If you are taking the ghetto hearth ability away at least lower the cooldown to 30 minutes on hearthstones.

An hour is simply too much time when the average task takes anywhere from 15-45 minutes.

Then plan your averages tasks to last 1 hour. If you're at the end of an instance you drop group and get knocked out to the closest GY, not that big of a deal.

You'd think they'd have done that but nope, we're all going to be either sitting in a capital city for 30 minutes or wasting 30 minutes taking the long way back to dalaran. It's always nerf nerf nerf nerf, never buff.

Not like a 30 minute hearthstone would unbalance anything, shamans have a 15minute one.

Buy a Dalaran Ring, or another account and level a mage to port your main around.

If Northrend was as big a pain in the rear to get to as Outlands was when your hearth was down I'd agree.

Option 1: Kirin Tor Ring
Option 2: take up Inscription and use Scroll of Recall
Option 3: Warlock Summon or Mage Portal

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You'd think they'd have done that but nope, we're all going to be either sitting in a capital city for 30 minutes or wasting 30 minutes taking the long way back to dalaran. It's always nerf nerf nerf nerf, never buff.

Not like a 30 minute hearthstone would unbalance anything, shamans have a 15minute one.

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And handily enough, mages have one with next to no cooldown you can all use together.

You want to go fast? Ask a mage for a portal. Heck, ask for two. It's a little mana and a reagent.

Astral recall FTW.

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If Northrend was as big a pain in the rear to get to as Outlands was when your hearth was down I'd agree.

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This. I have done the trip from Northrend to Outland on a level 71 alt that is not bound to Dalaran. THAT is a real pain in the ass.

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You'd think they'd have done that but nope, we're all going to be either sitting in a capital city for 30 minutes or wasting 30 minutes taking the long way back to dalaran. It's always nerf nerf nerf nerf, never buff.

Not like a 30 minute hearthstone would unbalance anything, shamans have a 15minute one.

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Are you serious? Honestly?

You're just going to sit in a capital city and whine about a hearthstone when all you have to do is hoof it to a zepplin and fly to Dalaran. Use your time effectively... Blizzard hands you practically EVERYTHING and all people like you do is find things to whine about.

Jesus you people would have absolutely suffered in EQ before Planes of Power was released.

Most of us would never have played it because EQ was the pinnacle of everything that goes wrong when people have to define their accomplishments by how hardcore they are to suffer in a videogame.

Glad that I just zone into Dalaran, do my JC daily, check AH in Org, then hearth back to Dalaran before raid.

Having the alt I play most of the day be a scribe just got sweet. :P

Also, I was just thinking that the hearth cooldown should be dropped to 30 mins. A 1 Hr cooldown is pointless. Wasting 10-15 minutes traveling is not fun... its a waste of time.

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Also, I was just thinking that the hearth cooldown should be dropped to 30 mins. A 1 Hr cooldown is pointless. Wasting 10-15 minutes traveling is not fun... its a waste of time.

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Then perhaps you should all be able to open your quest log to click the quest so you can port immediately to the designated area.

Maybe everyone should be able to teleport to the instance without having to actually travel there.

MMOs have a great deal of travel involved... that's how it works. Suck it up princess.

And you're a mage, why in the world are you complaining about a hearthstone?

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Most of us would never have played it because EQ was the pinnacle of everything that goes wrong when people have to define their accomplishments by how hardcore they are to suffer in a videogame.

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This. The further other MMOs get away from "masochistic gaming ftw!" the better. If they'd made EQ less deliberately painful (I died and lost my entire sessions worth of grinding!), and not catered to the masochists, it could've been as popular as WoW. I personally loved the world, loved the game in theory, absolutely hated it in practice.

Lesson learned? Or not?

If hearth was 30 minutes, I'd never have a problem. Probably not even at 45 minutes.

Ordinarily hearth is fine, but occasionally it's so annoying I'll just log out until the cooldown is up. Working as intended?

I want to be able to make 1 gold every step I take, just for breathing.
Make the game easier, too hard IMO.

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Would be a nice change, but for some reason the blizzard fanboy sheeps don't agree. Anything to make the game more accessible and fun, and remove the excessive travel time sinks.

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Such a rebellious spirit, I bet you stick it up to the man all the time. Go go, champ.