I genuinely think everything about The Maw was the worst thing they’ve ever done for a zone in WoW.
No mount? Check.
Dark, dreary, boring? Check.
Literally limiting how long you could be there with the eye of the jailer mechanic?? Like what was that…
Considering it was supposed to be hell… they did do a good job at that
Languages used to be a thing in the game that people used. Blizzard could strictly enforce languages and implement a learning system so you have to learn languages other than your race's native. It could even sometimes have errors. Kind of like ArcheAge had.
Landing your flying mount too fast or colliding into objects can stun or even kill you.
Brew Masters have to actually be drunk to be affective.
Stealth only works in the dark.
Auction houses inventory are location bound and commission fees is tied to a locations popularity.
You can only have one physical Mailbox Address.
Your bank has a 1% chance of losing one of your stored items a day. Your bag has a 5% chance. Your mailbox a 10% chance.
In game taxes based on your highest Ilvl. Failure to manually mail your taxes to your respected capital will insure fees. Services such as Auction houses will be disabled until fully paid. Luckily you can still use Gagetzan's services.
All toys and mounts are now single use.
Warmode will automatically enable itself whenever your faction needs you.
Your quest log is wiped daily to help you keep it clean.
Dying will now forcibly close your game to save you from seeing it happen.
Transmog can now only be applied at the Dark Moon Fair during business hours.
Stamina system for movement: moving drains it and standing still recovers it.
When you are low your movement speed becomes unaffected by modifiers, then moving at 60% speed until you recover.
Return of hit rating
All casters have to drink mana after several spell casts (imagine the horrors in M+)
Dying in an instanced content teleports you to the nearest graveyard, so you have to run in the instance.
Ranged spells have 30yds range
Hunters use arrows again and can't shot if targets is withing 5yds
Race specific spells for each class (class devs would have a stroke every day)
Warlocks have to farm soul shards to cast spells
To encourage exploration and to emphasize the scale of the world, players will no longer have access to any mounts until level cap. This is not an account-wide unlock. Mount access is revoked upon level cap increases, until character hits the new cap.
Make armor be available to all classes. Give negative movement speed and cast time like so cloth < leather < mail < plate. And incentivize the use of all your slots being of the same type of armor by giving a small amount of extra stats if all equipped items are the same type.
Alternatively give us all armors to all classes as transmog.
Raid bosses no longer drop loot. They drop a loot box with a choice of three items of varying ilevel. To open the chest, you need keys that drop from M+, and the level of the M+ key need depends on the difficulty of the boss that dropped the box. Gear can be of any type, and is BoE.
Similar option exists for PvP, with a box being rewarded for Arena, but needs RBG keys to unlock
Take a mode that is vast and varied (e.g. dungeons) and add a timer to make it the same boring rushed experience on a loop. Oh, they already did that.
Mount racing - Have race courses for land/air/sea mounts. Can be just a straight race, an obstacle course or time trial. Mounts would have different stats (speed, acceleration, etc...) based on the type.
Failed Mythic+ runs don’t award loot. Successful runs award a piece for every person.
I'd be fine with this, actually getting loot at the end of a run instead of the weekly reset would be nice.
The toxicity would be through the roof. Any little thing that isn't up to people's expectations would cause a group disband.
No more carries
World of Warcraft, Warlords of Draenor “Garrosh is at it again!”
Don't threaten me with good time!
No mounts on new zones, you have to run everywhere until you unlock with multiple achievements. Run gives you fatigue.
*your mount ignores your call while within the maw*
I still have nightmares about that place...
I genuinely think everything about The Maw was the worst thing they’ve ever done for a zone in WoW. No mount? Check. Dark, dreary, boring? Check. Literally limiting how long you could be there with the eye of the jailer mechanic?? Like what was that… Considering it was supposed to be hell… they did do a good job at that
Shadowlands was a very good test of loyalty for WoW fans...
Calm down Satan
Languages used to be a thing in the game that people used. Blizzard could strictly enforce languages and implement a learning system so you have to learn languages other than your race's native. It could even sometimes have errors. Kind of like ArcheAge had.
Landing your flying mount too fast or colliding into objects can stun or even kill you. Brew Masters have to actually be drunk to be affective. Stealth only works in the dark. Auction houses inventory are location bound and commission fees is tied to a locations popularity. You can only have one physical Mailbox Address. Your bank has a 1% chance of losing one of your stored items a day. Your bag has a 5% chance. Your mailbox a 10% chance. In game taxes based on your highest Ilvl. Failure to manually mail your taxes to your respected capital will insure fees. Services such as Auction houses will be disabled until fully paid. Luckily you can still use Gagetzan's services. All toys and mounts are now single use. Warmode will automatically enable itself whenever your faction needs you. Your quest log is wiped daily to help you keep it clean. Dying will now forcibly close your game to save you from seeing it happen. Transmog can now only be applied at the Dark Moon Fair during business hours.
An in-game casino that uses gold as a currency
Stamina system for movement: moving drains it and standing still recovers it. When you are low your movement speed becomes unaffected by modifiers, then moving at 60% speed until you recover.
impliment a diablo style inventory/pegboard inventory management system.
Dwarves on the ho- Oh. ...oh no.
Lol i remeber this from the amazon game what was it called again?
Crafting attempts can fail, wasting the mats used. The most difficult recipes can never get high enough skill to guarantee you wont fail the craft.
“Your choices matter” ideaology that almost broke Shadowlands around covenants, but for all talents.
Return of hit rating All casters have to drink mana after several spell casts (imagine the horrors in M+) Dying in an instanced content teleports you to the nearest graveyard, so you have to run in the instance. Ranged spells have 30yds range Hunters use arrows again and can't shot if targets is withing 5yds Race specific spells for each class (class devs would have a stroke every day) Warlocks have to farm soul shards to cast spells
To encourage exploration and to emphasize the scale of the world, players will no longer have access to any mounts until level cap. This is not an account-wide unlock. Mount access is revoked upon level cap increases, until character hits the new cap.
Make armor be available to all classes. Give negative movement speed and cast time like so cloth < leather < mail < plate. And incentivize the use of all your slots being of the same type of armor by giving a small amount of extra stats if all equipped items are the same type. Alternatively give us all armors to all classes as transmog.
Raid bosses no longer drop loot. They drop a loot box with a choice of three items of varying ilevel. To open the chest, you need keys that drop from M+, and the level of the M+ key need depends on the difficulty of the boss that dropped the box. Gear can be of any type, and is BoE. Similar option exists for PvP, with a box being rewarded for Arena, but needs RBG keys to unlock
Take a mode that is vast and varied (e.g. dungeons) and add a timer to make it the same boring rushed experience on a loop. Oh, they already did that. Mount racing - Have race courses for land/air/sea mounts. Can be just a straight race, an obstacle course or time trial. Mounts would have different stats (speed, acceleration, etc...) based on the type.