100% this. We need races to feel attached to their homes, like for me, it would be something Gilnean, and my Gnome would have something specifically Gnome. Pandaren would have some cool options as well.
I want my WoW house to be similar to my FF14 house: mostly empty and devoid of anything remotely close to “style.”
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I am hoping they give us a “purchasable plot” in places like Valley of the Four Winds, Grizzly Hills, Duskwood, Elwynn, Eversong… like zones where you see cottages, huts, and buildings every so often.
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I mean, you play a human rogue… I can see where that fits thematically.
All I ask is it be instanced housing. Preferably similar to ESO, where we’ve multiple housing options across the game world, all accessible via their own shared entryway that players can access from.
Do not do the limited housing slots/neighborhood systems of FFXIV and LotRO, please. I will even take something more basic in terms of placement options (or snap-to hooks like in LotRO), so long as it is not instanced and not artificially scarce.
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Lol
Are you one of those guys that have a mattress and tv on the floor and a folding chair in the corner, and PREFER it that way?
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I’m familiar with housing from LotRO and ESO. I can respect the appeal of instanced neighborhoods for the sake of having neighbors, though it must not be limited if that’s the direction WoW goes. I think I prefer the style of ESO and being allowed to own multiple instanced housing options at once, allowing for me to work towards collecting them over time, and also allowing for new options to be released alongside new zones. Let me have a small apartment in Orgrimmar, a house in Silvermoon, and a summer cottage in Suramar. Let my death knight have a room in Acherus and a cabin in the Plaguelands.
In ESO the player is given a free room in an inn as part of their introduction to the housing system. Something similar would work nicely for WoW; just give everyone something small as a reward for a short quest introducing the system, and then the player can choose if they want to engage with it further or ignore it.
Allow professions to craft decorations! This is common in other MMOs that have housing, and it gives professions something evergreen to make and sell. Have decoration options be something collected similar to transmog or toys, so that we don’t have to fill up our bags with items.
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Mostly it’s the ability to create pretty much any kind of structure you wanted and were not limited to only a few options for house. You were able to make anything from a crashed spaceship to a vast tower and all sorts of crazy stuff between.
I’d like to see account wide template selections based on the races which you have leveled to 50 (Heritage armor rules).
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Its just gunna be old org and stormwind with nothing in them and plots cost 3 tokens each
Here are a few thoughts. These should be less than controversial. I can’t see why anyone wouldn’t want this.
- Housing shouldn’t be gated behind a long quest. Something like the campaign quest we had in TWW would be fine.
- Once the campaign was done, then there could be an exploration requirement. You know, where you have to open up the entire map. Sort of like ‘shopping around’ for a good location.
- Each season would open up a new house and plot of land. Season One would be something reasonable. Like what the Murlocs have in Southshore. Season Two brings another questline, but an upgrade! Say like the Centaur have in DF. Nice and cozy upgrade from the Murloc ‘huts on sticks’.
- You shouldn’t be able to ‘buy’ a house on the cash shop. Just upgrade it. So you could go right from ‘huts on sticks’ to ‘Country Manor’. I’m not saying it would have to be ‘Country Manor’. It could be ‘My very own Limb of the World Tree’ or something.
- Cash shop homes would allow for a greater level and longer lasting rested XP buff that would only take half the time to build up.
- Cash shop homes wouldn’t give any kind of profession bonus, but vendors with all crafting materials would be there. But they wouldn’t sell ‘player gathered’ items.
- For that, you’d need to zip over to the AH robot, using your Mini-D.R.I.V.E. golf cart.
- Be careful not to bump into the profession tables and trainers!
- Mail service would of course be available.
- Cooking would be the ONLY profession not supported in homes. If you want food, you will need to sit in your dining area and a vendor will appear with a menu. Eat in or order take out for your raid.
These are just some starter thoughts. I think there’s room for training dummies that drop difficulty appropriate gear. A portal room. Access to all world channels. Just basic stuff. These would ALL be obtainable just by playing the game, just faster if you go through the cash shop. Nothing pay-to-win though.
And maybe buffs like plus 10% to certain stats. For doing a minigame in your home. They would work like flasks do but they wouldn’t count as flasks. Like a world buff does but lasting through death so some dork in war mode doesn’t ruin your day when you’re just minding your own business getting fat XP bonuses or sparks or whatnot.
Anyway, just some thoughts.
Oh, and a Trading Post. Should be a Trading Post ‘outlet store’ nearby. Something you could just hop in your Mini-D.R.I.V.E. and head over to if you get the urge.
Okay that’s it.
Maybe a disco.
Cash shop should be cosmetic furnishings only, and tradeable/sellable on the AH. As for “unlocking” a home, it should be as simple as possible. We’ve been waiting 20 years, we do not need some 60 quest opener like WoD to get the Garrison. 5-10 steps MAX.
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OKAY! OKAY! But what about my other super good ideas?
Personal opinions:
Similar to Eso, instanced and allowing visitors.
1/ custom placement ability.
2/ variety of houses available both in game (quests/gold) and in shop.
3/ furnishings etc available through expansion of existing crafts, drops and in shop.
No problem with cash shop as long as there are also versions available in game.
Would not mind seeing a “hitching post” outside where I can park Invincible.
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Both.
Yes, I will be decorating it.
Pick from any race. Got a bad feeling, based off of Orgrimmar, that they will do us Goblins dirty again. Goblins love living it up in luxury, not in an oil spill.
Something like that is reasonable.
Sky Boxes.
We had a STABLE in the garrison… a “hitching post” is already a toy. I’s not impossible. We’ll be lucky if we get anything more than a phased apartment in Stormwind.
Oh much like the garrisons, it will be 10 or 12 quests, and you’ll get the basic house.
If you want more - oh yea, that is gonna cost you money (via tokens or cash shop) or grind grind grind. Think of it like Farmville but in this case wowville.
You can grind grind grind for your household items or swipe and buy (with FOMO added in for fun).