Solo Duties

[Vyrerus]

I like the solo duties. It's a nice to see the dev team capable of developing fights based around one person. To me they seem like a way to make the playerbase learn some of the mechanics that they might not see, otherwise. The RP ones I rather like, because I like to see what the other characters that are reputed to be the creme of the crop can do. Like the damage Estinien was capable of in that vision one was insane. Alphi-boy's physic and also him having Ruin III. Just kinda neat.

[Neoom]

Most of them are fun the first time, but doing them on alt's the second time is not so fun. But I think that's more my own problem than the games :')
Also the Thancred fight can go to hell I NEVER want to see it again, would rather fight un dying Zenos again for 100 times...

[Vyrerus]

Most of them are fun the first time, but doing them on alt's the second time is not so fun. But I think that's more my own problem than the games :')
Also the Thancred fight can go to hell I NEVER want to see it again, would rather fight un dying Zenos again for 100 times...

I've done the Thancred fight on 3 different characters. I feel your pain haha

[Neoom]

I've done the Thancred fight on 3 different characters. I feel your pain haha

I have done it 3 times too and I hated it even the first time.. the other 2 I legit was thinking ''maybe they dont need to finish story after all..''

[Vyrerus]

I have done it 3 times too and I hated it even the first time.. the other 2 I legit was thinking ''maybe they dont need to finish story after all..''

I'm pretty immune to solo activities taking a long time. I go back and solo old content just as soon as I think I can, and I also do a lot of solo attempts in POTD and HoH. For me it was just like,"Man I wish I had more of the Gunbreaker skills to work with, like you know, Continuation or something."

[kujoestars]

"Second Zenos fight"... in a thread about solo duties... the one in Yanxia where Yugiri fought with you? If im reading that right, you havent gotten to the first "role-play" instance yet. The first one(that i remember anyway) was in the 4.x patch line quests. And youve been doing solo instances here and there since like level 5. As a monk(pugilist) i would guess you started in Ul Dah, so your first would have been a fight near the Sultantree in central thanalan. An ascian summoned some form of voidsent and you put it down. Ill avoid any specific spoilers for now. The thancred fight that gets mentioned is interesting(individual opinions may vary) and it serves a purpose in advancing the story(somewhat - could be better), but the enemy(it isnt zenos, if thats what youre worried about) has a bit too much hp so the fight drags a bit longer then ideally it should(from a storytelling and gameplay perspective). Youre still a ways out from there however.

I’m.....confused by your response because that is a Solo Duty. Unless I’m somehow mistaken in thinking any MSQ quest that has “Duty Started!” and makes you solo it is one. And I’m not sure why you dragged in “Under the Sultantree” either because it’s not relevant to anything I said at all.

Is there something wrong about me posting my reaction to a Solo Duty in a thread about Solo Duties? I legit just said I hope it’s not a regular occurrence where I have to get past a long-ass unwinnable boss fight and expressed some nervousness at people talking about a Solo Duty involving Thancred in the latest patch. I don’t know if you intended it or not, but your post came off as very condescending. :\

I’m not stupid, I know what a Solo Duty is and that Zenos isn’t going to be every single boss, so you can just tell me the instances drag out even more and have roleplaying dialogue to boot.

[GoldX18]

Well...as someone who just spent two hours trying to complete the Samurai Lvl 54 Class Quest....not all are under-tuned...some are just brutal lols.

[Yuella]

They're great. Some players play for the story, not for the endgame. I like it if the story drags because it makes my subscription worth it. If the story takes 1 day to complete and the rest of the game is endgame raid, I would only subscribe one month every two years.

[Tlamila]

I absolutely hate them and I'd be happy to have them replaced by some cutscene. They were ok time ago, but now as time go they become longer and longer and more tedious. And at the end if you die is because you fell asleep/got caught by exhaustion. And they're just long for the sake of being long, no added value from that.

[Wilford111]

I wanted to comment on this myself, after having finished the solo instance inside Cid's memories this morning. I'm not sure I like that the dev team is seemingly incorporating more and more solo instances to this game, especially since the multiplayer aspect is why I enjoy it so much. Plus there really aren't any rewards for doing these, minus progression and the rewards you would have received from completing the quest anyway. Also you can only do them once per playthrough.

I'm not sure I was interpreting this right, but apparently the next patch won't have a Trial because they're incorporating their resources into creating a solo duty instead. Regardless of how amazing this solo duty might be, I heavily disagree with this decision for the reasons listed above. However I could very well be misinterpreting something so please correct me if I'm wrong.