Guild Wars 2

ironfrodo.7625:

Why are you requesting soloable Dungeons while nearly all of emm are soloable

They are soloable by very elite highly-geared individuals. Yes they CAN be solo’ed and I applaud them for that. But those of us who will never get to that skill/gear level will never be able to do it.
I want to preface this by emphasizing that I am not asking them to make dungeons easier. I am asking for a solo mode in exactly the same way they did for Arah personal story. Thos people who can solo group dungeons will still be able to be just as proud because nothing on that side will have changed. All we are asking for here is a Solo mode in addition to whats already there.

Zombieturtle I feel you may have misunderstood me. I’m not suggesting they change anything. I don’t want them to dumb down dungeons or increase or decrease the loot or anything else that would effect the way you yourself play the game. I am asking for them to add in an additional feature that would be relatively easy to add and would allow those of us (a very large number of GW2 playerbase) who very much dislike that aspect of the game, to actually enjoy it. This change has no impact on you at all, but increases the rest of us’ enjoyment of the game.
Do remember that this game belongs to us all. I respect that you don’t want anything changed and that’s why I’d never ask them to do anything that would effect your own enjoyment of the game. But can you perhaps see how your fighting a change like this WOULD have an adverse effect on how people like me might enjoy the game?

Altair.8402:

I’m not trying to attack anyone for their preferences but I’m honestly surprised there’s so many who don’t want to play with other people. I’m genuinely curious, what draws you to MMOs? There’s so many good RPGs out right now that offer an amazing single player experience (Witcher 3, Skyrim, FO4, Dragon Age, etc.)

It’s not that we don’t like playing with other people, on the contrary I love playing with others. It’s the fact that we don’t like organized grouping. I love group events, trading, talking with others, and generally playing in a game where others are playing with me. What we don’t like is depending on others or (often even worse) having others depending on you. Rather than a carefree, enjoyable, go-at-your-own-pace adventure you are now in a stressful go-go strike team of people who are all there to get loot and get out and you better hold your own or you’re getting kicked. I understand that that is a pleasurable experience to some but certainly you can understand how it might not be pleasurable to others.

Alchies.1984:

It’s going to get harder for the average player to find dungeon groups as time goes on. I feel like it’s kind of inevitable that something will be done to facilitate solo/small group play.

Hmm. Actually, let me rephrase. They should do something to facilitate solo/small group play, but I don’t actually know whether the current dungeons will ever get any more updates.

That’s kind of sad. Moment of silence for dungeons, please.

You hit on a great point I didn’t cover. Dungeons are already rarely played as it is and that will only get worse as time goes by. This would be a great way to bring them back with very minimal effort on the devs.

zombyturtle.5980:

Albadaran.1283:

Hmm, no matter how it was advertised, I would like this change. Would not even be hard to accomplish since dungeons are instances, meaning you can scale them up or down to meet the number of players in a party.

What about mechanics that require 4-5 people to complete like the flame legion gate in cof p1 or the lasers in coe. It may seem simple to change on the face of it, but could require an entire rework of each event depending on how its coded, which would be alot of work.

Wouldnt be hard to change, they did the same thing for the solo story arah dungeon already. Rather than requiring triggers to happen simultaneously, simply change them to not be timing dependent so that a solo player can just complete each part himself at his own pace.

Many of us enjoy soloing MMO’s. There is a school of thought that if you don’t like to group up and party with others than you shouldn’t be playing MMO’s and that is simply false. I love MMO’s, I enjoy interacting with other people, trading with them on the TP, engaging in group events and just seeing other real people move about in a living breathing world…I just don’t like to structured group up with them. I know that I am not alone in this.

The Dungeons and Fractals make up a large chunk of this game and after 2 years I’ve still never seen any of them because I truly hate grouping. Hell I only recently completed the Main Story line because of the Arah grouping wall.
But that got changed and they made a soloable story mode for it. This is what I am suggesting be done with all of the Dungeons and Fractals. Offer a solo mode with significantly reduced xp and loot rewards. I don’t think anyone actually does the story mode on dungeons anymore so why not just change those to the solo mode?

The people that like to group should be rewarded for their efforts, and I perfectly understand that, and the great thing about a change like this is it would have zero impact on those folks. Hiding a huge chunk of the game behind the grouping wall is silly and alienates a rather large number of your players.

/signed!
Great class, but that hammer animation really kills it for me. Anet please look into this. I have been playing this game nearly 2 years and this is the first time I’ve ever posted if that shows you how much this little change would mean to me.