You are not the first person to complain about this. There are other threads discussing this. You seriously expect to see responses just fifteen minutes after your initial post?

silentcobra wrote: »

Yup. It's that big of a deal

Nerd world problems.

I think it is fun to help eachother in dungeons and in the world. I donot feel this competition, chests hardly contain good loot anyway.

This bugs me as well. I was in a dungeon last night and walked up just when they were killing the boss. It respawned two minutes later, but I must have been pigeonholed into that looting fix because when I killed it alone all I got was 2 gold. Plus, since there were a group ahead of me, I pretty much just walked through the dungeon to the boss because everything was dead.

Personally, I like it. It's one of the reasons I'm doing PvE in an MMO and not playing a single player game. Public dungeons in particular(not solo, but pub) require some improvised teamwork unless you're way over leveled for it. Chests in these areas are the same chests you find dozens of in the open world, it doesn't bother me if I don't get one.

Solo dungeons could be ramped up a bit in difficulty. It does get a little too easy if more than 1 person runs it at the same time.

I like how the public dungeons are working. I have made some cool friends and had a great time for a dungeon run. It is kind cool they "forced" people to group up, thus getting a chance to make friends via interacting with them.

Also, waiting on the boss timers, it is a great time to do some RP or act silly or use some emotes (it helps with RP) while one is waiting. Also, it gives a chance to "sit down" and talk with each other.

Did two dungeons in Coldharbour tonight that I entered at the same time as a couple of other players, we immediately took note of what abilities each of us were using and timed our attacks accordingly and worked together.

I was ranged with bow and silver shards so snared or pinned the mobs to ground, then the melee guy went in and mushed them up a bit and the Sorc then dispatched them with a well timed mages wrath.

Went like clockwork and was rather fun, work "with" others rather than against them.

The more instancing an MMO does the less MMO it becomes. Instancing makes sense for the group dungeons while simultaneously keeping instancing at a minimum. They aren't soloable anyway. I'm all for things like, say, PvP being optional in an MMO that isn't designed for open world PvP. But I'm not in favor of optional multiplayer in MMOs. Even if you can solo being in a world with other players is the entire point.

Frankly, you aren't owed anything in an open world. If an area is crowded go back another time. Or more practically, just wait a minute. Lol It's not like it takes anything but chests more than a couple mins to respawn, anyway. Aside from the main story and the guild quests the quest system in this game was specifically designed to be public. Plus, you never know, sometimes having helps come along for a particular area is really nice.

You might consider that you might be happier playing a single player game than an mmo.

I say all of this because I don't think the trend in newer MMOs towards catering to solo play above everything else is at all healthy for the genre. In fact, it's distorting the entire point of playing massively multiplayer games in the first place. IMO, an MMO should always have players in a situation where they are either in cooperation or competition with other players, or both. Somehow over the years we went from exactly that to having the option to solo, which is nice, but now we've come to the opposite extreme where people are expecting a solo game with a chat room slapped on. Which is defeating the whole point of MMOs.