Can you really solo

[elidaman198]

So looked around and no clear answer.... say i wanna just solo and no time to team up with anyone.. can i play the game to its fullest or i need to group most of the time?

[Drus]

I have twelve 80th level characters and I think I've only joined 1 dungeon in 4 or 5 years. But it depends on what you're looking for in the game.

[Requimatic]

You can solo your way all the way up to the highest tier of content in the game.. I've done it, and it's quite easy.

As a quick guide:

1. Level as fast or slow as you like. Each zone has a "Bounty Master" that you can acquire gear from for whatever level bracket you're in.
2. At level 70, you get a small quest that awards you with a full set of L70 equipment for every slot. It's pretty decent stuff too! (The artifacts in particular you'll use for quite a while unless you have cash to spend on AD and buy better ones from the AH.)
3. 70 to 80 gets a little harder, but as long as you know what you're doing, it's not too bad.
4. At 80, you can start to slowly gear up with vendor stuff in Avernus by collecting Fallen Seals. Because these are the current-tier Seal, they do have a weekly cap of 400.
5. After this point, you can do things like Master Expeditions (solo or with a group; much faster with a group though), catch up on older content, etc. at whatever pace you want.

The only time you're going to HAVE to have a group is if you want to do anything in the highest-tier content, which is:

Dungeon: The Infernal Citadel (TIC or IC)
Trial/Raid: Tower of the Mad Mage

You will need to reach certain stat caps for either of those places, though.. and they can be a little difficult to reach if you aren't willing to pay money for ZEN, convert it to AD, and buy things off of the AH.

All in all, it's a game that you determine your pacing. Slow and steady, enjoy the stories, or rush to the level cap and get to that content.

I've played solo, and guildless, for the past.. 2 months? and it's been pretty fun so far. TIC and ToMM can be difficult, but as long as you know the mechanics groups are happy to have you.

[SeanBotha]

Originally posted by Requimatic:

You can solo your way all the way up to the highest tier of content in the game.. I've done it, and it's quite easy.

As a quick guide:

1. Level as fast or slow as you like. Each zone has a "Bounty Master" that you can acquire gear from for whatever level bracket you're in.
2. At level 70, you get a small quest that awards you with a full set of L70 equipment for every slot. It's pretty decent stuff too! (The artifacts in particular you'll use for quite a while unless you have cash to spend on AD and buy better ones from the AH.)
3. 70 to 80 gets a little harder, but as long as you know what you're doing, it's not too bad.
4. At 80, you can start to slowly gear up with vendor stuff in Avernus by collecting Fallen Seals. Because these are the current-tier Seal, they do have a weekly cap of 400.
5. After this point, you can do things like Master Expeditions (solo or with a group; much faster with a group though), catch up on older content, etc. at whatever pace you want.

The only time you're going to HAVE to have a group is if you want to do anything in the highest-tier content, which is:

Dungeon: The Infernal Citadel (TIC or IC)
Trial/Raid: Tower of the Mad Mage

You will need to reach certain stat caps for either of those places, though.. and they can be a little difficult to reach if you aren't willing to pay money for ZEN, convert it to AD, and buy things off of the AH.

All in all, it's a game that you determine your pacing. Slow and steady, enjoy the stories, or rush to the level cap and get to that content.

I've played solo, and guildless, for the past.. 2 months? and it's been pretty fun so far. TIC and ToMM can be difficult, but as long as you know the mechanics groups are happy to have you.

You will NEVER get into tomm as solo q that is a myth try it yourself It does not matter if you are in q for 10 hours it will never come up!!!

[Adinos]

The thing is, if you want to play 100% solo, you are somewhat limiting yourself. However, you can still do most of the content, and you can obtain pretty good gear as a solo player:

• Crafting. Right now, crafting is pretty much useless, but there have been times where you could get BiS gear through crafting, and that may be coming back.
  
• Expeditions (MEs. WEs and FEs) In the Underdark/Stardock, you can pick up expedition quests and do them solo - it will be a bit slower than doing them with a group, but perfectly doable. This will allow you to earn artifact gear and BiS companion gear. You can also get the "second best" tier of weapons (Alabaster or Burnished) pretty easily.
  
• Events like Hell Pit and all the Legacy campaign - solo content with decent rewards.

Now, if you are OK with interacting with others, just not form groups, you have a few more possibilities:

• Selected HEs, like the two big Avernus ones - just show up at the right time and place, and fight along a number of strangers, without inteacting with them.
  
