Solo server

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Would love this as an option in WoW

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If the past is any indication you’re probably going to get the usual amount of :poop: for advocating solo play but before anyone replies without reading;

Aden will offer “the same core gameplay of Lineage II, but with classes tuned to focus primarily on solo play.” There will still be all the group content and PvP you can handle, but “waiting around for a party to level or grind is a thing of the past.” The game’s 36 classes are “tuned to be self-sufficient while hunting” and there will be six solo dungeons and a simplified leveling system, making it easier to reach max level.

Looks interesting really, I’ve never played any Lineage game but might give a go. Wouldn’t be too opposed to this for WoW as well. Fun as it is to group with friends and do things together, it isn’t for everybody anymore.

Then don't play an mmo they'll say

That’s not up to you and it isn’t 2004 anymore.

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Lineage II was one of the best games I ever played back in the day. At it’s peak it was awesome, having 9 people in your party with buffers and grinding with your party.

PvP for world bosses where you could actually kill whole party and take the loot for yourself while the boss is at 5% hp. Mass PvP for Raid Bosses on scale 100vs100 where clans were fighting for bosses that drop jewelery items (extremely powerful items).

Good old days.

Then it changed drastically with newer chronicles and introduced P2W module. As I can see NCCoin or L2Coin will be part of this game so it will be probably P2W too.

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The first reference I found says it has about 5K daily players left.

This seems a graceful and gracious move by the developers to continue to support a long time playerbase that still love the game. :+1: Good for them!

Remembering the horrid treatment of the Asheron’s Call playerbase, this is very heartening to see. :heart:

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This is an absolutely top move for one of the great old school MMOs.

Has actually peaked my interest.

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AC was done so dirty. Though Darktide screwed itself over.

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Well it’s very possible to have your own wow- server running on your pc and, as long as you don’t allow outside access like on private servers (which is also way more complicated), it’s not illegal. You can be player and GM at the same time.

You can even add player ‘bots’ that try to act like other players that you can invite in a party and give commands. It’s very basic and running dungeons isn’t possible with the horrid AI, but group quests are 100% doable. I’ve experimented with this on a TBC server a few months ago.

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Play Chromie time there’s no one around.

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Ghostlands-Dragonblight is what you’re looking for - you’ll never see another player 1-60 :joy_cat:

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Someone mentioned this to me, but also said it’s impossible to get BfA to work.

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Aye they’ve still not got the legion files yet last I checked. I’d love to replay legion with some changes (less AP farm and lego vendor from start).

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i hear they are not very efficient for actually playing the game but because you can make yourself a GM, they are good for making machinima videos and experimenting with gear builds.

This isnt exacally true, i wouldnt call it “illegal”, but it is defo against the blizzard end user license agreement:

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This is called a contrasting opinion, it occurs when somebody has a viewpoint that differs from your own.

For example, I am against group content being available for solo players as it defeats the purpose. Sure, every raid would be easy if I could just solo them, that’s not how they are designed and is infact, the purpose of single player games.

This is forgetting of course, that lineage II is a very anti-social, very old and dated game which is designed around killing hundreds of mobs for a single level, much like BDO.

What works for some, won’t work for others.

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Just gimme a solo WoW RPG. Although, I prefer the MMO world because of the living world feel… solo games end once they end. DLCs are meh.

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That is true now but back in the day it was socializing game but that time is long gone. Nowadays there are only closed communities of players. Mostly russians that are botting with Adrenaline and making profit from the game.

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Solo server with players over 25 only. Would be epic.

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The last time I checked it, it had around 25k concurrent players. This was in 2019. Since then they fixed the way we could track server population. But its active population is highly inflated, due to them adding in a legit bot to the game that players could program to farm for them.

It’s important to know that in Lineage 2 you literally couldn’t get anywhere if you were a solo player. At around level 20 (out of 65), mobs started becoming a challenge, and you could kill them alone, sure but it would cost you a lot, it would be slow and basically not viable. Also, as a solo player, you didn’t have access to things like buff classes (they have very weak attack, but exist to basically buff others. Their players would often charge gold to buff you), or you couldn’t use dwarves to spoil your enemies (dwarves are weak fighters, but spoiling an enemy increases its drop rate and adds the “spoiled” loot table to it on top of that). The game was designed around parties. With completely open world ffa pvp everywhere, exp penalty on death, it really really wasn’t a friendly game to solo. I’d say it’s impossible to reach max level alone.

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Single player WoW, I honestly couldn’t think of a more depressing video game. :stuck_out_tongue:

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