The Realm Of Light Rant

It is nice that my most hated quest in all time, which is star thief, has reworked in 1.18, but the is one more thing this server needs... The Realm of Light rework.

The realm of light just makes me think that "hell, why did this quest existed?"

It is basically like some random dude in the realm of light asking you to investigate this realm and save one guy, which is fine imo. However, I cringed after seeing this dialogue:

[4/7] Regulux: You must be immune or something. We have lost many to the seeds.

Now note that these characters thought that I was immune or smth. And after that, I was told to talk with another random guy and that guy just asked me to fetch a shit ton of items. First 3 mushrooms (Yahya?) and 7 light residues (which I called glowstone powder). And first I thought that was just a little fetching, the following comes:

[2/3] Heliorion: While I’m preparing the helmet, I will need you to get some more items.
[3/3] Heliorion: You encountered those Beetles around the realm, right? Well, we’re going to need [10 Glowing Powder] from them in order to complete the helmet.

"I will need you to get some more items. Just go get me 10 glowing powders and you got a useless undropable quest helmet to kill the bosses."

That is what I interpreted these sentences, and what is the differences between Light Residues and glowing powders except the name? Aren't they glowing anyway?

After we made the useless quest helmet, this guy says smth again:

[3/6] Heliorion: The helmet’s complete. It’s extremely bright so try not to look directly at it.

What? You asked me to wear the helmet and go to kill the boss even it is shiny af like you said? Do that guy have idea how close the helmet and my eye would be?

And yeah, the two roads were long af and I was like "why don't you guys fucking help me instead of sitting there like a boss?"

I used 8 mins just to get the two seeds, but 6 of the minutes inside was to navigate through those roads and killing the annoying mobs in the way. I can't think of what would happen if someone who's bad at navigating was doing this quest.

So after the boss fight part (which is still easy for lvl 50 players imo) this guy said something which is... uh

[1/6] Heliorion: You... you’ve done it? I don’t believe it! To be honest, I was sure I had sent you to your death.

Now look at what other people thought.

[4/7] Regulux: You must be immune or something. We have lost many to the seeds.

Remember this guy? Heliorion knows Aluxander and Regulux when they have different views on Human's (my) strength? wtf dude, then why did they asked me to do this

And the final cringy part is here.

• Heliorion: We might be able to finally get to Orphion.
• Heliorion: Orphion is the physical representation of our realm.
• Heliorion: He is Light. The Light Beast. Or, he used to be. He has.. Well..
• Heliorion: He’s been infected. Something broke into our realm decades ago, and it’s leeched into Orphion.
• Heliorion: Gaclux is currently watching over the rune where we sealed Orphion for his.. and our safety. This will only be over when the “Parasite” is removed from him. If you want to face him, Gaclux will let you in.

(too lazy to make numbers and colours, sry)
What the heck dude, when you told me about the seeds, it was like "k fine" for me, but after an Orphion came out of nowhere, I was like "Why don't ask me to fight Orphion earlier ima tank nightmare warrior (lvl 74 thats why nightmare spear)"

So I found Gaclux after walking through a fucking damn long af road and this is what Gaclux told me:

• Gaclux: Orphion is probably at an all powerful state at the moment. If you wish to face him, you should bring your friends are face him together. He is too powerful to face alone. It will take me time to remove the seal.

*end quest*
WHERE IS THE ORPHION BOSS FIGHT!!!!1!!!1!1111!!!!!111
The whole lore is unfinished, and it has a lot of flaws in terms of both gameplay and logic, just come on, 1/2 of the quest is fetch sessions and just why not remake this quest

Thank you for your time to see me ranting k bai

 

Realm of Light has always been an unpopular quest among the community. There's so much bad stuff in it, and despite being the conclusion to a trilogy of quests it's really underwhelming.

Also:
- You get another god damn quest helmet
- There are boss fights for the sake of boss fights, between that and grinding mobs it's so generic

The only good thing about the realm of light is its builds. The quest there will always be one of my least favorites.

 

something like this would be better suited in the feedback section. but the points youve made make sence, the entire RoL questline is a dumpster fire.

 

I just wanna fight Orphion but NOPE

 

Well, taproot and finding are cool.

