Ratwarlock’s Wish List (Ideas for Improving the Game)

14 06 2008

The WISH LIST — UPDATED 9.11.09

In no particular order.  Things I would like to see implemented or changed in the game (and as they are changed, I cross them out!)

Racial, gender, and/or class-based emotes, particularly /dance and /sit

More “matched sets” of collectible / quested armor

NPC’s that “direct” players in quest progression from one logical zone to the next

Level 40+ Dungeon Accessibility / Zone Revamps

Update!  EVERFROST has been revamped!
Update!  LAVASTORM has been revamped!

Thoughts:

  • thin out mob populations
  • add in visual cues, like signposts, to help new players navigate to these awesome dungeons
  • mob are tuned for solo or duo players (with some sprinkled in heroic or named)
  • certain if the overland sections remain heroic exclusively, but somewhat off the beaten path
  • update the quest lines and streamline the preogression
  • increase XP for these areas since they are extra challenging

Upgrade / Revamp the Old World Dungeons and Zones from 35-50!

These zones and dungeons are in BAD need of new content, quest lines, quest hubs, solo friendly progression paths, new group challenges and contested mobs, and all around re-itemization of quest reward vs. risk!

  • Feerott
  • Everfrost DONE
  • Lavastorm DONE
  • Permafrost
  • Solusek Eye
  • Cazic Thule
  • Obelisk of Lost Souls
  • Tower of the Drafling
  • Rivervale

Cloth Armor Diversity
UPDATE!  Crafted Cloth and Leather appearances will be changing in GU48

DoT Icons Have a Visual Cue when DoT Expires (Most Desired)
All icons refresh after the recast is over — but how about adding a visual cue to the DoT/HoT icons so the player looking at their hotbar can easily distinguish when to re-cast the DoT.  Many DoT’s expire on an entirely different timer than the recast itself.  I realize this infringes on maintaining an element “player skill” but I also think it would be a welcome change from having to sort the mess that is the Spell Status window – particularly in raids or groups.

Auto-Loot When Solo (Most Desired)

Journal/Tracker Locks on Current Selected Quest (Most Desired)
or Can Show in Tracker More than One Quest at a Time

When Auto-Assisting via Implied Target (ie Assisting the MT/MA by Targeting Him) a Numeric Indicator Shows the Number of Mobs in the Selected Encouter (Super Most Desired)

No Placeholders!
Update! GU 53 will contain many changes in this regard.

All-In-One Status Buyers In Every City, Central Hubs
Update! Guild Hall merchants will buy all types.

Increase Reward / Stats on Heritage Quests in the Old World

Make belts visible!

Add various color light-sources to more gear!

Remodel the griffon towers!
First of all, a SINGLE, gradient ramp.  None of this 180-degree turning on a narrow little ramp (and twice, at that!).  The ramp should be big and wide and the bottom and go straight up to the perch, narrowing as it rises.  The “tower” can actually be designed to look like a windmill, with the perch sitting at the top, just under the spindle, and this would make perfect sense in places like Thunderring Steppes, Antonica, and the Commonlands.  The color scheme should be much brighter, reds and whites, or yellows, blues … anything other than the boring, bland brown.  EQ2 has WAY too much brown as it is!  ‘World of Brownquest,’ indeed!

Lizard mounts to run through the Feerott!
Because how friggin cool would that be!?

Looking for Guild tool! (Most Desired!)
I would love a tool that allows me to advertise:

  • what type of guild I want to join
  • playstyle of guild
  • my general playtime hours

This would help everyone and people would be more likely to find what they want / recruit whom they want.

Dungeons for the 70-77 range!
Because soloing 400 quests in Kunark makes me a sad panda.


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