WHMs charging 1-2k for Teleports

[Direwolf]

I will only respond to offers of over 1k a port, if people think I am an ass fine, I do not care have fun in Jeuno.

 

[Palum_Q]

I generally offer 1k. I thought that would be the standard. Althugh choco prices are generally out of control... I always think 1k is fair.

However, I will take into account how desperate we are to get there fast and how much choco prices are at the time. If chocos are 800 a person, paying 2k for four people isn't that bad. However, that being said, choco prices change pretty much on the hour.

Other forms of transportation such as the airship, teleport outposts (which I can never use for Valkrum since Windy will control that area), or the ships from Selbina<->Mhuara, don't really change though so even though crazy AH prices are getting crazier, the prices for those modes of transportation isn't increasing so I don't think that's a good idea to gouge. If someone offers, it that's fine. I saw a japanese person offer 5k for a mea.

In regards to the Raise 3.... prices in general for all classes are going up. Elemental staves are going up 20k for normal and much higher for the HQ. Emperor's hairpin has double in the past month to 570-590k. I hear leaping boots are nuts as well. It's the bad AH system. I do agree with the whms charging for teleports, just not gouging someone.

 

[anesly]

I don't see a problem with charging strangers for teleports (how you deal with your friends is between you and them). If I decide I need to get to some place RIGHT AWAY, I'm making the choice that my time is more valuable than airship/outpost tele/chocobo/walk, and I'm willing to put money on it.

I think its also hilarious that those of you who do the quests and then sell the teleport scrolls at the auction house complain about the prices of those teleports in the end. You sold us the damn scrolls for sometimes a ridiculous amount of money, we have every right to charge you out the ass for the teleport which is the service YOU recieve in return for US having the scroll. (yes i know then just quest it but my point being that some people who may have trouble finding assistance in getting the quest right away at times need to purchase the scrolls for whatever reason, we all do it especially when it comes to pieces of armor you can just quest so please dont bring up that argument)

There is no excuse to not quest at least Dem, Holla, Mea and yes, Altep. You can easily solo these as WHM at 25. All you need is sneak/invis. You could do it even before then if you're willing to spring for oils/prisms. There's no killing of anything involved (and having to raise fame is hardly unique to WHM. Yagudo necklaces, anyone?).

I don't think what a lot of people who dont play whm who complain about the price increase or the idea of the price increase dont understand is that though there may be a median between which jobs are more expensive to lvl etc is that WHM is probably the hardest job to farm with.

No sympathy here. No one put a gun to your head to become WHM. Lots of people level THF to 15 for farming, so suck it up.

 

[Palum_Q]

No sympathy here. No one put a gun to your head to become WHM. Lots of people level THF to 15 for farming, so suck it up.

Yup, I have no sympathy for whms. Ya, sure, I can AoE farm or whatever, but I had to level the damn thief to 15 which was hell since I basically solo-d it to 15 as a TARUTARU. There's also plenty of things to do that are NOT job related. What about mining? What about harvesting? What about chopping down those big things called trees? These are all OPEN to any job, any level. Teleports are just one way to make money. Even chocodigging could net you some money. It's all about how open minded you are to search for money making strategies. Don't whms get those hard warhammer weapons to smash things with? I had to wait until 46 to get a decent damage weapon. Once again, I agree whms have the right to charge for the teleport, but they shouldn't be gouging the public. They shouldn't be relying it on their primary source of income. It's a simple spell that's generally not interrupting your exping even. Usually, its someone shouting in Jeuno or a city and the whm accepts it.

 

[Kiere]

yeah Raise3 is absurd now...I definitely believe that the WHM's static should help in paying for that - since it benefits them most

*makes a note* :twisted: I love ya girlie!! <3 <3

*edit...keep in mind people that most WHM are/have been/will be leveling AT LEAST one other mage job as well. Shouldn't be any argument about it...it's either worth it to you to pay or it's not.

I do tele service when I am waiting on my static...or don't really have much time do other things. I never advertise and although I won't refuse to teleport someone for 500gil I am much more likely to choose that person who /sh <Reward> 1000g. And I NEVER charge friends (uhhh just because I partied with you on ONE occasion does not mean we are friends...lol) or LS mates...no matter how hard they try to pay me.

 

[Halifirien]

No sympathy here. No one put a gun to your head to become WHM. Lots of people level THF to 15 for farming, so suck it up.

I completely agree with this point. Knowing how expensive the job is going to get later, I've taken up fishing now. My skill is 24 and rising, and I plan to keep at it because I want the steady income it will bring when I get it high enough.

 

[Mistaya]

The thing is sometimes the tele-taxi is important.

If you are /telled to replace someone in Quicksand caves are you going to tell the party "hey ok, wait till I airship to bastok and run through korolokka ^_^" or are you gonna /sh need teleport altep.

If the above person doesnt 'suck it up' and pay 2k for an altep he wont get to his party. That's called gouging.

Tele-porting IS a luxury, but its something people have depended on for a very long time. Changing the system now just seems wrong. Especially since, I'll say it again: The Service Has Not Changed.

