This just popped into my head about an hour ago honestly. So it’s a little rough. But this is what I got so far.
Would like to see an actual PvP questing experience added for PvP via battlegrounds. Could easily use the existing factions for current battlegrounds & add factions to the ones that don’t have any to created a questing campaign. Quests with objectives, tasks, & story. The quests and story don’t even have to be that elaborate or involved, more like achievements are right now but adjusted for each BG. Not like some of the current quests in say AV like " Go collect 5 rams" or something. Quests that involve actual PvP objectives in the battlegrounds.
Could actually be an insane way to keep the MMO in PvP but also give a leveling experience entirely for PvP if a player wanted to go that route. Would be insane to see factions like Stormpike Guard, League of Arathor, Warsong Outriders etc etc with cool story in game.
Things like the long forgotten Dueler’s Guild, Warfronts and PvP islands could all be incorporated into this. I feel like it has so many possibilities. Could even bring in the possibility for more AI type encounters at lower levels to help introduce new players to PvP.
This would be something that is a leveling experience only and not something that could be party sync’d. At least the leveling rewards anyway. The only thing that could carry over in to max level BGs could be the rep for each faction.
Going to be upfront, arena could be involved in this in some way but honestly I think arena should be kept as the end game competitive mode. Could maybe have a few things involving skirmishes against players or AI but nothing to involved.
What are your thoughts/ideas? I really feel like this could have a big potential to do a lot for PvP, and give PvP it’s own story at the same time.
Hard no. I pvp to pvp. And I don’t want my team doing dumb things in bgs cause they “have a quest”. This would irritate pvpers and incentivise more people that don’t inherently like pvp polluting BGs with thier bare minimum participation.
Perhaps this sounded neat in your head but leave the rest of us out of it. Pvp doesn’t need a ‘story’ like pve does. Pvp needs players killing other players and doing what it takes to win.
I feel like you are equating this to the current quests that are in the game for BGs like for AV. They don’t have to be “side” quests. Could be things like x amount of kills in this BG etc. Or just Winning 5 ABs. This wouldn’t be “go collect 5 rams” or something.
As a PvPer and someone that does little to no PvE, this would only serve as a leveling thing, not an end game thing. The quest are story is there, but it’s not like you even have to read it to do the quests.
The insignia is just a toy you can get from the vendor at the start now lol. But lots of people did that back in the day for the Rep. Either way those are the OLD quests, and a lot of people didn’t even do them until max level to begin with. This is all a leveling mechanic, not something you do at level max level.
Ya this response was kind of perplexing to me. At max leveling players going of and doing the ram quests etc is kind of annoying, but BGs right now are already objective based, some more than others. There are already achievements tied to it. Just turn those into some sort of quests.
You pay for your account, you mean to tell me you listen to a bunch of jerks telling you anything, from a game filled with loud mouth 13 year olds? Really?
Would be cool but I already on alts kind of do this without a quest driven experience, but a max honor one.
When I level an alt, I roam around the wilds getting bloody coins where possible, doing the sparks quest (but not turning it in to avoid losing out on conquest at 70) and of course random BGS. Oh and maybe prepare mats for a few crafted items too though unlike season one you can’t do it all until 70s. (Sparks.)
While it’s not actually something immersive it’s goal driven and you ding 70 and are geared a bit
I find it a great experience since at the very least, I reap the rewards at 70 and get some basic immersion in the class/spec if I am not familiar with it already or haven’t played it recently.
