Why? What purpose does that serve?!?
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Well, guess I’ll need a new hearth for my Hunter. Really lame. I wish they would just leave the old stuff alone.
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That’s 5 minutes of extra MAU/DAU per player.
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I agree…Not that it’s a big deal but it doesn’t really bring anything new or challenging to the game other than just add an extra inconvenience and those are never fun.
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More time spent travelling = More time played for Blizzard to flex on investors with.
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Wait, WHAT!!!
That was the number one way to get to old Dalaran! (and ICC)
WT everlivin’ F!!!
Edit: I’m happy to see the old Dal and Shat portals are still there. But it still doesn’t help my lowbie alts that had their hearths set to the Vale. While they can take new Dal portals from a mage and set their hearths there, it’s just really annoying to have to do that. And I still don’t see what purpose it serves to remove the portals from the Vale even if Blizz had added in the promised portal rooms in SW and Org. Which, I want to emphasize, has not been done yet.
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Weren’t they supposed to be putting in a new portal room in Orgrimmar or something? Probably didn’t need both.
Legion Dalaran also has portals to every place that you could get to from Vale of Eternal Blossoms, except for Northrend Dalaran. So it’s just a matter of rebinding hearthstones.
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The ICC and TBC Portals are still there, along with Org.
I think they did this because of the new portal rooms they’re adding.
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Seriously?
Obviously such a move has one single purpose…to drag out game play.
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wow, this is terrible
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yeah…the funny thing is that you can only tick off paying customers so much before they go elsewhere.
The wifes job is doing the same thing because they think they have the market cornered or something. Theyre raising prices and making it seriously obnoxious to have to deal with them, then wonder why overall sales are down.
Huh. Imagine that. Making stupid decisions to tick your customer base off and they end up going elsewhere.
Wonder what business model theyre teaching in a book for these management junkets these days?
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just hit the alliance side.
Shattrath, old dalaran and stormwind are the only ones left.
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hahaha wow
That is hilariously pointless.
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This. There’s nothing to be upset about, they did the same with Northrend Dalaran after Wrath, and the same with Shattrath after Burning Crusade. All the portals that you’d ever need to go there for are still there, and there are still two other portal rooms, in Broken Isles Dalaran and Boralus/Zuldazar, for people to use to get to all the places that you can’t get to from a hub that was obsolete four years ago.
Plus the Ashran portals, probably? I don’t know, I never got the hang of that place. In any case, Dalaran in the Broken Isles has more portals to more places, like Karazhan, and they’re putting in new portal rooms in Orgrimmar and Stormwind anyway, so it will be easier to get around, even if they removed some portals that really honestly aren’t even needed anymore. You can take your tinfoil hats off, now. 
Further confirmation. Nothing to get worried about; like I said, the only reason to even go to either of the Shrines in the Vale was to get to the Northrend version of Dalaran, and you can still do that anyway.
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Okay, that just sucks. I really hoped they’d leave the Vale portals alone.
There’s also absolutely no benefit to doing it. Not for the players, not for the game as a whole.
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Son, we live in a world with shareholders. And those shareholders have to be appeased. Who’s gonna do it? You OP?
Devs have a greater responsibility than you could possibly imagine. You weep for your hearth point, you curse the Devs, you have that luxury.
You have the luxury of not knowing what the Devs know. That the loss of your pprtals, while tragic, pads the time-played metric.
And that our constant meddling with the game, while gross and incomprehensible to you, pads the time-played metric.
You don’t want the truth because deep down you WANT to play WoW, you NEED to play WoW.
We use phrases like MAU, DAU, and cash shop purchases. We use these terms as the backbone of a job spent removing content and frustrating the playerbase. You use them to point out the hypocrisy of a company that uses Free-to-play metrics in a subscription based game
We have neither the time nor inclination to explain our decisions to a player base that has spent billions of dollars on a video game that pays for our food, lodging, and children’s tuition to college and then dares to question our choices as the subscription count hemorrhages.
We’d rather you just spent your money and find a different bind point.
Otherwise we suggest you post in our PTR forums where we can not only ignore your feedback, but openly mock it.
Either way, we don’t give a darn what you think.
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If this change was intentional, I’d like blizz to explain how it makes the game better.
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I’m not saying it’s exactly warranted or necessary, just that in the grand scheme of things it’s not something to necessarily get in a tizzy over. It’s happened before, on more than one occasion, and it’s not actually really an impediment in any way at all, other than to help streamline the content flow of that particular expansion.
Seriously, once you’re done in Pandaria, you go back to Orgrimmar to start WoD. You don’t have to go to Undercity or Thunder Bluff or Silvermoon for any of those things. Hell, WoD has portals to all those places for you to eventually reach via that expansion’s main hub, so it’s literally no skin off your nose to just rebind your hearth elsewhere. And, again, Legion’s Dalaran actually has more portals to more places and portals to every place that the Shrine lost anyway. So it’s just a better place to bind your hearth all around in order to get places quicker.
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I bind my hearth to Pandaria because I LIKE Pandaria. It’s beautiful and peaceful. It loads quickly, which is nice when I don’t want to afk for several minutes while Dalaran loads. This “well they’re planning on making another, WAY cooler portal room elsewhere” isn’t even an argument because this alleged portal room doesn’t exist yet, but they removed the Pandaria portals TODAY.
You are going well out of your way to defend a change that does nothing to benefit anyone. It’s no skin off your nose if people wanted to use the Pandaria portals.
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Ok this really angers me. I used Vale as my main hearth place because it was extremely convent. New Dal already has a hearth stone, and actually porting to Dal murders my computer. I get timed out a lot. Vale is just easier on my comp. Another reason why I kept it.
I have not changed my main hearth from Vale because of how useful it is when I want to port to a major city. WoD already has its own garrison hearth stone and ship yard. I dont need a portal for that, as does Legions Dal. Why make two hearth stones be locked to one city? That’s stupid. When I want to do MoP Content, keeping my hearth there made getting to that content easier. I spawn in right next to the portal room which made it so much easier to port around to other main cities as well. Instead of flying half way across a main city to find the portal rooms.
- Vale hearth: I get portals to all major cities, and it’s my easy portal to get to MoP content. So it’s MoP AND all Major Faction cities. (Edit: And get’s me to Northend and Outworld too.)
- WoD is reached using my Garrison hearth stone.
- Legion content is reached by using my Dal hearth stone.
The way Vale had things set up stream lined things so nicely. Org is a cluster f of just stuff everywhere. It’s a lot less streamlined and more of a pain to get around.
But this is Blizzard standard MO now. Make things as tedious and as much of pain as humanly possible cause pissing off your players makes for longevity of their sub time. ![:roll_eyes:](https://d38bqls1q93fod.cloudfront.net/en/wow/images/emoji/twitter/roll_eyes.png?v=6" ":roll_eyes:")
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