How Player Housing Neighborhoods Work in Patch 11.2.7

All player houses are found in neighborhoods, instanced zones (one Alliance-themed and one Horde-themed) that act as social hubs for players. Each neighborhood contains 50 plots per instance. Whenever one instance is full, a new one will become available, ensuring anyone can claim a plot.

The two housing neighborhoods available in World of Warcraft are Founder's Point (Alliance) and Razorwind Shores (Horde). Both neighborhoods feature a variety of biomes to suit different tastes. You will find more details about the faction-themed neighborhoods (keep reading).

Each neighborhood comes with a central town where all the important vendors are located. Here, you will find decor vendors, housing upgrade NPCs, dye trainers, and portals to Stormwind/Orgrimmar.

In order to start building your first home, you need to complete the short intro quest. When you first enter your neighborhood, the quest will be in your Quest Log. When you open your map, you will see icons of the available plots on it.

Some may already be taken, so pick the one that is available, fly to its location, and interact with the sign before it to buy it.

When you purchase and enter your home, you can play through a Decor Tutorial that will take you through the basics.

If you do not like your neighbors or plot, you can always pack your house and simply move. It takes just a couple of clicks to unpack your house in a different plot or neighborhood. You will only pay the gold cost of your new plot.

You can start moving your house by interacting with the sign in front of your home.

There are two types of neighborhoods in World of Warcraft:

• Public Neighborhoods — Open communities available for anyone on your server. Up to 50 players can join a single neighborhood instance.
• Private Neighborhoods — Come in two forms: Guild Neighborhoods and Charter Neighborhoods.

Guild neighborhoods are exclusive to guild members. To create a housing instance for your guild, it must have a minimum of 10 active members in the last 30 days. When this requirement is satisfied, your guild's Officer can talk to the housing steward NPC to create an instance.

Multiple 50-slot instances will link if your guild has more than 50 members.

Whenever a member leaves a guild, the plot in that guild neighborhood is lost, because it is tied to guild membership.

Charter neighborhoods function on an invite-only basis. The owner invites players to join their private neighborhood (up to 50 players) regardless of guild. The charter leader can remove players as needed.

Each WoW account can own up to 2 houses in total — one in Founder's Point and one in Razorwind Shores.

The limit is Warband-wide, meaning all your characters share those homes. Collecting decorations is also account-wide.

Even though the neighborhoods have faction-specific themes, they fully support cross-faction.

The Alliance neighborhood is called Founder's Point. The zone includes classic landscapes of the Eastern Kingdoms. It contains a bit of Elwynn Forest, Westfall, Redridge Mountains, and even Duskwood. You can find some screenshots of the biomes below.

Razorwind Shores is the Horde-themed housing neighborhood. It is located off the coast of Durotar. It takes inspiration from the Horde-themed zones like Barrens and Azshara. There are also lush tropical biomes with beaches akin to the ones found on Echo Isles. Here are a few screenshots of the neighborhood.

Endeavors are monthly neighborhood-wide activities that bring communities together for special tasks and rewards. Unfortunately, they will arrive at Midnight launch and will not be available in Patch 11.2.7's early access.

Each month, a new endeavor will become available, providing players with an opportunity to learn about various factions and cultures of Azeroth. Players in private neighborhoods can select from a list of endeavors, but sometimes, a specific endeavor will activate automatically, based on what is happening in the world. In public neighborhoods, the game randomly chooses which endeavors are active.

Each endeavor consists of multiple tasks that are collectively completed by the entire neighborhood. As your neighborhood completes more tasks, more NPCs of that flavor/theme will appear, making various themed decorations available in the neighborhood for both members and visitors.

Here are screenshots of a neighborhood hub with an inactive and active endeavor.

The number of tasks required scales with the size of your neighborhood. If a neighborhood is less active, future endeavors will be easier to complete.

Endeavor tasks range from crafting to gathering, completing dungeons or raids. Everyone can contribute to an endeavor, regardless of how they engage with the game. Successfully completing tasks gives XP and grants a new type of endeavor currency and Neighborhood Favor.

Neighborhood Favor can be used to level up your house and earn rewards. The endeavor currency is used to buy decorations from visiting NPCs in any neighborhood.

Completing activities in your neighborhood advances the Neighborhood Favor system, which is a neighborhood-wide Renown track for each neighborhood instance. As your Renown level increases, the whole neighborhood unlocks powerful perks and upgrades that benefit everyone, such as an increased decor item limit for all houses which allows every member to place more decor in their homes.

As mentioned already, the faction-themed neighborhoods are open to members of both factions. When you complete the housing intro on one faction, your other faction's alts will get access to the second neighborhood automatically.