Today, Blizzard released the following article, giving us a first glimpse at the features planned for housing interior design:
TLDR:
The house interior size won’t be locked to the size of the exterior
You can place partitions to create custom room layouts
You can move objects on all three axis (back/forth, up/down, left/right), including floating them up into the air
You can rotate an object freely on ANY axis
You can overlap furnishings with each other, and sink them into walls
You can scale the furnishings smaller/bigger
Newly created furnishing assets can be dyed into different colors
UI screenshot alludes to the possibility of being able to create more than 1 floor
Wallpaper, ceiling and floor textures can be changed
Certain types of decor get parented to bigger props
On the last housing thread, as well as many others, some players have expressed concerns about how the housing feature might impact the roleplaying landscape. It’s understandable to hold that opinion, and yes the landscape will certainly change in some ways. This thread though, is meant for finding positives in how the feature might breathe new life into the roleplay between individuals, guilds, communities and even public initiatives.
I’m interested to see the creative projects the community will bring to life. There’s no doubt we’ll see beautifully designed character homes, different types of taverns and shops, impressive guild headquarters, prisons and laboratories, mage towers, and much more.
If there’s enough variety in the assets available, what would you be most excited to build? How would you use it for roleplay?
A proper Pandaren household, first and foremost. Something liveable, maybe with a small home brewery or something similar. Hopefully, there would be space for more than one living room, too, since it’s something each an every Pandaren house in-game suffers from.
I would start with a Manor for Mori proper… Or a ingame version for Mordent’s proposed Bel’ameth Academy, although I would probably leave that to you or Lintian, since the two of you are way more well estableshid within the community!
A quiet forest/townhouse for Kaytlinne.
For my Nelf, her mothers house under Amir’drasil.
My Pandaren’s family home/farmstead/brewery.
And so many more, it’s such a long list
A chamber in the pyramid of Zanchul, but I’d bet the world extensive troll assets are low on the priority list - Blizzard themselves didn’t properly furnish a single domestic space in Zandalar
My main RP character is a mage who lives out of an enchanted traveling trunk. It houses a small pocket realm that presents itself as a home on the inside when you step into the trunk. The Fate of the Kirin Tor questline elaborated more on them being common (ish) with mages who create them for private research purposes, and the key can be any object — I’ve RPed this thing for over 5 years, but I’m glad to finally have a lore source vindicating it.
With the exterior not being tied to the interior in any way, I am exceptionally excited for building this. While I doubt I can assign A Literal Trunk as the exterior space, some small shack or tent will suffice for the sake of entrance, since the character often sets up a tent to protect the trunk from the elements when making camp.
I’ve already built the space in Epsilon so I have a vision and a frame of reference to work with, although I will adjust it as needed to fit the WoW’s housing system, though the preview is really expansive and I’m confident I can do it justice.
I just need gothic Waycrest and Kul Tiras furniture to pull it off. Ideally I’m setting it up in the Duskwood part of the neighbourhood if the slot is available, though I hope they make Drustvar available eventually.
For Syelia, an elven house with focus on magical stuff and maybe some Light. Not too fancy, I´ll try to stick with the less elegant, more down to earth high elven feel.
But, if we get the ability to have more than one house per faction, I´m definitely doing a haunted mansion for some events.
I still hope all my characters can get their own house at some point
My Druids need their own Barrow Dens… And my Death Knight needs his Ancient Empire-esque Mausaleum which houses everyone from his family, even if lowborn
The fact that we can rotate furniture, clip it through thing(s) and place it seemingly however we want is beyond anything I hoped for what we would see.
For my house or quarters, I’m looking to re-create the Thandol Span interior, or rather the besieged interior of a beleagued dwarven defender. - In the sense that I am going to use the ability (May it work as they showed in the show-case), to rotate tables and create blockades and barriers. - I’m hoping they’ll add wall-mounted prop guns that can be reused, but yeah, that’s my initial plan in broad strokes.
Personally, I have no such plans - I’ll leave the Academy to Mordent Evenshade & his NPC entourage! Vaguely related though, one of the ideas I’ve been toying with in my head would be a bookshop somewhere.
Depending on how many houses we can get per account, I’d probably mostly create stuff for public event purposes, since this feature opens up many possibilities for customized backdrops.
If we can have multiple houses, event planning would go crazy with the kind of things we can pull off with it. If it’s just one per faction per account, I’m content with making my mage’s and my orc’s homes as a start. I sincerely hope we can have more than that.
It would pain me, but if its one per faction/per account, my Night Elven one would end up mostly… Night Elvish, with maybe a magical room for Mori; Horde-side is easier since its all Nightborne
I’d love to make something… Darker, like with skulls etc. But I doubt I could make what I desire, so I’ll go with making my RP char’s house, which would be cozy!
I think it’ll depend on how many ‘houses’ we’re given. If it’s one per account then I’ll probably be making my OC’s home.
If we’re given something like one-house-per-character then it’s going to be a great tool for making RP sets for personalised events; at that point, the ideas become infinite.
I also wonder how much furnishing is going to cost.
Like I’m going to dump my money into it, housing will be the main gameplay motivation for me along with RP transmog hunting, but I want to know what kind of expenses we can expect. Will there be a crafting component involved? I think it would be cool if, for example, different professions had profession-related furnitures you can craft. Professions shouldn’t be the only source of furnitures, but it makes sense to my ear if Alchemy provides… alchemy furnitures.
