The Together Forever Challenge

[Schwarzschild]

The Together Forever Challenge
-A duo leveling challenge-

Mattydemise already submitted this suggestion on my behalf but I thought I'd repost and expand it here:

When choosing this challenge you have to provide the name of another character from the same faction on a different account who chooses the same challenge. Alternatively this could also be implemented with a clickable rune that you apply to your partner character after character creation.

• Both characters will ONLY gain XP or honor when they are no more than 1 level apart, grouped, and within the same instance/battleground or close enough together (in the open world) [this retains each character's freedom to farm resources and craft by themselves]
• Until level 60, both characters can only equip items that either one of them crafted [this incentivizes synergistic profession choices and also prevents people from avoiding class pairings that overlap in their loot, e.g, Paladin+Warrior]
• Each character gets a "Band of Friendship" ring that allows them to teleport to each other once per 24h (only if they are both online of course) [this also allows them to play together right at level 1 even if they are in different starting zones]

Level 60 reward could be a unique title that says "Eternal friend of [partner character's name]". Both characters may also keep their Band of Friendship rings.

The Together Forever Challenge is very well suited to be combined with the War Mode, Exhaustion, and/or Trial of Heroism challenges.

[Aegor1998]

I think this is a wonderful idea

[Berdal]

Although I like the idea. Seems too complicated and convoluted. Challenges should have simple rules.

[Schwarzschild]

Although I like the idea. Seems too complicated and convoluted. Challenges should have simple rules.

Other than removing the exclusive crafting aspect, I don't see how a challenge that specifically calls for SOCIAL gameplay with a specific friend can be designed in a simpler manner.

Social challenges like this are sorely missing.

PS: A clickable rune given by an NPC, that grants you as well as ONE other player (i.e., it has only two charges) a permanent (de-)buff causing you to gain XP only together (see OP) does not sound too complicated. The basic principle would not be novel.

[Adesta113]

Crafting this is unnecessary. But yeah, it's really cool thing (which I would play with a gf, if she hadn’t left WoW first and then me). Also for HC can made some kind of Soulbond: if one die - both die.

[Schwarzschild]

Crafting this is unnecessary. But yeah, it's really cool thing (which I would play with a gf, if she hadn’t left WoW first and then me). Also for HC can made some kind of Soulbond: if one die - both die.

Honestly I don't think that the crafting aspect of the proposed challenge would be complicated at all. The current crafting challenge allows only items with the player's tag to be equipped. My challenge would simply add another name tag to the allowable list.