Teleporting?

[BoaConstrictor]

How do you guys teleport? I can never teleport baal or mephisto or andy because I get swarmed and destroyed before I can. I know to keep the mouse button pressed down, but still?

[hoi]

Taking that you don't have Maphack as granded you will need the following:

-30fhr (faster hit recovery): Necessary so you won't get hitlock by mass hits. Most important thing actually. Thats what probably gets you killed.
-50+ fcr (faster cast rate): This will speed up your teleports- at 100+ fcr monsters won't even notice you if you keep the button pressed
-block can work against you without FHR and Faster Block since it puts you into the blocking animation.
-You also need a big mana pool (unless you have many +skills that drop the mana cost of teleport to nothing) and a good life pool can help too (that's why most sorcies request BO before teleporting in Baalruns)
-Frozen armor also helps. Freezes the attacker so they won't get a second hit at you. At hell higher lvls are needed to keep the frozen for longer.

The biggest help you can get however is a good merc. Most of the time, since the merc moves right to the monsters they will hit him..

Other than that everyone got their little tricks but usually they are just personal ways of doing the same thing.

[AnimeCraze]

You need enough mana to keep teleing, fast enough cast rate, not absolutely terrible resists, and enough life to last a few hits.

This generally means:
Magefist
Spirit sword (get wiz or occy if you can afford it)
Spirit shield or a block shield (probably SS, if you can afford it)
Stealth armor (get vipermagi if you can afford it)
FCR rings/ammy to bring your cast rate to 63%, which is bare minimum for meph.

You might also want to get insight for your merc if you are playing ladder.

Now simply hold down the tele button.

Edit: The next breakpoint, from general consensus, is 105% for FCR.

[Evrae Altana]

For teleing to Meph, I hold down the mouse and hug the walls so that whatever monsters I come across can only approach me from one direction.