Teleport price limit?

[Iscah]

Chocobo porters helped me out a ton when starting. I remember doing leves in quarrymill and catching that taxi back to Gridania before walking back to Quarrymill for the leve. Done that a few times....god it was awful lol but it gets the job done when needed.

Is this a bad time to find out there's also a taxi from Gridania? Near the aetheryte plaza, against the side wall of the inn.

The porter in Ul'dah is near the northern gate, and Limsa's is near the eastern exit from the Lower Decks.

[Hakuro89]

I haven't thought about teleport costs for years, even when I was low on gil, I never got low enough for it to become mildly restrictive. So much content right now throws gil at you that it becomes more wasteful trying to avoid teleporting. Still, some guys I know still somehow manage to regularly run around with an average of about 10k to their name after playing for 5 years. I don't know where all their gil goes.

[TheMightyMollusk]

Setting favored locations in places you visit frequently will help a lot. I still have Horizon marked.

For the big fees, I have Kugane set as my home location. Between that and my house in the Goblet, I can port between the sides of the planet on the cheap.

...And then half the time I forget about it and just pay the full price anyway, because this game has few real gil sinks and it's hard to not end up fairly rich.

[Maleficent]

Anecdotally, gil doesn't become a problem for teleport and repair expenses Edit: at later levels due to roulettes giving quite a bit of gil.

Aetheryte Tickets can help save gil. Any content that gives allied seals for you to buy them from your GC vendor.

In addition to hunts, Blue Mage's Masked Carnival gives a lot of allied seals.

The stages' one-time completion reward gives at least the equivalent of an "S" hunt in ARR (100 allied seals) on top of a gil reward. A few reward 2x. There are 25 stages altogether. The weekly challenges reward 100 + 150 + 300 allied seals. Each ticket costs 5 allied seals.

The caveat is you have to be okay with BLU content. If you are, it's a nice side benefit to save gil / get other allied seal stuff.

[Hasrat]

If I'm in a city and need to get back to Thanalan or nearby, I'll still take the local airship to Gold Saucer (free), and from there take the airship to Ul'dah (also free). Get to knock out a GATE if it's up, mini cactpot if it's my first travel of the day, retainer bells are pretty quickly accessible.

Personally don't mind spending a bit of extra time traveling. Set a heading and auto pilot, gives me a few moments to tab out and check anything else in the mean time.

I'd say for me, it's not necessarily the cost I worry about, just the number of zones it'll take to get where I'm going.

[ChaseNetwork]

If the price for a teleport is over 300g, I find another way to get there. Ground travel to nearest city, airship, more ground travel. (I only have 194K g ) Anyone else do this, or do you eventually become rich enough to ignore the cost?

I find that I'm always continuing to gain Gil despite freely teleporting at will. You make plenty of Gil doing pretty much anything.

I only see your issue being a thing if you pretty much just chiil around for the social aspect, and that's it.

[Blindheart]

Ya know back in my day, unless you were a Druid or a wizard, you had to run everywhere!

Old habits die hard. The only teleports I really use are return, which ive had set to Mor Dhona since I first arrived there back in2x, and now I use my house teleport to get to kugane. I run just about everywhere else from these 2 spots. Or well fly now.

[ElazulHP]

I wouldn't worry too much. Even with your 194K gil you could teleport almost 200 times at max price. You shouldn't need to be teleporting this much and the MSQ will throw money at you left and right. Just don't go crazy with buying stuff off the MB and you'll be fine. Eventually, you'll get to the point where you forget teleporting even costs money. I could teleport a couple hundred thousand times before needing to worry.

[Endeleon]

The latter. 99 times out of 100, it's not worth the extra cost in time to save on the cost of gil. But if you're a new player struggling to rub 2 gil together, then absolutely find those cheap routes where you can (chocobo porter is another good option).

It might not be worth the time/gil ratio but it is more enjoyable to me because I actually enjoy the open world unlike I guess most people who just stand in Uldah all day.

[Losara]

Setting favored locations really helps to lower the costs of teleport's as some have mentioned. Also make sure to link the FF14 Companion App to your account for another favored teleport location.

I personally made Limsa Lominsa and some of the other main cities favored locations as they are frequently teleport-ed to in the early game.

https://ffxiv.gamerescape.com/wiki/Teleport