I haven't been in the game long enough, so while I think some of these ideas are cool, obviously I omitted a bunch of necessary details that would be required for balancing. They're mostly focused on quality of life, making existing activities more fun, incentives to hunt more everywhere in the world, work together, etc.
Housing
These ideas are to strengthen community, make transactions w.r.t. housing easier.
Make it more pleasant to shop through vendor search.
Incentivize hunting in "old" areas, all areas basically, make it more fun, etc.
Melee
To help it make more exciting and realistic for melee/groups of warriors to be able to kick butt without any mages or spells.
Taming
Make action with pets much more interesting.
New uses for gold would be great. Like crafting.
Fun PVP stuff that is more controlled.
Make useless skills more useful and
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Housing
These ideas are to strengthen community, make transactions w.r.t. housing easier.
- Add houses for sale on vendor search. Allow people to buy a house just by clicking the sign and selecting buy from the menu. This can use existing teleport-to-house mechanisms.
- An option to save house designs to a deed and/or register them in the system. If anyone uses your design from the system, you get 70% of the money from that.
- Add a special tile that can be placed in houses to link them through group association. Basically, you choose guild or simply new group that you name and then you can produce teleporter tiles associated with it. It opens a paged menu so you can click on where you're going like with gates or the other teleporters. Networks of houses can be made with this.
Make it more pleasant to shop through vendor search.
- An option to save vendor searches up to 10. So you can repeat your favorite vendor searches
- An option to reveal/buy item on the vendor search map. Some vendors will have a million items in a single bag, it would be very helpful to just trigger the purchase.
- A "show all labels" option for vendor items in open bags.
- Any sort of feature that would allow us to search all vendors in a house as buyers.
Incentivize hunting in "old" areas, all areas basically, make it more fun, etc.
- Show the actual Felucca luck bonus in the luck stat (or show it as a buff +1000 luck)
- Add an option to add outlines to items based on rarity (CC). So a legendary artifact would have a specific color outline. And the option to perhaps hide certain ones. Macros to always loot specific classes would be nice also.
- A new item: healing platform. This needs to be charged by using healing on it or any healing spell. It can hold different amounts of hp. Running over it heals you fully and cures you of poison, but it takes your stamina and mana to 0. But you can only run over it every X seconds, once it's drained, it has a 24H deploy cooldown. It can be crafted and can have up to 10K HP. It can be set to anyone, party, guild or friends.You simply place it in a dungeon so you can run over it. After usage, you can't use it again for 5 mins. The person who places it is tethered to it, if they go too far, the decay timer starts like for any normal item. If the person remains tethered, it can stay indefinitely. If the owner dies, it disappears. Cant be used with any sort of melding. Can't be used by pets.
- When you slay X amount of enemies in a dungeon, the dungeon goes into revenge mode, where the enemies are paragon versions or some sort of super buffed version/marked, and the loot is much better. Basically when you kill 10 enemies within 10 minutes or something, a counter shows for everyone in the dungeon, and then at another 100 within X minutes, Revenge mode starts. Revenge mode lasts so long a certain amount of enemies are slayed per interval. Of course these could get really weird/not work in some dungeons, so perhaps this should be restricted to dungeons areas that are "revenge enabled", like the Lich Lord room in Deceit, etc.
Melee
To help it make more exciting and realistic for melee/groups of warriors to be able to kick butt without any mages or spells.
- A type of buff called "last resort" that anyone can use. It means that at 20% health your damage will be doubled, but each move costs you some of your health and it can also kill you.
- Warrior-meld. Warriors in a party can turn on this buff and this adds bonuses to all their properties and allows hp share. This basically allows a fortified group-tank. This could easily get too advantageous, so there have to be some penalties: everyone also takes a bit more damage, when anyone linked dies, the buff disappears and has a 5 min cooldown.
