Why I don't like to group

[Troy]

Spent 7 hours playing today and gained 1 yellow total, half of which I gained solo before I found any groups. Dungeons = too dangerous to bother with unless you know your group members and the dungeon very well.

[Anaiyah]

Originally Posted by Troy [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Spent 7 hours playing today and gained 1 yellow total, half of which I gained solo before I found any groups. Dungeons = too dangerous to bother with unless you know your group members and the dungeon very well.

I agree completely.

At this rate this server is going to turn into even more of a clusterfrak of solo classes. I myself am utterly guilty of soloing my way to 50 because group xp is NEVER even comparable. Even in a great group chain pulling a decent solo camp will gain far more xp. Makes no sense.

[fugazi]

Originally Posted by Anaiyah [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I agree completely.

At this rate this server is going to turn into even more of a clusterfrak of solo classes. I myself am utterly guilty of soloing my way to 50 because group xp is NEVER even comparable. Even in a great group chain pulling a decent solo camp will gain far more xp. Makes no sense.

As much as I hate to agree with you on this, you're right. I can't say I've leveled one character very high yet, but grouping past 2 seems like a waste most of the time. The amount of kills needed to get the same xp when soloing or duoing just seems impossible most of the time. There just ain't a lot of mobs around in most places or otherwise require too much time to pull to cause a gap between grouping and soloing.

A good fix would be to give groups of 4 or more a bit of an xp bonus. Everyone solo's >>

[Bigtime]

If all you want to do is solo why not play a single player game?

[PunkrawkBbob]

Originally Posted by Bigtime [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

If all you want to do is solo why not play a single player game?

I agree with Bigtime entirely. The point of the group isn't to be the fastest route to 50, but it is definitely a hell of a lot more fun. Plus you get to meet people who are quality who you can be in a guild with and do higher end raids. Good luck getting experience in group situations for raids if all you do is solo all the way to 50.

[eqdruid76]

Originally Posted by PunkrawkBbob [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I agree with Bigtime entirely. The point of the group isn't to get any experience at all, but it is definitely a hell of a lot more pointless. Plus you get to meet people who absolutely suck who you can be in a guild with and fail consistently at higher end raids. Good luck pressing 3 buttons for raids if all you do is solo all the way to 50.

Fixed, utterly.

[kenzar]

Originally Posted by PunkrawkBbob [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I agree with Bigtime entirely. The point of the group isn't to be the fastest route to 50, but it is definitely a hell of a lot more fun. Plus you get to meet people who are quality who you can be in a guild with and do higher end raids. Good luck getting experience in group situations for raids if all you do is solo all the way to 50.

Why would u want to hang around at the low levels? all the fun stuff is at 46+! getting there asap should be the point imo.

most people played this game before and dont require "group experience" to know what they will be doing in a raid situation. and sometimes what you will be doing in a group wont necessarily be what you are doing in a raid.

as for grouping will help u find a guild to to higher end raids with, unless u are grouping with IB/DA/WI/Div you arent going to be doing any higher end raids really, maybe trash clears with guilds other than them, if you can call that raiding.

IMO, its a 3 step process:
1. power through 1 - 50 as fast as fucking possible. solo or group whichever is fastest.
2. join a guild that clears planes and get gear. if thats all you want to do then stay at this step. if you want to down planar bosses then....
3. take that gear and app to a real raiding guild, IB/DA/WI/Div

[abbadox]

Originally Posted by fugazi [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

A good fix would be to give groups of 4 or more a bit of an xp bonus. Everyone solo's >>

I am all for this. A group exp bonus would be great. I think with the knowledge we all have of EQ, how to obtain plats, loots, gear -- we all can level pretty quickly soloable.

But grouping you have to worry about.
1: Finding one in a preferrable zone
2: adeqate usefulness of other group members (healer, tank, dps, nuker etc)
3: And exp flow.

THe side things one worries about is if they can get a group, what is their time frame to play.

Playing it Solo allows for groupless adventures w/out having to think about grouping. But in the long run I think doing raids, there is going to be too many soloable classes and not enough of the other class that can take the damage.

[valorborn]

I really love grouping but I'm having trouble finding groups in CB at least. I have been on for about 8 hours today and have yet to find a group 12+ in CB to join. I have a 7 paladin but finding groups with him as been real hit or miss. When Tiff can play it'll be different though as we can just grab whoever is available as there's been a lot of people LFG today just not enough healers.

And that is really compounded by the fact that there are a lot of mages and Plvers that frequent CB.

I did check out BB on my erudite and it only had about 6 people in it, none of which seemed to be grouping.

If the pets where the old school pets it would be better for low leveling grouping I think, all we really need are more people rolling clerics/druids to fill out the tanks/dps who are LFG.

Another issue with people soloing is that they end up training a lot. I've never trained the zone as I always try to gate, IMO its safer as it is faster, but a lot of the soloers pull to odd places, or even just train groups to clear the camp.

[Iceyhot]

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