Awesome Idea For the Devs #1: Hearthstone Equipment

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With the upcoming Noblegarden event, we’ll have yet another custom hearthstone to add to our growing collection, which is getting quite sizeable by now. Hearthstone collecting is, in fact, starting to feel like mount collecting.

Therefore I propose a new gameplay addition that everyone will LOVE! Hearthstone equipment.

Your hearthstones will all be brought together on a special Collections tab, and a new Hearthstone Equipment slot will be added to enhance your gameplay! It’s gonna be great. Let me explain.

You know how you have to join a pesky guild to get the 15 minute hearthstone cooldown? Annoying, right? Nobody likes that! I mean, euww, guilds, right? So you’ll be thrilled to learn that the cooldown reduction is being removed from the guild perks,. because too many people felt forced to join guilds to get it.

Instead, the 15-minute cooldown will be one of several exciting new Hearthstone Equipments that you can earn through gaining exalted reputation with factions, killing mythic raid bosses and - rarest of all - completing the “Master Calligrapher” achievement.

You’ll be able to slot a Hearthstone Equipment and it will apply to ALL your hearthstones automagically! It’s gonna be awesome.

Available equipments will include:

  • Caffeinated Monster Stone: Makes hearthing a 0.3 second cast.
  • Interactive Graphite Stone: Lets you complete a “Calligraphy” shape on the ground to trigger hearthing.
  • Rolling Stone: Hearth like Ozzy Osborne. You may end up in the other faction’s city.
  • Rammstone: Spawns a group of those birds in Zuldazar that go “DU” to perform a cover version of “Du Hast” while you hearth.
  • Oxygenated Inflatable Mount Stone: Hearths your water strider, leaves you there.
  • Emma Stone: Only usable by Emma Stone.
  • Extreme Transmog Stone: Permanently replaces a random piece of gear while hearthing. Exciting!
  • Boring Stone: Reduces hearthstone cooldown to 15 minutes.

All of these new equipments will be available from instanced content, PvP and world quests (with the exception of Boring Stone, which will only be available from the in-game store as part of a limited edition charity double-pack bundle with the new “Make Magni Stop Being Scottish” toy.)

I’m sure you’ll all agree this will make hearthing much more exciting and ensure that nobody feels forced into anything in any way (unless of course you happen to be Emma Stone).

Yes, it’s Sunday.

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I know this is parody but I would love to see it happen. I would definitely prefer to be unguilded if I could. I join guilds just for the perks. I never speak on guild chat. I never join guild events.

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Well, most of the perks that made it worth joining a guild for the guild got removed, leaving just the quality-of-life stuff that really should have just been made baseline (but instead is probably on the chopping block as well - mark my words, the devs will have their eye on that 15 minute hearthstone cooldown, easily removable by claiming the old chestnut “it made players FEEL FORCED to…” :wink: