Quote Originally Posted by Kailea_Nagisa View Post
"Place a building inside every city to access the wards instead of a zone we port into. It completely takes you out of the emersion having to teleport to a zone that is supposed to be just a few steps away."

any way you look at it, you would still need to zone into the wards, SE did it the way it is for a reason. Besides "breaks emersion"? Really? when you zone into the wards from the entrance, you are entering the road/hallway/corridor that takes you to the wards, it looks/is fine the way it is visually.
Stop physically rendering the retainers, and you remove the need to zone anywhere. Problem solved.