Also, on the topic of Nexus / Travel, I feel like people tend to group Nexus and PoK together too often. PoK gave you instant access to something like 15-20 zones. Nexus on the other hand gave you access to 4 port locations, with each port triggering at a 15 minute interval, meaning travel through the nexus could take anywhere from a few seconds, up to 30 minutes based on how lucky your timing is. That is a HUGE difference.
Travel through the Nexus reduced the burden of travel in such a small way that in my opinion, it hardly changed the game at all. 90% of people I played with never used the nexus because finding a druid / wizard was still easier and faster. Nexus was only really an option I used when I had time to kill and could afk until the spire ported me. PoK definitely trivialized travel and made the expansive virtual world a much smaller place. I think most of us agree that it had a negative impact on the game.
Basically I think Nexus was a decent mechanic that didn't really impact the game all that much, while PoK was a horrible mechanic that trivialized travel in the game.
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11-11-2013, 05:18 PM
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