Traveling in Style - An advanced travel guide

Traveling in Style - A guide for getting to those hard to reach places

I've seen guides on travel powers, but there’s a lot more to getting around than just taking a pool travel power. This guide attempts to provide the next step in getting there quickly. The idea is there's lots of situations where traditional travel is slow, or maybe you want to skip on travel powers in your build. There are now many options making these situations better. So I've come up with my top ways to get around faster. If you want a standard travel powers guide, I suggest you go here. I'm also not including any power that goes away after a period of real or game time (like the holiday jet pack) because I feel they have much more limited usefulness (they often wear out sooner or can't be regained quickly.)

Order of importance I loosely ranked as:
1) How soon you can get them
2) How broadly they can be used
3) How fast they actually are.

Here goes:

1) Supergroup Teleporters
First Level Available: 1
Location/Way to get it: Join a Supergroup (SG) that has them, then go to a supergroup portal or use the supergroup teleportation vet power to get in the SG base.

2) Raptor Pack
First Level Available: 1
Location/Way to get it: Jetpack Vendor - Grandville Near Arbitor Apolis at a cost of 10,000 infamy, or in the Shadow Shard zones at a cost of 10,000 infamy see this Wiki for exact locations.
Travel Ability: Flight for 2 hours of continuous use

3) Market Teleporters
First Level Available: 1
Location/Way to get it: a) Marketeer badge - for being logged off near a market. You build up charges the longer you're logged off at the market b) Buy a 1-time use black market teleporter for 10,000 inf. Can only have 1 at a time
Travel Ability: a) Gives teleportation to the market of your choice once every 5 or 15 minutes depending on how long you've been offline near the markets. b) Teleportation to the markets usable every 30 min.

4) Raptor Pack
First Level Available: 5
Location/Way to get it: Mayhem Mission/Safeguard Mission
Travel Ability: Flight for 2 hours of continuous use

5) Good vs. Evil Powers
First Level Available: 1
Location/Way to get it: Buy the Good vs. Evil Booster for $9.99
Travel Ability: There are 2: a) Jump pack b) Pocket D VIP pass
Usability: a) The jump pack lets you jump high with minimal lateral movement, so is more for going over things or breaking your fall, but not covering distances. Combines well with Super Speed (or Jump abilities when you need extra height.) It only works for 30 seconds before a cooldown. b) The Pocket D pass lets you teleport to a special room within the club every 30 minutes.
Note: I feel these packs are "harder to get" than the Raptor pack because going from lvl 1 to 5 takes a few minutes, but it takes both a few minutes and $10 to get this and the next pack.

6) Mission Transporter
First Level Available: 3
Location/Way to get it: Buy the special edition game, or the Super Booster pack for $9.99
Travel Ability: You teleport within 120 feet of a mission door, even across zones.
Usability: Every 2 hours. Does not work in Pocket D or missions with jails

7) Jump Pack
First Level Available: 10
Location/Way to get it: Mayhem Mission/Safeguard Mission
Travel Ability: Super Jump usable for 2 hours of continuous use

8) Goldbricker Jet Pack
First Level Available: 15 - for Villains only
Location/Way to get it: Cap Au Diablo - Marshall Brass Mission
Travel Ability: Flight for 90 minutes of continuous use

9) Antigravity Matrix
First Level Available: 20 - for Heroes only
Location/Way to get it: Independance Port - Oswald Cuthbert
Travel Ability: Flight for 90 minutes of continuous use

10) SkyRaider Jet Pack
First Level Available: 20 - for Villains only
Location/Way to get it: Sharkhead - Lt Chalmers Mission
Travel Ability: Flight for 60 minutes of continuous use
Note: It’s a timed mission for getting this, so be ready

11) Ouroboros
First Level Available: 25
Location/Way to get it: a) Ask a lvl 25+ to drop an oro portal, go in, and go to the top of the building's spire to get the "Chrononaut" badge there to get the power, b) go to your Super Group's Pillar of Ice and Flame and run a mission there, or c) Complete a time traveling mission that grants the "Entrusted with the Secret" badge.
Travel Ability: Using the portal, you enter the Oroboros zone (fast loading small zone.) Once there, just click back on the Oroboros portal that’s sitting open next to you to transport to any of 5 zones (and train missions blue side.)

