Does anyone actually like the portal room honestly?

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Then you should understand why it happened. If you don’t well then youre not really old school.

:man_shrugging:

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Yeah, the Horde has a cleaner more utility design - a few steps to be able to mount/fly.

Alliance still has to run down the winding ramp and lowbies still fall off outside if they can’t fly and get fall damage (that may be only my dumb lowbies tho).

When they add more portals, that will be good. I’d like one to western Kalimdor (around Desolace)…not that I need to go there often but it’s far to get there.

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It does look way better than the old ones we had , sure

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been wondering that too.

And we even fought hard to clear the place out. Lets make it home.

And well we can fly there. Unlike silvermoon…

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They make me feel more special as a mage since I’m getting asked to port them more often now. :smiley:
But that’s about all I like about them. I think they should have added the portal rooms while leaving the current ones intact as well.

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Actually I like the portal rooms, I admit the change and removal of portals have been annoying but I do like having the central portal hubs.

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I absolutely love the portal rooms. It was never difficult for me to get around before, having known all the portal locations and owning tons of portal items, but having all the portals in one location and looking beautiful to boot is something I can really get behind.

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I like it.

I just hate the vanished portals and the fact that our portal room is RIGHT at the front gates of Orgrimmar instead of being central to the city somewhere defensible.

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I like the idea and it cleaned up some of the clutter but what I don’t like is how so many useful ones have been removed and once I have the dazar teleport ring I may swap my hearth to shrine instead of my original plan to set it to the docks (man sometimes I hate how big dazaralor is).

At least they’re re adding in the caverns of time portal so I can go back to doing dragon soul on multiple toons instead of just my hunter as she’s the only one with the rep gated port in shatt.

My other gripe is not as important but I kinda hate how I can’t mount in the portal room and have to walk all the way out whereas when they were in the cleft I could mount instantly or continue on my mount. First world problems I know…

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Alliance has an absolutely beautiful portal room. The Horde…not so much. xD

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I do, looks great and I have portals to wherever I need to go, whats nor to like? I understand some of you hate how old portals where removed but that’s a different issue.

Please explain why you think adding a single room in the faction capitals with a ton of portals to take you all over the world is stupid? This fixed a ton of issues.

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A] A single room is a good idea. No one hates that.
B] “All over the world”, except they removed useful portals like Shrine (a centralised location was basically perfect), CoT (hope you don’t need any mounts or pets, though that one they’re bringing back), TB/IF (GG if you’re a mage or have a mage buddy, otherwise sux2bu), and the Kara port (that one is only annoying if you don’t have the ring, but we shouldn’t have to find a way around the dev’s poor decisions). Yes, there are FPs, but no one anywhere ever said “These portals should go away!”

TL;DR - Portal room is fine. Portal removal is not. Affected cities (like Legion Dal) which were once full of people (at least on my server) are now ghost towns. World totally feels bigger now! :roll_eyes:

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The portal room should be a magical place in the aether, created by Dalaran’s mages. It should contain every portal we have had access to in the past, and every portal that could previously be used by all levels should still be usable by all levels.

This portal room should be accessible via a portal in every city and both Vale Shrines, and that portal should be usable by all levels.

As Blizzard loves their RNG, they could have added a few extra spots for random portals. One could take you to any random raid or dungeon below the level you can queue for. One could take you to a random fishing spot in any area not above your level. Another could check out your quest progress and take you to a random quest you are eligible for but have not done.

The portal room could have been brilliant, instead of being an excuse to lengthen travel times, to deny portals to us we are accustomed to, and to funnel us into Orgrimmar and Stormwind to make them look populated - something even CRZ is no longer able to do.

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still never even seen it to be honest

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I do , to be completely honest I enjoy content changes , im a big fan of content release ^^ , I think the design of both of em are nice I play both factions and a lot of Bfa ^^ , I like em aslong as I get portals in boralus and zuldazuar to go to certain cities for purchasing bfa im happy ^^

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Yes it’s gorgeous and in a much better location for me. Only thing I kind of lament is I can’t mount up immediately.

But if it was up to me there would be no portals any where that didn’t absolutely require them.

Travel in this game used to mean something and classes like shaman and mage used to have a role in that. Now every one is so spoiled they freak out because there isn’t a portal directly to a raid hub despite there being one in the next zone over.

Idk how we got to this point, but it is something that if I could change I would. However, it’s likely way too far gone to change so it’s understandable why people get upset when they try.

It just should have never happened in the first place. The world really isn’t that big that we need portals to places zeplines and flight paths can already take you.

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It’s good when players who are really into one aspect of the game don’t get to wreak havoc on aspects of the game other players are really into.

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Art wise its amazing, again the art team is carrying this game.

The way it was implimented though was terrible, they shouldn’t of removed all the other portals in the game, I got a lot of quests in Legion that tells me (optional) use the portal to wherever and its not there.

The game feels so unpolished, I no longer believe in that “blizzard quality” anymore.

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I like the portal room. Not trolling.

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Yes, yes I do as a matter of fact.