Mythic+ Ladder (or a better system of rewards)
I’m not referring to Shadowlands dropping little loot in M+, that doesn’t matter and doesn’t bother me too much. However, you do not have any reason to go beyond M+15 at all. An external score on a website means nothing.
Why not have a ladder that gives you titles or mounts? It would be great.
Either that, or for example completing all dungeons at +20 could reward you with a title. +25 could give you a different mount or even ‘free repairs’ for 6 months. I don’t know, the possibilities are endless and these 3 things I just mentioned honestly do not sound TOO TIME CONSUMING to implement. The mounts could be a recolor, who cares, it would still be something.
More arena rewards
Back in WOTLK you had “The Flawless Victor” for 10 wins in a row above 2k.
Today after getting Glad (which has never been this accessible before), you literally have 800 points of N O T H I N G in between.
You can get Gladiator by winning 1 game and losing 1 on 2400, so you may end up on Glad with 2410 rating (example). Well, too bad Rank 1 is 3200+. Why isn’t there a more ‘recent’ 2700 3v3 achievement? Or another temporary title for reaching 2800? Another weapon enchant? Free Repairs?
And what about 3k? There isn’t even an achievement.
If you have pushed Gladiator but you are not good enough for Rank 1 or you do not ‘enjoy arena’ THAT much to just play it for fun, then you may very well lose all the incentive to do arenas for the season.
Note: the reason why I’m mentioning free repairs twice so far is both a joke but also an input towards diversifying rewards. To give more immersion, it would be nice if being a better player would reward you with ‘convenience’ stuff and not ‘just’ better gear. Imagine having a 5min CD on your Hearthstone if you are really good at the game. Why not?
More interactions between factions and ‘world events’ or effects
Back in Legion, there was a different world buff at the Mage Tower every week. Imagine if that buff would change and be assigned to the Alliance or Horde according to who has farmed more Stygia in that region. The buff could even be +5% honor earned through BGs…I don’t know. These things are pretty small but they would encourage people to log in, maybe contribute towards something that could ‘matter’, it would let people chat about it on Discord like “Oh this week the Horde won!” or whatever. This is just a quick example obviously
More unique looking transmog sets for more ‘difficult’ content
MoP Challenge Modes were a damn huge success. The same goes for the Artifact Challenge. People literally had a reason to level up all of their alts and complete that content. If it’s been so damn successful, why not do it more often through the years?
In BFA they waited until 8.3 to create something similar to the mage tower with Visions. Now we have Torghast. The path is correct and to be fair I’m not here to bash Torghast. But can anyone tell me why wasn’t it possible to do 10 masks visions in BFA and maybe get another reward, or earn ‘Coalescing Visions’ so you would indirectly have more keys (maybe account wide)?
In Torghast, what about being able to do “Layer 16” for the standard wings (so layer 8 x2 in difficulty)? Still 6 floors but just twice as difficult.
It could give you a cosmetic reward AND give you double Soul Ash so you don’t have to run through Layer 8 twice.
Again, this is just an example off my head. Imagine if they made a Torghast ladder with some titles and rewards by adding affixes (similar to Mythic+).
I’m ignorant but these things certainly don’t look so difficult to create or think about, and I’m no genius.
If anyone agrees with these ideas, I’d love if they could be brought up somewhere. Reddit? US Forums? MMO-Champion? I hope it’s not ‘just’ me but I’m convinced that these things would have a very good impact. This stuff could INITIALLY matter for 10% of the playerbase but I think that a lot of people would play more if they knew that there were very nice rewards for pushing arenas more, for doing Torghast with a nice group, or to push M+ higher. So it would indirectly encourage far more people to play more and pay their sub 1-2 more months before freezing waiting for the next patch.
Hope you enjoyed the read.