I’m also not sure about it. It is really hard to imagine somewhere outside the shrine. However if they port to the shrine it will coincide to the mage portal location and I think that this is what they are trying to avoid.
The timing on this is the most absurd part to me.
Classic comes out in a few months, supposedly. Why not let Retail be Retail, and let Classic be Classic? Seems the perfect “compromise” that’s already in development, but no, let’s be regressive with Retail…
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I don’t know if I agree with that. Having everyone have a way to get somewhere relatively quickly isn’t terribly different from mages having the ability to facilitate that. If a Mage wants to get there, they can Teleport directly, from anywhere in-game. If I want to get there, I have to Dalaran Hearthstone, then take a portal from there.
The Mage portals aren’t diminished in their usefulness – they’re still superior to the options available to everyone else in that scenario.
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So… Moving a few portals and removing a couple others is equivalent to banning cars… And it is a very good analogy… give me a break dude. Yes both are inconveniences, but one results in a couple of minutes of extra flight in really specific scenarios and the other one could result in the crumbling of civilization as we know it… Wtf dude…
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but they’re not.
i just showed they’re not.
i just gave a whole bunch of reasons why the zones aren’t irrelevant
you seem to think that the entire game is meant to revolve around item level or something though… ???
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Yes both are inconveniences.
K so you think that taking away portals is inconvenient and you still want the change. How much is Blizzard paying you to troll these forums lol?
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Yes, this is one of the specific scenarios I’m talking about. With portals moving some things will be slightly farther away. Throne of Thunder for example is a lot farther away, maybe they should look into it.
But the scenario of a player that has one hour to play and he spends the entire hour sending multiple characters to one shot Oondasta and you will not be able to send as much of them there after the change is extremely specific and speaks way more about the nature of the content you are doing than the portal changes themselves.
Battle pets, mog, and achievements are all collections items. Yes I have done content that has not been for item level. Most of these collection items are years old and definitely not new.
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I was about to ask her the same question. She is obviously trolling.
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So in your opinion mmo rpgs should only add conveniences over time, and never remove them? And everyone that agrees with the devs that want to remove them is a troll? This does not seem like a sustainable model or an effective way to evaluate people who disagrees with you…
If blizzard wanted to make collecting items more interesting. They could make random threatening bosses,would drop mounts, spawned everyonce in a while in some cot dungeons to break up the monotony
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when pigs fly… wait nvm that is on the store
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This. This right here. Taking away things that the company put in I’d say over 10 years ago for no reason at all is highly inconvenient. I am not sure why you see this is a positive change, or how you could. You don’t disagree with anyone, you’re just here to just say nonsense.
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You have not givin anything that would compensate or counter this portal removal. Your just here trying to troll people.
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Just saw this short article
mmorpg . com/mobile/news.cfm?read=51725&game=15&ismb=1
(remove the spaces)
Doesnt matter if I post here or not.
This ISNT going away and there was NO reason for Blizzard to provoke their own faithful subscribers for no good reason.
Same thing with the Master Loot.
It was entirely reasonable to leave it in the game.
BOTH removing ML and these portals does the exact same thing…drags out play time for no good reason.
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What a stupid change. The devs are completely disconnected from the community.
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Except it cant fly in current content…
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It is my direct example as to how this change negatively impacts me.
It is not an example of removing cars from the world and using that as an analogy.
If I have an hour to play on Friday, and 2-3 minutes more of that hour per toon is consumed for Nalak and then again for Oondasta, then I am not playing the game for an extra 5 minutes. This is ignoring the amount of time it already takes me.
This drives me to 2 scenarios:
- Suck it up
- Don’t do the activity
Once people have sucked up enough, or stopped doing enough, they quit.
And that is all this change can do, all it can do is drive people one step closer to quitting. It may not be this particular change, but once you add all the crappy things together, it will be a straw for many people. This in no way is a positive change.
If all they did was fix the portal room in Org and SW and have all the portals together and not remove any, this thread wouldn’t exist and we would be back to reading about how Demo warlocks need to be nerfed or some other problem.
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Can we not get bogged down in accusing the people who disagree with us of trolling? If you disagree, just disagree. Nobody has to justify their point of view to anyone in the thread.
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Agreed! They have no idea what they are doing anymore.
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