Far be it from me to say "I told you so" when we were testing during the U49 cycle, but .... well, I told you so. You can kinda sorta run solo, but it doesn't work well and the single respawn point mostly results in being chewed up and spit out over and over by respawning trash packs.

Nothing is explained properly so it's very confusing, especially how to get started. Also too difficult, a lower difficulty setting is really needed, our group just kept dying over and over again, very boring. We did manage to finish the faction quest in the end but it took ages and the rewards were rubbish. Altogether we received two reward boxes each and both contained one piece of armour that was already collected. Probably won't bother with it any more but thanks for the house.

When choosing a faction, everyone is just choosing the faction leading. Thousand eyes is so far in the lead PS5 NA ATM.

I joined Gold and I hardly ever see anyone. I can solo just fine but everything takes so long to kill without anyone else around.

I assume everyone is doing the Thousand faction.

Also, how does one leave the Night Market zone? I go to the wayshrine and can only scroll through the different sections of the Night Market, but I can't port to Blackwood or anywhere else. I just port to a fellow guild members location to leave zone.

The set items that drop and can be bought through the vendors. Does these change weekly like how IA does it or are we stuck with the same 5 or so sets for the next 49 days?

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.

(PS-NA) Apparently there is no way to leave the Night Market outside of traveling to a home outside of Fargrave from your Collections tab. I should be able to use the wayshrine in the plaza to do so.

Also, as many before have said, if you are solo or even two-player co-oping with a friend, there is pretty much no chance at getting much of anything done. Even running something as inane as repairing the wards means I am dying constantly, cannot outrun/hide the mobs, and most of my gear is broken within five minutes. Two or three hits take out any of the companions I have active, so there's no real help there, either. I swear I was alone in the Parch for a while today because either no other players were given quests to go into the area or they just aren't playing.

Yes, I know this is Day One, but reading that a lot of the same issues I'm having were brought up during PTS is just not a great look and don't entice me to come back to this area, no matter how much I'd love to fully unlock the Night Den. Which is horrible knowing that I'll probably never unlock the three wings or get access to the new safe.

Hmm... After seeing these posts about the difficulty, I'm actually now curious how the difficulty compares to, say, a normal group dungeon (base game, not DLC) or IA cycle-wise.

It is difficult to enjoy without a large group. It’s also very grindy.

It’s early days, but right now I don’t think this is the kind of new content that will appeal to many. I’m not really sure what the aim is.

What is up with the daliy box rewards.? it is trash you need to put some better loot in that

Yeah ran in solo, got wrecked by the first group of npcs I ran into, hung around at the respawn for a few mins waiting to see if there was anyone to group with, got bored, logged out, won't be going back.

Thanks for the house I guess.

I'll repost my feedback from another thread:

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).

I managed to follow a group for a while, and while that lasted it was nice. However it's not easy to get back if you die and get rezzed at wayshrine. Once I lost the sight of the group, it was back to grinding and using invisibility pots to get to quest objectives.

Edit: and completing those quests got me blue coffers with overland gear??? Why??