Soloing no more?

[LuxLex]

only to kids who played WoW first.. those of us that come from EQ/FFXI LOVE IT..

Funny cause XI was my first MMO, and you know, I don't love mandatory grouping. In fact what I LOVE is being able to log in and accomplish something, sometimes with a group, sometimes, not.

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

Funny cause XI was my first MMO, and you know, I don't love mandatory grouping. In fact what I LOVE is being able to log in and accomplish something, sometimes with a group, sometimes, not.

Then do leves solo.

[LuxLex]

I said accomplish something, not bore myself to death.

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

I said accomplish something, not bore myself to death.

Then do some of the main storyline quests.

[Ava]

I feel like I can just barely complete 1 star leves at BW as a 45 THM (I die at least once half the time) and I only get ~3-5k total with bonus + kills. Either I'm bad at the game or soloing is terribly inefficient now. I've even adjusted my spells to accomodate the awful MP costs now like using Stygian Spikes over Shock Spikes. DoTs do sufficient damage, but I literally have to spam heals the entire time and if I have too many resists I die on any pull with more than 1 enemy.

[SuzakuCMX]

I feel like I can just barely complete 1 star leves at BW as a 45 THM (I die at least once half the time) and I only get ~3-5k total with bonus + kills. Either I'm bad at the game or soloing is terribly inefficient now. I've even adjusted my spells to accomodate the awful MP costs now like using Stygian Spikes over Shock Spikes. DoTs do sufficient damage, but I literally have to spam heals the entire time and if I have too many resists I die on any pull with more than 1 enemy.

Am I the only one who was like this before the patch D:?

EDIT: Except the MP part.

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

I feel like I can just barely complete 1 star leves at BW as a 45 THM (I die at least once half the time) and I only get ~3-5k total with bonus + kills. Either I'm bad at the game or soloing is terribly inefficient now. I've even adjusted my spells to accomodate the awful MP costs now like using Stygian Spikes over Shock Spikes. DoTs do sufficient damage, but I literally have to spam heals the entire time and if I have too many resists I die on any pull with more than 1 enemy.

That's called having a challenge. To be serious though, it may be just you adjusting to the changes. I would give it another day or two before I say soloing is terribly inefficient.

[Verecund]

Then do leves solo.

You have no idea what you're talking about...

[LuxLex]

I feel like I can just barely complete 1 star leves at BW as a 45 THM (I die at least once half the time) and I only get ~3-5k total with bonus + kills. Either I'm bad at the game or soloing is terribly inefficient now. I've even adjusted my spells to accomodate the awful MP costs now like using Stygian Spikes over Shock Spikes. DoTs do sufficient damage, but I literally have to spam heals the entire time and if I have too many resists I die on any pull with more than 1 enemy.

Don't even bother trying to reason with these people - when you tell them real facts about how this patch screws players they will say one of the following things:

a) Why don't you just quit! Don't let the door hit you on the way out!
b) Go back to WoW, you baby!
c) Why don't you make some friends!
d) Managing MP (aka standing around waiting for your bar to refill) is challenging!
e) lern2play

All while probably calling you stupid, whiny, lazy or whatever.

It is too bad. I feel your pain, this patch was a massive slap in the face to anyone who doesn't have multiple rank 50s and a full LS of people who ranked up by purposely failing leves. It might be "balanced" for those raids that people will do in their closed little linkshell worlds but everywhere else, it is broken.

I cannot fathom how yoshi could say "don't worry we are not nerfing sp and we don't want the game to be an unbearable grind," and then not only nerf levequest SP, but multiple classes as well.

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

You have no idea what you're talking about...

That goes for the both of us.