FFXIV needs to stop accommodating Solo Players

[Suniva]

What we can say is that regularly, there is a point in time of FFXIV's history where the balance between simplicity and complexity is concidered to be the best of both worlds, and that point is Stormblood. .

No argument from me there. I've been a Bard since ARR and Bard felt so, so good during StB. But if I am to be frank, Bard was going to feel substantially better after the travesty that was bow mage during Heavensward. *shivers*

[Valence]

Here are some examples of mechanics that he's talking about in regards to wanting to feel like you are working with other people:

- Two role orbs spawn and hunt down either the DPS or the supports (tank and healer). If they reach that player, they explode, deal a decent chunk of damage to the whole party, and paralyze the entire party which can be Esuna'd. If a player of the opposite role (DPS or Support) pops the orb before it reaches the target, only they take the damage and there is no paralysis.

- Two adds spawn on each side of the arena. Both cannot be damaged and will stick around for 30 seconds before going away. Each will cast Disease 4 times, cycling through each member of the party, hitting them twice. Disease will make the other mechanic much harder do to the reduction in movement speed and healing. Both these adds can be put to Sleep by Repose or Sleep, which will last long enough to prevent them from debuffing the party during that mechanic. You need a healer or caster DPS to sleep them, or you'll take a lot of extra damage during the rest of the mechanic.

- A boss fills the room with toxic gas and there's a force field generator that creates a small safe zone from the heavy DOT around the arena. Adds will spawn to try and destroy it, but one party member can pick it up and keep it away from the adds, but this also causes the safe zone to move with them. (Hi there, Crystal Chronicles)

But imagine, this would bring so much stress and friction onto players when their team mate fails to prevent them the debuff by failing the mechanic or not doing it. *gasp*

Maybe that's why we should also remove the stress of running the risk of not being healed by the healer so that we cannot feel frustrated at the performance of someone else...- owait, they already made healers irrelevant in dungeons.

[Mistress_Irika]

I'm surprised that this thread isn't dead yet.

I would love to say that this thread is not needed. However, MSQ that is mainly done solo is heavily tied to dungeons and trials. So that alone should tell you the message. Yet, Pandora's box was opened once the trust system was introduced. There's no closing the box back up.

What to do for Dawntrail? I don't know. However, I would take that old advice and be careful of what you ask for. Sure, we can make EVERY single thing accessible for any solo player to do. I would personally love that. However, if you have a large enough of a solo player base that can't get through certain parts of the content with their favorite class then expect for more simplicity to come, expect for more dungeon nerfs, and expect for certain parts of the group to defend that system in the name of accessibility.

Just putting that out there.

[Supersnow845]

I would love to know how you can physically make dungeons any easier than they are now without just zoning in and it going “duty complete” and patting you on the back

[AnnRam]

Why bother in the "MMO" aspect when the whole community play FFXIV like they pick up Fallout 4/ Skyrim install 200 mods that can be synchronized with others and poof, you're playing FFXIV (+5) and don't even bother what devs do lol,

[Shonicss4]

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FFXIV needs to stop accommodating Solo Players

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No. As someone who started in 2024(im in current content now) there is so much past content i want to do, but CAN'T because it's dead to the community. Mount farming in older content is one. Ones I can't solo unsync are impossible to get because I can not get ppl to help. Like S0S, i've been trying to do a run for the dragon for the last 2 months and NO ONE wants to help.

[Elephantality]

No. 10char

[RedLolly]

No. As someone who started in 2024(im in current content now) there is so much past content i want to do, but CAN'T because it's dead to the community. Mount farming in older content is one. Ones I can't solo unsync are impossible to get because I can not get ppl to help. Like S0S, i've been trying to do a run for the dragon for the last 2 months and NO ONE wants to help.

I found a group that actually wanted to do the StB Extremes unsync'd and I hopped on that so fast. We got one mount.

Actually, I think this is why the Moogle Treasure Troves rotate old EX mounts. I would not have the Susano mount if not for that since it's *actually* impossible to solo now. There was a very, VERY brief window Pictomancer could burst Susano down fast enough that the sword phase never happened. I don't think it's possible anymore since the PCT changes that put more of it's damage on the color spells. RathGames has a whole video about it during his Solo Only challenge.

I just really want the Gwibers, but same problem.

[BlisteringFrost]

I found a group that actually wanted to do the StB Extremes unsync'd and I hopped on that so fast. We got one mount.

Actually, I think this is why the Moogle Treasure Troves rotate old EX mounts. I would not have the Susano mount if not for that since it's *actually* impossible to solo now. There was a very, VERY brief window Pictomancer could burst Susano down fast enough that the sword phase never happened. I don't think it's possible anymore since the PCT changes that put more of it's damage on the color spells. RathGames has a whole video about it during his Solo Only challenge.

I just really want the Gwibers, but same problem.

It was never possible. He goes into sword phase immediately upon his HP reaching 70% or lower.

[Sani2341]

It was never possible. He goes into sword phase immediately upon his HP reaching 70% or lower.

Nah, mad lad actually did it:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MxgI8z3o...1DrdGvFiYtr4YK
(Actual going for the kill Starts around 1:02:00 ish)