Instant Cast Mage Teleport and Portals in 9.2

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Ummm what???

  • Portal - Creates a portal, teleporting group members that use it to a Major City.
    Cast Time changed from 10 sec cast to Instant

  • Teleport - Teleports you to a major city.
    Cast Time changed from 10 sec cast to Instant

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Gonna have fun spamming tons of portals in 1 spot and sending people to dalaran fall lmao.

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That sounds funny imagining mages just blinking out of existence with no warning.

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portal roulette

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Would love to see this make it to live. Can you imagine in WM trying to kill a mage in Open World or even BGs or Arenas and they just instantly disappear.

Other classes in WM, BGs or Arenas will be like: “Just going to attack and kill this mage aaaaaaand he’s gone!”

People will be like “he was just there”

Mages will be like “not anymore. Poof”

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This is gonna be the new bubble hearth when getting your butt beaten in PvP lol

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Can’t cast portals whilst in combat.

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That’s why you cast them before combat if you can. Back in the days when holidays still got players out in the world I’d open a portal before snuffing a fire (and flagging myself in the process) so I could jump in if need be.

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Could Shadowmeld + portal work for Night Elf Mages? :thinking:

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I’m not actually seeing it on MMO-C, or a proper WoWHead article on it. Even in that article it doesn’t acknowledge it.
So it’s probably nothing.

But if it is a genuine change, sounds like a clown fiesta.

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Seems like kind of a weird change. I don’t PvP at all, so I can’t speak on that, but taking ten seconds to cast a portal in PvE really wasn’t something that ever bothered me.

Edit: I mean, I won’t say NO to instant portals, I just don’t understand who was asking for it.

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Don’t all mages have access to invisibility and doesn’t that drop combat?

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Doesn’t drop pvp combat

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Ah, thanks for the info.

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squinty eyes

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In my experience it does not and I use greater invis

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I can’t say you’re wrong because I have no idea, I’ve just never heard that before lol.
Logging on two alts to make them duel to see

Edit: Works fine in a duel at least :man_shrugging:

(this was recorded using two potato chips :laughing: )

You can see soon as I click greater invis I drop combat (no more crossed swords) and can mount (probably should have put portals on my bars :slight_smile: )

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Fair enough

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I thought it worked like but, not that is really matters as invis has a duration long enough that you can basically just run away on foot,.

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At least a paladin has to look you in the eye as they bubble hearth away…mages could now basically leave in the morning before you wake up when you thought you had a good time and they promised to call you.

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