World of Warcraft: New Dragonflight Beta Feature Adds Timer to Dragon Isles Boat NPC

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In a recent beta build for World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, a new NPC has been added to tell players how long until a boat to the Dragon Isles appears. This quality-of-life feature will help World of Warcraft players avoid missing boats and zeppelins to get where they need to go more efficiently.

Since World of Warcraft first came out, players have navigated Azeroth via boats and zeppelins that provide quick transportation to specific ports across the world. Though many of these travel points have been phased out in favor of portals, those that still exist operate on a schedule which can only be reliably tracked using third-party World of Warcraft add-ons.

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The NPC on the Alliance docks for the Dragon Isles can give players access to a timer when spoken to. This timer specifies how long it will be until the ship arrives, down to the precise second. While players will be able to unlock a portal between the Dragon Isles hub of Valdrakken and the faction capitals late in the Dragonflight story, these ships will allow players to travel to and from the new zones before that.

As of right now, only Chrovo, the new dracthyr NPC in the Alliance hub of Stormwind, has access to this timer. However, according to game designer Josh Augustine, the feature will be added to all Dragon Isles ships and the Durotar Zeppelin in later Dragonflight builds. Hopefully, this change becomes a blanket convenience added to all boats and zeppelins still in the Retail World of Warcraft.

This is a huge quality-of-life improvement many World of Warcraft players didn’t even know they needed. Few things are as frustrating to many as going AFK