You are being teleported to a tower in Dalaran. Since it’s an old portal, and the city is no longer there, you are teleported to where the tower used to be, and then you fall.
It’s amazing for alliance players, I can drop the portal, mount up on a flying mount (so can you) and I wont fall to death.
It gives me quick and easy access to the northern eastern kingdoms, like Scarlet Monastery and Stratholme etc. Until the recent pet dungeon addition in Stratholme a Mage port to the crater (unless you were a Paladin then you can go through your order hall) was the fastest way for Alliance to get there.
Yup they exist, you can get the Portal Tome to learn it on your mage from Dalaran Northrend, and teleport version is from Heroic Scarlet (the one with Archivist at the end) which you need to kill him before he burns a bookshelf which it is on.
Also don’t put in braille on an object that says “Do not Touch” it may cause a blind person to have a heart attack…
We all do it… usually if someone is pissing us off after a M+ dungeon or raid and asks for a mage portal to Dalaran… send them right to the crater and say, well you didn’t specify which Dalaran.
Usually 1 to 3 times until they finally realize it and learn to never click on one in a BG. Unless your insane… and do it repeatedly expecting a different result.
Also fun fact, in Classic and until they removed rune requirements for portal creation, it would cost the mage a few silver to make the portal.
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It’s literally in the support article you just linked…
falsely reporting another player with the sole intent of restricting their gameplay is also unacceptable and will result in penalties to your account.
When you report somebody, it’s supposed to be for a rule violation and can result in penalties to the account which can deprive them of gameplay. If you are using the report function to report somebody you know isnt against the rules… you put your own account into jeopardy.
Again, I am not taking sides in this, just saying telling people to make false reports over something that isnt against the rules can lead to a bad time.
You have never seen this. Easy to see them all when people have left but not so easy when it is packed in there and people are spamming all kinds of buffs and have all kinds of blue enchants.
https://imgur.com/a/e5XYUqA
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I was told by a blue to report things I think are griefing. I think this is griefing.
falsely reporting another player with the sole intent of restricting their gameplay is also unacceptable and will result in penalties to your account.
also, I am pretty sure this refers to people falsely reporting chat violations so that the person gets silenced.
Rationalize it all you want. The feedback form would be better for this in order to make a rule and wont put your account at risk. But do what you want, it’s not my account you are putting at risk… just yours. Thus no skin off my back.
It isn’t putting my account as risk. That is just silliness. My sole intent on reporting them isn’t restricting their game play in any form. Making mage portals to grief someone isn’t game play.
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I mean, if you are silly enough to click on a portal without taking notice, perhaps you weren’t ready enough to pay attention in a BG. 
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As an experiment I started dropping portals in AV AWAY from everything else.One thing I noticed is that there was always 3-8 that would click the thing.Even more if I would say click that portal to ancient Dal for a buff.
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I find this really hard to believe. Even when the portals are hidden you don’t often get that many people clicking them.
I guess you could sucker a few new players in but that many new players doesn’t seem likely.
absolutely incorrect.
it’s just the bg version of vtk.
and i’d be interested in hearing you explain how you think you can report someone for reporting you, when the reports are anonymous.
no, it’s not even remotely the same.
context is everything.
flagging someone as afk, isn’t the same thing as making false reports in the hope their account will be actioned.
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When did I ever say I’d report someone for reporting me? I said it was against the Terms of Use, which it absolutely is, it is NOT vote to kick.
Abusing a system for an unintended purpose? It absolutely is the same. You are using a feature dedicated to flag AFKers to remove someone you do not like for reasons of them not being AFK. It is the closest you can get to having a bunch of people report spam someone to squelch them because you do not like what they are saying. Ironically enough it seems Blizzard has removed WoW’s ToUs from the game, so the only offending infraction here is:
article xii section 2 of Blizzard’s ToU which is: Harassment, “griefing,” abusive behavior or chat, conduct intended to unreasonably undermine or disrupt the Game experiences of others, deliberate inactivity or disconnecting, and/or any other activity which violates Blizzard’s Code of Conduct or In-Game Policies.
Casting a spell which is available to your class and is not blocked cannot possibly be construed as “unreasonable undermining”, whereas reporting a player you KNOW is not AFK absolutely is unreasonable undermining.
in that case, i’m confused, and this makes no sense:
it’s not breaking any rules.
feel free to go ask over in the customer support forum if you would like clarification.
…this has been covered quite a few times since Korrak has been active.
nope, that’s an opinion, based on your own feelings.
Blizzard don’t work within the parameters of your feelings.
based on your feelings, if someone wants to join a bg with no intention of participating, the team should have to put up with that… providing the person is still at their keyboard. 
No thanks.
I prefer blizzards rules over your feelings.
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I love how rather than provide any support of “Blizzard’s rules” which you have not read, since you don’t understand that their rules are literally meant to be interpreted by them, you say “oh no your feelings!!” And, to say that something is reportable, versus whether I would report them, are two very different things.
Apparently mages are doing it in Bee Groups in Stormsong too. Lol. Placing it on top of honeycombs.
They need to add a confirmation to mage portals. That’s really the only solution.
“This portal will take you to X. Are you sure you wish to proceed?” Additional Dialogue for Dalaran Crater. “WARNING: If you are not on a flying mount, you will take fatal fall damage.”
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No we don’t. People need to use their brains and stop clicking on portals. I can’t believe this many people claim to have this many issues with portals. Stop clicking on them.
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I haven’t clicked them, but it’s still incredibly easy to do so.
If it goes off right when you right click a soul well, mage table, etc. You can and WILL hit the portal instead. And considering how many people leave the BG immediately when the portal is cast, I’m assuming a good portion of people are in that boat.
So telling people to “use their brains” is just insulting, when they have no control over it, when it can entirely be timing.
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“Huh. That mage is casting something right in front of that Soul Well. Ah well I’m sure it’s nothing…”
Come on. It’s not that hard to put 2 and 2 together.
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“Huh, That mage is casting a Refreshment Table, that’s nice of them.”
That response doesn’t refute what I said. You can see what they’re casting.