Amazing game all around but HORRIBLE map system

[goreee]

Seriously guys you gotta give us some more slack to find areas. I spent almost an hour just looking for one place. Its really frustrating not knowing where anything is even when you press on map in the quest window. I have to find camp drybone and I have NO idea where to go now.

Is there an easier way to navigate? This is literally blood boiling. It's the only thing I hate about this game.

[stoxastic]

I agree it was my biggest gripe about the game when I first started playing. It gets much better once you uncover most of the map and now I don't even notice it. It was probably my biggest pet peeve when first starting out. Stick with it and soon you won't even notice how bad it is.

[goreee]

I agree it was my biggest gripe about the game when I first started playing. It gets much better once you uncover most of the map and now I don't even notice it. It was probably my biggest pet peeve when first starting out. Stick with it and soon you won't even notice how bad it is.

I don't understand where to go or do anything man. It shouldn't be like this!

Even at level 21 I don't know what's going on most of the time outside gridania.

[goreee]

I agree it was my biggest gripe about the game when I first started playing. It gets much better once you uncover most of the map and now I don't even notice it. It was probably my biggest pet peeve when first starting out. Stick with it and soon you won't even notice how bad it is.

Can you tell me where camp drybone is?

[Rikkustrife]

drybone is in eastern thanalan

I never noticed a problem with the maps, they usually pointed the direction where to go, and by the time it was less straightforward I knew most areas

[Thaliss]

Eastern Thanalan is where you find camp drybone

either you go to Uldah => gate of Nald to Central Thanalan => ride or run North East and you should arrive Eastern Thanalan

Or gridania => Central Shroud => run south to South Shroud => run south passing by camp tranquil to Eastern Thanalan

http://xivdb.com/?maps/44/w1f3-00/Th...stern-Thanalan

[Deifact]

Doesn't clicking "Map" in your quest journal show you where to go?

[goreee]

Doesn't clicking "Map" in your quest journal show you where to go?

Not all the time. Sometimes it shows a messed up world map glitch and it gets super annoying lol

[Grenwal]

I think it takes you to the world map only when it's an area you haven't discovered.

[Niwashi]

I think it takes you to the world map only when it's an area you haven't discovered.

It depends on where you are. Using Drybone as the example, it's in Eastern Thanalan, so the possibilities are:
1) If you're also in Eastern Thanalan, it will bring up the Eastern Thanalan map with the specific location marked.
2) If you're in another Thanalan region (Western Thanalan, for instance), it will bring up the Thanalan map showing that Western Thanalan connects to Central Thanalan, which connects to Eastern Thanalan.
3) If you're in a completely different area, like the Black Shroud or La Noscea, it will go to the world map.

Then from any of these, you can zoom in and out, going from a regional map to the wider area map to the world map or back again. And you can follow region boundary lines to see, for instance, where in Eastern Thanalan the South Shroud to Eastern Thanalan boundary crossing will bring you. It does get easier once you've uncovered the whole map area, but even before that, you can at least see which regions connect to which other ones, which is generally enough to figure out how to get where you need to be.