funniest part of all this discourse is that all of the necessary stuff (vault, weekly quest npcs, item upgrade npc, etc.) is going to be within 100 yards of wherever you can set your hearthstone and 99% of players regardless of faction are never going to go further than that.
Players actively bitch and moan whenever anything requires them to move for more than 10 seconds to reach it after hearthing (see: the catalyst in DF) so it's all going to be extremely condensed anyway.