Greetings fellow adventurers from EU side of the WoW world.
It has been 13 years since my last post of this sort.
First such post was during Cata xpac when after 2 months of playing could not continue because game broke too many aspects that I liked. During that period I started to get ideas for game, stuff I would like to see.
Here is a link for PDF view of my first such post (my first round of ideas from 13 years ago) : https:// d3ey0ivtc68uxj.cloudfront. net/public/c713a669f93f52a808730419efeb47e8.pdf
Original post had about half less ideas then this one is having, about 50 of them. Did not get blue post, but got green post at least.
Many of those ideas have found their place in later expansions as they came. Goal is the same again. To provide ideas to the Blizzard and to wait with hope to see some of them in game also.
Ideas will be sorted in some kind of theme sections.
In total there are 102 ideas in this second round.
I will do my best to provide as much as possible reasons for as much as possible ideas.
RULES for posting in this topic :
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If you like some of those ideas and wish to name them, just write in your post their number, but please do so in chronological order, for e.g. âI like ideas : 3,17, 24, 33, 52 etcâŠâ.
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Also if you like to add something to any idea in sense of expanding it, do so in same way as mentioned above, put their chronological order number and type your contributing factors to that idea.
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If you have your own idea/s that you wish to add in this topic, you are most welcomed, but do so by adding chronological order number that corresponds number of last/latest written idea (or be it mine last idea, or be it someone elseâs last/latest idea). For example if in this topic last/latest idea number is 109, your idea starts with number 110, and so on.
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Chris Metzen. As a passionate player to a passionate creator, I send you my deepest thanks for everything you gave us, and I send congratulations for incoming anniversary to you and to everyone that was and that are part of this journey, and I send my ideas for this game as my gift to you and to the crew that was, and that is on the same boat of creation with you.
I have found how incoming anniversary is the most appropriate time for a second round of ideas for this game, so here they are.
I apologize for all strange wordings, and order of words in sentences, since English is not my native language.
Have in mind that I have wrote 102 ideas, so you will not be done with reading in 5 minutes.
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WoW ideas 2.0
I. GENERAL
- Limited time content system. It does not bring health to game and community. Every such system in itâs nature is forcing type of system, and as such gives less space for personal choice of playing game, unless I am willing to miss out what ever is main dish of it. Not that I will accept that type of engagements. Unless you make way back to what ever is main dish of that timed content (titles, mounts, pets, transmogsâŠ). You would be suprise how much ppl would perhaps choose to join or to come back to game if many of such removed old content is brought back. More content to play at own personal choice, more players that will enjoy playing this game.
II. The War Within (TWW)
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Fully restore Dalaran A.S.A.P. After first 30 minutes of playing TWW and the city destruction, decided to not play xpac at all, and will remain in such state until Dalaran is fully restored.
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Hero talents in TWW xpac. In all honesty, I do not see any core benefit to the game or more immersion to the class through them, not at least in a longterm way, since it is just another layer of talents given in a form of mini tree, under cool names as a bait. Even original WOTLK system with Glyphs was better immersion flavor then this. Do not wanna for them, and perhaps entire talents system, to end up as either WOTLK Glyphs system, or original talent system, to be washed away in some future xpac.
III. WARBAND
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Give more warband bank slots and make them much cheaper then what they cost now. Current state of warband bank is somewhat in what we call âneither in air, neither on groundâ situation. Great idea, but I think has space for improvements to be more used then it is so far. It was not presented as sort of gold sink feature, while it became so, even more considering amount of space given in comparison to space, player is having with private guild.
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Make dungeons and raid BoP items to also be warband shareable. For those players who play on lots of alts, would make gearing easier.
IV. OLD CONTENT
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Make EVERGREEN / EVERLASTING : Vanilla, TBC & WOTLK realms in their original state without and sort of additions to them, for those who do not like everything that came into game after it.
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Bring back original Legion Tower rewards, artifact skins. Tower can still be made difficult challenge as it was back during a Legion, and there are a lot of players who would like to obtain them, meaning game will could see more active playerbase.
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Bring back legendary MoP cloaks & WoD rings. Big chunck of lore is in those chain quests, and also my panda monk is having perfect mog that only needs MoP dps cloak for visual effect blue glowing wings. It could also bring more players to play that part of the game as it ties in lore with other xpacs that came after. Even though I played it all in time of MoP, every lore lover would like to know that part.
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Give us back old versions of vanilla dungeons in same manner as Scarlet Monastery or via Zidormi NPC to restore map and dung to previous original state. Many players like flavor that those dungeons had in their time.
