World of Warcraft is an MMORPG – but you can achieve a lot solo as well. Not everyone understands solo players. But how do you actually play?
World of Warcraft is one of the oldest and largest MMORPGs ever released on the market. Although the game was designed from its Vanilla version to allow solo players to achieve success, this trend has intensified. Nowadays, many players understand the MMORPG almost entirely as a solo experience.
Others, however, cannot comprehend how one can experience an MMORPG solo at all, as for them, interaction is at the center of the experience.
We want to find out how you feel about World of Warcraft through a survey. Do you see the MMORPG more as a group experience? Or has it become an interesting solo adventure for you?
What WoW Offers for Solo Players
Even if you are not at all interested in interacting with other players on your server, you can experience a lot in World of Warcraft. As older content becomes easier over time, almost everything can be experienced solo. This allows for a wide range of content:
- Almost all quests from all expansions
- Completing collections (Transmog, achievements, toys, mounts)
- Equipment improvement
- Pet battles
- Almost all old group content (old raids/dungeons) for the story or Transmog
Of course, not every player enjoys every type of content, and some may not connect with certain aspects at all – but this is no different with group content.
What’s Available for Group Players
Basically, almost all solo content – with the exception of pet battles and the associated pet-battle dungeons – can also be played in a group. In addition, there are a variety of other activities, predominantly taking place in the endgame:
- Current dungeons (from normal to Mythic+)
- Current raids (from LFR to Mythic)
- PvP in arenas and battlegrounds
- Completing group quests
- Trading (professions, auction house)
- Interaction (guilds and chat channels)
- Role-playing (very important for some!)
All of this is meant to show that in World of Warcraft, there isn’t just “one right way” to play the game. Although WoW is an MMORPG, it also offers many content opportunities for which players simply do not need partners.
If you want to elaborate a bit more on your answer, feel free to leave a comment and explain how exactly you play WoW. Maybe your comment will even be featured in a future article!
