Adding the Planes of Power in to the original trilogy

[firesyde424]

Rather than use the pok books, why not connect the combine spires to PoK instead of luclin and make the transport timers say every 30 minutes instead of every 15.

The EQ game world was made so much smaller by the instant travel the pok stones enabled. You could go almost anywhere in a few minutes as long as you were within range of a stone.

The world didn't become all that much smaller because of the combine spires. The longest trip I know of in the old world was the trip from Freeport to Qeynos. Even with bard speed it still took a half hour. Porting up to Luclin and using the spires didn't make the trip all that much faster and, depending on your luck with the portal timers, it could actually make it longer.

Also, if you do put PoK in, get rid of at least some of the spell vendors in the library and the guild masters. When PoK opened, you could get nearly any spell you needed. You didn't hafta go stand outside an evil/good city and bribe someone to go get the spell for you. It removed a good deal of the thought process that might have gone into a racial choice and instead, made racial choice more of a cosmetic issue than an issue of game mechanics. My cleric has been level 50 for better than two months and I still don't have a few spells simply because I'd hafta go to Neriak to get them.(my cleric is a High Elf.)