HC started strong, but the population will probably decrease due to players dying and not wanting to “go again” after several deaths. A few future improvements to encourage more players to keep playing on the HC servers or even bring new players to the HC servers:
- Remove dungeon lockout. I have yet to step into a dungeon. This would not affect me but help those that like to go through dungeons.
- Increase buff duration (like paladin buffs).
- Some buffs for poor specs like balance druids or arcane mages. A buff to tank and healing specs will encourage more people to play tanks and healers.
- Add dual spec to encourage more people to play tanks and healers (a reminder that 1,000g is a lot to pay for dual spec).
- Allow for greater XP gain option (some kind of XP multiplier, maybe 3x or 5x, given by an NPC as an option) until character has reached the highest level of HC character progress that the player achieved. For example, if a player has a level 50 character as their highest level character on a HC server, he/she can create an alt that can have the option to increase their XP gains on their alt until level 50. Then it is back to 1x. This also encourages creating alts.