dan0311 wrote: »

I would think it would be almost impossible to find three other people who are in the exact same place in the quests as I am. (Yes, I know you can share quests, but then they wouldn't get to play the first part of the quest if they just join me in progress).

Or you could go back and do the previous content with them to help catch them up to you. I did that with a lot of people in my guild.

I get you; I'm a solo player myself (although I'm spec'd as a back-bar healer because I like ninja healing and running the odd PUG). Craglorn was always intended to be a group zone, so I doubt that will ever change.

What will change, though, is your build and CPs. I don't know your setup, but, chances are, you will be able to solo more Craglorn content down the road with upgraded skills, armor, and tactics.

I always hated it when people told me this, but I've always known it's true: It just takes time.

Majority of the quests in craglorn I have done solo, with only a handful that I felt I had to have others to be able to do. It is a very interesting thing of how the quests go about for various things. It is also kind of funny doing a quest solo just for end thing to say that I am grouped up.

I agree with OP I wish they would make it all solo. The amount of hours I have spent asking for help in zone chat for anomolies and quests with zero reply... Also having completed the Craglorn story it makes no sense (story wise) that the anomilies and stuff were taken out of the main story and made into side quests.

I certainly think Rahni-za and Shada's Tear are cool enough that there should be incentives to do them more than once, but I wouldn't want either to be soloable.

This probably isn't the best time to judge the popularity of base game zones, given that an awful lot of players are either on the PTS or taking a short break from the game prior to the release of Summerset.

That said, it's certainly been my observation whenever in Craglorn in the past months that most areas are deserted once you step foot away from the guild traders and crafting/writ area.

@dan0311 Craglorn should be adjusted to the players level cause not everyone can group up and I’m currently stuck there now can’t get past it too weak it’s ridiculous you pay for the game you pay to play online but you’re not able to do the quests

Just about everything in Craglorn is soloable these days. Especially if you are at max CP. You don't need perfect gear, you just need decent gear, and chances are that you have at least couple of sets of decent gear by the time you are at max CP.

There are a few troublesome bosses in some of the dungeons, but once you know their mechanics, you can adapt to counter them. You may need to swap some skills in some places, and being able to go for a tankier gear setup or more damage oriented, when needed, will help tremendously. And bring a decent stack of proper potions, not just the generic crud that drops from monsters.

As for mobs, the key is to not let them swarm you. Do not go with the standard OP of aggroing all the mobs you can and burning them with AOE. That wont work in Crag. You need to be methodical and go about it slow. Remember that in those group dungeons, mobs do not respawn until you leave the dungeon. So patience is the key.

The only things that are actually hard, are those Ankara sites and Shada's Tear. Everything else is perfectly doable solo. Though you may need to be bit creative with few of the bosses.

The problem with Ankara sites is not that they are difficult as such, it's the fact that, unless you can dish enough damage fast enough to burn the mobs before they kill the NPC, you will fail. So on some builds it just wont happen. Anomalies are a lot easier, since you are not on a timer with those and can pace yourself accordingly.

Shada however is hard - there's no way around it. You can still solo it, but it will be harder on some builds than others. And there are couple of really annoying boss fights to do solo. The mechanics make them almost impossible. I say almost since I have soloed them. Well, all except Shada herself. That fight was just too annoying for my main characters build back then. I got Shada several times to less than 10% health but always got killed by some of the random crap going about when Shada goes to desperation mode. At the end I said *** it and came back later with 3 other players (who were not maX CP by the way) and we rolf stomped her and that was that.

It was also several patches ago, so maybe I should go see if I can solo her now. With some of the new sets released since then, and the higher CP cap might be just enough to make the difference. But that fight is at the end of a long and tedious dungeon with several annoying bosses... So maybe not after all.

However, the idea of making Crag easier to solo, just doesn't sound like a good idea to me. Might as well ask for Solo version of trials then too. Craglorn is designed with group content in mind. And it is fairly easy to go through in a group. But it also provides some actual challenges to those who want to go about it solo and test their ability and skill.

And I think it's good to have that sortta stuff in the game too. And soloing that stuff does indeed feel like an accomplishment.

And sure, one can always artificially increase the difficulty by not allocating CP or by not using any gear sets and stuff like that, but it's not the same thing. The knowledge that you can power up at anytime and just burn your way though, makes it feel less of a challenge. When you know that there is no shortcut to victory, achieving it will feel that much more significant

And that's why I think Crag is fine the way it is now.

Also, while we're talking about difficulty of solo content... Bring back the original Doshia! The current iteration is a joke.