Why is there a forced stealth section?

[Typhoria]

I'm almost 100% certain they don't set off the patrolling Statues. When I ran it Y'Shtola and Almet followed pretty closely behind most of the time but at other times they lagged behind and were literally right in front of the Statues and nothing happened. I didn't fail it once and was pretty confident that it was impossible to fail.

They absolutely do. When I did it, I sprinted by and made it to the door without any aggro before they had finished their banter.

10s later when the NPCs came through, both of the statues immediately aggroed to me. So after killing the statues, I made sure the NPCs were actually following me for the next pathing sequence.

[Hawklaser]

Gasp!?! How dare they have a spot where avoiding agro might be a thing?

I actually wouldn't mind a few more spots where the quicker and preferred way of getting through an area involved avoiding agro, as the constant wall to wall pulls in dungeons gets old after a while. It needs to be mixed up every now and then.

[Fynlar]

My only gripe with it is how hopeless they seem to think the players are and therefore trivialise the difficulty

Believe me, it's completely warranted.

[Reimmi]

It was barely even a stealth section
in fact you can fight 2 of them without getting the debuff to kill range, tons of leeway

[Violet_Galaxy]

Why isn't there more?

Honestly this. That was a rather refreshing change of pace from the usual "go here, kill this, come back" sort of sections we usually get. Not to mention the puzzles that we had to solve and the little cute Indiana Jones moment. Actually, that entire section was a very GOOD highlight of why I'm enjoying this expansion above others.

[Doozer]

I just did that section and was worried after seeing this thread, but once it was done I was like "what, that's it?"

People seem to hate anything beyond hitting 1-2-3 and pressing D to move out of a circle.

[Hezzlocks]

They absolutely do. When I did it, I sprinted by and made it to the door without any aggro before they had finished their banter.

10s later when the NPCs came through, both of the statues immediately aggroed to me. So after killing the statues, I made sure the NPCs were actually following me for the next pathing sequence.

I've seen someone do the same thing you did. But it wasn't the NPCs aggroing them, it was the one closest to the end door seeing him, since there's not really much of a "safe" spot by the door out of LoS of the one that paths there. It was quite obvious watching it, too. You aggro one, you aggro them all.

[Typhoria]

I've seen someone do the same thing you did. But it wasn't the NPCs aggroing them, it was the one closest to the end door seeing him, since there's not really much of a "safe" spot by the door out of LoS of the one that paths there. It was quite obvious watching it, too. You aggro one, you aggro them all.

That certainly is possible, just not intuitive. Typically mobs, for those types of events/puzzles, only have linear vision, not arcing.

[Aylis]

I did it a few days ago and...to be honest I felt Wanderers Palace NM was more of a stealth section then that was. I enjoyed it anyway and the Indiana Jones section was a nice touch.

[Machka]

Honestly this. That was a rather refreshing change of pace from the usual "go here, kill this, come back" sort of sections we usually get. Not to mention the puzzles that we had to solve and the little cute Indiana Jones moment. Actually, that entire section was a very GOOD highlight of why I'm enjoying this expansion above others.

Yeah, I really enjoyed it as well. "Refreshing change of pace" were the exact words I used to describe it to my friends. I wouldn't mind seeing more of this sort of thing, or even just having this sort of mechanic/structure incorporated into some dungeons as an alternate route as someone else suggested. Like one route could be the usual wall to wall aoe mashing, and the other could be a puzzle and stealth/awareness shortcut that actually saves you some time if you do it correctly etc.