Recently I noticed an Intact Scribe Stick in my bag and when I looked it up, learned these progress your skill in learning Furbolg.
I farmed for Liberated Furbolg Artifacts and leveled up to be fluent in Furbolgeze. It was fun learning what the NPCs were saying as I learned the language and unlocked a whole new quest chain.
Are there other languages you can learn? I searched and it seems like this has always been a feature that was intended to be included in WoW but I couldn’t find if there were other languages you could learn similar to this?
I think mages have an ability that lets them understand all languages
and curse of tongues lets you speak demonic
but outside a few niche and temporary things like that, you can’t permanently learn common if you’re horde for example.
At this point in wows life, the language barrier is near pointless and just a relic of when the game cared slightly more about the world and immersion.
Warlocks can let you speak Demon. And there’s a potion that lets you speak binary. There also might be something that lets you speak like a pirate but I could be remembering wrong.
As far as outright learning a new language, not that I know of.
There is a very very old and obscure bug that used to happen back before AQ 40 got opened. Part of that quest had you make a book called Draconic for Dummies. And some times when Gnomes read it they would learn how to speak Draconic. Only a handful of times did Dragons ever speak Draconic so it wasnt all too important but now that we have Dracthyr and they use it as a racial language I think it would be fun to see if any gnomes are still around who can understand them. Mages also got a Glyph of Tongues that allowed you to read the basic enemy language but not speak it.
I feel like not enough people know about the Elixir of Tongues. I learned about it during my stint on Moon Guard. I use them frequently when I’m tanking the Stormwind AH/Trade District so I can read what the lil’ Alliance are /saying about me and when they’re forming a plan to take me down. I rarely see anyone else using it when I try to talk to them, though. Most of the Void Elves don’t even realize that they can talk to me in Thalassian. Or, when I was a demon hunter, other demon hunters of the opposite faction didn’t know how to talk to me when I talked to them.
I think that the different languages are neat, though. Maybe it’s just because I have very fond memories from vanilla/earlier days when people seemed to actually used them. Back when everything was a lot slower paced and people talked in dungeons/cities/open world. Heck, I met my first IRL relationship in Wrath when we were tanking/healing a heroic Violet Hold pug together and I started talking to her in Draenei about how bad the DPS were for dying to everything.
That being said, I think that the language barrier of the two common languages is pretty obsolete and needs to go. It’s especially ridiculous since we can run dungeons with people we couldn’t talk to if we ran into them in the open world, lol.
That is an unopened Kit which had the book bindings, a robe which made enemy’s friendly and I forget what the 3rd thing was but there was 3 things in the bag.
And those are the pages of Draconic for Dummys. The quest bugged out on me and I was able to obtain 2 copies of the kit and 2 copys of the pages but I never went back and got the last 2 pages a second time before they were removed sadly.
This druid is old. She was made day 2 of WoW’s launch. Was Nightelf back then but once Cata rolled around I race swapped her to Worgen. I have a ton of old unobtainable things.
