True. but heroes would also satisfy the desires of solo players or so I would imagine.

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OrangeTheCat wrote: »

In Guild Wars the First you could acquire and equip heroes. That allowed the player to do quests and such without having to find other players. I know it is controversial (at least, it was then), but I am wondering if it would lessen our grouping woes in this game (thinking about everything related to phasing here).

Edit: some description from the below link:
A hero is an NPC who can be added to a party to act in place of a player. Heroes become available through specific quests. [snip] Although similar to henchmen, the player can customize a hero's skills, attributes, and equipment. A player may also control the skill activation, location, and default behavior of the hero.

http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Hero

This is the same as companions in SWTOR and the soldiers from LOTRO that help you in skirms.

And mercenary companions in DDO. I support the idea. They could go back to creating difficult landscape content with the caveat that you could hire a mercenary/companion if it's too hard.

how about you could take your alt(s) with you as so called Heroe-npc, say he would only be able to use his first skill bar, would love to have my healer temp ^^

another game that did npc partymembers real good was Dragons dogma, as player you had your own pawn-follower, which you could also make as one of the classes, fully customze with gear and skills, and then you could hire 2 additional pawns of other players to suplement your party, so you could compose your party of 4 (like example I was rogue, had a 2H melee warrior pawn, hired another melee S&B and a sorc, you could even see what skills they had equiped, stats and such while looking for pawns to rent), had some real cool features as synergys-type things for example the S&B npc would call out to you, bracking under his shield and you could launch from the shield jumping enemys, or grapling an enemy so you could finish it,... also the pawns if they had experience with said sort monsters would give extra info, tips about how to fight em, if your pawn was hired it would also get a sort of xp (which you could then use to hire pawns), and the player that hired him could give points on how well your pawn preforemed, and could even send something with your pawn back as sort of present if you wanted. I found it was excelently executed, and to be honest, those pawn were more usefull as your regular pug group ;p

they could make it something like that that players could set characters of them as rentable-pawns for example

Because we need more encouragement for people to refuse to interact with other players.

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smeeprocketnub19_ESO wrote: »

Because we need more encouragement for people to refuse to interact with other players.

That of course is and has always been the number one argument against it. But I think the reason why many in the MMO space nevertheless adopted it is because heroes (or whatever you want to call them) are never as good as real flesh and blood players -- sometimes a companion implemented in software just won't do.

The reason they did it in EQ was simply because they already had this problem where people would get 4 accounts and multi-box things by themselves. So players that did want to group were screwed and needed help.

That is not a problem in ESO, and really, most everything can be facerolled in solo pve content anyway.

I would love to have an NPC sidekick. Say, a large, buxom, raven-haired Nord woman, with a penchant for standing in doorways...



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(Lydia! Lydia! Where art thou, Lydia!)

Thay should make everything solo content. If you enter a dungeon solo you should be able to solo it. If you enter the dungeon in 4 the diff should become for 4 players. Something like diablo 3. Each time a new player joined the diff automatically rises.
And if you want to encourage grouping raise the rewards and loot.

khele23eb17_ESO wrote: »

Just fix quest grouping and this wont be needed.

yes it will because forced group questing is a big waste of time and fustration, whole craglorn map is useless at the moment, either scaling or npc partymembers needs to be implemented

Hmm, heros were one of the best things about GW1 and yet I was still in a very social guild with lots of events (most serious, some silly and just plain fun). So were lots of other people - in very social guilds; I know because they were in our alliance and we would visit them quite often.

So I think the whole "heros would diminish the social aspect of MMOs" is a bunch of hogwash.