OMG please remove some of the aetherytes, the world feels tiny

[PenutButter]

Mounts are useless? How? Sure you won't be using them to spend hours getting from one map to another but they are still very useful when traveling across a map. God knows I don't want to lose them and I don't give a damn about "cosmetics." I do see how flying mounts would only be marginally more useful though. I also agree that these teleports really dumb down on the "world experience," you can blame casuals for that.

Another thing that really dumbs it down is the fact that you can't travel to instances and enter it yourself, everything is via the Duty Finder. A few months back, I was wondering around South Shroud and stumble upon the entrance to Amdapor Keep and I went, "So this is where Amdapor Keep is." These dungeons are so disconnected from the world, I don't even feel like they're a part of it, its almost pointless to even have them on the map.

[Souljacker]

Another thing that really dumbs it down is the fact that you can't travel to instances and enter it yourself, everything is via the Duty Finder. A few months back, I was wondering around South Shroud and stumble upon the entrance to Amdapor Keep and I went, "So this is where Amdapor Keep is."

I might be wrong, but don't we have to like... unlock all the dungeons before they are available in the duty finder? How did you just happen to be wandering the shroud and shocked at a dungeon you had to do a quest to open?

You can enter the dungeons at any time from those locations in a group or solo. Absolutely. The duty finder is used after you unlocked it so you have access to the cross server pool of people and don't have to put together a party which may or may not take hours depending on your server (a huge improvement over XI). Now I can understand if it's been forever since you unlocked it and you forgot that it was there - but that's got nothing to do with SE, the duty finder, and your willingness to make a party and run to the dungeon. All the dungeons appear as unnamed "dungeon" on the map until you do the quest to unlock as far as i know.