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!

[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.

[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?

[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.

[Theodric]

I'm indifferent until we learn more about what we can and cannot do. As much as I enjoy games such as Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley I don't want to get my hopes up too much.

[NekoHina]

Sounds a bit like Animal Crossing x White Knight Chronicles’ Georama. I like the idea since it is just a new and different aspect to play, especially for more “casual” gamers (I dislike that distinction but many understand it). I only play this game so having a new area for my ‘downtime’ sounds great.