I just read how there will be no fast traveling to farther points in the mines, meaning you literally have to go through the whole mines to get to the elven area of Lothlorien. To me this makes the whole damn expansion sound amazing, because it will really be a true "Dungeon". Whats your thoughts ladies and gents?

hmmm... the maps from PAX show stables, so it seems like there will be fast travel.

there are stables for sure...but maybe no swift travel options?

I like the idea of not having a swift travel to these points.

Originally posted by Roosevelt

I just read how there will be no fast traveling to farther points in the mines, meaning you literally have to go through the whole mines to get to the elven area of Lothlorien. To me this makes the whole damn expansion sound amazing, because it will really be a true "Dungeon". Whats your thoughts ladies and gents?

Time sink, pain in the ass, annoying.. thats about it

I honestly find it hard to believe that there won't be any swift travel. A lot of people who play this game log in for 1-2 hours at a time and mess around (casual players)... they won't be logging in if it's gonna take an hour to travel to different locations... I predict major whining if this holds true.

Judging from the maps, there seems to be a number of horse-heads throughout Moria. If they are not fast travel, well, they'll at least carry you monster-free through most of the map it seems, but yeah, it'll probably take quite some time considering the size of the area. (travel in this game, at first, is an experience. it gets tiresome after a while though, when lots of your time is spent traveling. realism in this area is a joke, and a waste of time. would have been better spent in making combat more realistic or some such)

Originally posted by Roosevelt

I just read how there will be no fast traveling to farther points in the mines, meaning you literally have to go through the whole mines to get to the elven area of Lothlorien. To me this makes the whole damn expansion sound amazing, because it will really be a true "Dungeon". Whats your thoughts ladies and gents?

I imagine you're probably jumping to conclusions and I bet like other areas in the game fast travel will be tied somehow into factions. There are stables so that would denote there should be fast travel at some point.

Well lets see where the OP 'read' this bit of information, actually.

Originally posted by wizardsleeve

Well lets see where the OP 'read' this bit of information, actually.

ok...where...i havent read that and I have read just about everything.

Originally posted by wizardsleeve

Judging from the maps, there seems to be a number of horse-heads throughout Moria. If they are not fast travel, well, they'll at least carry you monster-free through most of the map it seems, but yeah, it'll probably take quite some time considering the size of the area. (travel in this game, at first, is an experience. it gets tiresome after a while though, when lots of your time is spent traveling. realism in this area is a joke, and a waste of time. would have been better spent in making combat more realistic or some such)

waste of time...i think its faster than alot of other games. WoW doesn't have fast travel options.

The fact that there are stables makes me think Moria will suck.  I just...I....*sigh*

Stables.  In Moria. 

Originally posted by Sarcazmo

The fact that there are stables makes me think Moria will suck.  I just...I....*sigh*

 

 

Stables.  In Moria. 

Well, they aren't for horses. It will be for some other unrealistic form of travel, like a mine cart (which would make it quite lame, so hopefully it won't be a mine cart). Anyways, it will be interesting to see what form of travel it would be.

They have already showed them. They are a Ram/Yak like creature that will only be used in the mines for rentable mounts. You won't be able to summon your horse inside. Look in my moria preview thread to see them.

Originally posted by Sarcazmo

The fact that there are stables makes me think Moria will suck.  I just...I....*sigh*

 

 

Stables.  In Moria. 

Yeah, I agree.

However, I've been able to come to terms with it because of this:

The players enter when the dwarves are trying to take Moria back. it's not my dream of stealing into the inky blackness and exploring however I like, finding danger and adventure.

It is part of the story and makes sense. So "no" we don't get to experience the same type of adventure that the original fellowship experienced (which is kind of what I wanted) but we do get to experience a page in Moria's history.

I had read it on the forums that the understanding was that the horse will take you into the smaller sections of the map but not all the way to large other areas. Like the Great delving picture shows two stables in the whole area, so you would not be able to take a great delving area horse to another area. Though new pictures have cropped up that now quell my original post, but it is still uncertian.

I do not think it would be a mistake to retract the stables that are in Moria. No mounts at all would be fine with me. If even Bill, the brave little pony, would not go in there, then there is no need for any mounts.

*just a thought*

 This thread is comical.

Include travel mounts:  You're breaking lore...lame!

Exclude travel mounts:  WTF?  You mean I have to walk everywhere?!

People are never happy.

Originally posted by Thradar

 This thread is comical.

Include travel mounts:  You're breaking lore...lame!

Exclude travel mounts:  WTF?  You mean I have to walk everywhere?!

People are never happy.

Well, I don't think adding mounts of some sort would be breaking lore because Moria was a city.

However, remember that there are people out there, myself included, who enjoy the idea of integrity to original source material. So when players bring up the lore card it isn't just because they are being prissy. They enjoy the idea of playing in the world that was created, not generic fantasy world #7.

But you are right, sometimes people are never happy.

Originally posted by Darth_Pete

Originally posted by Roosevelt

I just read how there will be no fast traveling to farther points in the mines, meaning you literally have to go through the whole mines to get to the elven area of Lothlorien. To me this makes the whole damn expansion sound amazing, because it will really be a true "Dungeon". Whats your thoughts ladies and gents?

 

Time sink, pain in the ass, annoying.. thats about it

Gotta agree I can't be the only one who has went to do other things while my toon rode from Ost Guruth to Rivendale?