The current portal coming up in a few minutes should be Stormwind. After that it will be Orgrimmar and then Valdrakken. It repeats in that same order!
this might be a pc issue im having no problems
rng is the lifeblood of this game from the legendary to event items
spawning in specific locations encourages players to go out into the world
That wait time honestly tells us how swamped they are with reports. 
This is a dang mess.
Thankyou! I finally got to one, but what a mess of flagged horde!
So now do I need to count portals in my sleep so I know which one is spawning next? It shouldn’t be this hard 
I went to SW a few hours ago, and only with the safety of a full raid group.
They spelled fortunate as fortunte in the mount journal description for fiery hearthsteed. I find that hilarious that it passed QC
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they should just have all three locations spawn a portal every hour…that way horde doesnt have to go all the way to stormwind pvp flagged.
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It would also split players up a lot better, which would in turn help with the lag. If the options are traveling all over creation and standing in one spot and accomplishing the same result, most people will choose the second scenario.
I am going to copy and paste here since my ticket is a 10 day wait and the event would be over,
I am locked into a phase and cannot partake in the Hearthstone event. I know this character I am on did the Legion event when Legion was current. I joined a raid for the Stormwind Hearthstone event and immediately noticed I was phased. I knew I was in trouble already. I checked to see if I had War Mode on and it was disabled so I was good. Next I checked Chromie to see if It would fix it prior to the event. Still no luck. Therefore, I was unable to attend the event due to being locked into a pre legion phase where no Event was happening. Yes, I am horde but other players are able to do the event. I wasted my time waiting and waiting to see if it worked twice now that it has cycled between 3 Major Cities and it’s honestly depressing that I can’t even fix this issue due to not being able to sync with other players when I have no issues on my end. Is there something a GM can do to fix this issue? Because I have done everything in game as a player to unphase myself. I only have a week to collect the items in this event and I and locked into a pre legion phase for both the Alliance and Horde sides when I enter Durotar or Stormwind Harbor. I am sure I am not the only one because I see multiple other players being locked into the same phase I am in trying to even do this event we wait hours to do.
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Not sure it is worth it. Blizzard doesn’t listen anyway.
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True, I can only do 1 of the 3 cities since I am stuck in a Pre Legion war event phase that I finished the quests for.
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Never had any lag. Maybe its a server thing?
It is what it is. WoW, and MMOs as a whole, always have rewards based on luck. Whether you grind it for lucky drops or grind it for currency, its still a grind. In order to get people playing constantly, any currency they introduced would probably be just as tedious to get.
Doesn’t bother me, frankly. I have toons on both Horde and Alliance and if I want to get every one, I have a character somewhere that can do it.
There were periods when I either didn’t lag, or it was a minimum, and then there were others when it was so bad I was praying I would get the tag. The instances where I was fine was when there wasn’t as many players present as there were at other portal spawns. If you are staying out of large groups and congested areas containing hundreds upon hundreds of players in the same place then yeah, you are probably fine. If not, I’m gonna have to call bull on that one. But your experiences can and will vary based on how many players show up.
A vender that takes some sort of currency that always drops, would be great.
If you get in a shot, or heal someone who does, you should get loot, even if you die.
Are the portals on a rotation? I have seen portals in Durotar and Sw at the top of the hour or about 17 minutes after the hour, but I don’t see a pattern. When I didn’t see one I assumed it was in the Dragon Isles (I don’t have that expac) But there doesn’t seem to be a pattern, as some hours I saw none.
As I read other peoples’ comments I see experiences vary. Some people say one city never spawns. I am wondering if phasing is affecting this as well as realm population and cross realm issues.
I’m fine with a true rotation, but I don’t think we have that, at least not for everyone.
Also they should either be in both cities or outside both cities. They probably chose these because they are phased for the same events, so should be somewhat predictable. Bot that doesn’t change the fact it is a PvP area on one side and not the other.
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Perhaps they have turned off sharding for the event to stop the situation where people would be fighting a world boss and almost complete and would suddenly be sharded out to one at the start, etc. If so that would mean that we would be getting something similar to what happend in Shadowlands, where world boss fights caused massive lag. In that case, it IS a server issue because the majority of these fights are just done by individuals, because raid groups arent necessary.
Possibly. Case in point, right now. I am at a spawn on my own server/shard cluster and there’s maybe 20 people present. I won’t have any issues. But I also didn’t join a raid group either and no one is forming one.
Honestly if they just had all 3 portals pop at the same time to split up the crowds it would be fine.
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My friends and I can’t say much about this event because none of us have been able to do it! We camped out in three groups, at each of the portal locations for a little over 12 hours while we worked. We kept WOW on separate monitors so we could occasionally glance over and see what was happening. NONE of us saw a single damn portal. It’s pretty obvious this was never tested. I had zero trust in Blizzards ability to do anything right before this, now my trust has gone negative. Glad we didn’t waste any money on the next expansion because we don’t believe any of it will be functional.
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Sorry I didn’t have time to delve into this further yesterday. That’s why I just linked the other thread so people could read other ideas too, along with these ones.
Now that I have a moment, I wanted to address this, because it’s honestly the best way to do things.
- Put items on vendor.
- Earn HS card currency from winning or losing HS games. (Add more tables in more spots)
- Earn HS card currency from killing boss fight.
- Spend currency over the course of a few days and buy everything.
- Everyone wins!
Why do we always have to keep repeating this to Blizzard and they keep ignoring it? 
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cuz RNG = “challenge”, lol
Anyway in the last few hours my server seems to have settled into a rotation, and none of the quarter after spawns have been occurring.