How are users TPing long distances?

My hero has these tp powers. Foe TP, Friend TP and Self-TP.

My villain has these tp powers. Foe TP, Friend TP and Team TP.

The TP Foe(200ft) and TP Friend(zonewide) are awesome. I can reach long distances with these. But self-TP is horrible. I have only line of sight capabilities(300ft). I saw a user come from another zone and TP right to the Mission location. Was I seeing things?

Here's my question. Is it possible to self-TP farther than 300ft/Line of sight? Can I self-tp by just selecting on the map?

Mission Teleporter Power

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Keep in mind, that's a two hour recharge. The best use i've found for it is TPing to different zones, it's pretty much wasted using it in the same zone. Although, that could just be because I'm conservative with long recharge powers like that one, saving it for Task Forces and missions in the shadow shard.

Though, I do occasionally use it when i'm feeling lazy to get to other zones. I've often found myself calling a contact in Cim or the the Rikti war zone to get a mission and using it to get there from zones that are more than one-off.

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Mission_Transporter

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I find putting teleport on my mouse thumb button to be even easier than the shift key, since I can then use one hand. Thumb, aim circle, left click, thumb again while teleporting. Works like a charm. Depressing the mouse wheel lets me swing around the view and change directions for my next port without taking my hand off the mouse or using the other hand. The only thing I have to worry about is not teleporting twice before the first one is finished -- you don't go anywhere and the view shifts dramatically. The cure for that is to hesitate a split second and let the first port complete -- you can still use the thumb button to create another teleport circle, just wait for the first port to finish animating. In open air, the teleport targeting circle will appear at maximum range, so just point, click, thumb up another circle, hesitate, click, and so on.

The end result is a lot less trouble. COnsidering the amount of time my Superspeeders have spent trapped in bus shelters and my Super Jumpers have spent missing a ledge, it's probably no more trouble to use Teleport, so I let concept rule the choice.

I hated self-teleport when I first picked it up (the first real travel power I ever picked WAY back during my first month). The thing that set me free was finally realizing that the power includes several seconds of hover at the end of the teleport and I didn't have to click on the ground. Those two things together meant I could teleport safely into the sky and on to my mission, often teleporting right to the door long before anyone else was even close. Next to fly it is my favorite travel power now.

I used to put the teleport power into my first tray (6th slot) and I traveled by pressing 6 and clicking the location over and over but I use the shift+lbutton now and it is a lot faster. Definitely slot for endurance first, then range if you have the slots to spare.

Everyone I know that combines it with hover is slower getting places than I am because they use it as a crutch... but it is a nice safety net since lag during teleport can be a killer.

The mission teleporter is nice if you end up with a mission in (for example) Dark Astoria while you are in Crey's Folly. It's also good if you were just invited to a team and they are waiting for you several zones away. I save it for those BIG jumps since you really only get to use it once per game session.

How I, a novice, get around trying to keep up with others who actually took travel powers, as I just hop hop hop around with Ninja Jump, though at around 50ish mph depending on level. If I'm in one of those commute-heavy TFs, keeping my options open is a good idea.

I have Pocket-D tp from some set. Pocket-D gets me to a SG base portal and KR, Talos, FF, and Faultline. If you come out the door in Talos and turn left, you're about 200 or so yards from the Green line [and WW if you pre-bought tons of your favorite insp.]

The Wentworth TP you can get from just logging out there will get you to SC near the Yellow line, AP, KR, or Talos. And the same goes for Talos's handy Green line and SG base portal. I mention the base portal because you can get into Crey's Folly, etc, much easier than any other way with the beacon tps.

I reserve the Door TP for when I know it's going to be irritating to get there. If I'm in Dark Astoria and the next mish is in Perez Park, I whip that sucker out. Then wait seven minutes waiting for the others to get there.

Once you hit 25 there's the Ouroboros portal and it has a great Talos exit. It's also the best way to get to Perigrine Island.

Oh, I forgot. You can also get from Atlas to Perigrine easy by going through the Vanguard portal. And FF too, but really in any TF, it's incredibly unlikely you'd travel between any of those. And I know someone will say, "Not till your 35." Wrong.

There's a great map out there, I forgot who made it, showing what connects to what. And it's also important to know where the tp is going to dump you. If you're wanting to get to the Yelllow line from your SG, going to SC is not the way to do it as you'll be on the other side of the map.

Pocket-D recharges [edited] in 30 minutes. Ouro in five, I think.. I think WW is ten. Door, as mentioned before, is 2 hr.

There is also a base transporter, but I don't have it. I believe it's a four-ish year vet reward. [edited to add - or park yourself near your SG base portal.]

Edited to add - Found the map:

Another trick for high-level characters. If you're solo, you can use your Ouro portal, run to the crystal, pick an arc that you know the contact is in the zone you want to go to, click the crystal to teleport there, then quit the arc. I abuse this to get to Cimerora without having to zone through the midnighter club first, or to the RWZ without an extra stop in founders.

My main badging character also is holding on to a Kora fruit mission in firebase zulu, which, combined with the mission transporter, came in handy for the Dimensional Explorer and Intern day jobs