After some bickering with the community, there will soon be an old portal again in World of Warcraft . This is something fans have particularly wanted after the developers trimmed the portal connections. Game Director Ion Hazzikostas confirmed the return.
Which portal is returning? The portal to the Caverns of Time will return. This was promised by Game Director Ion Hazzikostas during a Q&A:
In the Q&A, Hazzikostas also spoke about the possibility of a lower maximum level in WoW and about being able to hide more armor pieces soon.
When is the portal returning? Hazzikostas mentioned that the portal would appear with the “next content update”. This is likely with patch 8.2 or earlier with the new raid Crucible of Storms. Either way, it will still take a few weeks or months.
Here was the problem so far: In patch 8.1.5, Blizzard removed several portals in various cities. Among them are the portals in Dalaran, leaving only the way to Stormwind or Orgrimmar.
In both capitals, Blizzard introduced new portal rooms instead, so the cities would become a “hub”. However, many portals were removed, including the one to the Caverns of Time.
Fans were quite angry about this and couldn’t understand the purpose of this step. The criticism grew louder. Some fans are still criticizing on reddit that the new “portal hubs” didn’t really feel like “hubs” due to many missing paths, but rather felt incomplete.
This is what you can use the portal for: The main reason players demand the portal is for so-called “transmog runs” and “mount runs” for old content. Particularly, the raid Dragon Soul is popular.
In these runs, players aim to loot mounts and pets or specific items for transmog. These are meant to look visually appealing and offer players the chance to create their own matching fashion sets. They can also showcase these in the “Great Style Check” to other players and even win prizes.
Are you looking forward to the portal?
Some players also use the portals to farm mounts:
