The December Trading Post Is Cool as Ice
Originally Posted by Blizzard (Blue Tracker / Official Forums)
Winter has arrived at the December Trading Post*, and while things may get frosty, you'll find a variety of transmog appearances to bring you cheer. This month, cuddle up in the Ensemble: Purple Snugglefin Murloc Romper (we look forward to your onesie parades).

Mind your Tender—while the festive season brings a multitude of merriment and cheer, the fun doesn't end there. We'll be celebrating the second anniversary of the Trading Post in February with an extension to the Reward Bar, allowing you to earn an additional 500 Trader's Tender through a variety of activities and expand your spending power on several selections—including previously released transmogs, mounts, pets, toys, and previous monthly rewards.







Visit T&W** (Tawney and Wilder) just outside the Mage District in Stormwind or the Zen’shiri Trading Post next to Grommash Hold in Orgrimmar to check out all the latest items*** they have available. Players can also visit the Trading Post in the capital city of Dornogal (The Foregrounds) on the Isle of Dorn, where representatives of both Tawney and Wilder and the Zen’shiri Trading Post are open for business.



Frosty Finds for Decembrrr

Here's a snippet of what you can expect to see when you visit the December Trading Post. Make sure to visit to see the complete array of items on the vendors.

Mount


Reins of the Twilight Sky Prowler



Armor Transmog Appearances


Wings of the Sapphire Monarch
“Challenge the moon to a beauty contest, and win!”


Frostwolf Earmuffs
“For those cold Alterac winters”



Weapon Transmog Appearances


Cheerbringer XL
“You WILL be cheerful—or else!”


Aegis of Yuletide
“Provides bonus protection against humbugs.”



This Month's Bonus Reward


Ensemble: Purple Snugglefin Murloc Romper
“Free Hugs”

Complete activities to fill the bar at the top of the Traveler’s Log found in the Adventure Guide (Shift-J)***, and you'll receive this month's bonus reward — Ensemble: Purple Snugglefin Murloc Romper, just in time to join the next murloc onesie march.



Get the Burden of Unrelenting Justice Transmog Appearance Sets

Players who have earned the monthly special reward from the Trading Post twelve times will be rewarded with the achievement, “Trading Post Enthusiast” along with a new color-shifting transmog appearance — the Burden of Unrelenting Justice set— and two non-color shifting sets representing the day and night version of the color-shifting transmog appearances for a total of three sets!


The Burden of Unrelenting Justice Transmog Appearance Set includes 9 pieces: Head, Shoulder, Chest, Waist, Legs, Feet, Wrist, Hand, and Back (Cloak).

You don’t need to earn the special reward twelve times consecutively to get the achievement and the transmog sets.



How it Works

Get Tender Every Month

At the beginning of each month, players with an active account in good standing will receive 500 Trader’s Tender automatically every month from a chest called the Collector’s Cache. If you don’t have active game time on your account or aren’t a subscriber at the start of a new month, don’t worry. Your Tender will be awarded on the first day of the month when you do have game time or an active subscription. This will be the same amount for everyone, regardless of how you pay for your game time.

The Traveler's Log

Complete monthly activities listed in the new Traveler’s Log. Each month features a rotating, themed set of activities. These activities provide the opportunity to earn up to 500 additional Trader’s Tender. There’s only a set amount of Tender you can earn each month through completing activities, so you won’t need to complete all the ones in the log each month. You’ll be able to pick and choose from a variety of fun in-game activities to easily earn Tender. Players can choose to earn by continuing to play the game as they already do, such as completing quests, competing in battlegrounds, participating in holiday activities, and even running Mythic+ dungeons. But you can also choose to take part in activities uniquely designed for the month.

Freeze an Item

Before the month comes to an end, if you haven’t purchased that one “must-have” item yet, don’t worry. You can “freeze” an item so you can purchase it later. When you freeze an item, it will stay available month over month until it is purchased or replaced.

If this month’s offerings didn’t have the items you wanted, you can hang on to your Trader’s Tender to spend later. It won’t go anywhere, and unspent Tender will continue to accumulate each month.



Learn more about the Trading Post from the news post on the official site.

*The Trading Post feature is not available in WoW Classic titles.
**Requires World of Warcraft Subscription or Game Time
***Requires Level 10 to access the Adventure Guide.
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Comments 97 Comments
  1. Doffen's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Lolites View Post
    should be 40 or so
    2040?

    Electric guitar and wireless microfon. Cars, motorbikes, helicopters and so on.

    Point is, Azeroth might as well just follow our times. So headphones isn't out of place.

    (I am just joking around here but point is the same, we might as well get modern stuff for transmogs etc)
  1. Alayea's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by EverDash View Post
    It's not free.

    A subscription fee is REQUIRED to pay in order for me to obtain these items.

    That is the opposite of free.
    World of Warcraft has never been a free-to-play game (minus the trial account that come with severe restrictions). If you're looking for a free-to-play game, this place ain't it.
  1. ThatsOurEric's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Shadowferal View Post
    Druid travel form can be reindeer;
    Yeah, basically I was hoping for a ridable version of well, that.

    Thinking on it now, it'd certainly be interesting if they made a Druid Christmas travel form.
  1. Elanore Maroth's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by tromage2 View Post
    Wonder why the christmas theme sword and staff of 2023 did not make their return this december.
    Did they reveal the full list already?
  1. sweatshopkids's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Doffen View Post
    Its 2024 in Azeroth as well.
    It really isn't, little guy.
  1. chaoticcrono's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Alayea View Post
    World of Warcraft has never been a free-to-play game (minus the trial account that come with severe restrictions). If you're looking for a free-to-play game, this place ain't it.
    then it shouldn't have cash shop bs and fomo bs like free to play games then...
  1. Just Passing through's Avatar
    Entitled comments don't dissappoint on MMO-C - as usual.

