Guild Wars 2

I’ve been thinking about what to do with my shiny new shared inventory slot and it occurred me that since I’m too cheap to use waypoints most of the time a good choice would be one of the re-useable items that teleports you to a convenient location in the game.

There are a few different items like this in the game but I only want one of them, so I want to make sure I’m considering all the options when I make my choice. Therefore can you please let me know if I’ve missed and/or misinterpreted any?

The ones I know of are:

• Royal Terrace & Airship Pass (I’ve grouped these together because as far as I know the only difference is the location they send you to) – Basically a mini town, with portals to all the main cities. Cannot teleport back to where you came from.
• Home Portal Stone – Takes you to your racial home instance. You can either exit the instance to the city (and then can’t teleport back to your starting point) or teleport back.
• Lion’s Arch Portal Scroll – Teleports you to Lion’s Arch. Cannot teleport back to your starting point.
• Racial City Portal Scroll (one for each city) – Teleports you to that city, cannot teleport you back.

Any more I’m forgetting?

*Yes I know that many of these options cost vastly more than waypoints and it would take me several thousand uses before they become economical. But a one-off payment bothers me less than lots of little ones. No it’s not logical, but neither am I.

There are the Teleport to a Friend items. I’m not sure if you’d count those in the same category or not, though.

I don’t think you’ve missed any, but I will say you should keep in mind that you can use wvw for crafting from any location, and get back to said location with no cost attached. this puts the free method way above the costly terrace pass and airship passes if you ask me.

nottsgman.8206:

I don’t think you’ve missed any, but I will say you should keep in mind that you can use wvw for crafting from any location, and get back to said location with no cost attached.

Yup. That’s what I do.

I love having Tele to Friend in one of my slots. Then it doesn’t matter which alt I’m on, if someone’s somewhere hard to reach I can ask them to hold still and hop up to them without asking them to be a mesmer going out of their way to help. I cannot for the life of me do the Southsun geysers JP and I wanted the tiger den at the end, so that saved my bacon.

I like DR more than the Airship as you have to deal with camera issues in the airship and in DR you are part of city Map chat and can wp out into the city for free, plus it’s laid out better. But unless they changed this, the Airship has an Activities NPC and DR does not. I pretty much don’t use either, however, just keep one alt parked in DR as I’m not using her for anything else and on rare occasions log onto her.

I created one of the town portal scrolls and (with a portable mystic forge conduit), I find those more convenient (and comparable cost-effective) as Royal Terrace and Airship. For me, LA isn’t worth the extra expense. I made the scroll just before the Shared I-Slots came out — I don’t think you need two, even if they are to different cities. (Although: I did mostly use Terrace during SAB and city scroll during Lunar holiday.)

For what it’s worth, I think the more useful item in a single slot is the salvage-o-matic: every character is going to salvage every day, multiple times for some. But most characters can avail themselves of WvW in lieu of porting to a city.

For five slots, I like infinite tools, copper-fed, and the city scroll. For six, I’d add a tonic or other toy.

I do like the Teleport to Friends, especially for doing guild missions, but I’m not counting them because I’m specifically looking for something permanent and something which takes me to a fixed location.