What kind of enviromental hazards would you like to see in the game?

I mean, obviously besides the ''dont' stand in the fire'' or do ''don't stand in green goo/lava'' what kind of stuff would you like to see?

Personally, I think the world could be made more alive with stuff like:

- Avalanches

- Quicksand

- Flash floods

- Heavy hail storm

- Trying to cut down a tree only to find out its a treant and getting picked up by it and... ouchie.

- Lurking enemies such as huge crocodiles waiting in the water.

- Landslieds

- Big carnivorous plant eating you if you're not careful

One thing I would just love to see are Diseases; Debuffs you get from the enviroment that can only be cured via a certain profession or by certain classes.

It would be fun to add another dimension where people depend on one another and seeing people seek out people in the world for another reason.

In general, world design that makes the world alive is important and I think enviromental dangers (simplistic and more complex) are a big part of it.

Do you agree? Disagree? What would you like to see?

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Percimes

Gathering hazards!

Wasps nest in trees. Cut them at reduced speed and low level dot for the duration.
Mini landslides while mining outside (buries your feet in loose gravel, creating a zone of slow movement) or minor cave-in while underground (loosening a rock above for small damage to the head).
Catching a F.O.U.S. while fishing. Breaking your line, fishing rod yanked from your hands, or you're thrown into the water to fight your catch.
Your garden has attracted wild beasts. Generates a quest. Diminished production if you don't hunt them down and destroy their nest.
Animal husbandry. You've bred a beast with unusual intelligence! It has figured out how to open its pen's gate. Keeps wondering around your house until fully trained.

That sort of things.

JustVine

Percimes wrote: »

Gathering hazards!
Wasps nest in trees. Cut them at reduced speed and low level dot for the duration.

Mini landslides while mining outside (buries your feet in loose gravel, creating a zone of slow movement) or minor cave-in while underground (loosening a rock above for small damage to the head).

Catching a F.O.U.S. while fishing. Breaking your line, fishing rod yanked from your hands, or you're thrown into the water to fight your catch.

Your garden has attracted wild beasts. Generates a quest. Diminished production if you don't hunt them down and destroy their nest.

Animal husbandry. You've bred a beast with unusual intelligence! It has figured out how to open its pen's gate. Keeps wondering around your house until fully trained.

That sort of things.

I sort of like these but otoh I really don't unless they add reward to the increased risk. PvP is already an incredibly high risk. These first three not only 'are a nuisance that lowers my profit margin', they also make me even more disadvantaged in PvP. Given the difficulty of balancing PvP risk with bonuses in the first place I feel adding extra rewards and hastles might be difficult to balance properly because PvP risk itself isn't as easy to predict.

The garden one is reasonable, but should be mitigatable with freehold structures and give some reward for succeeding in dealing with it as a result of programming in random lost income outside factors already present in a good farming system.

Animal husbandry one is the only nonproblematic one as you have recieved an increased reward with your increased hastle.

DerToastinator

Exactly the topic I searched for!
I know it's extra work to code and some things won't work.
Would be cool none the less and make the world feel more alive.
They could pick the easiest and make those and later along the line make other hazards. If there will ever be addons I think they should focus on expanding the existing world anyways, instead of slaping on new landmasses like WoW does.
Better make new events, enemies and hazards.

Many ideas have already been said, but I wana see:

- slippery slopes or surfaces like ice (makes fighting on a frozen lake interesting)
- sandholes with big antlion-like creatures in them
- winds from below or the side on steep mountain cliffs /ways
- sharp stones, that slow you or hurt if you sprint
- traps in NPC camps (they should be avoidable but hurt if not dodged. Also they should spawn rarely so you are surprised if they do spawn)
- falling rocks in caves
- charming sirens that lure you into enemy infested waters while sailing (effectively forcing a random encounter)

I'm sure there is much more to be explored.
Maby something that forces you to compete in pvp like airdrops in BfA where supposed to do. (The loot wasn't worth the hassle)

All of your ideas would be GREAT dungeon boss mechanics too! And the best part is, they would come naturally, because you already had time to explore them in the open world. What a great and intuitive way to implement mechanics.
This could go the other way around too! Find boss mechanics that fit somewhere else and convert them.