    Yeah, this is a month that looks uninteresting to me - but c'mon...people complain about stuff that just comes by playing and not even chasing it not being up to their expectations?

    Full circle to:

    "Entitled comments don't dissappoint on MMO-C - as usual."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mastacow View Post
    I think the trading post being bad is the least of everyone's concerns with the state of the game.
    ...confusing "everyone" with the handful of ppl that still regularely post on MMO C bitching about everything and anything since 2008. At least in 2008 we had tons more ppl posting / being active members here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by EverDash View Post
    It's not free.

    A subscription fee is REQUIRED to pay in order for me to obtain these items.

    That is the opposite of free.
    Fair enough....by that logic I will now start complaining how the quest rewards I get while levelling look shit and they need to put more effort into it.
  1. Shadowferal's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Just Passing through View Post

    Fair enough....by that logic I will now start complaining how the quest rewards I get while levelling look shit and they need to put more effort into it.
    ...you mean..you weren't?
  1. saixilein's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by kranur View Post
    Last I checked WoW still had a sub cost that is required to claim the monthly post stuff.
    Just... Wow.

    Hahaha

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    Quote Originally Posted by EverDash View Post
    It's not free.

    A subscription fee is REQUIRED to pay in order for me to obtain these items.

    That is the opposite of free.
    Brainacrobatic 100
  1. Relapses's Avatar
    Blizzard should listen to the galaxy brains in this thread and make the game F2P but charge $15/mo for access to the TP.
  1. Shadowferal's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Relapses View Post
    Blizzard should listen to the galaxy brains in this thread and make the game F2P but charge $15/mo for access to the TP.
    Why did you post that!!???
    It's like saying "What could go wrong?"
  1. Rageonit's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by EverDash View Post
    Another lazy Trading post month, brought to you by Blizzard's Autopilot.
    It's on purpose. If they deliver great stuff every month, people like you will complain to no end that there isn't enoigh tender given out, which would be even more annoying.
  1. chaoticcrono's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Rageonit View Post
    It's on purpose. If they deliver great stuff every month, people like you will complain to no end that there isn't enoigh tender given out, which would be even more annoying.
    they should just make all items available at all times so you can just buy the stuff you like when youre ready to buy it...
  1. WeWillOnlyBeSlower's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by chaoticcrono View Post
    they should just make all items available at all times so you can just buy the stuff you like when youre ready to buy it...
    They will probably release catch up months after every xpac, where you can buy way more/everything of old xpac.
  1. deenman's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by EverDash View Post
    It's not free.

    A subscription fee is REQUIRED to pay in order for me to obtain these items.

    That is the opposite of free.
    by that logic no game is free because you need a pc/console to play...oh and even if you get one gifted,you still need to pay for internet or electricity
  1. EverDash's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Alayea View Post
    World of Warcraft has never been a free-to-play game (minus the trial account that come with severe restrictions). If you're looking for a free-to-play game, this place ain't it.
    I'm not looking for a free to play game. I never said I was, and that isn't the topic being discussed. Keep up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rageonit View Post
    It's on purpose. If they deliver great stuff every month, people like you will complain to no end that there isn't enoigh tender given out, which would be even more annoying.
    False. They could deliver great stuff every month just not as expensive. Both problems solved.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Just Passing through View Post
    Entitled comments don't dissappoint on MMO-C - as usual.

    Yeah, this is a month that looks uninteresting to me - but c'mon...people complain about stuff that just comes by playing and not even chasing it not being up to their expectations?

    Full circle to:

    "Entitled comments don't dissappoint on MMO-C - as usual."

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    ...confusing "everyone" with the handful of ppl that still regularely post on MMO C bitching about everything and anything since 2008. At least in 2008 we had tons more ppl posting / being active members here.

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    Fair enough....by that logic I will now start complaining how the quest rewards I get while levelling look shit and they need to put more effort into it.
    If you want to. *shrug*
  1. Eapoe's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by chaoticcrono View Post
    they should just make all items available at all times so you can just buy the stuff you like when youre ready to buy it...
    I agree to an extent. I’d counter that the seasonal stuff could/should remain seasonal, like the candy cane sword being available around Christmas, or the harvester/scarecrow set around Halloween.
    Things like the class armor sets, standar weapon mogs, and the like, should be available year round.
  1. merywow's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by deenman View Post
    by that logic no game is free because you need a pc/console to play...oh and even if you get one gifted,you still need to pay for internet or electricity
    If someone give you something for free, it's free. But that's not the case here, you need to buy game time to GET the TP items. Welcome to the world of idiots where everything is free - as long as you have a subscription.
  1. deenman's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by merywow View Post
    If someone give you something for free, it's free. But that's not the case here, you need to buy game time to GET the TP items. Welcome to the world of idiots where everything is free - as long as you have a subscription.
    but wait....i have to buy food...to stay alive...to GET the TP items!! TP is by definition P2W!!
  1. Ereb's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by merywow View Post
    If someone give you something for free, it's free. But that's not the case here, you need to buy game time to GET the TP items. Welcome to the world of idiots where everything is free - as long as you have a subscription.
    Added at no additional cost = free. I don't get how this is a difficult concept for some lol

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