Any talk about them doing away with Aether Currents for flight

[HisShadowX]

I was very happy to see when they added flight to the MC they didn’t require you to do pointless aether currents hunting. I think it’s just a pointless process meant to extend your time doing pointless things. The only people I can defending them are a minority of hardcore players aka the former Everquest m, FFXI fans you know people who like DKP and requiring a party of people to fight bats and rats.

I am not a masochist.

Please do away with them or at least remove it from the next expansion but leave it maybe as an old outdated mechanic that people thank god is no longer in use (Hopefully)

[Iscah]

I don't mind searching down the currents out in the world, but I wish they weren't rewarded from part 1 of multi-step sidequests because sometimes I don't want to do those straight away but I'm forced to do the first part if I want to unlock the current now.

Single sidequests or MSQ quests are fine, though.

[Kaurhz]

No talks of it, but honestly considering in 6.0 we'll have around 24 zones for Aether currents I would hope that they throw away with it on dated zones, or oversimplify it to Azys La levels.

[Lanadra]

I actually don't mind hunting for aether currents. It allows me to explore and take in the map. The only annoyance for me is the ones required from side-quests and MSQ. I find it annoying to only be given flight when I'm pretty much already done in the map.

[Zfz]

Honestly Aether Currents were interesting back when it first came out. But by the time I started Shadowbringers, I wasn't really "enjoying" the exploration aspect anymore. I would be on my way to a quest target and just mindlessly mashing the compass, taking a detour if the current is within 300 meters. It had become just a side chore by Shadowbringers.

I still enjoy exploration in new zones, but just not as part of current hunting. Rather, current hunting became the chore that must be done, like super-mini-side-quests. They add nothing to the exploration.

That said, I don't hate it. At least most of them aren't place in tricky places. I still remember the one current locked behind the platform jumping quest in the Lv.61 zone. That was infuriating as I have trouble with that kind of jumping platformers whether in 2D or 3D. As long as they don't do that again, I'm fine with just mashing the compass.

[MPK]

Just be happy that story skip gives you all the aethercurrents

[Jeeqbit]

The aether currents aren't very much work. Just press the compass while you quest and get the currents along the way, and do blue quests as you see them, and you'll have flight unlocked when the main story events finish in that area.

[Fellgon]

Actualy i like the way it is, i dont like the idea of achivment or anything complex to get the right to fly (like another mmo...you know it)

[Jojoya]

I was very happy to see when they added flight to the MC they didn’t require you to do pointless aether currents hunting. I think it’s just a pointless process meant to extend your time doing pointless things. The only people I can defending them are a minority of hardcore players aka the former Everquest m, FFXI fans you know people who like DKP and requiring a party of people to fight bats and rats.

I am not a masochist.

Please do away with them or at least remove it from the next expansion but leave it maybe as an old outdated mechanic that people thank god is no longer in use (Hopefully)

Outside of The Lochs, they don't add significant extra time at all because almost all of them are next to or right on the path you're going to take for MSQ anyway. The mistake is not getting them as you pass by the first time then waiting until after you've completed MSQ in the zone to go back.

Now the Lochs I will agree is a total pain in the neck. Fortunately most players have a friend or fellow FC member with a passenger mount who will be happy to fly you around there, remembering their own struggles.

[ForteNightshade]

I don't mind searching down the currents out in the world, but I wish they weren't rewarded from part 1 of multi-step sidequests because sometimes I don't want to do those straight away but I'm forced to do the first part if I want to unlock the current now.

Single sidequests or MSQ quests are fine, though.

While I've always found Aether Currents pointless, since if I want to explore the new arenas. I'll do so at my leisure not when I want to get through the story. In any case, this is what actually irks me. When I'm invested in whatever is going on in the MSQ, the last thing I want to do is deviate to a long side quest chain. All it does is make me compelled to rush through, which is disappointing because I may have otherwise been interested if I chose to do it sometime later when I was out in the world specifically to do side quests. The same can be said about Role Quests. I'm on the cusp of finishing the Emet Selch arc, I really couldn't care less about some cowardice Miqo'te. I know there's way more to that story, but it escapes me at the moment. Which, in a way, echoes my point.