It would be a dramatic QoL improvement for folks who are newly exploring areas if the Aether Compass only directed you to Aether Currents that are presently accessible to the character, or else gave them priority. In my mind, this behavior should be controlled by the player, such that they could decide the tracking scheme:
- The easiest way to accomplish this would be to base the Aether Compass' tracking on quest progress, as some parts of some zones only become accessible after certain quests have been completed. This would be ideal for individual exploration as you progress.
- A more involved mechanism would involve using the regions within a zone to determine what Aether Currents the compass will point to - so for example, if you're in Costa Del Sol, it wouldn't show you Aether Currents on the Wineport side of the map until you'd gotten all that you could where you were.
- And of course, there could also be an option to leave it as-is, so that people who already have flying unlocked can still help their lazy friends.
As it stands, I'm currently exploring Thavnair (the first time), and the fact that it keeps directing me to Aether Currents that I cannot yet access is distressing.


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