A neat portal trick

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09-19-2008, 09:30 PM
Ken

A neat portal trick

Here's something I found out a while ago:
Suppose you are in a party that has non-shaman characters. This means that you shamans can 'hearthstone' every 15 minutes, but this character can't. It also means you can only go to the places that Shattrath allows you to go to after hearthstoning to Shattrath. A solution is to have a mage that creates portals for you. Now on its own that's nothing new, but what is interesting is that you can basically make portals for characters that are on the same account of the mage, as long as the mage's group that owns the portal keeps existing.

It's done like this:
- mage from Account1 joins party and creates a portal for this party
- mage leaves the party
- a different character from Account1 logs in and joins the party
- this character can now use the portal too

I don't know if this is something new, but I thought I should share it.
09-19-2008, 10:13 PM
Yamio

I've wondered about this but never actually tried it. Thanks for the info
09-20-2008, 12:10 AM
Bravo

I always dirty hearth my druid and pally out of instances by kicking them from the group forcing them to go to there hearth and then astral recalling
09-20-2008, 12:12 AM
moji

It works as long as you can log out of the mage and back in fast enough. My current computer is kinda slow, and I run a lot of addons, so this probably wouldn't work for me.
09-20-2008, 01:33 AM
Ughmahedhurtz

Quote:

Originally Posted by 'moji',index.php?page=Thread&postID=123877#post123 877

It works as long as you can log out of the mage and back in fast enough. My current computer is kinda slow, and I run a lot of addons, so this probably wouldn't work for me.

Yep, that's indeed the only real potential problem with this method. Also, do this in an inn or capital city where possible so you aren't waiting on the 20-second logout timer. ;)
09-20-2008, 01:39 AM
bsdll

I've got the same problem where I can't log back in fast enough to be able to use the portal.

Another trick not many people knew about was the 'unstuck' option in the support tools. It used to just bump you, but it got changed so that it would hearth you. If your hearth was up, it would still work though. So it was like having a free hearth as often as you want. I haven't tried this in a long time though, I think it got changed again.
09-20-2008, 09:34 AM
Kyudo

Same also applies for mage tables, but you get a bit longer to take advantage of those.
09-21-2008, 07:37 AM
Mordee

Quote:

Originally Posted by 'bsdll',index.php?page=Thread&postID=123899#post12 3899

I've got the same problem where I can't log back in fast enough to be able to use the portal.

Another trick not many people knew about was the 'unstuck' option in the support tools. It used to just bump you, but it got changed so that it would hearth you. If your hearth was up, it would still work though. So it was like having a free hearth as often as you want. I haven't tried this in a long time though, I think it got changed again.
09-21-2008, 04:46 PM
Prepared

RE: A neat portal trick

Quote:

Originally Posted by 'Ken',index.php?page=Thread&postID=123848#post1238 48

Here's something I found out a while ago:
Suppose you are in a party that has non-shaman characters. This means that you shamans can 'hearthstone' every 15 minutes, but this character can't. It also means you can only go to the places that Shattrath allows you to go to after hearthstoning to Shattrath. A solution is to have a mage that creates portals for you. Now on its own that's nothing new, but what is interesting is that you can basically make portals for characters that are on the same account of the mage, as long as the mage's group that owns the portal keeps existing.

It's done like this:
- mage from Account1 joins party and creates a portal for this party
- mage leaves the party
- a different character from Account1 logs in and joins the party
- this character can now use the portal too

I don't know if this is something new, but I thought I should share it.

It's actually the number of characters in the party that take the portal that count. The person doesn't have to be from the same account, unless this was changed recently. All the mage has to do is create the portal then leave the party and anyone can join the party and take the portal. It's the same for a raid, if the mage creates a portal and additional members join the raid, they can take the same portal. For a group portal, I believe it's only 5 that can take it, but for a raid, it might be a different number.