Quote Originally Posted by Jeeqbit View Post
You go through most of it in the MSQ alone and its sidequests. Anything which has a bridge to the rest of the islands is used for that, which is almost all of it. The northern islands unconnected to anything are used for the Void Ark quests. The island to the top right corner is used for a dungeon. The island at the bottom right has sidequests and a sightseeing log entry. The nests that extend from the islands are used in quests. One of the islands takes you to Ishgard and then they all get re-used for job quests, crafter/gatherer quests, the beast tribe and as you mentioned, FATEs. You actually have plenty of reason to go to all of the islands for hunts as well. Let's not forget that all of the trees, bushes, plants, rocks and water areas are intentionally placed to become gatherering nodes that are regularly used by gatherers.
Now you're truly grasping at straws here.



The aether currents are basically cover the region that you get led to through the MSQ and the sidequests (+ the southeastern part of Voor Sian Siran for the rescue quest). Even back in HW they were limited to a tiny portion of the map. Outside of I believe TWO TOTAL sidequests and Bismarck EX unlock, you do not go to the interior parts of Ok Vundu Mok and Ok Vundu Vana other than for fates and hunts, which really is unengaging to say the least. There are no gathering points there either. None of the job quests bring you into the interior of Sea of Clouds. That's quite literally half the map.