Would You Accept a Solo Option for Group Dungeons?

ArchMikem

Extra option in your Group settings. Select "Solo" then enter a Group Dungeon with a difficulty allowing Solo play.

▪Mechanics are disabled/modified accordingly to allow Solo progression.

▪Dungeon specific armor set pieces do not drop. For fairness, good loot requires good effort.

▪Achievements earned, even from Normal difficulty, are disabled. Same reason above.

This would be considered a "Story Mode" for those unable to find groups and just want to run a Dungeon. Explain your opinions if you wish.

MaddPowered

No

You can solo most group dungeons anyways lol

SoLooney

Yes

I would yes, cant always be bothered to get friends or guildies or even pugs... to complete dungeons, just do normal dailies, get my 2 to 3 keys on several of my toons, no problem

neal_brasier

This threads just going to turn into a list of people bragging about how they can solo every dungeon on vhm

neal_brasier

But yeah I do think it would be good for newer players who might not be in a guild or know anyone and have read all the hate on the forums so don't want to use the group finder

static_recharge

Yes

Yes, but only with the restrictions that you listed above. Possibly more but I can't think of any right now.

ArchMikem

Yes

MaddPowered wrote: »

You can solo most group dungeons anyways lol

Sure. If you were playing the Meta, of course you can.

Runefang

No

MMOs should, in general, limit solo content as they're about playing with other people.

Group content most especially should never be turned into solo content.

Invincible

neal_brasier wrote: »

This threads just going to turn into a list of people bragging about how they can solo every dungeon on vhm

The majority of normal mode dungeons aren't just soloable, they're about as difficult as overworld pve. A solo option like a "delve mode" would make grinding undaunted exp less time consuming.

ArchMikem

Yes

Runefang wrote: »

MMOs should, in general, limit solo content as they're about playing with other people.

Group content most especially should never be turned into solo content.

And if you can't find other people? I just tried to pug nBRF and i dropped out of the queue after 45 minutes and not everyone has a laundry list of friends to call on.

TerraDewBerry

Yes

Yup, I'd love that as an option for those times when I just want to play solo or no friends are around. I would also love a scaling options for 2- ? number of players for group dungeons.

altemriel

Yes

there is an option like this, all dungeons are soloable, you just have to be really good

Kamatsu

Yes

neal_brasier wrote: »

This threads just going to turn into a list of people bragging about how they can solo every dungeon on vhm

That or the people who will say "It's an MMO, MMO's are all about forced grouping" or similar. Forgetting the fact that the biggest MMO's have always succeeded because they offered plenty of solo'ability and allowed people to play at their own pace.

Or if they do have forced-grouping - such as FFXIV, as you have to do group dungeons to do the story - they generally have incentives for ppl to cue into doing them so ppl doing the story can do it without trouble - FFXIV incentivizes doing this with bonus xp & gold rewards, as well as cross-sharing between PC & console players.

One of the reason's WoW succeeded? It was (and still is) accessibile to players who both wanted to group and those who preferred to play solo - people could log in and quest without being forced to group with other people. Many people still did group, but many, many people did each zone's quest's and the horde/alliance questlines solo. Dungeons & raids were still group-only, and the end-game zones were more in favor of grouping or following a zerg... but could still be done solo.

As for the OP - I'd love to see a "Story Mode" for group dungeons. Where I can go in and do the dungeons solo for the story and quest's involved. I don't care about the loot, achievements or such - if I want those, I'll do them in groups.

RaddlemanNumber7

No

I play 100% solo. I don't see the point in this really. A wafer-thin storyline and a purple book?

Dev time is precious. There are much better things they can be doing to provide players with new solo content.

lolo_01b16_ESO

No

Only if they add a nightmare difficulty level at the same time.

Bombashaman

Yes

Oh god yes.

DeHei

Its called vMSA for example

Rainraven

Yes

Runescape has this. Runescape gives more dungeon options than this game-of-the-year MMO.

The dungeons are already instanced: allowing number in party and difficulty level to be chosen before we go in would open up a lot of content for people who prefer to solo or duo, without requiring they be high-damage powerhouses like y'all first. And at the same time they could add an extreme difficulty option. Everybody wins, even ZOS.

FakeFox

No

I think certain mechanics that make dungeons impossible to solo could be removed in general. Then you could just do every dungeon solo without any change to difficulty, which is a lot of fun in my opinion.

FakeFox

No

altemriel wrote: »

there is an option like this, all dungeons are soloable, you just have to be really good

Sadly not all, some dungeons have mechanics that need two people. At least if you don't have a exploit or something to skip around it.

Shardan4968

Yes

My Stamblade is not able to do dungeons on his own, so I voted yes because I want to do quest and it's very difficult when other guy in my team wants to speedrun. I'm just making screenshots of dialogs and reads them after dungeon, it's really annoying.

Qbiken

No

So you basicly want a maelstrom version of every dungeon?

zyk

No

Normal dungeons are easy to solo, even without a "meta" build.

It sounds like you want dungeons to be delve-easy. /sick

WhoSlappedThePie

I can solo it. All of it. Don't need a group other than to make it faster... If you want a challenge, which sounds like you do at the moment, work on trying to solo the content. Like me. Did I tell you I can solo it all? Even trials... vhm vhr vso aa vmol vhof.. Don't even need a team so if anything, make it harder.

Druid40

Alternate idea: solo mode disables mechanics that require another player to help, with no other changes to difficulty.

Mettaricana

Druid40 wrote: »

Alternate idea: solo mode disables mechanics that require another player to help, with no other changes to difficulty.

I like this fungal 2 wont pin you to ground
Buttons in direfrost become 1 switch
One button in imperial city prison
Adjudicator wont end fight when she cages you

Love it

AhPook_Is_Here

Yes

With the exception of a few dungeons that require a 2nd person to stand on a plate or something like that, isn't normal already this?

raaphor

No

*group* dungeon! There is enough solo content available imo.

Castagere

Yes

If it were a true TES game it would of had the option at launch. So many mmo's do this and it works really well. You would be surprised at how many people play this game as it were a single player game and hate grouping with the elitist players that control all group content in this game. This is something Zos need to consider if they want more players to enjoy this game as a TES game if they care about that at all.

Everstorm

Mettaricana wrote: »

Druid40 wrote: »

Alternate idea: solo mode disables mechanics that require another player to help, with no other changes to difficulty.

I like this fungal 2 wont pin you to ground
Buttons in direfrost become 1 switch
One button in imperial city prison
Adjudicator wont end fight when she cages you

Love it

Pressure plates in Direfrost can be circumvented.

MLGProPlayer

No

You can already solo every dungeon (normal or vet) if it doesn't have some explicit group mechanic.