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Teleport: No Stealth Effect
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The teleport travel power is built on two principles:
1 - It gives you short-lived but fast and highly maneuverable travel bursts.
2 - It renders you invisible during travel.
Those combined make the travel power worthwhile. Take either away, and there's no point to it whatsoever.
The second point above is no longer the case. Since the last patch, Teleport no longer grants stealth from critters.
I'll say that again: Teleport's stealth ability is broken.
Now I'm aware that using teleport in the heat of battle to escape was only ever partially viable, as attacks made just before phasing out - even long duration or charged ones - would still land regardless of how phased you were or how far you'd traveled. Indeed, DoT effects also lingered while phased. This is not what I'm complaining about, and - while moderately disappointing - was fine. It's a travel power, after all, not an immortality button.
What I'm complaining about is the fact that I can now be well out of range of any critters, then activate my teleport and fly past a group of them only to instantly aggro the lot of them and begin taking massive damage. Heck, I've been one-shotted out of the sky while teleporting past things, and that just shouldn't happen beyond the odd "coming out of teleport too close to a critter" player error.
Under controlled, repeatable circumstances the Teleport travel power no longer grants stealth, and that instantly ranks the power well below flight for usefulness when before it was just about on par.
1 - It gives you short-lived but fast and highly maneuverable travel bursts.
2 - It renders you invisible during travel.
Those combined make the travel power worthwhile. Take either away, and there's no point to it whatsoever.
The second point above is no longer the case. Since the last patch, Teleport no longer grants stealth from critters.
I'll say that again: Teleport's stealth ability is broken.
Now I'm aware that using teleport in the heat of battle to escape was only ever partially viable, as attacks made just before phasing out - even long duration or charged ones - would still land regardless of how phased you were or how far you'd traveled. Indeed, DoT effects also lingered while phased. This is not what I'm complaining about, and - while moderately disappointing - was fine. It's a travel power, after all, not an immortality button.
What I'm complaining about is the fact that I can now be well out of range of any critters, then activate my teleport and fly past a group of them only to instantly aggro the lot of them and begin taking massive damage. Heck, I've been one-shotted out of the sky while teleporting past things, and that just shouldn't happen beyond the odd "coming out of teleport too close to a critter" player error.
Under controlled, repeatable circumstances the Teleport travel power no longer grants stealth, and that instantly ranks the power well below flight for usefulness when before it was just about on par.
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This sounds like just one more example of the ways the devs savagely beat travel powers with the nerf bat, because they're letting PvP dictate how PvE works. I look forward to seeing this and many other problems fixed.
Not that I don't really, really miss stealth being viable.
Really really.
On a slight divergence as well I have also noticed that coming out of a TP instead of a gentle float down there is an annoying thud with the corresponding level of damage as well, and to be perverse I have also had the gentle float option when landed and jumping its like walking on the moon one giant step for alt kind and persists for quite a few seconds.
It called TELEPORT. If mobs can SEE you, you're not TELEPORTING.