Portal Scroll Q/A:

[Apokriphos]

Q&A: Ask questions here, and I will respond as quick as possible.


Portals have several rules:

-Each portal has a corresponding portal hub, located in various places around Aetheria. Allies share these hubs as well.

-In order to craft new portal scrolls, you must find a Mysterious Pedestal, hidden and protected in various locations for each faction depending on its arcane craft.

-Wizards, sorcerors, and high level bards and palemasters may be able to scribe portal scrolls while adventuring as well.

*They cannot be used in faction areas.
*The link between planes breaks when you log, and also when you die.
*They are destroyable.
*There is a chance for unusual things to happen during their use. Be wary.

You may think to get around the portal system by simply killing your party when it is time to leave, but should you do so, you will find it not as convenient as before (you have to wait 1 minute, 30 seconds in faction areas)

You can use them anywhere except faction areas, that way you dont portal yourself to and fro from the relic cradle

They self destruct 5 minutes + 2*caster level.

[Tsavong]

Ive played with it on my IO bard and it seems to use 2 scroles to make a portal is that how it should be?

Fixed this issue, thanks

[cRaZy8or5e]

Why?

When DE was first added, it was publicly declared to be only a temporary solution to the problem of answering a players need to be able to quickly move between places at short notice. It doesn't make sense for an adventurer and his party to fight hard not to die while on the adventure, but at the end, have an item to kill you instantly at no penalty to end it. It also made it so that ALL persistent effects in the game became instantly useless. Having a brand new portal system, it allows us to solve all of these issues and allow player transportaion at the same time. It also provides some unusual avenues for events and other things coming around the corner

[Apokriphos]

Portal Techniques #1:

The portal closes when its creator takes the Exit portal back to its origin. A useful technique is to get a party member to make a portal, and use his, while he uses yours. The duration until closing remains, but they will not close automatically.

If you have suggestions for a new name for the Town Portal scrolls, please leave them here.

[Daltian]

While I am not aware of location of other faction portal hubs TC one is located so far from anything that it looses its purpose. I don't think we will often be in situation where going trough the portal will actually take us closer to dragon, boat or and important place like our capitol then if we run there directly. 14 zones from Melencia is a long way. And 10 zones to first dragon isn't short trip too. And I am talking about few quite long zones too. Ao relic room is much closer to Melencia then portal hub, that should say a lot.

The only practical thing about it is that now two ppl from same faction can meet easy. They both open portal and one of them passes trough both portals. Maybe only addition of a permanent portal to a capitol of the faction in the hub would be a good idea!

Maybe only addition of a permanent portal to a capitol of the faction in the hub would be a good idea! - I like this idea

[Daltian]

I logged in with my AO wizard. RK faction is hostile to me and since there were NPC's from both factions near hub i got attacked by RK. AO guards defended me and all hell broke loose. I enjoyed it but still decided to post it here since it might have consequences that I am not aware of.

No consequences - This is purposeful, glad you enjoyed it

[Chernobyl_Glow]

Anubis,

While this change definitely has potential it is currently restrictive in one particular way.

Many of us have our bind points in Avendell and Frost so that we can quickly jump on the boat or dragon. This helps us catch up to a party etc. Right now the only option is back to our faction city which might be a long run from where we need to go.

Perhaps a nice enhancement might be to offer the option for a capable caster to create scrolls bound for a certain place i.e Frost or Aven. This way I could choose which to use based on where I wish to go. This would be a real nice feature.

Thanks for your effort.

- Glow -

We will be considering ease of use adjustments as the system is phased in - thanks for the suggestion

[Bloodstone]

I just used these portal scrolls, and it used two scrolls instead of one. Perhaps you might wanna look into it again

This wont be fixed until reset - which is in 15 minutes

[Apokriphos]

Portal Techniques #2:

You can link portals together. Perhaps make one from Frostdale to your Hub, and have your friend make one from where the monsters are to the Hub. This is a 2-portal link. If you're quick & skilled, you can make use of this with large chains of many linked together.

[cRaZy8or5e]

Oh so its okay if we do this. Cuz this wreaks of someone getting hammered for using it as an exploit.

Yep, this is okay.

[Tsavong]

im not sure im a fan of the expance of this new system where as DE was free dose the thing i click on to craft scroles have to take gold from me just for clicking on it?

[Lorkar]

What about fighters? And other with no access to UMD? Are they to be left out in the proverbial cold?

How about instead of tricking out the bike(NS4) with all these bells and whistles, you try fixing the flat tires(jobs) so we can all ride to PWNageville.

[Tsavong]

i dont think you need umd to use them ive used them on non umd builds a claric of mine used some

[Malik]

i dont think you need umd to use them ive used them on non umd builds a claric of mine used some

This is correct, though some may be better than others at using them.

[-BannyD-]

Portal Techniques #2:

You can link portals together. Perhaps make one from Frostdale to your Hub, and have your friend make one from where the monsters are to the Hub. This is a 2-portal link. If you're quick & skilled, you can make use of this with large chains of many linked together.

whoa...this is cool! are these portals 2-way? you can go back to town..then use the portal and go back to the battle? like diablo 2 town portals? (sorry if its already stated somewhere...i didnt read everything)

Pretty much!