Just went out to Hillsbrad to get some pieces of gear for a fresh 120 to get ready for the prepatch, and surprise surprise, the vendors are gone.
Why? Who in the actual flying donkey hell went and made that decision?? Who actually sat there and went “Oh no we can’t let them able to buy 410 weapons just a few weeks before 445s are the new greens from the prepatch launch event! We need to put a stop to that RIGHT NOW… not three months ago, but RIGHT NOW!”
What a disastrously idiotic decision. I’m hoping this is some sort of amateur hour mistake and they weren’t intended to be taken out with zero warning. The vendors weren’t a problem for literally months, but now that they are less relevant than ever, they have to go?
Just so everyone is clear, these vendors are completely unrelated to TW, and were added during the 15th anniversary event in support of the Legend of Korrak version of Alterac Valley. They have nothing to do with the 5 weeks of TW event.
These two vendors have been available in game, selling misc ilvl 410 pieces (rings/weapons were the most useful items sold) for the better part of the last year until they were removed earlier this week.
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Timewalking is a temporary event.
Now, if you’re asking for them to make TW permanent, I could get behind that.
I kinda like it as a temporary event, I feel like it makes the ques faster.
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It is possible. Maybe they could do one every three weeks or something, I know a lot of people who seem to enjoy it, myself included. It is very nice to run dungeons you love on characters you’re already comfortable playing! 
I enjoyed those 5 straight weeks though, that was fun
Thank you for your insight, but the vendors have been active and up since the Legend of Korrak event, which was part of the 15th anniversary event. This event began on Nov 5, 2019 and the vendors have been available since, until this week. The anniversary event came to a close on Jan 5th, 2020, approximately nine months ago.
The vendors had nothing to do with the timewalking events.
Again, thank you for your thoughts on the matter.
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I just found this out the hard way myself.
Had a few alts ready to get some starter weapons, flew all the way out and no vendor.
Would have been nice to at least list it as a hotfix or something instead of randomly removing it.
Yeah, I have no idea whats going on with this. Seems like such a random dumb unnecessary change.
It’s possible that they were only ever intended to be part of the anniversary event and were forgotten about until now.
Just a thought but could phasing have anything to do with this? I will miss those vendors too on my alts!
I suppose that is possible, but nine months is a long time to let something just go like that, and all the while consistently bumping the ilvl of the items they sell? The items were 410 before they were removed.
I don’t know, it just seems like a such silly thing to remove this late in the game…
Probably getting ready for the level squish.
Now I wonder if Darkmoon Faire is going to be screwed again during the pre-patch and after launch like BfA.