If you've been around for some time, you will likely have heard by now that the Ways are coded. That essentially means that us imms without coding access (or skills
) can do very little to physically change them.However, there is a pattern to them and in order to make that pattern more obvious, various types of Islands have been marked in different colors and various types of paths as well. No, you can't follow the blue line to, say, Tar Valon waygate and the green line to Blight, but these markings should make the stumbling around blindly going into circles less of a thing. If you figure out the trick, you can make more educated choices about going in deeper, or venturing towards a Waygate.
Finding the safe path will still require you to "search guiding", however I've found that with sufficient search you can outrun Machin Shin even if you start in its room.
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