wow A Warning from Fellow Players: Don't Waste Anima on the Covenant Hearthstone

[Starym 3,800]

 

It seems players aren't quite happy with their Renown 11 option to buy a Covenant hearthstone.

There's a couple of issues here, as some players just (understandably) assumed it was an ACTUAL additional hearthstone, which you could use to get back to your Sanctum with its own cooldown, and were extremely disappointed to learn it wasn't. The actual thing you're buying for 750 anima is just a toy (Kyrian Hearthstone) with a special animation for your existing HS, themed to your Covenant. It's all described very clearly in the tooltip, but a lot of players just buy it, assuming it would work like the Garrison one, which isn't that unreasonable to assume.

(You can check out the rest of the animations here).

There are many posts about his topic, as players are really unhappy with this addition, but the reason it's in place is so the final upgrade on the transportation network would be meaningful, as it opens a portal to Oribos in your Sanctum. With Renown being so heavily gated and offering so few rewards each week, it is pretty disappointing that we just get a visual upgrade instead of a major utility. Us engineers don't have any of these problems, however, so I can't relate personally.

Here are just some of the many many posts:

• Kyrian and own the Eternal Traveler's Hearthstone? Don't bother wasting your anima on the Kyrian Hearthstone.
• Save your anima don't buy covenant hearth
• Warning: Covenant hearthstone completely useless... save your anima
• Don't buy the covenent renown 11 hearthstones for 750 anima! It's Just a regular hearthstone toy...

[Syridian 14]

Getting the playerbase to better read tooltips is well worth a bit of buyer's remorse.

 

[durdyenglish 298]

Seems like this item should just be a free reward when you do the final transportation network upgrade instead of a 750 anima toy we get well before said upgrade.

I did think this was a hearth to the sanctum when I saw it as a renown reward (the tooltip is not shown there), but realized before buying it that it was just a toy.

[SidonisAntares 290]

750 anima isn't that big of a deal at the moment, but really all this means is people will set their hearths to their Covenant once their one way portal is up.

[Rag 16]

I really don't want to be rude... but of course it's a toy? Like the other hearthstone toys? Like I can agree it's a bit of a pain not having a portal too and from your sanctum until portal network rank 3, but it says toy. Fortunately its 750 anima, which in the grand scheme probably won't break many banks.

[Wildwitch 108]

Seriously people? READ - it says it's a toy - just like all the other Hearthstone toys. NO sympathy.

[Valhalen 1,484]

This, kids, is why you read the tooltips.

[GhostPantser 0]

1 hour ago, Wildwitch said:

Seriously people? READ - it says it's a toy - just like all the other Hearthstone toys. NO sympathy.

So does the wormhole generator but you can use it for travel around shadowlands

 

[CharlesF 7]

I hadn't bought it yet, but just assumed from the name that it would operate like the Garrison Hearthstone. Whoops! Imagine my surprise if I did.

[Pandabuffel 184]

I only read the first couple of sentences and went 'Wait, people didn't knew it was just a cosmetic toy?'. The price isn't that high, so it's a nice little slap on the wrist for not reading for those people.

[bantexkaa 0]

"PeOpLe NoT ReAdInG ToOlTiPs GeT WhAT tHeI DeSeRvE" Come on guys... It is easy to confuse this with an actual item. The Elitism on this site is so annoying. 

You read the tooltip? Good for you. 

[Calin 50]

10 hours ago, bantexkaa said:

"PeOpLe NoT ReAdInG ToOlTiPs GeT WhAT tHeI DeSeRvE" Come on guys... It is easy to confuse this with an actual item. The Elitism on this site is so annoying. 

You read the tooltip? Good for you. 

This has nothing to do with elitism.
There's several other hearthstone cosmetic "skins", so it's naive to automatically presume that this would be any different.
 

[Chud 8]

I'm just disappointed with how it looks, was hoping something like wings appear and you fly upwards or a Kyrian comes and grabs you away. You just turn light blue, very meh.

[Valhalen 1,484]

11 minutes ago, Chud said:

I'm just disappointed with how it looks, was hoping something like wings appear and you fly upwards or a Kyrian comes and grabs you away. You just turn light blue, very meh.

Same here. I was expecting something more from the Night Fae Heartstone. It is just the generic casting animation with blue particles. Back to the Valentine's Hearthstone for me.

[Kopuliak 17]

it's just a toy for effect like other HS toys, what they expected lol ?? Also 750 anima isnt expensive, it's 1-2 hours doing anima WQ's. And I like my vamp HS.

[Znifler 58]

16 hours ago, bantexkaa said:

"PeOpLe NoT ReAdInG ToOlTiPs GeT WhAT tHeI DeSeRvE" Come on guys... It is easy to confuse this with an actual item. The Elitism on this site is so annoying. 

You read the tooltip? Good for you. 

LOL

[Malarik 0]

15 hours ago, Calin said:

This has nothing to do with elitism.
There's several other hearthstone cosmetic "skins", so it's naive to automatically presume that this would be any different.
 

Not elitism then, just fragile ego'd clowns, desperate to feel superior and taking any opportunity to criticise others even when it's a simple and easy to make mistake. A mistake that they, of course, would never make because they are WAY WAY smarter than your average person. Even though I guarantee they've all done *filtered* like this in WoW dozens of times because everybody has.

You are assuming that people have or are even aware of these other Hearthstones, and that makes them "naive".  No mate, just like everybody else, you are desperate to feel superior, get over yourself.

It's quite pathetic really.

Edited December 18, 2020 by Malarik

[Malaka 0]

For those saying "read the tooltip" don't remember this guy which worked fully as a HS, albeit the same CD however it freed you up a bag slot 

https://www.wowhead.com/item=64488/the-innkeepers-daughter

[Calin 50]

18 hours ago, Malarik said:

Not elitism then, just fragile ego'd clowns, desperate to feel superior and taking any opportunity to criticise others even when it's a simple and easy to make mistake. A mistake that they, of course, would never make because they are WAY WAY smarter than your average person. Even though I guarantee they've all done *filtered* like this in WoW dozens of times because everybody has.

You are assuming that people have or are even aware of these other Hearthstones, and that makes them "naive".  No mate, just like everybody else, you are desperate to feel superior, get over yourself.

It's quite pathetic really.

First of all champ, you're doing exactly what you're accusing everyone else here for doing.
You're saying that everyone else, who does not agree with you, are bad people, who just want to feel superior, which in itself is you wanting to feel better than everyone else.

Secondly. There's nothing wrong with making a bad decision. My job in real life is as a teacher, and I strongly believe that making mistakes is a vital part of learning, and if you "baby-proof" everything and never allow individuals to make mistakes, then they won't learn the value of experience or proper research.

Thirdly, there's absolutely no need for swear words since everyone else here is trying to have a civilized discussion.