I’ve seen a lot of players wanting functionality (crafting, mining, herbs, garrison type stuff) claiming they would use their house more.
I disagree. I’ve played several ‘decor’ games, and I will 100% use my house more if I can build and decorate it the way I’d like and envision, over having a bunch of random crafting tables and a herb garden.
Give me more things to build with that are not going to take a boatload of glitching and hours, and I’ll stay in my house for hours. Give us more ‘kitchen’ stuff, more ‘bathroom’ stuff and more ‘clutter’ objects not tied to ridiculously small collabs with brands that are gone before the vast majority of players hear about them (looking at you, Fanta promo).
Give us the items to make it feel like a HOME and not a museum and make it so it doesn’t take hours to collect/craft these items and I guarantee more people will hang out in them.
I think think that there is a problem with the number of people playing with housing. Plenty are at it right now.
But I agree about gathering, it is designed to be in a zone with mobs to fight and interesting things to see. And, if I think about it, I AM growing herbs – but in my garrison for dye pigments.
That’s fine if all you need is decor. You and I are not the same person.
If they ever implement gardening or whatever you want to call it and other interactivity then by all means feel free to ignore it and keep on decorating.
Obviously Blizzard isn’t going to roll out decor faster than they currently are, but I’m sure you’ll be getting more decor as the years go by.
Housing zones were never to have combat. Full stop.
But my main frustration and a lot of the frustration I’m seeing on other threads is that we don’t have enough ‘stuff’….they put all this effort into Prey statues and things that would only fit very niche housing builds and not enough general items. And that is keeping a lot of people out of the houses on the regular.
I absolutely do not want Garrisons 2.0 with profession mechanics. I want more decor, I want the warband reps finished so I can get more decor, did I mention I want more decor?
I also want the other races houses as well, and facades for us who do not want to be whaled.
I do think we need to find a middle ground between garrison and housing.
Like I can go to my garrison and see my pets roam around and I can see my mounts hanging out in the stable and NPCs I recruit just roam around and talk at me and I can throw up holiday decor and it’s a vibe and it’s a great place to AFK at.
With housing there’s more freedom to decorate my plot and make it look how I want but then at the end of the day the house is just empty. Like over on FFXIV I can chill in my house and listen to music I’ve obtained in game or go out and catch some fish and display them in my fishtank. Heck I can place some vendor NPCs around my house so it feels more alive.
see, I love the idea of having a pet or two, or how many ever roaming around in the house. And yes please to the music (the garrison music player was woefully underused, imo), but I do not want 5 crafting hubs, an AH, a mine and a herb spot. I do like the idea of an aquarium though
Garrison profession mechanics are very different than a crafting table. Which by the way would double as decor much like the cooking tables allow for you cook at. As it stands now you could put a tailoring table down but if you are not a tailor it is just decor. That is how crafting tables work.
Blizzard could remove the order system from decor tables as well. The thing is you can craft in your home now up to Shadowlands. You only cannot craft Dragon Flight, TWW and current xp items. If you never pick your garden it is just decor. I would like to see more decor that do something. I want my house to feel like going into the Arcantina. You can play with the games on the table. Pick up drinks, food or a torch if you want. Have a music box where people can come in and pick the songs that are playing in that room.
Fear of Garrisons 2.0 only work if Blizzard stops pumping out content for Midnight and they give us mission tables that rain gold. The lack of content for WoD plus the ease of gold and items from the Garrison made it what it was.
There will always be a group of players in an MMO that don’t actually want to see other players. i have a guildie that still, to this day, leaves his garrison only to raid and do m+. he mass crafts like once a month, but otherwise spends hours in his garrison. I know everyone plays differently but sometimes I feel like these players would likely have more fun in a different game that focuses more on the aspects of WoW they do enjoy.
i’m already pretty jaded on housing, but I will die on the hill of housing and utility being kept a fair bit apart. Honestly, we have enough collectibles and consumables that make the house almost a major city anyway. They don’t really need to add anything.
