Hello everyone, I’ve been playing WoW since a few years and while I enjoy giving my characters backstories and do a little “RP” in my head, I never dared to actually roll on a RP server. With Shadowlands I’d like to give it a try. I’m currently working on character concepts and got some questions in regards to travelling and would like to know how other people are handeling it and if there’s some kind of “custom” maybe? I don’t want to sit in the city all day, si I’d like to make travelling part of my RP.
By mount
If using a mount, is it better to walk or use its full speed (I’d assume this is better suited for being in a hurry or for a chase)?
Since the maps ingame are a lot smaller than in “reality” and it doesn’t take several hours/days to get somewhere, how do you handle travelling across the map? Do you pick points on the map to take breaks or stay for the night, acting like several hours have passed?
By ship
This question is mostly for cities that don’t have an ingame ship connection, like Gadgetzan. According to Traveler there was at least one ship that sailed to Stormwind each week. Would it be okay to assume it has a busy harbor with more trade ships sailing there regulary?
If I want to rp my ship journey a bit would it be fine to take the ship from Booty Bay to Ratchet and then act like there’s a ship going to Gadgetzan, using the flight master mount as a “substitute”? Or would that be odd?
Flight master, portals
Talking about the flight master, do they even get used ic?
What about portals? How does one get to Silvermoon for example? Or how does a Horde player get to the northern part of the Eastern Kingdoms in general now that the zeppelin to Tirisfal doesn’t exist anymore?
I hope my questions aren’t too weird and I’m probably putting way too much thought into a small thing, but I’m very much looking forward to start roleplaying and these question are piling up in my head, so I’m interested in the opinion of more experienced roleplayers.