Hearthstone

Item Level 1 Disenchants into:

Not disenchantable

Binds when picked up

Unique

Use: Returns you to <home location>. Speak to an Innkeeper in a different place to change your home location.

Cooldown: 30 minutes

10 sec cast

A Hearthstone is a device used to teleport oneself to any home place (an inn, location set by the player) in the world. All characters receive a Hearthstone upon creation. Should the player destroy it, asking an innkeeper to “make this inn your home” will recreate one for free.

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Recommended home locations

Through the Warlords of Draenor expansion, Shrine of Seven Stars for Alliance or Shrine of Two Moons for Horde are nice places to set your hearth to because they have a portal to all major Alliance capitals for the respective faction. They also include Dalaran and Shattrath City for both factions. As of Patch 6.2, Stormshield for Alliance or Warspear for Horde are nice because they access to portal to Tanaan Jungle quest hubs and Auction House which the shrines lack, as well portals to the non-expansion faction capitals.

But in the case of inexperienced players, the home is usually set to a convenient location bearing in mind the zones in which they are questing and the instances they might be going to:

For the Alliance

For the Horde

Ghetto hearthing

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As of patch 3.1.0 , ghetto hearthing has been removed from the game. Instead of returning to the home location, the character will be transported to the nearest graveyard. The cooldown of a hearthstone was also lowered to 30 minutes.

This trick involved creating a group for an easily accessible instance (such as the Stockades), zoning in, then passing lead to the other person and leaving the group, thus forcing the system to teleport you to your hearthstone point.

Hearthstones in Lore

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.” Hearthstones are used by Tyrande, Broll, and others to quickly hurry back to Darnassus after the Nightmare attacked Stormwind. In the end, the group was ambushed and only Broll made it back.[citation needed]

In The Shattering: Prelude to Cataclysm, Jaina makes a hearthstone for Anduin that leads right to her home in Theramore, so he may find more time outside the politics of Stormwind and remain a child a bit longer. The decision would save Anduin's life when he used the hearthstone to escape a Dark Iron-controlled Ironforge.

Patch changes

Patch 3.1.0 (14-Apr-2009): The cooldown will be reduced to 30 minutes. 'Ghetto hearthing' will bring you to the nearest graveyard, instead of your home location. [2]



The cooldown will be reduced to 30 minutes. 'Ghetto hearthing' will bring you to the nearest graveyard, instead of your home location. Patch 2.3.0 (13-Nov-2007): The mouse pointer changes when hovering it over an innkeeper NPC that can bind:

interact with innkeeper innkeeper out of range



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