Fix Ishgard

I would love to see a server-wide quest that involved crafting and gathering classes donating materials and items needed in order to fix Ishgard.

Essentially there would be a long list of items ranging from level 5 to 60 which could be donated in exchange for xp and contributing to the end goal of reaching the next stage of Ishgard's completion.


The goals for each stage would be massive to make up for the sheer bulk of players in the server, and there could be 5 to 20 stages of completion. Even after completion it could still be a pretty decent way (but more importantly another available one) to gain experience in these classes.

I just feel that these classes don't really have enough means to level up, and at the same time I can't help but see the potential a destroyed city holds for a class which creates and repairs. It would be like a large, endless fate grind for crafters and gatherers.

Culinarians and Fishermen could donate food, leatherworker and weaver could donate clothing, the smithers could donate metals and weapons, miner could donate crystals and ore, botanists and carpenters could donate wood, carpenters could build basic furniture items and donate lumber.

Or you could just add in a new option similar to beast tribe crafting that has items simply for this quest which range from 5 to 60.


I'll keep mulling this over to see what all I can think of, but it'll just get overlooked anyhow regardless.

Maybe with each goal reached, small bits of the city would be repaired and at the goal just before the last, the city is fully repaired. The last goal would be to demolish that hideous fountain statue and replace it with one of Haurchefant.

I like the idea !
This,was a bit use in one of the girl doll EVENT...

It could be really fun to have that !
But limited to 50+ Crafter/gatherer ishgard is a high level area
Young Crafter/gatherer should train in ARR

In fact...
I would love to see Rowena's current collectable being use for that.

I mean she's rich and all... She should use it to repair both mor dhona and ishgard (and idylshire but it's on going)

While it's true that Ishgard is a high level area, and this I can't argue, most people I've found don't bother actually leveling any gathering or crafting classes until their main battle class is 50+. I feel this would give a bit more of a reason to do just that and in turn potentially help the economy at the same time due to the number of people able to craft items needed.

That would be a nice idea, and also would provide a good goal for everyone to achieve. What would happen with low-pop servers though? Would the completion of such a quest result in any changes to the game?

If we could quite literally get repairs to be done to the look of Ishgard, as well as citizen dialog conversion from depressed to hopeful to exuberant, that would be a dream come true. The aspect of fixing something which was found broken seems appropriate for the warriors of light.

There could be small changes at each phase: more construction going on, cleaning up the slummy areas, people becoming more optimistic, brighter feel to the town, demolish that hideous fountain statue and replace it with one of Haurchefant on the final step, ect.

As for low population servers, it wouldn't really matter too much because the quest would involve EVERYONE, not just you. Having a low population for such a quest simply means that it lasts longer, not to mention I doubt the goals would be unreachable by any means.

I feel it would be like a giant XP bar that fills up so much per item, depending on the item donated of course, and increases by a multiplier similar to your character's XP bar. They could put in an npc in control of the entire thing which would show you a picture of the current progress done and remaining.


As far as effect on the game, I feel that putting items out of reach would be unfair for low populated servers, but making difficult to obtain items available by a different means after a certain stage would be balanced. Such as glamour versions of certain difficult to get armor sets and weapons, lvl 1 with no stat bonuses of course, higher level craftable items like jewelry or food being sold in shops that don't appear until a certain phase, and the such. This might be just what we need to tide us over for the next expansion, the community working together.