Emprise Du Lion and the body pits in the Exalted Plains.
Love Emprise du Lion but hoooomg the body pits puke puke stab me in the eyeball NOOOOOO not again
The Forbidden Oasis. Eurgh. I just can't. I hate that place
If you never pick up a single shard it never even populates on the map
Raise your hand if you were sad and missed ye olde Oasis... what, no hands in the air? Huh.
For me? Everything after "In Your Heart Shall Burn." The tension and dread and excitement are really well paced up until that point (excluding the 20 hours you waste in the bloody Hinderlands). Recruiting Cole or Dorian first, doesn't matter, both those quests are great. Just knowing what's coming up... the confrontation with Corypheus, the trek through the snow, The Song, chat with Solas, hunt for Skyhold, arrive at Skyhold... ahhh so exciting. But then.... everything grinds to a halt. it's fun meeting Hawke, and I'll usually run through that whole entire questline pretty quickly. But then... ugh.... no.... NOT AGAIN.... the damn court. Halamshiral. NOOOOO ugh not this again. Sigh. Pull up the stupid guide. Carefully and cautiously find each coin/halla/quest item, talk to the person, go through the door, whoops, wrong order, reload, now who do I want on the throne? oh wait a second, doesn't matter in the end, and why the hell does my random little Dalish elf give a flying floof who is on the Orlesian throne???
So, yeah, I'm currently stuck there. I went through the trouble of modding my game so I could get my grabby hands on Cullen, and even the thought of a dance on the balcony with the dear former knight-captain is not enough to make me turn that game back on even after a two month break.