6.0 Island Sanctuary Discussion: Expectations & What else do you wish it to be?

[Hycinthus]

Let's just use this thread to discuss all related 6.0 Island Sanctuary Expectations.

-List of activities to do.
-How about For crafters, for non-gatherers?
-How about farming? Do we expect full Harvestmoon style farming, or more like WoW mini-farming?
-Animal care, milking cows?
-Are you looking forward to it, or it will just be a gimmicky thing?

[SturmChurro]

I see it as a gimmicky thing - unless you are a crafter, frankly. Idle time killer really; somewhere to afk.

[van_arn]

Mog Garden: A Garden Reborn.

[Vickii]

They really didn’t give enough information on this. It could be something really major that grows throughout the expansion and ties into the story, it could be a solo ishgard restoration type thing that takes up a lot of people’s time or it could just be a little gimmicky game of FarmVille that people play on launch then move on from. Really hard to tell what it is from what little they said.

[Starshower]

I hope we can have an instanced house in the island!

[Hycinthus]

I hope we can have an instanced house in the island!

Did they mention something like this? I don't recall, although it would be a good opportunity if they wanted to introduce instanced housing style on an island, each player can access their own instanced island kind of thing?

[LisSquid]

All I can think about is the little farm we had in WoW's Mist of Pandaria expansion, Halfhill.

If they can give us at least double of what joy I had with that, I'll be happy. Perhaps those who cultivate their farm enough can rank it up to build a house on it. I'd personally adore that.. Or "rented land" we pay off via doing activities until its completely ours to do with as we want al a animal crossing.

[Ultimatecalibur]

-How about farming? Do we expect full Harvestmoon style farming, or more like WoW mini-farming?

I'm hoping it kills the need for houses for gardening purposes. If people no longer need houses for gardening I suspect that some players hording houses for that purpose may get rid of all their excess houses.

[Mr_Gyactus]

I'm hoping it kills the need for houses for gardening purposes. If people no longer need houses for gardening I suspect that some players hording houses for that purpose may get rid of all their excess houses.

why? these player could have the houses AND the farms for more gardening.

[Ultimatecalibur]

why? these player could have the houses AND the farms for more gardening.

Sure some might keep those excess houses, but not having as much control over garden production will severally tank their monetary gains unlike with how owning an entire division currently gives them a significant percentage of a world's limited gardening production. If each player gets say 6 8 slot garden plots on the farm having an alt with an empty small house with 1 8 slot garden that you need to ensure that you enter once every 45 days isn't that much of a production gain compared to just having the alts hang out on their personal farms.