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Make item â An Old History Book â again quest item. Perhaps through Vanilla TW vendor or mob drop. There will be always players that like to do old/original quests.
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Bring back chain quest for the The Scepter of the Shifting Sands for cool lore that was in it. Perhaps through Vanilla TW.
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Make non selected Legion class halls and BfA campaign upgrades greyed (same look before any of two of same tier is selected), so that we know which upgrades are not active/selected.
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Remove old content time-gating. For e.g. (weekly rotation) for BfA island expeditions since they are in correlation with campaing tree upgrades, and I do not like to sit and wait for some old stuff that I could complete much, much faster.
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Make BfA heroic warfronts to be soloable. We are in position that could and should be done solo to simply skip wait time for making a group. Many players like to do various stuff fast, and this should be among it.
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Increase drop rate amount & reward amount from dailies, for Coalescing Visions, high enough that we can run one Horrific Vision every day. Current ammounts are too much time gating for such old content.
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Increase drop rate for Echoes of Nyâalotha from itâs sources, mostly from Horrific Visions. Current ammounts are too much time gating for such old content.
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Make Legion class halls titles account-wide. It was very deeply frustrating after completing mage class halls campaign on my human mage, realization that cannot have desired title on my nightborne mage who did not completed it.
V. MOUNTS (one can never have enough mounts)
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Bring back old/vanilla PvP mounts via some sort of PVP item, such as Vicious Saddle, or through Prestige rewards, or some third way.
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Bring back old raid mounts (ZA, WOTLK Naxx black proto, ToGCâŠ) via TW, or BMAH, or some challenge sort, or some other worthy way.
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Bring back curve old raids mounts via some or grind or challenge.
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Bring back some retired vanilla period mounts such as Black Nightsaber. Perhaps via vanilla TW or some other event.
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Give us mounts of designs such as BfA HFC Iron Reaver, Legion Garothi Annihilator, TBC HFP Fel Reaver.
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Give us ghost/spectral/celestial look for : raptors, hippogryphs, talbuks, rams, kodos, bats & dragonhawk mounts.
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Give us vanilla look Nefarian mount in some way as a part of some grand Warcraft event to have complete family mounts (we have Ony and Deathwing mounts already).
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Give to mounts such as Solar Spirehawk and Violet Spellwing design to be with their legs grounded when near ground instead of atm hoowering above the ground.
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Make Auspicious Arborwyrm mount to be very first 3 persons mount, since in original design there looks to be 2 extra seats where tail starts.
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Give to ground mounts simmilar movement type switch as flying mounts are having between Steady flight (regular flying style) and Skyriding (DF flying style), to make usage of ground mounts more interesting. Perhaps something like what we had in a WQs during Legion xpac.
VI. TIME WALKING (TW)
- Give us Vanilla TW :
a) chain q line to obtain Atiesh, Greatstaff of the Guardian,
b) vanilla TW vendor ;
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a Shenâdralar faction rep Commendations
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cool stuff such as : Corrupted Ashbringer, Benediction/Anathema, Rhokâdelar, Longbow of the Ancient Keepers, The Axe of Cenarius aka Broxâs axe etcâŠ
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ALL removed Pre-Cata professions : plans, patterns, formulas, recipes, schematics.
- Give to MoP TW vendor a Shang Xiâs Academy faction rep Commendations.
VII. CLASSES (mostly main reasons for big majority of these ideas is better immersion with class through race-class combination identity)
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Give tauren shamans ghost moose form, and ghost mooses for Feral Spirit ability. Gives to race-class immersion.
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Give dwarf shamans ghost ram or bear form, and ghost rams or bears for Feral Spirit ability. Gives to race-class immersion.
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Give draenei shamans ghost talbuk form, and ghost talbuks for Feral Spirit ability. Gives to race-class immersion.
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Give panda shamans MoP type tiger ghost tiger form, and MoP type tiger ghost tigers for Feral Spirit ability. Gives to race-class immersion.
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Give vulpera shamans ghost Vulpines and Lupines forms for Feral Spirit ability. Gives to race-class immersion.
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Make hunters Freezing Trap to be unbreakable during its duration and creature in it immune to anything (dmg, healing, trap breaking free abilities). Mostly so that hunters can in peace tame creature that is also sought for itâs drops (mount, pet, transmog etcâŠ).
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Make rare Blazewing (Cata MH map) tameable for hunters. I dream about having that creature as a hunter pet ever since saw it during Cata xpac.
