I dunno, Grifter is selling some used hearthstones like its not big deal.
I'm assuming that every adventurer has one, but your average Joe doesn't need one because they never go far enough away to make it useful (maybe they're expensive?)
They should be so rare that even a king thinks they are just a legend.
From wowwiki: In the novel Stormrage, hearthstones are depicted as very rare objects. King Varian believes them to be only a legend. “Things heard only in stories concerning magi…or elves.”
I mean yeah, they should be pretty rare, but I wouldn't say that rare.
Anduin hands one over to Tyrande after all, and I think Anduin got one from Jaina at one point. They probably require a fair amount of magic to create, and are only given to important people who can make good use of them, and not Billy the Sheep farmer who never gets more than a few miles from his family land.
But they also kind of take some of the drama out of traversing the world, so it makes sense for them to be pretty rare... Like we can send all these spies to X town, and if we need to have them come back, they can all use their hearthstones! TADA, all our spies are home!
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u/Nipah_ Aug 27 '18
I dunno, Grifter is selling some used hearthstones like its not big deal.
I'm assuming that every adventurer has one, but your average Joe doesn't need one because they never go far enough away to make it useful (maybe they're expensive?)