Solo gearing path proposal

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Enhancing will be the most important way to upgrade your gear as a solo player. At level 60 you’ll get a quest chain to unlock your anima spirit companion, your anima spirit companion will give you a series of quests that walk you through the steps. To enhance your equipment, talk to your anima spirit companion and select the ‘enhance’ option.

Using anima stones, which can be found on 50+ enemies or purchased on the AH, you can increase the base stats on a piece of gear from 171 up till 226, adding +1 to the name of the item for each success. Enhancing any item up to a certain point is pretty easy, but beyond that can become very resource intensive. Let’s break it down.

For armor, enhancing it up to ilvl 200 has a 100% chance of succeeding. Beyond that, your chances decrease significantly. Weapons can be safely enchanted up to 200 ilvl before risking failure.

Failing an enhancement for weapons and armor destroys your anima stone and the equipment you tried to enhance will lose maximum durability. Fail enough times and that item’s maximum durability will fall so low that you’ll be unable to use it. The only way to restore that item’s durability is to acquire another version of that same item and take both to your anima companion to be repaired.

Blacksmith, Leatherworkers and Tailors can create the upgradeable items to sell on the auction house or upgrade the items themselves to ilvl226 if they have the gold for it.

Fortunately, there’s a silver lining to this in that, for each successive failure while enhancing, you earn what’s called ‘bad luck protection’. Bad luck protection stacks are a hidden bonus that increases your chances of a successful enhance, and for every failure that chance gets higher.

Good luck and have fun.

Idea modified from BDO to fit the solo playerbase of WoW.

Full article here if you’d rather just play BDO rather than something like this be introduced to WoW.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/black-desert-online-gear-guide

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How about just play the game, gear is everywhere

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I’d rather not have a cheap asian game method of RNG chance to upgrade or destroy my gear… Why is it that ESO is the only MMO that knows what a solo player is and how to reward them?

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Why play a multiplayer game?

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Casuals need better gear because ion refuses to set the legacy debuff on legion content. So get angry at him, not casuals.

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I agree completely.

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What does ESO do?

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You get high end gear for solo content too.

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Just drops gear normally from soloable mini bosses, but the better gear has a lower chance to drop. Or some good gear is obtained as random world drops. Different sets drop in different zones. Gear isn’t treated as the end all be all in ESO, so they let even the lowliest of noobs have access to good gear.

But have no fear there is also dungeon gear, it’s just not strictly better than the solo gear.

I know, I can’t believe I even have a sub atm either with how much better ESO’s loot system is for someone like me. I guess the PvP? I like WoW’s BGs more than ESO’s. Anyways, tired of WoWs BS gearing so haven’t been playing.

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You want to solo level?

Then level along via Quests.

You want continued gear?

I’m a introvert and I’m 201 ilvl.

Get out of your comfort zone. Enjoy the game for what it is worth. Crap, ya’ don’t even have to listen to chat in this game.

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Stop telling people how to play this game. Some people don’t want to play high end content. Most players in wow want to play old content for mogs and collection items. Problem is Ion doesn’t want us to be able to do it without high end SL gear. So now we need your elitist gear to do that.

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How about no. This sounds like something out of a cheap f2p Asian mmo. Gear is gear. If you want 226 gear do the high keys or raid.

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Casuals: We want a path to progression.
Elitists: You don’t need epics for questing.
Casuals: Ok we will do legacy content
Ion: I won’t turn on legacy debuff.
Casuals: So now I need epics to do legion.
Elitists: Go raid if you want epics. Or pvp.
Casuals: But we don’t like to PvP for PvE gear.
Elitists: Well you’re just lazy.
Casuals: Ok so there’s nothing to do. I’ll unsub.
Elitists: Lol see you next week.

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WoW already has this, it’s called “grind gold and buy expensive gear on the AH”.

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:slight_smile:  

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The biggest problem with the “solo” gear progression is that the gear you can get solo already passes up the “beginning” Mythic+ and even LFR raiding gear. So now “solo” players want Heroic Raid level gear for doing the exact same stuff they’ve already been doing. They turn their noses up at the other progression paths, because “they require a group/time/effort”.

Now, they could put in challenging solo content, which would be fine. But I almost guarantee that we’d still see “That stuff is too hard/takes too much time” complaints. But still, regardless of potential complaints, it might be worth looking into.

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I just wish I could watch all the end game stuff without having to do dungeons and raids.

I only play solo PvE, so I never see the endings of long story lines because 99% of them end in raids. I end up having to wait until I’m high enough level to one shot them. So I haven’t seen any end content from Legion or BfA. Kind of a bummer. Like reading a novel and finding out the last chapter’s been torn out.

I’d be happy with just some kind of “story mode” to do them. No loot, no gear, no gold, no xp, no achieves, nothing gained except getting to watch the ends of stories. Watching them on YouTube isn’t the same, youtube often sucks.

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I don’t understand the idea of playing a multiplayer game and demanding to get the same rewards from doing single player things. It would be like going to an Italian restaurant and demanding to be served Asian food. It doesn’t make any sense. Go play a single player game if you don’t want to interact with people or do multiplayer content.
You get what you earn in a mmo. Get over it.

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Because most companies understand the difference between a single player game and an MMO.

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That’s why you have LFR. Yes, it’s a group thing but it is insanely easy and you only have to complete it one time. You shouldn’t have a problem with one trip to the LFR per patch. That’s what I did during BFA. The only one that gave me fits was the last one, Nyalotha. But the others were a piece of cake.

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