Soloing Legacy Content

[Aurabolt-cairne]

I feel like at this point all content in BFA and Legion should be soloable at level 50. I recently did the WoD Raids for the very first time. If not for the fact I was level 50 at the time, I probably wouldn’t have been able to do them ever.

Island Expeditions should have been soloable a long time ago. Remove the Elite status of all creatures, nerf all mobs and buff chars during Island Expeditions (and Torghast after DF is released).

This is also a good time to introduce the option of skipping dungeons for quest chains in ALL legacy content (not just BFA’s in regards to the Allied Races). Again, the only reason I recently completed the Paladin Order Hall campaign for the very first time is because I was level 50 when I went back and did it.

Another thing that’s pretty annoying for me personally is Dungeon Finder for 10-50 only offers BFA Dungeons even when doing Timewalking Campaigns. How about setting it so at the very least you can either que ALL Legacy Dungeons (and Raids!) via Dungeon Finder or at the very least while Timewalking until Level 50. Even at level 50+, players should still be able to cue for BFA Dungeons and Raids until level 53.

This brings me back to “that” ICC encounter you can only solo if your class can heal. It’s skippable otherwise yes but you miss out on an achievement. A workaround could be giving the vendors at the entrance a consumable that can be used to target heal for that encounter.

Personally, the Spine of Deathwing Encounter should get the Gunship Battle Encounter treatment. It’s mechanics are complicated and has zero room for error even when you know what you’re supposed to do. I’ve never cleared it myself and would if it was made easier to clear. Maybe make it so you can’t be knocked off at least as a start.

I would also add at this point, Resources and Gold costs for Garrison upgrades should be cut by 50%+. There’s no reason or need to still be expected to come up with 2k Resources and 5K Gold for tier 3 for example. I’d cut them to 1k Resources and 500G which would be much more reasonable.

Just some ideas I’m throwing out there. Not expecting too much though.

[Twinkletorch-moon-guard]

…why specifically soloable at 50?

Quite a lot of it (not all) is already soloable at 60.

[Shadowvixyn-moon-guard]

@Aurabolt-cairne

Island Expeditions should have been soloable a long time ago. Remove the Elite status of all creatures, nerf all mobs and buff chars during Island Expeditions (and Torghast after DF is released).

As Twinkle mentioned you can solo pretty much all prior content at level 60. The island expeditions you can talk to Flynn and “request a private tour” which is a solo run of the islands at regular, heroic or mythic level per your choice. I don’t know if Flynn gives you that solo option prior to hitting 60, as I’ve never tested it. It definitely doesn’t nerf the mobs.

The request to solo all BfA content at 50 rather than 60 is hard to fulfill because many people are using BfA content to level from 50-60. Lots of us are just plain burned out on Shadowlands grind so going back to BfA to get our alt characters leveled is a minor relief to a worn out wound. So, that’s just the logistical reason why they’re not nerfing the content. The cost of the Garrison upgrades is pretty silly to be so high this far after the expansion.

@Aurabolt-cairne

Another thing that’s pretty annoying for me personally is Dungeon Finder for 10-50 only offers BFA Dungeons even when doing Timewalking Campaigns.

This one can be moderately changed around, but it requires that you go talk to Chromie and set your timeline to level your character in a different expansion. Then when you que for group, you get that expansions list of dungeons to run. They could definitely make life easier by just giving back the drop list of what expansion’s dungeons we prefer to go to. I’m not sure why they ever took that away in the LFG menu.

[Lorkhan-draktharon]

@Twinkletorch-moon-guard

why specifically soloable at 50?

my monies on can’t be bothered to level his alts.

[Swarf-proudmoore]

@Aurabolt-cairne

the Spine of Deathwing Encounter should get the Gunship Battle Encounter treatment.

I second this. It’s easy but is tediously annoying.

[Sherah-bonechewer]

@Aurabolt-cairne

This brings me back to “that” ICC encounter you can only solo if your class can heal. It’s skippable otherwise yes but you miss out on an achievement. A workaround could be giving the vendors at the entrance a consumable that can be used to target heal for that encounter.

If you have the “concentrated flame” essence on your Heart of Azeroth, it can be used to heal as well as harm. That doesn’t help people who don’t have the Heart of Azeroth, of course.

[Aurabolt-cairne]

Until the last 2 weeks, I actually didn’t have Shadowlands myself but I’ll clarify further.

All Legion-era content should be soloable at 50. All BFA-era content should be soloable at 60. At the same time Island Expeditions, BFA World Quests and BFA Dailies should all be soloable at 50 (and get progressively easier every level over 50).

Just my 2-cents.