Is this game going to be solo friendly? or have you scraped that.

[Shiyo]

This game is solo friendly, but not so solo friendly it makes partying worthless.

[Fleur]

OP, I do understand where you are coming from. I suppose this game is solo friendly in the sense that you can do just about anything by yourself including rank up all the way to 50. However, grouping is far, far more efficient that solo'ing is in some respects, particularly when it comes to battlecraft leves and leve linking. Of course grouping should be more efficient, but personally, if a group of people does the same thing I do and gets 5x the SP that I do solo'ing, and it takes them less time, then I consider that pretty unfriendly for solo'ing.

Admitedly, I think the game is very solo friendly at the lower ranks. I'm having quite a bit of fun running around The Black Shroud while ranking up my R29 class. But by the time you are getting into your R40 leves, it is painfully slow to rank up solo as opposed to the decent pace you can achieve in a group.

As for behest though -- if the 8-man limit is a problem you've encountered, have you considered trying another camp? That may be difficult for R40 behest (really, has anyone moved out of broken water?), but for R30 and R20 there is always the La Noscea camps which are reasonably active.

[zaviermhigo]

You may also need to think about how you approach these mobs, as a mage going solo on a guildleve, of course I have a ranged which is kinda unfair, but anyways, I have to think about where I approach mobs and how I pull them. For a dd this might be harder, especially if they haven't released your ranged attack yet (like gla I believe have throwing knives but no one made them, or had a recipe, not sure if its implemented now)

[Burn]

This is the problem with "Solo play" from the mobs in the field vs behest/leve monsters.

*monsters in the field have triple the HP as a behest/leve mob. I can solo rank 44-45 leve/behest mobs at level 33 Mar because of how much HP they have. It isn't ideal, but it can be done, I would get crushed by a rank 44-45 non-leve/behest mob due to the fact they have so much more hp thus its a longer fight where I would eventually not be able to keep up healing the damage.

* 100-150 SP is about the best I can expect from a field monster that I can solo without extreme downtime, this would put the mobs around 5-6 levels above me and will also bring moderate downtime. A leve mob without favor would give the same amount of exp.

The point is this: at level 33 I can grind for 28 mins which leaves me 2mins to get back to the behest npc spot and get around 2-2.5k exp, I can solo any level 30 Behest for 3k exp.

At the very best I would be getting around 5.5k exp every 30mins assuming nobody else is queuing up for Behest. Under the best solo conditions thats 10.5k exp an hour, this would increase if there are others in the area doing Behest as well.


Its not fast but if you're going to level fast at all solo, you need to park yourself where there are mobs and a behest that is easy access from the grinding spot to maximize your sp gains outside of leve's.

[Naylia]

Pay close attention to the new rank indicator they put in. You get a difficulty multiplier on SP/XP for every rank the mob is above you up to 10 ranks higher. You'll need to figure out exactly how high you can go while still making good time on the kills, but it's a great tool to understand what type of multiplier you can get applied to the mobs base SP/XP. The modifer is an additional 20% SP/XP for each rank above you. So you get double SP on +5 ranks and triple SP on +10 ranks.

I find soloing => +6/7 ranks is usually a happy place for me. If I'm duoing just go for the +9/10s.

[Kazimir]

You're over exaggerating. This game is incredibly easy to solo in. The fact that people who group level faster is just how the game was made to be. It was supposed to be "solo friendly" that does not mean you're going to level nearly as fast as people who group. It's an MMO, the genre is built in a way in which you're meant to group up. If the game had a quest system like WoW or Rift I guess I could see why you would assume you could level fast solo but it's not, it's built on a leve system where you can only get a max of 8 leves every 36 hours. This system was made to be solo friendly, which it is, but most of all it was made to give people something to do that only log in for an hour or 2. If you play 4+ hours a day solo the game will not be kind to you.

[Honz]

OP for a numbers guy you sure don't know much about numbers. Its approximately 1.89 million SP from rank 1 to 50 if you can grind 18k sp per hour for 6 hours a week thats 108k sp per week which barely puts you into surplus sp for each week. At this rate you can hit 50 in about 16 weeks which is a fair amount of time to hit cap rank. This is the slowest form of sp this does not consider that rank 1 to 24 can be done in about 3 hours, not participating in behests, and not doing leves of any kind.

OP stop crying and get grinding if thats not your cup of tea then this MMO is not for you.

[zaviermhigo]

How much solo play do you want in an mmo in my opinion. If you are having a difficulty soloing past r25 it might be time to go party it is an mmo after all. If its below r25 than I totally understand.

[Reika]

yea linked leves dont give 100% extra sp, they actually give 60% more. Time saver, not SP increaser.

[VydarrTyr]

Sorry, Reika's probably right. I've heard 50%, but now that I think about it, I think 60% might be right.