Or how about some minutes of travel "cutscene" similar to boat traveling/portal use whenever you enter the Toroid Ocean?

This would feel more natural to me than cooldowns after combat or for port usage.

The northern border of Kryptgarden Forest. There are two obvious exits: southeast and southwest. A grouchy yellow-tusked orc. > health all You are physically very hurt and mentally in full vigour. The sharp-fanged brown-maned wolf is feeling very well. The grouchy yellow-tusked orc is feeling very ...

Here's a blog post of the author of the article ... how the story came about:

https://amostagreeablepastime.com/2018/ ... -gamer-uk/

Preview of the contents page:

https://issuu.com/futurepublishing/docs/pcg323.issuu

*tingle*

Meet the corrective measures in the middle? Cut special power from 270% to 140%, boost white hits accordingly, so the nerf is not as severe? This, or some variant. So that the new measure for all guilds is about where a current middle tier guild would be. It wouldn't make sense if all Myths had to ...

Why not keep it simple? - keep glowing system - on player logout: wielded & worn equip stays with the player, glowing items stay glowing - at armageddon: racked items & player held items get the usual armageddon treatment No need to tinker with a ton of systems: durability, guild specials, n...

Bows wouldn't feel like bows without them. I really disliked it when they made that change in Dark Age of Camelot.