Amazing game all around but HORRIBLE map system

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The fact that you you have to go World map>Region>Location can be confusing. Say you are fairly new to the game, you are in Old Grandia, you pick a quest that says you need to go to the steps of Ul'dah. You've never been there. You click the map, it shows Thanalan with a quest marker, ok, that doesn't help much. You go to look at the region. There's the quest marker with no real path telling you how to get there. You click again for the exact location, more grayed out area.

So now you know where you need to go...you just do not know how to get there. This is where the exploring comes into play. You explore, head in the general direction you think you should be going, get lost, look at the map, see your in the South Shroud. You don't even know there is an airship you could take... You continue exploring, find level 30 monsters, and get insta-death.

That will be nice if you ever need to go to the South Shroud... but still, where the heck is Ul'dah!?

The map is of NO help in cases like this and it happens all the time when you are new. Just look at this board. So it's fantastic that you are super awesome "know everything cause I do everything" players but everyone has their own play style. There is no right or wrong.