Player Housing OverviewNeighborhood Endeavors GuideMidnight Season 1 Overview
Community Engagement Player Housing Weekly
With the weekly reset on the Midnight Beta, Housewarming is no longer available but has been replaced with the Community Engagement quest still from Vaeli, the dracthyr postmaster in Silvermoon. Again listed as Weekly in datamining, we believe this will be a new rotating Player Housing weekly quest.
To complete the new quest, simply make a purchase with Community Coupons from a Neighborhood Endeavor vendor available in any Neighborhood with an active Endeavor. For completing the quest, you'll be rewarded with:
Your choice of:
20x Hero Dawncrest
40x Champion Dawncrest
60x Veteran Dawncrest
500x Voidlight Marl
3x Void-Touched Augment Rune
As well as the base rewards of:
Essence of Lumber
500x Voidlight Marl
25x Community Coupons
In order to obtain the minimum 5x Community Coupons to make a purchase, players will need to have a Player House and engage with an active Neighborhood Endeavor. This typically involves completing Endeavor tasks or the Neighborhood initiative. Tasks can range from neighborhood maintenance activities to completing delves, defeating raid bosses, and more.
The Endeavors UI
Player Housing weeklies also award Community Coupons, so it is possible to save the previously earned coupons for this specific quest.
The "No Player Power" Rule
In the previous article, we covered Blizzard’s strict stance on ‘no player power from player housing’ from multiple interviews. While we asserted that these new weekly quests do break that rule, it was a fairly soft break in a bit of a gray area for a few reasons:
Fairly easy completion requirements.
Myth Dawncrest are unobtainable.
Weekly crest caps maintain quest as optional.
Increased foot traffic to neighborhoods.
While most of the above still stands for the latest quest, asking players to engage with one of Player Housing’s core systems like Neighborhood Endeavors feels like a more egregious break of the rule.
To start, players will need to own a House in a Neighborhood with an active Endeavor to earn Community Coupons. There may be a few loopholes around it like previous weekly quest rewards, but the most assured method is homeownership. Then the quest will require Endeavor task completions. Players may earn coupons passively through activities they’re already completing like Mythic+, but it definitely feels one step further than gathering friends inside a Player Home.
The Horde Endeavor Coffer
This quest will certainly increase engagement in Player Housing, but I’m not sure this one does as much for exploring other Neighborhoods and Player Houses like the previous one. If your Neighborhood doesn’t have an active Endeavor for the required vendor then you can visit a friend’s though those circumstances will be rare. That sense of adventure and showcase of design tipped the needle for me last time, and without that here this quest feels less forgivable in keeping with the original tenets of Player Housing.
Did this new quest sway your opinion on the player power in Player Housing debate? Do you mind having player power from Player Housing or how far is too far?
