Side Quest detour path question

So this month’s side quest is way better than last month’s, but I do question why each path has this useless detour on it? I’ve missed this a handful of times already and had to redo the whole path for exploration. If it’s just to make sure a certain amount of energy is used per path they could have just added a node within the same line to prevent this.
I know it’s my fault for hurriedly tapping head to the next node but this detour is still 100% useless.

Comments

ahmynuts

Useless detour. Has gold which is apparently always in a shortage. I'm missing something aren't i

Drago_von_Drago

I don’t know what the logic was for adding those extra loops.

Initially I thought it was to give a slightly easier path to complete the objectives with one less fight if you were struggling but the nodes on those gold paths were fairly easy so it I never felt the need to skip it to get to the boss with more champs at higher health just for the objective.

When they do stuff like this it would be interesting to hear from the devs what they were thinking.

ahmynuts

I don’t know what the logic was for adding those extra loops.

Initially I thought it was to give a slightly easier path to complete the objectives with one less fight if you were struggling but the nodes on those gold paths were fairly easy so it I never felt the need to skip it to get to the boss with more champs at higher health just for the objective.

When they do stuff like this it would be interesting to hear from the devs what they were thinking.

Do players want extra gold and exploration rewards? If yes = extra fight. If no = skip the extra fight

XFREEDOMX

I don’t know what the logic was for adding those extra loops.

Initially I thought it was to give a slightly easier path to complete the objectives with one less fight if you were struggling but the nodes on those gold paths were fairly easy so it I never felt the need to skip it to get to the boss with more champs at higher health just for the objective.

When they do stuff like this it would be interesting to hear from the devs what they were thinking.
Do players want extra gold and exploration rewards? If yes = extra fight. If no = skip the extra fight

I think what people are asking is, why take a detour? Why not add an extra fight along a straight path?

Personally, i do not mind this type of paths.

ahmynuts

I don’t know what the logic was for adding those extra loops.

Initially I thought it was to give a slightly easier path to complete the objectives with one less fight if you were struggling but the nodes on those gold paths were fairly easy so it I never felt the need to skip it to get to the boss with more champs at higher health just for the objective.

When they do stuff like this it would be interesting to hear from the devs what they were thinking.
Do players want extra gold and exploration rewards? If yes = extra fight. If no = skip the extra fight
I think what people are asking is, why take a detour? Why not add an extra fight along a straight path?

Personally, i do not mind this type of paths.

Because some players new to a difficulty can't always do the extra fight so the option is there if they want to try. For us it's a no brainer to take the extra fight but to a lesser developed/skilled player or account its a bigger decision.

Markjv81

Super annoying, I accidentally missed that path twice and with no undo button it’s a matter of running the path again to 100%