Expansion Ideas: Systems, Features, and Content Types - What would you add?

[Shurrikhan]

I have a few ideas.

1) Instanced Dojo.
During prog for the latter phases of Ultima Weapon, my team started using Binding Coil Turn 4 as a practice area. This was possible because the whole arena is accessible without triggering combat, and its size was roughly analogous to Ultima's arena.

Instanced Dojo is a suggestion that sort of expands on that. In an instance let us place dummies that can act out mechanics, dps checks, set markers, set timers, etc so players can put together practice stages for fights.

2) Class Halls
Like in WoW; have class halls with associated class campaigns and other reasons for it to be a possible player hub. Past that the real reason for its existence is to be a hub for players of the same job to congregate. The hope and intent is to stimulate conversation between players ingame and provide practice dummies for players to help each other improve.

Back when I was assuming, late-Heavensward, that 4.x would be Ala Mhigo and 5.x would be Doma (and taking on more of a large-scale conquest aesthetic at that point), I had hoped that 5.x would bring the ability to create in-world instanced environments, sort of a mixture between GW2 housing, Pokemon's secret bases, and instanced PvP world seeds. I called the concept encampments. The idea was that an FC--or community of any sort, really--could craft, basically, their own training yards. Dummies set to particular health, placed on tracks with timed triggers to push them about. Automatons for tanking or kiting. Obstacles. Explosives. Whatever you want. Prep for raids. Prep for PvP. Teach people the coolest tricks about their jobs through, essentially, DM'ed environments (+ crafting).

Maybe even go a step further later and allow the community to create "prism worlds", where you can step from the FC house or wherever the community had decided to place a/the shared entrance into a little slice of anywhere's environments, even adjusting from the original open world area you took a chunk out of, and adding new environmental mechanics.