[Challenge] Has anyone tried not using teleport?!

Hi frens :o
Has anyone tried going 1 day or week with no teleporting?
I want to see how FFXIV feels without teleport.
Make a little challenge out of it. :o

It's more so a giant waste of time than a challenge. I once tried to go from the sea of clouds to... somewhere else in heavensward while waiting on a timed gathering node and didn't even make it to my destination before it popped.

I did so back when I was leveling b/c I considered the Aetherytes too expensive.

It can be done (I am basically used to it from WoW) but as Mesa already stated: The only thing you accomplish is waste tons of time, not just riding but also having multiple loadingscreens between you and your destination instead of only one.

Doing this would be more fun if the World was like WoWs, where you can traverse an entire continent w/o bumping into loading screens.

Back when I first started my character (even now when I make alts), I basically use the airship to travel to major cities from ARR to Heavensward. I solely focused on msq and tried to save as much gil as I could. I used the chocobo keep services too to travel between areas. I could take a break during that time.

Even now I still take airship to Golden Saucer because it's free. If I'm not in a hurry, I would go to GS then take the ship to Ul'dah for the same reason.

Half the time I can't even be bothered to fly from one end of the same zone to the other if there's a teleport available. It's not like gil is hard to get.

I recall when I was on Goblin during 2.X we had a walk event that started in Gridania and was pretty much a walk to and through the locations. However not teleporting to really travel would drive me insane.

If you want a real challenge, turn off your UI (ie. No maps, no compass) then start travelling without teleports.
You might notice how much of the environments beauty you overlook :3!

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Originally Posted by Niqote

If you want a real challenge, turn off your UI (ie. No maps, no compass) then start travelling without teleports.
You might notice how much of the environments beauty you overlook :3!

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Haha, I'd be so hopelessly lost if I did that, esp in new zones w/o flying. :D

I'm always doing that for 95% of story-quests because it feels more imerssive to me and less rushed (only to a certain degree though - I will teleport from Ishgard to Yanxia instead of making the whole round-trip...)
Since I usually play story-heavy quests (Mainstory, Hilli, seasonal events) with my boyfriend its really nice to get a chance to actually travel through the beautiful zones the game has to offer while chatting about the current events of the story in question. For story-quests it also gives me a feeling of everything being more... connected instead of just hoping from one scene to the next - its more of a journey than.

I wouldnt go a random day without teleport though - I mainly use it to get from one timed node to the next one; something that would be impossible without teleports.

Doesn't happen often, but every now and then I'll do it for fun. It can be quite nice to just enjoy the scenery sometimes. On those days I also run instead of fly whenever it's possible.