Blue response to solo instances.Follow

I came across this and thought I’d pass it along. I’d really love to be able to solo instances. It would be a good way to challenge myself when I couldn’t, or didn’t choose to, find a group. But it seems the mechanics are too challenging. I especially like Tseric’s description of what effect all those instances would have on their hardware. It made me laugh.



http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=50727960&sid=1&pageNo=1

MMORPGs are all about diversity. With seven million people playing this game you can’t expect everyone to like exactly the same thing. One of my greatest joys from this game comes from the “fun” items we can collect, such as non-combat pets, lanterns to carry around, weapons that look like a fish or a mug… I appreciate such items a lot more than purple armor and/or weapons. But I don’t expect everyone to feel the same. I find non-consensual PvP to be little more than a bully’s wet dream. But again, I don’t expect everyone to feel the same. I see no reason why anyone should be chastised for having fun playing a game they pay a monthly fee to play, be that grouping, soling, leveling professions or just standing around town talking.

WoW isn’t perfect, but Blizzard has done a great job creating an environment where people with diverse interests can all find something they enjoy doing. My only regret is that there aren’t even more options, such as solo instances, player housing and more player made items that aren’t level dependent.

*Because* it is solo friendly, people want to solo instances. Many view this game as largely single player up until 60, and some even like to find ways to challenge themselves as an individual. That challenging can be exploring, or showing their prowess in PvP, or it can be soloing things that others might not be able to. I have a lot of respect for Dysphoria for her "Hunter vs World" videos that show how she solos a majority of the bosses in several of the high-end dungeons. One could argue that she uses pathing exploits, and she does have people clear the trash for her after she's done it once so she has time to fight the boss before respawn, but it's impressive nonetheless.

Once in a great while, when I feel like it, I do go back and solo lower-level instances. Most people can do SM, but anything more challenging deserves some mention. (Pity you can't get to Archaedas without 3 people.)


Would I want a dedicated solo instance, though? Maybe one, just to recapture that "dungeon crawl" feeling that is pretty hard to get anywhere in the mini-dungeons of the world. But if I really want that, that's why I go back to Uldaman.

Buy NWN2 you get to do solo instances with a whole party! :)



I agree, solo farming the whole of DM west "plant part" was quite challenging to get down. Maybe get youre solo instance fix that way.
(not just AOEing the big groups of small lashers but everything, including killing the sub boss)

Edited, Dec 4th 2006 10:28am by Sjans

I'd actually go for class-specific instances. It'd give me a solid reason to want to level one of each job to 60. Then I'd have something to do with that job when I got there.

When UX:O was in production, one of their large selling point was instanced dungeons that would set it's diffculty level(Some mobs got more health/armor/ect and other mobs added, pretty much similiar to what a single player diffculty setting changes would do) according to how many players and what level players entered.

So it is possible to do, but would require some heavy recoding, and I'm sure EA probably won't be to happy to give away code like that.