Revive Story mode with daily quests

[Chosen]

You browse through the three planets and some of the maps have a note on them. You tap/click on it and it reads "Increased chance to drop an Apprentice set item" or "Increased chance to drop a Hailstorm"; different maps every day. Small chance, I am not talking about raining Assault boots, just ensure that 1 item drops at most every 2-3 runs.
Another map has the note "+20% Gemstone drop rate" or a similar note for Gold, again for that day.
Three of those "flagged" maps every day; 2 have notes for set items (cycles through classes and sets) and the 3rd is one of gemstones, gold or named items.

Set items drop as Rare/Epic/Legendary quality for Normal/Heroic/Legendary difficulty respectively.

Stats are intentionally mid-range, so as to not replace the TL80/100 farming, but instead be used to relief some of the frustration on early players who "just can't drop that Juggernaut chest armor" or "haven't seen a Mukraiser in 600 CLs".

Also, maybe by cycling a small gemstone boost on a different map every day, will help the people who's brain is turning to pulp after 5k SoA runs.

Thoughts?

[Melchiah]

+1. Nice. This would also add incentive to and break up the monotony of Gem-farming re-runs, and would further enhance any future Acts.

Quasi-related to Story Mode revival: Class-specific story-based side mission maps. Mage is called on to rescue a kidnapped mentor from a minotaur in a dungeon. BH gets a contract to chase down some mythical beast. Warrior returns to his home village to complete a rite of passage that will help him figure out why he sucks so much. Etc.

[GrauGeist]

SoA should have 3x Gemstone drop rate.

That is all.

[Chosen]

SoA should have 3x Gemstone drop rate.

That is all.

Yes. Because nothing says diversity & variety better than tripling the incentive for those 10 second runs in that one map that already has a counter in the 4 digits.

[tshell]

Yes. Because nothing says diversity & variety better than tripling the incentive for those 10 second runs in that one map that already has a counter in the 4 digits.

You're doing it wrong if your counter is in the 4 digits. Just sayin'

I may have ran that map several hundred times, but the counter is still <20 because waiting for the victory takes more time than abandoning does.

[Un_known333]

OP do you play Diablo 3? Cuz that sounds exactly like bounties except bounties are endless and what you are suggesting is a fixed daily quest(s)

[Cultusfit]

It's It even better if the had slightly larger maps...

You could hide special enemies in there with drops guaranteed and stuff.

Guess in a way that could still be done....
"One of ragadams minnions has an object of power, find them and slay them to claim in for the light somewhere on *planets name* before time runs out!"

Now you need play each level until you are lucky...

[Humus]

You're doing it wrong if your counter is in the 4 digits. Just sayin'
I may have ran that map several hundred times, but the counter is still <20 because waiting for the victory takes more time than abandoning does.

There's an internal counter which includes every run, even if you abandoned.