I played Grim Dawn with multiple chars and everytime when I get the task to secure the Burrwitch Village Rift my motivation is going down, because the first Story Quests are about Devils Crossing and suddenly you have to travel across the map to Burrwitch. I don´t want to blame about the quest, but maybe you can add an additional Quest before the Burrwitch Village Gate.
My idea:
-Quest objective: repair Bridge between Foggy Banks and Burrwitch Outskirts
(There are some reasons possible why it is destroyed, maybe Aetherials crashed it or a flood destroyed the bridge)
-place Bridge Repair Site at Burrwitch Outskirts, so players have to travel through the Flooded Passage to get there, if they want to repair it
(In my opinion this would improve this area)
With this additional quest there would be more motivation, because you have a new aim on your way, that´s not as far as Burrwitch.
Yep that broken bridge doesn´t make a lot of sense, you will go through the hidden passage once for the shrine anyway, and then you have acess to the whole area.
Or you need to fight out the bridge (strategical passage) from the aetherial forces, may add some boss there (like field commander). When you prevail you see the bridge destroyed so you go through flooded passage instead.
Aetherial army should be placed before passage so you cannot skip or miss them and it should be a real challenge for player.
I don’t know if Crate would wanna spend the resources to work on this, but I actually like the general idea.
Since the beginning I had been asking myself why you were able to rebuild that bridge if there was so much incentive to just go through the Flooded Passage.
At the very least you would go and take the waypoint down there, and if you were already in that cave, you would likely just fight your way through it, as it should be about the fastest way to get to the next waypoint.
I had thought that maybe that bridge was there to enable people to get to the Depraved Sanctuary fast, but I myself have never taken that route.
So, yeah, why not give some more incentive to actually rebuild that bridge.
its not a bad idea since the only use for the “bridge repair” is to allow rush and after you cross it once you never use it again because rifts, I personally only repair the build once when I was rushing warden to get the achievement, all my duzens characters have full exploration, and why not go to flooded passage it has a easy to get devotion shrine, also as far as I remember is the only place in the game that allow you to skip 1 map, all other side areas like the tombs near fort ikon have actual quests to go there
Its not something that would take a lot of work to do either, I mean, move the repair site and write 10 lines of text
