Prestige System

[Crimsonclaws]

Here are my thoughts on this!

Its an idea from Project Ascension

Once your character reaches max level (level 60), you can visit an NPC in the Caverns of Time e.g.. Chromie and then she resets you character back to level 1 and teleports you to the starting zone of your race where you can choose a new class to level in if you wish.

OK! This i am mostly fine with, however letting folks change their class here could be problematic...

Unlike a new player, you would retain your gold, pets & mounts collected. While leveling back up again you can choose another challenge to add, e.g. the first time you leveled you selected Slow & Steady and this time you want to try Way of the Samurai combined with Brewmaster etc. etc.

No, you should absolutely lose all gold, no question about it. That would be insanely exploitable. The other stuff is fine though.

When starting over again the character could get an automatic +1% Crit and +1% Hit buff as a reward or maybe other stats are increased like strength if you are a warrior etc.

No, not at all! There should be a reward, but this goes too far!

Rewards after completing the challenge and leveling back to 60 might yields things like donation tokens, exclusive transmogs, exclusive mounts and titles.

So, i like the idea, but i dont like your suggestions for rewards...if i made it, I would have the reward be a single piece of the highest tier of raid gear...this is great because It will both reward HC players and give them a small taste of what raiding rewards are like! Thus it will push them to either try to prestige AGAIN or even better join the raiding or HC inferno raiding communities...the latter of which is in dire need of a population boost!!!

WOW! Thank you for your incredibly unhelpful post! Also, listen its actually to our best interest to introduce something like this to the game. Look i dont like very many of Ascensions ideas, but of the ideas they have..this is the one I have the least issues with! Also look at it this way, if Ascension does go down...there are going to be 1000s of Ascension refugees here!!! This system would give us something to placate them with, so that they dont go proposing even worse or more devastating ideas...

[Darktifa]

[Crimsonclaws]

Good your discomfort just makes me want it even more, thanks!

[Madredfox]

When I proposed this challenge I thought more would go for it. Have to admit I am surprised at the negative comments.

I remember playing on Nordanaar and ending up with 3 hunters thanks to the Alt'Olympics.

Now just imagine how much better that would have been if each time i was able to Prestige my hunter and start over again. Could have collected all the quest items for t'mog on one character. No more begging turtle dev's to allow ALL quest items to be learned when doing quests. I have seen this request a few times already on this forum.

Lets face it, this is classic wow we are playing not retail. If you take a break from the game for 6 weeks you don't fall behind and have to catch up. Even if you are decked in epic gear with BIS and full enchants, all you would lose if one does a Prestige challenge is maybe 3-5 raid resets. If Octo follows a similar system to Ascension then you keep your gear, you just cant use it till you 60 again. So the BIS gear will be in the bank waiting for you to level to 60 again and use it.

I can only see positives from a challenge like this, for the life of me I can not see a down side.

N.B. Before anyone jumps on this I better clarify, that on turtle wow as it is here for now character boosting was allowed so during the Alt'Olympics there where a lot of low level toons running around with a 60 following. It is something I hated seeing but that is just my game play.

[Octosaur]

The only notably thing you can do on a prestige system you can't do by just getting gibs from your lvl 60 alts is farming your soulbound gear ahead of time which isn't really a problem so I can't really think of anything decidedly unfair about it.

In terms of rewards titles would work.

"X the Reforged"
"X the Thrice Forged"
"X of the Many Lives"
"X of the Many Roads"

I think prestiging shouldn't have too much base reward because the incentive already exists if it lets you do challenges, and some challenges already reward currency so there's no need to give it to a prestige run (esp as it's technically easier than a normal levelling run.)

Getting extra options for transmog from quests, access to rewards from different levelling challenges, and bonuses from the likes of the Altlympics are all material incentive enough.