Offline

Playing in Offline mode requires no internet connection or log-in process. Your Offline Avatar and your Online Avatar are separate characters. In Offline mode, you will never encounter other Avatars. Elements placed by, or dependent on, other Avatars—such as player vendors, auctions, guilds, Player-Owned Towns, and Player-versus-Player (PvP)—will be absent. You can explore, fight, craft, and follow questlines in Offline mode the same as in Online mode.

In Offline mode, your Avatar and progress are saved constantly (much like in Online mode). You may exit to the menu or quit the game at any point and your Avatar will be as they were when you next resume play. You may also manually create save files with the Save Game button on the Options menu.

Save files can be loaded from the character selection screen through the Load Game button. Loading a save restores your Avatar, world, and progress to exactly as they were when the save file was created. Any progress since then will be lost forever, unless you make an alternate save before loading your previous one.

Playing in Offline mode also allows you to recruit non-player character (NPC) Companions to accompany you in your travels and aid you in combat. Fiona in Peladjar's Tavern in Ardoris is one such Companion. These NPCs exist and can be conversed with in Online mode, but will not accompany you as Companions.

When playing in Offline Mode, many scenes will not respawn its enemies unless you reload that scene. For example, you could clear an underground area and then mine peacefully (while the resource nodes continue to respawn).


 * You can have four Companions with you at a time, and one Pet Creature (Tamed or Summoned), to allow you to help with the content in the game.
 * Player Owned Towns are not shown on the World Map.

Trivia

 * It is currently unknown if Episode 2 content is available to anyone in Offline.