Quote Originally Posted by Fleur View Post
Personally I do not find this game to be "too" solo friendly when it comes to battle classes. While you can solo grind or do leves by yourself, it is simply more efficient to gain SP in a leve/grind party, which makes a big difference at higher ranks. Heck, I'm R40+ and I can't make progress at a decent rate except in parties! Which, I might add, don't just magically appear whenever I feel like playing. >.<

Personally, I find the disparity between "solo-friendly-ness" at lower/mid ranks vs. higher ranks to be a bit much. Players might start out in the game and get used to not needing to party, then at higher ranks when they kinda need to they aren't used to it.

As for why solo players still like MMO's . . . maybe due to RL they just can't often do activities with other players, but still enjoy the less scheduled and time-intensive social aspects such as chatting? And I don't remember where I saw this said, but I agree that in an MMO, "other players are content"!
I know a few months ago before the sp adjustment, it was more efficient to solo grind on c/doblyns than it was to party, but then they upped party SP and nerfed coblyn HP. What do people solo grind on now? No one really talks about grinding on anything else except coblyns, and I assume they aren't doing that now.

Except for leves, I don't see a solo option for DoW/DoM (and really leves are better linked anyway). So even though solo is an option right now, it isn't really a good one.