I am wondering why would you do that tho?
WoW combat, from a solo gameplay perspective is maybe average at best. Why not playing a single player instead? You have games with fun combat and much better stories. Ok, one argument could be that the games will find an end at some point and if that’s the issue, what about BDO? It has such better combat than WoW, so much more fun, you have endless progression if that’s what you want, a lot of different content and after they ruined the game it’s basically the perfect single player online game.
I play plenty of single player games - more than the majority of people play.
My original reply is fairly clear on my reasons for playing. Further elaboration is unnecessary as I was answering the original poster who wanted to know why solo players choose to play solo.
I think I understand it now.
I never play Solo. I think its stupid.
Why? Because WOW was a game built from the ground up with group play in mind. Its in the name: MMO = multiplayer.
Over the years Blizzard has tried to make Solo content available, but for me, it remains a boring and dumb experience compared to other games that were made for Solo content in mind from the beginning.
So what I do : When I dont want to talk to people for whatever reason I just play some other game. That has better solo experiences. Or watch a movie. That is also solo.
But if I play WoW, I play what is great about this game: Multiplayer content.
Because I’m an adult now with a family. I’m no longer a child playing vanilla.
I have real world responsibility and I play wow for fun and can’t play all day. So as much solo content I can do the better.
Sometimes, you just have to grow up and stop playing video games for hours and hours a day and only play sometimes for a couple of hours. When you do that, you don’t have time to wait in queues for ages and to deal with no life’s who want extreme pro mega elite no lifer teammates.
Basically that’s why I like solo.
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I love it all the people here that share why they play solo and then you come in and share why you don’t eich is fair but you can’t just do that no you have the deep need to tell everyone that playing solo is stupid
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90% of people cant move out of the fire
thats why i play solo
I said I play Solo.
I just said that not in WoW, because I (ME, my opinion) thinks its stupid. Il quote myself here:
Emphasis on the “I”.
Il quote again :
Emphasis on the “but for me”.
Tell me Luzy. When have I said anything about the reasons why you or anyone plays Solo?
Also. Why does everyone have to agree with your point of view? What kind of conversation is that?
i trust my Pet more than i trust a player
players cant understand simple tactics, and take no responsibility .
i dont have patience to wait for people to understand that " FIRE = Death "
it takes the average player multiple deaths to understand they need to avoid mechanics
so in short.
90% of players are just bad
Solo is a blissfull life
My question is why are people like you not able to give there opinion without talking things down?
You could have said something like. " Playing wow solo does not give me the same joy as playing it in a group."
You still bring your opinion but you did not made playing solo stupid
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The thread is clearly addressing people who play WoW Solo - not simply anyone who plays any game solo - looking to understand the motivations behind their choice of play-style, as opposed a general discussion of people’s opinions of solo play.
I disagree.
In fact Vanilla was less about grouped content than today. You ran a dungeon only a few times back then. They took ages so a dungeon was a good evenings gameplay unlike the 10 minute zergs they tend to be these days.
Most of you time in Vanilla would have been spent solo. Questing / leveling took a lot longer than now and this has always been more-or-less a solo activity. Professions took a lot longer than today, ore and herbs were much rarer and going out to mine enough ore to make something could take hours.
Even raiding wasn’t a major part of the game back then. Only a few percent of players even got near Molten Core back in Vanilla.
I played games back then that were entirely group content (Dungeon & Dragons Online being one). They weren’t fun. You logged on and waited for your friend to come on, while you waited you browsed the web as there wasn’t anything in game apart from Dungeons that needed a full group of very specific classes.
Today’s WoW does have more for Solo players sure. But it also has a lot more Grouped content. M+, LFR, Dungeon Finder, Timewalking, 3 other difficulties of raiding et al.
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I’ve gone super casual as a collector, mostly playing solo doing stuff at my own pace.
My Shift work doesn’t give me the luxury to consistently do a raid every set day [Wed/Mon]… so typically doing it every other week.
Got no desire to do M+, and PvP in WoW just sucks [currently seeing people with 14m HP vs my 7m… lul].
What is this? A therapy session for solo players or something?
Look at you guys! You ask me not to call solo play stupid, while you are simultaneously trashing group play (and the players partaking in it) as if it was the plague.
What were you expecting? 
NO. Read this. I wont post it again.
But it boils down to this:
Who cares if you spent 2h doing one dungeon in Vanilla, or 2h doing 30 dungeons today? You are still doing dungeons with 5 people.
