It’s a big friggin difference because the portals in Shrine are gone too.
Seriously Blizzard what possessed you to do this, and then lock all the portals up in SW and Org? How obscenely power-trippy do you have to be?
You can edit my posts and prune all the words you want but if I had done something this underhanded and power-obsessed, I would expect people to tell me I sucked for doing it.
Clearly the same is true for the people that foisted this bull on the players.
Just. Put. Them. Back!
Put them back with the same stupid code that allows toons of all makes, models, and levels to use them.
You guys are babies for cutting off travel like this.
I love the new portal system. The addition to Ashran made getting alts their garrisons without doing that ridiculously long Tanaan intro. It’s amazing.
If the removal of portals that suuuuper don’t matter bug you enough to not play, that’s a whole lotta your prob.
Caverns of Time portal is apparently being returned shortly.
Karazhan’s portal was put into play for Legion due to the requirements for questing there. There wasn’t one before Legion so it’s not like it was an old one similar to CoT. I haven’t noticed its absence.
You speak to a mage in the Mage Tower in Stormwind to be ported to Blasted Lands. I presume there is a similar one for Horde?
As for the Shrine, its only mildly annoying. I used it and then flew somewhere else from there. Now I use the current portal location and fly somewhere else from there. Not a lot of difference really.
There are far more annoying things in BfA to rant about in my not terribly humble opinion.
Wow! You go to Blasted Lands every day, and you go to Shrine every day, and you go to Kar every day, and you go to CoT every day. In fact, you go to each of them several times every day, so even though they are all in flying zones, that is too much time for you! You really need portals!
Wow! The other 99.9999% of players DO NOT go to those places every day.
I guess Blizzard is really odd, catering to 99.9999% of players and totally ignoring the important needs of 0.0001% of players! How dare they!
It’s not the worst change Blizzard has made over the years…easy to get use to. Though, have to admit, moving the portal to Pandaria kind of killed the mood for me…not sure why.
/walks away w/head down
Blizzard wasted development labor on removing old portals. Then, oops, they wasted Dev effort trying to figure out who needed them, so they can be there for people on quests. (Still trying apparently because it’s hit or miss now), then they wasted Dev effort putting back in a portal they could have left alone.
None of which was needed for them to put in a new portal room.
They could have been doing better things for you with that time instead of giving players that like legacy content a hard time.
It takes more shards/instances/computing resources to support people that are spread out than it does when they’re all packed neatly into fewer zones.
I bet they want to discourage people from going to old less populated areas because they’re going to steal a bunch of computing resources from retail to support classic soon.
Theoretically. But in practice, generally “no”. And the alliance side portal mage is probably a “special case” thing too, and if you mess it up, it goes away forever.
Well, it’s not back yet and who knows when 8.2 will be. Could be the fall at the rate the game has been progressing
Quiet! Don’t give them any ideas!
Two reasons were given. The blue said that it was to make the world feel bigger. The lead dev. Ion said that it was because they didn’t want new players to be hanging out in New Dalaran three years from now.
This is a big issue because it didn’t need to happen and it forces us to either spend more time traveling vs doing what we came online to do. Their time would have been better spent creating new content so that the game wouldn’t be such a ghost town.
Also, this is just one more straw added to a bunch more straws.
It’s why I didn’t have my garrison set up on several alts. I didn’t want to waste an hour doing the intro.
Now you just take the port to Ashran, fly to garrison and accept garrison quest. It’s amazing. Finally setting up my garrison on this toon. Level 3 and working on level 3 buildings at the moment. It’s actually super fun!
Didn’t know why we could skip Legion assault, but had to do Tanaan. So glad. It was so freaking hard to solo on my arcane mage. Other classes can waltz through it
Use the portal under the timeless isle. It ports you to the top of a mountain in Gorgorond I think. Then you can just fly to the landing spot for your faction and start.
EDIT - HURRY THOUGH. I just said portal in a post. I’m sure it’ll be removed ASAP.
Can’t go wrong there. Combined w/ Engineering wormholes I barely notice the portals are gone.
@OP, if portal removal is killing your will to play that seems pretty silly but I guess you could always level a mage or quit the game.
Edit: That seemed a little harsh and I never like reading that ‘just quit’ response… I was more saying swapping your main is better than just leaving entirely.
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Quiet! Don’t give them any ideas!