Now that Cata is nerfed (Path of Titans gone)

#0 - June 13, 2010, 6 p.m.

I would like to ask regarding the Path of the Titan removal, what other than starting a new alt is there for players whose play-style and time is more suited to solo-play, just what is there in Cata since you've removed a major new feature that could have been accomplished by solo players? Forcing rated BGs to premades is another move away from solo play.

I was really hoping that the combination of PotT and Archeology would give me something I could do on my own in the game, without having to rely on a guild and raiding. Now we are being forced more into guilds, and solo play is going to be "go roll a new worgen or goblin.."

Really dissapointed. We're getting another expansion of raid X boss for X loot. Only the pixels are changing. Tell me what Cata offers now to the solo player?...

Ghostcrawler

#20 - June 13, 2010, 6:55 p.m.

Q u o t e:
I was really hoping that the combination of PotT and Archeology would give me something I could do on my own in the game, without having to rely on a guild and raiding. Now we are being forced more into guilds, and solo play is going to be "go roll a new worgen or goblin.."

You can still choose to level up Archaeology, which is going to have quite a bit of content. We are also updating all of the other professions to make them more interesting. In addition to goblins and worgen, we have redone the questing for most of the original zones, and all of the lower-level zones. If you like solo play, you will find literally thousands of new quests. We will also offer more achievements, many of which are designed with the solo player in mind.

There are also two buckets of solo players: one is the type of player who pretty much treats WoW as a single-player game and doesn't interact much with other players. The other category is the player who may have lots of friends online but doesn't feel like they have the time commitment for very organized and scheduled PvP or raiding. The new dungeons and BGs will also offer you lots of content if you are someone who plays alone but doesn't mind working together with strangers for short periods of time. The big Cataclysm feature you will miss out on as a solo player is the guild revamp. Again, if you just like to play alone but don't mind being part of a guild, you will still be able to help your guild contribute though.