Any talk about them doing away with Aether Currents for flight

Dear Square. Please ignore the op's request. He can ground mount anywhere he wants to in this game if he is not willing to play the game as intended. Thank you.

If they do away with Aether currents then you more then likely have to wait until max level to fly. They are not just going to hand you flying right out the door.

I don't mind them, but I hate ones that are like up on a ledge, where you don't know how to get up there and you don't realize until later that you'll get access to that part eventually.

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Originally Posted by Reinha

This. It's a reasonable requirement for unlocking flying. It takes only a few hours per zone and the devs get to design how we see the landscape for the first time, what mobs we encounter and how long it takes to travel to objectives.

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"Grinds Fisher to max level with Ocean Fishing. Proceeds to swap to max level Fisher, turn stealth on, ignore all mobs, toggle auto-run on, and then tab out of the game until arriving at Aether Current"

I like the currents.
They make people go see how nice the scenery is before they fly over it forever forgetting it exists.

I don’t mind them because it’s content I will do anyway. I do all the sidequests.

Should it be a requirement? Probably not. But there should be a reward for doing the quests and ‘completing’ the zone beyond the standard xp and white gear.

If I remember WoW used to give achievements for this.

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Originally Posted by Stormfur

I don't mind them, but I hate ones that are like up on a ledge, where you don't know how to get up there and you don't realize until later that you'll get access to that part eventually.

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Yes! Mord Souq!

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Originally Posted by HisShadowX

I was very happy to see when they added flight to the MC they didn’t require you to do pointless aether currents hunting. I think it’s just a pointless process meant to extend your time doing pointless things. The only people I can defending them are a minority of hardcore players aka the former Everquest m, FFXI fans you know people who like DKP and requiring a party of people to fight bats and rats.

I am not a masochist.

Please do away with them or at least remove it from the next expansion but leave it maybe as an old outdated mechanic that people thank god is no longer in use (Hopefully)

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No. Keep them in previous and future expansions. It encourages EXPLORATION.

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Originally Posted by Malia_Chan

No. Keep them in previous and future expansions. It encourages EXPLORATION.

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Some people in this thread though are like

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And I just don't get it. My brain refuses to comprehend this. This is one of the easiest activities to do in the game. lol

But like, the zones are so empty and uninteresting, what is there to explore.

In smaller but busier zones like ARR's, why not sure, but aether currents are just so boring to do only because there is nothing to see.