Any talk about them doing away with Aether Currents for flight

[jlewiss]

Yes please. I haven't done any of the flight quests since heavensward. It's a very boring obvious content filler tactic. I skipped them entirely in stormblood / shadowbringers. Nothing is fun to me about aimlessly wandering around a huge map for over an hour just so the next few times I have to use the zone i can get across "slightly" faster. Or if they really love it so much have it unlocked as you progress through the main story and maybe have one current somewhere in the map that is interesting.

[Jeeqbit]

Yes please. I haven't done any of the flight quests since heavensward. It's a very boring obvious content filler tactic. I skipped them entirely in stormblood / shadowbringers. Nothing is fun to me about aimlessly wandering around a huge map for over an hour just so the next few times I have to use the zone i can get across "slightly" faster. Or if they really love it so much have it unlocked as you progress through the main story and maybe have one current somewhere in the map that is interesting.

It's not really wandering around aimlessly. The currents are near quest objectives, so if you press the compass regularly while questing they will be nearby most of the time. If you pickup the sidequests with currents, the main story will probably bring you nearby the quest objectives which are quick and simple as usual. I've done it on many alts and it's not much of a problem.

Skipping them does come with a big consequence though, because when you complete the MSQ you now have to go back and do them for 18 areas. It's a lot less painful to do them while questing, but once they have been skipped it's too late and getting them is grueling.

[MilkieTea]

It's not really wandering around aimlessly. The currents are near quest objectives, so if you press the compass regularly while questing they will be nearby most of the time. If you pickup the sidequests with currents, the main story will probably bring you nearby the quest objectives which are quick and simple as usual. I've done it on many alts and it's not much of a problem.

Skipping them does come with a big consequence though, because when you complete the MSQ you now have to go back and do them for 18 areas. It's a lot less painful to do them while questing, but once they have been skipped it's too late and getting them is grueling.

theres a website with a map of all the currents including the quest-currents. it allowed me to do about 6 zones in 2 hours.

[Shin96]

What's the point of removing Aether Currents? If anything that's one less thing to do in this game and only encourages people to complain more when they got "nothing" to do. Stupid idea honestly.

[LaylaTsarra]

What's the point of removing Aether Currents? If anything that's one less thing to do in this game and only encourages people to complain more when they got "nothing" to do. Stupid idea honestly.

They aren't going to remove them. They're a pretty neat feature used to enable flight in a zone. The few unhappy campers here on the forum will simply have to grin and bear it. I'm sure all the aether currents are awaiting all of us on the moon.