How realistic is casual raiding?

[-TK-]

Originally Posted by tadkins [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This may incriminate me a bit by saying this, but I honestly hate duoing. It's all of the downsides to grouping with no real noticable upside. Exp feels like it slows to a trickle in a duo. I like soloing because I can alt-tab or AFK when I need to in between med breaks, but I feel like I can't really do that in a duo; I have to sit there and entertain my partner.

I just prefer to either solo, or be deep in a dungeon somewhere with a full group. Is that wrong?

I wouldn't say it's wrong, it's just the way you like to play. I will say that P99, Blue at least, does tend to favor duo's and trio's. It has become my favorite way to level alts and it can make for good friendships as it's more personal than a full group. It usually keeps the players a little more engaged and results in faster exp in my experience. I won't speak too much about duo/trio wizzies, because I frankly just don't have the experience as I treat the wiz like a solo class, but maybe others have good recommendations for spicing up wizzy duos/trios.

My biggest recommendation is just not to worry about raiding until you're at least 51. Before that, play how you would like, meet people (even other soloers), say hi and check in on the people you've met, and just enjoy the ride. It's often overlooked here because Live tends to be a lot less social in my experience, but being social here opens the doors to pretty much everything. You're bound to run into some assholes here and there for sure, but in my decade+ of time here my positive experiences far outweigh the negative ones.

[tadkins]

Originally Posted by -TK- [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I wouldn't say it's wrong, it's just the way you like to play. I will say that P99, Blue at least, does tend to favor duo's and trio's. It has become my favorite way to level alts and it can make for good friendships as it's more personal than a full group. It usually keeps the players a little more engaged and results in faster exp in my experience. I won't speak too much about duo/trio wizzies, because I frankly just don't have the experience as I treat the wiz like a solo class, but maybe others have good recommendations for spicing up wizzy duos/trios.

My biggest recommendation is just not to worry about raiding until you're at least 51. Before that, play how you would like, meet people (even other soloers), say hi and check in on the people you've met, and just enjoy the ride. It's often overlooked here because Live tends to be a lot less social in my experience, but being social here opens the doors to pretty much everything. You're bound to run into some assholes here and there for sure, but in my decade+ of time here my positive experiences far outweigh the negative ones.

True that. For the most part, while I did like to solo, I'd always speak up in guild chat and respond to port requests within the guild. I always kept my bind spot close to wherever I was hunting for that reason.

Can't recall a time where I was actively unfriendly to anyone, just kind of a quiet and solitary person I suppose.

I was in a raiding guild for a bit while I was low 50s, but they were actively raiding as 55+ and not really taking me. This was around Velious launch and they had declared that they weren't going to do any more of the lower raids, like PoH/PoS, that I could have been a part of. Refused to help with anything, like the aforementioned Concussion spell questline when I admitted I had never been to KC or CoM. They even laughed at me when I asked what the "Plate room" in Kael was (I honestly thought it was the spot behind Tormax's throne where plate wearers got their quest armors). Just felt ostracized and lonely in that guild, and I ultimately gave up and left.

Maybe that guild was just an outlier though, a single bad egg in a pool of good ones?