Housing 101: Getting Started

[Cayna-hyjal]

@Barbs-antonidas

So, in the guild neighborhood, is it 10 accounts or 10 guild members?

It requires 10 active accounts same with private neighborhoods.

[Loregos-stormrage]

@Kazethera-llane

some of us aren’t interested in this at all,

Then why do you keep engaging with housing threads?

[Kazethera-llane]

Explained above.

But thanks for trying.

[Kazethera-llane]

Bye.

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[Loregos-stormrage]

@Kazethera-llane

Explained above.

All I see is you complaining about everything. There’s no explanation.

So I’ll just do myself the favour and hide you.

@Kazethera-llane

Bye.

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[Kazethera-llane]

Since you need it spelled out.

I wanted to be interested when they said Housing was coming to WOW.

But Blizz has done a horrible implementation, with horrible “features” revealed in a steady drip of ruin.

Disgust for how they’ve taken something that could have just been fun and chill… and made it into a grindy slog to do much, built in attachment points for a new low in monetization, had to worm their fixation on social gameplay as a hook into it, and then shoving it all in our face with a quest we can’t decline.

It doesn’t help that every time I start to think “well maybe it’s OK if I go do a house with my friends who want me to…” we learn a new thing that Blizz has botched with their implementation, and in the most player-unfriendly way possible.

[Mystraele-shadowsong (Mystraele)]

Not going to watch a video to figure this out. How about an article for people who prefer to read, or even learn easier and retain more information by reading?

[Eliyus-moon-guard]

I have a suggestion for guild neighborhoods; allow guild members to choose what exterior they want no matter the faction please!

[Loregos-stormrage]

One thing I noticed in this video is that there are objects used that haven’t been implemented for testing yet.

The first shot in the house with the magical bookcase stairwell is that the floor used on the ground level wasn’t available for testing. Hopefully we’ll see it in future builds as I quite like it.

[Virus-nagrand (Virus)]

I haven’t really looked into how i go about starting my guild neighborhood, but from what i have read i may not even be able to start doing the housing stuff because there aren’t enough of my guildies around that have also pre-ordered. I get that they don’t want everyone starting their own areas, but surely they could allow GM’s of guilds to start them up without restrictions/signatures?

[Magnarok-amanthul (Magnarok)]

@Kazethera-llane

Maybe it matters, maybe it doesn’t, but Blizz will see the quest refused, or never completed, in their numbers.

And the more people who treat the idiotic nag-quests that way, the better

It really doesn’t matter. It’s just a quest to point players in the right direction. This is such a bizarre thing to get riled up about.

[Loregos-stormrage]

@Virus-nagrand

from what i have read i may not even be able to start doing the housing stuff because there aren’t enough of my guildies around that have also pre-ordered. I get that they don’t want everyone starting their own areas, but surely they could allow GM’s of guilds to start them up without restrictions/signatures?

Idk what you’re reading but I don’t believe pre-order status matters for guild member count to create a neighbourhood. You just need to have 10 different active warbands in the guild.

Nothing needs to be signed, it’s just some click through things at the portal to the zone to create the guilded neighbourhood. It’s quite fast.

[Siameren-lightnings-blade]

Please add a “grab everything” button.

If you move your house to a different plot everything will be facing the same direction it was on the old plot. If the front of the new plot is facing a different direction then you have to manually reposition every… single… item. One by one.

Just give us a “grab all" button so we can grab the entire house and every decoration and rotate it all at once.

Likewise being able to move the first room of the house. If I make it one theme but want to change it but want to keep that room as is but place out further into the house, I should be able to move that initial room and replace it with another.

[Virus-nagrand (Virus)]

@Loregos-stormrage

You just need to have 10 different active warbands in the guild

That’s fantastic then, thanks!

[Kretyn-illidan]

How many neighborhoods are there going to be? Can you make your own public neighborhood? I ask because I have a very specific plot that I want, and if it’s taken in the, say, 20 already planned neighborhoods, what’s going to happen then?

[Loregos-stormrage]

@Kretyn-illidan

Can you make your own public neighborhood? I ask because I have a very specific plot that I want, and if it’s taken in the, say, 20 already planned neighborhoods, what’s going to happen then?

No you cannot. Public neighbourhoods are managed by the system.

What you can do is you can use the house finder to search at maps of the available public neighbourhood and look to see if your spot is open. If it’s not, you can refresh the list until there’s one that has your plot open. Then you teleport to the plot and claim it.

There’s no need to worry about not getting the plot you want unless you’re in a large private/guild neighbourhood that is figuring it out.

[Kretyn-illidan]

@Loregos-stormrage

you can refresh the list

Many thanks to you! Do we know how many neighborhoods will be on the list?

[Kazethera-llane]

In theory, as many as it takes.

[Loregos-stormrage]

@Kretyn-illidan

Do we know how many neighborhoods will be on the list?

I think it will show 5-6 at a time.

[Evilperiod-aggramar]

I am annoyed, so much of what is shown in this video has not been available for testing.