They made the changes so you could solo them but I have not tried it myself. I farmed everything when it was current content so I don’t need to go back (thankfully).
ISLAND EXPEDITIONS AND WARFRONTS
You are now able to set sail on a Normal, Heroic, or Mythic Island Expedition alone or with a party of up to three players. Speak with Captain Rez’okun in Dazar’alor (Horde) or Flynn Fairwind in Boralus (Alliance) to begin your solo seafaring voyage!
Lowered the amount of players required to queue for Normal Battle for Stromgarde and Battle for Darkshore Warfronts to 5 (was 15).
I guess you’ve got nothing to lose by going and giving it a whirl.
I frequently do that myself, I just look at my second monitor while waiting for something in game, sat on a flightpath/waiting for a spawn/waiting for queue etc.
You can easily solo them on Mythic difficulty with half decent gear ( AoE helps speed things up though) I don’t think they take that long to do. Easy to farm achieves/pets/mounts now.
I tried one just to see. I did a Heroic one and I failed. But this is coming from a poorly geared, poorly played nonOP class. Also I didn’t do them in BFA so had no real idea what I was supposed to do. I gathered 6k azerite before the Horde got to the 9k target.
The mobs themselves weren’t hard, I was in no danger of dying.
I imagine with a little practise to figure out how they work then I’d probably win it.
And if I can win it then anyone can.
You can, but since you’re the only one collecting the Azerite now its much slower an experience. I prefer doing them with groups still because of how fast you can blast through runs.
I was kind of expecting solo island adventures to replace the two missing players with two dumb bots. That way it would still keep the pace, but avoid the hassle of needing other people all the time.
Better wait for 10.0 which is coming next year, you will have the legacy content multiplier and one shot the island in 3 4 minutes. Yes, it’s soloable in 240+ gear, but takes a lot more time then just doing it in 3. If you really want those mounts/cosmetics now, just join a lfg group, there are always around.
If you want my honest opinion, and the BEST TIME INVESTED / REWARD, do it next expansion. It’s already last patch basically, so why not wait a bit for 10x smoother runs.
This is my plan for farming legion raids as well. Why gear 12 alts to 230-240 to kill Argus in 3 minutes, when next expansion i go in in green quest gear and kill in 10 seconds.
doing iland expedition as BM hunter ilvl 230 with 80% Mastery 30% Ver 25% leech pulling all mobs at once then brust them down with explsive shot and barrage
and u heard me BM hunters has explosive shot aswell ( as necrolord )
Has anyone tried to do mythic in a group of 2? Every time I’ve tried, it seems to put us in a queue waiting for a third player. This is from Flynn and we had no problem with doing normal & heroic with 2 from him.
I dont think you can sure about that. Just reflect to legion now where you must be super overgeared to complete some mythic. I wouldnt wait just to expect that its an old expansion and then it is just left click two times and loot. That is not how it worked for 1 year
there is a big difference to legion. If you refer to Legion Raid = Bosses HP are huge, especially on mythic. That’s normal, but Islands are not a raid. The Legacy buff on DMG is 8x for expansion 2 expansions old, zero for last expansion, and then 80x for expansion 3 expansions old.
So Next Expansion:
SL = 1 x DMG.
BFA = 8 x DMG.
LEGION = 80 x DMG.
So yes, Legion raids on mythic will become one shot, and islands expeditions the same. BFA Raids will probably be hard to do, maybe late expansion on LFR, Normal and hc.
So I’ve spent the week soloing Mythic islands on this char (227 ilvl Ret pally) and have just got the Albatross mount today (“albatross, get your albatross!”). After improving my tactics, I’m getting around 90-100 doubloon per hour’s play.
Mobs do little damage, so it’s all about speed running to gather Azerite faster than enemy. Focus on killing the Elites marked on the map but pull nearby mobs first, then burst them all down together. Pull two or three elites if they’re nearby. Collect the larger chests / Azerite containers for faster runs and make sure you find / kill enemy faction bots a couple of times because they will gather Azerite faster than you if you don’t. The bonus “help npc” side quests give really quick 700 azerite so do those.
If you’re wanting more time to search for specific mobs (e.g. if targeting a mount), the enemy bots often give up after you kill them three or four times. You’ll see their gathering speed drops dramatically, giving you plenty of time to hunt the mob of the week (Mogu this week, for the Mogu mount).
