Is there any reason to explore

[JanisFawn]

I am liking the game so far but it seems the world is pretty empty. All you really have in it is mobs. There are no chests and nothing to find. Terrain is just something to run through while you go to your next quest point. Am I missing something.

[Fevelle]

Sightseeing. Aftr you complete it, no, there is not.
Also this game is full of invisible walls, so exploring is extremely hard. Some places don't let you even jump over a fence.

[AskaRay]

I personally like to explore because I love the scenery in the game.

If you mean "point" as in, are you rewarded, then not really, aside from the sightseeing log.

[EveK]

You get XP for discovering each location.

[Fevelle]

By the way, I hope they add more sightseeing spots on 3.4 or 3.5 and REALLY hope that 4.0 sightseeing is more like the original ARR one, where you actually needed to parkour to get to the spots.

[Niwashi]

By the way, I hope they add more sightseeing spots on 3.4 or 3.5 and REALLY hope that 4.0 sightseeing is more like the original ARR one, where you actually needed to parkour to get to the spots.

I'd rather the sightseeing log sent us to places where there are actual sights to see rather than jump onto the right post at the right time of day under the right weather conditions even though there's nothing special to see there. What a waste of a "sightseeing" log.


As for exploring, though, you do it to see the scenery or when new to learn your way around. Plus, if you're the type who likes to talk to all the NPCs to learn what's going on in the world, finding them is another reason. There's little outposts, settlements, and lone characters scattered around, many in places you won't know about from just the map alone.

[Fevelle]

I'd rather the sightseeing log sent us to places where there are actual sights to see rather than jump onto the right post at the right time of day under the right weather conditions even though there's nothing special to see there. What a waste of a "sightseeing" log.

Well I did mine with 2 friends and it was probably my most fun experience in this game. Thinking about "How do I get up there" and using mounts, sprint, Swiftsong to change your jumping speed so you can land right on the spot.

[JanisFawn]

Ok thanks guys. I did not know that you could get xp for sightseeing . So at least that's something.

[Enkidoh]

You get XP for discovering each location.

Sadly not anymore, at least, not in the ARR zones - SE changed it in the 3.2 patch that the map in ARR zones would be automatically completed the first time a player enters that zone instead of having to go around each zone filling in the map. You still get exp for filling in the map for Heavensward zones though. Not that the exp was much but it all added up. A

However the 3.2 patch notes still mention getting the exp bonus for completing the map... but I'm not sure if it's a cumulative total of the exp that the player would have otherwise gained manually completing the map, a token small amount or what, as I completed those maps a long time ago (many years before the 3.2 patch change) so I have no way of verifying this. So take what I said with a grain of salt.

[Niwashi]

However the 3.2 patch notes still mention getting the exp bonus for completing the map... but I'm not sure if it's a cumulative total of the exp that the player would have otherwise gained manually completing the map, a token small amount or what, as I completed those maps a long time ago (many years before the 3.2 patch change) so I have no way of verifying this. So take what I said with a grain of salt.

Though I'd already completed the ARR maps on my main character a long time ago, one of my alt characters hadn't, and did so after that change. He got a chunk of XP and the mapping achievement as soon as he first entered a previously unexplored zone, along with filling in the entire remainder of the region's map. I'm not sure if it's equivalent to the cumulative total of what the small area XP bonuses had been before 3.2, but we do still get XP. (It's just not much of an achievement any more now that it only requires stepping foot inside a region rather than fully exploring it.)