Regardless, like I said, it can still be lucrative. Because people miss out on stuff that ends up on the store. And it’d be even more for Blizz that gives gold for real life money.
NOT Garrisons… NOT Garrisons… Not Garrisons. That’s not Housing. That’s an instanced NPC town you can move building plots around… o.o
Literally just copy & paste ESO’s Housing System into WoW, minus the microtransactions.
Also give a house Hearthstone, and put it out into the world like ESO does. It brings value to the world again. If you have a house in the Barrens, if you hearth there and leave the house then you’ll be in the Barrens… If you own other houses, you can’t hearth to them. Only set at one house.
If people want to visit your house, you can earn some kind of big item that’s craftable that lets people teleport to your house via some kind of classic meeting stone system/Warlock summon.
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My wish list
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Instanced Housing. Set your house in any capital city you want. Kinda like apartments or a few can be actual land like Garrisons but would have to be phased for your house how like Garrisons when you enter them. I don’t expect every single individual zone in the game to have a spot for housing, just capital cities would be fine at least.
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100% cosmetic only housing. One thing that killed Garrisons was adding conveniences to them. Actual housing should be cosmetic only and allow for full customization if the inside.
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Either create a new secondary profession or building into existing professions the ability to craft decorations, furniture, etc.
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Decorations can be made by professions, bought from vendors either rep tied or not or drops from dungeons, raids, PvP, etc. Also allow them to be sold on the AH.
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Guild houses and the option to invite people to your specific house or kick them if they are being unruly.
One MMO that I like how they do housing is Swtor. Just no microtransactions involved.
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Great opportunity to add carpenter as a new profession. Other decorations can be spread out across the various professions. For example, alchemy could “craft” a bunch of plant-related housing decor. Jewelcrafting could create windows and various doodads and such. Etc.
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I agree to a point.
We already have mounts that have vendors and repair on them, so it literally won’t be game-breaking to include some conveniences or cool features. In fact I think the opposite almost. It would be cool if your house has some advantages to using it beyond just a pure cosmetic thing.
NEVER power advantage nor a direct advantage that doesn’t exist already in the game. My rule is that if the convenience already exists on a mount and/or is a non-issue, then it should be allowed in the house.
Having a teleport room in your home is kind of game-breaking. I disagree with that.
A vendor that repairs? I mean come on… Why not?
That is the biggest plus because professions need a boon. It could help breathe life into a couple aspects at least. And they could make it so you have to have a deed in order for certain things to drop, so that people that don’t want housing or craft items for housing don’t have to be bothered.
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It would make every Herb from Herbalism have value instantly. Everyone could buy pots and place any herb in them. Most would just buy them out of convenience. There could be old-items reused from every profession and every profession could make things.
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Gathering professions would just provide mats for your house while Herbalism directly would provide herbs you could use for gardens/pots in your house.
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Equipment Crafting professions could provide items that can be placed inside your house or onto walls, furniture, and racks etc.
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General item/other Crafting professions would provide certain features or perhaps flavor your house in some way. Not sure how Enchanting could provide direct sale-value to items in a house.
A new profession would be awesome too, carpentry clearly. Easy way to make some cool furniture.
Could be called Woodworking and just be a new profession even outside of housing.
You could make bows, collect sap as a new ingredient for some professions, and do more. Mostly a housing benefit but every profession provides some kind of utility for endgame so this could have some kind of power-utility that any class could use.
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I would love to basically have exactly what FF14 has, but they would be instanced the way garrisons were so everyone could have one and the base house was free. Of course houses and items would reflect how WoW looks. I also think it would be cool to pick house models that represented WoW races and maybe even zones.
All the customization could come from crafting, quest rewards, drops from different content, bought from rep vendors, achievements, ect. Possibilities are endless. I personally would spend sooooo much time on housing if they did it.
For once we’d get a profession instead of them deleting or stopping them (first aid and archaeology).
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I think for me to really get into it it would need to not be instanced. Meaning, there would be “town” areas where people built their houses, etc, and they’d just be part of the open world, maybe even vulnerable to attack at times. Maybe people can choose whether to lock their doors so strangers might pop in. One door per town that everyone uses and just instances, that’s whack and I have zero interest in doing anything with that kind of setup.
Nothing unimmersed me in EQ2 like every single person using the same instance door for their house. It’s like, what’s the point of owning property in the game if you don’t actually have anything except for when you’re actually in your little room or whatever? Sparse is a word that comes to mind.
During the holidays, I bought this bundle on LoTRO store that gave me (among a ton of other things) a bunch of these Coins that lets you buy premium housing in Rohan, Gondor and soon in the Lonely Mountain (as opposed to the more pedestrian housing options in Bree, The Shire and Ered Luin).
I bought a house in Rohan that has a wide view of the plains and overlooks Edoras and the Golden Hall. Nice spot. I had eleven years of decorations stashed in one of my mule’s banks so I used all of it to decorate my yard and my house with banners, towers, lawn fountains, dungeon and raid trophies. And it was fun for like…a day or two. Now it basically serves as an extra storage chest and an extra milestone with access to a wide-reaching stable master.
Like half of the homes in my neighborhood have the balrog sword on display in their yards or pool with tentacles from the Watcher. They all look the same.
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I liked the phased in-world method used for the Pandaria farm: you just walk along and seemlessly pass into your own private phase. I’d prefer to have more customization rather than just unlocking a set of fixed decorations, but it’s probably too much to dream of full Ultima-Online style mini-sims home construction.
In theory, this concept could be used to create neighborhoods where you would have a collection of farm/home plots on a map and you could define a “neighbors list” for the other plots, defining which players out of all the ones who build on that plot you see phased into your view of the world. This could let players with specialized infrastructure built up feel like useful parts of the community.
You could have randomly rotating daily neighbors for variety/introductions or fixed friends lists for stable communities or friends-and-enemies phasing for impromptu PvP battlefields (not that I want this for myself, but putting the concept out there).
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One feature I really enjoy in ESO houses is the ability to teleport to them from anywhere at any time, with no hearthstone cooldowns. As long as they are near the portal hub, bank, auctioneers, and merchants.
i.e the housing instance connects to somewhere inside of Stormwind, not somewhere a ways away like Westfall or something.
that is 100% false since most of the upgrades were on a timer
I wasn’t saying you had be in them every second. Just that they were the primary focus of progression. There wasn’t much to the expac outside of that.
People are suggesting housing being completely optional.
my argument still stands.
Ok, but that’s not what we were talking about.
then why did you reply to my comment to someone elses points lol?
Have you paid attention to the general discussion on housing at all?
have i been reading this topic? no.
i read as far as my op’s quoted post.