Blessing of Kings
asks an excellent question: how often should we be running repeatable content? Certainly Blizzard has considered this issue before -- they've gone with
daily quests in the first expansion, and recently they've been rethinking just how often
we'll be rerunning dungeons, too. But both of those time periods are fairly arbitrary to us: is it possible that we should start running things twice a week (once during and once on the weekend), or maybe
do weekly quests instead of daily?
BoK says: possibly. Rohan suggests a weekly quest that rewarded 70g instead of
the daily 10g reward we usually get (not including the XP bonus which kicks it up to 13g). Players who don't have time to run every day, but do have the weekly availability (like me -- I play mostly on the weekends), would be able to still pick up the reward. I'll go one step further, in fact: what if we had an option? What if we could choose to run a quest daily (and get a bigger reward overall), or run it once per week, using up all of our daily chances for that week, and getting a smaller total reward? That seems to be the best way -- those who could log in every day would get a larger reward, while those who couldn't could still get more than just the single daily.
Rohan also says that Heroic and BG quests should remain daily, and on that we agree: those quests are perfect for creating variety every day, and
getting people to run those instances. In fact, those would be fun to see expanded -- maybe Blizzard could create weekly series of daily quests that followed a small storyline across dungeons or BGs. Blizzard has done a pretty good job balancing out repeatable content periods, but it's always nicer to have more options.Filed under:
Fan stuff,
Virtual selves,
Odds and ends,
Economy,
Instances,
Quests
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