 

finding isn't that good, it's just a fetch quest but cinfras edition

 

I like the mini story about the kid running away to help the sick dude, but yeah it’s pretty generic tbh and the gardener changes his mind super fast.
The ending on finding the portal is super cool and gives a great mystical feel though

 

finding is almost as bad as RoL, just a fetch quest with a mini-story. I also really hate how the gardener changes his mind as soon as hes caught, starts crying, and its "tears of the honest" lmfao.
Taproot is generally shit but i do sorta like the pre-decay light forest.

 

iirc the tunnel was a relatively straight path, with any alternative paths leading to the same end destination (no dead ends)

because they are incapable of fighting off the darkness and staying uncorrupted most likely, as they had already lost multiple establishments/towns/whatever to the decay.

light residue = light
glowing dust = dust

also the quest helmet has plot relevance (in case you think you're already immune as mentioned earlier, you could think of the decay/corruption/darkness like a disease, and your immunity more like your immune system, and the helmet like a vaccine.



yes, the quest could have been executed better, but you seem really nitpicky with this post, and seems like an unrealistic and exaggerated reaction.

 

This post is called a rant for some reason

 

I wish at the end of the quest they tunt UNTRADIBLE intead of HEY U CANT DROP THINS AND MAY NEVER NEED TO USE IT EVER FUCKING AGAIN!

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Orphion: IMMA DESTROY THE WORLD! four years later... Orphion: ??? Huh welp I think ive been waiting for a bit too long.. thought they would be here now..

 

I've always hated the Realm of Light quest. The other two weren't awful; they aren't the best quests but they're the prologue leading up to what you think is the grand finale. Remember Wynnexcavation quest line? The final part threw a huge plot twist your way and gave you the task of saving the world from Amadel, which you are given the chance to defeat within the final parts of the quest.

What does Realm of Light do? Gives you an uninteresting final quest with a horrible terrain you're forced to deal with and a final boss that doesn't even exist. You think you're going to save Gavel, stop the decay, similarly to how you stopped Amadel from fully using the crystals. But no, you're just given a "come back soon" message and basically are forced to leave. That, combined with the massive fetch quest element, quest helmets (which everyone hates), and the overall boringness of the quest make it one of my least favorites, even worse than some that are highly criticized such as Eye of the Storm.

The quest really needs a major rework with script elements and more interesting gameplay. Script has the capability to create fantastic cutscenes and gives advanced gameplay options for quest design (such as NPCs following you rather than chickening out...looking at you Heliorion), so if the team is willing to completely rework other bad quests like Star Thief then why does this quest keep getting delayed? It's one of these things I can do skill wise, am willing to do it, but the staff doesn't want me (or anyone) to redo this quest.

Please make this quest better next update. Or at least add the final boss so the quest can have a proper ending.

 

i am bad at navigating it took me forever to find stuff and the music gave me chills like it had creepy undertone for me so i got really creeped out by it
i did not enjoy quest there and the quest helmet i hate stupid helmet just make it not tradeable and you can rebuy somewhere

 

I suspect part of the reason this quest hasn't been redone yet is because there's a lot of other stuff that would have to be redone around it (after all what's the point of redoing it if we just get another quest without an ending? and dungeons take time to make)

 

Tbh the builds aren't even that good either

 

I'll be honest, in retrospect I think it might have been better to leave the entire Realm of Light as an inaccessible area to be released at a future date. Releasing a quest like this does not do the realm justice.

 

The builds are fine, but the content is just... kill me plz

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The whole lore is incomplete, and I don't even know what Orphion is. Why does an Orphion came out of nowhere without much explanation

 

I remember when I first did the quest it took me at least 15 minutes to find the caves with the seeds (I know there’s a path but it wasn’t obvious enough I guess).

 

I believe that a while back I used a higher class to get the two seeds because I remembered how awful the whole location was mob-wise. With my warrior I could tank hits but with my other classes (might have been archer which I never liked playing) I felt like I'd just keep dying because of excessive mob hits and no way to heal other than potions. I never have to run quests with a higher class for a lower one very often but RoL is so bad it not only eases the pain of getting through it but makes the process much faster to get through.

Also if shattered minds Light Forest has loot chests scattered within it plus Easter egg mobs/content why couldn't they do the same for RoL? It would at least give one reason for someone to go back there.