What if flowers/herbalism was Seasonal?

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I’m flying around trying to get stuff for Alchem/Inscrip and you can’t help but notice it’s like:

70% Hochen
15% Poppies
11% Saxif
4% Writhe

And traditionally, WoW has always worked like this where there is a “junk” herb/ore, and the useful stuff is all much more rare.

But what if flowers grew in Seasons?

What if, instead of ^^ those stats being static, what if we agree we’re in Fall and Hochen blooms heavy in the Fall.

Hochen = Fall; Write = Winter; Poppies = Spring; Saxif = Summer. So that we’re just about to enter Winter officially and so:

70% Writhe
15% Hochen
11$ Poppies
4% Saxif

This would mean you don’t just have “some junk flower” like Hochen now, but that you’re STOCKING UP for the next season. It also lends itself to a tangible, natural rhythm (although the game is global and I understand the seasons are reversed per equator).

Just trying to think of a way to make the fact there is TOO MUCH HOCHEN/ SEREVITE compared to all the other things I need be an actual, interesting design instead of just frustrating.

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That’d be hard.

Imagine having the resultant crafted items significantly impacted by the seasons.

Certainly a cool concept but people can atleast adjust to a set scarcity.

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Not really.

I think there are battle pets that only spawn in the rain, for example.

They could make herbs seasonal, I think it would be an interesting touch.

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Yeah on the surface I like the idea a lot. Esp since there are FOUR FLOWERS. It lends itself to the idea without even having to do anything.

But I haven’t put any thought into it. Just thought I’d throw it out to the sharks here and let them hate on it. :wink:

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I got no problem with Blizzard adding a more realistic weather and season system. Not sure I would want that over new content, but it would look cool. As for changing the pattern on herb rarity I only see that being an over complicated mess on the market.

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Piddy battle pets aren’t used to craft progression items and regular use consumables.

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It’s only a problem for people who speculate/ play the spreadsheet.

You can’t imagine just how little I care about them.

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There are already seasonal fish since vanilla so this wouldnt be a stretch.

I’d make it so each flower can grow in 2 seasons and stagger such as flower A spring/summer, flower B summer/autumn, flower C autumn/winter, flower D winter/spring.

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It’s not just about you, those with spreadsheets have equal right to play

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And they still would. This doesn’t PREVENT anything from them. gg

Said another way: It makes degenerate gameplay harder. And… I’m fine with that.

edit to add: I also disagree that it would, in any way, negatively impact ANYONE. But “if it did” impact degens… I’m fine with that.

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indeed they’re not. They’d ideally make the crafting system more robust “Potion X requires 10 of these or 20 of those” or something like that. Or they just make them more rare. “In zone Q, Purple Flowers are 75% of the nodes and White Orchids are 25%. As the seasons change, that ratio shifts until winter when it’s fully reversed.”

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I could get behind that.

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You’re just tossing personal opinions about how others play the game now, you might want to stick with talking about your topic of seasons. If those degenerates as you call them didn’t get rich playing the market who would buy your tokens? Blizzard is not gonna give you gold.

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Great idea actually.

Would add some depth to the game.

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I don’t buy Tokens, it doesn’t affect me. I don’t care about the degens taking over this game. The game is better without them.

If you want me to stick to the topic of this post, follow your own advice.

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I did…

I barely even talk about the market but that’s all you took from my first post

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A lot of gold to be had a month before season change.

Maybe have rolling rarity on herbs. So everything can spawn its just rare in one season and common in the next.

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For ANYONE. Not just spreadsheet players. That’s why my greater point is: it doesn’t affect them, or anyone, negatively. It’s just a neat idea.

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It would benefit them even more as it complicates it for everyone else, duh.

But seasons are cool, I like them, I live in a state with a perfect balance of each season. If Blizzard did go that far it would be cool if various part of the world or worlds in this case had their own climate, effecting herbs and maybe even more like flying in bad weather effects and so on.

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Instead of seasonal, because the expansion is usually only two years. Having a “season” be different every week could work or maybe every day.

Cool idea