Your top #1 wish for 10.0

[Geckoo]

Honestly, i'm done with current WoW and their expansion model, there is little to nothing they can do to bring me back to WoW. In my opinion this game has reached a point where a sequel makes sense for a variety of reasons. Mostly old systems and concepts that are at the core of how the game works that feel like something that made sense 20 years ago for an MMORPG, but that has been vastly improved or reimagined by several games over the years, just as the online gaming scene changed too.

And by this i don't mean to say that the game doesn't work because it's old (it was already old in legion and i loved it), but i wonder if new developers feel somehow limited by those old core systems. I have to wonder if current developers would choose the same class/spec system, the same type of combat system or even how they build the world and how we interact with it in the same way. Similar to that, i have to wonder if lore, as bad as it is right now, could benefit from a time jump that allows them to create new stories, new characters and new lore with more foundation than just being the next big world ending threat that came out of nowhere and we just met.

But i am fully aware that this will never happen. They can still milk wow with their current model for a lot of years, this includes releasing classic servers for more expansions. This is still an almost 20 year old behemoth and when the inevitable demise comes and is no longer profitable, they'll just stop developing new content, keep some servers up and let people slowly forget about it.

[cybernoid]

It will never happen because sadly they want people to fixate only to what's considered "current content" BUT: Stop obsoleting the rest of the world, make every dungeon and raid able to scale; give people the option to redo all this content that's been created at a somewhat challenging level.

With varying levels of rewards, yes, so you can still make people buy the new expansion.

Kinda willing to bet that more than a few people will be content with doing old raids for a change.

[Raizz]

1. For Blizzard to get their heads out of their behinds and work more closely with the community on 10.0 features.
2. Make all 10.0 systems be purely for cosmetic and vanity rewards.
3. Unlock all classes and races choices, unlock more transmog combinations, add dyes and more character customization. Have spell tints are rewards for special feats.
3. Return a decade back to WoTLK when it comes to itemization and currency.

[Halliax]

1-Increase rewards for tanks and healers on M+(Item drops, bag of gold).

2- Scale old raids and Dungeons so they can continue to be relevant(let them drop lower ilvl itens than current raids/dgs).

3- Bring back titanforge I know a lot of people hated it, but I really miss the sensation of a good luck roll!

4- Inspect stop to show people talents/build, the same for armory, let people keep their build to themselves, If they want It.

5- More options of class customization, sub specs, more talents. And somehow, find a way to balance it.(I know, really hard, but hire more people to play the game and give reports on pve and pvp).

6- More communication.

[Raizz]

2. New storyline - Azeroth Awakens!

Azeroth A Realm Reborn.

WoW AARR

[Soon-TM]

Azeroth A Realm Reborn.

WoW AARR

Bonus points if we get a badass cinematic of Azeroth getting obliterated on top

[PenguinChan]

Unfortunately this would be a complete nightmare to introduce, but increased enemy NPC variability.

Think Marauder from Doom Eternal but not as frustratingly designed. Or enemies in Destiny 1 / 2, I want more weak points and give and take design. It's something tab target MMORPGs have, unfortunately, done oh so little of outside of very few raid encounters. I want an NPC to throw things I have to avoid - whether that's getting in close, moving out away, playing frogger 2.0, red light green light, etc. would be dope. Things that can be interactive on all classes, and depending on your spec / class you'll be able to either invalidate or bypass SOME mechanics NPCs out in the world challenge you with (Or don't allow you to do so).

Obviously this will never happen to the extent I want it to, as casual players would get rather upset at having to deal with things like that on a daily basis - and people who want to grind things out immediately will be annoyed not having the ability to group up 20 (Challenging) enemies.

The whole, Minion < Grunt < Soldier < Elite < Champion < Boss type chain of enemies is something I love in other games. Where you frequently kill off Minions / Grunts all the time as fodder, with slightly sturdier soldiers and then enemies you have to deal with (Elites) and the occasional powerhouse of a champion, generally designed in an arena or area to facilitate its mechanics. We have this to SOME extent now, obviously, especially more-so in Torghast but... It's not the same.

[Tyris Flare]

Timewalking M+ - cycle in like 2-4 old dungeons into each season.

More effort in general into dungeon content than just a new affix each season. Need new gear and sets and stuff also.

[Voidwielder]

There's not one single thing to that can fix the game... but aggressive content cadence would damn near on top.

