Unfortunately Runewaker have designed the game with using the Morrok quest chain to unlock areas, the good thing is that plenty of people are willing to open transport portals for the ones that don't like questing 
If you're talking about the packages in the Premium category I think they are the lv 70 normal mode weapons from Tomb of Seven Heroes
IMO you are better off using cheap x stats on the lower level gear(think the lower packs are all 10 dias?) instead of spending 400 dias on a gear pack unless you have the dias to spare.
The zone quests should be more than enough to level if you do not want to do the epic lines but If you need a port to a zone you cannot get to.. I would happily open a portal if I am online just /w me in game - Calo
For normal gameplay on "normal" servers i pretty much like the connection of that storyline quests to unlock next area .
In my opinion i would it event make harder. Like a Debuff that everyone gets in that region, like 50% hp loss every second if you haven't got the "blessing" of the storyline AND cleared the last dungeon of the previous area....to avoid people teleport to the new area 
For this private server i agree, teleport is ok, because most people already have done the stuff and don't want to repeat all the quests and so on....
Maybe it is possible to unlock all snoops for an amount of gold, don't knowe if this is possible technically, but this would solve the problem for most people.
