A cooking quest line would be pretty sick. You travel across the world using local ingredients (herbs and animals) to make unique dishes.
Could be a good opportunity to throw some lightheartedness into the game (e.g. eating a spicy dish to blow some flames on an icy blockage, a dish that makes you see things, etc).
The rewards would be exclusive recipes, skins (e.g. chef hat), and emotes (e.g. cooking with a frying pan motion, eating, etc).
I like it. Maybe a legendary cooking quest line after you hit 200. Here’s a thought: At 200 you get a legendary quest line to take a Food Truck (ok, food cart in this case) around the world and cook/provide locally sourced food.
Adding unique things like this to the game is actually more important than it may seem. The majority of the player loss wasn’t due to endgame or even the bugs. The majority of players left because they felt the game became stale around midgame.
Hopefully AGS is still actively working on stuff for the midgame (and not just trying to speedrun players to endgame). These forums kind of create an echo chamber that makes it seem like all the focus needs to go towards balancing and endgame stuff, but you have to realize that the majority of people that stopped playing during the midgame aren’t going to be active users on these forums.