Teleport needs to be nerfed because It's advocating and supporting speed hacking behavior

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(edited to remove hyperbole from earlier)

I watched a video earlier today where a streamer ran 100 Baal runs in under 2 hours just abusing the teleport ability endlessly. How is this allowed and how is it fair for any class even with Enigma to abuse it? Was the teleport spell meant to be this insane when movement speed items exist? I think it’s been an oversight from Blizzard North since the game came out and it’s been abused to hell and back since. So much so that 40% of the meta is sorceress builds. Here is my suggestion whether you like it or not:

  • Remove teleport or give it a cooldown so it cannot be spammed.

  • Make all drop rates better after this change to compensate a bit for nerfing the insane speed runs and skipping of your hard-worked-on game.

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That’s a great idea for diablo 4.

Let’s not change d2.

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Let’s be honest, no it doesn’t.

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So you’re advocating cheating and just running through the game without playing it really?

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no go play d3 and leave our d2r alone.

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Using teleport is not cheating…

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I honestly wonder how many would quit if they changed teleport because you can’t cheat anymore. I know some of you play this to sell items for real money too. It’s sad you’ve taken this awesome action rpg game and turned it into what it is now.

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I am honestly starting to think teleport is not your problem with the game, but rather the drop rates…

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Using skills in the game is cheating now?

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You have to be blind or just enjoying the cheat mode to not think the current no cooldown Teleport is broken to hell and back. No pun intended.

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Far from a newb. I’ve played since they first put the game out and I am honestly starting to feel this cheat is ruining the game now. Why play anything but a sorcerer?

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Anyone can use teleport. get a teleport staff from act 3 nightmare and use it on your weapon swap but an older player would already know this

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I remember this happened to Llamasc a while back on his druid hardcore run. He was useing a teleport charges staff to get to durance level 3, teleported a little too fast and got nuked by a room of stygian dolls.

Teleporting into a dark room and finding yourself in the middle of a huge pack is a really good way to die.

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Keep defending your over powered spell. It’s like you guys would kill yourselves if you couldn’t zip to bosses in seconds flats and actually had to play the game.

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I’d take the opposite approach and make enigma cheaper and more accessible to other characters to even things up. it wouldn’t hurt sorc in the slightest, and would maybe help the characters that currently get chosen 5% of the time (as opposed to sorc 40%).

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Instead of making nigma cheaper, add a new runeword. Call it Ghetto nigma or something. would take some mid runes and just add teleport as the only runeword bonus.

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Not a meta slave at all, I play solo, nice try though.
I “actually” enjoy this game as is.

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You don’t need enigma to use teleport.

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I am playing a zon with no enigma. I am doing well enough without it.

Teleport is the fastest way to do runs yes, but its not the only way. My zon has a Harmony bow, it adds Vigor aura. I can run almost infinitely and have a good amount of faster run/walk. I just run past everything to get to the end rooms in my mf runs with her.

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Yeah, that’s even better.