Admit it to yourselves whm's. This is purely greedy. You are not 'entitled' to more money because your job has a hard time farming. WHM has always had a hard time farming. Go ahead and ignore the 500g callers. Its not like melee have an easy time getting an invite, yet now apparently they have to tell their groups to wait for a while so they can choco out from Jeuno.

Honestly I thought whm's were supposed to be the happy hellpful priests who cared about their community and brought dead people back to life. Not the penny pinching bloodsuckers they turn into. Then again all this game promotes is exactly that so I guess I can't blame you.

I'll be having fun in WoW where death means nothing but a few gill, and healing classes buff you as they run past, just to be nice.

 

[jender]

That happened to me on Sunday. My entire party died in a BCNM and I HP'ed to Jeuno so I could run back to Giddeus and raise them (as my RDM). I didn't want to wait for the airship so I started shouting for a teleport. I was ignored for quite awhile.

When I farm, it does not take me less than a minute to make 500gil. It takes less than a minute to teleport someone....and you don't have to stick your teleport up at the AH and pray for it to sell. And please don't cry about loss of MP (MP is free) - I am a RDM and a BLM. Unless you are in a party, or doing something important like hunting an NM(in either cases, you wouldn't be doing teleports, anyway) loss of MP doesn't really matter.

I do not think that all WHM's are greedy - one of my most Fav. players is a WHM in my static <3 And I do not mind paying something for a teleport, but asking for 2k is ridiculous.

I am repeating myself LOL I am done now.

 

[Halifirien]

Tele-porting IS a luxury, but its something people have depended on for a very long time. Changing the system now just seems wrong. Especially since, I'll say it again: The Service Has Not Changed.

Admit it to yourselves whm's. This is purely greedy. You are not 'entitled' to more money because your job has a hard time farming. WHM has always had a hard time farming.

But the point of the original thread isn't that the service itself remains unchanged; it's the cost of being a WHM that has changed. With the costs of everything else on the rise, why shouldn't the cost of teleports? "Tradition" seems to be the main answer I'm hearing.

The consensus I get here is that an increase to 1k for Mea/Holla/Dem is reasonable. Throw the word "greed" around all you like, but it's not necessarily WHM greed driving the push. Everyone in this economy is getting screwed.

 

[Linan]

Another thing you need to consider is that people that farm or do HELM are raising rates as well. At least from what I have seen, emp. pin has doubled... gold beastcoins went from 90k-120k in jeuno. If farmers and HELMers can raise rates why can the WHMs to tele-taxi them?

 

[Nasya]

i think its lame to charge for casting a spell '-' I have whm at 37 and when free i will respond to shouts, but i never start the trade, and if they do not pay me its no big deal ^^; but that is just how i feel.

 

[Shayla]

Well, the service hasn't changed, but the cost of everything else has. So just like in the real life inflation occurs. How many things in life haven't changed but cost a ton more than it's original start price. Just like when getting some coca cola was just a nickel, now it's more than a buck. Same liquid, nothing has changed, but inflation does that.

 

[Falsey]

OMG ITS SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!

Now that I got that out of the way, Shayla is 100% right. SE makes a new tax, so all the WHM can raise their tax, all the BLM(me ^^) can raise our price for Warp II, and all the DRG can raise their price for .... using their 2 hour?

 

[Shayla]

OMG ITS SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!

Now that I got that out of the way, Shayla is 100% right. SE makes a new tax, so all the WHM can raise their tax, all the BLM(me ^^) can raise our price for Warp II, and all the DRG can raise their price for .... using their 2 hour?

Hey FALSE!!!!!!!!!

I agree with you on the Warp II, it's like Pepsi that way, lol.

<----------------------------------Hard core coca cola fan.

 

[jender]

I agree with you on the Warp II, it's like Pepsi that way, lol.

<----------------------------------Hard core coca cola fan.

:twisted: Coke = the good kinda burn

 

[alanon]

yeah Raise3 is absurd now...I definitely believe that the WHM's static should help in paying for that - since it benefits them most

*makes a note* :twisted: I love ya girlie!! <3 <3

/em casts "Silence" on Jender...... :twisted:

 

[deathsvengeance]

if the prices of Teles goes up that high, I'll just airship and chocobo to where I need to get. Sorry, but I'm not paying more than 500g for a Mea, Dem, or Holla.

 

[Panda]

if the prices of Teles goes up that high, I'll just airship and chocobo to where I need to get. Sorry, but I'm not paying more than 500g for a Mea, Dem, or Holla.

Thats funny, because your airship + chocobo +time is going to cost you even more sometimes.

 

[crookedmidget]

I think the "younger" White Mages will keep the prices at the current levels. I know that I am not the only one to see that poor WHM that can only do Holla teleports doin' all he/she can to scrap together some more gil... Hell, in my early days, I would teleport-Holla for a stack of earth crystals.... I was so brokaru.....

 

[Direwolf]

i think its lame to charge for casting a spell '-' I have whm at 37 and when free i will respond to shouts, but i never start the trade, and if they do not pay me its no big deal ^^; but that is just how i feel.

As a 37 WHM you may feel that way, but as time passes... You will get mighty tired of the begging. I know that is what happened to me.