Solo dungeons and raids!

[kyuven]

In what way is it a raid if it's done solo? The very definition of a raid is multiple people exceeding the standard group size laying siege to an enemy. If it's soloable, it ceases to be a raid.
SPECIAL solo dungeons I can get behind, maybe akin to Maat from XI. DCUO did these types of things and it works pretty well. Basically imagine harder versions of our Job quests. The rewards aren't great, maybe no more than doing a map would be (Maybe it could be the new form of alexandrite maps!), but they're still prizes.
This is a multiplayer game. There is and will always be plenty of solo content, but there should ALWAYS be things locked behind group content, otherwise this would just be a single player game.

[PEANUT]

In what way is it a raid if it's done solo? The very definition of a raid is multiple people exceeding the standard group size laying siege to an enemy. If it's soloable, it ceases to be a raid.
SPECIAL solo dungeons I can get behind, maybe akin to Maat from XI. DCUO did these types of things and it works pretty well. Basically imagine harder versions of our Job quests. The rewards aren't great, maybe no more than doing a map would be (Maybe it could be the new form of alexandrite maps!), but they're still prizes.
This is a multiplayer game. There is and will always be plenty of solo content, but there should ALWAYS be things locked behind group content, otherwise this would just be a single player game.

I understand your post, but I don't think you understand my post.

Like I said, I do not think they should make baby versions of raids where you get whatever loot you want and experience the full battle mech. etc. Just a soloable version for story purposes, and to be able to experience the full raid at your own pace. I know what the term "raid" means, but I am not referring to the act of playing with lot's of players, I am referring to the content at which you play normally with a raid.

Again, there is nothing wrong with options, and MMO's always provide updated content that you don't get with regular RPGs. Even adding soloable versions a while after everyone has had their fun with the reg. raid version.

[kyuven]

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And like I said, since this goes against their design philosophy, they're simply not going to do it unless content becomes horribly outdated (and they've mentioned working on NPC mercenaries for that purpose)
You will not have soloable, current story content in this game, because of that philosophy.
If that's what you want, there ARE games that allow you to do so, such as Neverwinter and Vindictus (sorta in the latter case) but this isn't that type of game.

INDEPENDENT solo instances with their own goals and such, though, are definitely possible.