Thoughts on Teleport

Everyone's favorite 'third rail' D2 topic! I'm not going to discuss my thoughts on Enigma but instead on the skill

Teleport. I have been playing a summon Druid this season, a build I find very satisfying. Except for one problem. No this isn't the lack of speed due to no

Teleport (maybe I will achieve Enigma soon who knows). Rather, I find the running around a bit more mellow and/or relaxing, albeit 'inefficient' for farming. The frustration instead lies squarely within the subject of 'telestomping'. See when you have a weak class that relies heavily on your mercenary and/or summons, you are relying on D2's ancient NPC targeting mechanics. I don't even care that I can't just zoom around maps stupid fast, what bothers me is getting to a huge pack and not being able to target the superunique. Instead I feel a lack of control and have to passively wait until 'something happens'. My thought then to bridge this gap is enable a more RTS-like solution and let me actively control my summons to target enemy monsters. I realize this has a %0.000001 chance and likely hell will freeze before this were to change. But just wanted to vent about the incredible power that 'telestomping' provide to so many builds in this game and trying to figure potential solutions. shrugs

Imo no class should have

Teleport, or everybody should have one ability to move faster.

Sorcerer has cheeky

Teleport.
Assassin has switfly legs and tiny little toes.
Warlock has surprise attack back stab to the neck.
Paladin has a

Charge ahoy! to the tavern.
And I forgot where I was going with this...

My point is, everybody should have a decent movement ability always to make it more fair. Ofc classes should have differences and obviously something like sorcerer youre supposed to have

Teleport with it. What kind of a sorcerer wouldnt know

Teleport. Im getting derailed again... Send help.

But when it comes to controlling summons... Oh you need

Teleport 100%. Summons wandering off too far then gets unsummed so youre constantly resummoning things. At least on necromancer that was a thing now and I dont want to play it anymore because of it.

agree w. ghostpos
i generally dont like

Teleport, dont play sorc

i had a gg Enigma

Nova necro, cleared all mobs with 1

Nova, 75 fcr.... didnt like it. 1st SC char i deleted...

barb-

Leap Attack
warlick-

Blade Warp
summon trang necro-tele charges on amulet (positioning only)...

much more fun and engaging. (imo)

also; Hysteria !

ghostpos wrote: 10 hours ago

Everyone's favorite 'third rail' D2 topic! I'm not going to discuss my thoughts on Enigma but instead on the skill

Teleport. I have been playing a summon Druid this season, a build I find very satisfying. Except for one problem. No this isn't the lack of speed due to no

Teleport (maybe I will achieve Enigma soon who knows). Rather, I find the running around a bit more mellow and/or relaxing, albeit 'inefficient' for farming. The frustration instead lies squarely within the subject of 'telestomping'. See when you have a weak class that relies heavily on your mercenary and/or summons, you are relying on D2's ancient NPC targeting mechanics. I don't even care that I can't just zoom around maps stupid fast, what bothers me is getting to a huge pack and not being able to target the superunique. Instead I feel a lack of control and have to passively wait until 'something happens'. My thought then to bridge this gap is enable a more RTS-like solution and let me actively control my summons to target enemy monsters. I realize this has a %0.000001 chance and likely hell will freeze before this were to change. But just wanted to vent about the incredible power that 'telestomping' provide to so many builds in this game and trying to figure potential solutions. shrugs

I thought I was alone about thinking exactly like you. I don't feel so lonely anymore

Haha @Nicconille .

Teleport sucks and ruins the game.

Also playing the game without having access to

Teleport is miserable once you've played with it.

It is Pandoras box

For me, using

Teleport depends on the build. A lot of people running Ubers use an Enigma in areas such as the

Matron's Den to save time. Even though my Paladin's cast rate is horrid, I tried an Enigma, and while it did make it faster, it also eliminated one of the more interesting game plays in diablo, and I've had some interesting drops in the Den including a

Jah, so I stopped using it for Uber organ collection. My Warlock inherited the Enigma and in my view that made it an even more interesting build than it already was, and with the decent cast rate of 135 he'd turned out to be an even better Tkey and Hkey farmer than my sorc. In my view it depends on the build, and is it fun to play?