Why Do We Have to Pay to Teleport Via Aetheryte?

[Enkidoh]

People who try to defend the high priced teleports make me laugh.

To the person who said it helps the market board, not anymore it don't not since wanderer's come and things get lower my stuff takes longer to sell then I am basically undercutting the cutters to make ends meet and on top of that spending tons of gil telelporting yeah I could use tickets cut prices in halve yeah I could use flame guild to use the price cut thing but its still 500 gil a pop then by the time my items sell I am in the hole more than I sold.

especially for people who are late to the crafting scene also noticed armor seems to get damaged even more than usual so I am also paying that.

of course someone will come in and try to reason or soften the comment oh but this and that don't wanna hear it I am sure you have tons of gil doesn't matter what you spend right, me I spam dungeons to stay a float luckly but quickly burns me out luckly I don't own a house so I can quit any time I want.

Simple, do your daily Hunts for ARR, HW and SB (and the weekly rank B Hunts for each for good measure). Then buy a huge stack of Aetheryte Tokens from the Hunt vendors with the seals you accumulate. You'll never have to pay for teleportation again (I haven't in years, I just make sure to do Hunts regularly to keep enough seals stacked up to buy the tokens).

I've always just looked at it like tollways!

Because that's exactly what they are - you're not paying for the actual teleporting lore wise, you're paying off the loan the citystates took out to rebuild and maintain the aetheryte that acts as a beacon for teleporting to (without that, you would get lost in the aetherial sea with no way out). Of course the credibility of this lore is stretched a little in places like Zenith that supposedly have not had a mortal use them for centuries and have no guards or attendents at all (and even then, why didn't those aetherytes explode in the Calamity too?), but... suspension of disbelief is needed here.