Solo Being Left Behind

[Matsume]

You already leveled your CNJ so you should at least equip cure on your action bar when playing any of the above mentioned classes that you are having difficulty staying alive with solo. Then you could lvl THM just a few levels to get some nukes, which I would also reccomend equipping on your action bar. As PGL or PLD you have decent MP, so you may as well make the most use of it and your cross class cures and nukes- it'll make killing a mob much easier and quicker.

Solo to 50 really isn't that tough with leves. Plus, now you can get rested exp at the inns which effectively double your exp gain + food for an extra 3% gain. If you have a problem surviving a leve, either you chose one that is too high of a lvl, or you added too many stars.

[GinTama]

learn to play, maybe you get better and then you can start playing solo. for my part ive never made more exp solo.
Know your enemies you cant kill everything fast and easy with your job.... licke archer/bard kills the shit out of every long range mob and mage every mob thats weak against the elements you cast not every mob falls to a cast of DoM

[SilverCaliber]

Why even make a flame post; I mean I feel you but I don't. Soloing is ok minus things that needs groups and I think that's just fine. I like to solo as well (98.99%) but I also understand that with some content you need a group. I even got my wife to play after years of getting no for a reply. At any rate, I feel you but this is one of those things where you need to realize it's for Massive amounts of ppl so online social skills or a local FF fan base is needed to some degree...

[kazaran]

It shouldn't be total solo. But at higher levels achieveavable by 2 people.

It shouldn't be dependant of groups either, that is where you run into greed over comign community and peopel wantign to charge for runs becuase they believe noone should be able to do it without them. (and they are usually actually RMT groups in hiding".

Yet it needs to be a challenge. Awards based on difficulty. WHich in leves you can bump it up to get higher payoff.

Many MMo's have gone this route becuase they lost major potential subscriptions when "Elite gamers" as they call themselves want to take over and ruin certain aspects. This way has actually greatly damaged XI-goign from a community that helps each other grow to, one where a gamer believes the amount of total gil you have equates skill, ability, and growth of the game.

Sometimes I hated synthing in games. Did it in to many. SO the trade off is support crafters by becoming a direct supplier to help them expand. I have no issue farming and supplying to raise that skill and have them raise their crafting, in turn getting gear or cheap gear. Sure the farmign aspect is major work, but helping another or others and getting gear, potions ect..in turn is a better pay off. Kick the RMT's in the butt and help true gamers achieve.

FF games are about commmunity.


However, you don't want to have a total solo ability. It will also harm the community, which has been a strong aspect of FF XI and XIV should be the same. True elitists (blah) have no need for a player payign them gil to help. Or have no issue being a nice guy and powerleving them or healign when they can't find a healer. I spent many hours being the nice guy, switchign to a maxed Scholar, external buffign a party and healing so they could get ahead. It's better to be known as a person that does that, and peopel will go out of their way for you, then a person that demands virtual gil with no real merit to do the job other players and party members can do without them.

Don't destroy the community, there needs to be community effort, help, and requirements. Being a loner at times is fun, but all the time isn't a good thing. THose servers and community that worked together are what seperated the game from other screwball MMo's

[SionDurant]

learn to play, maybe you get better and then you can start playing solo. for my part ive never made more exp solo.
Know your enemies you cant kill everything fast and easy with your job.... licke archer/bard kills the shit out of every long range mob and mage every mob thats weak against the elements you cast not every mob falls to a cast of DoM

I've gone against two mobs on leves that didn't drop to 1-3 casts on a DoM.

BRD is tough against all foes. The whole learn to play argument is hilarious.

It's typical though, the US is 15 trill in debt, but I have friends who say that's not important, or something like that's propaganda from like fox news. (www.usdebtclock.org)

My point is I definitely have not fabricated any info in my post, and it's saddening to see people get so strange over negative opinions. Lancer is not fit for solo, it has next to no mitigation, even if you take advantage of decoy, feather foot and protect, you're still stopping to cast cure when needing to engage mobs 2 - 3 levels over you. Some leves pit you against 3 yarzons for example per pull, you take 5% damage per hit.

