I’ve had a blast so far (I’m a bit more than 100h in) and will definitely recommend this game to all my friends whenever multiplayer is around. The vibe, the combat, the level design, the music and the voice acting are all on another level. I just can’t stop playing, even though content is still this much limited. So here are a couple of things I wish could eventually be added to or tuned into the game:
An Adventurer’s Guild
Maker Danos next city project could be an Adventurer’s Guild building where players could register as an F rank adventurer and grab quests/bounties/challenges/dungeons/raids to progress all the way to rank A or even S (difficulty levels would of course raise accordingly) . Maybe have Captain Randolph quit his post and become the Guild leader, I don’t know. I feel like this could be a smart way for Sacrament to attract skilled people to fight the Black Plague/Risen etc and it fits the overall setting, albeit being a common trope. I’d also love it if other adventurer NPC’s could also be in your party when you go out there questing.
Resource Securing Quest System
Grinnich’s out of silver ingots? You can’t find the bear paws you need to upgrade your sword? Well, then help escort a merchants caravan all the way to Havenport and then back to Sacrament safely. Maybe fighting hordes of plague mobs or ambushes from mountain thieves etc I don’t know. I think it is a really good way for players to kinda “refresh” the vendors’ catalogues while also having to earn it. Each vendor would have different quests, with different difficulties and for different mats.
Individual NPC’s progression system
Not much to say here, but I’m thinking it would be something like a favor system you progress and get specific rewards from each NPC, like Fillmore’s best ever made sword, or Gordon’s secret recipe etc.
Now for the parts I’d like tuned a little bit:
Realm-locked Characters
I know this might be an impopular one, but here goes nothing:
Right now it is impossible to grind without creating other realms, but I feel like this is a weird meta only serviceable to this content limited early access. Whenever I think about 1.0, I would very much prefer characters to not be able to freely join other realms, as it causes weird imbalances and sucks out the fun of progressing a character or a party (considering multiplayer) together with the realm they’re into.
Furniture/Working Stations Are Pointless
Why bother buying an anvil or an oven when you could use the ones from the vendors? For 1.0, I’d like that the equipment from the vendors can only be used to upgrade items, never craft them. If you want to craft something, buy the proper working station and do it yourself at your place. Vendors will only sell fresh items or upgrade the ones you crafted yourself.
That’s it. From the top of my head, those are the things I wish could be added to the game, as well as a couple of things I feel like will be crucial at launch. Needless to say, there are way more things I’d wish to see in the game, but they have already been discussed at length here and everywhere else.