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Anyone else have any tips?
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On the subject of lag I have found that switching to first person during chain teleports helps to cut down on lag.
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Thanks so much for this guide. It helped ease my nervousness about taking teleport. I've tried all the travel powers except for teleport, and I thought it was time, plus it really fits my character concept.
I just took teleport at 14 and so far I'm loving it. The one suggestion I have, would be to take your new toy to a zone you are familiar with and just spend some time jumping around the zone. You'll get a better feel for your range and you can test out these groovy keybinds before you're in real danger.
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nice guide.. just got teleport.. will be using this
Posting this here, since it is a teleport question.
I'm trying to write a bind that will activate teleport and send me straight up without having to change camera views. I can't seem to find anything that gives a direction without pointing. Any ideas?
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I'm afraid you need to target something. Which is a shame too.
I had a similar question months back about just clicking a button and having PA cast like 5' in front of me ...but there's just no command where you can input the xyz coordinates for a target.
Sorry.
I've taken Teleport as the only travel power on my Empathy Defender. I've 6-slotted it for range. I don't have Stamina, Hover, or any other safety net. All I need is Recovery Aura, and I'm good to go, if it wears off I just perch somewhere until it's back. I'm consistently the first one everywhere (other than in Dark Astoria), and Recalling the other to me. It's great, I wouldn't change it for the world.
Teleport is not, however, for everyone. It's by far the worst for exploring, and it's the most dangerous one in general (rivalled by SuperJump, I suppose). It's the hardest to get the hang of, and although it is the fastest, it's also the least wieldy.
I also wouldn't suggest it for anyone who suffers from lag.
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Just the other day I deleted my def who had TP. I never even considered using binds to help. Unfortunately I just respec'd my new def otherwise i'd consider tp again. So its time to roll a new alt.
I don't think I'd ever take TP with a scrapper or blaster. It just seems a pretty good fit for the "support" class chars. My new def has TP friend which even at higher lvls is still handy (anyone with SS try and find the enterance into the TV reactor).
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Just wondering, I'm assuming one doesn't lop tankers in with scrappers oir blasters... namely because this is THE travel power of choice for stone tanks.
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Unfortunately, there isn't a way to automate a reply to a tell.
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Wouldn't a macro or bind that does an "autoreply Just a minute--teleporting right now" work ?
TP IS my primay trael power. Ive out run lvl 30 (while im at 23) with a couple of SO for distance and End. Great power and here is a few things that I have learned.
1) for getting glowy. nothing beats it.
2)if your allie has TP allie have him/her warn you before they TP you. MAY a time i have found my self in two places at once(they TP me after I have started my next TP in a chain. I end up at them and half a sec later at my target for tp. reallpain)
3)in combat it IS the quick escape.. but shots that are field at you follow. A troll can throw a rock over 120ft!!
4) if your immobilized TP.get you out of fire but you still can't move unless you tp again.
5)for some reason after i tp and them hit an attack (bow attacks to be exact) the toon goes in to a 2 sec CONTROLABLE flight (not hover). Looks cool going in on the attack and has saved me from a fall once. (caught a building)
6)Speaking of Hover, TP and Hover is and end killer but you will never fall. If your low on end just stop TPiing, chat a bit, and cont once your end recharges.
anyways thats my 2 cent..
Never slot Endurance Reduction on TP before 3 slotting Range. Range's effect is two fold; it lowers the amount of Endurance required for the power (via fewer jumps) and decreases the number of jumps required to get to your destination, making your Endurance bar and your fingers happy.
I currently have TP 3 slotted on a couple of my characters and I'm debaing whether to even bother with the fourth slot with an Endurance Reducer in it. I'll probably try it on one of them (the Staminaless MM) just to see.
Awesome guide!
If you really want to optimize your computer for TP, follow the advice in this XP gaming tweak guide:
http://forums.guide2games.org/index.php?showtopic=2716
"ConservativeSwapfileUsage=1" is one of the best system mods a TPer can have (though all the other bits of advice in that guide also help wtih TP's smoothness tremendously.) I even have time to eat Inspirations between jumps if I feel like it TP runs so smooth on my far-from-uber system.
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You can target almost any flat surface within range that you can see with the camera
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Sort of true. You can most of the time target most of the flat surfaces. However a LOT of the targets that you want to use to actually move around sometimes fail for no good reason. You can be tping across Steel and suddenly be unable to get away from the red circles. You can want to tp up to a ceiling overhead in a mission and your odds on being able to do so are, sadly, remote. You can be unable to get white circles on a surface from one place and then able to get white circles in the same place from somewhere else (which makes absolutely no sense at all). Short of TPing far above the city in a straightish line it is difficult to make 20 successive attempts to tp in natural use without seeing the red circles where they shouldn't be. You should be able to make any intuitive TP to any suitable surface, but sadly this is far, very far, from the case 
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You should be able to /afk as part of your tp bind. I know there are people who have a typing bind/macro set up so that when they start typing it puts them in afk with a message above their head, which you get an auto-reply to if you try to /tell them while they are typing. Should be able to set /afk teleporting and they will get the auto-response.
I haven't ever used those binds for typing because I type pretty fast and don't really see the need. But for teleporting it would be great. Recently playing my warshade and got myself in trouble trying to quick reply a few times hehe.
I had thought about your post that powexec_name could be used to turn on and turn off teleport, so I came up with another bind to do the same without using bind files:
/bind lshift "+ $$powexecname Teleport"
Edit: I thought because it's much more simple it eliminates all posibility of reversals. I just tested this out some more, it does just the opposite. The one I (in another thread) and you (in this one) posted, however, works very nicely but has a problem with not keeping the teleport active after clicking a location. To fix this, I came up with a way to complicate things some more by adding a couple more bind files to the mix:
In c:/keybinds/tpk_dc.txt place:
lshift "+ $$powexecname Teleport$$bindloadfile c:\keybinds\tpk_uc.txt"
lshift+lbutton "+ $$bindloadfile c:\keybinds\tpb_uc.txt"
In c:/keybinds/tpk_uc.txt place:
lshift " $$powexecunqueue$$bindloadfile c:\keybinds\tpk_dc.txt"
In c:/keybinds/tpb_uc.txt place:
lshift+lbutton " $$powexecname Teleport$$bindloadfile c:\keybinds\tpb_dc.txt"
In c:/keybinds/tpb_dc.txt place:
lshift+lbutton "+ $$bindloadfile c:\keybinds\tpb_uc.txt"
Initialize by typing:
/bindloadfile c:\keybinds\tpk_dc.txt
This first bind does as before, ques up teleport and loads in the next bind so that it halts it with the key release. However, I added another functionality to it that when the teleport is activated it loads in another set of binds that reactivates teleport targetting afterwards.