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Allow Ghostpaw Runner (wolf from Ashenvale) to keep their Ghostform ability after taming. Also allow Icepaw bear (Northrend, ZulâDrak map) to keep their Claws of Ice ability, and blue glow on the claws effect. Such visuals and abilities gives extra flavor to immersion when taming creatures in specific maps.
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Make that flying type hunter pets can fly alongside with hunter when on a flying mount. Idea came to me when saw that flying type companions can alsow fly with me.
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Bring back DK pressence as it was in WOTLK an AOE effect ( open world party, dungeon or raid grp effect). It gave them in terms of class group benefits rly great immersion element.
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Bring back paladin blessings. Reason pretty much the same as for a DK.
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Remove restriction of color variations race tying from Legion for druid flight (Lunarwing) and Mark of the Sentinel (traveling) forms. I am Nelf, but wish to have white or spectral color variations because it matches also my Nighthold mythic druid tier set or astral moonkin form fantasy immersion with game. Also add more colors to those two forms (for e.g. Nightwreathed Watcher pet design), and even new versions for current forms.
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Give to druids (perhaps only Nelfs) underwater form of Naga and tie it to character sex (e.g. female character = female naga form). If we cannot have them as subrace, then at least in this form to be used. Current toy isâŠjust not enough.
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Give to feral druids skin of Satyrs (all races or perhaps just Nelfs). A bold move to widen race immersion.
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Give to troll druids for feral spec skin of swift zulian tiger mount. About time for it perhaps ?
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Give to Nightborne race a druid class, and druids skin of Nightborne saber cats look (mana stuff on skin). I am dying for this option, simply dying.
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Allow balance druids to chose location for spawning Wild Mushroom skill instead of being target locked system skill. I always liked to have control over this skill. Also I would rather like to see it on the left window of talents tree and to be usable not only as dps but also as AOE healing spell.
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Give to balance spec ability to remain in same visual gear (humanoid form) when entering boomkin form. Something like astral, but remaining in original visual humanoid form without going spectral. Once you find that perfect transmog, you wish to see it in all situations/occasions.
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Give to druids for restoration spec to have form same two out of 3 ancient protectors from The Everbloom WoD dungeon, or as botanist trio boss from The Nighthold Legion raid, or as cosmetic via glyphs, or from skill tree. More options is awalys better for class-spec immersion.
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Bring back warlock skill Metamorphosis for demonology spec, and make on visual part to correspond character sex (e.g. female character to have feminine look in that form), you can also change name of that skill because of DHs having skill with same name. I liked that skill from a first day, and feel that it never got enough visual attention.
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Give 1h maces to warlocks. That 1h mace from Hellfire Citadel last boss fits perfectly with rest of drops from same boss for Manâari warlock.
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Bring back water elemental as a permanent frost mage pet, and give fire mage phoenix as a permanent pet (TBC and/or WoD phoenix designs). I played human mage as a frost from a day one, but after those changes with placing it into talent tree, was soo much devastated that went into fire, and made decision that will not play frost again on any alt until water elemental is brought back again as a permanent skill. Not to mention how good it fits with Glacial Tidestorm mount from Jaina.
VIII. TRANSMOG
- Give to the Nelfs as a transmog for 1h/2h swords :
a. NPC Sentinels 3 sided glavies (1h) and other type of Night Elf NPCs glaives (not counting BfA onward glavies we get),
b. Wardens circled glaives (Maiev) (2h) and other wardens weapons.
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Give to Blood Elves as a transmog for 1h/2h swords, their NPCs glaives look. We got heritage armor, now we need wep that goes with it.
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Add glowing light to the eyes on owl looking head part of sleeves, that are visual part of chest piece (Robe of the Astral Warden), of a Garb of the Astral Warden (Nightold druid tier set). Am just perfectionist in some things, and this happened to fall under it.
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Replace blue color with a golden color on a hilt bottom and upper part of 2h sword Stormrune Edge, to match the rest of a golden color of that weapon, since other 3 variants are already having their own full colorization match on all parts of that 2h sword type design. I could really never understand this color dissonance.
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Remove current restrictions for shoulders transmog. For e.g. ICC DK tier shoulders are not in sense of design symmetrical. So allow us to make such shoulders transmog change, in which, regarding their body side (left shoulder, right shoulder), they can be individually replaced within their design (or both shoulders sides to be spiked, or to be glowing). What can I say, I one of those who like symmetry.
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Remove class/armor type transmog restrictions (for e.g. Nyâalotha plate has great shoulders and helm design for my rogue when using Fangs of the Father transmog, type of armor set that rare mob called Voidtender Malketh from BfA, MoP map assult is having).