12) Pillar of Ice and Flame
First Level Available: 25
Location/Way to get it: Get to a pillar of Ice and Flame, either using the Oroboros temp power (see Oroboros travel power) or just go to the one your Supergroup hopefully has in their base.
Travel Ability: Select a story arc with a contact in the zone you want to go to. Once you've accepted the arc, re-click on the pillar, and it takes you directly to the contact. Handy ones include Sister Airlia(CoV) or Deadalus(CoH) in Cimerora and Tina McIntire in Peregrine (she's near Portal Corp so you skip traversing the island.) You can cancel the strike force/task force once you enter the zone. Of course this won’t work if you’re already on a Strike Force or aren't the leader of your team as you can't select the mission.
Note: This was actually my inspiration for making this guide. I know lots of veteran players who want to get to "out there" zones faster. This is especially handy for zones that take some effort to get to like Cimerora and I think the Shadow Shard or if you don't have easy access to all the SG teleporters.

13) Emergency Base Teleporter
First Level Available: 1
Location/Way to get it: after 24 months of game membership you get the "Devoted" vet badge. With it is the option to claim this power. Find it in your badge list.
Travel Ability: You teleport to the Supergroup base.
Usability: Every 30 minutes.

14) Assemble the Team
First Level Available: 1
Location/Way to get it: after 42 months of game membership you get the "Fervent" vet badge. With it is the option to claim this power.
Travel Ability: You teleport your whole team to your location.
Usability: Every 30 minutes.
Note: This one doesn't get YOU around but can be very handy for helping teams stealth missions (great in Ice Minstral SF and CoV respec SF last mission), and its nice for getting the team across a huge zone.


Additional tools: People requested maps or lists of the connections between zones. Here's two links to maps zombie man provided (note level restrictions no longer apply), or if you prefer, EmperorSteele posted a list below for Heroes.

1) Heroes Zoning Map
2) Villains Zoning Map

Notes: Please keep posting additional options! I’d love to hear of other ways to get there from here.

Also, some of the information was easier to steal than rewrite myself, so thanks to Direwolf21's thread on villain temp travel powers and the Paragon Wikis. Also thanks to the people who posted below to turn this into a more powerful guide than I had planned on

Thanks Luminara!

Those were some great suggestions.

I added all the "semi-permenant" powers to the list. I didn't add the teleport power or 30 day jet packs because those only last for a defined period of real time, whereas 60 min or more of use in game generally lasts longer than a month (at least from my experience).

Nice little guide!

One thing:

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Originally Posted by Geoff_NA 3) Market Teleporters First Level Available: 1 Location/Way to get it: a) Marketeer badge gives teleportation to the market of your choice once very 15 or 5 minutes depending on how long you've been offline near the markets. You build up charges the longer you're logged off at the market b) Buy a 1-time use black market teleporter for 10,000 inf. Can only have 1 at a time and can only be used every 30 min. Travel Ability: Flight for 2 hours of continuous use

The part in red should be removed from this.

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Polite request: Could someone please expand this or add another page, that lists all the Zone shortcuts and perhaps explains the best way to use them all.

e.g.

Oro portal - list possible destinations
Pocket D - list locations/possible destinations
Vanguard - list locations/possible destinations
Midnighter base - list locations/possible destinations
etc.

I'd love to have this info all in one place, I'll print it out and tape it to my PC case.

Go here to print: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dc5n7mgh_3dpxjwkcc

Villain version: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dc5n7mgh_7hm7p64sb



Guess I need to update that since the restrictions have changed in the past issue.

Thanks again for the edits and additions. I've tried to incorporate them into the guide.

Wow you fellas really outdid yourself - and Zombie I should apologize - I've seen that most awesome flow-chart style map before, just forgot about it.

I'm printing out both posts (well d/l-ing the map) and will keep them handy as I play.

Many thanks for your time and effort!

The GvE Jumppack has a small +flyspeed effect even without the angled flight jump-boost option...
(NB this effect is only noticeable at low levels.)

The angled flight jump-boost effect also works on the Zero-G Jumppack...

You can use a Raptor or other fly power alongside the tilt jump-boost speed of both the GvE and Zero-G at the same time too.

I made a couple more small edits to incorporate Sailboat and Coolio's info.