Guild Wars 2

I started SAB just thinking its another gimmick i`ll check for a minute and forget about, yet it turned out to be great fun i enjoyed for hours exploring and running through.

That said, one thing that appeals to me in it is – its Solo friendly. I am a wvw player, that spent most of my time organizing things before and in whole playtime since early BWEs did not a single dungeon run – since came to GW exclusively for pvp. Now, after a while returning to the game i find myself enjoying casual gameplay without prior stress of constant need to do something/be somewhere and having fun.

Yet i find that aside from doing dailies, theres is surprisingly little solo friendly content – other than open world bosses pugs.

Dungeons, Fractales etc. – all require team, and being lazy returnee, with whole contacts consisting of people that look confused when word “pve” mentioned and wipe the blood of enemy invader from their axes: i dont like group pve content much. And if i`d like for example ascended gear – i am pretty much forced into it (though i hope it`ll be added to wvw eventually).

The appeal of SAB was – it was managable, and enjoyable: SOLO. Sure, running 5 man on teamspeak would have been a lot of fun – but its nice that i had an option to do it WHOLE solo, and no content was impossible for me.

THIS is what i point out is important – the content is casual friendly and fun, and part of it is: one can run with a group, but one does not need one. PLEASE LET IT STAY THAT WAY, in future iterations/worlds also.

Designing/balancing things keep in mind, that absolute majority (correct me if i am wrong) do SAB solo – and while seeing its popularity its tempting to make things BIGGER, HARDER, MORE CHALLENGING! – please do it in a solo friendly way.

i.e. no puzzles that would require more than 1 man for solution
, no bosses one cannot defeat alone
, no rooms filled with monsters where to survive one needs team

i.e. dont turn it into just another PvE Dungeon.

With big respect,

WvW carebear.

I agree. I love that this is essentially a dungeon I can do by myself on my own time without needing other players.

Yup, I agree as well. I think it’s awesome that they made Super Adventure Box completely playable solo, or in any sized group up to 5. It’s fun either way.

It would sort of go against the principles of the S.A.B. to make parties mandatory. A lot of the challenge is in exploration and jumping skills, which a group isn’t going to be a big help with. Also, each player is without their regular profession abilities and gear, so it’s not like the normal “party synergy” is a benefit here. We can’t even revive each other. And what “old school” 8-bit game required 5 players? Certainly nothing that inspired Super Adventure Box. Heck, for a long time, anything with greater than 2 simultaneous players was pretty rare.

When I first saw the five piano-style keys at the stage checkpoints, I was filled with dread. I assumed it was some kind of cheap device to force us to have 5 players just to progress (until I found out how it really worked, of course).

In the rest of the game, I have no problem with there being content that encourages and rewards groups more than individuals — even stuff that requires groups, since they want to promote this as a social game, and that’s a big draw of MMOs — but there could definitely be more solo content. It would be great if they really perfected their difficulty scaling for groups, and introduced a new mode for dungeons or fractals, or something new, where we had a choice to do it solo or in any size group up to 5, or even 10.

Oh, and just to get it out of the way, because I know somebody is going to post this sooner or later: This is call MOMRPG for reasons!!! It is meat for raids liek 40 mans so gtfo and play supre mario bross or world of minecraft lol!!!!!!!!1

I agree as well. There already is a wealth of content in GW2 that requires a team, whether it be a random make shift team as in DEs or WvW as something more organized like Dungeons/Fractals or sPvP. Continuing with SAB as it is now is a very good way to add something to the game that accepts team play but is essentially made to be soloable.