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Give us transmog of apperance that dwarf hunter in Vanilla cinematic, at start of it, is having. As a player whose main is dwarf hunter since WOTLK, and who as a player was sold by Vanilla cinematic into this game in TBC, and who as a person likes snowy areas/peaks, am frustrated that am not having that look.
IX. PORTALS
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Bring back portals from SW and Orgri for Pandaria to the original map & map location, Vale of Eternal Blossoms and Shrines (Ally one & Horde one). I could never understood reason for portals location change.
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Give us portal from Uldum to SW and to Orgri, so that we are finally free of need for HS usage from that map, giving the fact that all other Cata maps have their own portal to SW and to Orgri.
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Make portal from SW and Orgri to Legion Dalaran instead to Azsuna. It was always in every expansion some kind of rule to have portal from Azeroth to main hub (sanctuary type location) of that current expansion, and in Legion, Dalaran is main hub just as it is in Northrend.
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Give portal from SW to The Dark Portal (Azeroth/Eastern Kingdoms) side, just like Horde are having from Orgri. Ok, it is not far from SW to the map where Dark Portal is, but makes life easier if alliance is having same portal feature.
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Make portals from BfA Chamber of Heart for both Visions of NâZoth locations (Ramkahen in Uldum & Seat of Knowledge â Moguâshan Palace in Vale of Eternal Blossoms). Makes gaming life easier and it corresponds with.
X. RACES
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Give us Taunka and Yaungol as Tauren subraces.
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Give us dark trolls as a subrace, or as a faction.
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Give us some water based/aquatic race/subrace.
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Give gnomes finally their capital city.
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Add Argus Manâari look to visual look options for a draenei (fel cracked skin, fel glowing horns, fel floating symbol on a forehead).
XI. TOYS
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Make Jeevs a toy with same functions that is now having. More space in bag.
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Make Direbrewâs Remote a toy. More space in bag.
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Make Admiralâs Compas a toy (more space in bag), and fix Garrison HS toy that keeps crashing game every time when used.
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Make current toy Underlight Sealamp to be also underwater/coastal areas cooking fire toy. It would fit well with some aquatic race/subrace.
XII. COMPANIONS/MINI PETS
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Give us ability to have more then one pet summoned, like those battle pet NPCs are having.
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Give us ghost/spectral pets : gryphon, chimera, bat, dragonhawk, horse, ram, raptor, elekk, hawkstrider, kodo etcâŠ
XIII. VARIOUS VISUALS
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Make new loading screen picture for Eastern Kingdoms to finally replace this bad anime type attempt of drawing that current Eastern Kingoms loading screen picture is having. Also update loading screen picture for Kalimdor since atm one is stil having Volâjin on it.
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Make map borders (upper left & lower right) icons to correspond the loading map screen of xpac in which character is traveling to. For e.g. if I travel to Northrend from SW with ship, to see icons of WOTLK xpac on map loading screen, etcâŠ
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Bring back old original (vanilla type) face models for Dryads that looked more cute and more feminine in their faces (they had more roundish faces). Keep modern resolution of them, but work on shape of their face that atm looks too much jagged. Older visual had that enchanting and alluring, yet mysterious touch to them as creatures of the wild. Like some sort of fairies.
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Bring back Catacalysm period look for dragon aspects : Alexstrasza, Nozdormu and Kalecgos, for WOTLK and CATA content. Their DF visuals feels disjointed when doing Cata, FL legend staff quest, or when doing Dragon Soul raid, or when doing WOTLK quests and visiting Wyrmrest Temple.
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Bring back old zones pre cata view, e.g. : Loch Modan and Wetlands through rebuilt dam, Tanaris coastline (no reason to have flooded for so many years after Cata), Barrens made whole again, regrowth of trees in Azshara map, reclamation of northen part of Stonetalon Peak area by Night Elves, etcâŠif needed be, with the help of the Aspects and their dragonflights (healing of the lands on both continents).
XIV. WORLD EVENTS
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Add finally already Elders from Lunar Festival to : Outland, Pandaria, Draenor, Broken Isles, Kul Tiras & Zandalar
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Make something cool with cave in Searing Gorge map at 21,79. One of Elders is there during Lunar Festival.
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Add one day anniversary event for each expansion release date through in-game calendar and cool stuff to do on that day.
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Make a micro holiday about veterans and all casulties of all so far important wars in Warcraft history : Third War, Silithus war in vanilla, TBC demons, WOTLK undeads, Cata elements and dragons, Legion, Fourth War, etcâŠ
XV. UI
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Give us in options menu, option to activate or deactivate old gun sound, to avoid usage of a addon.
