Why is there no Savage tier content for solo players?

I actually hope when they do the successor to Delubrum Reginae Savage, they force more than one solo instance. Like DRS has the solo right after Trinity Seeker. Difficulty is on-par as other Bozja solos, only that if you die you must leave the instance. Before valor was added it was critical that it be cleared to meet DPS checks.

If they added another solo where someone else has to jump-in after the 2nd or 3rd boss, that'd be really cool. Or maybe the game force's someone from the 47 remaining players to have to go in. It's just cool that they combined the solo aspect with the 48-man savage alliance and they should keep going.

Not gonna lie. I would love solo challenge modes, particularly if they reward savage equivalent gear. Or, you know, at least reward upgrade tokens for tomestone gear on the same schedule as savage raiders, enabling people with an adequate skill level to gear themselves up without needing seven other people and without having to wait for each tier's 24 man.

I'm sure some people will want to argue how this would diminish (or at least conflict with) the game's identity as an MMO, but that's not quite the case. Raid content and roulettes will always exist, and there will always be a demographic to which these things appeal. In the case of roulettes; those are practically mandatory. All solo challenge modes would do is give people that don't have the time or social network to get into raiding the opportunity to enjoy challenging content and reap appropriate rewards.

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Originally Posted by Absimiliard

Not gonna lie. I would love solo challenge modes, particularly if they reward savage equivalent gear. Or, you know, at least reward upgrade tokens for tomestone gear on the same schedule as savage raiders, enabling people with an adequate skill level to gear themselves up without needing seven other people and without having to wait for each tier's 24 man.

I'm sure some people will want to argue how this would diminish (or at least conflict with) the game's identity as an MMO, but that's not quite the case. Raid content and roulettes will always exist, and there will always be a demographic to which these things appeal. In the case of roulettes; those are practically mandatory. All solo challenge modes would do is give people that don't have the time or social network to get into raiding the opportunity to enjoy challenging content and reap appropriate rewards.

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Considering the nature of most people to minmax this game I would prefer a halfstep tier in between the 24 man stuff and the EX/savage gear. It would give less confident players some slightly better gear for them to tackle the EX/Savage fights while proving they can do semi difficult mechanics due to the fact said player has gear from the solo savage/ex fights.

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Originally Posted by Raoabolic

Considering the nature of most people to minmax this game I would prefer a halfstep tier in between the 24 man stuff and the EX/savage gear. It would give less confident players some slightly better gear for them to tackle the EX/Savage fights while proving they can do semi difficult mechanics due to the fact said player has gear from the solo savage/ex fights.

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Min-maxing is the reason it would work. Fully optimized gear will pretty much always be a mixture of upgraded tomestone gear and savage drops (or the occasional piece of relic gear if you're at the end of an expansion). If you want the absolute best stats available for your character then you would still have to step into savages.

Getting the invite for a duel just requires you to be able to pay attention for 2-5 minutes, and Southern Front duels like Aces High are completely deadbrain these days with max valor.

If you want solo content that doesn't require any amount of skill to join, do the masked carnivale.