My opinions on Flight and world design in FFXIV and my reasons for quiting the game.

[Wasselin]

I love the way flight works in this game, although sometimes it is hard to find the sidequests that unlock aether currents. If they did away with that and just had you find the aether currents and finish the zone story I think that would be fine.

Although I have to disagree with the original post. FFXIV zones are very easy to navigate. There are usually well define paths that are free of most aggressive mobs, so even if you do get "lost" it's easy to get back on track. I don't even really feel like I "need" flying, although it's nice to have.

[LaylaTsarra]

I have no problem with aether currents. I actually think they are a pretty neat mechanic for enabling flying. They aren't that hard to find and sort of ensures that people actually explore the land before taking to flight. First thing I do when entering a zone with my alts is to round them up along with attuning to all main aethers in a zone. Quest based ones will take more time because those are pretty much story based in order to acquire and do them.

[Jojoya]

I love the way flight works in this game, although sometimes it is hard to find the sidequests that unlock aether currents. If they did away with that and just had you find the aether currents and finish the zone story I think that would be fine.

Although I have to disagree with the original post. FFXIV zones are very easy to navigate. There are usually well define paths that are free of most aggressive mobs, so even if you do get "lost" it's easy to get back on track. I don't even really feel like I "need" flying, although it's nice to have.

It shouldn't be a problem finding the aether current quests as long as you have the quest hub areas uncovered on the world map. The ones that aren't part of the MSQ now have the blue unlock icon so you just need to check your world map to see where they are.