It's great that certain areas are restricted in someways, like needing a grapplegun to get across the river into the Mongrelwoods. But I've seen a fair number of people get stranded on the wrong side because they had to log out for a certain amount of time and the person with the rope continues on ahead.
A transition that includes a difficult swim check to ford the river could alleviate this problem. Failure could result in the person being washed down far down the river or perhaps deep into the Underweald. Someplace that's dangerous and potentially difficult to return from, but at least not someplace that utterly strands them so that they log out to wait for a server reset.
Addendum: I have been told there is an alternative route of the Mongrelwoods but apparently it's so dangerous that people make it sound as if it's comparable to sneaking through Ysinode or Traensyr.
I agree.
It should be a vine.
Vines are cool.
The biggest problem is people going through the weald can be "abducted" by the transition bug, leaving them stranded in the mongrelwoods when they had no intention of being there. Either a way to escape without tools, or changing the transition to a bubble transition would be good.
Two suggestion fix to this
1) Change the transition into the Mongrelwood to a bubble so you don't get yoinked there from across the zone
2) Add a [Attempt to swim the river] spot which gives you an EFUSS Swimming check and if you fail you get carried down the river and spit out in the canals somewhere.