I like the Alliance portal room. I think it looks great and its nice having a hub where they all are that won’t be summarily removed at some later date (hopefully). The Horde portal room on the other hand seems… lackluster and its location is… odd to say the least.
My issues with the portal rooms come down to missing portals (CoT and Dalaran Crater mainly) and certain decisions on where portals go such as MoP portal going to starter town instead of Shrine, and sending us to Azsuna for Legion for some reason. Personally I felt the Wyrmrest portal would have been the better choice for a link to WOTLK since Dalaran is technically not in Northrend anymore and yet Wyrmrest is centrally located and not far from old Dalaran. The Legion portal going to current Dalaran would have been preferable to me.
8.2 will give us a CoT portal which is a big deal to me and makes me happy. Lacking a portal to Dalaran crater without pestering a mage (when I am on an alt), I’d settle for a flight path added to Gilneas so that Alliance has some method of getting to that part of the continent. Currently the closest flight path is in WPL when you want to do Love Is In The Air.
Some people are upset about the loss of the Kara portal but there’s an easy to get ring that teleports you there so its not something that bugs me at all.
Function > Aesthetic.
The new portal rooms are pretty, but less useful than what we had before. They need to be expanded to include everything we previously had. Or just remove them and put the old portals back in.
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Portal rooms, as a general concept? Yes.
This game’s current crop? No.
The retooling was not needed, too much has been removed from the game AGAINJ and with little or nothing to take its place.
AGAIN.
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I don’t see the big deal at all. I think it’s beautiful and super convenient. Sure, some are missing, but none that really matter. People just love to complain.
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No complaints from me. I think adding some wings for the lost portals from Legion Dalaran and it’d be perfect.
It’s a room. With portals.
not really much to like or dislike.
now the current selection of portals… I’m also impartial to, it could be better, but when would I have honestly ever used a caverns of time portal?
They looks good, that’s about it.
For wanting to centralise portals they are missing quite a few, though.
I’d like it a whole lot more if they weren’t short about 5 portals.
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It looks pretty but function wise. It was pointless. Blizz doesn’t have s good reason to mess with thr portals to get around.
Just goes back to the dammed metric.
Me personally, I love the portals being in one location. Because I mostly have my two mains (1 Alliance and 1 Horde) and my many alts’s hearthstones set to Stormwind and Orgrimmar. Between the two, the Alliance portal room looks visually pleasing.
I like it but it needs more portals.
It is not as bad as I thought it was going to be from reading the forums.
I don’t really get what almost seems like randomly chosen spots to teleport to with MoP and Legion portals.
I cannot think of any reason that I would pick the locations they picked instead of Dalaran or the Shrine. But, oh well. It is just a game. No reason to get upset about it.
i’m fine with it. and i don’t really see why people are so mad about what’s been taken away. i can’t even think of a portal that was removed that i ever used. 90% of my travel i do with hearthstones and items.
I was Meh when I heard about it initially, I was Meh when they announced it and I’m still Meh about it.
Why’d they bother? Who cared enough to put forth this effort of devtime?!
Yes, I like the portal room. Having all the portals in one spot is a lot better then having to run all over the city trying to find the right one.
The alliance’s is beautiful.
The horde’s fits the dogs ya’ll are. its like a garage. lmao
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portal changes have not made any difference to me what so ever, could careless , big deal that I might have to spend 5 minutes longer once in a while getting somewhere.
Being absolutely honest, I don’t mind it at all.
I prefer the Horde portal room though, has a better design.
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My problem is that they put no room into it for expanding.
The complaint about Cleft of Shadows was that all the portals were just standing around haphazardly.
With this new room… it’s full. Where are new portals going to be? Stuffed along the pillars and between the other portals?
It’s quickly going to be Cleft of Shadows all over again. So what was gained?
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No problem with the Portal Room, but the logic for removing the hubs from prior expansions is dopey. Spicoli must have championed this monkey see, monkey do behavior from BCs conclusion.