Housing Balloon missing from a lot of major cities / towns

[verbal stag]

List of towns I wish had housing balloons, ordered by priority

• Thesead
• Aldorei
• Bucie
• Kandon Beda
• Rymek
• Islands
• Forgery

these have really good builds in the background (or atleast unique builds) and I wish they had housing balloons too

don't need to add both reactions for nons anymore, they fixed that

[fallen kelp]

added reactions

[viscid plinth]

i think the issue with these locations is that they just dont wanna add backgrounds for them

also, buice is not a big enough city to add a baloon for

if we are adding a bucie ballon, add a tempo town baloon

[analog plinth]

Islands?

And agreed, some are reasonably close, but a change can act as welcome QoL, others take too much effort (Going from Thesead to Eltom)

[cerulean plover]

Bucie is kinda unneeded, too small of a town.
forgery....i cannot tell if you are legitimately serious with that one
Thesead I agree
Aldorei I also feel is excessive. It's not a big enough town nor will you (or any actual player) be there long enough for it to be needed.
Kandon beda meh ig.
Rymek meh
"Islands" how very descriptive. Nah, you are a 5 second trip from selchar which has one, get real

[analog plinth]

If only Seaskipper didn’t blabber on for like 30 seconds.

[dire plinth]

reymek needs more love in general

[wooden sierra]

while we are at it give us an option to turn off seaskipper yap, potential items you can get from that is also disabled

[analog plinth]

Thanks for Zhight Money, time to throw it out of my inventory.

[mild nacelle]

i wish efilim had one but ik thats never happening,,,

[hidden cedar]

Kandon beda needs it the most imo

Being near TCC actually thesead too for the lootrun

Rymek as well but the others im indifferent to

[hidden cedar]

Yes please seaskipper yap is so annoying esp when trying to make world events

[thick gate]

considering the void has a housing balloon i feel like its not a stretch for any of these locations

[stoic lake]

Thesead still has no housing balloon after multiple posts 😔

[stoic lake]

I mean that’s an easy fix, just don’t give an option to move your island there.
That way you can still access housing even if you can’t set your house there

Unless someone is a huge stickler for Having to have each housing balloon spot have a setable background

[dusky ocean]

Uh

Thesead has ballon
Like tp in
Turn right

And it’s somewhere there

[rancid yoke]

efilim needs it more than forgery tbh. ive died and spawned there a lot of times and theres no bank or anything there

[fallen drift]

Kandon Beda is definitely needed. Thesead is DEFINITELY needed.

[leaden fulcrum]

Isn't it like there are smaller towns than bucie with housing balloon

[cerulean plover]

such as?

the only one thats on the weirder side is the void housing, which im pretty sure is only there because it was a cool shot for the trailer

all other towns seem reasonable

compared to a.....bridge

not even a town

its just a bridge with some fortifications

[leaden fulcrum]

Lusuco?

[cerulean plover]

lusuco doesnt have a housing balloon

unless the wiki page is horrendously outdated

also thats still bigger than bucie so bad example regardless

yeah just checked no housing balloon there

[verbal stag]

a lot of these I am asking cuz of their aesthetic too btw

[leaden fulcrum]

Ok nvm

[cerulean plover]

i doubt knew ones will get added for aesthetic reasons i am not going to lie

[leaden fulcrum]

Tho like, if void RoL and LI have it, then why shouldn't forgery have one

[verbal stag]

bucie has llevi plains around it, forgery is just cool af to look at, aldorei just looks awesome sauce weeb valley, kandon is tcc themed, rymek is mesa themed, island is just anything but selchar for ocean selchar is so ugly

but like this stemmed from my wish for a balloon in thesead

cuz thesead is so nice looking

[cerulean plover]

ok but why should forgery have one

also why the fuck are you using LI as reasoning for that

[verbal stag]

it looks cool :D

[cerulean plover]

LI is a good place to have a balloon 🤨

[leaden fulcrum]

^

[verbal stag]

I am mostly asking for these from a builder point of view tbh

[cerulean plover]

LI is functional not for "aesthetics" which you are trying to justify for forgery

[verbal stag]

I mean if this thread helps in getting us a thesead balloon I still count this a W

[turbid crag]

forgery housing would be sexy as shit and makes up for the lack of emerald merchant there (LEMME OPEN GUILD BANK)

[leaden fulcrum]

Access to emerald merchant and therefore tp scrolls
More variety
And it would be super cool

Reasoning for aldorei: it's a big town right now

[cerulean plover]

of your list the only one i think its needed for is thesead, and thats kinda only cause the lr camp is there

[verbal stag]

aldorei

[cerulean plover]

lol?

