wow The Single Best Item in Shadowlands at the Moment: Wormhole Generator

[Starym 3,800]

 

You probably know about Wormhole Generators in general from past expansions and haven't really thought about them lately, and I was in the same situation until recently. Let's start with a TLDR info stat sheet before I get into my story:

Item: Wormhole Generator: Shadowlands, Requires Engineering profession
Where to get it: Either Honored with Undying Army or MUCH EASIER, just buy it from the AH for around 5-6K gold.
Why you absolutely need it and maybe should re-roll to engineering: You can immediately get it when you learn SL engi. It has a 15 minute (!) cooldown, opens a portal and you can choose to go to any of the Shadowlands zones, INCLUDING Oribos and the Maw. It puts you in specific locations in the zones which could also be beneficial due to close by World Quests etc., so you can even use it inside the zone you're in to get to the other side quickly.

Now, on to my personal story! Around the start of the expansion I rolled blacksmithing on my new Warrior, even leveled it to 80 or so to make some legendary plate items for myself (but ended up buying them instead). As I played more and more the flight paths and Oribos-bound Hearthstone were really starting to annoy me, and I'm even one of those players that really likes no flight for a good long while in expansions.

So I looked around for some solutions and found there's a new Wormhole Generator for engineering. I decided to swap out professions as I've always wanted to fiddle with engineering anyway, and started to gather up Undying Army reputation. It's a really short grind, as you just do all the zone quests, a few World Quests and a week's worth of the broker bonus reputation weekly quests and you're pretty much done. What I didn't know was the insanely easier alternative, which is simply buying the toy from the Auction House, for a measly 5,000 gold (on my server anyway). I've now started selling a few of them for this very reason as well.

The actual benefit is insane to be perfectly honest with you. This is THE best single item upgrade I've ever gotten in WoW, due to the pretty annoying nature of the Shadowlands travel system. The 15 minute cooldown is just comically short, it allows me to set my HS in my Covenant Sanctuary (although you could already do this by just using your Dalaran HS to go to Org/SW and then Oribos, but that's 3 loading screens right there and even with a very fast SSD, it's annoying). I mean seriously, 15 minutes is less than some World Quests take, when you factor in getting there etc.

It genuinely is worth contemplating switching out your profession if you're not that tied to it, as you could IMMEDIATELY have the item available to you, as soon as you learn Shadowlands engineering. I realize many have some long lists of profession recipes learned that they'd never want to part with, but if you have a gathering profession that you don't use to excessively farm, it might be worth switching out, at least until the next content patch when we might get flying already. If not, it's definitely an option for alts, if they don't have the long list of recipes in their own professions.

For me, I can't live without it at the moment, from being able to jump into Calcis in the Maw directly, to having access to each zone every 15 minutes, not to mention the insane other befits of engineering, especially in the Maw itself. As mentioned at the beginning, I even use it to get across a zone I'm already in, if I'm at the other end of the Wormhole landing location!

That's about it, I just wanted to share this expansion-altering experience with everyone and I hope this has been at least somewhat helpful and gets at least a few people onto the Wormhole express!

[Starym 3,800]

Fun side story: I was getting that final Maw screenshot for the article a few mins ago, ported in took the screenshot and as i was taking it noticed I'm at level 5 Eye of the Jailer, got hit by the tower chains level 2 thing, grabbed by the abductor, somehow managed to beat him (luckily I'm a Warrior so he can take me to orbit for all I care, no fall damage here), and then FRANTICALLY Dalaran HSed out.

[Aernath 173]

Worth the read! : >

[Yridaa 490]

I surmise they got stuck in a wormhole somewhere.

[geofferson 33]

This has been how the Wormhole Generators have worked since MOP.  I don't understand why people are all excited about Wormhole Generators "Now".

https://www.wowhead.com/item=87215/wormhole-generator-pandaria

This just seems weird to someone who has had Engineering as a profession on my Main since TBC.  Are people just now realizing the Engineering actually has good things?  Even Reeves from Legion had a module for a Wormhole Generator.

This is like News from 10 years ago... This isn't current expansion information in any way.

 

I guess its also probably news that Engineers have a BRez too... for like 8 years.

Edited December 10, 2020 by geofferson

[gala 2]

This thing isn't news, but what it does that not all previous versions did is always take you the the same, safe place. This allows you to bypass that long annoying flight from wherever you are to Oribos, then to that island right next to you on the map. Previous versions often took you to an insta death type spot which was different every time you used it.

And also.. you'd be surprised how many don't know about the brez engineering thing. Our group almost wiped except my hunter (engineer) and the DH that was tanking. Engineering rezzed the completely confused priest and boss downed.

Edited December 15, 2020 by gala

[smtips 5]

On 12/9/2020 at 2:12 PM, Starym said:

 

"You probably know about Wormhole Generators in general from past expansions and haven't really thought about them lately, and I was in the same situation until recently. Let's start with a TLDR info stat sheet before I get into my story:"

First, "TLDR" is a dead thing, please stop using it. It never made any sense in the first place to tell people "Oh please, don't read what I typed." It's the reader's choice, and it's the writer's choice if they wanna write a book they expect no one to read 🙂

Second, I agree, the WH generator has finally started seeing its time. It was always a bit hokey before, but these new ones are GREAT!

 

 

[Arli 9]

Most of my alts have Eng now, especially as the Wormhole generator often only requires level 1 engineering for that expansion, so they can use as soon as they hit the area.  Plus!  It's classed as a toy so buy/make once, and usable by all of your alts.

[Starym 3,800]

11 hours ago, smtips said:

 

Eh TLDR is an OK tool when you just want to summarize a lot of extra info into it's basics. Could just say "here's a summary of the below" or something, same thing!