- Use for weak gear/weapons - perhaps it would be cool if crafters could make an item that anyone can apply to any item which gives the item a super boost, but makes it super brittle and unrepairable. The item has to be a certain weak class of items (lesser magic) and obviously balancing would be tricky so rich players don't just have an infinite supply of these finite "temporary" items. It would be a question of making it a bit pricy to make, and making sure the decay is aggressive enough.
- Allow dual wielding of all one-handed weapons across all melee skills. So you can have a mace and fencing weapon in your left and right hand respectively.
Taming
Make action with pets much more interesting.
- More control over a pet's ability usage. One option or version would be, set order/chances/combos your pet using from the skills/spells/abilities it has. So if you want your pet to dump Kal Vas Flam until 0 mana, you can. Another option would be, allow the creation of actual macros for your pet so you can fire abilities at will. This requires legendary taming and animal lore.
- Pet-meld: you can "become" your pet. You are invisible (literally, your char disappears), no one can see or hit you. You directly control your pet. Your pet gets your hp, mana, and gets a skill boost according to some formula. Like if you have mysticism 120 and your pet also has 120, it gets some sort of bonus. I think this would be quite cool and make for interesting new builds. However, there will be some caveats: if you die as a pet, you both die. There is a cooldown, so you can't switch back and forth to heal your pet and go back. However, vet skill translates to some health regeneration thing. Various details would need to be thought through, but this would be quite cool. This requires legendary taming and animal lore. Penalties can be added to make this much weaker in pvp (like way more damage from players, or something), if
- Magical pet Container: types of pokeball you can store your pet in. You can now take an extra pet with you. The pet container sits in your backpack. If you have a pet out and you use it while its full, they swap. Has a cooldown for 90 secs after combat/switch. So you can never switch more often than within 90 secs and you can't do it within combat.
New uses for gold would be great. Like crafting.
- 10k can be invested in any item that can be currently created, and this gives the item the chance of a 1-10% boost to its properties. It gets the [sparkling] tag.
- Overloader. A 100K item can be used to randomly +1 any existing property of an item. Like faster casting, swing speed increase, etc. You don't know beforehand which and you can only do it once per item.
- Any player can change an amount of gold to a special items called sacrificial gold statue. 100 to 10K, which gives XX chance for special properties on items, or unique items to exist in monster loot where you've placed the gold statue. Once placed it cannot be picked up.
- Have very expensive vanity stuff (1M-10M, 100M) that can be bought in-game.
Fun PVP stuff that is more controlled.
- Each major city will have arena outside of it. An arena can be a 1 on 1, 2 on 2 or 3-4 for all, or pet fight.
- Fights are to the death.
- Items are consumed, but armor and such doesn't wear from this.
- You can bet on fights.
- When pets are fighting, the owner can control them as usual, but owners can't are invulnerable.
- Arenas also have fight options against most monsters from the world. Anyone can pay to set the monster and it can be fought under arena rules.
- Warrior/pet meld can be used in arenas
Make useless skills more useful and
- What if item identification would allow for pre-identifying loot drops and even specific ones. So you use it on a monster and it will show you what it can drop and the chances.
- What if spirit speak can be used to pacify undead?
- Spirit speak mastery gives the chance of a "spirit book" drop which a book with a spirit story of that mob.
- Necromancy should allow for a skill that when used on a corpse raises a skeleton (red, attacks anything). Takes up followers.
- 6 spellweavers can spawn an arcane circle and within a certain range their spellweaving skills are boosted even more. This requires all of them to have legendary spellweaving and an max arcane focus in their backpack.
- Allow spells that have an area to effect to kind of stack. 3 mages that cast a wall of fire, results in a super wall of fire that does extra damage.
- It would also be cool if a group of necromancers could also make something bigger happen.
- Summons can be combined (all of them). The way it works is that one mage spawns an energy vortex, and another mage also, they send a link request and the other mage approves it. This can be done up to X times and multiplies the abilities of that summon. Everyone's mana is drained at some right while the link is active. When the summon dies, mana all owners have their mana bumped to 0.
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- An item or deed that when consumed makes an ethereal mount count for 0 followers. (specifically this, not increase follower count. Although that could be interesting)
