Next expansion they have a magical apocalypse as the void closes off all portals. If you want to go to Draenor or Outlands you have to get a mage to get you there if you are 120+.
They are wanting to make new portal rooms and have everything together. This would be a good lore reason to do it.
This just in: The fun police has decided that instead of getting to a zone the way a player wants. You now have to do it the way Heartblossom and the fun police have decided.
Hey I have an idea to make travel more immersive .
Portals have a chance to randomly send player to any zone in game . Can you just imagine it now . Enter port to Boralus or Zuldazar and the Legion Dalaran load screan comes up .
Yes, please keep removing items that are convenient from the game.
It will make the decision to quit that much easier.
Letâs not forget the flight paths that would make the FAA happy.
No you guys, your not utilizing the most used tool in wow.
There should be one portal in every major city, but when you take it, RNG determines where you land, including the old port to Dalaran. Better have your gliders ready!
Nearest flight path is actually ungoro crater as there are currently no flight points in silithus.
If they really wanted to make the world seem bigger theyâd add level scaling elites that patrol the whole path. That way we can bring back the old classic Nelf suicide run to ironforge feeling. /s
It is, but it reminds me of a recent schmuck moment I had.
Was playing my mage and I wanted to go back to Stormwind. So I ported to my garrison, flew to Ashran or whatever that Island is called, and took the portal to Stormwind. Ran out of the Mage tower, mounted up and flew over to the vendor selling recolors of the cata tier gear.
As I was gleefully buying my blue tinted ghost rider transmog set it dawned on me that I have my own portals.
Honestly, you all think to small. To make Azeroth Large Again, we need to remove run speed. Literally, your character should have to walk everywhere. We can discuss adding stamina in the game later, like maybe a pathfinder achieve of sorts. But the game doesnât feel immersive if you can literally run without ever catching your breath or stopping.
Letâs expand on this .
One must learn to crawl before they walk . So to make the world bigger we must crawl until we grind what ever must be done for walking , then grind for run speed , ground mounting ectâŠ
Only then will the World of Warcraft be a much larger world and immersive.
For the longest time I thought I was the only way not even realizing uc and silver moon up north
Not only should that happen, but flying should be disabled for 2 minutes after using a portal so you have to use the in game elevator to get to the uldem portal!
We should have to get food for our mounts, and only carry a couple at a time, like hunters can only summon 5 pets at a time.
Having mechanical planes and freight carrying dragons at a whim makes the world too small.
Finding the balance between convenience and experience is more delicate than you give credit.
I could make a similar satire post about how the world isnât convenient enough and how portals and loading screens should exist to fast travel us to every distinct zone.
ooh now lets add to that and there is now a random chance of the elevator getting stuck for 10 minutes half way up forcing you to listen to really bad elevator music and your choices are wait it out for the 10 or jump to your death to avoid the music and still have to wait to minutes for rez sickness to wear off.
No, the satire is 100% needed, as they finally are removing convenience thatâs been in the game for upwards of 10 years (CoT portal) based on subjective excuse as, âthe world feels to smallâ.
Blizzard keeps shooting themselves in the foot, then wonder why players are leaving, or at a minimum, massively dissatisfied. Boneheaded changes such as this overshadowing any benefit.
I wonder how the artist of the portal room feels? Such a unique asset ruined by the player base getting shafted by a dev who hasnât enjoyed the game in 10 years.
The world is really worthless and irrelevant. If anything blizz has removed too many portals and such.
The only content wich retains long term value is level capped instanced things.
So i disagree with you poster.
you should check out the subreddit /r/whoosh
Blizzard should remove all portals from the game so we have to rely of flight paths and mounts. Remove flying mounts altogether. Come up with some type of reason like the air has become too thin and the mounts can no longer float in the air.
Then put restrictions on flight paths. The bird can only fly a max of one zone before landing and then has to feed and take shelter for the night. Then the next day to bird will continue to the next flight point before needing more rest and grooming. This will surely make the game world much bigger for all of us to enjoy.
This could be fun, once a year on April Fools day. 
Na leave all the portals and flight paths. Blizzard can just add micro transactions to each one. The more you pay the faster you travel on your flight path. Add another $25 to your sub and you can use portals.