Teleportation

I re-subbed my account and I plan to re-roll my scrapper.

I plan to use TP as my travel power because it is the only TP that I have never used.

Could I get a list of the cons for this travel power?

Thanks in advance.

1) End Cost (can be mitigated with slotting)

2) Sometimes hard to use (can be mitigated somewhat with macros/binds)

3) Easy to over-shoot your target sometimes.



Evened out by:

1) Complete 3-D movement

2) Fastest straight-line movement

Caves.

*shrugs* I've heard alot of hate for it, some don't like the mechanics of it. I've seen some people run entire missions with flight/superspeed on. This is usually not one of those travel powers. I don't use travel powers in-mish that often (usually) so it never bothered me.

Some people like binds for it, I just keep it on my bottom tray in the second slot, so that "2" is my teleport key. (It's right over my 'w' forward, so it makes sense to me this way.)

It takes some getting used to, but it's fine. Actually, when I have just finished playing my teleporters, I get ancy for it. It's one of those things where I tried it first and then asked on my superspeeders "THIS is fast?"

*edit* actually, one negative I have for it: it has a hover attached to it. When you finish teleporting, you hover slowly for a few moments; for my impatient self, this is a downside from when you could drop and run right after a port. You do NOT need hover with this power, unless you are experiencing substantial performance issues.

Since I've already posted many threads today...

what is the max speed for Flight?

Has it changed since it was...I believe...58 mph?

Max flight speed hasn't changed, but base hover speed has increased. Again.

Another few benefits to Teleport:

(a) You can teleport out of Slow areas and you can move while Immobilized. Every time my Stone Tank is hit with Caltrops, I am thankful I have Teleport. It is the only travel power that lets you move while Immobed or slowed.

(b) If that doorway or hallway is blocked, you can teleport past the blockage.

(c) I have Teleport on one of my builds for my Ill/Rad . . . he can teleport past Rikti Drones without being seen while invisible.

(d) If you are stuck somewhere, you can often teleport out without having to use the /stuck command.

(e) You can sometimes teleport around corners.

(f) You can sometimes teleport through small openings where your character would not be able to fit through.

And a negative that can be offset:

In those open-air "find the glowie" or "find the citizen" missions, Teleport is hard to use to search -- you generally have to plan to land on a building. This can be overcome with Hover or any of the many Temp Fly pack powers.

Please be mindful that, in PvP, Teleport is all but useless when Travel Suppression is in effect. There's no quick get-away for a TPer that attacks or is attacked in PvP.

Any teleport question:

Recall Friend
-or-
TP Foe

I find that TP is a great second travel power, but as a main, I just end up feeling like it is tedious and and tired after crossing a map. I even start looking for a Redbull to get some wings.

Here are my own "pros and cons"

Pros
1) Best "get out NOW" travel power. (unless you're mezzed or in a PVP zone, more on this later)
2) Fast. If you have an /energy blaster it's worth teleporting and taking boost range for the OMGBBQ! factor.
3) With practice, pin-point precision for landing at a destination. Not the biggest deal, but kind of cool
4) Prereq is either 1) team friendly (recall ally) or 2) solo friendly (tp foe can thin the herd)
5) Cheapest of the stealth IOs

Cons
1) Lag = death (potentially) It's quite possible to drop into purple mobs in a moment of lag.
2) Prereq power is least useful to me compared to Hasten, Combat Jumping, Hover or Air Superiority.
3) Useless in pvp zones if you attack or are attacked (whether npc or pc).

Bottom line, if you haven't taken it, try it. If you don't like it, then respec or make a 2nd build.

I got a TP Foe question.

Is TP foe with only an Accuracy slotted a good power? On my ninja/ninja stalker, AS won't fear enough of the mob. I'll drop back to a corner and toss caltrops into the middle of the rushing mob just to divide the mob up into more manageable chunks.

If I'm being charged by nine critters and caltrops splits the mob into 2 on my side and 7 on the other side. I'm gonna finish that 2 off quick and it may say Hidden in the upper right corner of my screen but those 7 now exactly where I am.

So I'm wondering, when Stamina becomes an inherent, and I need to find powers that don't require additional slotting is TP Foe worth it?

Just to toss this out there...if you decide on teleport...suggested slotting (for me at least) is 2 end redux and 2-3 range. W/ stamina the 2 end redux will prevent you from draining your blue to nil...unless you're running a bunch of toggles or one expensive one like WS's Nebulous Form. Unlike most travel powers, teleport really requires some slot loving to get the best return for it, which could be anywhere from no big deal to difficult to manage, depending on how tight your build ends up being.

A good bind for teleporting is /bind Lshift+Lbutton powexecname teleport. with this...just hold the left shift button and click where you want to go. makes things SO much easier. (ugh...blasted kitten is trying to crawl on my keyboard again).

for the TP Foe on a stalker question...i've never used it...but i'm pretty sure that using it would break hide and you'd get aggro from the ported foe unless you placate...at which point he'll start walking back. Plus...there's still a chance of aggro'ing the rest of the mob. Food for thought.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Smiling_Joe ::looks at RaikenX's signature:: Something funny.

I bind teleport to my scroll button.

/bind mbutton "powexecname teleport"

that way I can travel with one hand fast. Every other travel power can be used one handed, teleport should be operated the same way.

Sure, but let me get home to check it. It makes use of bindfiles, so it's something like /bind t "camdist 2.0$$window_hide nav$$bind_load_file c:/coh/teleport1.txt" (Even longer than that, actually)

Also, my bind is very similar to the one in this link, and you can also find some very good teleport binds in the Player Guides forum, even in the thread on Binds that is stickied at the top of the forum. (The basic /bind shift+lbutton "powexec_name Teleport" is the simplest)