A new post idea, revisiting the fun of some of our older things in WoW....
This post is Mage Portals!
Interesting fact, did you newer players know that portals use to NOT be free?!
The reason people still "Tip" mages is because Mages use to spend a gold on every portal they made. In the older days you needed Portal Stones/Runes to make portals and every gold earned came VERY slowly. So, mages would require either a gold or a stone for their trouble and would often take groups at a time.
Since there was no Dal or even Shrines full of portals and no link between Darn and Exodor or UC and Silvermoon... Mages were pretty popular.
Nother fun fact? Mages had to RUN to every city to learn the portal and teleports. There was no flying, and your fastest mount was the 100% ground.
These weren't really the good old days for anyone, except maybe the Taxi Mages that spent all day porting whole groups for a gold a piece.
Till next time!
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