Set Your Hearthstone in Diablo 4: Vessel of Hatred - New Favorite Waypoint Feature Explained
wowhead.comWe are taking a look at how the new «Favorite Waypoint» feature works in Diablo 4, which lets you bind your Town Portal to a location of your choice, similar to the in World of Warcraft. This feature is being implemented into the base game on October 8th.
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We have recently reported about the new Favorite Waypoint feature spotted in the gameplay footage from the Spiritborn playtest at Blizzard's headquarters.
While we were only able to speculate at that time, after playtesting the Spiritborn at Gamescom 2024 we are now able to confirm how this feature works!
The new feature lets players mark any Waypoint in the open world as favorite (default keybind right-click) which binds the Town Portal (default keybind T) to a specific location instead of sending you to the town of the region you are in. Favoriting Waypoints works for all Waypoints in the world, not just towns! You could e.g.
bind your Town Portal to the Tree of Whispers to quickly turn in Grim Favors at the tree while also having access to many crafters.
Only one Waypoint can be marked as favorite at the same time. The chosen Waypoint will be highlighted on the world map with the familiar «banner» icon, used to mark various things as favorite in Diablo 4, overlayed on top of the Waypoint.
If you would rather have the Town Portal take you to the town of the region you are in, don't fret.
The default function of taking you to the region's town will remain active as long as you don't mark any Waypoint as favorite.
Regular Town Portal functionality (left) and new Town Portal favorite location functionality (right).
It seems Blizzard went back to their original design idea for Town Portals. Back at BlizzConline 2021, years before Diablo 4's release, content creator MrLlamaSC received information from the devs during a Q&A session that players would get to bind their Town Portal to any hub in the open
