Wait-- What? (WoW again!)

[thistlechaser]

I got less than two hours sleep last night. An hour and change of very broken sleep. My eyes have that 'exhausted ache' behind them. But this woke me up:

Beta Build 13066 - Portals removed from Shattrath and Dalaran: Blizzard doesn't want you to use Shattrath and Dalaran as portal hubs anymore, the latest beta update removed all the portal to the cities and replaced them with class trainers.

Wait, wait, huh, what? Why? Because we can fly now? But... That's... No. Just no.

I suppose this is less annoying for non-RPers than it is for RPers. Think RP was restricted to a couple spots before?

Blah. I don't understand. I love Dalaran. I love being able to get anywhere from it. Why change it?

However, this is semi-amusing. Unofficial: "the release has been postponed and Blizzard will try to release the game in early December. (Basically, either December 7 or December 14)". It'd be funny if it was the 7th. Cata for my birthday! (Just one day early.)

Comments

[pomr.livejournal.com]

This change irritates me no end. :)

Hopefully they'll put in more city to city transporters like from Silvermoon to UC, for example. I dislike the time investment required to take zeppelins, boats or use the flight masters...or just fly straight. The only ray of sunshine for me is that my Engineers (Both of my 80s) have teleporters to at least hop from xpac region to xpac region...and my plan is to make a Goblin Mage when Cata hits, but seriously, why make it harder to get around? I could give a fuck about the trainers. Shatt already has them in the form of the bookshelves.

This will be the first 'Fuck you Blizzard' point for me with Cata. :)

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Totally agreed. I'm trying to have faith, they'll do something reasonable like put in more portals in the main cities, but it's hard!

[teaandfailure.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaand once again mages have an incredibly unfair advantage regarding access to everything.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

They're already going to have a giant advantage for archaeology. They need this one, too? Sucks to be us.

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

I think I remember reading something about how since they are going to be focusing on old world that they don't want everyone to be just hanging out in Dalaran all the time, since that's what people would do if they left the portals in.

On one hand, I'm annoyed because they destroyed my plan (I blame people who are stupid and go "I'm just going to set my home point in dal in cata!" all over the official boards. But on the other hand I can understand their reasoning for doing it.

Although they either need to put some jet engines on that zep between thunderbluff and orgrimmar or put a portal or something...although I'm sure they'd hide behind the lore with that happens between Caine and Garrosh as a reason to do nothing to fix the issue... bah. Seriously, even if you want to use the zep and it's at TB to get to Org it's still probably faster just to jump a flight path! Sure, the zep is free, but I think I've gone from TB > Org on about 1 WotLK lvl 80 quest reward... I should check that stat actually...

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can see why they're doing it, I just don't like it or agree. Northrend was going to be my safe haven -- if Cata annoyed me too much, I could just stay in my beloved Northrend and ignore it all. NOT ANYMORE. :P

If they put portals in the cities, well, I'd be okay with that. Not happy, but okay.

[teaandfailure.livejournal.com]

PLEASE GOD, SET, ZEUS, ELUNE, WHATEVER, LET THAT UNOFFICIAL COMMENT BE TRUE.

Because THEN IT WILL NOT HAPPEN WHILE I AM AWAY.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*seconds* I'm in no rush at all for it, and I'd be more than willing to wait so you can be there in the beginning with us!

[firebyrd.livejournal.com]

I've written them a long note on the PTR about how shortsighted this is, how it will decrease immersion and increase distraction and being pulled away from the game, and if they want people to hang out in the capitals, they need to just put portals in all of them. It's ridiculous. Who the hell wants to spend 15+ minutes on a flight point from Darnassus to Tanaris (or even longer to Uldum)?

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

and if they want people to hang out in the capitals, they need to just put portals in all of them.

That. While I love Dalaran to itty bitty pieces and I'd much rather spend time there than any other city, if they put the portals in another city, I'd be willing to hearth there and call it good enough. Darned well better be a portal to Dalaran there as well though.

[kaelash.livejournal.com]

Note there are portals in Orgrimmar (so I assume in Stormwind) to all the new areas. Getting to Uldum will just be a portal away, assuming you're hearthed in Org. They basically want people to get out of Northrend by shifting the portal hub.

But since the game doesn't begin at 85, it's going to suck ass for lowbies who just want a quick way between cities.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Days later and I'm still boggling at this. Do they really, really expect us to hearth in Org and have to take the zep to UC? To stand there and wait for it?

I suppose we should be happy that it warps in the middle instead of making the whole trip like the Org-TB one does...

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

It'd be funny if it was the 7th. Cata for my birthday! (Just one day early.)

That'd make Cata one day late for my birthday. =D

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*laughs* See? Perfect! As close as it can get to being on both of our birthdays!

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

Release date confirmed at Dec. 7!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Yay us! :D