Ashtaris wrote: »

Well if you have enough DPS, most of the base game group dungeons can be easily solo’d in Normal mode.

It's really tedious though. Combined with wanting to talk to NPCs and read books that may expand the context of what happening (and it's often tricky looking for what you read later on, assuming you have Eidetic Memory unlocked) -- one dungeon would take all day of your gaming time, if you even had enough time to do it in one sitting (or it'd reset).

I'm aiming for something more along the lines of a quick delve-length run.
Not everyone has the same amount of play time and certainly it's better not wasted paging through your journal for the books you came across.

Alienoutlaw wrote: »

as stated most the base game dungeons can be solo'd (even on vet) and most in normal can be completed in less than 15mins 10 for the shorter ones

Being able to experience the story shouldn't be limited to end-game characters. Right now it's the other players not wanting to wait for players that ruins the experience. Given that groups are ruining the story experience, solo mode needs to be implemented, which is pretty much the standard for the game everywhere else.

And the dungeons can't all be solo'ed. Even the base game dungeons have some which require more than one person for either "puzzle" mechanics or fight mechanics.
Furthermore there's DLC dungeons.

It is especially important now that they are introducing STORY-focussed DLC dungeon sequences. I'd like to see the STORY available for everyone who qualifies to enter the dungeon. Rather than the experience of chasing a group around or getting the story phase pushed ahead and causing you to miss it, because you read a book or were trying to listen to dialog.

Alienoutlaw wrote: »

Ah my bad i misread the intention of this post, in that case i would recommend grouping friends or join a guild with other like minded ppl to do things, random dungeon group tend to just want the XP and go

That would work if there were actually guilds like that. I'd say you're more likely to spend months joining and dumping guilds before finding one. (Guild memberships are further complicated by most people wanting to be in a guild who can hold a kiosk).
I've seen guildies advertise random normals and willing to CARRY, and they can't get 2 people of any level any role.
I've seen normal trials looking for DPS and no one in the raid can find 2 dps in their guilds.

The fact is people are generally busy with their own thing. To ask for help in a dungeon AND tell them to wait around while you do your thing -- realistically the probability of success is next to nil. Even if it were a pledge, it's really hard to expect someone to commit their time to it sticking around. TIME is a very precious commodity.
And if they push ahead in the dungeon, they might push the quest phase forward, which means you miss something, and you have to basically Abandon the dungeon quest and reset the phase and start all over again. Because you can only do the quest once so you really don't want to screw it up.
And we aren't even talking about the scenes you can discover AFTER you turn in the dungeon quest and backtrack to look around, such as in Crypt of Hearts.

Maybe you personally may have the patience and generosity to give up your time to help someone wanting to experience the story, but I really doubt a lot of people would. And at least 1 person needs to stay in group because once you're in a group, the instance will kick out anyone no longer in a group.

A true solo mode is the safest way to go.
Unfortunately there are too many DLC difficulty dungeons as well as dungeons with boss mechanics or puzzle mechanics that require at least 1 other person. No matter how uber you are, you can't stand on two pressure plates at the same time, for example.
A basic solution would be to have a nerfed mode. That would take care of a lot of dungeons without people having to be at or near end-game geared. But the dungeons still have to be checked for non-soloable mechanics.

DrowElfMorwen wrote: »

I have been thinking about creating such a guild myself.... where it puts storyline and immersion over anything else.

I managed to find a guild that claims to do this sort of "story run" but hardly anyone responds when I look for a group.
When someone's already done the story there's very little incentive for them to spend their time doing it again waiting for others -- on top of not having a lot of people on at all.

Schemering wrote: »

almost all group dungeons are very doable solo in normal and about half of them are also doable in veteran solo. But i dont think its a bad idea in general

Solo-able and THEORETICALLY solo-able are not the same thing.
Go try Banished cells 2 solo. Clannfear mob boss and final boss spawning daedroth every 45 seconds is stupid tedious even if you could eventually kill the boss.
And I've seen a lot of gear-cap toons who can't clear a basic world boss or Wayrest Sewers mob.