I've noticed that the majority of Gates baking recipes require vegetables. As a barbarian beastlord who cannot forage but would love to further my baking abilities without begging foraging friends for their scroungings, I'd love to have an AA ability that allows me to forage. To balance this, it could allow those who already forage to gain skill in foraging, and allow those who can't forage to be able to forage, even if the skill is meager - that way those who can forage naturally aren't having their talents nullified, but those who can't foraged aren't stuck using recipies that don't require foraged items and can work up their skill in the wonderful, step-by-step way that Gates allows one to. This would be a great asset to those who don't have room on their server's account to make another character just to forage with, whether their slots are already full of characters, or whether they play on Firiona Vie and only have one character to work with, or maybe just for people who don't want to make another character and want to make their character the best it can be.
I would like to be able to see the flags I have in a more organized manner - or in the case of Gates, just to see what flags I have, period.
I would like for the Coirnav timer for failures to be lessened from the current three day wait in place.
I would like to see the models not necessarily updated, but fixed. I'm not a fan of my barbarian beastlord's 2 hand blunt graphic - she doesn't even use both hands! She just pokes them with the end of the weapon while the other hand dangles free. Old graphics don't have this problem, but then I can't use my horse.
Also, the hat for barbarian women that has a flap in the back looks way too much like a mullet and is just revoltingly unattractive. Unfortunately I didn't know the graphic on my current hat before attuning it to my character, so instead of being able to give it to someone that doesn't care what they look like, I am stuck with it. The stats on it are great, so I wear it instead of my old graphicless helmet, but I can't help being vain. The mullet look is just not what I'm going for! I'd love to let my hair down and not worry about nasty hat hair. So my suggestion - no, I'm begging! - please change the barbarian hat graphic with the flap on the back to just a normal helmet without the flappy thing that looks like it's cutting into my neck when I ride my horse? *sniffles*
Speaking of my horse, why does my character seem to have the worst posture ever when riding a horse? Hunchback is not the look I was going for either. I just want to poke the middle of her back and tell her to sit up straight!
When dying my barbarian's armor, which is mostly leather since I am a beastlord, I have to find a color that works with the plaid. There is no way to dye my plaid any shade lighter than the natural green, so I can't have a snowy white plaid set of armor. Trying to dye any other colors just looks cheesy, and even black doesn't fade out the plaid the whole way (but I find it the most bearable option). The gold medallions across the chest end up dying the same color as the fabric. It's bad enough I have my chest hanging out, but at least if I'm going to have a cute accessory like that, it should look like the pretty chain it was meant to be. My suggestion here is to somehow fix the barbarian women's leather graphic to allow dye to take better with the plaid, so it still looks plaid but not so obviously dyed. When a robe that is multicolored is dyed, sometimes the colors still stay seperate, although they change to coordinate and still match the dye.
I would love to see barbarians have a robe graphic as well. Why not? It just stinks to try to roleplay a wedding when the closest thing to white you can wear is a silvery-dyed set of plate (if you're lucky enough as a beastlord to gather a set of plate - and anyway, who wears armor to a wedding!), or a green plaid, since you can't dye the leather to white.
Take advantage of the town criers! Give them more news to distribute, more funny stories. Heck, even allow players to send in stories that could be put in the newspapers. Have the papers be either serverwide or even go so far as to make server specific newspapers that deal with the guilds and players that interact with each other daily - much like the United States might all get USA Today, but a town also has their local paper that nobody across the country would care much about.
Allow libraries to have more books of lore. I'm always the one in groups begging to loot the books that drop, merely because I love to read the lore and little messages in them. Myrist was a great concept, in my opinion! To be able to 'check out' books that are purely there for entertainment purposes (rather than as part of a quest) is one of my favorite things about the game. If the libraries across Norrath would stock up their collections, I would be thrilled. I know of Shadow Haven's library, and I think Erudin has one (and probably a bunch more across Norrath I'm not aware of)... but to only be able to 'check out' books if you have the faction to get into that town, that would give a reason for average players to work on factions with certain places (other than just for roleplay purposes of being able to walk into a specific town when you'd otherwise be KoS).
Expanding on this idea, you could have a quest to obtain a library card... or even go so far as to have an NPC in the library that might quiz you on certain books, and getting the quiz right would give you experience, or even have a series of them across the world and be able to obtain a title like Loremaster if you successfully complete them all. Granted, this would be an idea to highly expand on and would need a lot of thought to make it so people wouldn't be able to exploit it once they know the answers to questions, but if lore were made a large aspect of the game somehow, that would be really cool. Heck, if lore were even made a small part of the game anymore, that would be really cool! To have a solid set of "official" lore that doesn't contradict itself like the current lore does quite often sure would be nice.
