Aether Currents moved

I'm lvling another character and mind you I just lvled one just over a month ago, right now I'm in Coerthas Western Highlands, and so far 6 aether currents have be moved. I have a spreadsheet I had made so I knew where the currents were and could check them off per character. Explain why these currents were moved. I mean seriously they weren't hard to get to and quite frankly the locations were plastered all over the Internet the day the expansion was released. I get making the earlier stuff easier so new players can catch up although they all now lack the experience of veterans but some stuff should just be left alone.

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Originally Posted by CelestePinke

I'm lvling another character and mind you I just lvled one just over a month ago, right now I'm in Coerthas Western Highlands, and so far 6 aether currents have be moved. I have a spreadsheet I had made so I knew where the currents were and could check them off per character. Explain why these currents were moved. I mean seriously they weren't hard to get to and quite frankly the locations were plastered all over the Internet the day the expansion was released. I get making the earlier stuff easier so new players can catch up although they all now lack the experience of veterans but some stuff should just be left alone.

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They're now in places you are more likely to encounter progressing through the main story instead of randomly scattered across a zone.
Some of those were in retarded positions. The aether currents are already just time padding, there's no real reason to have them in the first place. Making it less onerous is better.

The Aether Current Locations were changes in patch 3.3 to make the more easily accessible.

[3.0] The location of aether currents in all areas have been adjusted.
Aether currents will now be placed in locations more easily accessed when progressing through main scenario and sidequests.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...43b40551d1e3e8

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Originally Posted by FunkyBunch

They're now in places you are more likely to encounter progressing through the main story instead of randomly scattered across a zone.
Some of those were in retarded positions. The aether currents are already just time padding, there's no real reason to have them in the first place. Making it less onerous is better.

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You are absolutely right... But isn't everything padding? These days I'm struggling to figure out what the meat in the middle is supposed to be. We unwrapped the whole box. Wrapping paper all other forms of bubble wrap and other padding on the floor. What was it supposed to be covering again? I forgot... We got to the center of it, but through all the foam peanuts and everything, the center was just more padding... Padding all the way through. A present box of nothing but padding.... It's like our dad is sitting behind us at Christmas and can't stop laughing at us kids. He thought it was a really funny joke for us to unwrap boxes of foam peanuts this year. We just sat there silently and looked at him laughing so much. He always thought his jokes were so funny...

I am fully aware they moved them, this is the 6th character I have leveled to 60. My question to SE is why? What was the point of moving them? It forced players to explore the new zones. After continuing through 8 of 10 were moved and I wasted time because in NO patch notes did it say oh by the way we moved aether currents to make it even easier for new people.

I enjoyed exploring zones for aether currents myself. I'm sad they made this change but I suppose they must have gotten feedback that a lot of the community didn't want to look for them to have bothered making this change.

Someone already answered you. They directly quoted the patch notes. That's the best answer you're going to get...

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Originally Posted by Lan_Mantear

The Aether Current Locations were changes in patch 3.3 to make the more easily accessible.

[3.0] The location of aether currents in all areas have been adjusted.
Aether currents will now be placed in locations more easily accessed when progressing through main scenario and sidequests.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...43b40551d1e3e8

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Lol I don't care what the other players posted. It's a rant in general to SE.

Then maybe dont phrase it as a question if you dont want an answer.

I like the new locations. its easier for my on my alt. lol

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Originally Posted by CelestePinke

It forced players to explore the new zones.

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And that was precisely the issue. Flying gives faster movement speed and the ability to ignore the terrain and wildlife of the zone entirely, both of which serve the purposes of people who have no interest in the zone whatsoever. Locking it behind exploration is, uh...let's say it misses the primary audience.

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Originally Posted by Lan_Mantear

The Aether Current Locations were changes in patch 3.3 to make the more easily accessible.

[3.0] The location of aether currents in all areas have been adjusted.
Aether currents will now be placed in locations more easily accessed when progressing through main scenario and sidequests.

http://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodest...43b40551d1e3e8

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Originally Posted by CelestePinke

because in NO patch notes did it say oh by the way we moved aether currents to make it even easier for new people.

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Guess you're lying there, Lan! That link must be an elaborate ruse.

They changed them because many couldn't be asked to explore for them. Same reason why there's no more Broom quests and the Moogle Quests being nerfed to the ground.

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Originally Posted by Canadane

Guess you're lying there, Lan! That link must be an elaborate ruse.

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lol

/10char

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Originally Posted by CelestePinke

It forced players to explore the new zones.

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This is an interesting statement, as I can see it being used by folks both in favor of and against the new Aether current placement.

For players against the move: "It forced players to explore the new zones. It's the last time they're going to ever bother even looking at some of this beautiful scenery, so it really is a good thing for new players to have to find their way around, at least once."

For players for the move "It forced players to explore the new zones. Finding those Aether currents was such a bloody waste of time. How are new players supposed to book it to endgame when there's all this junk in the way?"

Personally, I enjoyed seeking out the Aether currents in weird places, even if I wound up having to look a couple of them up. It's kind of sad that new players will be denied this challenge.

