Good point.

I actually don't mind the travel overall. My only complaint is when it comes to dailies.

Leveling in Northrend, it makes the most sense to hearth in Dalaran as it is centralized, has banks, AH, etc. I enjoy doing the cooking and fishing dailies offered there as well. HOWEVER, I also like to do the cooking and fishing dailies in Shattrath and Orgrimmar. It takes a long time to do the Dalaran dailies, make my way to Org, do those dailies, then to Shatt, do those then back to Dalaran to level my Northrend-level guy.

As someone else said, getting from Org/SW to pretty much anywhere is fairly simple. It's getting back that's a bit of a PITA.

 

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Eh. Why should mages have the ability to port people? Hell, why do we even have mounts? Why not just walk everywhere in the beautiful new paradise?


It's just a manner of convenience. Sort of like uh, I don't know, hunters not having to USE AMMO any more. Or items that stack to 20 or more. Hate things designers do just to make the game inconvenient.

 

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Basically Blizzard needs to stop taking stuff away from us. This entire expansion has been about them taking away. It's especially annoying because they took it away on purpose knowing full well it would annoy us. I mean, what is that about?

 

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Warlocks should have to store 60 shards in their inventory for raids again. The stacking and having unlimited shards factor was never intended.

 

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If you were to ask , he would tell you it's about making the elite awesome and the casuals their laughing stock.

 

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I still don't understand the game design decision for those portal removals. Players already level way too fast to bother doing many quests in those places, unless they're going for the loremaster achievement. And a lot of those quests require multiple people, so good luck trying to get help for most of them if you don't have an active and friendly guild or friends to help. Sure, a cata-geared player can solo those elites, but some quests specifically require 5 people (such as the ogrila pre-req quests).

I had a guildmate ask for help for ring of blood. Another guildie was willing to help if they could be summoned there, but he was a DK. I decided to help on my pally, but I had to spend a few minutes flying there, but I could've easily have just said no as well.

Getting to Uldum when you first get the quest to go there takes a long time now via boat or flight path. If you still have easy access to Dalaran, you could then take the portal there to caverns of time, but if not, you're hoofing it buddy.

So again, I think this was a poor design decision. Why give players something that they find extremely useful and makes the game fun for them, only to then be like "oh sorry, our bad, we don't want the game to be fun for you". In the rare instances where I do take a flight path route, I always do something else, whether it's to use the bathroom, watch some tv, or surf the web. I don't really care for the scenic routes that the flights take anymore.

Nope, no longer. You can do them solo now. It has been changed quite a while ago.

 

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This x infinity. Last week I noticed that I need to complete a few old quests in Camp Winterhoof, Howling Fjord. I jumped on the flight to Winterhoof, which proceeded to take me PAST Winterhoof, looped around Vengeance Landing, then BACK to Winterhoof. WTF?

 

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Lol, I noticed this too in some of the old world flights. I was trying to get to burning steppes from SW before I had flying, and the flight for some reason went way into burning steppes, then double backs towards my destination. Uh, mr. gryphon, wouldn't it of been faster just to go to burning steppes?

"No horse riding for ages on end like the flights in WoW take. And all the looping around for some of the connecting flights is SUCH a waste of time. "


Just consider that flight times now are faster than they used to be. Remember when flying from Dark Shore to Gadget left you in danger of afk/logging out?


I do agree that flights should still see a time reduction.

 

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