[turbid crag]

if only forgery is relevant...

[leaden fulcrum]

Yes.

[cerulean plover]

nice 2 quests and nothing further to do there

[turbid crag]

aldorei's only purpose is the uth shrine & some irrelevant quests that nobody does

[leaden fulcrum]

I mean it's as big as ragni

[verbal stag]

the eltom balloon in question

[turbid crag]

eltom has thesead fast travel

[leaden fulcrum]

Literally Eltom

[turbid crag]

which isn't even useful since it's so far on the thesead side to get to

[leaden fulcrum]

Eltom had literally 1 quest related to it

And yet

[cerulean plover]

i go to eltom far more than aldorei 🤷

[turbid crag]

that's a crazy statement

[verbal stag]

now that's a you thing brother....

[turbid crag]

at least i go to aldorei for uth shrine wtf is in eltom

[cerulean plover]

bank and stuff

[turbid crag]

that's literally anywhere

[cerulean plover]

entrance to rodo

[leaden fulcrum]

I mean
I get it, there's nothing much to do there and aldorei lore and etc
But still, by all means aldorei is a major town now

[turbid crag]

only time i ever go to eltom is bc there is no fucking balloon in thesead

[cerulean plover]

aldorei is most definitely not a major town

i am never going to agree on that

[turbid crag]

💀 idt you're winning the aldorei < eltom argument here

[verbal stag]

it's as major as Eltom

[leaden fulcrum]

Yes it is, it has fast travel from cinfras

[verbal stag]

hell more

[cerulean plover]

ok im not arguing that eltom is a major town either lol

id much rather replace eltom with thesead 🤷

[turbid crag]

so thus if eltom gets housing so should aldorei

[cerulean plover]

housing balloon wise

[leaden fulcrum]

And especially that just aldorei lies in a shithole that's another reason to put one there

[turbid crag]

aldorei has fastest travel to waterfall cave as well so idk it's acc pretty useful

[verbal stag]

Aldorei DESERVES a balloon.

• Aesthetic, fucking beautiful background for a housing
• Utility for it's uth shrine
• Big enough town with enough merchants to be considered for a balloon

Towns similar to aldorei that have a balloon

• Eltom
• Gelibord

[leaden fulcrum]

Because from that location the closest one is in cinfras

[turbid crag]

gelibord is def borderline major considering how many quests are in that area tho

[cerulean plover]

gelibord is a much more major town than aldorei 😂

[verbal stag]

eh ok I was stretching it with geli

[leaden fulcrum]

And aldorei is one of the towns that don't look like EO

[cerulean plover]

nice major town aldorei

while gelibord is highlighted

[verbal stag]

but still eltom

[cerulean plover]

eltom too btw

[verbal stag]

dawg that's wynntils

[turbid crag]

the map doesn't mean jack shit

[verbal stag]

you are not using wynntils as a reason for why Eltom is more useful and important than the fucking city of elves

[turbid crag]

"arbitrary waypoints set by devs determine what is major and what isn't" no absolutely not

[leaden fulcrum]

Well, because fking aldorei has become major town from retcon
And yes, that's just wynntils

[cerulean plover]

fine since you want to complain about that

heres the actual fucking map

happy?

[verbal stag]

scroll down

[turbid crag]

the map still doesn't fucking matter at all

[cerulean plover]

i did 😁

[turbid crag]

by this logic go put one in fucking ice islands or smth idk.

using the map to justify this makes no fucking sense

[leaden fulcrum]

^

[cerulean plover]

Ice islands highlighted as a region not a town

thats different

[leaden fulcrum]

Whoops sorry for ping

[stoic lake]

Bruh, where?

[cerulean plover]

maybe thinking of old thesead idk

[turbid crag]

not a single other region has that highlight

other than, guess what, realm of light, which guess what, has a housing balloon

[leaden fulcrum]

And void isn't even on the map

[turbid crag]

map is nonsense, don't try to pull that

[verbal stag]

Yeah out of the list I gave

[leaden fulcrum]

Also
VOID FUCKING REGION

[verbal stag]

Aldorei
Thesead
Rymek
Kandon Beda

Deserve a balloon the most

[leaden fulcrum]

Oh shadow

[turbid crag]

oh wow check it kandon-beda is ALSO highlighted on the map guess what

[cerulean plover]

me when i lie

[leaden fulcrum]

Kandon-Beda is marked white too, why it doesn't have a balloon?

