Too big an advantage? Out of the 20 to 40 logged on, 18 to 36 of them already know exactly the area they are in when they teleport.

I'll loudly disagree with this. I'd say I know exactly where I teleport to roughly 30% of the time, and that's after a scan that shows me a mob or two. And I'm intimately familiar with a LOT of areas.

Though I could just have a crappy memory!

This just creates a club to beat newbies with until they do what this newbie did and roll up an exploration gnome that spends all day teleporting around, or they play a succession of non throw-away characters for a year.

It's not so much the advantage of veterans over newbies, but the advantage this gives to teleport in general. Right now, one of the drawbacks to teleport is the fact that you might not know where you end up, and have to teleport again - risking a plunge into the mists of Thar-Acacia or the Whitecloak Encampment. If you always know where you teleport to, that risk decreases substantially.

Teleport is supposed to be risky. Despite recent changes, I still don't think it's risky enough, but that's probably just me.

Kastellyn the Devourer of Magic, Lord of Legends

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