Reading your post makes it sound woefully tedious. In practice, I just end up hearthing back to ori and flying wherever while I grab a drink. It’s not a big deal.
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By your logic, you should do away with vendors AND portals, just have UI elements for bank, repair, etc and you can just get portaled to the raid or dungeon entrance. Doesn’t add any gameplay value right? Just back and forth, back and forth for no reason other than for its own sake.
Set your hearthstone to your covenant hub and use the Dalaran Hearthstone to quickly get back to Oribos.
You had to go cross continent to get to the content…
No, by my logic I’m simply asking for the chore crap to be tossed into the same are so that I’m not wasting my time traveling back and forth between zones to get it all done prior to just playing the fun parts of the game.
That or make all BS progress bar gazing mini-game crap optional so that I can go right to the stuff that’s actually fun to engage with.
I’m not really convinced that running to 2 portals (and loading screens) is actually any faster but I’ll give it a try.
IMO it’s intended to be a dual “hub” design like Legion, but for some reason they left out the portals from the Covenant sanctums to Oribos (IIRC every Legion class hall had a portal to Dal or other method of reaching it quickly – even mages got one despite already having teleports!).
Hearth to sanctum → portal to Oribos → fly to wherever would probably work fine, but hearth to sanctum → fly multiple zones is going to get tedious pretty fast.
Oribos if you’re more into Maw/Torghast stuff.
Covenant if all you care about is getting your dailies done.
My characters are hearthed to their covenant. I do way more stuff there than I do in Oribos.
I think the arguement has some merit…
the counter-arguement, that its 30, or 20 seconds to fly to anywhere, is simply nonsense… I have not timed it, but the flight from Oribus, to Elysian, well it’s long enough to grab a coffee and a quick bio break. From Elysian, to Maldraxxus, time to make a sandwiche, coffee, and the resulting bio break.
Dalaran, and our Garrison, had it’s own hearthstone, plus a flight whistle, all very nice QoL items. Flying thru the wormhole, has lost it’s appeal.
Yeah sure, so why have a banker or a mailbox? Surely going from bank to mailbox is a chore. Why have a repair vendor? Heck, why have gear repair at all? Isn’t repairing a chore? As you take dura damage, why not have it auto-repair, deducted from your gold? Why waste your time travelling back and forth between NPCs?
I remember someone saying that in the beta, there was originally portals but they opt-out for flight paths. Weird.
My only issue is Oribos is the worst city blizzard has ever created aesthetically, it looks like a chinese finger trap or noodle floating in the sky and thats just dumb.
laughs in engineer
Wormhole Generators <3
It’s bad design to make you travel and explore the world…hot take.
Dammit blizz, stop putting the RPG in my MMORPG!
I’m sure there was a design decision made, and it probably had nothing to do with giving players the best possible gaming experience possible. 
What “exploring” do you do while sitting in the wormhole and flying over land until you get to your covanent town?
Where zugzugsz are not zugzugz!!
Did you try logging out in your covenant sanctum?
Fly to aspirant’s rest and take the portal system to the hold. Aspirant’s is first flight path of the zone. When you leave bastion, do same thing the other way around.
I was looking ahead in-game at the Renown rewards and I think we get a covenant hearthstone at Renown 11. Then you can set your normal hearth to Ouribos and travel will be easier.
There are plenty of people who always say each expansion, “The world doesn’t feel big!”
This is their solution. Blame it on people who want to waste time feeling like they’re in a big world, lol.
If there’s one thing I hate about modern WoW it’s that the Develoeprs are overly concerned about whether or not I finish the quest content and play their casual mini-games.
All of that stuff should just be optional and not an impediment to folks who don’t really care about it.
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