DC Travel and its decimation of non-Aether NA PF

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The only thing I can think of would feel harsh to players and generate very strong pushback - debuff Traveler attributes.

Friends trying to play with actual friends probably wouldn't mind that the traveling friend has had their attributes debuffed by 2-3% (or whatever amount) - they just want to play with their friend. But how many would tolerate it in PF filled with random players, with potentially multiple (or even all of them) having the debuff?

That wouldn’t work for endgame content. May be a loot roll penalty that would offer reduced chances would encourage people to do PFs on their own DC without affecting individual performance. It wouldn’t really affect cross DC statics as they can plan ahead as to who gets what.

Still the only real solution now would be to make PF and DF open to an entire region.