Please Give Support For Solo Savage Raids

[Saidosha]

I see some are still stuck in the mentality that MMO means mandatory multiplayer.

Pragmatically, playing with others should always be optional, and as long as things are restricted to group content, you can't exactly call it optional when the choice becomes do or don't. Not everyone is up for the "logistics" of group content. I imagine we've all had some instance of trying to do PUG things where the party turns into a revolving door or outright collapses when a wipe happens or one or two people get what they're after. When that happens to you enough, it's not surprising one would grow disenfranchised with the community no matter how "helpful" onlookers may try to be. "Just level WAR to 90!" is not good advice if the person has zero interest in tanks or views the related effort as not worth it for a singular goal or two.

Despite the shortcomings of Trusts, I do believe they're actually one of the best types of features a MMO could embrace. They can help teach a player without snark. They can enable someone who is more off-hours to get things done. It eliminates the "feed every mouth" pressure that goes hand-in-hand with forming a large group (and RNG doesn't cooperate). They can even better prepare the player through that combination of knowledge and drops should they wish to help others. I could certainly understand if SE wouldn't allow them while content is immediately current, but after that? I'd say fair game.

That said, I'd also say the game is somewhat at its worst when things can't be bought with tomestones. Be it mounts or gear, it sucks when what you want just will not drop. And sure, mounts have the safety net with totems, but I'd argue the amount of required clears are rather overtuned and impractical. Of course, I'd also propose an alternative for old content not in the current expansion: As long as you've cleared it once, you can buy whatever it offered with poetics. Make them cost 2k to encourage running whatever, fine, but the option should nonetheless be there to curb burnout and disdain for peers, which can feed into unsubscribing or outright quitting the game. Alternatively, expand the Mog Tome event to be full-time with bonus content rotating daily while changing rewards out every week or so.