Solo player rant

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Mostly just played random BGs, I don’t like arena especially due to preference towards tanking in BGs. Never was the best, got whooped on but also did some whooping myself. Though I can’t bring myself to really play anymore.

I joined guilds that pve, not the biggest fan. Pvp guilds would have to be way to elite for me, I guess there’s communities, but eh. At this point I feel like I’d have to invest more time to return to my prior skill and reflex level, which was, only above average at best. I’m probably being generous too lol.

Point is I’m not bad at the game, but it’s just a lot for me and not rewarding.

Plus I’m not even doing anything. Like I don’t a job or wife and kids, friends some big project, hobby or something. I’m old, anti-social mostly due to the games environment and conditions.

Used to kinda feel like a nobody could be somebody in the game at least in passing. Maybe classic is better for this. Retail, nobody talks or is around really and there’s not much to talk about tbh if I don’t want to do sweaty rated pvp or meh mythics.

I’ll probably log in every once in awhile but maybe I’ma take a break probably a long break idk it’s whatever. I don’t care much about mounts or achievements or temp gear. The end game needs to be better for solo play, right now the prospect of solo play in wow is depressing for several reasons.

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Tbh random BGs are filled with bots that you can’t really claim this.

Buys game based on group play at endgame and only plays solo.

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I only play solo, but I play tank specs (like prot pally and DH vengeance) so I can solo mythic 0-3 for free mythic vault awards.

Why? Cause the playerbase is pretty toxic compared to games like FFXIV, EASY content mythic 0 and caring about stupid meaningless raid io that only matters in hard content, or any number of reasons. And screaming for any minor mistake and rush rush rush, kinda reminds me of lost ark in the endgame community tbh. FFXIV overall fits me more, I just don’t like…final fantasy singleplayer games either lol

You ask, why WoW then?

I respond with…

blizzard hasn’t made a warcraft singleplayer RPG that is updated for decades for a cheap price of 15 dollars a month, or …ANY warcraft singleplayer RPG that is an actual 3d game like skyrim.

There are also no warcraft overhaul mods for skyrim I can play either, blizzard probably shut those down anyway if they were made

I don’t want to play elder scrolls, honestly if it wasn’t for mods I wouldn’t play skyrim (I turned skyrim into a star wars overhaul game, dont even really play “skyrim”).

I dont want to play final fantasy

Or guild wars

SWTOR was fun I’ll give you that, but I did all the content wanted to do and their updates really really suck compared to WoW updates and its kinda a dead MMO tbh

I like the world and lore of WARCRAFT, even with the lore having ups/downs I like it more than most games.

Also MMOs give you decades of content for the low price of 15 a month and always updated. Singleplayer games you run out of content in less than 20 hours usually and have to pay 60 dollars for that (or 70).

So I am pretty stuck playing WoW until blizzard makes a skyrim-like warcraft RPG

With that said, I’ve played decades soloing and ignoring everyone and its worked out well. The best time started in WOTLK as DK could solo everything. And its only gotten better as a soloer since WOTLK

You just need to be a tank class (prot pally is always a safe bet, DH vengeance is THE best solo class in the entire game currently BUT will 98% chance of nerfed to oblivion next expansion). Not even be a BM hunter, they can’t solo mythic that well. Gotta be one of the more powerful tank classes.

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The player base isn’t anymore toxic than any other game tbh.

Doesn’t matter what your reasoning is. The game is based on group play at endgame. If you enjoy solo play knock yourself out but it’s not the priority.

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I dunno, unlike OP, I find it super easy to solo as a tank. I soloed mythic 3 on my DH other day.

Prot pally can solo everything, vengeance DH can solo even more but not a safe choice. Guardian druid does good too, lacks damage though. Prot warrior was good, dunno if still is apparently been nerfed.

And next expansion they are adding even more stuff for a solo player

If OP is playing a monk, even brewmaster isn’t really very good for soloing tbh. Its a ton better than it was, but I can see why they’d have a hard time.

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The op is playing a tank in pvp which is probably the issue.

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Fair. I haven’t played in weeks, if you wanna duel lmk LOL.

Can you blame me though?

Yeah. I collected stuff invested time into xmog and such to make my character look cool imo. A lot of it was a grind so going into another MMORPG feels like I’d be years behind players in the game. I could catch up or wtv, but again I spent time on WOW already.

I’ll consider M0.

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Show your work? There is an metric ton of things to do once you hit max level that require zero interaction with others. The game is a sandbox and the devs are consistently adding things for solo-players to do. So … no … the game is not “based around group play”. Try again.

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i never understood these posts . you don’t like a product move on . pointless post

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yeah in that case, probably. If he wanted to be a tank in pvp, thats just vengeance right now lol. Even then, way better to be a healer or a dps in pvp.

And even THEN I dunno where OP is coming from tbh. I soloed pvp back in WOTLK and…uh…what was the expansion after WOTLK? Cataclysm? And I found it at the time among the best solo content.

Maybe the difference is I don’t really care what I do in WoW or take anything in WoW seriously and just have fun and enjoy it with my very very slow progression

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Actually people dont wanna play in groups, they just come in groups cuz theres better rewards

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Wouldn’t even be fair. Also don’t feel like wasting my time.

No. I think your complaints pretty absurd.

Do I need to explain common sense and the end game pillars that award the best gear?

All that metric solo stuff is busy work to keep people invested inbetween waiting for friends to log on.

The pillars of endgame are raid mplus arena and RBGs.

World content isn’t an endgame pillar.

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I disagree. I enjoy this game way more when I’m playing with friends and guildies.

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Friends and guildies dont count, since you know them they wanna play with you, iv asked so many people even some poeple i know if they wanted to do a key or group content they didnt want to cuz there was nothing for them

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The vast majority of people don’t even care about mythic that log onto WoW. Not sure the exact percentpage. But the forums and maybe wow subreddit are kinda oddballs, but blizzard said at one point vast majority just log onto WoW without even looking at wowhead or go to forums or twitter or reddit or anything like that. They didn’t even use any addons they said, just logged on and played.

Most people don’t even care about soloing mythic 0-3 like I do, they just log on and collect stuff and do all the world content

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Do I need to explain common sense and that the best gear is not incentive for a lot of people?

Yes, if your a gear grinder.

I’m sorry you can’t see past the end of your nose. Maybe get some glasses?

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Good news is that Blizz knows they need to improve solo outdoor content and is working to do that in war within.

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to add to this.

There is a TON of content in WoW without mythic or raids. PvP is good content, kinda group focused but can be done “solo”. But there is more content to do in WoW than probably even FFXIV that one can do by themselves or with one or two other people. There is a TON. It just doesn’t involve chasing the gear grind

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I don’t get a clear sense from your post of what exactly it is you are looking for that WoW doesn’t currently offer. Do you have something specific in mind?

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It’s not really that fun for me. It was okay at first, after returning to the game and such. Now big keys just seem too sweaty and creates game fatigue for me.

This is why server identity was kinda worth. Granted it can cause problems too, but you could server switch at least.

Nice.