When will solo instances be in World of Warcraft?

The idea of solo instances in World of Warcraft has been around since the first server opened. Some players are even wondering if “one-man raids” will be making it into the game.

As of this article’s writing, Blizzard has no plans of adding any solo dungeons to WoW. While this may be a bit of a bummer to most solo-oriented gamers, Blizzard Poster/ Community Manager Nethaera explained why this was the case in her post on the WoW Forums:

Hrm.. I know this has come up before, but I don’t recall us saying we were considering solo player instances. We feel that dungeons are great for grouping and develop our outside content to be the more solo friendly aspect of the game.

Yes, we support people being able to solo, but being that this is still an MMORPG, we don’t currently intend to create our dungeons for solo players. Even balancing for such a thing would make for less interesting dungeons as well.

She justified Blizzard’s decision pretty well. After all, soloing an instance wouldn’t be much different than making a quest-run or even just taking out progressively hard creatures in the fields of Azeroth.

Via WoW Forums

The idea of solo instances in World of Warcraft has been around since the first server opened. Some players are even wondering if “one-man raids” will be making it into the game.

As of this article’s writing, Blizzard has no plans of adding any solo dungeons to WoW. While this may be a bit of a bummer to most solo-oriented gamers, Blizzard Poster/ Community Manager Nethaera explained why this was the case in her post on the WoW Forums:

Hrm.. I know this has come up before, but I don’t recall us saying we were considering solo player instances. We feel that dungeons are great for grouping and develop our outside content to be the more solo friendly aspect of the game.

Yes, we support people being able to solo, but being that this is still an MMORPG, we don’t currently intend to create our dungeons for solo players. Even balancing for such a thing would make for less interesting dungeons as well.

She justified Blizzard’s decision pretty well. After all, soloing an instance wouldn’t be much different than making a quest-run or even just taking out progressively hard creatures in the fields of Azeroth.

Via WoW Forums