Can we stop destroying the solo part of this game?

[Onidemon]

you may be having a hard time because of your gear. With the new stats gear plays a heavy role in your stats. My dated iron cuirass has around 175 def at rank47(im prob off a little on def and rank) the new cobalt has roughly 100 more def. Im not even attempting to tank anything till i re-gear my character. And then here materia.

You may ave to make sure you character build is top notch if you dont want to fight enemys taht are you equal or lesser lvl.

i didn't take that into consideration.. you may be right about that. thx!

[syntaxlies]

i didn't take that into consideration.. you may be right about that. thx!

glad is prob the hardest class to solo imo, you dont do much damage and you have to rely on defense all to much. You may have to sacrifice a little defense to raise your attack up. look for some +attack materia.

[Whax]

They didn´t broke solo because other people are getting better exp than before soloing, so you are doing something wrong.

[PaynesGrey]

If they wanted to make us force party, for one, maybe they should have fixed the terrible party search function. Barely anyone uses it. Solo should still be viable (for now) because it is really hard to find people to play with. The people currently on the servers are mostly people that are long gone from the lower levels. You can just look at the countless threads on here and other sites asking for LS that have 0 replies.

This is so much true. I'm actually pretty sure that it's mostly the people that already have higher level jobs, a large, active group of friends (Linkshell) to do stuff with that are praising this patch and trying to imply that solo playing is fine.

Now I quit this game around late november 2010 and just recently came back to try it out, and so far I've started a new character on 3 different servers just to find people to play with, but it hasn't been easy.

Basically what I've been doing and what many of you are saying to be really easy - is trying to find a linkshell. I have very politely shouted for an active social linkshell on the streets of Ul'dah, but I really haven't had any luck on any of the servers I've tried.

On the first character that was on Lindblum, it took me 4 evenings of throwing shouts every 15-30mins while crafting in Ul'dah for around 3-5hours per session to get in a Linkshell, sadly the LS didn't really fit into the "social and active" category, because it only had 2-4 (counting me) people on at best. Decided to try another server a few days after.

The next one I tried was Figaro, being one of the highest populated server I had high hopes of finding people to play with here, but surprisingly it happened to be the worst case for me. 4 evenings of throwing LS shouts in Ul'dah and not a single reply, even though I had a rough week at work and couldn't really get myself to spend more than one or two hours for shouting, I was pretty disappointed by the lack of replys.

The third and so far the last server I've tried after coming back is Selbina. Took a few evenings to find a linkshell here and I actually had to apply from their page to get in, but that's fine. The thing that isn't fine though is the fact that people in the LS start to wake up when I'm about to go to sleep. So yeah, still no real luck here.

So please, go ahead and try to make a character from scratch and see how fast you can actually get into an active Linkshell and group activities. Also the people who are in big Linkshells and are saying that getting in a Linkshell with a character that has basically nothing done is easy and fast, I have a question for you - is YOUR LS actually taking new members or not? I'm afraid quite many of you actually figure out that the answer is no - you probably have to have at least one level50 job or other stuff like that. Believe me, I've read quite a few LS requirements.

Also you're probably wondering what timezone I'm at if english speaking players are waking up when I'm about to hit the bed - I live in eastern Europe and I'm on pretty much the opposite timezone to NA for example, not much I can do about it for now. I guess I could try to learn japanese really fast or try to find an EU LS, which both seem quite hard tasks to complete atm. But if someone can point me towards a server with big EU population that doesn't only speak french or german, I'd highly appreciate it.

well most people are saying if you want to solo to look for even matches now. Solo will never get as much xp as party, thats the way they design it, its a way to encourage party play

You do realize that at lower levels (I say it again; LOWER LEVELS, that being 20 and under) even matches actually give you like 120 exp and require you to stand still and rest after the kill?

Also, solo exp has been miles away from FFXIV party exp for nearly a year now, don't try to imply that it has been close, or too close to the exp gain. And now they actually made the party exp to have much, much larger gap to solo exp than before.

And to everyone, do any of you remember how SE was (or is) advertising FFXIV? They were saying it is a game for all kinds of players, solo players, group players, casual and hardcore alike. They said you could play it alone casually and still progress in it, but I don't imagine a new player seeing that now after joining the game and getting beat to the ground by a 3 levels higher squirrel.

[Jennestia]

I'm still waiting for your youtube video of you going to the beach and calling girls derogatory comments because they wear swimsuits.

Solo is ok, but that's not why you should be playing an MMORPG, solo MMOs get boring and stale quick, why do you think people are sick and tired of "The same old MMO"? Every one is solo centric then you live in boring instances for the rest of your career.

How do people do a quest if they can't heal themselves without an overpowered easy mage class that almost has unlimited healing..

Get some friends or LS mates?

Or make cure 2 cost 50 mp so we can use it at least 8 times..

Nope. It's perfect the way it is now.

I am someone that wants to go his own way in a game

There's plenty of MMOs out there where you can do this now, FFXIV may just not be for you -- They're redesigning this game and like it or not, there's a lot more people who like doing things in a group setting than lonewolf. There's going to be lesser content for soloers, especially after further adjustments, but do not expect this game to be another MMORPG where you can solo from start to finish in everything, they may as well shut down FFXIV for good if they go that route.

[Neptune]

@OP, I agree with you that Cure costs are way to high. It seems like it's the highest of any FF game.
I disagree with you about how tough it is to kill monsters or links. I think that's fine.
BUT, you should be rewarded for your time with lots of exp, which I'm sure you are not due to the broken leveling curve.

Devs, fix the MP costs! What the hell!

[neizero]

solo is fine as it is.

/endthread

[BeePee]

A little late, but what a BOLD thread!

[Coglin]

Never ceases to amaze me how people play a multi-player game just to complain about it if its not single player designed.

[Kiote]

But being killed by just 3 lvl 46 efts is ridicules...

This is a Joke right?

Your upset that you can't solo THREE enemies that are all THREE levels higher than you? Give me a break. Solo play is for on level 1 v 1-2 combat. Not taking on hordes of enemies that are significantly higher level than you.