[Project] Solo WoW

[xmolder]

Evening, ladies and gentlemen.

You may be wondering, "What does this leecher want? Why does he deserve our help?" Well, to put it simply, I've been offline for a long, long time. Long to me, anyway. I haven't been able to play WoW on any server but my own, and I'm sure most of you know how that isn't much fun sometimes. But now I'm back, and hopefully I can be a little more active.

The other day, I decided to reinstall the repack I got last time I was online and give a solo-run a shot. I rolled a mage, and started to play. I got up to level 15, and decided to check out Deadmines. Obviously, I wasn't strong enough to handle all the Defias, so I decided to give it a shot with .cheat casttime and .cheat cooldown. I managed to take on most, had some trouble with the bosses, but it was very slow. I'd have to stop to drink after, quite literally, every kill. Not very much fun, even if the rest of the game was. So what it comes down to is "take forever," "never run instances at your level," or "make some gear for instances."

I'm tired of funservers, and would love to run a near-Blizzlike character (2x EXP, 1-2x drops) without having to multi-box/rely on roommates to play with me. So I want to create some gear, for use specifically in instances, to make the game solo-able, or more solo-able. My question is,

Has anyone done a project like this before? If so, can someone throw me a link, and if not, is anyone willing to help me work on this?

[Rolandefleur]

This sounds like a game design question ...

With that in mind, might I suggest the possibility of NPCs that you could team with? Something on the lines of what Half:Life did with their expansion? If you could work with mercinary NPCs you could put together a team of 5 for the instances too, **and** they would obey you!

Just a thought starter... I agree with your justification, but in a sense, this might be taken as a request for WoW IV: Return of the Single Player ... at a store near you.

[xmolder]

I was considering NPCs, but that's quite a bit more work than making gear. If it comes to it, I'd be willing to give it a shot, though. Teaming through instances can be more fun, and it definitely makes me think back to the RPGs I grew up with.

I would love to see a 4th Warcraft out, to be honest.

[kreegoth]

I have my own personal database that is made to be 1 or 2 player friendly atm .. its EASIER with more but you can do almost everything in the game with under 5 people..

If your interested PM me and ill look into helping you set it up.. it comes with warp NPCs tons of custom items ( honestly around 1000 at least) custom quests ( most of these are what require MORE players) But it is soloable by every class up to level 70..

[Sounddead]

The mercenary idea reminds me of the good old D2 days. But anyways, so what your saying is that you want to make every instance in the game solo able? Because the game itself is very quite solo able in a sense that if you only quest and kill things you WILL hit 70. People that level characters for a living do not do instances.

So from my understanding of this post you want to have custom gear to assist you in taking down (Your Level) elites in an instance?

IMO, the entire reason instances were made were so you could team up with a bunch of your buds and go kill some bad guys. Considering most of the game is solo able and blizzard made some content that would bring the MMO part into the game.

I just don't think it would be that fun to do an instance by yourself. Considering if your not with 4 of your friends its really just the same thing that you do when your not in an instance.

But yeah sorry for my rant.
If there's anyway to code those mercenary things that would be cool.

[Ellenor]

if u want to solo simple Make a custom or edit tier 6 with INSANE stats and have fun

[Dragonshadow]

if u want to solo simple Make a custom or edit tier 6 with INSANE stats and have fun

Oneshotting everything isn't fun.

[xmolder]

The mercenary idea reminds me of the good old D2 days. But anyways, so what your saying is that you want to make every instance in the game solo able? Because the game itself is very quite solo able in a sense that if you only quest and kill things you WILL hit 70. People that level characters for a living do not do instances.

So from my understanding of this post you want to have custom gear to assist you in taking down (Your Level) elites in an instance?

IMO, the entire reason instances were made were so you could team up with a bunch of your buds and go kill some bad guys. Considering most of the game is solo able and blizzard made some content that would bring the MMO part into the game.

I just don't think it would be that fun to do an instance by yourself. Considering if your not with 4 of your friends its really just the same thing that you do when your not in an instance.

But yeah sorry for my rant.
If there's anyway to code those mercenary things that would be cool.

Yes, running with friends can be fun, and it's preferable to playing on your own, but like I said, I've been offline for a long time, and there's no way to guarantee it won't happen again. I'd like to keep playing a game that I genuinely enjoy even if I'm lacking the internet. And before you mention hosting the game on a LAN, with my current living situation, I'll only be around roommates that play about four days a month.

And sure, I could hit 70 without doing instances, but what happens then? I just keep running dailies? I get to a certain point in the Akama/Illidan story, and just stop because I can't take down the trash mobs in BT? I certainly don't want to get to that point and rely on .cheat stack, or .cheat casttime/cooldown/power and hope I can click Pyroblast enough times before the Hydra gets to me...

[мιяаgє]

Oneshotting everything isn't fun.

You phrased that wrong.
Oneshotting most things isn't very fun.

[marcelo_20xx]

Well the answer to all your question is a Sql that divides the mobs hp and damage by the amount of people for that instance, be sure to fine tune since sometimes the instance becomes too easy. I already did this in my server with most elites to be soloable. Knucke and Luzran come to my mind.