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    So .. I waited on the boat and took the shuttle over to the Abysmal Sea and the boat there.

    LOVE the boat!! Great location for tradeskillers. I'm make my home here, but for one thing ...

    Is there a faster way to move between the boat and the "mainland"?
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  • #2
    hire a druid or a wizzie
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    • #3
      Or give it a week or two before the boats break (because we all know SoE cannot implement a working boat to save their life) and they need to place gnome translocators on each side.

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      • #4
        Re: Getting off the Boat

        Originally posted by Ariaya
        Is there a faster way to move between the boat and the "mainland"?
        In the beta, it was safe to go swimming in the Abysmal Sea (of course, my beta toon was 65th level). So, just jump off the boat and swim between the two hulls to your left until you reach the dock at the rear of the middle hull.

        Or get someone to levitate you before you board the boat.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Valorale
          Or give it a week or two before the boats break (because we all know SoE cannot implement a working boat to save their life) and they need to place gnome translocators on each side.
          Tee hee .. well .. true ....

          I ended up hitching a ride with a druid.

          Can we zone in the water without being in a boat? I don't mind leving or swimming across ... got to be faster than waiting on the shuttle ...
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          • #6
            ... double post
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            • #7
              Originally posted by Ariaya
              Can we zone in the water without being in a boat? I don't mind leving or swimming across ... got to be faster than waiting on the shuttle ...
              I don't think so.

              The only zone I know of that you can zone while swimming is Oasis to North Ro and only because you're swimming along the beach...


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              • #8
                Originally posted by Chenier
                The only zone I know of that you can zone while swimming is Oasis to North Ro and only because you're swimming along the beach...
                I believe you can also zone between one pair of the Karanas that way (I think North-South) but its been a while, and it may only work under the bridge.

                You cannot zone between East Freeport - Ocean of Tears - Butcherblock mountains (in either direction) without being on a boat. Oasis - Iceclad does not work either.

                I haven't personally tested it, but from what I've heard you can't zone to/from Timorous Deep either unless you're on a boat (porting nonwithstanding, naturally).

                I do wonder if the Abysmal Sea is treated like an "ocean" in that respect.

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                • #9
                  Is there a faster way to move between the boat and the "mainland"?
                  The boat takes between 18 and 20 minutes now, to come full circle, which isn't too terrible, however...

                  I've been trying to give that crazy gnomish boat captain some pointers on navigation... With any luck, he'll take my advice, and shave a couple minutes off of his travel time in the near future

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                  • #10
                    Hey Maddoc is that the same captain on the invisible boat that takes people to Qinimi!? :P

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                    • #11
                      Off the top of my head I can think of The Hole, Kedge, FV/LOIO(well its a stream), of course Sol A/Sol B (doesn't everyone swim in the lava?). But any zoneline that has a boat that crosses it, you can only zone while on the boat.

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                      • #12
                        I was checking the crab traps in Abysmal and swam into Nedaria's Landing.

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                        • #13
                          This boat thing is ubber stupid, I can't believe they didn't keep the transloc system from beta.
                          I really don't see the point in using the boat, except screw melees without levitate or spent time waiting for boat...
                          Why use beta to test stuff when you finally do something else for the release ?
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                          • #14
                            Because Beta is just that a TEST of the game play (Read kill stuff/Tradeskill/AA/Tribue systems) not of all subtle portions of the game (Content some call it). Most of the time Developers will Put easy ways to get to the new game play in the Beta just to allow play testers to get to testing it, then in public release add in the content that they intended. Content can also be quests and the like.

                            I have not been to the Boat so cannot comment too much on it but heck if you can tradeskill while just waiting on the boat I think it will be ok. Better than Spaming to attempt to learn a language.
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Maddoc-the-Wayfarer
                              The boat takes between 18 and 20 minutes now, to come full circle, which isn't too terrible, however...

                              I've been trying to give that crazy gnomish boat captain some pointers on navigation... With any luck, he'll take my advice, and shave a couple minutes off of his travel time in the near future

                              -- Maddoc
                              I hope the captain takes your advise Maddoc! I'm not good at sitting in one spot (I'm the one running in circles during a med break )

                              I'll admit that it does bring back memories of catching the boat to BB, but I've gotten used to the quick travel with PoP
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