Humble Request: Add Story (a.k.a. Easy) Mode

[CainCrimson]

I just want to find a way to experience and explore this content intended for groups, without the rush that comes from playing content with a group. I do not want to inconvenience other people while I attempt to explore and take in the beauty/lore of the content made for this great game. I'm still new to this game and still learning all the features, so hopefully something like this exists outside of "clear the content/dungeon first then go back and experience it later or watch a cutscene from your bedroom" -_-

Let me group when I'm ready, let me explore when I'm ready.

[NephthysVasudan]

I just want to find a way to experience and explore this content intended for groups, without the rush that comes from playing content with a group. I do not want to inconvenience other people while I attempt to explore and take in the beauty/lore of the content made for this great game. I'm still new to this game and still learning all the features, so hopefully something like this exists outside of "clear the content/dungeon first then go back and experience it later or watch a cutscene from your bedroom" -_-

Let me group when I'm ready, let me explore when I'm ready.

Totally feel your pain on this.....cutscene skipping peer pressure is a thing..and it's an utterly stupid thing.

[Divinemights]

What had Blizzard done to mmorpg.....?
It is so terrifying.....

[Tridus]

I just want to find a way to experience and explore this content intended for groups, without the rush that comes from playing content with a group. I do not want to inconvenience other people while I attempt to explore and take in the beauty/lore of the content made for this great game. I'm still new to this game and still learning all the features, so hopefully something like this exists outside of "clear the content/dungeon first then go back and experience it later or watch a cutscene from your bedroom" -_-

You should watch the cutscenes as they happen. Aside from two specific dungeons where they're no longer skippable, they rarely tie people up for very long and you only get to do it for the first time once.

For exploration, you can actually use the Return teleport command to go back to the start of the dungeon after it's over, and everything's dead so you can explore at your leisure without making anyone wait. At high level you can just queue solo and blow everything up in most of them, too.

This is not a game where everything is meant to be done solo.

[Odstarva]

If I buy a chess board, they'd better damn well include an easy-mode where all the pieces become pawns. And I can move however many times I want in whatever direction, because I paid for it - and I feel like playing it that way.
That was me being a butt-head, but my sentiment mirrors that! I mean... Everyone plays for different reasons, can you imagine the nightmare it would be for the developers to try and accommodate everyone?

The truth of the matter is that content is already easy enough as it is, and this is coming from an average player. The fact that so much content is failed (on easy instances) is due to bad players, not difficult mechanics.

They already gave us raids and savage raids, we don't need baby-tier raids on top of that.

[HoodRat]

If I buy a chess board, they'd better damn well include an easy-mode where all the pieces become pawns. And I can move however many times I want in whatever direction, because I paid for it - and I feel like playing it that way.
That was me being a butt-head, but my sentiment mirrors that! I mean... Everyone plays for different reasons, can you imagine the nightmare it would be for the developers to try and accommodate everyone?

The truth of the matter is that content is already easy enough as it is, and this is coming from an average player. The fact that so much content is failed (on easy instances) is due to bad players, not difficult mechanics.

They already gave us raids and savage raids, we don't need baby-tier raids on top of that.

I'm trying to think of what exactly a baby-tier raid would be. For some reason the only thing I can think of is not having a job stone.

[Soupa]

I just want to find a way to experience and explore this content intended for groups, without the rush that comes from playing content with a group.

Its almost as if we're playing an MMORPG.

[Berethos]

The realistic solution is to use the solo duty asset the game already posess to allow players the one time completion of a story quest.

This may indeed be a solution for later in the game's life when player population/saturation of running dungeons required for MSQ has waned to the point where it strongly impacts a new players experience (similar to the way FFXI added trusts to the game, such that now you have a "group" any time you play and can level solo to the cap if you so choose), but right now I don't think it's something that is needed.

[CainCrimson]

For exploration, you can actually use the Return teleport command to go back to the start of the dungeon after it's over, and everything's dead so you can explore at your leisure without making anyone wait.

This would be exactly what I need then, except for the cases (which is pretty typical) where the group blasts past large groups of enemies. I didn't realize I could teleport back to the start though, I'll be using this after work tonight many many thanks

And yeah I'm not against group content, this is an MMO afterall and that would just be...odd lol. However I am a gamer, and I like to enjoy the game. Equal parts going into content to burn through for experience or loot, and going into content and calmly taking it all in enjoying the experience.

[InkstainedGwyn]

This would be exactly what I need then, except for the cases (which is pretty typical) where the group blasts past large groups of enemies. I didn't realize I could teleport back to the start though, I'll be using this after work tonight many many thanks

The only thing to be aware of in this situation is that you only get 5-10m in the dungeon after the boss is cleared to explore. I know this because I went back to explore Kugane Castle the first time, and also my friend likes to take a lot of gpose screenshots of LB3s at the end of fights and she sometimes gets kicked out in the middle of them.