Howdy, Stranger!
It looks like you're new here. If you want to get involved, click one of these buttons!
Quick Links
In-Game Options for a Solo PvE-er?
MightyUnclean
Member EpicPosts: 3,531
These days, I'm primarily a solo, PVE player. I don't mind PvP, I'm just not a huge fan.
For a player like me, what is there to do at this time in PFO?
Thanks!
Comments
You posted at 10PM on a Tuesday, on a sub-board of a general MMO site that usually gets about a dozen posts a day.
To answer your question, though, you *can* play solo and you'll probably enjoy it if you like soloing in group or collaborate gameplay. If being part of a bigger group isn't your thing, it might not be a really fun game for you.
There isn't a "right" or "wrong" way to play, if you want to use a screwdriver to put nails into wood, have at it, simply don't complain when the guy next to you with the hammer is doing it much better and easier. - Allein
"Graphics are often supplied by Engines that (some) MMORPG's are built in" - Spuffyre
I think this is a bad game for a solo player. You can take down some low level mobs, but not many. To be able to take down harder mobs, and especially escalations, you need two things: better gear, and team mates. Good gear is ONLY crafted in this game, so being in a settlement is really the only way to get geared up. And then if you are in a settlement you have people to group with and take down powerful mobs.
I think the only way you can play solo would be join a settlement, and then be a crafter or gatherer. That way, you can still sort of do your thing on your own, but you have settlement support. Hard for me to see how you could ever get beyond baby mobs as a solo player.
Do the RIGHT THING: come be a Paladin with us! http://ozemsvigil.guildlaunch.com/
They say they have no intention to cater to solo PVE players - guess that's too WoW Theme Parky Warky. This is a large settlement game with a focus on companies (sort of like guilds). Each player is a cog in a larger machine.
Solo gatherer - yes
Solo crafter - sort of yes; recipes are dropped by mobs, but a lot of settlements and companies share, exchange or buy and sell recipes.
Solo PVP - yes; essentially a bandit, but you have to be careful.
A group of two can handle escalations (PVE events). Just takes longer. Learn to run in a circle. Two players running in alternate circles can grind down melee mobs. Take casters and ranged mobs down ASAP. A lot harder to do this solo.
Group of six gets more drops.
Pretty easy to find a group most of the time. Get TeamSpeak or Mumble, where most of the players hang out.
Then you'll want to be a Freeholder. You'll want feats that make you faster. And they're talking about expendables that are darn close to one shots. Not sure if that will stand, but I think they want bandit players to think twice before taking on a gatherer.
Key feature in the game. Encumbrance. Matters...a lot. Sell a portion of you gathering items and buy speed potions.
To the OP or anyone else stumbling in here
I generated a few guides about Solo Play. You find them in our public area - pretty at the bottom
http://emeraldlodge.guildlaunch.com
There are 4 parts total
Part 1 - General thoughts
Part 2 - Gatherer
Part 3 - Monster Slayer
Part 4 - Refiner and Crafter
I try to outline what is possible as solo players and how to best go ahead if you prefer solo-play.
If you regard solo-play as never interacting with anyone then you have a problem and the game will hamper you severly. I you like to play on your own while occasionally interacting with a settlement or for deals then this game is 100% doable. And Auction Houses make it better every day.
The guides are written in the first month of EE (January) but I guess still the best out there to look at solo play from a player perspective. Oh - and with the Free Settlers we might even have the ideal company for players who like to play 'solo'.
I have found that PFO is actually quite solo friendly, and I have been slowly learning that small groups can do specific activities more efficiently than larger groups.
You can gather solo, but don't wander off too far from a nearby settlement to deposit your inventory as you become encumbered.
You can run a Tier 1 escalation with a group of 2 - 3, and it actually is challenging, and rewarding in a different way than being a party member in a larger group doing a Tier 2 escalation.
If you are familiar with EVE, just think of running a mission with a ship one class below what it is designed for. Mission calls for a Cruiser, use a Destroyer or Frigate.
Played: E&B, SWG, Eve, WoW, COH, WAR, POTBS, AOC, LOTRO, AUTO.A, AO, FE, TR, WWII, MWO, TSW, SWTOR, GW2, NWO, WoP, RUST, LIF, SOA, MORTAL, DFUW, AA, TF, PFO, ALBO, and many many others....
The point isn't the danger, its that you will get bored. If you put the gathering phase of the game in isolation you're going to find it lacking just like every other phase of the game in isolation. Now, gathering for the war effort of your buddies, doing it in pairs for protection from the raiders, discovering that rare material your settlement doesnt have access to in a nearby hex...
Well, thats a lot of fucking fun, isn't it? That's not an exaggerated claim, that stuff is exactly what the day to day experience in PFO is.
Single player console games are for solo PvE'rs. Try one of them perhaps?
If there is one thing PFO is really, really good at right now, its the depth of the character building. Going out and killing a few goblins is easy enough, cracking the spreadsheets for an actually powerful build that will stand up in PvP or have you shine in difficult escalations is brutally difficult. If nothing else, PFO is hard. Real hard.
You can kill monsters till your fingers fall off and you still won't find any loot. You'll find stuff, which other characters turn into loot.
Friendly advise, join the Pathfinder University, you'll just waste your free trial like a headless chicken if you don't.