Something I think would make the expansion even more replay-able/alt friendly is if the main story and a good chunk of side quests were all tied to your class.
As a Paladin, how can I best serve in bringing down the big bad in this expansion? I think that’s a major issue with the quests and narrative in general with WoW. My cutthroat rogue isn’t contributing the same way (or shouldn’t be) as my altruistic paladin is. Why not have a main story revolving around each classes contribution, and for major plot points they can converge (final battles, meeting villains, major deaths, etc).
I’m just over playing a character I see as being this ruthless killer end up being asked to go baby sit dragons or my Paladin/good characters to go murder some innocent ducks.
That would be better than class halls where you’re suddenly the leader of a faction and owns this super unique weapon no one has, except every other player of the same spec.
I do think its funny when my characters are asked to take part in these presumably elaborate rituals that they’d definitely have no idea how to participate in.
The recent quest with Shandris and Lilian Voss comes to mind. Yall probably want to at least find a druid to drive this hostile nature spirit away? No? Okay I guess I’ll do it.
Part of the reason Legion and, yes, even Classic remain popular is the focus on class fantasy. I think the talent trees in Dragonflight are also a step in the right direction there (the UI art is gorgeous). The Hero Class levels will also provide some class fantasy, even if not quests (though I would love a quest to unlock each of the 3 specs).
Yeah it’s completely out of context with who your character is. Even if the quest was “hey let’s go watch the Druids perform this ritual” it would make it less jarring.
I would love if every xpac had monk quests solely based around brawling people or finding new brews, or teaching martial arts for old people or young people.
Old Republic did this with their storylines. Granted, theirs are a lot more separated than WoW. But it is something that has been done in other MMORPGs. So it’s not a bad idea.
The issue is Blizz tried this with Covenants and did it in such an extreme that people hated it, because they were so cut off from the other stories. They can tone it down, obviously, but…
The other issue is the time it would take to do that for so many classes.
I love the idea. I just don’t know how feasible it will be and if Blizz is capable of not messing it up. lol
Ah yeah, true. I never enjoyed that game but the unique storylines were cool.
Yeah, that’s the issue for sure. But I mean, this is the “narrative” expansion so maybe they can spend some of that space cash-er Microsoft bucks on a fleshed out story for once. Maybe… maybe Blizz.
100% agree that quests should be more tailored to how your class would do said thing or what is expected of your class. I do wish we got something like orderhalls again just not so focused on us as if we were the ones running it but rather we have teachers in there and thats how we unlock the 3 hero specs from them
I loved doing the class quests when I played Classic, I had started in Cata so I didn’t even know classes used to get specific quests for a long awhile.
They made my class feel ‘special’ in a way, even though the Priest class quests were pretty mundane, I loved it! I helped my Warrior friend with the Fray Island & their Whirlwind Axe quests and even though I wasn’t getting anything out of it myself, it was really fun to go an do.
If they could bring back class halls and put in more class quests akin to Classic’s, I’d be thrilled.
I wish this was the way it originally was. So many Highlords running around out there. Sooner or later someone’s going to come for my head Highlander style.
Yeah that’s a good point, too. Not every quest has to be epic.
But now I’m wondering how would you go about questing with friends if they were separate classes? I think a potential way for that to be done is having the class NPCs have you go to the same general area but you just have different tasks to do. Example: a Paladin needs to bless cursed weapons and bring them back. The rogue needs to pick the locks holding the weapons or steal keys from an NPC. Or maybe these are just alternative ways to complete quests. Cuz as a warrior, they’re not blessing anything or stealing, they’re smashing and bashing their way through.
Idk, they don’t get the love of, say, Druids, but no class does, except possibly Warlocks. But the Shaman Class Hall was definitely one of the top-3 in Legion. The Dark Shaman set is very coveted, we get pretty awesome tier sets. It could be worse.
