I like the Shadow Shard, but...

I like the Shadow Shard and particularly the Storm Palace (45+), but it REALLY REALLY sucks that port, shield charge, lightning rod and who knows what else will not work at the Storm Palace.

Does anyone know why this is? Will it ever be changed?

I believe Teleport is suppressed in the Storm Palace to prevent people from being able to teleport in and out of it. That mechanic was put in place long before Shield Charge and Lightning Rod were added to the game. It really stinks if you rely upon teleport as your only travel power . . . and don't have invisibility.

The Devs either forgot the suppression or didn't think it had enough of an effect to mess with.

It is really too bad . . . the Shadow Shard as a whole is a great looking zone, but the zone in general and the TFs in particular could use a significant Revamp.

There is no teleportation suppression in either the Chantry or the Storm Palace, and there has never been such to the best of my knowledge. What there is is the "red reticle bug" which prevents you from targeting via reticle. This affects more than just teleportation powers. It affects all summons, all location-based AoEs and so forth, things like Voltaic Sentinel, Rain of Arrows, Ignite, etc.

I don't know what causes this, but my guess would be that the game perceives that you are somehow inside a solid object, and so will always snap the reticle to your body and turn it red, because it can't actually track what surface your mouse cursor is against. This really needs to be fixed, as while you don't really need to go to the Chantry or the Storm Palace, that structure is part of Black Swan's Shadow Dimension, which shows up at least three times.

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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.

I believe you can still target the ceiling sometimes.

The what Shard?

Oh. Right. That zone I never go to outside of instances because it's so badly in need of a massive overhaul...>_>

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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.

I'm going to petition it, again, for whatever small worth that will be.

Working as intended, according to a senior GM response.

Annoying, WAI in this instance is highly annoying because I can see no gain in any way/shape/manner/form whatsoever from it by anything or anyone.

Its really fun as a gravity controller... it reminded of playing pre-wormhole. I did make heavy use of Dim Shift though. offensive stealthing I like to call it.