travel shortcutsFollow

Not as far as I know - that's a big reason why I don't do my life -> air transmutes anymore.

As a mage, I wish they'd give us more places to portal TO.

I don't think they implemented waiting because they thought it was fun, I think they did it because of immersion. I don't remember waiting on a zeppelin/boat to be an issue "back in the days." This was before we had portals connecting everywhere to everywhere else, though. Before people could press a button and get instantly teleported to a dungeon and back again after finishing it. Back when the point of the game was to interact with other players. Before a worldwide over-stimulation disorder kicked in and made everyone impatient as all hell.

Now, I don't blame the individual people. I'm over-stimulated as well. When I get up from my chair to go smoke a cigarette by the window, I bring along my smartphone so I can check various news articles. Three years ago, I could just stare out of the window while enjoying the smoke. When I'm watching a movie, I find myself using the phone to look up information on the various actors while the movie is playing. And while I'm playing a video game, I'm also running three browser tabs in the background, looking up information on something happening in the game, as well as posting on a forum and watching/listening to a webcast about an entirely different game..

Over-stimulation. It turns normal, patient people into this:



Edited, Jul 17th 2012 9:30pm by Mazra

I don't think this is really off topic, given your post, but "Nightline" the other evening did a report on a drug called Provigil , a mile psychotropic drug that has become the rage as a super-stimulant, allowing users to function for days on end without rest. Sounds like the perfect facilitator for the behavior you described.

I just want them to issue me a Special Issue License D-6. My portal trainer refuses to discuss the matter with me.

Ever since i started playing this game now almost 7 years ago i have always wondered why flight paths are not faster. Sure it gives you time to go have a little walk around while you fly from stonetallon to say Ratchet but its annoying when you just want to get there and not wait 10 min for your lazy *** griffon/hippogrif/bat/wyvern to land.
Blizz really just needs to have instant flight paths and if i need to get up for something i can leave my character in town nice and safe

Speakers are your friend. When the boat docks, or a dungeon pops, there is an audio cue. Set the sound so that it is played in the background, even when minimized, and you can be off surfing the Interwebs. Otherwise, just leave it turned up a bit and you can wander away for another glass of strange Mongolian hooch and some dried beef with no worries.

Kwitcherbitchn. I am billed by the minute ... all those time wasters are burning my game card!

I'm not asking for a portal to every little town, but man...
For Allies, there are only 2 portals on Kalimdor. Same for Horde in the Eastern Kingdoms. Both still give traveler's a fair hike or flight to their destinations. I'm not counting Exodar and Silvermoon, nobody goes there and I'm talking usable port destinations. :P

Why not add level-restricted neutral portals to Booty Bay, Gadgetzan and Everlook? Only one for BC and LK in Shattrath and Dalaran? Why not portals for each faction on the east and west coasts of Northrend? They gave us decent options with the Cata ports in Orgrimmar and SW, so what gives here?
Bah.. too much coffee this morning.

I came to WoW from Final Fantasy XI, and that first run thru the Wetlands was a blast. But...in no way was it comparable to my first run from Bastok to Jeuno, which was hours of mind-numbing terror. I'm not sure anything in WoW has ever been that intense for me. I'm also not sure how long I could play another game like that again.
Point is, imo, we've all been playing this for a damn long time. Stuff gets old.

Well, there are more portals than you realize, but you need to be Level 80+ to use them. The problem is, they don't go to any usable cities, only to zones...



Gadgetzan = Caverns of Time Portal in Dalaran, or Cataclysm's Uldum Portal.
Everlook = Mt. Hyjal Cataclysm Portal (or Teleport: Moonglade)

Northrend, yeah, you're pretty much screwed unless you have the Waygate in Un'goro opened. That's why in Cataclysm, you're still forced to bind in Dalaran; there's no easy Northrend access unless you buy a 7500g ring (if you're Exalted with Kirin Tor) or get the Argent Crusader's Tabard (you need to be a Crusader to buy it).

What really sucks, though, is if you are Alliance and you want to get to the upper-half of Eastern Kingdoms.

There literally is no way for Alliance to get up to, say, Plaguelands whatsoever at all. Horde can at least get a Teleport:Undercity, or use Tirisfal Glades' Zeppelin.

Both sides can use Mt. Hyjal, Uldum, CoT, and the Waygate. Both sides get the Portal to Blasted Lands.

