Portals and chromie time rope a dope

[shanker]

portals subject was brought up in a unrelated ezoo trink thread. deserves a own thread because chromie, blizzard patches/hotfixes/maintenance along with things you have done or don't affect the use of portals and of course we know the trink.

today, messing with some of my 20's, i log one in oribos, i notice my SL cov abilities are missing, i take the portal to SW, when there i turn around and can't use the oribos portal. i say good one blizz! this player has done the SL skips, has done WOD, BC, MOP, Legion, WOTLK, intros.

i check other portals and can only use boralis, azuna, and jade forest portal. i could not even go to exodar! i was in DF time, i have done the DF campaign on a main, yet in DF time no valdrakken port.

i go to the SW mission board there is the report to chromie and 2 other zone quests, i go to chromie do her talk to report quest, then pick SL, i go to the SW mage tower, my player can use 10 portals. SL time i can use valdrakken port.

i go into oribos portal, and a NPC is there with a re-intro quest, i had to repick a cov, pick which cov to aid, then a quest to report to that cov. i got the cov abilities, this was all done before, in maldraxxas the daily quest at the house of plagues is up, because i have also done the quest chain to unlock that before.

i go back to chromie, and use option return to current time (do not select DF from expac screens), i still have my SL cov abilites (shaded req zone). only three portals mentioned before are useable. tested ezoo trink in WOD, has huge damage, what we call works

 

[shanker]

today i was messing with some of my level 20 horde players, had one in legion time and one in SL time they were able to use all the portals in both rooms.

i have not played much of DF, as a horde the belameth portal that can be used at certain locations, when you get to belameth you are essentially stranded, you can use the FP there, hearth, fly out, use the boat to Gilneas. now, for alliance, when they arrive at belameth they have access to 5 portals.

in the immediate area
- SW
- valsharah (legion)
- mt hyjal, btw the mt hyjal portal to SW no longer has a level restriction
- darkshore
side of a building prior the docks/pier for gilneas boat
- feathermoon fortress feralas

even my level 1 ally hunter was able to use all the above

DF was and still is not my thing, i read that the emerald dream aspect of all that story was NE focused. i never played the whole factions rope a dope. but knowing from the past, he who whines the loudest wins in WOW. i could just imagine had the horde received a area like this. i search to see if there were complaints, most by alliance saying horde should have no access, should be killable, etc.

look like this year putting out fires, candy buckets, etc i will use alliance

 

[orcgazmatron]

today i was messing with some of my level 20 horde players, had one in legion time and one in SL time they were able to use all the portals in both rooms.

i have not played much of DF, as a horde the belameth portal that can be used at certain locations, when you get to belameth you are essentially stranded, you can use the FP there, hearth, fly out, use the boat to Gilneas. now, for alliance, when they arrive at belameth they have access to 5 portals.

in the immediate area
- SW
- valsharah (legion)
- mt hyjal, btw the mt hyjal portal to SW no longer has a level restriction
- darkshore
side of a building prior the docks/pier for gilneas boat
- feathermoon fortress feralas

even my level 1 ally hunter was able to use all the above

DF was and still is not my thing, i read that the emerald dream aspect of all that story was NE focused. i never played the whole factions rope a dope. but knowing from the past, he who whines the loudest wins in WOW. i could just imagine had the horde received a area like this. i search to see if there were complaints, most by alliance saying horde should have no access, should be killable, etc.

look like this year putting out fires, candy buckets, etc i will use alliance

Not a huge Lore-geek, me... & I'm obviously a Horde true,
but I have & do play some Nelfs & I'm offended that Bel'Ameth is even a thing!
Why is the new World tree tacked on to Dragonfetish & not on the Ruins of Feathermoon or over the Ashen stump of Tel'drassil, where it belongs.

I'd be fine with Horde not having access to it & I find it wildly obnoxious to even get around.
Sure, the portals are great, but it is a hollow, half-assed, wildly over-sized zone of suck.
The Kaldorei deserve better.

 

[shanker]

someone told me there are two phases of belameth, one version you unlock thru a quest line then it becomes a daily quest hub time sink area that does not have those portals with a different entry method. the one i have been at is a idle zone with a low level with no hostile mobs and ports for alliance.

for high levels they use a portal that phases the area, if they use FP to go there they get the non quest hub version