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Aethas Sunreaver's Trading Post Purchase Has Us Asking Questions - Possible Spoilers
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24.12.2022 um 13:00
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Trading Posts are being added to Stormwind City and Orgrimmar in patch 10.0.5. At the moment, several NPCs can be witnessed making purchases - including Aethas Sunreaver in Orgrimmar, who seems to be looking for a peace offering...
Aethas Sunreaver's Purchase
When Aethas approaches Zen'kala about the item he's seeking, he's quite nervous, and for good reason. He seems to be looking for a Kul Tiran music box, presumably for Jaina, expressing a hope that they might eventually rekindle their friendship through this peace offering.
Archmage Aethas Sunreaver says: Well met, Zen'kala, I am looking to acquire a particularly rare item.
Zen'kala says: That's what we do best, archmage. What can I get ya?
Archmage Aethas Sunreaver says: It is a one of a kind item that already exists, I just need someone to find it.
Zen'kala says: Goin' to be hard to find it without knowin' what it is.
Archmage Aethas Sunreaver says: It would be off the coast of Eastern Kalimdor. On the sea bed, I believe.
Zen'kala says: Ya beatin' around the bush, what is it?
Archmage Aethas Sunreaver says: A... Kul Tiran music box. I understand that the box was not on the flagship when it was raised. The item was precious to the owner.
Zen'kala says: ... Ah. Ya be playin' with fire mon.
Archmage Aethas Sunreaver says: I know. A peace offering is best when it means something though. We were friends once... I hope we can be again.
Zen'kala says: ... I'll put my best people on it. I hope ya gift is accepted.
Archmage Aethas Sunreaver says: Me too, Zen'kala. Me too.
A History of Hostilites
Archmage Aethas Sunreaver is the leader of the Sunreavers, Blood Elf members of the Kirin Tor. The Sunreavers were expelled from the Kirin Tor under Jaina Proudmoore's leadership, after some members conspired to help Garrosh Hellscream steal the Divine Bell, a powerful artifact that was in the hands of the Alliance. Jaina, whose city had been destroyed by Garrosh in a mana bomb, saw this as the worst possible betrayal, especially as the mages of Dalaran are sworn to be neutral.
What's worse, this was the second time the Sunreaves had been involved. While Aethas claimed innocence both times - insisting it was traitors within the Sunreavers who were responsible, Jaina was unwilling to listen after the second incident and had all Sunreavers violently purged from Dalaran.
When the Sunreavers were readmitted to the Kirin Tor during the events of
Legion
, Jaina resigned from her leadership role in protest. Hostilities between Jaina and Aethas have remained severe, with each having good reason to mistrust the other. However, Dragonflight seems to focus on looking to the future and healing old wounds rather than dwelling in the past and constantly reopening them, and that can be seen in a purchase that Aethas makes on the PTR.
Proudmoore Music Box Hints?
One interesting aspect about this conversation is that the item Aethas is after appears to describe an in-game toy, the
Spieluhr der Prachtmeers
, which is currently only obtainable as a random drop from
Vorräte der Prachtmeeradmiralität
, the cache obtainable through Proudmoore Admiralty Paragon Reputation. This makes the toy quite difficult to obtain, since it requres not only becoming exhaulted with an Alliance-only
Battle for Azeroth
faction, but continuing to earn enough reputation with that faction to earn paragon caches - and even then, it's not a guaranteed drop.
If Zen'kala does manage to find the music box for Aethas, could he also possibly find one for Horde players who have never had a chance to earn it another way? Will we see in-game collectibles that are unusually difficult to obtain on the Trading Post?
Back in February 2022, Blizzard mentioned that the team were discussing "possible solutions" for items like the
Herzbrecher X-45
- the rarest mount in-game that can currently only be obtained through a combination of sending as many alts as possible through a specific dungeon during the Love is in the Air event.
Yep, this isn’t fun. I’ve done the event a dozen times a day on my characters before in previous years and probably would be doing it again this year if I didn’t have other real-life stuff going on.
Right now, if you want to maximize your chance of getting the mount, it’s in your best interest to repeat this event every day on as many characters as possible. That’s… mathematically correct, but not a great experience.
We hear this frustration and the good news is that we’re discussing this issue amongst the team and evaluating possible solutions for holiday events in general. The bad news is that even if we do end up making changes, they wouldn’t be in time for this year’s Love Is In the Air holiday event.
At the time, they said we wouldn't see any solutions in time for 2022's Love is In the Air holiday event, but the 2023 event is approaching. It will be interesting to see how holiday events work with the Trading Post in general, since the rotating nature of the Trading Post does mean that many items could be seasonal.
Hol' dir Wowhead
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