LIGHTNING STRIKES! You could avoid taking damage if you stand near something conductive or even form a line to lead the electricity there. (Yes this is stolen from a boss in WoW) But who cares? It's a fun mechanic

Ironhope

DerToastinator wrote: »

LIGHTNING STRIKES! You could avoid taking damage if you stand near something conductive or even form a line to lead the electricity there. (Yes this is stolen from a boss in WoW) But who cares? It's a fun mechanic

newb: ''man why does lightning always hit me? wtf is it a bug or what''

old knight: ''Mate you're in full plate armor and running around on top of hills during storms... do the math''

Vhaeyne

Gelatinous cubes that are barely noticeable until you are stuck inside them...

Ironhope

Would be interesting to require certain types of boots to succesfully be able to explore different enviroments (deep snow, slippery mountain side, corrupt land, etc) and certain types of gloves to exploit certain resoures without suffering debuffs and such

Cadac

Natural disasters are one possible outcome of failing an Event for a node, so some of the above may be on the menu.
Also add earthquakes, and tsunami to the list.

Conrad

Hazards? Hmm

So, if we travel near a camp of locals I would like to see traps for big game. You walk into it and rhe trap deals damage. And if you die, you have a small pack of trials dancing in happiness cuz they can eat for another day lol

ariatras

As many as you can think of, probably. But then again, I also like the idea of spells affecting terrain. A mudwall brought forth by Geomancy for example.

Combining spells is also something I would love to see. The standard one being a wet surface/spell with electricity. But water and fire to create a wall of fog and stuff too.

Ironhope

ariatras wrote: »

As many as you can think of, probably. But then again, I also like the idea of spells affecting terrain. A mudwall brought forth by Geomancy for example.

Combining spells is also something I would love to see. The standard one being a wet surface/spell with electricity. But water and fire to create a wall of fog and stuff too.

It would be really cool if spells like Blizzard made enemies get an extra slow and visual effect (''sinking in mud'') if the aoe spell Blizzard was used on a certain type of ground for example, or cause a chance of knockdown (stun) and a visual effect if it is cast on stone.

Would be cool if you could use this ability to freeze water/marsh so allies could walk over it (so it would be a dual use spell, both offensive and utility).

ariatras

Ironhope wrote: »

ariatras wrote: »

As many as you can think of, probably. But then again, I also like the idea of spells affecting terrain. A mudwall brought forth by Geomancy for example.

Combining spells is also something I would love to see. The standard one being a wet surface/spell with electricity. But water and fire to create a wall of fog and stuff too.

It would be really cool if spells like Blizzard made enemies get an extra slow and visual effect (''sinking in mud'') if the aoe spell Blizzard was used on a certain type of ground for example, or cause a chance of knockdown (stun) and a visual effect if it is cast on stone.

Would be cool if you could use this ability to freeze water/marsh so allies could walk over it (so it would be a dual use spell, both offensive and utility).

Creative use of spells, have them not only have a combat function.

RazThemun

Slippery slopes, falling rocks, flash floods, and being able to freeze to death or die of heat exhaustion based off your race or clothing being worn.... last point would add a whole new reason to pick a race or Armour type. I would love to be a dwarf in furs while fighting in a snowy mountain terrain watching a person from a dessert terrain having their health slowly tick down as we fight because they are not prepared for that environment, or that my boots give me better traction in the snow while they slip around falling in their sandals. That would also make sieges even more interesting as well.

Kovrm

The disease idea is interesting, I think. I don't think it would be too difficult to pull off correctly, of implemented.

To use the previous example having to run to get healed, travel back, so on and so on. They could make the debuff progress in a way that it gets stronger over time, like say... every hour or 2 it gets stronger. Eventually it could kill you, but we'd be talking a week or 2 in real time. That way you have a chance to be cleansed.. but I also see how thisnwould be difficult to implement, and potentially "too realistic".

On a similar note what about poisons that rogue might have functioning in this manner?

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