Please Give Support For Solo Savage Raids

[Macleod]

I don't know what the real solution is, but I feel like everything 20+ levels below the current max level should be made soloable at max level unsynced because by then the content AND the gear are extremely obsolete and only wanted purely for glam.

[Ransu]

Except I want the items and they're only available from alphascape v4 Savage. Also you can still play raids how you want I want an option for solo play

This is an MMO....one with already a massive amount of solo friendly stuff. The one thing that should never be solo friendly is raid content. Sorry, not sorry. Plenty of single player games out there for you. I wish solo players would stop trying to turn this genre into a single player game where everything can be 100% soloable. It defeats the entire purpose of the appeal most of us find in MMO's.

[Sarnai]

Found a party for Alphascae 4 savage even tho I had a mount. We got all 6 mounts for the rest. Then I sadi that I wanted a chestpiece from that fight and party agreed to go 2 more times for me. We wiped and spent like 2 hours overall yet everyone were nice and patient.

Recently We 2 friends cleared Gaia. Found a party in PF, sat there 5 hours with one patient amazing person who showed us some mechs and described them. And after 5 hours we all had our mounts and gear. Some ppl left, same 5 stayed even if we wiped every 2nd pull.

Idk how it is over on your DC, but in my experience it's not very hard to keep party together if you're being nice and patient with them tbh. aAnd even if they disband - you place party in PF again and do something on the side

[Razzpie]

I understand what the OP is talking about.

Been trying to do Omega Raids unsynced, and asking people to follow instruction / video. LOOK at my party call outs, just flies over their head and you get bothersome replies of "LOL oh, I didnt' see party chat kekw" or "kekw I didn't watch the video checking now" after 10 wipes cause of this individual.

Add this to time wasted, because for some reason in THIS MMO specifically, once 1 person leaves it's a stupid domino effect that everyone leaves.
But then you go and say "No, please follow my instruction!" you get called out as an aggressive / angry leader of the group and then they just troll your run.

So it's a build up, and frustration of probably weeks of work with 0 results because of people / PF / "Its my sub" chads. All You're asking is to pay attention / watch the video

And unfortunately, you cannot solo ANY of the Savage versions of Omega, just like how you can't solo Alexanders (Savage) Manipulator or Brute Justice due to 1 shot mechanics that outright kill you.

This is also 20+ levels of obsolete gear that will most likely never be used, unless it's gear used somewhere I don't know about. Which I doubt it IS used.
2 expansions ago, do YOU really care? I don't think so.
Does someone who just started playing FF14 seeing all this inaccessible gear care? I think so.

"Oh but it's Savage content from 10 years ago, it should remain difficult"
Yeah, ok.jpg. It should remain difficult for it's time, it should remain difficult SYNCED (This is the option for the difficulty purpose) for those who WANT To experience it difficult can easily do, however, for Glam purposes? Obsolete armors and weapons you use for 5-10 levels of the bracket?

There is the reason it's still difficult! I just answered my question. Savage gear is locked to being "Difficult" cause it can carry you 10 levels. Leveling is definitely the reason.

Glam farming is the hardest part of the game, ultra levels of suffering OP, good luck.

PS; I've been at it for over 3 months in PF, teaching and telling people how to do omega runs, so it might take me a year to collect the sets.

[Ransu]

Make friends?

[IkaraGreydancer]

Pretty soon folks will want the entire game to be doable solo. Then they'll complain about how anti social the game is and how nobody talks.

Put a pf up, join an fc/ask your fc mates or hop onto some discords. Introversion is not an excuse and shouldn't be something devs need to compensate for in an MMO. And say this as an introvert myself. Yeah it sucks but if I want things done I have to reach out. Keep AI teammates away from anything to do with Savage new and old. Keep that dev time on better things I say

[NekoMataMata]

I could get behind this for past raids. They're not super relevant content and if you didn't do them when they were modern content, you might be missing out on the chance to do them later.

There's so much content in this game but a lot of the optional multiplayer content is outright locked out to you unless you're willing to sit there and struggle to put a small team together to unsync it. And while it's not like people don't mount farm or tank farm, outside of those putting together teams for simple clears of optional content takes a while...

FFXIV is supposed to be one of the MMOs that respects your time the most. Keeping things the way they are now for past optional content punishes you for either not being around during earlier expansions or for not playing during an expansion when content is new.

I know people are freaked out about the idea of the game becoming too solo heavy and some of you are mentally screaming "stop being so introverted" at the OP, but until you've sat in PF along with discords made for the purpose of completing older content for a few hours with no responses, you probably won't understand. Especially if you're a veteran player that had the luxury of completing the content while it was new, relevant and desirable.

Current raids(and current content in general) should always be about playing with other players but older content needs a fix.

[ThaCa]

Not worth the dev time considering how much more pressing matters there are.

[IkaraGreydancer]

I could get behind this for past raids. They're not super relevant content and if you didn't do them when they were modern content, you might be missing out on the chance to do them later.

There's so much content in this game but a lot of the optional multiplayer content is outright locked out to you unless you're willing to sit there and struggle to put a small team together to unsync it. And while it's not like people don't mount farm or tank farm, outside of those putting together teams for simple clears of optional content takes a while...

FFXIV is supposed to be one of the MMOs that respects your time the most. Keeping things the way they are now for past optional content punishes you for either not being around during earlier expansions or for not playing during an expansion when content is new.

I know people are freaked out about the idea of the game becoming too solo heavy and some of you are mentally screaming "stop being so introverted" at the OP, but until you've sat in PF along with discords made for the purpose of completing older content for a few hours with no responses, you probably won't understand. Especially if you're a veteran player that had the luxury of completing the content while it was new, relevant and desirable.

Current raids(and current content in general) should always be about playing with other players but older content needs a fix.

Well I can personally say I HAVE been in situations where pfs don't fill up so I do understand. I'd still say no to adding duty support to old savages/EX. There's a big difference between a game respecting your time and you choosing to waste your own time. You cant claim a game isn't respecting your time when the players are the ones not doing what you want to do. That's not the games fault. If you can't find 3 or 4 people via pf, discord, fellowship, linkshell etc.. there's a bit more going on there imo.
Been playing for 4+ years and some days you'll get alot of hits, other days you won't. Just how it is.

[NekoMataMata]

Well I can personally say I HAVE been in situations where pfs don't fill up so I do understand. I'd still say no to adding duty support to old savages/EX. There's a big difference between a game respecting your time and you choosing to waste your own time. You cant claim a game isn't respecting your time when the players are the ones not doing what you want to do. That's not the games fault. If you can't find 3 or 4 people via pf, discord, fellowship, linkshell etc.. there's a bit more going on there imo.
Been playing for 4+ years and some days you'll get alot of hits, other days you won't. Just how it is.

I mean I'm not saying you can't find people but the time it takes to find people for older non-MSQ related content in this game is excessive.

And you can't really rely on other people to help anyways. Veteran players have zero reason to help and only a smaller portion of newer players are going to be interested due to most of them being busy catching up on the rest of the content in-game.

It's a MMO, and part of MMOs respecting your time is making sure that as long as you're being civil, you will be able to find other players to complete content with in a reasonable time. Some fights have incentives to revisit such as mount farms(tank farms for achievements), but other fights don't. Either the game should incentivize them somehow or better yet, add some form of a loop hole so players can receive the experience that they paid for via their monthly subscription.

The game is not respecting your time you wait multiple hours in pf/discord and have to abandon your search before you could even potentially find others that are interested. You can sit here and play the blame game if you'd like, but it's unreasonable to blame players for things that are out of their control.