#0 - July 29, 2009, 4:52 a.m.
Hear this blizzard if you ever are gonna beat new online games like Aion you will NEED to update the old world. By this I dont mean fully update the old worlds closed zones but I mean update the way of leveling.
Sure if the next expansion is good (Maelstrom, high definition waters!) it will match most of the other games gameplay. I am confident that blizzard will update how the old races looks since those mask were just high quality.
But how are you gonna attract new players or re-rollers with the old world if a new guy is gonna start playing wow to see if its better than aion obviously he will picked Aion since the quest there are prolly more fun than good old vanilla wow. I'm sure by doing this lots of people will have fun and get hooked to wow because of the old world.
In WOTLK a new phasing feature was introduced and Instanced starting zones which got me thinking, think how much blizz could make with this technology in the old world, well heres my thougths.
(I will be using Orcs as an example for most of my ideas.)
Level 1-10
In starting areas such as valley of trials, deathknell and northshire are zones that will introduce a person to a certain race. But i dont feel they are good enough to match the latest games or even new wow contents.
My idea is instance this one big event that will describe that persons race, example:
8 months haved passed in warcraft villains such as onyxia and nefarian are dead and new storylines for all the races will be made.
Orcs- inside the fortified walls in the valley of trials is a huge training camps for the orcs the gates are shut for all the new comers that havent proved there worth yet. inside the valley of trials is an arena where young heros fight to prove thereselves. Once you have been recruited warlocks summons a bunch of demons in the cave and young warriors will experience an epic battle.
The questline would be a quick 5 level and the player will come out of that place with greens. My idea is once this even has been done with one character a character can decide weather to create a character starting in level one and do the questline and get greens or create a character at level 5 but only wearing white.
Once the introduction event has been completed the character will be sent to a base of there class
(warriors, hunters, etc....) and train there for the next 5 level. keep in mind that these quest are fast to do but theres tons of them and it will be a quick and fun gameplay.
Level 11-20
Then up next an updated story line of community service in durotar and the barrens.
11-16 killing wild animals like before etc.
but 17-19 the player will be sent to an important mission in the barrens which involves phasing. Each levels will have an event of there own. you cant escape the phased even until you pass that level.
Doing each will grant there own levels
17 Centaurs and Harpies attack crossroads players will have to defend the place for 15 minuites
18 You join scouts as they spot soldiers from northwatch advancing, you have to route them back
19 Retaliation on northwatch you and soldiers destroy northwatch once and for all.
At the end of the chain
Level 20-30
After the events players will just lay low for a couple of levels doing some normal quest.
25-30
25-30 should be the biggest event in leveling, it is in this part of leveling all the problems in the starting area wil be resolve. you cant escape the phased event unless you level to 30 in a different way. Participating in this even will get you to level 25-30 in a matter of 30 minutes-1hour
For orcs the next waves of the Kul'tiras navy finally comes and the Burning blade attacks durotar. You will have to fight as a soldier in the zone and just keep fighting as the war keep progressing and it should take about 30mins-1h long but fighting in it will get you to level 30.
31-40
Same stuff, scarlet monastary etc.
41-45
you are sent to back to your trainers for further training it will be faster than the old quest but not to fast, you will be sent on missions etc but completing the chains will give you nice gear.
46-54
Good times
55-60
There should be several events in the world that would grant you quick levels but you can only do 1 at a time.
Also you get to do nice events that will grant good xp but not to much but give you the old dungeon sets.
58-90
Well its back to normal.
My whole point is if you want to attract more people or get more people to start all over again without having to suffer the boringness of the old world.
You dont only keep them busy you get them hook for the future brands bc,wotlk, cataclysm, xpac4, etc....
People will actually enjoy this leveling wont be a grudge, they will get a good grip of the games story but at the same time......
well you just made the old wow worth buying for 40 bucks again instead of making it free to play.
if there are some stuff you guys didnt like well fix it in your opinions but atleast think of the idea.
please
Edit. If there will be some revising in the future base it on this.
Which troll looks better?
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/wowwiki/images/0/0f/Voodoo_troll.jpg
or
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/wowwiki/images/1/15/Frostmanetroll.gif
or
something in the middle?
