Anyone else feel that traveling trough dimensions and different worlds has become too trivial ?
What happened ?
I remember in the old lore that traveling to and from Azeroth was hard . There was something blocking it . Hell even portaling from Stomwind to Ironforge was rough .
The burning legion needed MASSIVE amounts of raw arcane energy to just begin entering the world ( Well of eternity , Sunwell ). Stuff that changed the whole world and races interacting with it .
Medvih needed huge portal and millions of sacrifices to reach draenor , enough to genocide a planet .
Reaching Argus needed mythic artifacts and freaking spaceship .
Even shadowlands needed the lich king crown to be shattered ( created by Kil’aedon , Jailor and who know what ) , or to actually die .
Summoning even a single demon required multiple sacrifices .
And here I am doing the intro quest to get the Artifact cloak in Dornogal and this guy just whomp , throws some random portal beacon and we are now on a new planet , on the other side of the universe .
But wait that is not the end . He gives us a new cloak and now we are able to transcend mortality and become beings of energy .
What happened to those energy requirements , or we went into AAA+ energy saving mode or something .
Why the hell did it take the burning legion 10000 years to invade Azeroth ?
Were the orcs just trolling the Draenei or what ?
Crazy stuff .
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Travelling in general has become too trivial. The game doesn’t care anymore if it’s about the neighbouring village, the other side of the world, a faraway planet, another dimension or the frickin’ realm of the dead, here is your portal. Gameplay convenience has become shoddy worldbuilding at so many points…
You’ll get your fetch quest for travel necessities, when they want to showcase more stuff or dialogue, not because they respect the difficulty of travel.
So yes, it has become too trivial, and yes, that does undermine a ton of lore. But at this point the older lore has been undermined so often and so thoroughly that looking back there and comparing isn’t a viable way to find enjoyment anyways…
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Yea it is true .
Realistically we had portals to Outland , when Khadgar was stuck there for 20 years , but it was kinda explained at least .
It wasn’t just random mage popping a portal . It was the reopening of the dark portal , so you could guess that without the dark portal it would not work .
Same with Shadowlands ets . There was at least some major event that “paved the way” and sort of provided the "requirement " or “key” to unlock this .
Here I was doing it on a couple of alts to get the cloak and it is just … this guy walks slowly , pops a portal and wooosh we are on a new planet .
No explanation how that happened . No explanation how he even got to Azeroth considering that Ethereals had “trouble” getting to it before .
It feels like they totally went of the rocker with this and decided that , whatever , we are not gonna bother explaining this anyway , here’s a portal .