Yeah it’s per account, not per character. You can visit them regardless of character.
They’re trying to avoid rare drops:
We’re not going to have the decor equivalent of “transmog runs.” We’re still working through what this means in practice (Is it only available during TImewalking? Is there something more deterministic we can do, etc.), but the thought of someone farming a mount for years across multiple characters every week, finally earning it, and then being told “welp, time to go back and grind for the couch” is rough. We’d like to avoid this.
I’m pretty sure all the housing items have their own separate tab in the Collections panel, so they won’t occupy any inventory space, just housing item space if they’re placed.
Yeah, but what I’m saying is, if I can only have one alliance house(to start), I’m basically stuck with just that house for however long, for 20-30 alliance characters? If so that’s not cool. We should be able to decorate the “same” house for our alts differently depending on which alt we are on. If I make the house with my monk here to look like a MoP house, and I log in with my human hunter or my nelf druid or my KT warrior, it will stink to only have that house to go to and have it look like MoP. We should be able to have a drop down to change to the house we want, per faction or whatever.
I have no idea how other games do it, never made a house before, I’m just saying how bad I’m going to think it is if I can’t enjoy a themed house of my choosing with an alt if I log in with them after making a house with my main. Just my opinion.
Assuming we can own multiple houses (one in the Human area and one in the Orc area) I hope the “unique” items from achievements can be used once per each house. So I can mount an Onyxia Head in my Orc Hut and also in my Human House.
That or we can buy additional ones for a couple of gold at a vendor.
Decorations are only placeable if you have enough of them, based on how many you’ve collected. If you want to place four chairs, you’ll need to collect four chairs.
This article is very exciting, but this part in particular concerns me. I don’t think this is friendly to player creativity. If I earn a transmog appearance, I can mog it on all my alts if I want. It’s not like I have only one dress and only one of my characters can wear it at a time.
Not to mention—there are decorations that are obtained by things like achievements. You can only earn achievements once. This means if an achievement gives me a really cool decoration that I’d like to use more than once, I’m SoL.
Everything else here looks cool, but please reconsider this. If I earned the appearance, just let me do what I want with it. Some of the coolest creations will come from having arbitrary restrictions like this removed. If I earn a pretty flowering vine and I want to cover my house in duplicates of it—just let me!
Again though, everything else here looks really cool. I’m very excited.
I’m hopeful that after they see how badly neighborhoods are going to bomb they will just give us lots of solo instanced housing in racial capitals and xpac hubs that we can do on a per character basis. Assuming they actually add to it after Midnight that is about the best outcome we can hope for atm.
This is my fear as well. I can understand Blizzard not wanting us to have one house per character given the current maximum number of alts we can have per account, but I would like to at least have 2-3 different houses in different places.
I’m not sure if I want a house for this character. Human decor looks great out in the world, but there’s so much of it that I have no idea what I’d do with a human house of my own that wouldn’t look like the 50 other Alliance towns and forts in the game.
But I do want a house for my two night elf characters to share, and a house for my blood elf. I expect the third neighborhood we get to be blood elf-themed, since we’re going back to Quel’Thalas in the next expansion. I might want to make houses for a few other alts as we get more neighborhoods and decor options, when the inspiration strikes.
Fantastic stuff so far. The only point that feels off is the dungeon related decor. You don’t want people to feel like they have to grind the dungeons so your solution is to…make it so they can’t grind them without others? If someone wants to farm a dungeon for decor, please let them.
Why are they going to bomb? It’s not limited housing like in FFXIV.
If you want a neighborhood with only guildies allowed to make a house you can. You have public ones, and you can probably make your own private solo neighborhood.
They went over this in one of the previous articles, I think the very first one when they were detailing design goals. The objective is to make housing decor more or less like transmog, where some of it is on the Trading Post and the cash shop, but the overwhelmingly vast majority of it is earned in-game from various sources.
After the “shiny” wears off housing these will be the only ones offering activity. Even then only for active social guilds. All the rest will be ghost towns by the middle of S2.
Any character. Your Horde can go there. Your Alliance can go to the other one.
I’ve never seen a housing system work that way. That’s why there are so many different ones that can be acquired in other games. SWTOR has, I think, 12 Strongholds now. ESO has a bunch of different housing plots. As does Rift. Palia has like 6 right now or something.
I’m sure WoW will open up more as time goes on. When SWTOR started theirs, we only had a couple of them. They added on as time went by.
I understand that, but I’m so used to the style of “decorate it for the Legacy, not the character.”
Decos are different. This is exactly how SWTOR does it, as well. It keeps people going and getting more. Otherwise, you craft one, you’re done. You buy one, you’re done. Forever.
That’s not really how housing works.
Usually store and achievement decos are obtaining like 5 or 10 of them. Not just one. Unless it’s some huge, fancy one and then those tend to be just one. Like centerpieces in SWTOR.