And from that point of view, retail is so much better in the Solo department than Vanilla ever was.
All vanilla had to offer is questing. Nothing else.
Once you reached level 60, there was literally nothing else to do but dungeons and raids.
And I am extremely happy that is not the case anymore. Because for those players that do enjoy the Solo aspect of WoW, now they can do it. And I might disagree with their choices (as in, I would not do it) but I will never disagree with the WoW axiom:
The more players, the better for every one of us.
So please. More delves. More OP content. More solo content. And More dungeons.
I have never been an overmuch social person. I don’t enjoy meeting new people, trying to impress them and make them like me; or putting myself out there for them to judge me. Just the way I’m wired, and it doesn’t go away just because I’m in an online enviroment.
I have played since Cata and the game has always been more than just the people who play it. There has always been something for me to do; I have always enjoyed building, unlocking and seeing something grow - and WoW has plenty of that. Mounts, transmong, reputations, professions, pvp prestige, pets, clearing entire zones of quests, achievements of all sorts, etc. Usually more than I can ever cover during any given the expansion considering how much time to play I have.
And last but not least, there is the element of time invested. I have spent over a decade in company of some of my characters, why leave them? I don’t want to leave and start playing a something new, “learning” a new game from scratch.
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I’m a long-retired raider, who enjoys pottering about.
On my US account I played from BC to MoP, doing fun things like accidently winning my Amani War Bear on an alt or tanking with 100% armor pen, or killing the lich king on all 10 classes (when I only had 5 max level chars of my own).
I’ve played plenty of MMOs over the years but ultimately after MoP I’ve taken a step back from hardcore raiding where you have to hit max level of a new expansion inside 36 hours to farm loot for the first week etc.
I started fresh with War Within and made a new EU account (my US one is stuck under a physical authenticator I don’t have anymore) and just don’t want to deal with the hassle of pointlessly joining in content that is beneath my ability but above my time.
I’m not as sharp as I once was, but at the same token I am still easily a Mythic quality player so instead I just take it easy and potter about doing delves and stuff (I don’t play every day as I’ve got other things to do some evenings).
I do like how they freshen up bear dps rotation without ruining it entirely (like shaman seems to, which was my primary alt for many years) I mean, going from BC’s 3 target swipe on a 7 target shattered halls pull into berserk manglespam on Kologarn to out dps the entire 25 person raid into sitting down to get critted in MoP for more vengeance… the change makes it enjoyable.
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I’ve been playing since July 2005, I’ve witnessed the player base go from widespread community to rife toxicity at worst - cold and no responses in party chat at best. I’m sure there are probably some pockets of good community still out there hidden away in places. But it will never, ever be what it was in vanilla.
And no, I don’t mean classic. Classic community doesn’t hold a candle to what vanilla was.
There’s my answer.
I kind of started as ‘solo’ in Dragonflight cause I was getting exhausted by other people behaviour - no matter what role I was playing, there were times it just seemed unbearable for me.
Even if we didn’t have delves I would just keep going by myself.
Farming materials, sell them, doing achievments, farming mogs and so on.
The only thing I engage in social manner is from time to time lil’ RP but that’s kinda it.
My decission kinda happend gradualy - it started in BFA already. And slowly I was avoiding many things.
I don’t see problems with m+ or raids from the gaming perspective. It was enjoyable even for me to some point. My decission to step down and grow as a ‘solo’ player is just, as mentioned above, only due to behavior and hard toxicity from other players.
To anyone who enjoys doing stuff in groups with other people, I’m happy for you, we all play the game to have fun.
Even though the game genre is mmorpg, I still find it enjoyable even as a solo adventurer.
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infact one of the big reasons for players like me that prefer to play solo is bacuse they cant be themself.
the rules are not allowing us to be ourself in the game, let me give you an example.
i like to curse people when i kill them in pvp. (you cant do it)
i like to say whatever i want ( even if its not cursing people directly- ) (your not allowed).
in my personal opinion when toxicity and some of the freedoms are forbiden then people will stop interacting with other people because of the fear of getting reported,
i for example know 3 languages but im not brave enough to talk to any other language other than english just because of this outdated report system.
for me this is the biggest reason that i try to go solo most of the times.
there are other big reasons too that is related to the contents of the game but i stop here
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speaks volumes of how toxic you are
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