welcome to the reason i have 0 (zero) intention to care about whatever lore will keep our RP outside of Shadowlands.
Between Draenor, Argus, Ny’alotha, and Nazjatar, I have simply stopped caring.
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I’d imagine they have mages on shifts.
On topic, afaik, getting to Outland requires either the Dark Portal (which I am presuming has returned to transporting people to Outland, someone please cite a reputable source if I am wrong) or one (1) skilled/powerful mage who can open a portal to Shattrath/other locale along usual mage lines (limited time, etc etc). But you can go there, ergo, you can RP there.
As for Draenor being lost for RP, I’ve often thought of running events there and just IC setting it on Azeroth. Frostfire becomes somewhere snowy (Alterac, perhaps), Shadowmoon becomes somewhere nelfy. Provided one takes the time to work out the details, the Draenor settings could be repurposed for RP events. Although I will say that it’d have to be short lived things, campaigns are probably a no-go logistically. Blizz should never have done timey-wimey silliness in the first place, but one has to work with what one’s got.
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Yeah. At least Draenor is still great for rp locations meant to be elsewhere, there are so many good little nooks and crannies that cry out to be used.
You can go there as long as you realise that Toshley’s station is the best location.
Would you like to know more?
Didn’t Ner’zhul effectively “link” Azeroth and Outland in a way mage portals there could theoretically be possible? Similarly how Draenor and Azeroth were temporarily linked, allowing Khadgar to casually summon reinforcements from Stormwind. Not sure, may be just his thing.
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i think putting wack limitations on going to Outland, a perfectly accessible place, is just low-fantasoids shooting their own feet furiously.
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Like some extreme elitest RPer.
[softly] come on you apes, do you wanna live forever?
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Don’t see why not.
Draenor is a nice place to RP in. It’d be a bit strange to not use an entire continent because “muh loar”.
I used Outland for RP events. Just used the portals provided. Don’t see why not?
Why put limitations on going to Argus then? Its basicly the same as Outland… 
I agree, why would one do so? There’s not actually anything saying we can’t, and it’s not in some separate wacky timeline
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There’s pretty much nothing stopping anyone from accessing the broken world as we know, especially as we’ve had so many post-WoD Canon visits to Outland as it is.
Imo it’s a great place especially for Orcs, Draenei and some Blood Elves (Mostly former Sunstrider loyalists and Scryers) to reflect on what has been and what got them to where they are now.
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Exactly! I always assumed the unspoken agreement was Argus was to be unaccesible to, which always seemd weird to me since we easily teleport and portal to Outlands. Hell Gnomes have Wormhole Generators going there… 
And as you said, its not in some weird timey-wimey bubble where its confirmed only X can travel there. One could -perhaps- argue that since its basicly in the Twisting Nether and time flows different from there, but so is Outland and it appears to have no effect on our abilities to portal there (Unless they retconned parts about the Twisting Nether D:)
Yes, they have. In Illidan, Outland was explicitly retconned to be in the Great Dark and NOT the Twisting Nether. The last official word was in Chronicles vol. 3, were they were a bit more vague about its exact state:
The barriers between Draenor and the Twisting Nether had collapsed. The shredded reality had left open paths to all the various corners of the cosmos. This twisted place would be known thereafter as Outland. […] Many of Ner’zhul’s portals were permanently open. The world was now a crossroads for any force that wished to travel quickly from one end of the universe to another.
Basically, I suppose the idea is now that Outland is still located in the Great Dark Beyond, but that the door to the Twisting Nether has been kicked in and is wide open.
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There was a time, when Chronicles could be taken as the definitive anwser, but seeing how they are already rectonning it/soft-rectonned it by being “the titans perspective” then I don’t think it holds up anymore.
When it comes to world locations, be creative.
To propagate the Ethereal supremancy as I was paid by them.
It is fair to mention that in cases of both Orgrimmar and Stormwind portal two Shattrath it is the Ethereals which maintain the connection between the two locations. And Ethereals are at top of non-demon planet travelers. They even got to Outland, albeit a bit voidly ones. They had no problem to dial to Sunwell as soon as Alleria got inside. The only thing which seems to restrict them is the lack of knowledge about the coordinates of specific planet and some anchor point.
Though it does raise a question. If we take NPCs at the face value, then it means that the Ethereal Consortium is the faction responsible for connection between Azeroth and Outland. If that is the case one can reasonably expect that they would try to somehow monetize it.
And it seems that the Consortium is paid for maintaining the portal by both the Alliance and the Horde. This can also explain why the migrants from Outland are rare. If we speak about arakkoa, sporelings, ogres trying to migrate to Azeroth, one can notice why they didn’t do so already? Why they didn’t migrate if they had chance to? The speculation might be that the Consortium prices for planetary transportation are so high that the poor arakkoa from lowly district couldn’t afford it. And the reason the Horde and the Alliance races can pass is because their respective governments already might pay for the portal passage. Just a lore speculation.
On the other note. The Outland in its current state is literaly like the Sargerite Keystone but continent-sized and limited to links it has. I can only assume that if one has knowledge of where they want to go, they could use the Outland as the reference point to get to any desired planet.
The portal magic despite the Elegy doesn’t seem to be all that hard if it is for individual use. What I mean by that is that it is far easier for individuals to create portal for themselves and few people than it is for the population of the whole city.
As stated before, the time and skill also pays a role. It is obvious that Ethereal which is arcane energy entity traveling through the Twisting Nether and between planets has a greater skill and expirence in portal creation than Nightborne who despite their skills would only ever have to make portals to get to places around the city and region.
So yes, you can RP in Outland and you should. Because who knows if Blizzard will suddenly remember about it and decide it is time to dismantle it.
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