First, playing solo breeds toxicity.
Ever solo queue for a scenario and find yourself getting destroyed? Almost like the other faction is a... oh no it must be a PREMADE! Those basterds! How dare they form a group to play a team-based objective PvP scenario! The NERVE!
yeah, that was me, I used to get so frustrated running into premades that I saw them as almost cheating or a bad thing to see happen. Still to this day if I solo queue and come across 1 I notice my pug team start to complain "premade this, premade that" and they just give up. They start to lose by a huge margin and point fingers. "Order is OP their BW is so much better than our Sorc or WP is so broken." "Destro just being destro...." "Dev's are Order biased" etc. etc. As a solo player, it was never "my" fault my team was losing it was always "Order just has better mirrors, its fact."
So that was my life playing this game for the first month, friggen sucked. Every Scenario made me was to play a diff class or get frustrated with how destro feels like shitty order cousins.
So what changed you may be thinking? I FOUND A FRIEND! crazy right? was this Chosen dood who just asked "Hey wanna start a group for scenario spam?" and I said well sure. After that day of playing scenarios as a group versus a solo my whole gameplay experienced changed drastically. I was the premade! and it felt so rewarding! We coordinated i.e. we would call out which target to focus on or which objective to attack or when to regroup. Once I was in a party setting the scenario changed from "me going to focus healer because as a DPS that is the only thing that matters", to "Where does my party need me at the most? How can I work collectively to push our agenda?" Plus the strangest thing, it was always more fun to fight against another premade, even when we lost I didnt have the outlook of "gah frick Order, they are OP!" it changed to a "How can I better utilize my tool kit next time? Maybe I should assist the ST dps? or shoot I really should have peeled for my healer when that WH bounced em."
Ever since that day I've been finding parties or creating them before a que, even if I dont know the people just being in that collective mindset before the match changes everything!
Second, numbers/winning doesn't equal fun, and I'd argue starts to feel like you log on to work instead of playing a game.
This is more of my perspective from playing orvr this past month and what I found enjoyable. Playing in a warband is great when numbers feel even. bing in a flank WB is the most fun imo. At one point I'd log on and find destro is rollen through keeps etc and it started to feel like a follow the leader type game mode. was dull and just weeewoo my 48 vs your 24 haha get rekted.
I find oddly rolling with a small group to perform back-line assassin starts the most fun! stealing objectives while under AAO and pulling some of order off the keep and just being a nuisance is great when doing it with friends! Yeah we are outnumbered and losing the keep but hey we can really become a pest and perform hit and run strats
Third, having 1 - 2 other people you look forward to playing this game with changes everything.
The last point I really want to drive in is simple yet hard? Finding some people you like to party with and do things with changes this game completely. Logging on to push "o" and see aye! Klumzziie is online! and play some game modes with those people makes the time fly by and you walk away win or lose having a good time. I found these people just joining a random party before queuing for a scenario. Ever since then I get pretty bored if I'm playing the solo mans trying to complete a team-based game.
If you take anything at all from reading this and you are either a solo or someone with friends who plays this game, take this...
"Moral is more than a special ability."
And if you are on Destro and wanna party up for anything send me a whisper @Kurocav or @Kurocavaa
to most people(the purple bar is one of the most toxic systems I ever saw). I really want to enjoy this game, but...all advice welcome!
