What are Endeavors, the Neighborhood-wide monthly event in Player Housing?

While Player Housing early access is now in full swing, we won’t be able to experience the month-long collaborative block party of Endeavors until Midnight launches next year. Even though it will be a while until we get our hands on them, it’s worth it to run down what we know about this collaborative repeating event and the rewards that can be earned by completing it.

About once a month, each Neighborhood will get a chance to honor one of the different cultures of Azeroth by completing a very wide variety of in-game tasks. Progress towards these Endeavors feels a bit like completing the monthly Trading Post goals — everything from crafting to completing quests to running dungeons will reward Endeavor currency, Community Coupons, as well as Neighborhood Favor.

Community Coupons will be used to buy housing decoration from NPCs that will visit the neighborhood as the Endeavor unfolds. It sounds like selecting an Isle of Dorn Endeavor might see progressively more Earthen visit your neighborhood, each one offering a wider and fancier collection of uncomfortable stone seating options.

Neighborhood Favor looks to be essentially an experience bar and reward track for each player’s individual house. Leveling up your house will increase your decor limit, which will obviously never be high enough for any person truly excited about Player Housing. You’ll also get decoration rewards for reaching each level.

Public Neighborhoods will have their Endeavors selected automatically, but Private Neighborhoods such as those run by a guild will be able to choose each Endeavor.Some game-wide occurences, such as the launch of a new expansion, will trigger the same Endeavor for every Neighborhood. If your guild is on the smaller side, worry not — the amount of adventuring needed to complete an Endeavor will scale according to the population of each Neighborhood.

Something to note is that Endeavors will cause the appearance of the Neighborhood at large to change along with the progress made towards completing it. In an example pair of screenshots, a Val’sharah Endeavor results in a common space becoming populated with gnarled trees and stomping ancients. The developers note in the blog post that a major goal was to make each Neighborhood have a unique feel, so that visiting the next one over is more interesting than dropping in on all of your friends’ identical Level 3 Garrisons.

With what we know so far, I feel like Endeavors will likely add a bit of flavor to Neighborhoods beyond the differences in individual homes. I admit I had been picturing a fairly drab set of roads and trees in between player-owned plots, so the ability to collectively spice up common areas will be nice. I’m hoping that none of these features/currencies/reward tracks get too complicated, because it is starting to seem like Xal’atath herself concocted Player Housing as a distraction to claim Azeroth’s World Soul while we min/max the appearance and placement of our hoard of decor options. If that is the case, then I might just sit back on my exquisitely decorated front porch and watch the void-tinged fireworks.