Solo dungeons and raids!

[nuyu11]

Hmm...

I sense some emotional rage there...

Why you play this game?
Because you want to find more challenging multiplayer game?
You want some social community game?
Or because of Final Fantasy?
I choose this game because of Final Fantasy and social interaction concept, seriously marriage is totally new to me in MMO.

I have play Wildstar with the challenge is triple than this, but stop play because of latency and bug.
I have no issue at all with the difficulty in this game, I have complete my Coil by DF alone only, not complete yet my t13 due to to lack ilvl and acc cap, just got my belt and glove but still need to improve my dps with blood for blood.

There is 2 groups of player in this game Pure MMO player and casual FF fans player.
The Pure MMO player normally will not have any interest on helping FF fans because they will slow them down.
Why don't we give some room for FF fans to play casually?
Even they can go there its not like they can have the loots or achievements.
From your angry statements sounds like the Coil is only exclusively for Pro or hotshot player only, which is not that so good I've seen, even some player still boasting about zerg fest WoD.

I'm fully support OP suggestion. Yes MMO.... But I never heard people must do everything together to make it as a MMO, it's a community. Even if you do your content solo you still can chat with your FC, that's is MMO from my perspective, communication and interactions which is we lack here.

[AdamFyi]

Personally, I think that adding solo content to current content would cause more harm than good and may deviate the playerbase even further as it is. We already have players who throw communication and cooperation out the window. Next thing you know, asking others for help would end with them telling you to just solo everything.

On that note, it would be extremely difficult for SE to balance out all the jobs to work with every piece of solo content. This will lead to the exclusion of certain jobs. Scholars and White Mages would reign supreme and the other jobs are given the shaft. Of course, NPC members would probably be included, but for raid content as it is, the NPC AI would need a complete rework to react to mechanics and changes to the boss.

Having an option to solo content would be nice if content becomes extremely irrelevant such as introducing solo instances for 2.0 content when 4.0 rolls over. For current content, no way.

[StrejdaTom]

No loot and titles and I really don't care.
If people want to experience the story without any rewards, let them.

[Alberel]

As much as some people are going to come out with the usual "this is an MMO so no soloing" arguments something along these lines really needs to be considered for content that it no longer relevant. Due to level sync there is no way to out level or out gear content to the point that you could solo it. This mean a full group will be required for content that most people won't be interested in any more. A soloing option for getting players through content like that would be most welcome in my opinion.

With regards to coil though I'm not sure... Making those fights soloable with AI party members would be a LOT of work as they would have to completely redesign the encounters. There would also be the issue of the AI being stupid (come on we all know it won't actually be very intelligent). Finding a balance with regards to the time investment needed to implement this may be difficult.

[kehn]

solo dungeons as in new dungeons designed for solo play are fine. but solo raid? the word raid goes against solo.... that would be the epitome of pointless, specially if you use the already existing raids and change the mechanics to accommodate for solo play... a bit lol for you sir.

also... who is skipping the cut scenes for you? you watch cutscenes one time i would assume... how are you in a farm party watching cut scenes? didn't you watch it the first time you went in and didn't know the fight? are you also aware of the journal in the inn room? hmmmm

[Goufunaki]

whats a mmorpg?Massively multiplayer online role-playing game, your probly better off playing a single player if u wanna solo dungens

I hate these kind of responses. Multiplayer doesn't always mean forced cooperation or competition. It just means multiple players.

People don't always want to play offline single player games, they want to play THIS game. Even if solo, it can still be enjoyable to play a living world with other people doing their own thing that doesn't involve running dungeons or farming drops all day in a group.

Or maybe friends just aren't always available, but you still want to do something besides the manderville in ul'dah.

[XgungraveX]

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and yet people come into mmorpgs wanting to solo content thats meant to be overcome by partys of players who took the time to level jobs to fill roles in a party. thats point of a mmorpg, to sit there and make it so that solo players be able to solo dungeon or raids kinda defeats the point of a mmorpg.

[kehn]

and yet people come into mmorpgs wanting to solo content thats meant to be overcome by partys of players who took the time to level jobs to fill roles in a party. thats point of a mmorpg, to sit there and make it so that solo players be able to solo dungeon or raids kinda defeats the point of a mmorpg.

no, you're right in that people should not come and try to change content created for parties to be solo like the OP is requesting... BUT there is no "point" to MMORPGs... people play them the way they want to play it. they should be free to request solo content if they want... but not existing content to be changed into solo content. XI for example had a really bad case of the force cooperation because you could not absolutely nothing solo. that is just bad game design.

[XgungraveX]

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i much agree with the ffxi when first played it on the ps2 after like lv 20 or something u was forced to be in a party at all times for me that was a huge put off because sometimes i like to be left alone. the game was much better better when i came back on the 360 it wasnt so much focus on party leveling and more endgame.but in ff14 ( wasn't plan on playing another mmo after i sold my wow account) i decided not to raid because i did my time in other mmo and just wanted to casually play and do stuff on the weekends with friends, i manged to get full i130 and my zeta i havent even relly touched the first half of fcob, there are plenty of solo content but its just a grind to get versus someone who raids

[kehn]

lol Rekt!!!! that was indeed a pretty silly response.