enjoying the new story and fresh content.

The same applies, by the way, to your bank slots – both personal bank and guild bank. Take a close look at which items will still be useful in the future and which items you are only holding onto for nostalgic reasons, even though they have long since become part of the revamped transmog system.

Get rid of all items for which you have no clear use anymore. You surely won’t regret it for items that you haven’t used in two years or longer.

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