And please make brewing/distilling fun and interesting. Hopefully not all ingredients would require defeating a dragon. For complexity and fun results, I would like to see it some where in between plant growing and bod collecting.
Please bring crafting back into the game...
I'm suprised you didn't suggest brewing ingredients as faction items!
Hmm... Legendary Thief of the Brewers Faction, steals the "Sigil of Hops"... from the opposing faction "Winers Faction" (wine drinkers), who then have 12hrs to recover the Sigil... However, if the "Brewers Faction" keeps the sigil, a single "hop" spawns randomly on a Peerless Boss...
...so NOW, the Brewers must kill the boss and recover the hop, while defending themselves from gank-squads, and raiders from the "Tea Toddlers" faction. (Who oppose all drinking and thus are the sworn enemies of both the Brewers Faction and the Winers Faction.)
See! This would bring factions back! Make PvP fun for everyone and we could brew our own beer! Win! Win!
Oh, and to keep it from turning into a mindless brewing grind... you would need 100 hops for a keg of beer... so you would enjoy all the aspects of faction warfare, PvP, spawns, etc.. 100x to get that one keg!
Safe Travels, Sam