Transfer the animation time of Teleport to post-teleport hover

From time to time I hear complaints about the usefulness of Teleport as a travel power, mostly due to its inherent susceptibility to dropping to one's doom due to lag and long animation time that makes it tedious to use over long distances.

So, here's a quick suggestion - teleport the player the moment the reticle is clicked, and extend the hovering duration after the teleport to match the total animation+hover time.

If the actual animation time could be reduced or otherwise changed to allow for more rapid teleporting, so much the better. For balance's sake, the endurance per jump cost remains the same, so bottoming out the blue bar remains a possibility, even moreso if the power is used more frequently compared to recovery rate.

An open letter to NCsoft

Hmn.....I....fail to a see a problem, really. Why not? *shrug*

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Originally Posted by Zwillinger GG, I would tell you that "I am killing you with my mind", but I couldn't find an emoticon to properly express my sentiment.

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Originally Posted by Captain_Photon NOTE: The Incarnate System is basically farming for IOs on a larger scale, and with more obtrusive lore.

You have 4 seconds of Hover time after a teleport, with an animation time of two seconds. This means you have at least four seconds to react. In reality, it's four seconds plus falling time. If you do this, you slash your reaction time by half, because you can't actually activate the power until the two seconds have finished, and with a two-second animation in general, this means that you're basically guaranteed to start falling before you use Teleport anyway.

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Originally Posted by Arcanaville Samuel_Tow is the only poster that makes me want to punch him in the head more often when I'm agreeing with him than when I'm disagreeing with him.