Tuesday, June 9, 2015

The Exodar Inn

Here's the Exodar Inn.


Location: The Exodar, Azuremyst Isle, Kalimdor

Coordinates: 59.68.26.31
Capacity: 6 sit-able seats. Maybe. They might be beds. I'm not sure. Draenei are weird.
Room: None. There are chair-beds though. Six of them.
Architectural Style: Draenei
Important NPCs: Caregiver Breel (Innkeeper)
Atmosphere: Very, very quiet because no one visits the Exodar. It's pretty neat inside though, especially with the stasis pods in the back, and the view outside the inn is beautiful.
Amenities: Fairly easy access to everything in the Exodar, including profession trainers, the bank, the auction house, and lots of shops. Not very easy access to the rest of the world though, which is a big drawback.
Inns of Warcraft Quality Rating: 3/5
The Exodar as a whole isn't that great of a capital, but it's also my favorite capital at the same time, because I think it's beautiful. The inn is a neat and you really don't see many Draenei-themed inns, which gives this inn a plus. Finally, it's just so quiet and nice, even with a lack of in-inn amenities like chairs.

I think the glowy pink things in the back are stasis pods.

Thursday, June 4, 2015

Whisperwind Grove Inn

Here's the Whisperwind Grove Inn.



Location: Whisperwind Grove, Felwood, Kalimdor

Coordinates: 44.33.28.56
Capacity: No seating, as is typical for Night Elven inns. There is, as usual, a few sit-able benches and plenty of floor space.
Rooms: 1. It is at the very top of the building, up a spiral ramp. It has one bed.
Architectural Style: Night Elf
Important NPCs: Innkeeper Wylaria
Atmosphere: This is a very pretty inn, in the style of a Night Elven temple. Felwood as a whole is not generally very crowded with people, and the town itself has a pretty moonwell right in the center.
Amenities: There isn't too much out here aside from a Flight Master.
Inns of Warcraft Quality Rating: 3/5
It's a very pretty inn, and it isn't often that an inn is in the style of a Night Elven temple, so I think it deserves the extra point. Also, I'm realizing that I'm being too stingy about the lack of amenities thing, considering that we're really looking at roleplay value here on this blog.


The Howling Oak

Here's the Howling Oak.


Location: Darnassus, Teldrassil, Kalimdor

Coordinates: 49.45.20.09
Capacity: No seating. Although there is plenty of room on the ground for most purposes. There's also a few sit-able benches with tables towards the back.
Rooms: None. It's not really an inn so much as a place.
Architectural Style: Night Elf
Important NPCs: Gwen Armstead (Innkeeper)
Atmosphere: This place is pretty. The water is glowy, and it's just a genuinely pretty place.
Amenities: It's a bit of a walk to the Craftsmen's Terrace, so not too much.
Inns of Warcraft Quality Rating: 2/5
This place is gorgeous, but the lack of amenities in the immediate area isn't so great. It looks like a great place to hold events though.


Dolanaar Inn

Here's the Dolanaar Inn.


Location: Dolanaar, Teldrassil, Kalimdor

Coordinates: 55.72.51.07
Capacity: No seating, although there are a few sit-able benches and plenty of floor space.
Rooms: 1 enclosed room. Five beds total. Three are in the top floor enclosed room, and two are on the center floor open-air room.
Architectural Style: Night Elf
Important NPCs: Innkeeper Keldamyr
Atmosphere: Very, very crowded with new Night Elf players.
Amenities: Not all that much aside from a Flight Master and a short flight to Darnassus.
Inns of Quality Rating: 1/5
Extremely crowded and not really much special about it.


Craftsmen's Terrace Inn

Here's the Craftsmen's Terrace inn.


Location: Darnassus Craftsmen's Terrace, Teldrassil, Kalimdor

Coordinates: 40.32.10.89
Capacity: No seating, although there are two sit-able benches and plenty of floor space.
Rooms: None. There is one bed in the building though.
Architectural Style: Night Elf
Important NPCs: Innkeeper Saelienne
Atmosphere: It's definitely a pretty inn, and unique compared to typical Night Elven inns. I can forgive its lack of seating and rooms because I always picture the Night Elves not really caring if there's a physical roof over their heads on a nice day or night.
Amenities: The entire Craftsmen's Terrace is a short walk away. Given how sprawling Darnassus can be though, that's about all it's near The bank is a longer walk, although still not too bad. Tradesman's Terrace is also a walk.
Inns of Warcraft Quality Rating: 2/5
It's a neat little inn with some nearby amenities, but not enough to push it up to a higher score.


Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Chillwind Camp Inn

Here's the Chillwind Camp Inn.


Location: Chillwind Camp, Western Plaguelands, Eastern Kingdoms

Coordinates: 43.70.84.48
Capacity: 1. It's a chair off to the side. There's also two non-interactable chairs at a table. They're sit-able with good positioning. I checked. A human female can sit in them with good positioning.
Rooms: None.
Architectural Style: Human.
Important NPCs: Mother Matterly (Innkeeper)
Atmosphere: It looks like you've been welcomed into Mother Matterly's home, but she doesn't really have the space for you.
Amenities: Nothing except a Flight Master.
Inns of Warcraft Quality Rating: 1/5
It's nice of Mother Matterly to let us in, but there isn't much here, honestly.


Light's Hope Chapel

Here's Light's Hope Chapel. This is a Neutral inn.


Location: Light's Hope Chapel, Eastern Plaguelands, Eastern Kingdoms

Coordinates: 76.26.52.87

Capacity: No seating. There's room on the floor though.
Rooms: No rooms.
Architectural Style: Human church.
Important NPCs: Jessica Chambers (Innkeeper)
Atmosphere: It's pretty inside, and the town itself is a bit of a light in an otherwise bleak zone.
Amenities: Not all that much here, although for RP areas I would imagine this would be a bit of a hotspot lore-wise.
Inns of Warcraft Quality: 1/5
Really more like a 1.5. This place really isn't much of an inn, so I can't rate it too high on my inn scale, but its lore significance should give it some boost up, I think.


Falconwing Square Inn

Here's our first Horde inn!

Also, meet my Horde character, Theinnkeeper, on Greymane.
Capacity: 9. Six around a large table in the entryway, two by a small table, and one upstairs. There are also four sit-able stools at the bar, two lounging chairs near the bar, two sit-able chairs by a table upstairs, and three sit-able chairs around a table in the upstairs kitchen.
Rooms: 1. It contains three beds, two single and one large.
Architectural Style: Blood Elf
Important NPCs: Innkeeper Delaniel, Sheri (General Goods)
Atmosphere: Very elegant with dim lightning. The blue sheer curtains and glowing chandeliers are a nice touch, and the bar looks very nice. I also really like the large dining table in the entryway.
Amenities: Not much here except a Flight Master. It's a bit of a walk to Silvermoon, although it's a short flight away.
Inns of Warcraft Quality: 3/5
This one's really pretty, and it gets an extra point because I've actually seen people roleplaying here before. So, that's a plus.


Stormfeather Outpost

Here's Stormfeather Outpost.


Location: Stormfeather Outpost, The Hinterlands, Eastern Kingdoms

Coordinates: 65.91.45.22
Capacity: 12. Six on the main floor, six on the upper floor. All interactable.
Rooms: None.
Architectural Style: Dwarf
Important NPCs: Innkeeper Keirnan, Grella Stonefist (General Goods)
Atmosphere: Dark, but not dreary. It feels like a base. There isn't much to say aside from that.
Amenities: Not much, you're kind of in the middle of nowhere.
Inns of Warcraft Quality Rating: 2/5
I've always been a fan of these little round Dwarven buildings, and I like that this one has a bunch of good chairs. It feels more like a meet-up spot than an actual inn though.


Wildhammer Keep

Okay, so this one's gigantic, so this post may be a bit lengthy.


Location: Aerie Peak, The Hinterlands, Eastern Kingdoms

Coordinates: 14.31.45.96
First off, this place has major rooms. These are:
The Left Dining Hall (left from the innkeeper)
The Right Dining Hall (right from the innkeeper)
The Barracks (either side from the innkeeper, but don't enter the dining halls, instead, turn into the room with the tanks. Then go straight back past the tanks into either door, go up the steps, and when you're upstairs, go into the barracks, not the room with the planes)
Lower Dining Hall (down the steps from the Right Dining Hall)
Main Hall (down the steps from either Dining Hall and then out into the big room)

I totally just made up these names for ease of writing this because this place is giant and confusing.

