Freudinio wrote: ↑Fri 22 Jan 2021 5:51 AM
Meh. I gave up soloing on my reaver when I reached rr5 (I also have 4+ friends online nightly, so I do have the luxury of grouping at will, always something going on). And I can easily break down my fights:
1. Get jumped by a skald -> They figure out I'm a reaver -> They run off (This would be the vast majority of fighting skalds)
2. I get jumped by an assassin between rr7-11 and purge is down -> I'm dead.
3. I get jumped by an assassin between rr7-11 and purge is up -> It can still go both ways depending on the assassin -> if they feel they are losing -> Vanish (This is the vast majority of assassin fights as a visible).
4. I get jumped by rr5-6 stealther regardless of purge -> good fights -> if the assassin is losing -> vanish
5. I get jumped by lower rank assassins (this pretty much never happens) I win consistantly.
At rr5 I think I only had like.. 110? solo kills. Some get interrupted, most fights are never finished (sos, vanish). So I just gave up soloing.
So now, all I see is: Run to a dock, find Mcnasty. Run to another dock, find Xmnz (spelling?). Run to a third dock, find Griis. Run to a fourth dock, find Stealth Legends.
But nah. Keep thinking maintaning a 15% stealther population in frontiers at all times is viable.
This was the post that spoke to me. Let me preface this, I am not a solo god. Before I get flamed for not being a true soloer, I zerged a lot, afk tasked a lot, but also did spend a lot of time out there as a visi solo. Or at least I felt like I did. And I just dinged RR10 on my staff friar, and I kinda like that it felt that I was one of the highest RR staff friar still running around solo and getting kited to death on the regular, but I hung up my Soloing staff for a group spec this week.
I can only speak to my experience, but this post is it. Do all of the assassins that I fight vanish 1v1 all of the time. Certainly not. Many of the assassin gods here don't (but then again, they also had a good shot of killing me). But my honest estimation is that 90% of them do, and they don't even play until vanish is up. Stealth Lore pots are amazing, but I don't think I've had the success rate that some of you claim. Sometimes I guess right, and I really try to be thoughtful about where I think a stealther might go.
Skalds sos-ing was rarer for me, but was certainly a thing. But it's (almost) all stealthers out there. And they (almost) all vanish 1v1. I tried to keep a list of vanishers so I could add etc, but it became too long and honestly was basically everybody. Best case scenario was that the assassin wasn't playing super well, so I could get through the fight without using purge, and so when they vanished I still had it up.
This might sound like whining, and maybe it is. But it's just not fun to fight assassins in their current form. Get jumped -> fight hard -> vanish. But it seems like it is super fun to play as them. So everybody switched to them and the visi solo game died. I always thought about it that basically the Phoenix Assassin/Stealther population overfished and now the stock of your visi solo prey is gone. I loved the game when this stealther interaction happens a couple times a night. If you have a fight and they get away, that's fine if it's part of your experience and then you move onto other fights and interactions. But it's all there is now, so the fun is gone, and the fish are gone.
It's my 2 cents anyway. Some of y'all will surely disagree. As I said, I can only speak to my experience and give you my honest thought process. It is at least a good faith argument.
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