Hailing from Sentinels many of our roleplayers migrated to Wyrmrest Accord and Moonguard. I never made the jump but from time to time we will have folks from those servers join up with our guild on Sentinels for an event. My guild is a smaller bunch of folks now and we get together now and then as time allows. (Often at a guildie’s garrison). But I do miss the roleplay on Sentinels.
Anyway, I would like many of these things but I am trying not to get my expectations too high. I am trying to be practical with regard to what might actually be feasible. I was going to make a thread speaking more broadly.
I think what many would agree is that we probably aren’t wanting a Garrison 2.0. What I mean by that is…
- A static phased instance of the house/home in one set predetermined place.
- A place that has preset slots that you “fill” again like the garrison.
- Horde/Alliance specific housing centered around one race.
- Limited availability and ridiculously high entry cost i.e. FFXIV. For an apartment in FFXIV it’s like 300,000 gil.
I can’t speak for others of course but I know I would like to see the following.
- locations within the world at large where you can establish your house.
- Racial identity in the architecture of said housing. Nightelfs having nightelf structures, Pandaren more asian flavored, Worgen more victorian, etc. etc. etc. Not that you would be restricted / race locked to those of course.
- freely movable items/decor to let you customize to your hearts content.
- cosmetic housing rewards via in game progression/activities i.e. through trading post, etc.
- ability to expand/upgrade your housing with addons (not the gameplay addons, but like a garage or stable for mounts).
The problem I can see is more of a server issue with regards to how it can handle all that. That’s kind of why I am thinking it’s going to be in a predetermined place. I know Ion I think said they would want movable/editable items rather than slots or they may as well not do it. I don’t want to put words in his mouth and I forget where I saw/read that particular statement. Maybe Preach had it in a Youtube video?
At the end pf the day player housing should like transmog be an expression of the player.
Hoping the Alliance Quel’dorei finally get their own Thalassian architecture that is not branded in the red-and-gold of WoW’s iteration of Silvermoon. (And also utilize this architecture in Quel’Danil among other outposts of relevance.)