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==Blue Portals?==

[[File:Town-portal-cainSorportal.jpg|framethumb|A portal for Cain200px|right|Back into the fray.]]

These types of portals may return in Diablo III. One was shown in the first gameplay movie, from June 2008. In it a [[Barbarian]] rescues [[Deckard Cain]] from the dungeon, and sends him back to safety through a portal. Likely there were still player-usable Town Portals in the game, at that early point in the development. How this sort of [[quest]]-related NPC travel will be handled, now that TPs are gone, is unknown. The Stone of Recall is likely to does not initially make a portal at all, and . It simply move "pops" into a blue arcane-style mini-explosion as the character disappears, and reappears back in town instantly. However, the portal to return to the point where the player used the stone is very similar to the townportals of prior Diablo games, as seen to the right.    

While Town Portals were out of the game, the [[D3 Team]] stressed that the more frequent [[waypoint]]s would prove an adequate substitution. Though TPs are back, the Stone of Recall is in some limited form, there's no indication that waypoints are going to be any less common.

Besides Waypoints allowing players to travel to and from town (or to other waypoints all throughout the game) there are ways for players to sell items directly from the dungeons (via some NPCs, the [[Cauldron of Jordan]], or by other unspecified methods). There is also a way for players to travel instantly one-way from town to join up with others in the dungeon, using the [[Banner]] system.

Jay Wilson commented on this subject during an interview at Gamescom 2010: [http://diablo.incgamers.com/blog/comments/jay-wilson-interview-gamona/]