With the launch of Player Housing in World of Warcraft, there’s a lot of new features launching with the game to support it. One of those is the neighborhood system, which are the layers that host various players’ housing locations and information. Here’s a look at how the Housing Neighborhoods work in WoW.
The Housing Neighborhood is essentially a location that sits on a housing server instance. It is where you will get your first player house, more than likely. There are two map themes, Founders Point for the Alliance and Razorwind for the Horde. Both take inspiration from their race-related locations. Humans get human-themed locations, which have little zones inspired by Elwynn, Duskwood, Westfall, etc. Meanwhile, the Horde one has Durotar, Barrens, and Azshara-like locations.
These neighborhoods then populate with preset house plot locations. There can be public, private and guild neighborhoods.
Public neighborhoods are entirely free for all with plot reservation and are the most common types out there. More instances can spin up with different names so more players can make it easier to meet up in the same instance neighborhood, or for a player to find a vacant plot they want. To do so, simply find the Steward and change Neighborhood. Or, click the Housing Dashboard, which defaults to ‘H’ and then press the Open House Finder button at the top of the screen. You can then check he Neighborhood for the house plot you want. If it is available, you can teleport to that plot via a button on that plot’s pop-up window, and then it reserves it for a few minutes to load in, and then actually purchase the plot.
There’s an inkling to what plots are more popular with players, thanks to this Reddit survey. So, if you are looking for a plot that’s popular with a wider sample size, you might want to look for a fresher neighbor instance and get the house plot you want. If you’re one of those players with a popular plot, you may need to spam the refresh button on the Steward to find a neighbor name, and check the map to see if the plot you want is vacant or not.
Private and Guild Neighborhoods
The other two types of Neighborhoods are the Guild and Private charter Neighborhoods.
Private neighborhoods are created with a charter from the Steward of each neighbor map instance. Simply name the Private Neighborhood, and then get ten people to sign the charter to make it official. That private charter then needs ten accounts maintained to keep it eligible otherwise your plot will be merged with a public one.
Guild charters are backed into guilds and can have up to 55 plots per guild instance. It too needs to be maintained with 10 active warbands. It has not been tested yet on PTR or on beta, so may operate slightly differently come live. All we know is if you leave the guild you lose your plot in that guild community. The same goes for private communities too.
Both charters take the biome that the guild or charter leader is at the time of the neighborhood creation. An alliance guild or charter lead gets Founder’s Point, while Horde leaders get Razorwind. Both guild and private charters can be cross-faction areas, while public areas are entirely faction-specific.
With these plots being private, it’s hard to reserve your housing plot. It may require some for planning to get the plot you want between the group creating the Neighborhood.
It about covers all you need to know about Player Housing. If you want more in-depth details on player housing we have you covered.
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