Disappointed about the Dalaran portal change

#0 - Sept. 27, 2010, 9:44 p.m.

It seems very late to announce that you are removing the portal hubs in Dalaran and Shattrath to the other major cities. People have been asking this question for literally months and Blizz has either said nothing, or that they had no plans to change the portals.

I finally decided about a month ago (figuring it was safe this close to the expansion) to purchase the Kirin-Tor Ring so that when Cata hit I could use Dalaran as my base and have my hearthstone set to where I would be questing. Now I feel like I wasted $9,800 gold.

Yeah, yeah, I know for many people making money is trivial, but for some of us with limited play time it's not so trivial coming up with that much money. At the time I was deciding whether I should buy a motorcycle, a mammoth mount or the Ring and the ring made the most sense, but not anymore. Had I known about the change I would definilty have not bought the ring. I just want to voice my extreme displeasure at this change and about how late the decision was made.

Zarhym

#20 - Sept. 27, 2010, 10:58 p.m.

Q u o t e:
It definitely seems like a bad idea since for 1, shratt kept its portals when wrath was released, and 2, Northrend is still a questing area that is necessary to do to get to 80, and without the portals, you have to pretty much make a big decision about whether you want to take a ship to Northrend and make it hard to go back and forth.

The reason the portals from Shattrath were not removed from Outland when Wrath of the Lich King released is that there was a new central hub with portals to all major cities in Northrend. There is no longer a neutral city hub which both factions will be using in Cataclysm. We want to ensure visiting the major faction capitals is still the most attractive thing to do in Cataclysm, rather than having people use Shattrath and Dalaran as easy connector hubs.

To make up for this, we'd like to add class trainers and Auctioneers in Shattrath and Dalaran for those leveling through The Burning Crusade and Wrath of the Lich King content.