[cerulean plover]

🤷

[verbal stag]

oh wowie it's almost as if it's a bullshit take to use the map as an excuse for why a town deserves a balloon over a more important one

[cerulean plover]

im not arguing that kandon beda shouldnt have a balloon

[cerulean plover]

i disagree on aldorei being important 🤷

[leaden fulcrum]

I'm sorry but just map color argument is pulled out of ass, especially that colors might be likely outdated

[turbid crag]

tell me which one has more useful things

[verbal stag]

it's still more important than some towns that already have a balloon, than is the keyword here (relativity in importance) ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[leaden fulcrum]

Due to both Bucie and Aldorei got major lift ups

[turbid crag]

have fun sugo im heading off this thread is too fucking stupid

[verbal stag]

wait does that mean the thread idea is stupid or what?

[turbid crag]

no

[cerulean plover]

the discussion in the thread is stupid

[verbal stag]

oh

[leaden fulcrum]

Ok, now one question

[verbal stag]

yeah I mean there's not much else to discuss, I'll stop for now too

[cerulean plover]

im gonna dip as well

[leaden fulcrum]

Why Rymek shouldn't get one, shadow

[cerulean plover]

i kinda cba to continue

notice how i never argued against rymek getting one

🤯

you are arguing against words you put in my own mouth

gg

have fun

[leaden fulcrum]

no access to guild bank

[verbal stag]

uh nihilus everyone agrees on rymek I think

[leaden fulcrum]

Okay

[verbal stag]

it's just aldorei that was the hot topic

[storm river]

there's a bank place in rymek no?

[cerulean plover]

cant access guild bank because no emerald merchants

[storm river]

oh, never checked

[leaden fulcrum]

But here's the plot twist: to access to guild bank you need emerald merchants

[cerulean plover]

idk if emerald merchants are locked to villagers skins, would be nice to get one there though

ill suggest an emerald merchant to rymek at least

housing doesnt work for rymek well i dont think though

theres nowhere for the island to be

[verbal stag]

above the canyons?

[cerulean plover]

and i dont know if locations without being able to "move" there is something devs want

[cerulean plover]

not enough space y limit wise

[verbal stag]

similar to eltom perhaps?>

[cerulean plover]

i gotta check eltom balloon 1s

[verbal stag]

or similar to rodo honestly since the mesa background is my reasoning for rymek honestly

[leaden fulcrum]

Or just change senseless mechanic of tying access to guild banks to emerald merchants instead of actual banks
It doesn't make sense!

[verbal stag]

I think we should avoid branching off into other feedback here

[cerulean plover]

i dont really care i am not going to lie

that isnt the topic of discussion

and its not something I am going to be proposing to devs

[verbal stag]

so uh did u check eltom yet?

[cerulean plover]

yeah

[verbal stag]

ye I was thinking smth similar

[cerulean plover]

issue with rymek over eltom is that eltom is at the top of the canyon and there isnt much higher than it

rymek is at the bottom of the canyon

and like

[verbal stag]

what about rodo?

[cerulean plover]

you are gonna look down directly to void lol

with stuff to the side

assuming that the pasting from the housing island doesnt clip into the mesa itself

you can see that happening in the troms balloon which is cutting it

[verbal stag]

it could be above a different part of mesa perhaps?

[cerulean plover]

dunno

kinda defeats the point of moving to a "town" if theres just

not gonna be a town there lol

[verbal stag]

I mean look at rodo

[cerulean plover]

the troms in question btw

for comparison

the pasting box of the housing balloon is quite big

[verbal stag]

doom... has anyone considered fixing thta

[cerulean plover]

rodo makes alright sense, given that the city is fully underground ig, but not ideal imo

[cerulean plover]

🤷

pretty sure all housing stuff is done dev side

[dusky ocean]

wtf

It shows one on the map

[cerulean plover]

Old thesead then

Map will be updated after fruma, not possible to update until then

actually no

it doesnt show on the map

wynntils map for you too since updated build and markers

[royal thorn]

just use the nexus at that point

[cerulean plover]

true

of the housings shown in the trailer, we have:
Detlas
Nesaak
Ragni
Void
Almuj
Olux
Back to detlas

no proper patch notes, fucked up

[minor berry]

Ngl unless someone tells me void has a balloon id probs not notice

[cerulean plover]

idk its not particularly relevant since you just access from ahmsord anyways

[analog plinth]

Too busy stashing my materials from outer void

[cerulean plover]

Lol?