Capacity: I am not counting all the chairs in here. I'll go by the major rooms instead. The Left Dining Hall has 7 chairs. The three at the table are non-interactable and only one is sit-able. The four at the bar are interactable. The Right Dining Hall has 6 chairs. The table has three, two of which are interactable, the third is sit-able with some good positioning. The bar has three interactable seats. The Barracks has 7 chairs, three of which are non-interactable, but one is sit-able. The Lower Dining Hall has 5 chairs, one of which is non-interactable. The Main Hall has 9 chairs. One is non-interactable, and six are arranged in a nice meeting circle.

Rooms: The Barracks has no usable beds, disappointingly enough. Unless you can somehow manage to get onto one of the top bunks.
Architectural Style: Dwarf
Important NPCs: Innkeeper Thulfram Truk Wildbear (Bartender, Left Dining Hall)
Atmosphere: This feels like a fortress, but a really nice fortress. It seems kind of homey too, in a weird way.
Amenities: Not much, aside from RP amenities like bar desks and such.
Inns of Warcraft Quality Rating: 3/5
I love this place, but it's in a really inconvenient location, and is kind of a sprawling mess. It's great though.

The Main Hall.

Refuge Pointe Inn

Here we have the Refuge Pointe Inn.

Isn't it beautiful?
Location: Refuge Pointe, Arathi Highlands, Eastern Kingdoms

Coordinates: 40.07.49.01
Capacity: No seating. There's plenty of room around the fire outside of the tent that counts as the inn.
Rooms: None. There is a tent.
Architectural Style: Human tent.
Important NPCs: Vikki Lonsav (Innkeeper)
Atmosphere: It's a tent. In a relatively empty camp.
Amenities: Easy access to Arathi Basin (that is what it's called, right? I know nothing about PvP).
Inns of Warcraft Quality Rating: 1/5
It's a tent.

What a great camp!

Deepwater Tavern

Here's the Deepwater Tavern!


Location: Menethil Harbor, Wetlands, Eastern Kingdoms

Coordinates: 10.78.59.63
Capacity: 3. Only three chairs in this place are interactable. There are twenty one chairs total, some of which are sit-able, and one long bench that can easily hold four people.
Rooms: 3. One room has two single beds, one has a large bed, and then the biggest room has a large bed and private sitting room.
Architectural Style: Human
Important NPCs: Innkeeper Helbrek
Atmosphere: Pretty quiet but the inn itself seems like it must be pretty soggy and moldy what with the flood outside and all. Very little player foot traffic as well, it would seem.
Amenities: Not all that much. There is a Flight Master a little walk away. Also, the whole outside is one giant swimming pool!
Inns of Warcraft Quality Rating: 1/5
Altogether a rather boring inn.


Thundermar Town

Okay, I love this town so much that I couldn't just do an inn post for it.

Location: Thundermar, Twilight Highlands, Eastern Kingdoms

Coordinates: 48.85.29.60
First off, I roleplay solely in my own head because I'm painfully shy, and I tend to prefer non-combat roleplay in general (in Skyrim I actually have a character that I play as a farmer, for example).

First off, one more thing about the inn that didn't fit into the inn post.

It's got a desk! Which I love!
Now to showcase the restaurant:


Upstairs has two tables, each with two seats. The Food & Drink Vendor doesn't sell anything particularly great, but think of the possibilities of this place. Downstairs there are two ramps going down. One goes down into a little mini brewery, and one into a bedroom.

Next up is the Brewery:

I'm such a sucker for shop desks.
This one has two seats by the fire, and six sit-able stools, three at tables and three at the bar. Downstairs is the brewery itself with all the kegs.

Here's the Shop:

Look, another desk!
This one has six benches and one stool at the desk, plus one sit-able stool behind the desk. I could see this being played as like an auction house or a shop / impromptu town hall.

Finally, we have the Hatchery:

Cute baby gryphons included.
Cute cute and with two sit-able stools.

I don't know, I just think this place is great. As I said in the inn post though, this place seems too good to be true and it probably gets destroyed in a quest. I'm not positive of that, but it just seems too perfect.

Thundermar Inn

Here's Thundermar Inn. Warning: I love this one. It's so cute and I just feel like it's probably something that gets destroyed during a questline or something. I've only gone through Twilight Highlands once and it wasn't on this character, so I have no idea.

