Please reduce cooldown on Keystone Hero Portals

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8 hours is a really long time, especially since some keys don’t get finished.

I would like to see the portal cooldown be reset when a mythic keystone is started, rather than finished - this way you can use your portal to next dungeon if group can’t finish the current one.

Additionally, since these portals are about to be account wide, i think the cooldown should be reduced. These portals are very handy - horde alts can use waycrest manor portal to get to Kul Tiras (without questing in BFA - which really no one wants to do for every alt they want to bring over to Kul’Tiras).

People can use their Necrotic Wake portal to go back to Bastion and farm that mount, etc. The Mechagon Keystone hero portal brings your character directly to mechagon, which can be a long flight for alliance or a real pain to unlock via questing for horde.

I just think it would be a nice quality of life to make these two changes:

  1. Cooldown of portal reset when keystone started
  2. Cooldown as a whole reduced, maybe to like 4 hours?
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What happens if you just go the way people without portals do it, when yours is on CD?

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Because that wouldn’t be abused, right? Pop into a key, start it then abandon it (because it’s not your key) and POOF your portal is back up!

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Also note: You can reduce the 8 hour timer to <15 minutes by joining a pug +2 and blasting through it. The cooldown resetting on completion of a key is intentional.

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This was gonna be my question. Like, we have a main portal room hub where you’re ported 30 seconds away from a dungeon in most cases. Just, you know, run and summon like you would if you didn’t have the portal lol

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Imagine all the +5s being broken cos they thought a 3k was coming to help them.

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If the portal cooldown was reduced, I’d probably drop engineering for something else. Lately I’ve only been using it for Jeeves and the wormhole generators. If portals became a more convenient mode of travel then I don’t see a reason to keep engineering.

And with portals becoming account-wide, the profession would be dead to me on multiple toons lol.

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Sure, make mages useless for utility even further. How entitled can one be?

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mages cannot port to mechagon.

mages cannot port to temple of nuizao.

mages cannot port to shado-pan monastery.

mages cannot port to court of stars

mages cannot port to Neltharion’s Lair.

i could go on and on regarding this, but you understand the basic theme here: mages cannot portal to these places anyways.

see the problem with this is that keystone hero portals are now account wide - meaning that they can be used by characters that are not max level.

characters that are not max level are unable to enter a mythic keystone dungeon and thus have no way of resetting the cooldown on their portals.

do you understand this now?

well keystone portals don’t allow you to use jeeves, so that’s a non-issue.

wormhole generators - show me the wormhole generator that brings you to throne of the tides.

show me the wormhole generator that brings you to court of stars.

show me the wormhole generator that brings you to vortex pinnacle.

show me the wormhole generator that brings you to neltharion’s lair.

show me the wormhole generator that brings you to halls of valor.

you get the drift, right?

i suppose one may argue “oh well there is the gadgetzan teleport for engineering” but you still have to fly from tanaris to uldum - which is a longer flight than flying to vortex pinnacle from the location where the SW/Org portal brings you to in uldum.

oh wait and guess what? oh yeah, the cooldown for the engineering teleport to gadgetzan is, what did you say, oh yes, it is four hours… imagine that, it is the exact cooldown that i suggested keystone portals have.

so just because there is a potential for misuse, we shouldn’t do it?

literally everything in this game has the potential for misuse - people can join keys with the intention to leave right now: does that mean we should just not have keystones and mythic plus?

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Mage can get you to Valdraken, where theres a M+ portal hub.

But pretend that doesnt exist, theres still places they can get you close enough so you can mount up and get your tush there manually like we all used to.

Be glad they did add the portal hub and those portals to use now and then. But they are all luxurious goods that are new and already an amazing thing on their own. Don’t bite the hand that gives the candy.