Quote Originally Posted by vp_cmc View Post
And of course on top of than just don't use them.
For those of us that find constant teleportation immersion-negative, that's not a satisfactory solution. In a sense it's a narrative thing: heroic, fantastic quests nearly always involve a journey, but we tend to skip most of the journey part of the heroic quest in this game. Someone else explained it far better earlier in the thread than I had been able to:

Quote Originally Posted by Niwashi View Post
It's the difference between walking to a destination to reach it and taking a walk for the sake of taking a walk. You see the scenery in either case, but in one you have a sense of purpose while doing so.