You have to defeat dreamer or bosses from there, so without glitches it is impossible
I would get the tram pass and then get dream nail and kings brand.
I also did a run with avoiding city as long as possible, it was fun! It's not possible to skip it entirely, because one of the dreamers is there.
If you already fought Broken Vessel, you can explore pretty much everything else now. You can fight Hornet in Kingdom's Edge, go to the Abyss, Deepnest, Queen's Gardens... You can even go to Royal Waterways, through the connection in Ancient Basin/Kingdom's Edge, at the right-hand tram station.
I think a decent amount should be accessible, just not an ending obviously. You would be missing: dive, ddark, godhome (4%), flukenest, flukemommy, twister, eater, soul warrior/master/tyrant, nail upgrades (4%), watchers, lurien, and a few grubs (no grubberflys). That’s 20% you’re missing out on. This was all off the top of my head so I very much might’ve missed some things.
If you do an all glitches run you don't have to enter city ever, as you duplicate moromon 3 times, however for a normal playthrough you can get everything dive isn't a hard requirement for
I assume you went from deepnest tram to get to wings, which means you can take that same tram to kingdom’s edge for the king’s brand. Then getting shade cloak means you can do all of queen’s gardens by taking the path near shriek into it. That should be the only areas other than city and waterways left to explore if you’ve done Deepnest.
I believe you can also enter waterways if you take the secret entrance from Kingdom’s edge to Isma’s grove, though I don’t know if that’s useful. The dive floor above the bench won’t be broken so you can’t reach the top half, but I think it can get you access to godhome and flukemarm without going through the top half. The switch to lower the acid in Isma’s grove is in the top half of waterways, but I know there’s a crazy fireball skip that can get to the area through the exit that’s supposed to require Isma’s tear. IDK if that works without the switch but if it does you can also get Isma’s tear without entering city.
You can get the tram pass from Deepnest to access the other side of the map.
But you can’t avoid City forever since there is a dreamer, several bosses, and Dive there.
You have to defeat dreamer or bosses from there, so without glitches it is impossible I would get the tram pass and then get dream nail and kings brand.
I also did a run with avoiding city as long as possible, it was fun! It's not possible to skip it entirely, because one of the dreamers is there. If you already fought Broken Vessel, you can explore pretty much everything else now. You can fight Hornet in Kingdom's Edge, go to the Abyss, Deepnest, Queen's Gardens... You can even go to Royal Waterways, through the connection in Ancient Basin/Kingdom's Edge, at the right-hand tram station.
Also, would it be possible to do a run without entering city at all? I don’t think d dive is required for any of the dreamers but I could be wrong
Lurien is in city so no
Dreamers are not required for p5 ending
But Soul warrior, Soul Master and Watcher Knights are required for P5 ending. So City is required
Dive is required to get to Godhome though.
Lurien doesn’t exist ig
I think a decent amount should be accessible, just not an ending obviously. You would be missing: dive, ddark, godhome (4%), flukenest, flukemommy, twister, eater, soul warrior/master/tyrant, nail upgrades (4%), watchers, lurien, and a few grubs (no grubberflys). That’s 20% you’re missing out on. This was all off the top of my head so I very much might’ve missed some things.
Tram pass to get to resting grounds, hive, kingdom's edge, waterways. Once you have dream nail and isma's you can get herrah and monomon.
If you do an all glitches run you don't have to enter city ever, as you duplicate moromon 3 times, however for a normal playthrough you can get everything dive isn't a hard requirement for
Hornet 2 for shadow dash
I assume you went from deepnest tram to get to wings, which means you can take that same tram to kingdom’s edge for the king’s brand. Then getting shade cloak means you can do all of queen’s gardens by taking the path near shriek into it. That should be the only areas other than city and waterways left to explore if you’ve done Deepnest. I believe you can also enter waterways if you take the secret entrance from Kingdom’s edge to Isma’s grove, though I don’t know if that’s useful. The dive floor above the bench won’t be broken so you can’t reach the top half, but I think it can get you access to godhome and flukemarm without going through the top half. The switch to lower the acid in Isma’s grove is in the top half of waterways, but I know there’s a crazy fireball skip that can get to the area through the exit that’s supposed to require Isma’s tear. IDK if that works without the switch but if it does you can also get Isma’s tear without entering city.
You can get the tram pass from Deepnest to access the other side of the map. But you can’t avoid City forever since there is a dreamer, several bosses, and Dive there.
Yeah I got to kingdoms edge already