They better not take my Dalaran hearthstone.
Been playing since Vanilla so I guess my opinions is as valid as yours, by your own definition: I want more portals, not fewer. Making travel easier will make people more apt to do it; making it harder or more frustrating does exactly the opposite. Human Nature 101.I run SoO several times per week for 'mogs. Paragons bugs pretty much every time and previously this meant hearthing out, then taking Dalaran portal to Shrine and flying back, which took about 5 minutes. Inconvenient but still worth the time to go back and finish it.Now? Paragons bugged tonight on my first run, as it almost always does. I had to hearth, then take a portal to SW, then take another portal to Paw'Don Village, then take a flightpath to Shrine, then make my way back to the boss. It took 15+ minutes and was extremely frustrating. Now I know, you'll go on assuming that your way is the only way that matters and that things that don't matter to you shouldn't matter to anyone, so I don't know why I'm explaining anything to you... but this is not how I want to spend my time in game. They've basically just made it not worth my time to farm 'mogs. Given that farming 'mogs is almost the only reason I log in these days, this saddens me greatly. I've spent almost 15 years and thousands of dollars on this game over the years, and I'm entitled to feel differently about it than you. Fight me.
On one toon, after being transported to the Blasted Lands by the Honor Hold Mage, going thru the dark portal sent me to Hellfire. On a couple of others I was sent to Ashran in Draenor. I believe the difference is whether or not the toon has completed the intro questline that leads from Khadgar in Blasted Lands thru the portal to Draenor and fighting across Tanaan to the ship.
If the Thrallmar Mage cant port you to Blasted Lands,Alternative to getting to Karazhan.for Horde.Orgrimmar -> Undercity -> Hellfire Peninsula -> Go through dark portal to blasted lands
Tbh removing portals is biggest crap blizz have done in many years.
Who has time for extra travel time and flying to places when you are doing holiday events and dungeon mount runs on multiple alts. I don't . Nor do I have most of these handy little gadgets and toys you've mentioned. They never seem to drop for me. I used portals on a daily basis and I am very, very unhappy about their removal.I have zero chance of finding a mage to teleport me. Most of my alts are in guilds with a low attendance and I'd be lucky to find one online. If ever I've asked in chat for anything I've always been ignored. People just don't read chat. Also most of my alts don't have the gold or rep to buy the gadgets and many of them are too low level to use the portals in Boralus.But the people who are getting it worst are the new players. They pay the same subs as the rest of us yet they get so much less content and many more difficulties. I have at least experienced everything up to Legion, why shouldn't new players get the same. Can't it be phased for them the same as other things have been.I believe we should have portals to each capital city from all other cities, that includes the shrines. It makes absolutely no sense if you're in one city on,say Kalimdor, to have to go all the way back to Stormwind only to portal back to Kalimdor again. What we need is a nice new toy like the engineering portals, that everyone can use to go where we want how we want. What you are doing is limiting our game play and preventing us from doing all we want to do.
to get to caverns of time, easiest way is to talk to coridormi alliance/ zidormi horde for the port to end time, and the just leave- it's actually way faster to dragonsoul. Just make sure you don't complete the quest
There is also the engineering toy wormhole Pandaria which will port you somewhere within Pandaria. Which has a 15 minute cooldown. It should also be noted that the challenge mode ports for those who have them share a global cooldown which lasts for 8 hours so they are only useful once a day. And please remove any reference of using mages to get around. Firstly why should they have it over the rest of us just because they can port? Secondly Boo-Hoo they aren't making money off it. Besides which for the most part they ignore WTB Mage Port or they overcharge. I don't mind tipping but why should people like Nubmage be encouraged to charge 500g per port, and probably more so now that these ports aren't ingame anymore. No sir I will take the inconvenience and keep my gold to myself. And yes for those that want to jump on the band wagon and shout me down for having a valid opinion, there are a very limited number of mages including myself who are happy to port for free, but they are never online when you need them.These changes are only valid for people with one character. However there are far more people with 50 characters the account limit and the removal of these portals ensures less playtime or the use of less characters. Well excuse me but I don't pay good money to have my playstyle limited to what you think it should be. Right from the start in Vanilla I have said get stuffed, I will play my way not how you dictate so don't be thinking things are suddenly going to change.The more you try to force the more I will resist because I'll be damned if anyone is going to tell me what to do.
Cut a little too deep into time. Not everyone gets to spend all day playing. This lands up being a penalty to those with jobs that pay the bills.
"There are new Mage NPCs in place of portals to the Blasted Lands. In Stormwind, talk to Honor Hold Mage at the entrance to the Mage Tower. In Orgrimmar, talk to Thrallmar Mage by the Shattrath portal in the Portal room. These NPCs will take you to the Blasted Lands, right by the Dark Portal."Thrallmar mage only greets me on my level 43 Zandalari troll, he won't teleport me to Blasted Lands.Edit: Even if the zone is for level 40-60, you cannot use the portal until you reach level 58. Tried that with the one from Undercity.
My 2 cents: Wormhole Generator: Pandaria is quite useful to get around Pandaria, even if random in it's outcome. I use it all the time to check Sha/Galleon spawns. If I don't get close I just hearth and try later.Also, one of the points of interests for the Wyrmrest Temple portal was the Death's of Chromie scenario.
Monks still have a portal to Pandaria in their order hall. If you do the teleport to the order hall you can just take the portal. Great for the new raiding with leashes farming.
Hey Perc -- just want to say this is a FANTASTIC idea for an article because it's the kind of thing you bookmark and hang on to as a resource. It's not just a point-in-time piece of news. Great job!
You can teleport to Hellfire Peninsula from old Undercity. You need to use the portal from right Orgrimmar Zeppelins to Undercity. If you are in a new Tirisfal Glades, you need to talk to Zidormi to see old Tirisfal Glades. In old Undercity you can use Portal to Hellfire Peninsula in Magic Quarter. It's better to keep Tirisfal Glades zone in it's old version, so you can use Portal to Undercity from Orgrimmar Zeppelins, this Portal will teleport you to Magic Quarter near the Portal to Hellfire Peninsula. BTW, Trallmar Mage doesn't have an option to transport you to Blasted Lands for now.