I would love this to be an option. Guild Wars 1 is pretty much the only other MMO I ever really enjoyed and alot of that was the ‘pick your own group’ aspect.
Ive also really enjoyed it whenever its been an option in WoW. The bodyguards in Legion were fun to play with and the ones in WoD were even better, even the derpy ones added alot more fun to how you played.
Id love to see some version of this return.
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I haven’t played SWTOR in a long time but when I played they just accompanied you, you had one each. You still played with others. And people used to need on your upgrades for their companions -.-
You could send them off to do your professions for you so you didn’t actually have to grind them yourself.
But things may have changed since then.
I see merit in this argument.
First I would say, does it need ot be that repeatable? There are lots of solo scenarios for questing (many in Order Halls but elsewhere also). Once this is implemented it is pretty low maintenance.
Secondly it can be made repeatable through enticing rewards. Torghast had this problem, it should have been infinitely repeatable but people didn’t like it as the only reward was Soul Ash (forced for many and useless to others).
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wouldn’t hurt at all if they, and i’m pretty sick of asking, did something for the rp community instead of taking things away, what we want is to have that companion race you to the bar and sit down at the fire with you, even if it always seems to be your round!!!, AI is nowhere near good enough to make that happen so all you’ll have is basically some baggage that follows you around telling you about the arrow in his knee every 30 seconds, no thank you…-.-
yes it does, and it’s pretty satisfying too when they get the story and the character depth right.
There are many many reason why people won’t / can’t play with randoms. Not just Social Anxiety. People have muscle conditions which slow down their reactions. People have crappy internet which lags or d/cs. People have poor / no English. Personally I have bad eyesight (white cane levels). No amount of grouping with strangers will “address the issue”.
I used to group with randoms. I tanked and healed in TBC and Wrath, only DPSed cata onwards. My days of grouping with randoms was brought to an abrupt end with Everbloom (that five minute wall jumping diversion to skip a two minute fight), after several failed attempts I thought I’d try explaining. The dungeon popped and we all zoned in and I said “Hi, my eyesight is bad bare with me on the wall” (or words to that effect. I was immediately kicked.
I Legion I did a few dungeons with Fail Train (the ones required for Order Hall) and in BFA I found Scard of Dungeon sommunity (who’ve been great and helped me with lots of achievements etc.) but I no longer wish to do grouped content.
For dungeons I’m fine waiting til the next expansion and seeing them then. Well, I used to, now I’ll have to wait til patch 13.0 to see BFA dungeons probably.
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Make a ‘mythic plus’ version of it. Not equivalent to M+ with a human group, of course, but the system already exists, so it should be relatively straightforward to adapt it to solo dungeons.
Not sure how easy it would be to implement but having the AI provide tips on how to tank or heal or use CC / interupt could be a way to bring inmore tanks or healers and to improve current DPSers.
Easy in a Proving Ground as it’s a set fight but quite tricky with dungeons having a variety of fights. Many be feasible but might not. Just pondering the notion.
I wouldn’t mind AI bots for normal to basic mythic (M0) dungeons, it would cut out a lot of stress and give people instant queue times for doing weekly dungeon quests.
Don’t get me wrong, I like playing with other people, but unfortunately a lot of the WoW community is a mix of toxic/elitist and not fun to group with. They don’t tolerate tiny mistakes, they got the gogogo mentality, what’s your dungeon score/achievement amounts? etc. That’s not fun to be around at all.
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The ironic part is… WoW ALREADY has this feature implimented and fully working.
Make yourself an alt, choose to start on that island place. You can instant queue in to that island’s dungeon and have AI bots doing the tank and healing for you.
No need to worry about toxic/elitist people, no GOGOGOGOGOGOGOGO, no “Do you have X achievement/score?”
Just go at your own pace, when you stop, the AI tank/healer stop. Want a coffee/etc break or had a phone call come in? NP, step away, the AI tank+healer is there waiting for you.
They should expand the system to the rest of the game, its proven to work and its part of the game already.
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They have. You can still send them off to do gathering and such.
But they no longer need gear. Just getting ‘rep’ with them, gives them levels and more power.
I keep getting 1hr+ queues for Sylvanas, even on reset day. It stinks.
They also have story mode dungeons where you go in with a strong robot and your usual companion. It’s tuned differently, but a good way to get dungeon mogs and to see story/mechanics.
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It’s very simplistic, though. If they do introduce an AI option, I’d like to see something more creative than that.
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Programming AI DPS/tank/healer allies that mimic real players for WoW dungeons and raids is not something that would be easy to do. Alone pathing would be highly complex, since there are so many different dungeons and raids and moving past mob packs and out of boss mechanics correctly is essential.
Game AI programming is hard and this hasn’t really changed in the last decades. Maybe Blizz could implement some really generic fake tank/DPS/healer AI players that are based on WoW’s pet AI implementation. They could just follow you around like a pet and cast a handful or simple generic taunt/damage/heal spells, rather than behaving like a protection paladin, or a subtlety rogue, or a frost mage. But even that would be quite a lot of effort, and I doubt it would be fun to play with such bone-headed AI allies.
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Why not have AI for mythic+?
has this been removed from the game? or do you have to be a certain level to do them? I remember doing them, but never got into it at all, and when the next expansion came out I just forget about them until you mentioned it
I’ve seen people on the forums talking about this and I don’t think it makes any difference, it’s not like people will suddenly stop talking to each other if they are able to do things solo, people will still want to form groups and make friends, but on their own terms, rather than being forced to do it in order to experience the game.
if its one thing wow players (the hardcore ones) don’t like it’s change…
i spent a fair amount of time around these forums… and honestly it is always the same people fighting against positive change.
because its not what they are used to…
its that group of people who dont like other mmorpgs “because its not wow”…
they are so secluded inside their own boxes they forget there is a much bigger and more interesting world to explore outside of it.
sad really that those are the people blizzard choose to listen most to.
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No, the were more to do with advancing campaigns eg, Darkshore in BfA and more recently the Korthia one
the biggest problem with WoW is the audience is too diverse and has different expectations. it’s impossible to make everyone happy and it’s been tearing the game apart for a decade. so as people said, losing some types of players is good for the game
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You’d be surprised. I used this feature to learn the mechanics in the new dungeons in ff14, and the AI was surprisingly better than 50% of the playerbase.