World of Warcraft: Dragonflight's next update, Seeds of Renewal, has been revealed, and in addition unlocking dragonriding across all of Azeroth, it will allow for players to run dungeons all on their own, albeit with a little help from some NPC followers.

Dungeons in WoW typically require a five-person group, with one tank, one healer, and three DPS. The upcoming addition of Follower Dungeons, as they are called, puts a new spin on the formula. Follower Dungeons will let players put NPCs in roles usually reserved for other players in a dungeon party. This feature will work with all eight of Dragonflight's normal-difficulty dungeons, with a difficulty that will scale depending on the number of human players in a party.

As Blizzard notes, the mode is intended to let players learn dungeons or new roles "at their own pace." Ever wanted to try tanking, but didn't want to be exposed to pressure from other players when you don't know where to go in a dungeon or how to do a certain mechanic? Follower Dungeons removes toxic players from the equation so that players trying to learn the dungeon or their class can do so in a more stress-free environment. It's a feature that sounds similar to the new, bite-sized Delves activity coming in WoW's 2024 expansion, The War Within, which will also support the use of an NPC companion and scales with the number of human players in a party.