It is Smoke again and, as you can see I made a whole new post about this suggestion instead of putting it into my old one. The reason for this is that the topic I'm about to address is so big, that it would mess the other post up completely.
So, let me introduce you to *drumroll*:
The Smolderforge Major Questline
What is this about?
It basically is an extremely long Questline, which only the most dedicated players could reach the end. It should involve everything there is: PvP, PvE, Questing (like, duh!), Farming, Events, Grinding (yea, kinda like the HWL/GM grind back in vanilla) etc.
Certain Titles, Items & Pets as rewards will show how far someone is in that Questline, which becomes increasingly more difficult and in the end could lead to Raiding the scripted BT or else.
Why would someone do that Questline?
There are several reasons. First, there is the rewards. The rewards on this epic Questline obviously would have to be epic or more than that. Very rare pets, titles, Items like Warglaives etc. as a reachable goal would have a lot of people do that questline. In addition it gives the players, who already reached their top gear, new things to do.
Why have that Questline in the first place?
The main reason is, obviously to widen the horizon of this server. This brings a lot of game aspects with it. As the Questline will involve PvE & PvP, Players are encouraged to do these. We could have more Players doing raids like Karazhan or Scarlett Citadel. Even more, it gives players new goals to strive for.
Basic Concept Ideas
Summary
- Have a Fraction for that Questline
- Reputation Rewards (T6 Equivalent)
- Dailies to slowly increase Reputation (like real slow)
Having a Faction for this Questline & the Dailies would provide us with the opportunity of having Reputation rewards. It also has to be a faction, that both, Horde & Alliance can farm reputation with, so that they can get the same rewards. I thought, that Cenarion Expedition would be the perfect Faction. They mostly are Taurens and Nightelves and are spread throughout all of Azeroth and former Draenor (it is Outland now). Cenarion Expedition also has this theme coming with them: show love towards nature and defeat all of nature's enemies. The setting is mostly in a forest (except in Silithus of course).
Cenarion Expedition fight the enemies of nature. Among these are Nagas and Demons with their fell machinery. This would link to the Black Temple, whose fall could be one of the major goals (and one of the things the players would work for).
In all of the following ideas I'll use Cenarion Expedition (CE) as the Faction.
Area
There is a couple of places that CE is actually working in. The most well known is probably Silithus, where they fight the dangers of Ahn'quiraj. Yet, somehow I believe that Silithus does not cut it. Even though it has this implemented PvP System, it bugs me that there is only one City which the factions would have to share.
Therefor I suggest to use Feralas. It has an Alliance City on an Island in the West and a Horde Camp in the center. The area is fairly large and leaves space for World PvP and a good amount of Dailies. Both, Horde and alliance would have the same quest targets, however, as we have far more Horde than Alliance players, i suggest to reduce the needs on kill-quests and collection quests. The dailies themselves are obviously only part of the major Questline, which is guided by the same Faction.
The Major Questline
The basic idea of this is, that there is this one, vast Questline which is nearly impossible to finish and provides challenge, great game-experience and awesome rewards at the end. I personally thought it should show all aspects of the game and require a lot of dedication, work and capability in order to complete. Here is a list of Quest-types i could think of:
- Instance Quests (Kill that boss)
- Raid Quests
- Exploration Quests(Find XY. This quest should lead you from hint to hint until you reach your goal)
- PvP Quests (Win Battleground XY, Buy item Z that requires eg. 1800er Rating)
- Reputation Quests (eg. Raise your reputation with CE to Reverred (Farming Inc))
To increase your CE reputation, it is advisable not only to do the big Questline, but also a couple of Dailies. These Dailies will provide you with reputation to buy reputation rewards and also could give out Shards/Dusts that you could exchange for BoJ. Yet, the Dailies should not have to do all to much with the major Questline.
Why do the Dailies, if they do not help much with the Questline itsself? Well, I thought, that they should actually help. BUT, it is very important that the Questline is NOT about farming and more about challenges, exploration, depth etc.
Rewards
I have already mentioned some of the rewards I could think of, but here I go again.
Daily Rewards:
- Reputation
- Shards/Dust to exchange for Badges of Justice
- Proffessions
- Recipes
- T6-Equivalent Items
- Fun Stuff (eg. Picnic Basket)
- Early in the Questline
- Normal titles (eg. Grunt)
- Non-rare Pets (eg. Cockroach, Cats, Birds...)
- Midway through the Questline
- Better titles
- Rare Pets/Mounts (eg. Drakelings)
- Near the End of the Questline
- Rank 12 Titles+
- Ultra-rare/Unobtainable Mounts/Pets
- High-end Items (eg. Warglaives, S4, Sunwell Gear)
A Word of Truth
I know, this is an AMAZING load of work for the devs, but, as you might know, I'm happy to help develop my own ideas.
Now, thank you, for reading my again-way-too-long post. If you have any questions, comments or criticism, please try to be constructive and don't flame, it will be ignored. You can contact me by MSN or writing me an email to: [email protected]. You can also send me a PM or just simply answer this post.
Thanks to Paws for giving me this idea and thanks to Henhouse for letting me help with the server.
Yours Sincerely,
Smoke