Yes, Legion had it's problems, more so at the beginning than the end. But God damn man, they were spoiling us with stuff. It was the first time since Wrath that I wanted to play, was always behind the stuff I wanted to do and actually managed to do. And enjoyed it.

Content, content, content. Steady trickle with big feasts in between.

[Triceron]

A new class.

There's a lot of problems the game could fix, but I feel like it's all beyond redemption. Asking for good gameplay or good story or good setting seems redundant at this point, since everything's so messed up.

So I'll just say simply I'd want to see a new class, no matter how messed up it'd be. At least it's something new and interesting, and lasts for more than just the duration of the expansion.

[Advent]

I personally don't give a flying fuck about balance, but when Mastery was introduced it was basically described as a tuning wheel, for exactly the type of scenario you want here.

I can't say I care too much about balance either, but I think my issue with mastery is how uninteresting a stat it is for most classes. For Windwalker Monk it's unique, and ele shaman it's pretty iconic, but other classes are fairly uninspired and bland, to me.

[callipygoustp]

Player housing, something akin to what EQ2 had.

[ohwell]

Fire the current writing staff.
Rehire the original writers and designers who created WoW. That means, among others, Metzen and also Afrasiabi.
I don't care what kind of workplace culture this creates. They are who made this originally great game that has since been ruined.

Even more unlikely, but the best possible development: Pay the goblins at Activision enough money to buy Blizzard from them, and make it a private, independent company.

Metzen who was just as bad as the current staff and AA who is a dirtbag in real life(understating)? Yeah...ok....yet another one of those looking for cool points by saying "lul the writing is bad" when it isn't any worse than previously.

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God, it's painful how badly I'd enjoy that expansion and that storyline but realize it'll never happen. N'zoth and ny'alotha were done so poorly

That story isn't any better than the current one, but it's simply fueled by people's head canon of the old gods. Just stop.

FYI, the old writing staff that people oh so love had everything to do with the current state of the old gods being glorified sperm.

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I'd want to see this as well. The way it could happen would be all the cosmic forces making a new pact that changes things, making time travel and all the cosmic stuff impossible.

I wish they would have left the Legion the way it was though, instead of defeating it, we could have just defeated the weakened Argus with the help of the other Titans and escaped. The loss of Argus would have weakened the Legion enough to stop the invasion, for now.

I also don't like how we basically killed off all the old gods. I liked them much more as all powerful cosmic horrors that even the Titans couldn't defeat so they had to be imprisoned.

That was never the case with the Old Gods so this is a prime example of the head canon fueling the nonsense desire for XXXX with the old gods. The titans always were able to defeat them, just not safely. Just like people were like "oh wait how did we kill them" when we actually went in like antibodies and destroyed them from within. The old lore never said they were imprisoned because they couldn't be defeated.

[ohwell]

Which old legendary system do you mean? The Vanilla-to-Wrath "Ok, this guy is the GM (Or his friend), we'll funnel everything to him" system, or the expansion-spanning questlines of MoP and WoD?

I agree that the current "Grind some stuff and get a legendary"-system isn't very inspiring, but the "Lick the right boots in your guild and get a legendary"-thing doesn't seem very fun either.

Most of the time that scenario didn't happen in terms of the "send it to the friend" and if it did your guild was destined to fail then. Gotta love when people keep spreading that falsehood.

[ntlntl]

Keep everything simple

[Axaron]

The ability to play with anyone else who has a World of Warcraft subscription, regardless of their faction.

[mysticx]

Most of the time that scenario didn't happen in terms of the "send it to the friend" and if it did your guild was destined to fail then. Gotta love when people keep spreading that falsehood.

Sure, falsehood, uh-huh...

Be that as it may, the whole guild working on something and only one player getting the direct benefit (The actual item) still was pretty much only fun for that one player.

[TheRevenantHero]

Most of the time that scenario didn't happen in terms of the "send it to the friend" and if it did your guild was destined to fail then. Gotta love when people keep spreading that falsehood.

LOL WHAT?! That scenario happened CONSTANTLY. Hell, I've had it happen to ME. Guild master would constantly funnel gear into his significant other. All the other people on the raid team were either his friends who also got gear the significant other didn't want or were forever trials so they pretty much never got gear.

[Divada]

A full realised continent. Epic in scale. No more poxy claustrophobic islands.

[Mendzia]

Bringing ML back would be a good start.