Suggestion [remove Aether Currents as a catch up mechanic]

[Sotaris]

It's fine as is. It's something you naturally unlocks as you progress through the zones.

[Seraphor]

Maybe each expansion should come with streamlining the currents from the previous expansion, to remove the sidequest requirements. Basically so you can easily find all of the aethercurrents as your progress the MSQ.

[Curisu]

A few weeks ago I was leveling a alt char through HW and when I've finished the MSQ in a area, I was able to fly there.
The currents are not really far away from the way you have to walk anyway for the MSQ.
I didn't spend extra time beside the few extra quests, and they are done fast.

[VelKallor]

As title suggests, the aether currents where added with heavensward as a way to slow down the player to force them to quest at slower pace to allow SE to make more content

Im curious as to how you know this?

[Breakbeat]

This whole "ex-WoW players do this" and "ex-WoW players do that" gets really old.



Just don't. No one knew all of us, no one ever played with all of us, no one has ever even spoken to all of us. Not Yoshi, not Ion, and certainly not some random human on forums. So please, pretty please, with sprinkles on top, stop making sweeping statements about what "ex-WoW players" are doing. Some humans do this crap IRL too, labeling groups of people as "wanting this or that" or "behaving like this or that." Lunacy. That's not how science, logic and common sense works.

On topic: the Aether Current system is fun, easy, and super simple. If you want to rank "ways of getting flying in popular MMOs," then I'd say doing Aether Currents ranks easier than even paying a few thousand gold, which is the way WoW used to do it before Pathfinder became a thing. Earning that few thousand gold took easily twenty times longer than gathering Aether Currents. I mean this literally. Gathering, say, five zones of Aether Currents from absolute zero might take you an hour. Earning 5k gold in WoW, back in the day, for a first time player leveling up, might take ten, twenty hours or more.

AC for an entire zone takes 15 minutes. You have a compass for pete's sake. And I want to emphasize that the 15 minutes would be the net time spent if you went into a zone for the sole purpose of gathering the currents and doing nothing else.

If you do something like the following - you know, logical, common-sense type stuff - then gathering AC takes no more than five minutes of your time, per zone, outside of things you are normally doing:

Press the aether compass while on the way to each quest task and it will tell you if one is nearby. Pickup all blue quests that you see and do them when the main story takes you near to their objective. Once you finish the story events in that area, you will then be able to fly.

[Juun]

Open your inventory, click the button on the far right to see your key items, drag the compass onto your hotbar and then click it while navigating to each quest objective and it will tell you how far away the nearest Aether Current is. If it's close you can go and get it.

You would have been given one in the course of the MSQ. It's in your key items.

I think I screwed up somehow I finished Shadowbringers and the only thing in my key items is food I never brought to starving soldiers and Khloe's journal.

[Snorky]

Most of the time the side quests lead you to the AC, they give us a compass and it's not hard to find these. I would rather work for it than have it handed to me, where's the fun in that. Exploration is fun.

[Kes13a]

I think I screwed up somehow I finished Shadowbringers and the only thing in my key items is food I never brought to starving soldiers and Khloe's journal.

talk to Gaufrid in Rhalgars Reach, 14.3 9.6

or, seems there is a person in the Forgotten Knight in Ishgard

[Juun]

talk to Gaufrid in Rhalgars Reach, 14.3 9.6

or, seems there is a person in the Forgotten Knight in Ishgard

Thanks Ill go check that out!

[DPZ2]

I think I screwed up somehow I finished Shadowbringers and the only thing in my key items is food I never brought to starving soldiers and Khloe's journal.

You can get another one by visiting Gibrillont at the Inn in Ishgard (Forgotten Knight) or Gaufrid in Rhalgar's Reach. If you did a story/job skip you'll have to go see one of them, because it doesn't automatically pop into your key items list.