Returning after 20 years and things I believe that would help

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After returning after 20 years the game has grown significantly. I began playing a BM hunter like I used to play long ago. As basically a new player here are a few things that I believe would make things easier.

-I feel like the portal system needs a major upgrade. With 20+ years of content it is extremely difficult to reach several areas of the game. Especially as a BM hunter that is trying to tame pets in many obscure areas of the vast world. At this point in the games life, I don’t think that older zone areas should be gated by extremely lengthy requirements.

- The quest log is often gets filled up and I have to abandon quests. With 20+ years of quests in the game, the quest log needs to be increased.

-The “older quest” arrows need to be much brighter and possibly another color.

-Tabards used to provide reputation for certain factions when worn in dungeons ( some of them still do), I think this feature should come back.

-I like that there is now a housing system, but it feels rather pointless. It’s interior design only, why? Why are professions not involved? Mining for stone, herbalism for wood, fishing for food for workers, so forth and so on… Things like housing stables to see some pets, farms to grow food or resources… Currently the system seems pointless, but there is infinitely room for improvement.

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You’re supposed to complete quests, not just collect them.

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Fun part about being old is your ideas don’t get better just more irrelevant and out of touch.

Welcome to the club

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In order to “return” after twenty years when the game is only twenty one years old you could only have played one year at most, and it was the year when the game was at it’s worst.

I don’t see why anyone would care what you think about the game.

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There’s portals everywhere. It’s never been easier to get around the game.

Finish quests before picking up new ones? This isn’t anything new.

Why and see above.

There are a lot of things you can modify on the exterior. Professions are heavily involved, but the crafting ones not the gathering ones.

A farm or stable is a good idea.

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This is a public forum bro. You don’t have to agree with everyone just walk away (go to another thread). This is just nasty and unwelcoming.

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Why? I guess if you like dogcrap. Enjoy.

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He has no idea what it was like prior to the portal rooms.

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This is good. Just make it a different color. It’s annoying (mildly) if you wanna complete old quests

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No it isn’t lol. You just didn’t play the game to unlock the numerous easy means of transportation to certain places.

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The game is 21 years old. It’s less like you’re returning and more like you never played it.

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Portals: Agreed. The large proportion of expansion portals require completion of some sort of quest or quest chain. I’ve asked any number of times for all portals to be available to any player. If they can get there - even a new player - then just put in the breadcrumbs to do whatever is needed to do things like activating flight paths.

Quest Log. Just delete the things you no longer want to do. It would be exhausting to try and keep up with hundreds of incomplete quests, even assuming there was some way to list them.

Quest arrow. Not sure why there needs to be a different color.

Tabards: eventually reputations will be shared across the account. They are now from Shadowlands onwards. Its fairly easy to build rep and you have things like the Darkmoon Faire buff and hat buff, as well as rep tokens you can buy during the appropriate Timewalking round.

Can we please not go there again? I get weary of trying to explain how bad it was to have that stuff during WoD.

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Well…yeah. we must storm WOD draenor to set up the base to now have the NPC “capital” to now have its portal.

there was that backdoor way via a cave (underwater tooi iirc) to a mop location with a portal to wod. and when you got there it was not working 100%.

it was like a modded game like fallout 4 and you did something not meant to happen. For craps and giggles I put in a teleport mod for a fun save. The fun minigame, lets see what happens when?…

the sole survivor shows up to the institute not even 5 minutes out of the vault. Some npc’s act normal, some get real stupid from script going well this is just busted. And the coursers will fire right away. God mode on advised.

WOD using that cave portal trick hosed most start content but for some reason tanaan jungle was functional. But as if anyone actually like being there, amiright?

BFA same thing. We do start the portal is there. No start no portal.

Most of these are like an hour. Since OP was on about 20 yearss ago….there was no portal to caverns of time as an easy way to get to tanaris.

In OG wow, now era classic…cavern of time takes an hour to get to first time. With no fun fights to break it up. Well you can kill road trash. And make this 2 hours now I guess.

Press numlock, walk south till done. Nudge cahr on turns in the road. Stop at 1000 needles entrance ofc. Or run off and die by the elevators. Corpse walk can be fun to some I guess.

Horde got there to tanaris walking from orgrimmar and flight points south. Skip a point, broken flight path. Orgrimmar I advise to get cross roads over with. No cross roads flight point, orgrimmar will jsut be dangling there not connected to crap.

aliiance, menenthil boat to theramore and march south.

If some think this sucks more in retail….they have to be trolling. Or they paid lots of mages for portals in the old days.

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I thought the portal to Ashran was available separately from the garrison? Not being a new player I’m not sure if it works.