Fun for solo players?

[Monomyth]

I do love me a good MMORPG. Had fun with WoW, really liked Rift. Thought SW:G was underated and I often miss it.

Most of my time playing these sorts of games is spent playing solo.

Is this game too difficult for solo players? I can usually get in an hour or two of gaming every day, but at odd times, so it's often too difficult to find others to play with.

[RPGpro]

The majority of the story quests switch between solo-only instanced fights to party-only dungeons.
While it's possible to solo a vast majority of the quests there's a massive amount of team-based content that the game doesn't even allow you to attempt solo.

The party-based content uses something called the "duty finder" you simply select which dungeon/guildhest/boss you want to do and the game finds you a party and starts the instance, the duty finder is cross-server too so even if you play at odd times there's usually plenty of people online.

[Faranox]

I haven't played much yet, but from what I heard it's tough to do a lot of the dungeons and such on your own, but if you enjoy crafting or gathering I'd imagine that's totally soloable.

[Monomyth]

Thanks!

Can you save the game mid-dungeon, or are you committed to playing for the next few hours once you go in?

[Sasha]

Originally posted by Beargod:

Thanks!

Can you save the game mid-dungeon, or are you committed to playing for the next few hours once you go in?

You're committed. Dungeons have a time limit, the majority of them being 90 minutes. However, in most cases, an average group will finish in around 30.

[Nico Yazawa]

Originally posted by Beargod:

Thanks!

Can you save the game mid-dungeon, or are you committed to playing for the next few hours once you go in?

Save the game mid dungeon...?

Um.... you are aware this is an MMO, yeah?

[Sasha]

Originally posted by Murasa Minamitsu:

Save the game mid dungeon...?

Um.... you are aware this is an MMO, yeah?

Having progress saved mid-dungeon isn't necessarily a strange thing for an MMO. World of Warcraft saved progression in raid dungeons until the weekly reset, for example.

[Gwyn, Lord of Tinder]

Originally posted by Beargod:

Thanks!

Can you save the game mid-dungeon, or are you committed to playing for the next few hours once you go in?

The very last dungeon saves your progress over each of its five instances over the week until reset, though I'm not aware of any other dungeon that does that, anyone feel free to correct me if I'm wrong though.

But yeah, most dungeons are on a 90 minute time limit with the average clear time being 30 minutes, so you're commited but you aren't there for ages.

[Monomyth]

Thanks again :)

And yes, I know most MMOs have instances which are all or nothing, but I was still curious.

[Big Boom Boom]

Originally posted by Beargod:

Thanks!

Can you save the game mid-dungeon, or are you committed to playing for the next few hours once you go in?

Yes you can, only for Binding Coil of Bahamut. You get to save your Progression (Currently 5 Turns) and even progression within T1. The other 4 Turns are either you lose or you win.

Progression reset every week though. Only because Progression saved is also Progression locked, you can't go backward in term of Coil Progression. This however is getting lifted in the next major patch for T1-5.