I see where this is coming from, but it's not a great suggestion. You have to think about people getting their gear sets up etc. I know it took me a very long time to solo on hc and if the monsters had more life and I had to Regen more and more on each monster it would be super demotivating, not to mention the monsters that heal themselves back up when I heal.

There is auto click eh?

I was thinking this was just an over-view of some of the suggestions we've seen.

Similar to the Mercenary for hire.
Similar to "Battle Zone" type arenas


I solo'd to level 4, and duo'd from 4 to 14 with AW. Just duoing was infinitely more fun

2-3 man groups are my favorite next to full groups. Its alot more fun when you can get a healer/caster with a tank together so it doesnt feel like such a grind. I know even duo speeds up slashing alot!

It would be cool if we could add 1 or two "bots" with us and set them up so it feels like we're playing with more people and more mobs are spawned so we can use our big abilities like cross strike, knockdown, multistrike more often.

This would also help fill those 4/5 games that always cause dilemmas. How many times have we all been sitting 4/5 for an hour waiting for someone to join and eventually people just give up.

*I know someone is going to take this to the next level.

This post was edited by Bob888 on Aug 8 2018 11:21am

Easy fix for this... Instead of waiting an hour for +1 just go with 4 and complete the climb 15-20 minutes slower than if you had a full group.

Pros:
You dont have to wait for +1
You dont lose the group you have while waiting
No chance of NOT climbing because you waited too long

Cons:
The climb takes slightly longer but if you wait an hour for +1 you really end up wasting 40 minutes less




oh... the only con is really a pro... Imagine that...

Aww thanks; nice of you to say!

Too late now, Rex is here to respond (Note: tl;dr answer is No F Way, it takes me approx 1 hour to get from level 60 to level 65 and more to get to 71 even with this update and usable gear)

The game needs to change the LOWER to mid range levels instead of the higher levels, example: it takes 10 minutes to get from level 1 to level 5 solo (give or take 3-5 minutes based on gear), could you imagine it being harder at lower levels (monster has MORE life, not dmg output) making it longer... now you still need to add in the reward, let us be honest, do you really want to spend 20+ minutes going from level 1-5? Hell No, BUT, if you have the gear, the challenge that you want would still be there.

Let me put it this way, low tier items like;

Arcane focused heal IV,
Heals: 70 to 84,
+72% Enhanced Effect,
+16 Strength,
+2 Dexterity,
+2 Critical Strike,
+7% Heal Mastery,
+1% Wind Mastery

would actually be useful to use, but since you can 1 hit kill basically every monster spawn (for me including EPs) at level 5, it is useless to have 72% ee, dang it could have been 10% and still be useful, the 16 str stat helps kill faster of course etc.

So, use diminishing returns (life) at lower to mid range upwards of monster life until it balances out time-wise.