Which Travel Power is for you?

I was looking at some build suggestions on /SD and I struck upon an idea. What if I choose Teleport over Super Speed on my BS/SR scrapper?

And that got me thinking further, what do other people pick.

Largely I assume Travel is a subject of personal preference, theme and style:

What did you pick and why?

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I pick Super Jump most of the time for Combat jumping. The 3%ish defenes it has helps a lot on /Sr and /SD builds. It is also a good place to slot the Karma Knockback Protection on my /FA and /DA toons.

If I don't pick SJ I pick SS mostly for Hasten.

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Well I generally pick, based on individual toon concept, however my favorate is a mix of hurdle, super speed, combat jumping.

However I don't even worry about travel powers any more. Martial Arts, Ninja run is suffice. Mixed with hurdle. it works nice. Oh so what a SJ beat me to the door 10 or so seconds before me pfft. Gimmie the extra power slot plz!

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Super Jump. Combat Jumping is a great prerequisite power. Super Jump gives you good speed with sufficient vertical. Or I just go without a travel power and use the bank mission flight pack for vertical as necessary.

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Ditto on the Super Jump bandwagon. Gives you enough z-axis flexibility and speed that its simply the one that most of my toons take for a primary travel power.

Looking in general at the Leaping Pool, Combat Jumping is a good, low endurance cost toggle that provides some additional defense. Heck, even Acrobatics is still useful in today's game if you don't have the funds/resources/luck to obtain knockback protection IOs.

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I tend to go with SS for reasons already stated; Hasten and the ability to Stealth missions with a Stealth IO. I always take Hurdle, and then use either the bank mission jet pack, the Jump Pack from the Good vs. Evil edition, or turn on Ninja Run. I rarely run into an issue.

My wife, however, is a SJ junkie. She hates the limited vertical on SS, and, though she has a few toons with TP, it's too clicky for her.

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I *love* to go with superspeed + hurdle + combat jumping and most of the time sprint on top of that to be at capped runspeed (i don't waste slots on SS for that).

I just can't go with superjump. Mainly because it cancels combat jumping, and i like to use my travel power between packs of mobs, so with SJ i can't else i spend more time playing toggles than i want to. And SS is a lot more practical in most missions and maps. Feels a bit like a minigame to travel at capped runspeed and avoid things on the way, i even keep it in caves or offices maps for giggles. It keeps me on my toes and reactive at 100%. Going through stairs with SS + sprint is a nice challenge.

I love the teleporting concept but the whole pool is just useless and it needs hover to be comfortable as well, meh. If i was a vet and could take TP without a prerequisite i'd take it on some characters.

Fly is meh, though i like fly + combat jumping. It turns fly into a very reactive power and feels faster, though not as good as SS.

Sometimes i just spend time superspeeding through Steel or Skyway for fun and trying to stay on the tram path, follow the road or something. I tend to hate slow running and travel times in usual games so, nothing beats the fun of superspeeding. I dream to have it in other games. Vertical are not a problem most of the point, a jetpack will do it, or more often than not i'll just run around and still be faster than the flier to reach the mission door.

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On most of my meleers, it's super jump because it requires little slotting, CJ provides an often-useful minor defense boost, and they can be slotted with BoTZ. It's also relatively concept-neutral and can be fairly easily waved away.

What I tend to use most often, though, is fly. It's one of the most iconic superpowers ever, and I really enjoy flying around. Air superiority is amazingly good for a pool attack and I often use it to fill out melee chains or for a bit of extra damage on controllers and the like, and hover is also often useful to avoid melee foes. The biggest reason, though, is that it's the only set-and-forget travel power. I play on a 4 year old laptop which (along with numerous other issues) has severe loading lag in outdoor areas, so the other travel powers frequently bring me to grief as I super speed off edges or fall from the sky into the middle of spawns due to my computer deciding to freeze for 5 seconds to load some random piece of geometry or texture. With fly it doesn't matter if my computer spazzes out.

Several of my newer characters, though, are forgoing normal travel powers in favor of swift+sprint+hurdle+ninja run. It only costs 1 power pick (whichever of hurdle or swift you weren't already planning to take) and is close to the effectiveness of super jump or super speed, which is great for characters with tight builds.

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Fly. I can't maneuver while using Super Speed because it is too fast, and Super Jump gets a bit annoying and I end up needing my jet pack sometimes anyway. I don't mind being slow if I can actually get there without getting frustrated.

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Depends on the character. However the powers and/or bio go, so goes the character.

My absolute favorite is TP, and I'm really good at it. Mouse2 and Ctrl-C at the same time, aim, click, see ya! repeat Ctrl-C,Aim,Click until there, and then Mouse2 again to mouselook.

Simple.

But honestly, it's character driven. Origin, powers, bio, all go into the decision, and once made, it's right, and I won't change.

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Sir Thomas Theroux-DM/SR 50; Melted Copper-Fire/Shield 50
Byzantine Warrior-DB/ELA 50;Blade Tempo-50 DB/EA

Combat Jumping + Hurdle + Super Speed for every character except one(FM/WP has SJ). Combat Jumping is the most picked power for me(only one character ever w/o it.)

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I'm usually building for recharge and defense, so that usually dictates Combat Jumping/Hover, and Hasten on almost all of my builds.

I usually just default to Super Jump. I'll take Super Speed to stack stealth, or because I'm sick of Super Jumping for awhile.

Fly only comes in for concept, in which case I ignore Combat Jumping since I can slot Hover exactly the same.

I like Hover on ranged characters, and will usually *force* concept to get it.

I really don't like Teleport. I know it's the fastest travel power, but I can't make quick escapes very easily within enclosed areas, which I dislike. On the plus side, I can TP away despite having Immob's on me. Still not enough to make me like it though. I also don't find TP friend or TP foe as useful as Combat Jumping/Hover or Hasten, so I feel like I'm sacrificing something in order to get something I don't like anyway.

*Edit*- Also Ninja Run. I simply *like* this power. Super Jump is totally better, but it's just so flippin' cool looking.

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I'm also quite fond of Ninja Run, and tend to use it on my more acrobatically-inclined characters (my katana and claw scrappers and my DP blaster, notably).

That said, my favorite travel power--the one I come up with concepts specifically to use--is Fly. If I can find a reason for a character to fly, they're going to fly.

I generally hate superspeed, mostly because of the sound, though I do have characters who use it as it suits their concept.

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I agree with Protector_Knight:

My travel choices always keep the character's concept in mind
as a base. My Tank has Super Jump. As a result of the Tank's
tree-trunk sized legs, it made more sense that bounding over
low flying aircraft be the travel mode of choice.

I suppose that if I wanted to review all the bonus options of each
individual power set, I could custom craft an ideal character to make
the most of the choices..

But I like flaws in my Characters. The possibility that each encounter
could end in defeat makes me really enjoy the times when a villian is
soundly defeated.

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