Guild Wars 2

I don’t know about the rest of you, but this game IS very reliant on teamwork, and that’s what it is made for, completely understood.
But there is times when you can’t find people to play or do other things with, and want to roam around on your own.

What i guess i’m asking for is some sort of content that is permanent, that we can do on our own, that does not require other people, while still being interesting and rewarding.

Discuss ~

Play skyrim kthxb

A lot of MMOs realize that people want solo content and are providing it. There was a stat released that said about 60%+ of MMO players play solo. So it definitely needs to be done.

Its called Story Missions.

Xcom.1926:

A lot of MMOs realize that people want solo content and are providing it. There was a stat released that said about 60%+ of MMO players play solo. So it definitely needs to be done.

Source?

Josip.8267:

Xcom.1926:

A lot of MMOs realize that people want solo content and are providing it. There was a stat released that said about 60%+ of MMO players play solo. So it definitely needs to be done.

Source?

This is from Jeremy Gaffney. Founder of Turbine and now working on WildStar. He was also one of the executives in NCSoft.

“And solo players are tragically underserved in most MMOs – something like 65% of players tend to play largely solo (Massively Single-player, as it were). So we can use that same tech to give them frequent updates of new solo story content for the cap frequently – advancing our world story and giving you more to do than daily quests or reputation grinds.”

A lot of the content that has been released for this game was solo content. There was only a few content patches that were group content. And even those that did require a group, were mostly solo content with one group activity (well, except for the recent dungeon path and Tequatl, but Tequatl wasn’t technically a content patch, just an update to existing content).

Xcom.1926:

Josip.8267:

Xcom.1926:

A lot of MMOs realize that people want solo content and are providing it. There was a stat released that said about 60%+ of MMO players play solo. So it definitely needs to be done.

Source?

This is from Jeremy Gaffney. Founder of Turbine and now working on WildStar. He was also one of the executives in NCSoft.

“And solo players are tragically underserved in most MMOs – something like 65% of players tend to play largely solo (Massively Single-player, as it were). So we can use that same tech to give them frequent updates of new solo story content for the cap frequently – advancing our world story and giving you more to do than daily quests or reputation grinds.”

I’ve been saying this for a long time and everyone tries to call me on it. Not the exact percentages, but that a huge percentage of the playerbase does play solo.

I’ve heard Scott Hartsman of Rift talk about it, but didn’t save the quote. I’m glad there’s one now to back up my comments.

I kind of miss that from GW1, being able to solo instances with a certain build…
This game doesn’t have “certain build(s)” – not that I’m aware of, and if there are, your probably best of not disclosing them anyways.

Oh and the lack of henchies….

There are people who solo dungeons in this game. It’s not easy but it can be done.

Wanze.8410:

Its called Story Missions.

Lol story missions…..Try soloing Zhaitan alone.

Two player content would be a much better addition to the game than one player content.

Henchies would be a good addition to the game.

I think they should revamp ALL current and future Story Mode dungeons to be designed for two players…that scale to five players – sort of like most of the special temporary dungeons. They should give 1/3 of the reward that an explorable dungeon path awards (so for most, 33s, 20 tokens, etc) once per day. That way, people who prefer to solo or do dungeons with a friend or two can slowly work towards dungeon armor of their choosing without being forced to run explorable paths with a full group.

xephire.8324:

Wanze.8410:

Its called Story Missions.

Lol story missions…..Try soloing Zhaitan alone.

Thats the last story mission of 5 different races and 3 different orders.

Up to Arah Story Mode, there is tons of single player instances. The Southsun Cove and Fire and Frost Living Story was also soloable.

xephire.8324:

Wanze.8410:

Its called Story Missions.

Lol story missions…..Try soloing Zhaitan alone.

So what you’re saying is out of well over 100 story missions, only one can’t be soloed? I’d say that’s a pretty good percentage.

No one wants to do story missions…