But trying to do anything in Plaguelands (like trying for that stupid horse, or working on your critter kill achievement) as Alliance is a pain in the butt. Alliance really does need a fast travel method to get up there. The best Alliance can do is go to Shatt, go to the IoQD, and take a Flight down to either ZA or Light's Hope. You're talking a nearly 10min journey, which is just as bad as taking a taxi from Stormwind. At least you could AFK during the taxi....

Let's hope they decide to keep the Portals in the Pandaren cities; we need them if we ever want to be able to use the older capital cities again.

Hopefully, they'll add a Scarlet Monastery portal for those wanting to do Challenge Modes.


Edited, Jul 20th 2012 7:00pm by Lyrailis

Oh, right. I forgot about Twilight Highlands.

I just wish it didn't take 45+ minutes to unlock TH. Well, Horde side is horrible (waiting on the Zeppelin alone takes 10+ minutes depending on your luck or lack thereof, and the Zeppelin ride itself is nearly 10 minutes... that's 20 minutes of sitting there doing nothing), Alliance... just pray the prince doesn't despawn on you (I've had that happen, highly annoying) while you're escorting him.

Edited, Jul 23rd 2012 1:52pm by Lyrailis

I don't know. I don't reeeeally feel there's a need for more portals.

For the past few weeks I've been doing some TBC mount runs, Tol Barad dailies and Hyjal dailies, so I do move around a bit, but there's quite a few items out there to help you move fast. Personally I set my HS in Shatt, and use my Tol Barad tabard to teleport there, do the dailies and then use the portal there to take me to Org and from there portal to Hyjal. Bank access is achieved by using Grundig (or whatever his name is) and if I need to go to Northrend to get another blasted egg for the odd chance of a green proto there's the Argent Tournament tabard too.

Soon (well I hope it's soon anyway, as soon as I get the Raven Lord anyhow) I'll start farming the Baron's mount too. I'll just change my HS to the closest location and won't again feel the pain of there not being more instant portals/teleports.

What I'm getting at is that (at least the way I see it) once you hit max level you simply do dailies, raids and heroics. Heroics you are instantly ported to these days, ditto for LFR, and raids, well most guilds port you to the raid too, so it's just the dailies that can be annoying in this list. If they add more and more ways to zip around they might as well just remove mounts, since all they would be good for is showing off in capital cities.

As always, of course, each to his own.

Lack of Consistency is something that always annoyed me.

Whether it is transportation or anything else.

That's why I feel WoW has come a long way since Vanilla, there were just so many inconsistencies one would have to wonder if the developers were on crack when they designed half of the game because there appeared to be no rhyme nor reason for a lot of things in the game, especially when it came to equipment and quest rewards.

The most infamous example I quote a lot, in Teldrassil, you could get a green weapon (a choice between 1-2 weapons I think) out of some easy (but quite lengthy quest) to go into a Barrow Den.

3-4 levelups later you find yourself on Darkshore, you are sent off to kill 20 bears and they give you white cloth bracers and...... that's it. White Cloth Bracers.

Oh wow... harder quest, vastly inferior quest reward. Heh.

Or how you'd see weapons from Outland (you still see this to this day) that are all mix-matched. For example, when you first get to Honor Hold or Thrallmar, the first few quests cover everyone, except 2-handed strength users. To get a 2-Handed Strength by following usual progression, you have to wait until near the end of the zone to get the Helboar Carving Blade. Meanwhile there are no less than two 2-H Agility weapons from HH/Thrallmar Proper, a staff and an axe. Both are usable by hunters, only one is usable by druids. Shouldn't that axe have been strength instead, since Hunters can use the Staff AND Axe, while the Druid can only use the Staff?

And now we see it with portals -- they give a return portal for Hyjal (though to be honest, when Cata first released, those portals did not exist), but yet NOT for Uldum or worse, Vashj'ir, as Vashj'ir is the worst zone to try and get out of possible (you have to swim/taxi up to the surface and then take ANOTHER taxi clear to either Ironforge or where was that again, Sepulcher for the Horde? UGH!), you'd think they would have given Portals.

That, and Vashj'ir is kind of funny anyways -- the portal going TO Vashj'ir dumps you at several different places depending on whereat in the questline you were, instead of picking-and-choosing a spot in the middle like all other zones do. Uldum always goes to Ramkahen for example, while Twilight always goes to Highbank or DMP. The Vashj'ir portal SHOULD take you to that place where the Quartermaster is (yaknow, so you didn't have to taxi halfway across the stinking zone to get to him every time you get a new helm?) and they should have stuck return portals there as well.