I’m afraid that ship has sailed. I also would have paid more for DLCs, but that’s not how Funcom wanted to do things. Instead, they sent out an icky survey last year that was a subject of much controversy. Then, later, they brought in a monetization expert, unleashed him/her on the results of that survey, and the ultimate result is Battle Pass and Black Lotus Bazaar.
And no matter how much we bitch about that, those two monetization schemes are here to stay. The best we can hope for is for Funcom to listen to feedback and throw us plebs a bone or two while they’re milking the whales
Unfortunately, you jumped back into the game near the end of a chapter, and you’re feeling the pressure of finishing the BP. It sucks.
FWIW, you mostly don’t have to teleport around, you just need to know what to spawn. The only times I had to teleport was when trying to complete the challenges that depend on visiting a specific spot on the map, and when doing the “complete 3 events” challenge. Unless I’m forgetting something right now, everything else was doable by just spawning the right thing to kill. For example, you don’t really need to go to the Well of Skelos and finish it, you just need to admin-spawn The Degenerate and then admin-kill it.
Also, they’ve raised the XP rewards for the challenges. I imagine it’s still a boring slog to admin your progress through all 60 levels, but I also imagine it’s at least 5x easier than back when I did it
Good luck!