Stop removing portals

[Felryn-area-52 (Felryn)]

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The portal room was suppose to clean up the mess in Orgrimmar and Stormwind while making things a tad more convenient, not make things worse.

• There’s no way to get to the Caverns of Time
• No teleport to either Ironforge or Thunder Bluff in the room
• There’s no way to get to Karazhan/Blasted Lands/Hellfire Peninsula edit: They lied, there is no NPC to teleport to the Blasted Lands
• The teleports to Pandaria are in a much worse location (Shrine>Forest)
• Other portal hubs have basically become obsolete due to lacking any portals

Like come on Blizzard, we’re losing more than we’re gaining with this update.

[Xarlath-area-52]

“An old player request”

I can’t speak for everyone, but I’m definitely against the whole “consolidate everyone into one area and make other capitals and spaces irrelevant.”

And if that is the case, then go all the way and relocate the old portals to the new portal room instead getting rid of them outright.

[Vodkanokers-bladefist]

I yearn for the old days when I made piles of gold selling ports.

I would love to see those days come back.

[Tarc-fenris (Tarc)]

• There’s no way to get to the Caverns of Time

Presumably the portal in Shattrath will remain, which requires some level of KoT rep, I forget what exactly.

• No teleport to either Ironforge or Thunder Bluff in the room

I don’t think there ever has been in the capitals, the portals to all your faction’s cities reside in the current content hub, i.e. Boralus and Dazar’alor.

• There’s no way to get to Karazhan/Blasted Lands/Hellfire Peninsula

There is an NPC to take you to the Blasted Lands, and it’s just a hop through the portal to Hellfire. The Kara portal was just to facilitate Legion Class quests, since that is no longer current, it’s not really needed.

• The teleports to Pandaria are in a much worse location (Shrine>Forest)

The portal in SW/Org-to-MoP already took you to the Jade Forest. This is just lining up with that.

• Other portal hubs have basically become obsolete due to lacking any portals

Good. Pay your local mage for a portal.

[Felryn-area-52 (Felryn)]

I don’t think there ever has been in the capitals, the portals to all your faction’s cities reside in the current content hub, i.e. Boralus and Dazar’alor.

Cool, but not all my characters I use the portals on are level 110. All my characters had their hearths in the shrine and those portals got removed. I use the Dalaran portals, but now they’re being removed lmao.

There is an NPC to take you to the Blasted Lands, and it’s just a hop through the portal to Hellfire.

I missed that NPC being mentioned, ty. I combined Kara/Blasted since they’re very close to eachother anyways.

The portal in SW/Org-to-MoP already took you to the Jade Forest. This is just lining up with that.

Which is why all my toons had their hearths set to shrine the moment they hit level 87. The shrine is a great/central location compared to the Jade Forest.

Would be fantastic if we could change where the portal goes after completing the quest that unlocks the Vale.

[Ashna-scarlet-crusade]

So they want us to go back and do Legion content on alts, but not have access to portals? Especially the lower portals for several quests… wow. No thought there.

[Margirita-perenolde (Margirita)]

Bah just make all portals go to Old Dalaran anyways… we all know the mages are working for the Forsaken!

(this actually would make for a epic April fools joke)

[Shadowfist-agamaggan (Shadowfist)]

Classic is on it’s way. =P

[Jessail-terenas (Jessail)]

There is already a discussion thread here:

Why are portals being removed in 8.1.5?

The title pretty much says it all. This includes every portal in Legion Dalaran with the exception of Stormwind/Orgrimmar, including the Caverns of Time, Karazhan and Dalaran Crater portals. The full list of portals being removed can be found here: https://www.wowhead.com/news=290485/new-portal-rooms-in-patch-8-1-5 Whats the point in all of this?

[Belitt-sargeras (Belitt)]

Blizz devs only play mages confirmed.

[Bornakk]

I understand that changes can throw people off a bit at first, but I also think they help keep the world of Azeroth feeling alive. When there are fewer portals, does the world feel a bit bigger to you? Do you like that? How difficult is it to get to the locations you mentioned without a direct portal (talking to everybody who isn’t a mage here ) ?

[Paladina-kargath (Paladina)]

Portals are a direct link to past content, without them will make getting to and from older areas that much more difficult, so they’ll become ghost towns.

[Vadimier-tanaris (Vadimier)]

I miss my horde warrior more now. He was an engineer and could teleport to Gadgetzan.

This one is just a stupid ol’ blacksmith that has to fly to the caverns. haha

I do agree that it makes the world feel bigger. It is undeniably less convenient though.

[Orctang-area-52 (Orctang)]

When there are fewer portals, does the world feel a bit bigger to you? Do you like that?

Nope, just feels like travel is being time gated. If you want the world to feel bigger make bigger zones that are more alive.

[Shadowfist-agamaggan (Shadowfist)]

In my own opinion… No. They don’t make the world feel bigger, they make the world feel longer. I think the current live portals are fair.

I may not be a mage, but I think I have just a little less portal power as them currently. Engineer portals + portal access from hubs (Dal / Org), Org portal shirt, the toy that ports me to Black Temple, and I have the scroll to port me to Hillsbrad. (I might have more I am forgetting)

[Synsha-greymane (Synsha)]

This is akin to the removal of flight to make the world bigger. I remember playing the game without flight. I remember playing the game without portals everywhere. I personally enjoyed that game and see how it can be fun… I’m no where close to the majority of players…

You opened numerous pandora’s boxes of convenience throughout various portions of the game and have built a community that relies on that convenience. Taking it away now is akin to shooting your own foot.

Build on what you’ve built… don’t tear out the base and expect the rest of the building to just… figure out how to stand up on its own. It’ll fall. As will your community.

[Moranaa-moon-guard]

How difficult is it to get to the locations you mentioned without a direct portal (talking to everybody who isn’t a mage here ) ?

Difficult enough that I don’t want to do the content. Without the Dalaran Crater portal, I absolutely would not have done the Love Is In The Air dailies in Silverpine. Making travel less convenient does not make the world feel more alive, it just makes it feel tedious.

[Bornakk]

I do agree that it makes the world feel bigger. It is undeniably less convenient though.

I agree, but how convenient should things be for everybody? Why do mages have portals? Should everybody just have the teleport abilities that mages have? I don’t think that’d feel right, heh.

[Tareir-arthas (Tareir)]

When there are fewer portals, does the world feel a bit bigger to you? Do you like that?

Nope, just feels like travel is being time gated.

I don’t think time gated means what you think. There are good criticisms out there but saying “TIME GATING!?!?!” to everything isn’t really helpful

[Rhielle-sentinels (Rhielle)]

I understand that changes can throw people off a bit at first, but I also think they help keep the world of Azeroth feeling alive.

And if there was a portal room, transmog, void storage and a barbershop in every single city, then the world would definitely feel alive.

As it stands, they’re killing the other cities even more.

Stop killing the other cities. Let people have choices so the world actually feels larger. Part of the awesomeness of this game was so many cities we could utilize.