Ive ranked up to 45 or so solo. The down side is that it takes a while and you may have to eat a few mob deaths in the process if you dont know what you are doing.


If you're a sufficiently newer player, this rate of death will eclipse the progress you're making. Plus, not having more experienced groupmates around, no one is giving pointers or pointing out what your mistakes were.

Solo-ranking past the first few ranks is terrible advice for a new player. I think it's worth doing things like the Academy by yourself, since the point of the Academy is to teach you how to play, and it's generally very safe. After that, you're going to run into unneeded frustration if you insist on working solo and ignoring the ability to learn from other players. Even grouping with other inexperienced players is better than going it alone.

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