After climbing the Stepstones for the first time and talking to Iris, you should be able to fast-travel from the bottom to the top of the Stepstones. There would be two teleporters: one at the top of the stepstones, just outside of Cirrus Island, and one just behind Ren where you would start climbing up. You should also be notified about the fast-travel option when it appears. As for how it looks, it could just be a little aura like the Skyship spawn.
Reason to add/change
Climbing the Stepstones should be a one-time thing. Itâs cool the first time, but after that itâs really just painful. Yes, you can just jump down and talk to Ren and then reset to go back to Cirrus, but why should you have to? Plus, not every player is gonna notice that, and theyâre probably going to waste quite a bit of time climbing back up over and over again.
Perhaps a side quest similar to the âfix the Kraken teleporterâ quest in wizard101, where doing an out-of-the-way side quest unlocks the fast travel/ alternate transportation?
Iâd love for there to be a side quest dedicated to building a âsky elevatorâ that, while it doesnât teleport you, does take you up a whole lot faster.
should have been added in the beginning, wtf vetex
idea:
After climbing to the top of the stepstones, there should be this little wooden carriage that goes on a zipline thatâll take to the bottom, but you have to pay. It can also take you to the top. Should be like 150 galleons.
something like a sea cannon between the stepstones and white summit could be cool, itâd reward exploration while not making it so new players still experience the climb
As for ideas for how this can be added, I think once you get up the sky island, before you talk to iris you talk to someone that mentions the existence of a sky elevator, something along the lines of âWow, you really climbed up here? You should have waited, looks like you missed the elevatorâ screen fades to black and now you uyse it to go up after returning to Ren.
Yeah, thatâs a thing you can do but new players likely donât know this. Theyâd think youâll have to go all the way back up manually.
Going up the stepstones normally after you complete the story is annoying as well.
Sky elevator sounds cool. At the very least the game should tell you explicitly that your spawn is set to Cirrus so people who donât pay attention to the screen donât waste 20 minutes doing the Ren quest line (no judgement from me, I completely forgot where I entered Fort Talos)
You could also have Ren secretly climb up the mountain while you are talking to Iris, so you donât even have to go down in the first place. Doesnât help with falling off or wanting to go back to Cirrus Island at any other time though. I feel like Vetex put absolutely no thought into this part of the game, like surely there must have been some red flags with going up and down a mountain so many times?
Idk. Iâm bad with corner notifications, I always miss them. When I took the Ravenna cargo quest, I thought the game was bugged because I missed the notif that said âyou get no money for thisâ