Can we stop destroying the solo part of this game?

[Vanguard319]

Combat is finally getting balanced. You need to rethink your strategies on fighting and fight things more your level (and not multiples at once if you can avoid it). Through chain and link xp, you'll make more xp over time than trying to fight monsters a higher level than yours.

what strategy? your head is handed to you before you have a chance to formulate one, often by mobs at the same level.

[Betelgeuzah]

what strategy? your head is handed to you before you have a chance to formulate one, often by mobs at the same level.

Not really.

[Vanguard319]

Not really.

yes really.

[Betelgeuzah]

yes really.

Says, once again, some level 50.

the selling of goods isn't, but the actual crafting and gathering is solo.

You gather and craft for the purpose of participating in the economy, possibly making a living.

It's all interconnected together. Even soloing in combat situation usually enables you to participate in the economy, so nothing in this game is truly "soloing" when it comes down to it.

That said, most new players have a problem because they don't realize this. You don't exist in a vacuum where monsters drop gil and items which you sell to NPC's as well as buy new equipment from NPC's and quests and craft and gather for yourself and nobody else. In a world where other players exist for the sake of existing like if you were living in New York where there's people around you but you are still pretty much alone, interacting only when absolutely necessary.

[Vanguard319]

Says, once again, some level 50.

Says some hypocrite who hasn't played in a year.

[Jennestia]

Says some hypocrite who hasn't played in a year.

Btw, you can't use these forums if you never played.

Good thing these guys don't make games lol..

Some of the best games out to date are single player games created by indie developers.

[Charismatic]

Btw, you can't use these forums if you never played.

Sure you can, log in, log out.

[Vanguard319]

Btw, you can't use these forums if you never played.

true, but you can use these forums regardless of whether you are playing daily, of logging in for 5 seconds every month, simply so that you can continue to troll the forums.

[Xatsh]

If soloing is impossible why do I have new players in my ls and many members leveling other classes in the 30s who are having absolutely no problem doing leves/soloing on off hours.

People need to look at the level of mobs, if the mob is at your level like if you where 30 and it is 30, if it is a stronger mob (not a rat) it has about a 50/50 shot of killing you unless you have a ton of cross class abilities. (it is you level so it is an even match)

Here is what people are doing wrong they are going after mobs 2+ levels higher then them... now read the first statement I made about the difficulty, people doing this have no chance at winning those fight consecutively and will have massive downtime recovering if they do win.

You can kill a mob 1-2 levels below you easy, you cannot chain (that is for partys anyways) and you still get around 150-200sp per kill same as pre-1.19 with about 1/5th the required rest after a fght as it would if you fought a Even match mob.

This patch is exactly what the game needed, it allows those with little playtime the ability to solo leves and mobs (AT THE RIGHT LEVEL) and for those with more time to party and get very increased benefits. Exactly what a mmo should be like.

As for personal experience leves I was easily able to do 40 leves on my pug 42 at 2 stars. Yea any higher would of destroyed me probably, but that is the difficulty level for a soloer at my level I have a strange feeling people keep putting things on like 3-5 stars and being shocked when the mobs rip you apart in 5secs.

All in all those complaining soloing is impossible or worse then XI are simply doing it wrong... there is no other explanation for it. There are many post on this forum now giving guidance, all the people who are mad have to do is read.

Grouping is far better now then soloing, which for a multiplayer game is exactly how it should be. Everyone needs to accept that or leave. So solo when you are short on time or waiting on a group, party when you can to truly experiance the game.