Although I disagree with you massively, thank you for a human reply Evil.
Have fun on your server. This server is clearly not for me and my guild.
We like its starting point but not the level of uncertainty of it's direction.

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Either way, PoP was the greatest expansion next to Velious. If we gotta go through Luclin to get there, that's what we need to do.

The expansion that absolutely destroyed Norrathh as far as travel was concerned?
I mean, the planes were cool but PoK kind of ruined it for me.

I hope not!

You could add parts of PoP without making the PoK the travel hub of Norrath. Just remove the freaking stones to the world. If you want to get to PoK, you get there just like you get to Hate. A wizard.

Play on Al'Kabor, the EQ Mac server. It's frozen at PoP.

The content especially raid wise throughout Luclin and PoP imo was quite good, challenging, and fun for many raid groups. I dont really think the nexus was game breaking as far as travel wise. Most people hopped a ride with a wizard to one of the spires or with a druid to get nearby and from there you still had to wait until they were ready. The bazaar was one portion of luclin that should have been avoided imo because it took a lot away from the player to player aspects of barter and trade and was very boring and laggy anyhow although I think the trade skill people probably liked having alot of resources in a close area iirc. Aside from the bazaar and of course those ugly PC models the content was pretty fun over all for many people as I recall. I personally remember many fun encounters in Grieg, SSRA, SSERU, Akheva and yes eventually VT to name a few. Along those same lines I remember quite well my guild being challenged and having fun progressing through PoP flagging. It seemed like at that point there were many different tiers of good content available and some were overlapping between the expansions. PoK Travel was quite a ruiner for me and it seems like that is the case in many people's eyes. Would its be less game breaking to have the PoK book that is inside the nexus take players straight into Tranquality?? Leaving the only way to reach Tranq via a wizardspire+nexus... I may be totally off base and maybe Luclin and PoP sucked for a lot of players in every single facet, but I'd be interested to know ways it could be cooler. I'm totally fine with going thru velious though I think thats a great path, but maybe there is more??

They have stated they will not be going past velious and they said they MAY design custom content past velious that is more in line with verants vision (also stated the items power from this custom content wouldnt overshadow velious), but I'm 99 % sure there is no way you can talk them into luclin or PoP even with restrictions to certain zones or whatever.

What uncertainty? It's certainly not headed to the moon.