What are these white spheres I keep seeing in HW zones?

[Sucuri]

It isn't a current, I can't seem to click on them at all. When I google white sphere, nothing comes up at all.


http://imgur.com/rnVggdz
^that is what they look like.

What is it for?!?!


Muhahaha, figured out how to get the pic to work in this

[Mercutial]

They're for your sightseeing log. Stand on top of it and type /lookout to fill up an entry. You are able to access this log in the menus. You'll know you're in the right place when you receive a notification in your chat log that "you have reached a vista" or something close to that. Please note that I don't think you can be mounted when you do this. Also some of the pre HW vistas may require certain weather conditions or times of day to activate.

[Sucuri]

OMG! Thanks, I had no idea....I kinda didn't know about the sighteseeing log till I had hit 50 O.o Are the white spheres just in HW then, or will those also mark spots for the original zones?

[Mercutial]

There are many in the original zones. And like I just edited (sorry...), I believe many of those require certain conditions hinted at in the sightseeing log. In my experience, I've really only ran across one in the newer zones that needed one of these conditions. Can't remember where though....

[Sucuri]

ok, thanks again

[Sida]

Do the pre-HW vistas also have the visual clues nowadays?

[Mixae]

Do the pre-HW vistas also have the visual clues nowadays?

I was just gonna ask...I'm thinking it's no though I haven't seen any :/

[Eclair_Xysha]

Wait! Some vista's aren't all /lookout actions. I know there's one in CWH where you have to /sit like you're in a hotspring!

[ruskie]

Some of the more common ones are /sit /lookout /pray - otherwise just go through the list hehe.

They also give you exp in HW - the oled 2.x ones though are there as puzzles you need to figure out where they are - or just grab a list and do them because tbf some of the descriptions just make no real sense...

[Ehr]

I was just gonna ask...I'm thinking it's no though I haven't seen any :/

All pre-HW vistas do not have the white orb marker. Some of them are also weather specific and time of day specific unlike the HW ones which you just need to walk up to and do the right emote.