Can we stop destroying the solo part of this game?

[GreatLeviathan]

No, please keep making the game a challenging, fun, group oriented experience please. If I wanted to solo i'd play single player games.

signed a very casual player.

I have been playing since launch, and have a 43 ARC, 33 FSH, 31 Alchemist

I LOVE the direction this game is going 1.19 ftw..

Another uglu troll. It's not just about you huh?
Partying in this game is too easy there is no chalange in fighting 1 lil mob with 8 people..
Thats why some prefer to solo. Go freaking somewhere else if you don't have anything descent to post.

[GreatLeviathan]

THIS ^^^

Seriously, do some research as to what has changed with the introduction of 1.19.
Fight mobs that are at or just below your level to get the best ratio of XP:downtime.
Trying to solo the same way you did pre-patch is not possible any more.

Its always the same, SE alters the game and tells everyone what has changed, players complain without researching what has changed.
I come to these forums to research things i haven't thought of, but all i ever see is wave upon wave or misinformed complain threads.
It must be demoralizing for devs to see all this crap!

Also must be demoralizing to see all the trolls on this forum made by people with few brains.
We are free to put in our opinion thats why this is an PUBLIC FORUM.
See the PUBLIC ? That means EVERYONE can post his feeling/experiance of the game.

[GreatLeviathan]

I stand corrected on the level gap, but the theory does apply. Fights are to be similar level, or even 1 level higher. Even at rank 50 you can have difficulty fighting rank 50 mobs solo if you are not careful. Most of the strongholds are only lvl 50-55 mobs, and a party can easily wipe in there.

There you say it..
Party is way too easy. Maybe make it that party's only get good exp when fighting lvl 90 mobs and die a lot too instead of having a mage spam cure.

[Onidemon]

They broke solo and i don't see how they didn't see that in their testing phase. Yes partying is very much fun and i enjoy it a lot, maybe even more then solo but not everyone want's to party. Even i do not want to party sometimes and i'd rather go solo and do my own thing. Sometimes i just don't have time to seek people and i want to be able to progress on my own.

Don't turn this into a FFXI clone where you are forced to party to do anything in the game. That's what turned me off that game and it is what made a lot of people leave for other mmos who had a more casual approach.

[MrLion]

no...keep breaking solo, that way we can have an actual MMO and not a single player fest.

[Onidemon]

no...keep breaking solo, that way we can have an actual MMO and not a single player fest.

And you will be stuck by yourself with your 5-10 other FFXI fans.... won't be much of an MMO.

Some content should be for soloing and some for parties, simple as that. Don't force people to do what you want them to do because they'll quickly go elsewhere.

[MrLion]

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Umm I never mentioned anything about difficulty...read my post again...

[syntaxlies]

you dont need a full party to lvl, cant you find one or 2 people to do leves with.

[GreatLeviathan]

you dont need a full party to lvl, cant you find one or 2 people to do leves with.

I like doing it alone ^^

[Vaer]

If they wanted to make us force party, for one, maybe they should have fixed the terrible party search function. Barely anyone uses it. Solo should still be viable (for now) because it is really hard to find people to play with. The people currently on the servers are mostly people that are long gone from the lower levels. You can just look at the countless threads on here and other sites asking for LS that have 0 replies.

On the other hand, if you are going to allow power leveling, that makes it so even LESS people are on the low end, you might as well let soloers be able to level at a respectable speed to a certain point, at least out of the lower levels. (~15)

I think it's silly that you can "powerlevel" someone for ridiculous amounts of exp with almost no effort required out of the person being powerleveled, but players that play "legitly" are putting way more effort into it are getting a significant decrease in the amount of progression.

I duo'd with my girlfriend yesterday on a 4**** leve and we were both getting about 70sp a mob before % increases at ~15, nearly dying a couple times but we still managed. The risk vs reward just isn't there, at least not with leves. The mobs were about 3 levels higher than we were and came in 2s, 3s, and sometimes they would run off and we would have to fight 4 mobs at a time. We still did it, but didn't think the sp gain was worth it. Yeah, the leve finisher gets a big chunk of exp at the end, but the other person helping doesn't unless they leve-link.