I hate aether currents with a passion

[XxSliphxX]

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.

Pretty much this. Flying should have been a tool to HELP players while questing and to make the leveling experience you know...fun...instead we literally get the complete opposite. I guess I shouldn't have expected anything less from square though. They truly enjoy trolling there playerbase. I can almost hear how the meeting went down when they were designing this: "Hey guys let's add flying to the game! Now let's make it so you have to run around EVERYWHERE in the zone on foot and do almost EVERY quest before you can actually fly in it by which time you will leave it and never have a reason to come back! BWHAAHHAHAhahahahaha!"