Just use the bank in the hoarders house 😭

Er

The scavengers house

Same thing

[analog plinth]

Wait

[cerulean plover]

Yes

There is a bank there

[analog plinth]

It's an entirely new bank?

[cerulean plover]

It's a single enderchest in his house

[analog plinth]

Isn't it just

A bank, if so I have too much stuff in there.

[cerulean plover]

?

What

It accesses your account/character bank

[analog plinth]

Misc bucket

[cerulean plover]

Keep going to housing then

[dire plinth]

on gobb ive never visited Eltom in my life

Kandon-Beda should get a balloon because its right next to TCC

and the reason nobody other than me goes to Aldorei is because its quest locked

not saying it shouldn't be quest locked, but comparing the popularity of regions is always going to be skewed

it'd be nice to have a balloon at forgery but honestly im not sure how it would work as a housing setting

frankly I dont think every balloon location needs a housing setting

[rancid yoke]

we need more content on aldorei ngl. maybe some sort of repeatable content. i know theres an uth shrine there but thats about it

[turbid crag]

mfw i use aldorei to get to canyon ffa for warring, use the uth shrine obv, and pull up to waterfall from there

[minor berry]

Eltom is where i occasionally land when i /kill from bubbling terrace

[pliant veldt]

bucie hater,,,

[hidden cedar]

Not kandon beda?

[pliant veldt]

fast travel to corkus

[hidden cedar]

I am not going to mf corkus after every tcc raid 😭😭💔💔

[cerulean plover]

Meh

Could have one

But thesead is the bigger offender

[rancid yoke]

maybe tome bookshelf should be on cities or near raids ngl

[cerulean plover]

Imo

[rancid yoke]

housing exclusive storages feel a bit not right (for me), armor stands i understand because champion exclusive, but things like tome bookshelf should be on cities or near raids. maybe misc bucket too. but thats should be a different custructive feedback post and it would probably get locked for being a sugeestion

[pliant veldt]

Goin to bank after each raid it's crazy

[cerulean plover]

^ I gotta agree that's kinda wild

[graceful girder]

so is botting it but to each their own ig

[pliant veldt]

rent free

[hidden cedar]

Restock potions put items in bank and tomes in tome library repair items etc

In my housing they’re all next to each other so it’s quicker

[cerulean plover]

...?

everything except tome library is right next to each other in kandon beda lol

[hidden cedar]

Trade market stuff too if you get one of the better items from tcc

[cerulean plover]

why do you need tm

just put it in bank and sell it later 😭

[hidden cedar]

The new things sell for a good bit

[warm escarp]

/kill in chest room so ur sent to lutho (or wherever u were pre raid), u dont need to do that every run wtf 😭 ?

[hidden cedar]

i forget

and i should be able to play how i want

[warm escarp]

"there should be a potion merchant in buff rooms" ahh statement

[hidden cedar]

not even comparable but okay

actually that’s such a shit take it pisses me off clearly not the same thing at all

[dreamy heart]

why not add housing ballon directly at tcc enterance instead of kandeonbeda?
it has same purpose but with better aesthetic, imagine the punchbag colossus watching ur private islandhousing islands

[analog plinth]

Not enough space idt

[untold scroll]

i would be tempted to get a rank for old thesead housing background but it isnt possible :(

[serene cloak]

Rymek balloon is a hell yeah

[brittle knot]

also having a ballon in the void, lore wise is posible, since a lot of ballons fall down to the void

[dire plinth]

I thought housing balloons were out of lore anyway since you can't really justify taking a hot air balloon in SE (why is it there?) to a floating island hovering above a recreation of every major city

[stoic lake]

So that’s what happened to kandon beda’s balloon

[brittle knot]

lore wise is also posible since KB is a city of ballons and transport

[analog plinth]

Is it faster to just take the fast travel to Corkus and then go to your balloon from there.

I guess it depends on what class/archetype you're playing, but generally speaking.

[warm escarp]

no you /kill or scroll