Guild Wars 2

Waypoint cost is indeed a major consideration to take before jumping around, when you have not made any significant cash from quests and crafting. This is probably a charactaristic of newly dinged level 80 (or close to 80) main chars of players who want to complete some events/hearts/vistas in order to complete maps.

However, the cost can be significantly reduced if you’re planning ahead.
A few methods I use include:
1. to travel to cities, use the mists portal to LA, and then portal to the city you want. it’s absloutly free.
2. use #1 to reduce costs of traveling to othe maps, by traveling to the nearest city, and then either exit the city at the gate to your zone, or portal to your zone. at times, this can reduce costs of portaling by half comparing to directly portaling to your desired zone.
3. if you’re low on money, then you probably can make some use of the geathering nodes (trees, food, ores) on the way by walking towards your designated area. if you don’t need the collectibles for crafting, you can sell them at trading posts. it takes up to 10 minutes to cross a zone if you’re going directly to the zone portal you’re aiming at, and stopping only for gathering.
4. some escort events (even the ones you already done) will take you towards your goal, and the the end of them you’ll get some cash, and while at it, you can loot/gather for some extra cash, and junk sales. This will prolong the journy, but will reduce the costs and will earn you cash.
5. plan your progress through a zone. start at the norther part of it, and “iron” east to west on your way south, clearing all vistas, skill points, hearts, etc. When you’ll get to the south part, you would have made some nice cash, as well as xp progress, and if you cleared the whole map, some more rewards, and have spend 0 copper traveling.

The key concept is planning your route.
Random waypoint traveling can cost a lot.

That’s my 2 cents for traveling cost reduction.
Sorry for the bad English