My shammy is lv 24 and have only ported once, but I paid my level in plat plus a bit more. I regularely walk/take the boat between Gfay and Halas between my different characters, and yes it takes forever but I'm not begging for free ports like a retard (lots of new players cries for 'free newbie ports' like 3 zones away, wtf?!).
Besides travelling by foot is part of the timesink classic experience and you can usually level whist doing it. As a consequence I have come to know the geography much better here on p99 than when I played during the PoP era.
So to the point, I always assumed you would pay your level in plat to the porter, which is easy for money making classes but very hard for warriors or monks, at least not without support from higher level characters. I guess even a warrior at lv 40 should be able to farm 25plat for a port, if that is accepted?
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