Hello everyone! I’ve counted the votes and the card you wanted me to talk about most
is the summoning stone. Sometimes it feels like
it's always the same slackers that are waiting for a summon. Let’s begin shall we?!
In Hearthstone the summoning stone card was made because of the great summoner competition
tavern brawl. During that brawl you’d summon a random minion of the same mana cost after
casting a spell. This brawl was so popular that they decided to turn it into a card.
In world of Warcraft The summoning stone also called the meeting stone was added during
patch 1.3.0, according to wowpedia that was on the 7th of march 2005. In the early days
it wasn’t directly used to summon people as we use it for today, it was actually an early
version of the group finder. You could use the meeting stone at the apropriate dungeon
to que up for that dungeon, wait around for a while and with a little bit of luck, the stone would try to group you up with others
that also wanted to do the dungeon, that also used the meeting stone. The feature wasn’t a great scucces since not a lot of people
used it. For one you had to physcialy travel to the dungeon in order to que up with it
and this took you away from chat channels in which most groups were actually formed.
They did add the option later on to que through the innkeepers, but the que system didn’t really work and
people didn’t warm up to the idea. It wasn’t until patch 2.0.1, during the burning crusade
that the meeting stone could be used to summon members of your party to the instance. Before
that moment you had to rely on getting a warlock in your party who was able to summon the group
members 1 by 1. It was a little tricky though, it was not without risk, you never knew where the warlock had cast
his summoning portal and sometimes you’d find yourself spawning in over a hot pit of
lava or a great chasm dropping to your death. That’s what you get for slacking off and
waiting for a summon, but with the addition of the summoning stone that danger was gone.
The stones were not only used to summon people for a party to do the dungeon with , sometimes it was just a quick
and easy way to teleport people acros the zones, especially when they removed the individual
level requirements and made it that you only had to be lvl 15 in order to recieve a summon.
That became the summoning stone’s primary use since at the end of wrath of the lich
king, the looking for group tool was renamed to dungeon finder and it recieved several
upgrades compared to what it used to be. Now players had the option to anywhere in the
world select the roll they wanted to fullfill for the dungeon, que up for a random or specific
one, wait for the q to pop and instantly teleport into the dungeon. This meant that the summoning
stones were becoming pretty useless and it became even worse when the cataclysm introduced
a guild perk called have group will travel. Once a guild reached lvl 21, all members in the guild would
get this ability which allowed them to summon their group with a click of the button to anywhere
in the world, including into dungeons, raids or battlegrounds. That last bit was quickly hotfixed,
but the feature wouldn’t last for very long and was removed with mists of pandaria. This
made the summoning stone somewhat usefull again since it was once again one of the few
options you had to summon to slackers to the dungeon. Warlocks in the meantime had already recieved
some improvements with their summoning ability by being able to create a summoning portal
and this one could be used multiple times to summon multiple members instead of having
to cast the summong 1 by 1.
That’s pretty much the history behind the meeting stone or the summoning stone and I
honestly completely forgot that the meeting stone used to have a que system. It’s interesting
to see how the looking for group tool has evolved over the expansions. Now you might
wonder, how does summoning actually work within the lore and the truth is...I couldn’t find
a clear answer. When you look at the design of a summoning stone, it looks very similar
to a hearthstone. Hearthstones used to be very rare in the lore and the way that a hearthstone
works is still pretty vague. in the novel the shattering, Jaina gives a hearthstone
to Anduin and as she does, she explains that the rune on the stone, it means home, hearth, and that other runes refer to
the location it is set to, in that case it said Jaina’s name because that Hearthstone would take Anduin to Jaina. The prince later uses the stone and
they describe the teleportation as him simply materializing within theramore. We don’t know the origin
of the Hearthstone. We don't know who created them. You would say form the information that it's very much linked to arcane magic
so probably mages, yet the innkeepers daughter, which is an item you can get with archeology, that one suggests
that warlocks have the ability or skills to make these Hearthstones since a warlock turned the innkeepers
daughter into a hearthstone. It’s very possible that warlocks are the ones responsible for
the creation of hearthstones and in the case of the summong stone, we can see that the rune
looks different so instead of having the stone in your hand and teleporting to the destination,
now it’s the group that has the stone in their hands and they teleport you through the
twinsting nether to their location. This is all my interpetation and speculation though
since I couldn’t find a clear answer to the summoning question.
There is some information when it comes to portals and mages, but a clear source behind being teleported somewhere,
that is something I couldn't find and I would love to see them add more lore to this subject.
That is all I have for you today on the summoning stone. As always I’ll leave it up to you
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