World of Warcraft: Current Year
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Qhue
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It actually influenced my decision to stick with my mage for main in the expansion owing to the transportation options that mages bring to the table. You would otherwise pretty much have to bind yourself to Oribos in order to facilitate transport to both Auction Houses as well as the different planes, or bind yourself to your Covenant base-of-operations and then need Oribos becomes a layover for any other transport. I thought they would at least give you a hearthstone for your covenant like the Dalaran Hearthstone from Legion.
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Zindan
Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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You can get a Toy (for Night Fae at least) that ports you to the Heart.
Edit: The toy / hearthstone requires Renown 11.
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Chris
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Yeah I was thinking this. I bet it's a lot of the same people too.
Nothing wrong with it taking forever to get somewhere if the rewards scale to the time spent.
Travel felt bad in classic when you travelled for 20 minutes and your dungeon group fell apart or the spawn you were going to was camped.
They can make the Maw as shitty to travel in as possible as far as I'm concerned, as long as you get far above the rewards you would get elsewhere.
Cybsled
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The problem is that ratio diminishes over time - perceived reward is lower as you play the game longer, but the travel time remains the same, at which point the travel time becomes a barrier that starts to outweigh the reward. This happens in every MMO ever created, including EQ1. Getting to NToV was interesting the first few times, then it became a massive fucking chore because you were running for 30+ minutes into the middle of nowhere, then you had to run forever inside the dungeon.
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Chris
Potato del Grande
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Unlockable travel options is good in that case, like the Suramar teleporters.
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Qhue
Tranny Chaser
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I think that is what made the flight whistle so popular. I have no issue with taking some time to get somewhere, my biggest issue is the 'back again' part of 'there and back again'. This is especially annoying in this expansion because it has the same sort of WQ remoteness that we did in the previous two, but without the generally efficient layout or central transportation scheme. I go and do a WQ in Revendreth, for example, and at the end I'm in the middle of nowhere facing some arbitrarily annoying cliffs or whatever.
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Chris
Potato del Grande
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This is a good point, if you have multiple Hearthstones then why not have the whistle?
Khane
Got something right about marriage
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Well, it's also a QoL improvement that basically everyone appreciated. In fact, I think most of the playerbase would have accepted never having flying again as long as we could use the flight whistle. It's always a headscratcher why they give players these QoL improvements only to take them away.
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Cinge
Ahn'Qiraj Raider
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Not sure how long it takes, but the max transport upgrade for covenant gives a portal to oribos from your base. So once that is done , wont be too horrible.
Raes
Vyemm Raider
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The optimal setup is to set your Hearth to your covenant, and when you need to go to Oribos just use your Dalaran hearthstone to go to the SW portal room. Also, I've heard that the hearth toy is just a visual effect to your hearth. And the travel network upgrade that gives you a port from cov to Oribos will be nice, but it costs like 16k anima to get, so gonna be a while. IMO they should have left the stupid armored sperm on the drawing room floor, and had portals from Oribos to the other zones.
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Ukerric
Bearded Ape
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Because basically, each expansion is a new game, designed independently from each other. It's not World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, it's actually World of Warcraft 9: Into the Shadowlands. It probably begins with a general session "okay, what do we include in this sequel?" (even if the word sequel is not uttered, it's the mindset that counts).
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