You shouldn't need materia bound gear at 17, and you shouldn't need to spam cure on 2 or 3 standard mobs, or there shouldn't be 3 mob pulls on solo leves. There's no learning to play that can address that.

If you're already 50 prior to 1.19 as a DoW then don't reply, your opinion isn't really applicable as DoW was way op at that point in time. Go ahead and roll a new lancer at 1, do some solo leves in the 17 to 20 and take on a group of yarzons. No matter the sub class you will die once or twice because they either interrupt your cures or you go oomp.

Also I'll say it again on individual Dow forums that aren't PGL/MNK the opinion is very low and comically its exactly the same as mine. Stats are not calculating at all or not efficiently for Dow and that's the cold truth. Research from players who've spent days on this prove it every time, defense is even a sham, see this on def before you cast judgement (http://kanican.livejournal.com/55915.html#cutid2).

Numbers do not lie.

[Raldo]

Research from players who've spent days on this prove it every time, defense is even a sham, see this on def before you cast judgement (http://kanican.livejournal.com/55915.html#cutid2).

Numbers do not lie.

Not sure what you're trying to point out there, but that post was to show that defense DOES indeed do something.

I'm leveling ARC solo right now (30ish). It's difficult and slow, but I'm doing it. I always make sure to have both stoneskin and protect on before battles.

[SionDurant]

Not sure what you're trying to point out there, but that post was to show that defense DOES indeed do something.

I'm leveling ARC solo right now (30ish). It's difficult and slow, but I'm doing it. I always make sure to have both stoneskin and protect on before battles.

You didn't actually read what the findings were. Def does something indeed, but the percentage at which it does something is the prime issue. For example; all physical attacks receive the same principal damage reduction in direct correlation between def and the mob's particular attack.

Look at the efficiency section of the article which is easier to understand, it pretty clearly states that unless you have massive amounts of VIT and DEF you're not getting a sizeable reduction. Ergo, mitigation for classes is going to be inevitably low unless they have a great deal of those stats.

Maybe archer is difficult but I have several friends who have expressed no issues with it or BRD at any level. The stats do something, but they are calculated in an across the board non efficient kind of manner that doesn't truly effect change in the non tank classes.

DEX is probably your issue on archer, it too calculates poorly; I've seen parsers that show higher numbers for STR archers which is silly considering the bonus charts on patch 1.20.

[Orophin]

Honestly I haven't had much problem leveling up doing leves solo. I went from 48-50 (200k xp) on archer within a matter of about 4 hours this last weekend. I make sure to pick the option that's the next level of difficulty over my level (for 48, it was +9 levels over the level of the area, 40) so I could get xp chains for more xp. Don't forget food adds 3% more xp per kill. While it's not a lot, it'll add up over time.

Also do behests in between leves if you're in the middle of your current 10 level span (45 for 40-50). I don't know if they made behests scale down or not but the NPC says they're for level X5 so I assume it's going to be a minimum of 45 for that tier, and they do scale up with your level so that you can get xp chains.

[Yelta_Sumasu]

I've not had any trouble solo with some duo Archer, thaum, and now working on Pug. There are a bunch of low level abilities from other classes you will want to do it without dying all the time. Also, good equipment makes all the difference as does knowing how much you can handle solo on leves.

That said, there needs to be some more solo content for those who want it. I prefer playing in parties but sometimes I can only play a short time or I might just not feel like grouping up that day.

In my opinion, the focus of the game should be party play with enough solo content to keep busy and feel like you are accomplishing something.

[BlaiseLallaise]

and LNC hardly survives a single levequest after level 13.

This I honestly do not understand. Just the other day I was leveling my LNC via leves (43 mobs vs my 44 LNC) and I was commenting to my LS about how I remember the days when the same leves would push me to the wire, even forcing me to rest between groups at times, back when I was leveling my PGL before combos were added. Yet today I rip through them with little difficulty whatsoever.

So either the leves are terribly easier than they used to be, or I'm vastly better than I used to be. Perhaps a little of both.