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Give us option to show/hide our guild name on character. I do not know why, but would like to have this option.
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Give NPCs and quest givers voices like there was attempt with addon VoiceOver, and give for quest givers window type such exists in addon Immersion. Both features would provide immensely better world immersion.
XVI. WORLD
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Make that when quest is clicked it opens corresponding map for that quest.
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Make that dungeon world quests gives more reputation then other open world maps quests since time spent in dungeon is not and should not be trivial.
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Allow us to buy more then one items at a time from AH, such as bags for e.g.
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Make beds in all locations, even in those such as Orendilâs Retreat in Ashenvale, to be interactable with simple lay down / sleep function that gives same effect as resting in all so far given locations (capital cities, inns). Brings more to the world RPG immersion element.
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Make benches and chairs in all locations, even smaller ones, such as Orendilâs Retreat in Ashenvale, to be interactable. For benches to have an option to sit or to lay down on them, and for chairs to have an option to sit or to sleep at table (hands on table with head on hands resting while sitting on chair), and that lay down on benches and sleep at tables gives same effect as resting in some inn or capital city. Brings more to the world RPG immersion element.
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Give us more various designs personal boats as racial boats (human, troll, night elf etc⊠designs) that are for water crossing and that can be also used for fishing, something as seen in BfA during alliance campaing when using boats via NPCs (you row your boat, and not use body position like you will fly), they can work as toys (tuskar DF boat) that once activated behave as chairs and benches (sit=rowing or fishing, stand=fishing) with feature of being controlled when you sit in them (rowing). Ever since we got chance to ride on a small boat in SW and in Darnassus during Love is in the Air event, have dreamed about this idea. One can never have enough world RPG immersion elements.
XVII. CHARACTER
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Replace order of Title into, Title , for SL title âTower Rangerâ. Somehow fits better when reading.
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Add some cool titles such as: General, Ranger, Admiral, Paragon, Soarer, Bulwark. One can never have enough of cool titles. I for one am going to have for each class spec, carefully selected race/subrace, so am aiming for appropriate title that would fit my RPG element for each character.
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Perhaps to reduce casting time of regular and toy HS from 10 to 5 seconds.
XVIII. LORE
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Bring (normal Argus titan) as a member of Pantheon, restore him somehow. If he was ment to be born as titan and member of Pantheon, I would rly love and like to see that happen.
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Bring Medivh and Medâan into one of future expansions. Am sure how wast lore of this universe could find some active place for both of them one way or another.
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Give us more lore about how some Azeroth native races came to be, such as: taurens/yaungol, dark trolls, dragons/stone dragons. My brain keeps poking me on those subjects, and I hate it cuz am without answers.
XIX. MORE OF ADVICES THEN IDEAS FOR BETTER EXPERIENCE OF THIS GAME FOR BOTH SIDES
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Bring back real persons in your costumer support service for dealing with submitted tickets, instead of what we have now, drone type copy pasted replies that feels to be automated. In other words, start dealing through communication with tickets as was done back in a days when I started to play this game (2007). We (players) would start to feel more respected and valued with such type of communication.
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Perhaps to remove region restrictions (US, EU, Asia=Korea & Taiwan) for players to join guilds, parties ? Could make impactful positive shift with current playerbase and its numbers.
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Perhaps to place current game visuals into UE5 ? It can still keep intact original way how for e.g. buildings looks, or original magic of maps such as Ashenvale (right palette of colors in combination with right light and shadow etcâŠ). But only do this if you are 100% certain that you can keep original magic of many old (vanilla in particular) content.
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Last but not less important. Take a break with providing new expansions for a year, and use that time to fix all bugs in game like for e.g. :
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broken garrison HS that game kicks you on usage,
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or dialogues at the entering in the Tome of Sargeras between Khadgar, Illidan etc.,
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or many raid scenes not loading after boss fights,
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or all broken NPCs dialogues in for e.g. Legion (Khadgar with other NPCs) or BfA (Magni Bronzebeard and Wrathion),
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or hunters no longer able to obtain toy from BfA for taming Rajani Warserpent (thundering white cloud serpent),
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or broken color textures on some items such as presented sets in Trial of Valor raid after defeating Odyn, etcâŠ
Those are just some of who knows how many bugs there are in game.
So. Those are all ideas I managed to came up with over a period of several months (mostly because have not played WoW much lately)âŠfor now at least.