My Alt is an Idiot

[Iscah]

I have to get them no matter what, and I'd rather do it right away. Zones like Garlemald and Il Mheg (and a few others across xpacs) let me go wherever I want as soon as I set foot in them. The idea of segmenting a zone for the new player is to bring them back later in the story for new surprises, and I'm down for that but... I'm not a new player. There's no surprises left in the map for me, yet I'm still forced to stay inside the proverbial cage. I don't like that.

Or... I'm an idiot, whichever works better for you.

Whatever you want to call it, the fact remains that you are not playing as the devs intended and are deliberately going around road blocks they've set to tell you that you don't need to do it yet, so you can't complain at them for it.

By the story, you go to Labyrinthos and visit locations A, B and C according to story, and collect currents while you'll find as you go along. You go do other stuff, then eventually return to Labyrinthos to visit locations D, E and F and collect the rest of the currents as you move through that area.

Instead you're choosing to deliberately sequence-break to go visit D, E and F before you actually have to or even can according to the devs' plans, and then you'll have to go there a second time for story anyway.

The early collection of currents has gained you nothing in the meanwhile, just double handling something you had to do anyway.


And yes, it's true that there are some zones like Garlemald where you can collect all the currents the moment you step foot in the zone, but that's because you only go there once in the course of the story, and I still see no point in doing so until you have at least unlocked all the quest-based currents. Before then, keep an eye on your compass while questing and pick up currents that are near where you're travelling, but leave the clean-up until the quests are done and you can actually use the currents.