Travel Powers

Just curious on what is the best travel power to get? I tried teleport and that isnt bad but curious if one of the others would be better.

I found Teleport to be a pain overall. It works best when you take Hover with it to avoid the "OMG lag is making me fall from the sky before I can reTP" effect, and to get from one side of the map to another by having to click the spot to TP to got pretty old. That said, the lower TP powers like Recall Friend and TP Foe have their uses, on occasion.

Just my two inf on one of them for ya.

You don't need hover for teleport. It takes some serious lag to be much of a problem, and if it is that bad then there are res-stockable jetpacks galore in this game.

SS has no vertical movement, but (again) jetpacks are easily available. With hurdle, you clear most obstacles anyhow, and even better with CJ. SS is easily my favorite in large part because I'm likely to get hasten, anyhow.

With jetpacks, SS is the only power you need. There is nothing "ghetto" about it.

Ok i seen the mention of jetpacks a few times where do you get those? I like the recall friend of teleport maybe ill keep it for that.

If you take SS, then you should take hurdle instead of swift.
If you take SL, then you can pick either tho swift is usually better.
If you take FLY, then you should take swift.

HVR is one of the greatest combat gems in the game. It gives you mobility and defense. You can hover blast from the ceiling away from those pesky melee types.

FLY is the limousine of travels as others have stated.

CJ is great for hoping around the combat area and gives the same defense as hover.

SL is great for getting around spots however your landing can be problematic if your not careful. SL is also rather fast in the air.

SS + SJ is a great set and combined are a fantasticly fast and effective travel set up. However fitting both into a build can be tight, but if your taking HASTEN anyways its not that far of a stretch. Hell even combat jumping with SS is pretty dam good. You can also always go with SS and just buy a RP for those times when you need to clear obstacles.

Red side, SS can be a PITA!!! without any sort of jump power or RP

Teleport is a great power when used correctly with macros and a zoomed out camera.

Many people skip travel powers all together and buy RPs. Either in GV (red) or FBZ (blue). This can be effective and frees up a power slot however it can't be slotted and is not very fast. So take it for what its worth.

For the record hover can be very fast when slotted correctly and with a few +spd sets. I have several melee toons who use hover and they are as fast as, if not faster, then most people using sprint. The also help against those dreaded caltrops the Knives like to drop like they bought em by the hundreds at the dollar store.

RP= Raptor Pack
GV= Grandeville
FBZ= Fire Base Zulu

Teleport is also handy for getting into a room filled with enemies while your buddies are blocking up the doorway.

As of late, CJ+Hurdle has become my ghetto travel power. It leaves me with an extra power choice at the cost of a single slot, can quite easily reach level 50 flight base speed, adds a small amount of defense that is incredibly useful when I start slotting IOs, gives me immobilize protection, and it doesn't suppress, which means, on a Blaster, I can jump, fire off a melee attack in mid-air, and be halfway across the room by the time the animation is finished.

With my villain characters I always take Fly. Always.
I've found that the maps are just impossible with superspeed (Grandville especially), and superjump can be really bad with those decorated houses and narrow alleyways. I always got stuck on some gargoyle, windowsill or fire escape.

And I just prefer Flight over Teleport, which can be a real pain in the lower levels. Having to rest after every jaunt or so...

And with heroes I usually go either with Superjump or Flight. Rarely I take TP, and never Superspeed.
My dislike of SS comes from a friend who had it with all of his toons. He never moved when he got to a map, just waited until everybody else were at the mission door, and started moaning for a TP. "It's too much of a hassle to run on the ground thru these complicated maps", he said.
Why would you take a supertravel that you never actually used?

Everyone has their own favorite travel powers. I often look to the secondary effects to choose my travel power.

For characters who need an extra attack, I usually go with Air Superiority/Fly.

For characters who have some kind of stealth in their build, such as Storm Controllers (with Steamy Mist) or Dark Miasma Defenders (with Shadowfall) or Warshades (with Shadow Cloak . . . but that's a special case), I usually go with Super Speed since the stealth in Super Speed stacks with other Stealth to give full invisibility. Super Speed is much better than some of the folks here seem to think. It provides wonderful battlefield maneuverability. The vertical issues can be overcome with the Good vs. Evil Jet Pack or the Raptor Pack or the Zero-G Pack -- or Hover.

If my Blaster has a ranged build, I go with Hover/Fly.

If my character is defense based, then I go with Combat Jumping/Super Jump.

For less durable characters, some kind of travel power that allows them to search without being seen is a good idea. There are a lot of missions in the upper levels where you have to tour a zone looking for hostages or glowies or particular foes. Those are hard to do with Super Jump and Teleport, so Fly or Super Speed work better.

Super Jump, Teleport and Super Speed all take some practice to use well. Fly is easy.

Teleport is the best travel power for a Stone Armor Tank or Brute, because his Rooted power and Granite Armor make it hard to run, and impossible to jump or fly.

Teleport is great for certain uses: Illusion Controllers with Invisibility can be the team spy. You can teleport past blocked halls and Rikti Drones (who can see through invisibility). Of course, Recall Friend lets you bring the team to you once you find the goal of the mission. Also, Teleport is the only travel power you can use when Immobilized or slowed. Teleport is great in the Shadow Shard -- I'm always the first one to the mission, and then I can bring the slow pokes who have to rely on a flight pack. Make sure to slot Recall Friend for Range when in the Shadow Shard.

Also remember that those prereq's fir travel powers can be slotted with things like anti-kb IO's. Useful to put a LOTG or the like in one.

I prefer a travel power that is more than just for use to and from mish after mish.

I prefer super speed as it grants partial stealth.

I also like finishing various task forces asap.

I therefore take super speed on all my creations, regardless of concept.

Which is easy for me since my concepts tend to be extremely simplistic.

TP is easy to use given practice (probably the only travel power that might actually take practice to use efficiently). Make a Stone/ Tank or /Stone Brute and you will quickly figure out how to use TP effectively.