Map difficulties

I have a quest called "Help Me, Lord of the Dance'. I'm in Ul'dah, at the Coliseum. I know now to click the quest title and select 'map' to get a map of where to go. SO I do, and I get a map of...I think it's the 'Hustings Strip'. At the bottom left of the map, the Alchemist's Guild is marked, the north of that there's a big hall, the Scholar';s Walk, and then a bit further on, there's a big round chamber of some sort. The thing that's making me grind my teeth is that there's no label on this big round chamber, which has an 'aethernet shard' in it. It would be really handy for me to pick that to teleport to for this quest, but I can't because I don't know what it's called. There's nothing in my list of visited aethernet shards to indicate which one it is. And I know I've visited them all because I got a message telling me so.

Hasn't anyone suggested the devs labelling the actual aethernet shards on the map by the names they're listed in on the 'select shard' list when you activate them, rather than sometimes having the nearby places labelled and sometimes not?

It's maddening. Don't they play their own game? This sort of thing happens almost every session. I'm more or less constantly lost in FF :(

I wonder, are there mods for FF like there are in WoW? Maybe I can get some sort of improved Map/UI?

The Aetheryet for this location is called the chamber of rule.

Thanks, but you see my plight, I hope :) Give a man a fish, and all that...

To be fair I think this one and "The Aftcastle" in Limsa are the only real offenders, as well as the gate exits which they could just note which zone they lead to. Back at release they had the marvelous idea of naming them after the in-game street names and it was a mess.

But really, the Aftcastle one is right next to the adventurer's guild, just label it as that SE :rolleyes:

Thinking about it now I think they are intending to add a different teleport menu where it actually brings up the map and you select the node/aetheryte you want from the map but I don't know when this was supposed to be added.

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Originally Posted by Estellios

To be fair I think this one and "The Aftcastle" in Limsa are the only real offenders, as well as the gate exits which they could just note which zone they lead to. Back at release they had the marvelous idea of naming them after the in-game street names and it was a mess.

But really, the Aftcastle one is right next to the adventurer's guild, just label it as that SE :rolleyes:

Thinking about it now I think they are intending to add a different teleport menu where it actually brings up the map and you select the node/aetheryte you want from the map but I don't know when this was supposed to be added.

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That would be really helpful. I hope they do this soon.

It should be noted these are all labelled on the map as I recall. You can read Eorzean right?

(But seriously, no reason they can't put a marker with the english name for those, or change the aetheryte destination name to be more clear)

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Originally Posted by Estellios

To be fair I think this one and "The Aftcastle" in Limsa are the only real offenders, as well as the gate exits which they could just note which zone they lead to.

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Limsa has several that you need to learn. In addition to "The Aftcastle", it's not intuitively obvious that "Coral Tower" is the Marauder's Guild, or even that "Bismark" is the cook's guild (although the later is at least referred to by that name in-game). The gate exits seem the hardest to learn, though (at least for me). I still occasionally mix up the gate destinations, and I've been playing for months.