Summoning Stone is a rare neutral minion card, from the League of Explorers set.
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Lore[]
In World of Warcraft Summoning Stones (also known as Meeting Stones) are placed outside dungeons and raids to let adventurers (players) summon their friends to the instance, in order to do battle there together. It takes 2 people to summon others with a Summoning Stone.
Prior to the advent of the Dungeon Finder system, Summoning Stones were instrumental in allowing players to form groups to tackle instanced content. Players could communicate globally in the /LFG channel, but travelling to the instance in question could take a long time, especially if the player was on another continent. Usually the two closest players would travel to the instance, where they would channel the Summoning Stone's effect to teleport the other group members to the location one by one.
Because of this functionality, and due especially to the long delays that were often involved in finding a full group, and waiting for invitees to sell junk, repair armor, purchase supplies and otherwise prepare to be summoned, players would often spend quite a while waiting around or near Summoning Stones. As such, they were often hotspots for world PvP. When players from one faction approached a Stone to summon their allies, they would often find players of the other faction already there, and fighting would ensue. This was exacerbated by the fact that the Stones are usually placed close to the entrance to the instance, meaning players leaving the instance would also travel past the Stone on their way back out, leading to even greater traffic and thus greater potential for conflict.
With the Dungeon Finder system offering a far more convenient way of finding groups, few players now bother to use the Summoning Stones, although they remain in place. They can still be useful for players seeking to tackle older content, which is not included in the Dungeon Finder system.
Trivia[]
- This card was made due to the popularity of the The Great Summoner Competition Tavern Brawl.[1]
- This was originally a shaman card,[1] and then a mage card,[2] since the developers weren't sure they wanted it to be neutral.[3] However, at least partly as a result of dangerous interactions between Master of Disguise and the then neutral Animated Armor, the two cards were swapped, with Summoning Stone becoming neutral.[4]
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Summoning Stone, full art |
 A Summoning Stone in World of Warcraft |
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tavern Brawls and Open Q&A - BlizzCon 2015 Live Panel Recap (Fireside Chat). (2015-11-07).
- ↑ Ben Brode on Twitter. (2016-01-22).
- ↑ Yong Woo on Twitter. (2016-01-22).
- ↑ Reddit.com - Bolf should have had Animated Armor's card text. (2016-01-11).