Most likely, it was in reference to
Origin or
Throne of Heroes, as they're long refresh timer AAs. There are AAs to shorten to Origin's refresh timer, but at higher levels.
It says starting city in the description, but the way I remember it is, it is the default class / racial city for the toon. So if you're Hum Rng, it will be Surefall Glade whether you picked any other city or not. The main reason this is good, is it puts you close to your racial tribute master, but for some combinations can be a bit of a run back to PoK or anywhere else.
Elf Rng / Elf Dru is one of the nicest ones, as just 1 (or 0) platform from the Tribute master, about 10-15sec with SoW or better from PoK book, 2 (or 3) platforms from a banker. Of course an Elf Dru has lots of other ports available.
There are many other non-AA ports. I don't recall any Pal specific ones other than the OT Hammer (
Worker Sledgemallet), Tatankaseventh already mentioned.
Gate and TL potions, in general, sell for almost the same as the cost of the components to make, so making a Shm to save money, is not really an option, if they're normally available for sale. (EDIT: yea, about 150-160p to make depending on skill / AAs / failure rate. All of my Shm generally sell them for 160-175p, depending on my failure rate).
Yther Ore.
Edited, Nov 17th 2011 1:37am by Yther