I’ll just add it here becuse f*ck Lagon and everything about Lagon, in relation to my previous post too.
(Image credits to maxroll)
First you will arrive at “1” (Lagon’s Isle). On the left side–“3”( The Strand of Storms), before you enter the portal, there’s an NPC there that gives a side quest (kill 10 or 20 of his men) and inside located the first Moon Fragment. This map is connected to the area where you should put the Moon Fragments and also connected to The Temple of Lagon.
So what’s the problem here? Once you complete the side quest (which is totally optional), you WILL have to go back to previous area to turn in the side quest. Because why would you go to “2” (see image above) to begin with when you still only have 1 Moon Fragment. So, you instead will have to backtrack to Lagon’s Isle to turn in your quest then head to “4 (The Coral Pools)”
Second, once you’re in the “4” Coral Pools where the 2nd Moon Fragment is located. You will encounter another side quest that requires you to collect 6-8 crab eggs. Which again you WILL have to backtrack to turn your quest in.
So what’s the problem again? Backtracking. Everyone knows everyone hates backtracking in ARPGs. That’s why they (EHG) made improvements to several Monolith maps and connected several paths to ease this said problem and made several maps much smaller. Not only that, if you decided to do the two sidequests I mentioned above, that’s possibly a lot of loading screens because you’re already presented with the portal leading to the next area in front of you making/trying/tempting you to go there immediately. Not counting the amount of time you have to go back just to turn in your sidequests. Loading screens, a lot…In a game where you could get disconnected much often during loading screens and this is a different problem that’s presented in 1.1 release. Heck I’m playing in my region at 200ms, why is that???
Lagon story line is the most boring, and uninteresting part of the story for me. And the most retarded, buggiest, most boring, most annoying voice and boss fight in the game–change my mind. I’d rather organize my 100 stash tabs for hours than do this, but got no choice because it’s part of progressing in the story. Sadly.
Congratulations, you made it here. Thank you for reading my half-assed rant.