Love the game, but wtf is with all the backtracking in Act 2?

This is a truly amazing game, but my god man, what is it with all the backtracking in Act 2? How about another waypoint or two?

What backtracking?

There's a fairly common item to help deal with that.

Ok, so you go through the east gate, through the fields to the cross roads, grab the waypoint, run to the broken bridge, grab the waypoint, kill the boss, go back to the waypoint at cross roads and run north to the chamber of sins, kill the boss, head west, cross the riverways, go to the dark forest, get the waypoint, go kill the weaver, go back to that waypoint, run to the western forest, grab the waypoint, kill the two bosses and complete the quest, take the drops from the weaver and the boss of chamber of sins and unlock the door in the riverways, go into the vaal ruins, cross the vaal ruins, tagging the quest marker there, go to the norther forest, help oak, grab waypoint, go through the caverns to the waypoint, go through the ruins to the pyramid apex, kill the boss and you're done.

There is the optional quest for some respec points, but really... who does that?

Get to act 2.
Grab crossroads wp
clear sins
Go kill weaver
Go to western forest, kill witch and open gate
Use crossroads wp
Broken bridge, kill rogue
Head to vaal ruins.

I usually follow this route every time, even when racing.
You won't need to visit the same spots too many times.

1.) Go oldfield -> crossroad, get the waypoint then go -> chamber of sins, do the quest
2.) After the quest, back in town port to crossraods -> go to broken bridge, do the bandit quest
3.) After bandit quest go to -> riverways -> blackwood, get the waypoint -> find weavers chamber do the quest
4.) After weaver quest port to blackwoods -> western forest, do the bandit quest
5.) After you go weaver and sins quests go to riverways -> walk the road till you find a sideway leading into the jungle
6.) do the last bandit quest then rush to vaal, port to town to get the last quest item, port back to vaal
7.)enjoy loot

That´s my route. And the only thing i would call backtracking is in my opinion 5.) to find the root that is like 1 minute work with speed flask and the knowledge what you need to look for.

Am I the only one who plays full clear?

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Am I the only one who plays full clear?

No sir, I play full clear as well. As for the topic at hand... God forbid you have to run around killing shit for just a little bit longer to get where you need to go in an ARPG.

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Am I the only one who plays full clear?

After X chars you will stop that and do only what you need.

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Spysong192 wrote:

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Shagsbeard wrote:

Am I the only one who plays full clear?

After X chars you will stop that and do only what you need.

Not likely, one of those skipped enemies could drop currency. Skipping currency? Fuck that.