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Originally Posted by FallenArisen0990

They changed them because many couldn't be asked to explore for them.

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The thing is just that is didn't force anyone to explore at all... I just went around with a map from the great onlines and checked them all off. And if you don't even want to do that, you can just ask someone to take you there. Someone once paid me 700k Gil to unlock them for their alt by flying them to the locations so they don't have to search or even walk themselves.

For me (and I know I'm completely alone on this), this change is destroying my buisness, as I don't have any idea where the new currents are, and can no longer take people there. Not even the ones I don't charge for it. We had it easy enough, and people are already complaining about there not being enough content, now the whole aether current system is only useful to abalanthia since it's basically two zones you are not supposed to travel around between when you enter teh first one.

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Originally Posted by CelestePinke

I am fully aware they moved them, this is the 6th character I have leveled to 60. My question to SE is why? What was the point of moving them? It forced players to explore the new zones. After continuing through 8 of 10 were moved and I wasted time because in NO patch notes did it say oh by the way we moved aether currents to make it even easier for new people.

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Exploration should be because you like it, not because flying is locked behind it.

I didn't take any notice of the zone while I was looking for the currents. Now once I unlocked flying in the zone I had a look around to complete the map. But too be honest as much as the zones look nice that's it.The zones actually play a minimal amount in the game, as it is all Duty Finder and instance content. Majority oof players are rushing through zones so they can actually unlock content.

Now if SE decided to start actually giving us some decent content that is not fetch quests or FATE grinds in open areas then yes maybe they would be worth exploring.

Also I didn't need an additional option to explore pre Aether Current we had Fishing, Mining, Gathering, Grinding FATES, Unlocking Teleport, Side quests, completing map and Sightseeing to name a few.

So can you tell me why we needed an additional option to explore the area?

Don't worry in 4.0 all currents will be unlocked and all 4.0 zones won't need any limitations to fly or swim(possibly). Please look forward to it!

I'm leveling an alt to refresh myself on the early story bits. I'm more disappointed with the maps filling out the moment you enter the zone.

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Originally Posted by MeeDeggiThePunisher

I'm leveling an alt to refresh myself on the early story bits. I'm more disappointed with the maps filling out the moment you enter the zone.

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This was a sad day. Wandering around, trying to find your way to the next obscured map portion and revealing everything bit by bit was fun, for me anyway! Now, you enter a new zone and bam, here's your map. It also means that, in the future, SE won't be able to spring surprise terrain features on us unless they deliberately omit them from the maps. Like, betcha didn't know there was a CASTLE behind this mountain! Actually yeah, I did know, it's right there on the map.

If there was any issue with the previous map process, it was the whole deal with how revealing map pieces awarded you exp, and that exp reward was larger the higher level you were. It made folks reluctant to explore, because they wanted to save that map exp for when they were higher levels. We don't nee mechanics that discourage exploration!

I'll will admit that the Diadem map was pretty annoying, even with my love of exploration. Having to track down all those tiny chunks of map where the starting islands were. Blargh.

If you want an easy game go play dcuo stop spoon feeding new players

Yes,yes, it was in the patch notes. Ok , I get SE wants to please everyone. I looked none of the locations up online for my main character. My friend and I used the compass only. As I said before, it's just a rant. Sadly the lazy players get say too, so cheer up if you just can't be bothered to check out everything. There is a lot of hard work put into this game and the people who skip stuff miss lots.

they made it hard to find now for new and old players, sea of clouds is a total joke with the compass, no way to go and compass reads go NW, stupid, gets old hunting for something that isn't there, I hope SE test ran these new locations???

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Originally Posted by lovstokuddle

they made it hard to find now for new and old players, sea of clouds is a total joke with the compass, no way to go and compass reads go NW, stupid, gets old hunting for something that isn't there, I hope SE test ran these new locations???

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Doesn't that area require you to come back at 57 when you can access other side of zone?

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Originally Posted by Cakekizyy

Doesn't that area require you to come back at 57 when you can access other side of zone?

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Yep and it's a part of the msq that actually takes you there. I level'd a couple of alts in the last couple of weeks/months and even tho SE moved the currents (map wide) and made changes to the quests/chains that would reward currents prior, I personally found that it's much easier now than it was as HW got released.

The challenge was what made it fun and they took it away

Someone knows where is/ how to take the Aether Current near Hemlock in the Coerthas Western Highlads? I tried for hours...

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Originally Posted by Dumbledoremd

The challenge was what made it fun and they took it away

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The internet took it away

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Originally Posted by CelestePinke

Lol I don't care what the other players posted. It's a rant in general to SE.

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Well you not going to make friends that way and that just bait for trolls to come after you.

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Originally Posted by Dumbledoremd

The challenge was what made it fun and they took it away

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What challenge?

Am I the only one who just kept clicking the compass ad nauseum, followed the direction and ran around without interacting with anything?

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Originally Posted by Zojha

What challenge?

Am I the only one who just kept clicking the compass ad nauseum, followed the direction and ran around without interacting with anything?

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I think that's what you were supposed to do.