Another lost level 60

[Brista]

This post is all a pipe dream and really doesn't give any practical advice on the situation I'm responding to, feel free to skip it.  I just need to vent on something I think Blizzard really missed out on and it tangentially relates to the topic at hand.

You know this is where a robust crafting system could come in handy, at least for some people.  Though it would require a more dynamic world.

I'm not talking about the tacked on only really applies to combat crafting that we have now.  What about tier 3 crafting. Carpentry, Masonry, soul crafting.

You raid an enemy town, you damage the walls, the buildings, you destroy a bridge.  You need to build a massive bridge that takes server wide coordination to do to get to new content.  You must have a defense force to hold off the attacking mobs while the crafters actually work.  The crafters come in and actually do the work a bit at a time. You have structures that require magical components, you set it up so all 3 tiers can do something.  You have level restrictions on some of the stuff.  Bridges in Dust Wallow can only be worked on by L25-38 characters.  This gives the new players and alt people world crafting to do, it gives another outlet for high level characters, That bridge to get to northrend still needs some work, I can spend 30 minutes fighting through these mobs to get some granite to put in the stock piles.  Or I can spend 30 minutes fighting these mobs to defend the stockpile or protect that crafter while he works on the bridge. 

Not only would this give people more to do, it would connect them to the world more.    I helped work on this bridge that allows us to get to Northrend.  I helped creat the forge at this new settlement in Desolace. 

You add a whole new PvP aspect, you attract a whole new type of player, you provide more content, you connect players to the world more.  Even if it's all staged and controlled by the devs, it still adds it in.  You get server vs server competition too.  Stormrage got the bridge to Northrend done before Terenas did!

Ah well.  I'm done with my little rant on my pipe dream that won't happen.  But the game that does this right is the one that will pull me away from WoW very quickly.
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Actually Horizons did this

The game had some awful features but the crafting and the sense of creating stuff was excellent. The worst aspect of the game was the community. Not that they weren't pleasant people, they were exceedingly pleasant. But 99% of the community were hardcore crafters with no one to sell it to. Pretty much everything I could make after at month or at any time in the future was being dumped on the market for pennies by bored high level people. There was no pvp and high end content was very poor

But helping people make houses was a very interesting aspect. In WoW, I particularly would like to see a player built battleground, so the side with the hard-working crafters has stockades, steam tanks, minefields, and ramparts