Guild Wars 2

Hello one and all,
I have recently started to play more Gw2 and have enjoyed playing a lot.
Mostly I’ve been leveling my new Warrior, and have had fun doing so.

But now I’m almost level 80, yet there is not much to do (PvE wise) as far as solo content goes. Yes I know there are events and the Tower of Nightmares is upon us, but still besides the ‘open-world’ PvE there is no dungeon-like instance i can solo.
All dungeons are (for me at least) very hard to solo so we’re always driven to play with a few others.

In one way this is a great use of a game to socialize, but sometimes I want to do those kind of things on my own. Just me, myself and (for example) the dungeon.

I am really looking forward to the response of the Dev Team, but also to the feedback of the community.

Thanks for reading my egoistic post :)
Please leave a comment with your thoughts!

- Nunoma

Not egoistic at all, you have a good point imo

Sometimes we want to take a new challenge, push our experience to the limits maybe, or just play alone (why not?). We could use more solo stuff than personal story

There are mini-dungeons in almost every zone that are challenging but soloable. They aren’t instances but I rarely run into other folks in them. Even if you do run into folks you don’t have to group up, although I generally do because the folks I run into are there to enjoy the content and not speed run.

I’ve soloed or duoed most of my time in GW2 without feeling the need for more instances. I also like tackling group events on my own. Are you looking for more challenge or more story?

Pandemoniac.4739:

There are mini-dungeons in almost every zone that are challenging but soloable. They aren’t instances but I rarely run into other folks in them. Even if you do run into folks you don’t have to group up, although I generally do because the folks I run into are there to enjoy the content and not speed run.

I’ve soloed or duoed most of my time in GW2 without feeling the need for more instances. I also like tackling group events on my own. Are you looking for more challenge or more story?

I’m looking for more of a challenge. I really like the dungeons but there are (to my knowledge) no other instances that are like that and solo-able.

Nunoma.7861:

Pandemoniac.4739:

There are mini-dungeons in almost every zone that are challenging but soloable. They aren’t instances but I rarely run into other folks in them. Even if you do run into folks you don’t have to group up, although I generally do because the folks I run into are there to enjoy the content and not speed run.

I’ve soloed or duoed most of my time in GW2 without feeling the need for more instances. I also like tackling group events on my own. Are you looking for more challenge or more story?

I’m looking for more of a challenge. I really like the dungeons but there are (to my knowledge) no other instances that are like that and solo-able.

Check out the Mini-dungeons page on the wiki – I found most of them when I was exploring, so you might not want to go too deep into that page if you don’t like spoilers. There are some jumping puzzles involved in some of them and many are challenging solo but not impossible.

I wish the story mode in dungeons would be reasonably soloable so I could experience the entire story without a guild/pug.

Kinda my problem with the personal story 75+ also. It requires a group.

Brushfire.3125:

I wish the story mode in dungeons would be reasonably soloable so I could experience the entire story without a guild/pug.

Kinda my problem with the personal story 75+ also. It requires a group.

I’d like to be able to experience the story modes solo or with a duo, even if they were difficult. We’ve 3 manned a couple after folks had to drop, but you can’t do that with all of them. I didn’t have much trouble completing my personal story solo (except for the dungeon of course) but I think that could be class dependent.

so you want to play with yourself in dungeons do you ? No i think i’ll pass on that idea . Dungeons should be kept as team content not dumbed down so just one person can do it. If they did that the only thing you would need to group up for is Meta events and thats not even grouping up

Adine.2184:

so you want to play with yourself in dungeons do you ? No i think i’ll pass on that idea . Dungeons should be kept as team content not dumbed down so just one person can do it. If they did that the only thing you would need to group up for is Meta events and thats not even grouping up

I’m not saying they should change the current dungeons, because they are perfectly balanced. But I would like to see some new instance which is like dungeons,
but is solo-able. Just because i want to do that sort of stuff on my own.

I have absolutely no problem with instances that scale to the number of players in a group allowing 1 or 3 or 5 to go in with a reasonable chance of success. But I definitely don’t want instances to be created that force people to solo. I play this game with friends/family/guildies — it’s why I’ve chosen the MMO game-type to begin with.

Scaling would be the very best of both of our worlds. I understand that there are people who don’t want to be forced to team up or who want to play alone sometimes and team others. But instances are rather special and, from what I understand, demand a great deal of the developer’s time. I don’t want that to be focused on solo encounters.

Aye.8392:

I have absolutely no problem with instances that scale to the number of players in a group allowing 1 or 3 or 5 to go in with a reasonable chance of success. But I definitely don’t want instances to be created that force people to solo. I play this game with friends/family/guildies — it’s why I’ve chosen the MMO game-type to begin with.

I agree that scaling is the best answer. I like dungeon type instances for the challenge and the content, and it’s just tough sometimes to get a full team of folks that don’t mind taking their time and exploring the content instead of just rushing to the end reward. It would be nice if an instance could support both modes of play.