I wouldn’t have minded it as much if I hadn’t gotten hit by the “Flight path mount despawns in the endless void and fall to my death for three minutes before being forced back into oribos” bug. I swear its happened like five or six times now.
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The developer that just left the team explained why zones are smaller these days. He said the cost per virtual chunk of land to develop has gone up a ton since the days of vanilla.
He was lamenting this when they designed Ashran. He said that zone needed to be a lot bigger for the vision they had for it.
It’s really just needing to bounce to oribos that annoys me. Perhaps for our portal networks they can add into one of the ranks a way to cross into the other zones directly, I know one of the ranks has an oribos portal though.
Engineering gets a wormhole to each of the SL zones with a 15 minute cool down. That helps a lot, but seriously… Travel in this expansion really stinks.
Yeah I never really liked the whole flight path hidden loading screen they made hope they never do it again.
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As a void elf who’s exalted with the Arrakoa outcasts and Order of the Awakened, I’m already both of those things without needing to throw my identity away.
But to be fair, Cataclysm didn’t make you fly across the entire landscape to reach their zones.
Each zone had a portal to Stormwind/Orgrimmar, with portals to all zones readily available. That’s very different from long flights.
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thematically i like it
time-wise i wish it was WAY faster
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Guess you never did Burning Crusade then.
This is nothing new.
I wish the portals that opened up in the upper level of Oribos near the flightmaster worked, y’know, like actual portals that took us to the main hubs.
I feel like it takes a long time to get anywhere in this expansion and before the “I walked up hill both ways in the snow, to school” folk jump on no one cares about 15 years ago.
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Oh you mean that expansion that introduced flying for a flat gold cost at max level?
I think the disjointed zones are fine.
The lack of direct FPs (rather than Zone, Oribos, Zone) is a bit odd though.
But i like riding a giant “male reporductive cell”
down the fallopian tube every time i move from zone to zone… but seriously. The OP has a point. The whole thing feels cobbled together thematically.
I want the blue humans double dead almost as much as I want a total genocide of all elves.
I get that the flight patterns are a little weird but I mean you just take a walk to the kitchen or go pet your dog while in flight, maybe alt tab or something. This is the smallest of issues so small its not even an issue.
I am very, very proud that people are waking up to what has happened to a great game of WoW. King of king of MMORPGs is reduced down to massive loading screens just trying to go from one zone to another. Not good!
I’ve died a few times going through this stupid thing, server gets hiccups and removes you from the flight path, only problem is the “In Between” is an actual zone with no ground, so it drops you where ever you were in when the hiccup happens and just kills you.
Is it just me or is there a whole load of dead space on a lot of the maps with nothing happening in them?
Like the quests for the main story only show you like a 1/3rd of the map
Like half of my maps aside from rivendreth is unexplored still
not going to lie since I’ve done the campaign I’ve maybe been back to aredenweald like once.