The issue I always run into when discussing this with my friends (...yes I do have this conversation quite often...) is where are the ports set to?

Problem 1: How do you fairly decide what the Earth-based teleport locations are? "My house", "my office", "my favorite restaurant" are nowhere near equivalent to Orgrimmar, Dalaran, and Silvermoon, for example.

Problem 2: Stemming from Problem 1, Teleport/Portal can be (fairly) viewed as useless since the spells specifically state WoW locations. What will otherwise unempowered humans do in Stormwind, and how will they get back to our dimension? (Woe to you if you port to Org as a human :P)

Problem 2: Is it fair to count every single teleport location as one spell? After all, each city has its own spell in the game files.


Overall my opinion is that the humble hearthstone is far more useful. Even if you can't use your own house as a hearth location since you're not an innkeeper, just set it to a hotel, motel, or bed+breakfast near your home/workplace/school. You can also change it at will, which keeps it useful if you travel a lot.

--@SyntheticAether