Portals removed from Dalaran and Shattrath? Seriously..?

Postado por taurenmoo812

The latest mmo champ post revealed it, in the beta, the portals in dalaran and shattrath have been removed, and replaced with class trainers.

At first, I thought it might have made sense, since it would force people to be more involved in the azeroth and not use dalaran as a portal hub..

But thinking about it, its, forgive being direct here, a really @#$%e idea. If your leveling in those areas, which is what everyone will still be doing, just like they did through wotlk, where using the portals in shattrath made it easier to reach capital cities, and was essential in wotlk, by removing them, it makes these places even less desireable for people to come to, since they wouldn't want to make it there hearthstone anymore, and the cities be just ignored.

Really, really terrible idea blizzard. Unless they actully give shattrath and dalaran a working AH (apart from the engineers one), these places are gonna be more ignored then ever before.

http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/1989-Cataclysm-Release-Dalaran-Portals-Cataclysm-Epic-Stats#new_comment

Postado por Pwntiff

Woohoo for Mages!

Postado por Garenzo

Sorry but did you just say Dalaran is ignored...?

Anyways, I like this. So glad Dalaran won't be the "standing around"-place anymore and it'll be useful to have class trainers while leveling new toons in Outland/Northrend.

Also as a sidenote, there are portal hubs for the new zones in Orgrimmar/SW. (called Stone Circles - you have to get attuned to each portal by questing in its zone)

Postado por lankybrit

ZOMG - That's huge. Good job my main is a Mage - Phew!

Looks like other classes are really going to have a hard time though.

Cheers.

Postado por GVHB

Obviously they will be ignored, Blizzard wants people to use Stormwind and Orgrimmar as the capital cities for Cataclysm. By leaving the portal at Dalaran and Shattrath those cities would still be used.

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Postado por chowderman

Well in case anyone was busy QQ'ing over the missing portals in Dalaran and Shattrath I figured I would like to remind you all that in Temple of the Earth of Deepholm, the Sanctuary there is supposed to have portals to SW and Oggrimmar, or at least they were at one time, I can't confirm nor deny if those are gone now as well. I also believe that once you access Deepholm there is a portal in the capital cities that can return you to the Temple.

The Sanctuary of Temple of the Earth is only partial though, you can basically run into the other faction's area and start a fight.

Postado por Falrinn

If I had to guess, they want players to more or less stay in Outland from 58-68 and stay in Northrend from 78-80. With Stormwind and Orgrimmar being set up as the main Cataclysm cities in endgame, overcrowding in Shattrath/Dalaran isn't to much of an issue.

Removing the portals and adding class trainers is one step to do this. Hopefully they'll add general-access AH to the cities as well.

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Postado por Alliari

Personally, I think this idea is great. First, it forces people to join in the new content, instead of sitting in Dalaran. Second, it allows the usage of Mage portals again. I would like to see something for Inscription, like Tome of Travel to X, a single use item that teleports you to what ever faction city. But make the materials for making it fairly high, as to make the prices high.

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Postado por xaratherus

Make it a gold sink.

The Cataclysm has caused the arcane pathways to destabilize, so that safe portals can no longer be kept permanently open across such great distances. The mages of Dalaran have sent envoys to each capital city, and are available to open portals to the city of your choice (for a price).

Postado por GenXCub

Also as a sidenote, there are portal hubs for the new zones in Orgrimmar/SW. (called Stone Circles - you have to get attuned to each portal by questing in its zone)

Stone Circles, which are in no way like Diablo waypoints.

Postado por Vaeku

The only reason why people need to go from Shatt or Dalaran to the capital cities currently while leveling in Outland/Northrend is to train new skills when they level up, and put stuff on the AH. The portals will be removed and replaced with class trainers, so they only need to go to capital cities for putting stuff on the AH, and that's not THAT bad... Just put stuff in the bank or mail it to a bank alt.

With that said though, mages are going to have a field day. Which may or may not be a good thing.

Also, they might put in AH access in Dal and Shatt (since both have dual banks, just turn one of them into an AH and voila!).

I'm all for this, as it'll even out the population between cities. Granted, some of them will still be populated (SW/IF and Org), but others will actually have more people due to their proximity to the zones (UC/TB and Darn).

Heck, Exodar might even be more populated since it supposedly has a flightpath to the mainland now.

Postado por geniusdude

Personally i am mad.
i spent 7000g for the purpose of teleportig easier to the other cities(Kirin tor ring) and now they remove that function.
if org+sw are main cities i hope they keep at least the portal to those cities

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Postado por Felicitas66

I'm glad they're doing it. I found it to be a colossal PITA to have to go back to my capitol city to train every level or so, and if I had had access to trainers during my time in Outland and Northrend, I wouldn't have gone to Kalimdor or EK nearly as often. Here's hoping they put in auction houses as well, as others have already said.

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Postado por Falrinn

I hope they either put a AH in Shat and Dala or a way to get to your capital city fast (probably this one).

It's not game breaking, but it will be a pain when you level a 58-78 character (if you're not a Mage) =/

But I understand it was needed...

According to a recent blue post, they are indeed planning on adding auctioneers to Shattrath/Dalaran, even if they aren't in this particular build.

This change will further help emphasize Stormwind and Orgrimmar has the main hubs for the expansion, as well as improve convenience for players leveling through the area, so I'm all for it.

Portals removed from Dalaran and Shattrath? Seriously..?

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