Future of Casual/Solo Player

[Rizon]

Is it just me or is there a widening gap between philosophy and reality when it comes to Casual/Solo players? I have noticed a disturbing trend from the last few patches in which SE has been trying to relegate solo player to DoH and DoL classes. During this time period SE has made it increasingly difficult to level DoW classes with the following adjustments:

1. Continued rebalancing of agro mobs making it more difficult to reach your quest mobs let alone being able to fight them unhindered. My secondary character has never been able to solo quests in Nanawa Mines because the last pack of mobs are always in the middle of agro mobs. There are several quest at Bold Knoll I have to bypass for this same reason. This last patch almost trebled the number of agro mobs I have to fight through at Bold Knoll and Iron Lake in order to reach my quest mobs.

2. The penalty to gear when using return after a KO. With the combination of agro mobs and quest mobs a solo player will die a number of times. So unless you have spent the time developing craft skills your gear will become unuasble in a short amount of time. Fortunately I can repair all my gear but a lot of ppl cannot.

3. With these factors and the penalties for doing quests below your current rank I must now go to Ul'dah and sometimes Gridana just to get my full complement of Regional quests. Doing this requires either the large expendatures of Anima and/or time in order to reach these locations. Prior to the patch I would fill out my quests with some level 30s and select higher levels of difficulty in order to get reason SP. Since the patch I spent so much Anima traveling to levee quest and company quest sites that I must now bypass the next several quest cycles in order to replenish my Anima to a reasonable level.

With these in mind I find myself spending less time now on my DoW job and more time grinding out DoH synths. You know that goes. Synth for 25 minutes wake up a short time later, rinse and repeat.

So Yoshi please make a decision. Are solo players to be restricted to crafting and gathering or do you have plans to rectify these concerns to make soloing a reasonable and enjoyable challange? Please let us know.

[XooZQ]

Yanno, I just closed out my day of grinding on Archer, half in party and half solo at an Ixali camp. Roughly 100k SP and to me, it was quite enjoyable. I have no clue what you people are talking about.

[Dichali]

Yanno, I just closed out my day of grinding on Archer, half in party and half solo at an Ixali camp. Roughly 100k SP and to me, it was quite enjoyable. I have no clue what you people are talking about.

^ This. Just because you can't fail leves any more doesn't mean that it's impossible to level.

[Jynx]

The whole gear damage thing is moot for casual players. They will have abundance of anima to warp to town and get fixed up for cheap as well.

[Platinumstorm]

Transportation systems will relieve a lot of the stress on levequests for casual players.

It's really rough for casual players right now the way it is set up. Even casual players can easily burn through their anima to get their quests done.

[Rizon]

Yanno, I just closed out my day of grinding on Archer, half in party and half solo at an Ixali camp. Roughly 100k SP and to me, it was quite enjoyable. I have no clue what you people are talking about.

I applaud you for your success and your ability to persivere through the tedium of grinding. Doing so allows you to chose the locations you fight. Because I made a decision to level both crafts and Mrd I had to do primarily quests in order to efficiently do both in the time I have to play. With this in mind I feel that the points I made above are applicable. I wish you continued success along your path

I do not consider myself a Troll and have been supportive on the whole in the Dev Teams efforts to make this came better. This is just 1 area where I had a concen and I aired it. If that makes me a Troll then so be it.

[Ruri]

They said they are redoing how leves work in 1.19-1.20 so just wait it out. I know its annoying but it is what it is.

[Jynx]

I applaud you for your success and your ability to persivere through the tedium of grinding. Doing so allows you to chose the locations you fight. Because I made a decision to level both crafts and Mrd I had to do primarily quests in order to efficiently do both in the time I have to play.

Walking to a camp really doesn't take that long in this game. People seem to overestimate the time they spend traveling because they almost never do it.

If you find yourself getting sub-par SP because of leveling 2 jobs at once...perhaps you need to either accept that leveling multiple jobs will slow you down in general or focus on one at a time.

[XooZQ]

Dunno about trolls, (under bridges maybe, in groups?), but I'm confused as to why the general consensus around here seems to be that their game just got busted before they've even bothered to find something else other than Leves to gain SP on. Leves are a thing of the past, and hey, it appears that even soloing can be friendly enough if you know where and how. I'm fairly satisfied with this patch.

[Rizon]

The whole gear damage thing is moot for casual players. They will have abundance of anima to warp to town and get fixed up for cheap as well.

Huh? try doing Regional quests as well as local quests from 3 different cities as well as the new company quests and tell me what your Anima pool looks like. I did and I used a bunch. It was either that or spend wasted hours walking