10 Good Reasons To Be A Solo Player!

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1 - You make your own schedule.

2 - Zero pressure.

3 - Raider IO will never impact your ability to get into groups when you are the whole group.
(I don’t even know what Raider IO is and every time people explain it to me I immediately forget because it has 0 impact in my life lol)

4 - You will always be the best DPS in your group if you play solo lol

5 - No one will give you 50 dkp minus.

6 - Nobody gets mad when you just AFK in the middle of combat for no reason (I do that a lot!).

7 - Ditching any and all social responsibilities in WoW will give you more time to think of the things that matter most, like matching transmog with mount with title with pet.

8 - Gear is meaningless, your progress is reset every expansion. Cosmetics are forever. And you’ll have more time to dedicate to them if you don’t do group content!

9 - In a solo situation you can’t hold other people back, and other people can’t hold you back. Win-Win situation.

10 - Hell is other people :smiley:

Now, I’m not saying you shouldn’t have any friends. Friends are good. For joking and laughing and having general non-videogame fun. Not for playing WoW with.

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Now list the 100 good reasons to play with friends… I’m too lazy

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I can’t, I don’t know any lol

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How demanding are your friends?.. yikes

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Nobody notices when I mess up and hit the wrong button, changing into human form suddenly, inexplicably.

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Yeah you wouldn’t unless you played with friends… makes sense.

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And this is what’s great about WoW (or was), it’s fun in groups and it’s fun solo.

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Nobody to get on your case when you leave the game!

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LOL

I might have done that… at least a couple times… :upside_down_face:

Also awesome when you hit the soulshape button instead of an attack. Not that I’ve ever done that. :wink:

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Well, we joke and laugh while having videogame fun.
Not sure what your doing wrong…

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I like the solo experience mostly because I hate people. There. I said it. People can be so self-serving and annoying…that said, I like playing in environments where other players are doing the same quests as me because it’s nice to lend a hand or have one lent back in return…but, no need to talk to me about it…

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…11. not having to give toxic elitist even a moment of thought or a square millimeter of space in my head.

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:+1:

/10 char

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Ouch. I do enjoy playing this game solo and then group up with RL friends when we want to do group content. No pressure but then again, sometimes FOMO creeps in and that’s probably the biggest downside of solo playing.

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I’ve had some interesting interactions with friends where they would get upset if they wanted to do something and I wasn’t interested. Usually I get guilted into doing something and then wish I hadn’t bothered to log in at all.

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for the most part, people you play with are not your friends you have probably never met them or even know their real name, and because they’re not your real friends they have no issue treating you like crap, that’s why many prefer solo

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I have literally had the opposite experience I’m sorry

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Agree.

Depends on what you define pressure? Although I am solo, I still want to advance, progress and gitgud. I suppose, no pressure from a team? Than yeah!

Rio is just another tool just like built in item level, or former GearScore. There are no issues uptil you get to M+10. Anything below it, you really don’t need IO. However, ties to my 2nd comment, I still want to progress.

I am still the skinniest person in the room. But I am alone here. What if I step outside?

That, imho, comes down to your personal decency. I can’t just leave mid run and go for a smoke. Like, no. I value my time to just have wasted 20m of this run just to go afk.

But how can you say that when 90% of the game is about advancing, getting better and overcoming harder challenges? I is no fun being 168ilvl vs 220.

As someone who played sports professionally until an injury, I will just say this is a TERRIBLE philosophy. You should aim to lift each other up. Having other players with you, even IRL friends, still creates a little bit of a competition. Sure. Yours is still a reason, but it’s just a terrible one in my eyes.

Now. I don’t have any IRL friends who play WoW. They play other games, but not WoW. One does actually, but on the level of playing 20m/month just to do 1-2 quests and only to kill time. But with all of that, I still want to be able to find a few individuals here and there to play with. And I have.

I would rephrase “10 reasons you may be a solo player”, as the reasons actually listed will do nothing but stall you. So even after a year of playing, you will still be on a level of a new comer. no one wants that

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Unbelievably awesome when you hit killing spree instead of pick pocket.

People are basically unreliable.

Why are you trying to convince someone who is happy playing alone that they are obligated to play content that they would find difficult or with an ambitious group?

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I admire this mindset.

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