The entryway looks like a church.
Location: Thundermar, Twilight Highlands, Eastern Kingdoms

Coordinates: 49.44.30.08
Capacity: 6. All of the chairs are in the entryway.
Rooms: No actual rooms, but there are two available beds downstairs; three, if you don't mind a Dwarf sitting at the end of one of them.
Architectural Style: Dwarf, specifically Wildhammer.
Important NPCs: Naveen Tendernose (Innkeeper)
Atmosphere: Cute and quaint. A pretty entryway with a neat ramp leading downstairs into the sleeping quarters. All situated in a perfectly adorable little town.
Amenities: Great roleplaying amenities. Situated in town you'll find a little restaurant, brewery, forge, shop (empty shop, I might add), and gryphon hatchery. Very cute.
Inns of Warcraft Quality Rating: 4/5
This score is based purely on its RP potential, at least in my eyes, due to the town (which, by the way, I'm about to write a Neat Spot post on because I love it so much).



No menu for this inn because there are no vendors within the inn (aside from a reagents vendor, but he doesn't sell food). Check the restaurant for that!

Firebeard's Patrol Inn

Here we have the lovely, scenic Firebeard's Patrol Inn!

 
It's nice on the inside, so let's just ignore the fact that the rest of the town is on fire.
Location: Firebeard's Patrol, Twilight Highlands, Eastern Kingdoms

Coordinates: 60.32.58.06

Capacity: 5. On the main floor is one chair by the door. Downstairs you'll find four available chairs, and one sit-table stool. One chair by a cozy fire, three chairs at a table, and the stool by a small table in the corner. There is also plenty of floor space downstairs.
Rooms: 1. It's very tiny and really only the right size for a Gnome though. It's on the main floor.
Architectural Style: Dwarven, specifically Wildhammer (that's right, right?)
Important NPCs: Innkeeper Corlin, Hurley Hoppleham (Food & Drink)
Atmosphere: This is a really nice inn, but it's ruined by the fires outside, enemies on the doorstep, and constant annoying noise that happens every few seconds.
Amenities: Not really much out here, honestly. There's a neat little forge area though.
Inns of Warcraft Quality Rating: 2/5
If there wasn't fire, enemies, and annoying noises then this would be one of my favorite inns, to be honest. I really like it.

If I didn't know any better I'd think she started it.

Victor's Point Inn

Here we have the inn at Victor's Point.

As far as tiny base camp inns go, this one's pretty nice, just saying.
Capacity: No seating. Although, there are two sit-able benches right next to the building that can easily fit three people. Just a bit across the camp there's another campfire with three more benches as well.
Rooms: None available. The one room of the inn is taken. There are, however, many, many empty tents throughout the camp.
Architectural Style: Human. Possibly with Gilnean influences.
Important NPCs:  Ben Mora (Innkeeper)
Atmosphere: It feels like a base camp should. There's a command table directly next to the inn building, campfires with benches, tents, and an army preparing. Relaxing? No. Serious? Yes.
Amenities: Not all that much. There's a Flight Master right next door, and given what type of area this is, I'm going to put down a Bowyer as an amenity.
Inns of Warcraft Rating: 3/5
Amenities and housing are lackluster, but as far as character and potential go? This one's pretty good. I can visualize storylines for this place.

The rest of the camp.

Farstrider Lodge

Here's the Farstrider Lodge!

In the background, obviously. This rock my character is standing on is not the inn, and that bird is not the innkeeper.

Location: Farstrider Lodge, Loch Modan, Eastern Kingdoms

Coordinates: 83.91.62.34


Capacity: No seating. There's sit-able benches though. And, like many Night Elven inns, there is plenty of sitting room on the floor.
Rooms: None. Plenty of floor space though! And benches.
Architectural Style: Night Elf
Important NPCs: Vyrin Swiftwind (Innkeeper), Xandar Goodbeard (General Supplies)
Atmosphere: Natural. It's an open-air Night Elf building, so what do you expect? Overall though, this one is actually rather pretty. It would help if it wasn't raining in my game right now, because it makes me assume that this inn would be rather damp and moldy.
Amenities: Merchants and a Flight Master are right inside the inn. The biggest drawback is how far away it is from anything else.
Inns of Warcraft Quality Rating: 2/5
It's a pretty building, but the lack of functionality isn't so great.