I hate aether currents with a passion

[Ransu]

If you only ever level 1 job, sure, you're right.

If you ever start leveling your second job, you will be back there and you will appreciate the flying mount. It's a reward as well as a QoL improvement for your other jobs, not for your first job.

Back for what? The fates currently give terrible xp so those are a waste of time. As far as I'm aware there's no new hunting logs that I've seen. Roulletes will pretty much probably be the bulk of xp for alts. I guess its great if you're leveling a gatherer later on. Aside from that? The current design is stupid.

[Luvbunny]

I totally agree, FATES should give you at least 40k xp with the bonus, minimum. Each zone should have levequest that give you 30k exp to facilitate leveling up and exploration. And these 6 new dungeons need to give at least 6k-10k xp per kill with armory bonus. I think they are going with super conservative tone to stretch the basic content through 3 months before next patch which is understandable. Hot fixes probably coming soon in 2 months.

[Nadirah]

This bug exists for people who are used to "jump" the whistle motion, i.e. you time the space bar to start flying taking into account the network delay, so that you don't wait for the mount to appear. Two ways to mitigate it:

1. Don't jump the whistle motion, let it finish and let the mount appear before you take off.
2. Even if you jump the motion, the speed is corrected the moment you stop and move again. So a quick release-then-press on the movement key will correct its speed.

They need to fix it.

I don't "jump" the animation, and I've had it happen to me after I've already started flying, at normal speed.

In fact, I've got video of the latter.

Don't spawn the mount until after the animation finishes if it's such a big deal. EQ2 actually got rid of it's mounting animation YEARS ago because it caused issues like this.

[Boyzby]

Frankly, having to collect the Aether Currents really makes me appreciate being able to fly after! The challenge makes the reward sweeter.

I didn't find it a challenge at all, just an annoyance. Getting through the irritating layout of the ground, which I had to traverse back and forth many, many times for quests, just makes me frustrated at the design, not appreciate the flying more.

[Aivi_lo]

I like earning rewards , I've never been one to expect things to be given straight away. I just dislike this method of getting it. Its a personal thing

[Hyunckel]

While I feel similarly, I also feel like the completion of aether currents occurs way too closely to the point in which you move to the next zone.
You really don't get to enjoy it until later on when you're in moogle hell.

lol I completed Churning Mists' Aether Currents and since I was Lv56 I had to grind to get to Lv.57 for the next Main Scenario Quest ...

GOOD THING I HAD 50 MOOGLE QUESTS LEFT TO DO ^_^

But otherwise for other maps, even if you focus on completing the aether currents (meaning prioritizing the MSQ since there is ALWAYS at least one if not more MSQ rewarding Aether Currents), you will only have at most 10 side quests left to do before moving on to the next zone.

And now I hate moogles too.

[Malackai]

Personally I think the aether currents are perfectly fine hell you ran in to most of them if you quest in the area.

The most fun moment I had with this was when I just got the compass and went to sea of clouds. started using it and it pointed me somewhere (mind you at this point I had no idea on what even to expect) so I am running around at a point when using the compass I get the message "aether current is 0 yalms to the west" o_o
I dint see anything so I started searching around after 5 mins or so then I decided to look over the edge and I spot a landmass below me and then it clicked XD

[DisappointedMan]

I don't see how anyone could enjoy this tbh. It's menial and tedious, adds nothing to gameplay and just forces you to walk around for no reason at all. Plus it stops sidequests from being optional because you need to unlock special currents from them. Anything which forces you into completing sidequests is an instant negative.

[Atrayl]

Designing your zones to take advantage of flying and then forcing your players to walk through the zone to unlock flying is like designing a fire extinguisher that has to spit out a reservoir of gasoline before it gets to the C02.

[Muchmidget]

I actually don't mind the aether current system at all. I think it was a great way to get you to explore the area and see what the devs built before allowing you to skip over it all. The only thing i would have changed is the location of a few of the currents (Dravanian Hinterlands, Y U make me run around the whole zone for 1 current because of 5 yalms z-axis? >_<)