I’m aware of the ongoing incentive for solo dungeons in 2026, just hear me out.

One of my first experiences trying to play this game is having my whole family log on with 6 players in total, only to find out that we were totally locked out from dungeons due to the player cap. That was 6 years ago.

I’m sure many new players have ended up in a similar scenario, not having the magical number of 4 players for a dungeon. Maybe you have too few and don’t know how dungeon finder works (very common new player issue I’ve been observing), and can’t survive as a duo/trio due of lack of experience, or maybe you have too many people and you can’t run dungeons at all lest you leave people behind.

At least for Normal dungeons, I don’t see any reason why we couldn’t just have a dropdown next to the dungeon difficulty menu, to allow us to change the “player count” for an instance, for example the following options would suffice and changing it would reset the instance similar to dungeon difficulty and would scale monster HP and damage appropriately
- 1 Player
- 2 Players
- 4 Players
- 8 Players
- 12 Players

Heck, even for Veteran dungeons, I feel this could work if achievements were either disabled unless it was on 4 player mode, or split into multiple sections based on player count. Mechanics that target a specific number of players could be adjusted for higher player counts, similar to how it retargets or scales down when players are dead

Imagine a guild running a 12 player dungeon trifecta? Or the same guild having a “farm night” on 12 player normal mode to help everyone collect set gear… Or maybe just an army of lowbies raiding Fungal Grotto? The possibilities are endless!