Yeah the GK prices are stupid now. I wonder if this is just a temp thing or not. if not, then it's gonna suck a lot especially when you do your 2nd CC quests.
Its a real pain eh? Just teleport closer to the next "zone" instead ot the town you want to get to. From there you can run a bit to the next zone and use an SOE, save truck loads of adena that way. This week only you can make use of the event gatekeeper for cheap teleports too.
If you really want to save as much as possible use /unstuck instead of an SOE ... it takes 5 mins but it will prob take more then 5 minutes to run to the other end of the "zone" anyway ...
If you're replying to someone else, maybe they can use the advice.
Me personaly, I know about all these things and I don't care.
I don't want to run for 5 minutes. They should have left the GK fees as they were, those were not a problem.
By the way, when I'm running my 2nd CC quests, the very last thing I want is to run any longer than I need. But they Fixed that I guess everyone had billions of Adena so we all can afford paying tripple or higher porting costs.
New players get like 30 "tokens" or something to port from newbie to newbie village from what I hear. Also, when I was a noob, I walked to Gludin from Elven Village more than once - I'm sure others did too.
Also as Caracarn said, port wisely. There were porting tricks in C4 to make it cheaper. There are some in C5 too, you just gotta find them ;)
I also thing that the new GK fees are out of control. Not to mention they changed the destinations from the GK too. You have to go out of you way to get to Hunters Village now just cuz it is in Oren's region. Oh well, I guess we all feel like we did in Beta when no one could afford crap and teleport anywhere. I remember when I waited and the Docks just to ride the Boat from Talking Island... like that happens anymore, or at least before C5. Back to basic must be what NC Soft was going for. I feel like it anyway. Peace and good luck on counting your adena. We will all need it now. Don't know how anyone will afford to buy all the super expensive overenchanted weapons and armor now. :(
I can understand people being irritated about increased port costs, so just say it, bringing newbies into it for added sympathy isn't necessary. Noobs don't really need to save adena for ports home, they have quests that give them port tokens. The players on Franz just need to do the quests and they can round trip newbie town <-> Gludin several times at no cost. This does make it harder for guildies to move around and help their clanmates tho :p
You've got to wonder if someone sat down and made a conscious decision "Hey, let's find a way to extend the only part of the game more boring and mind-numbing than the grind from hell."
If you want an Adena sink, there are better ways to do it than this.
Not to mention they changed the destinations from the GK too.
Lol yes, first time I logged into C5 I spent 10 mins trying to work out how to get from one place to another. It's even worse when the seiges are on :eek: And you pay a fortune for the privilage. Pity the event gatekeepers aren't there all the time.
You've got to wonder if someone sat down and made a conscious decision "Hey, let's find a way to extend the only part of the game more boring and mind-numbing than the grind from hell."
"Boring"? :eek:
I like to run around the landscape, you know ... Never used the gatekeepers much (except to the MDK, now the MRK, and to escape the dwarf lands ... now I could just walk out of there :)), and I advise everyone else to just forget them, most of the time.
Oh, and to the humans out there: learn swimming. :D
you know what freaks me out?
they removed the rune temple port that let you port to the centre of town
why would they remove that except as a time sink?
But they Fixed that I guess everyone had billions of Adena so we all can afford paying tripple or higher porting costs
I am not a billionaire, i cant even afforb a Sov though i am 55 lvl..
Boring"?
I like to run around the landscape, you know ... Never used the gatekeepers much (except to the MDK, now the MRK, and to escape the dwarf lands ... now I could just walk out of there ), and I advise everyone else to just forget them, most of the time.
Ehm have you ever played with a nuker?I cant even see her running.. I always think she is walking..Assuming that you dont have a ww2 buff(which makes gameplay a little bit better for the nuker) running from a town to another can be REALLY time consuming..
Ehm have you ever played with a nuker?I cant even see her running.. I always think she is walking..Assuming that you dont have a ww2 buff(which makes gameplay a little bit better for the nuker) running from a town to another can be REALLY time consuming..
I don't have any mystic class, just fighters, with my main being a Dwarf. Running around with a Dwarf, even without buffs, is not a problem, but I didn't have the impression there was any mystic slower than me. Well, maybe some of the Orcs ...
Bonus points for the Dwarfie for being able to survive an encounter with a mob 20+ levels over me. :)
A lot of the ports went down in cost (I have the spreadsheet charting it on my site) but the noob ones mostly went UP. Plus a lot of handy class change ports were removed, it's pretty yucky.