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From what I understand, I wasn't in any of the betas, but you can solo. Any class can solo.

Seems the groups were mostly for quests, dungeon crawls etc..

From what the beta testers have said, you can solo.

Which is why I will be playing this game.

Ex-FFXIer too.

What crap did FFXI pull now?

there are some threads on the beta forum about some classes arent as capable of soloing as others, but "....blizzard is committed to make every class competent soloist...." personally i think u can solo all the way, it just takes longer, but beware that u cant reach lvl cap by mass murdering low lvl mobs in newb area like u can in swg, u dont gain xp that way. w/ the upcoming patch ther gonna increase the xp gain for the instanced zones. if you can solo one of the elites ur lvl, then i think u can solo pretty well.

quite right, u arent forced to group w/ others at any moment if u dont mind skipping a few elite quest or dungeons. lets say if you solo a mob about ur lvl for 50-300 xp, then group w/ one other and take out a slightly tougher mob for an normal quest will prolly be worth 2000.(made up the number, but u get the point.) so a powergamer experienced in powerlvling in other mmos might not advance that much faster than a casual player doing quests continuously and efficiently( if you dont die 20 times a quest, every quest)

Thank you so much ^^ Rate ups for all

I look back on my FFXI experience and wonder why I even played. SE has horrible support. Everyone I talked to on the phone didn't play the game and was clueless about gameplay. In game GMs were aweful. Most common GM rsponse was "I'll look into it."

I logged in one day to find myself in "jail." The GM told me it was for being verbally abusive in chat or some crap like that. After I told him I hadn't played the game in a week, he said "I'll look into it." Big shock there. Anyway, a few hours later I got an apology from said GM and was free to go about playing. I'd post screenshots, but I deleted everything that resembled FFXI.

Bots are allowed to run rampant. Actually, I take that back. JP bots are allowed to run rampant. Bot hunters were almost as annoying as botters themselves.

Lesson learned though. Never buy a game that is released to me a year and a half after it is released somewhere else. NA's came into the game in an inflated economy that we could do nothing about.

Edited, Wed Sep 15 14:30:38 2004 by StumpyWSF

WoW is meant to be soloable by all classes at all levels. As stated and should be assumed, there are certain things you shouldn't expect to solo, but you CAN solo. Quests are the BEST way to exp though. Most quest do involve killing a certain number of a certain type of critter of looting a certain item on a certain critter but they tent to be pretty realistic. If an area's quest start getting too tough just head over to one of your allied race's areas of similar level and take on quests there. After a level or two the old quest should be easier to handle.

Overall WoW is VERY casual player friendly. My main game was EQ and if you didn't have at least 2 hours to play at the higher levels, you shouldn't even bother, and even then 2 hours won't get you far. WoW if you feel like playing for 20 minutes you can play, have fun, feel like you did SOMETHING and log. Higher level EQ you just couldn't do anything without some real time commitment.

i loved soloing in this game. missions are great and i only played in like 4 hour intervals

overall.....great game

In my experience, it is very easy to solo. In fact, you can solo a major portion of the quests (which are where the real exp is at). You have to be careful about taking out mobs 1-2 at a time, but it can be done. A few quests are meant to be done by small groups (can think of a few "kill named" quests that fit the description), say 2-3 people. If you have a high enough level advantage you may be able to complete even those by yourself.

HOWEVER, some of the quests can NOT be done by yourself. I'm speaking of the "elite" quests. Typically, these bring you to instanced dungeons. These quests are meant to be done by parties, preferably full parties. The best loot and exp is there, and so is the greatest risk and challenge.

That said, the rest of the game can be done by yourself (more or less). I did a lot of soloing. Sometimes it helps if you temporarily group with another person doing the same quest, then go your seperate ways once you've done the job. Other times you really need the backup, like when you're trying to tackle a quest above your level, or the aforementioned elite quests.

Someone mentioned that you can't simply farm low-level monsters to level up. This is both true and untrue. You get zero experience for fighting monsters six levels below your own; the exp harvest on things three levels below your own is paltry anyway. I found that an area with things between 1 and 3 levels below you can be farmed pretty successfully. A warning, however: a lot of areas have roaming monsters who can prove a nasty surprise to someone who's just farming!

To whoever said that one of WoW's virtues is that you can play for 30 minutes at a time and accomplish something significant: right on.