Too difficult, Solo player.

i generally play solo, not always.
i wish for a lower difficulty option. Getting one shot is not fun.

When i have more energy i might try using one of my Tank or Healer builds.
A few hours ago i healed a little but there were not enough people for it to work.

Trash is soloable, but its definetly a group zone.
It was advertised as such too.

Thats the most confusing event i've ever seen, nothing is explained (or barely), we're all layered in shard so theres actually not that many player in each zone, faction war is non-existent since thousand eyes decided to exploit favor generation.
Well....

I have not played it yet, I will wait. I'm going to get the complete picture. I will be in there with my optimized raid team tonight, then I have multiple rosters taking players from my casual social guild through it Thursday and Friday, then I have my wife who's a solo quester who I will try to go in with also. Try it from every angle.

By the divines, who playtested this mess?
Everyone keeps dying, I cant do stuff by myself and all I want is cry.

Honestly, why do the Devs make such hard content? I have a busy work life I use ESO to relax. This new content is the opposite of fun.

There's no option for my vote, as my vote would be "I just all around love it!". I've run around in a group, and I've toyed around with it a bit solo. Either way, I enjoy it.

It's fine in a group when you have it, which is not always going to be the case. I, of course, cannot solo those bosses, but I can do the trash packs solo. However, they are way too grindy and do not drop anything (same issue as in IA). In addition they are placed too close to each other, so kiting often engages the next group. Which means going to various objectives inside the district is too tedious (for me at least).

Very, very bad design. Last desperate attemp to FORCE group play, miserably failing. Bow to the vocal minority. Clearly indicating there is no internal playtesting nor understanging of their own game.

TairenSoul wrote: »

I'm really surprised that Zos failed to mention from the get-go that this was a group zone. I was really looking forward to a new area, but as a first and foremost solo player, I'm disappointed. I was wondering why the area wasn't packed with players. Now I know why! I understand this game is an MMO, but there are a ton of solo players that this content will not appeal to. Oh well.

from one solo player to another what does it do that you cant handle alone ??? it hit to hard ??? has to much resist ??? what makes it so you feel you cant solo it as ive tested it on pts 1500cp , had fun was a little weak , died a few times due to just that factor but could have tanked up more too , had no issues killing mods bosses , and now live with my 2800cp i have to block roll out heal and time my attacks as just doing a heavy attack aint going to kill this zone like EVERYWHERE else in overland and 85% of normal dungeons adds you have to rethink your builds and skill use and make real choices here not just play solo and say solo play is dead here because not all solo players are actually soloist they just dont group but need others to do things

jaws343 wrote: »

Not adding a vote just yet as I have not done a whole lot.

But, I did take my normal solo oaken build in and the first set of enemies were fairly high tuned in comparison to even vet dungeons. This build generally melts enemies and has crazy survival, easily my best pure DPS setup in IA and excels at soloing dungeons, and it struggled solo.

Have a few ideas for some build changes that might work, but even then I think they will make it more of a slog in favor of survivability. Something that IA at least makes up for with buffs when you choose to go that build route.

IA has them buffers due to the number's always staying the same in the market you can have big groups along side 5 or 6 players running solo so yes as a 100% pure soloist your going to give up TTK for survival

heimdall14_9 wrote: »

TairenSoul wrote: »

I'm really surprised that Zos failed to mention from the get-go that this was a group zone. I was really looking forward to a new area, but as a first and foremost solo player, I'm disappointed. I was wondering why the area wasn't packed with players. Now I know why! I understand this game is an MMO, but there are a ton of solo players that this content will not appeal to. Oh well.

from one solo player to another what does it do that you cant handle alone ??? it hit to hard ??? has to much resist ??? what makes it so you feel you cant solo it as ive tested it on pts 1500cp , had fun was a little weak , died a few times due to just that factor but could have tanked up more too , had no issues killing mods bosses , and now live with my 2800cp i have to block roll out heal and time my attacks as just doing a heavy attack aint going to kill this zone like EVERYWHERE else in overland and 85% of normal dungeons adds you have to rethink your builds and skill use and make real choices here not just play solo and say solo play is dead here because not all solo players are actually soloist they just dont group but need others to do things

I'm level 3037 and have a high dps arcanist build. I can solo basically all game pve content on normal difficulty. In my opinion, this is like doing a group dungeon on vet or a trial which are not soloable, in general. I went into my faction and got killed within seconds, even with other players fighting the same enemies. Those other players also got killed. Arcanist is not known as having high sustainability, so I guess it also depends on what class you play. Again, I wish zos was more forthcoming with details about how this was going to play out. I'll be skipping it until they make a normal difficulty, also. I'm glad you can handle it. Have fun!

As a solo player, it is sort of disheartening to not be able to kill *anything*. Like, yeah, I knew I was going to get slaughtered, if I didn't group, but I was hoping to be able to kill at least some of the outer mobs, but once you aggro them, they all descend on you, and I couldn't even get one kill.

It doesn't help that when you ask for a group, it is just silence.

Earlier, I DID see a group of players killing things, so I joined them (and got 75 kills with them, even before I started using my weapon) and got some quests, completed some quests, but then I had to leave so hopefully I will be able to get back in and find a group killing things again.

So, my conclusion is that, if there are people there it can be fun! But, it seems dead. Most of the time I would see one or two people, and even with the group, it was only like 6 people, with companions, yet the night stats on the side says that there should be 100K+ users who joined.

So, where are all these people?

Group finder