What is teleport >= 5 supposed to do?

[yufra]

I started experimenting with the archmage class and took teleport all the way to level 5. The talent description says that level 4 gives you a target area and level 5 lets you select the exact location. I looked at conveyance.lua and it looks like the level 5 case is still under development. I can submit a patch to implement the behavior described in the talent description, but wanted to make sure that is what DG intended before doing so.

[Gwai]

That completely explains why teleport 5 never seems to work like it should!

[darkgod]

Hum ? looks complete to me, what do you speak of ?

[yufra]

Oh wow... just spent some time in the code and I believe there is a communication problem, not a code one. I and from the sound of it Gwai and possibly others thought "specify the exact target" meant "specify the exact target location"; I thought I could specify the exact location to teleport to. You appear to mean specify the target that will be teleported, which is also a very cool effect. The first targeting cross-hairs is to select the target, and the second is to determine the approximate region the target (if any was selected, or defaults to the player) will appear. I just poofed a poor rat into a lake in Trollshaws to test it.

Can I suggest changing the description to read "At level 5 it allows one to specify who will be teleported." The same clarification should be applied to Phase Door which upon inspection operates the same way. Again, really neat feature!

[Gwai]

Yufra is right, that is exactly what I thought. With phase door, the margin of error is small enough that I'm never bothered if it doesn't take me exactly to where I'm going, but I definitely thought teleport5 was broken because it took me to a noticeably different spot than where I'd asked.

[edge2054]

While we're on this subject, do the 2nd and 3rd ranks of these spells do anything? It seems like the range doesn't increase and that the 2nd and 3rd talent points are just fillers.

[yufra]

While we're on this subject, do the 2nd and 3rd ranks of these spells do anything? It seems like the range doesn't increase and that the 2nd and 3rd talent points are just fillers.

My reading of the current code definitely supports that observation. The radius of teleportation does decrease dependant on the talent level, so mastery can influence that. I think it would be nice to see the range increase in the 2nd and 3rd ranks, or maybe the cooldown decrease?