Where did you hide blasted land portal?

[Naedoon-thrall (Naedoon)]

Indeed that is true. Now this was not my reason solely for not resubbing but it was definately in there.

As for people losing there jobs it is never a joking matter but when one is not doing a good job should you really fire 200 other people for the short commings of management? Hell ActiBlizz had there best and filled the execs pockets. Yes Ion should be moved to a different job, no lead anything for him. BAD ION BAD!

[Illoramoan-grizzly-hills]

@Taivora-dark-iron

OP, I have not read through most of the thread, I confess, but there is an NPC in front of the Shattrath portal that will port you to the Dark Portal in Blasted Lands.

I’ve not seen him do that yet, he always says “go to shattrath lol”. Long flight to the portal, but I did it. Actually came out of the Draenor portal instead of Outland, but w/e.

[Ravenwolfn-stormrage (Ravenwolfn)]

I decided to test it myself and here is what I discovered. The Honor Hold mage teleports you directly to the Dark Portal in the Blasted Lands, instead of Hellfire. I can assume the Hordes version does the same (Thrallmar mage I think?) so as the topic of this thread is how do I get to the blasted lands, we now know that the Blasted Lands portal is still there and all the complaining was ill founded.

[Sinrostro-frostmourne]

@Ravenwolfn-stormrage

The Honor Hold mage teleports you directly to the Dark Portal in the Blasted Lands, instead of Hellfire.

Hol’up there’s a mage who does this? Where are they located?

[Jelybeantoes-moon-guard (Jelybeantoes)]

Right at the entrance to the mage tower.

[Akaraven-thaurissan (Akaraven)]

I personally think the changes being made are to benefit him. Just think about everything that has been done and when.

[Tarc-fenris (Tarc)]

@Blays-bloodhoof

@Tarc-fenris

“I’M BORED WITH QUESTING!”
(Proceeds to run on rails through dungeons over and over and over)
"YAAAAAY!!!

Tarc makes friends on the forums like Ion brings in new players.

Blays thinks that people clicking a pixelated heart on his posts means he actually said something meaningful.

[Whitecrow-khaz-modan (Whitecrow)]

Where are you trying to go?

If you are not trying to go to Shatt, which has a portal, Why not use the Twilight HIghlands portal instead?

[Nahtahanu-area-52]

That may be the excuse they are using but it is painfully obvious the portals were removed to make things take longer in the game thereby stretching out what little content we have.

[Blays-bloodhoof]

@Tarc-fenris

Blays thinks that people clicking a pixelated heart on his posts means he actually said something meaningful

I’d rather they be able to click pixels that teleport them to CoT and Kara

[Stellan-khaz-modan (Stellan)]

The Dark Portal is an iconic part of the game. Anyone who played in TBC will remember the fever pitched excitement of their first time going through the portal. Removing it is a sacrilege that only a bot like Ion would approve.

[Alliiana-akama (Alliiana)]

@Talathas-deathwing

That makes no sense. The world is the same size no matter what. There is no feel about it. The only way to make the world bigger is add more zones. Which happen every expansion so it’s a non-issue. That portal is the longest consistent portal in the game.

Don’t worry, you have me! I can port you almost anywhere!

[Crowlay-icecrown (Crowlay)]

@Stellan-khaz-modan

The Dark Portal is an iconic part of the game. Anyone who played in TBC will remember the fever pitched excitement of their first time going through the portal. Removing it is a sacrilege that only a bot like Ion would approve.

So…people need a portal to the Blasted Lands so they can go there and reminisce? Is that really a thing?

[Xintao-tichondrius]

What is wrong with having fun in the game and why are you against having fun in the game?

[Soundtrack-earthen-ring (Soundtrack)]

I didn’t feel like reading all the post. Someone might of suggested this already. Take the zep from org to stv. If you are high enough level to fly. I have no idea where a portal for blasted lands is now sorry. Other wise I guess a mage port to swamp of sorrows.

[Tymberlea-moon-guard (Tymberlea)]

There is a mage who sends you to Blasted lands, when you take your Lvl 60 quest to go adventure in Outlands. There is no portal. There is a portal to Shattrath to use in other circumstances.

Otherwise, grow a pair, and travel from Grom’gol to Swamp of Sorrows like everyone else. I believe Stonard is even still a mage portal destination.

It’s not hard. It’s never been hard. Quit whining.

[Felryn-area-52 (Felryn)]

There is an NPC that should port you to the Blasted Lands, but it’s bugged for a large majority of my characters.

Simply unusable.

[Elamys-wyrmrest-accord]

This change just sucks for Horde. Alliance can get to both ends of Kalimdor really easily with portals to Hyjal, Uldum, and the Exodar, and now they’re adding back in the Caverns of Time portal. The Horde has to wait for the zeppelin to Grom’gol to access southern Eastern Kingdoms (or fly to the Dark Portal from Shattrath, which I think takes longer). Look, I get it’s not hard to wait, but it’s a huge inconvenience that accomplishes nothing.

They’re adding back CoT because it became apparent that there’s a lot of content in that area and flying from Uldum quickly becomes tiresome. Well, it’s the same for the area around the Blasted Lands.

People are allowed to complain about a boneheaded change. If they added back that one portal to Blasted Lands, it would make it feel a lot better.

[Jopsy-grizzly-hills (Jopsy)]

So let me see if I understand this correctly.

For horde players, I guess there are THREE ‘legitimate’ ways to all Eastern Kingdoms content.

• Zeppelin to UC… fly for the next 15 minutes. Wait, no… it’s a portal because Sylvannas & Time travel broke that zeppelin.
• Zeppelin to Stranglethorn (not booty bay) and fly… yawn… fly. Fly. Yaaawwn.
• Cata Portal to Twilight Highlands, about as far from anything remotely interesting as possible and fly for … well go fix lunch and come back.

I suppose you could also count stowing away on Alliance ships from Theremore -> Iron Forge, or Rachet -> Booty Bay. Assuming they haven’t broken our ability to do that. Not that either end of those boat routes are even remotely close to anything useful.

So, I guess Ion’s goal was to make Eastern Kingdoms a totally horde free safe-haven for cowardly WarMode twinks to level up in.

Kudos, it’ll work because damn if I’m going to waste time getting there anymore.

[Tsavis-area-52 (Tsavis)]

Mages don’t have ports to the blasted lands