I would love to have decor crafting at my house, since that is where most items are used by me. I seldom can afford to make anything for sale, as the mats are so so so expensive, and the items seldom sell at the AH. And the Midnight recipe drops are so rare as to be almost non-existent. But that’s another story…
I don’t think your opinion is unpopular in the slightest. We simply do not agree on the point of crafting tables. I do not care if there would be herbs to pick or a mine, as I would not use those things.
Exactly why I would like crafting table function ability added to my decor.
This is not like the garrison. Garrisons were the central part of WoD expansion and you were required to level them. Please stop equating crafting tables to garrison 2.0. Housing is not forced and I can’t even imagine how that would even look.
There’s no reason we can’t have some degree of both. Minor functionality like a crafting table would make sense, but I can see something like a herb garden being problematic (as much as I would personally enjoy that). Anything functional shouldn’t feel mandatory or better than the standard way of doing X in game.
As for more “regular” decor pieces, I’m 100% on board with that. We have an awful lot of very niche pieces and not very many just, like, standard/“boring” decor pieces that could work for a whole bunch of different themes and purposes rather than suiting one specific aesthetic. I’d love to see more building-type materials like beams and stones, clutter items, etc. Not all stuff tied to a specific race or theme.
Roughly 80% of the decor in the game doesn’t really interest me because it’s so hyper specific and not at all versatile… I mean wtf am I going to do with 100 prey effigies or another great big gnomish robot or tiki mask? The most popular and sought-after items are ones that can be customized and used in a myriad of ways. Things like books, trellises, candles, string lights, and so on. It would be nice to have more basics like that.
Definitely more basic stuff would be very appreciated. I listed these in the decor mega thread.
Truth be told, I’m absolutely delighted that we have to go back into older content to unlock a lot of these things, but there’s not a lot of the little things. And I agree with you, the prey effigies are a bit weird but I use them as counter decor. Or decor for my bookshelf. I shrink them. Just an idea.
Like, plates/tableware, silverware bundles, folded (or unfolded!) towels, pianos, chess boards, functional games, brushes/combs/bathroom items, blankets that are left lying around (as if we just unwrapped ourselves from them on the couch or floor), and so on. I would love to see a record player like what is in the BFA hunting area (where folks are dancing), and we could earn music to play. I would love to see picture frames that I could put on an end table or dresser.
In real life, after spending a full day doing graphic design, the last thing I want to do when I arrive home in the evening is to work on more design projects. My home is my safe place to relax, and forget the troubles of the day.
I envision my house in the game in this same way. It is my safe place, a place to forget about character progression and professions. A place to relax and to focus on something completely different.
If the community in general wants crafting tables in their home, that’s okay. But my hope is that the ones out in the world will remain, and the one in your home isn’t your only choice, or in other words, becomes required. As in real life, if I need to craft, I will go out into the world to do that. When I arrive home, I don’t want to be thinking about crafting and character progression or anything else. I just want to focus on my home.
I craft. I have an entire room in my home, IRL, dedicated to crafting. That’s my safe space and I’d like to see something comparable I’m my WoW housing.
Just like having a stable for all of my favorite mounts… like having a garage.
I would never want to take away something from the rest of the WoW world in order to have it in housing. That would be monumentally selfish, but I don’t think I’ve seen that suggested. What has been suggested is to have some more functionality in housing…or at least the option.
The endeavor I currently have in my guild neighborhood has several dailies. It’s great. It’s gotten us to go around the neighborhood, again…since the initial decor treasure hunts.
There’s still going to be the holdouts, who want nothing to do with housing. I wish they would, but I get it. Housing isn’t for everyone. However, for those who do frequent housing and spend a lot of time building and rebuilding… functionality would be appreciated.
Not expecting blizz to never implement crafting tables and the like in housing, I just want to see them focus on actual, useable decor first that we don’t have to get by repurposing and glitching other things. And have those items be relatively easy and inexpensive to acquire.
goes back to weeping and smashing her head on the desk after looking at what its going to take to level my long ignored inscriptionist
I honestly love the repurposing of other decor. It’s interesting to see what people have come up with with repurposing stuff. I just watched a video of someone making a picture of a pug. It was remarkable.
I also saw a minimalist house.
I understand the want for more usable decor, but let your freak flag fly and play.