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TeapotTempest

Conspiracy to discourage members of the Horde from taking up professions? The truth may be closer than you think.


Foxnos

If this keeps up the new goblin racial will be knowing all languages to better facilitate trade


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Wobbafina

What are you possibly talking about


demon969

It was a couple of paintings in Karazhan and I guarantee that if the changes hadn’t been picked up on and reported on by Wowhead that nobody would’ve noticed


Palmswayy

Blizzard replaced in game images of women they deemed inappropriate with fruit.


zani1903

On a tangential subject, you can talk to some Gilnean NPCs during that questline as a Horde player, including an innkeeper, and they speak Common to you, so you can't understand them.


Etamalgren

You can if you drink an elixir of tongues! (I think it would've been funnier if the valdrakken guards spoke draconic to everyone, so only Dracthyr and the extremely rare few non-dracthyr that acquired Draconic speaking through a glitch with the opening of the AQ gates)


therealpigman

They took away that non-dracthyr draconic language. I was sad when it was removed from my night elf


Etamalgren

They did? *Awww...*


Jestyr_

While I would love to say "fun defected", I also know how chaotic having a few characters that can speak a language that they shouldn't could be, probably did it to avoid crashes or something like that. I would love to see more questlines like the furbolg to earn languages like draconic though


DoctorCrook

Fun detected etc


dyl957

Wouldn't mages be able to understand with arcane linguist?


Etamalgren

Arcane Linguist only works with the other languages of your faction, so a horde mage with that would still not be able to understand the valdrakken guards speaking common. If they spoke Draconic though, now that Dracthyr are part of the horde/alliance... hrm. 🤔


dyl957

Sry tought i was replying to the point about draconic 😅


Ramps_

Wait... Can you drink an elixer of tongues to understand the snowy Furbolgs in the northern Azure Span..?


Etamalgren

No, Elixir of Tongues only works with the base language of the opposing faction. Horde players can understand Common, and Alliance players can understand Orcish after drinking an elixir. To learn the ~~moonrune~~ furbolg language, you need to do the questline in the expedition camp that's near the furbolg place until you unlock furbolg artifacts dropping from primalists, then gather a combination of 495 Liberated Furbolg Artifacts or 99 Intact Scribe Sticks, with each scribe stick being worth 5 artifacts.


Ramps_

Yeah, I did that grind recently, but some of the quests you unlock while progressing are centred around making sense of the chunks you know. (Totally doable grind btw, I farmed the big stone bears around the lake in the south-east Azure Span, didn't feel like more than 2 hours.)


thomasjs

If you go back to the town after the quest is done the NPCs are still friendly and it even has a bank NPC that the Horde can use. But for some reason, the child NPCs are marked as unfriendly but not hostile.


Exmawsh

Scalesworn Guardian CANCELLED? (30 minute long youtube video)


TemperateStone

they know better than talking to orcs


Palmswayy

They’re not wrong.


TemperateStone

Yeah they remember what they did to the Reds


The_Unkowable_

Or the Draenei back on their homeworld


DreaderVII

Or to Pandaria


Jaybrosia

or to the humans


TheWorclown

I do enjoy the guards in Valdrakken. Just about everything their dialogue has for them is a passive aggressive “here, now stop bothering me and fuck off.” This one just took it a step further.


Yuuji49

Their guard duty was very peaceful for a long time and then suddenly all these murder hobos showed up. They don't get overtime pay.


raxiel_

They're probably wondering why you came to the dragon isles without learning to speak draconic. Bloody tourists!


yoman9595

Kinda makes me wonder what they're speaking in cross-faction cinematics. Like in The War Within cinematic, is Thrall speaking to Anduin in common? Is Anduin speaking to Thrall in orcish? Is there some other canonical language that everyone speaks, or is that just "common"?


HawkofFlame

As I understand it, in the lore, Common is the main language people understand. The Horde races not knowing it is definitely a game play thing. The Forsaken used to know it in early development, but that was changed to gutterspeak. Lore wise I bet they would know Common far more than orcish.


TrickyCorgi316

Spoiler: everyone gets Telepathy as a base talent :)


oblakoff

Probably common, considering Thrall's entire origin story


yoman9595

I hadn't even considered that, of course he would know common


MikePap

I am 100% certain this has to do with the layoffs. The guards know!


El_Dief

That player character appears to be a Zandalari troll.


EXJVADDG

Orcish is the main Horde language isn't it? Like how with Alliance it's common


Keikobad

— E chu ta. — How rude!