• Random queues - in particular the "easier" ones - regular dungeons and skirmishes. Nobody will probably bother talking to you...people will just want to get them finished as quickly as possible.

What you cannot do, except in a "proper" group, is the highest-tier content, like ToMM and IC, which also gives you some of the highest ranked rewards.

So, the bottom line is basically that as a solo player you can enjoy 95% of the content - excluding the "end-game" dungeons, and obtain everything except some of the "best" gear in the game.

[NavFamG]

The only STOP I've found while playing solo is some of the zones starting around lvl 50? have an extra quest after you've defeated the final zone boss that's a group raid. You of course wouldn't be able to do those, but I haven't found it's hurt me any.

If fact I just hit lvl 80 yesterday and am only to the Icewind Dale area. So not only can you hit max solo, but you'll out level the zones as you do it.

My only extra stuff is 2 of the campaigns and even then only the beginning stuff and I generally skip most festivals as the lag in the city generally is a turn off for me.

[elidaman198]

hhmm it be neat can do dungeons by hiring merks to assist you

[Requimatic]

Originally posted by SeanBotha:

Originally posted by Requimatic:

You can solo your way all the way up to the highest tier of content in the game.. I've done it, and it's quite easy.

As a quick guide:

1. Level as fast or slow as you like. Each zone has a "Bounty Master" that you can acquire gear from for whatever level bracket you're in.
2. At level 70, you get a small quest that awards you with a full set of L70 equipment for every slot. It's pretty decent stuff too! (The artifacts in particular you'll use for quite a while unless you have cash to spend on AD and buy better ones from the AH.)
3. 70 to 80 gets a little harder, but as long as you know what you're doing, it's not too bad.
4. At 80, you can start to slowly gear up with vendor stuff in Avernus by collecting Fallen Seals. Because these are the current-tier Seal, they do have a weekly cap of 400.
5. After this point, you can do things like Master Expeditions (solo or with a group; much faster with a group though), catch up on older content, etc. at whatever pace you want.

The only time you're going to HAVE to have a group is if you want to do anything in the highest-tier content, which is:

Dungeon: The Infernal Citadel (TIC or IC)
Trial/Raid: Tower of the Mad Mage

You will need to reach certain stat caps for either of those places, though.. and they can be a little difficult to reach if you aren't willing to pay money for ZEN, convert it to AD, and buy things off of the AH.

All in all, it's a game that you determine your pacing. Slow and steady, enjoy the stories, or rush to the level cap and get to that content.

I've played solo, and guildless, for the past.. 2 months? and it's been pretty fun so far. TIC and ToMM can be difficult, but as long as you know the mechanics groups are happy to have you.

You will NEVER get into tomm as solo q that is a myth try it yourself It does not matter if you are in q for 10 hours it will never come up!!!

Why would you even attempt ToMM in a random queue? That's just asking for failure.

To put things in to perspective for you: the other day I had a DEMOGORGON RTQ fail.

So queueing for ToMM with randoms is out of the question regardless of how long it takes.

Join PUG groups with reputable people. It's fun.

[Iceira]

yes you can , but even devs need paid customer, to server and get end game item.
so try see it nice of them we all can play along way for free.

so it dont matter if there is high end game dungeon you cant because your gear is not good enough. its simple matter of understanding nothing is free in life. and i bet you had plenty of time to learn game and do you want to support it as paid customer. its that simple.

[SeanBotha]

Well i just realised they decided to make campaign quests in mod 19 that require you to have 2 players and not just solo it. I really hope they rectify this train wreck in the making!

[elidaman198]

meh wiill skip then. ty

[Requimatic]

Originally posted by SeanBotha:

Well i just realised they decided to make campaign quests in mod 19 that require you to have 2 players and not just solo it. I really hope they rectify this train wreck in the making!

Eh, really? That's not a very good choice on their part to be honest.. I mean finding another person who needs them also wouldn't be hard, but.. campaigns seem to be mostly a solo thing.. that's an odd choice for them to make.

[SeanBotha]

I have not seen it yet been testing characters but an alliance member pointed it out to me.... really hope it is wrong or changed before live

[elidaman198]

yah.. kinda sux i mean these days mmo are rare and.. looking forward to new world

[SeanBotha]

Of what i did of the new campaign(did not do to where 2 is required) it is amazing. I complain about a lot but the campaign and insignia upgrade changes are great