Online shard games feel like Offline

I bought the RotW when it got the discount and I started playing Online for the first time. Once I got to around level 70 with my warlock, I started joining shard games, where the host or someone else uses shards to terrorize multiple acts.

In these games everyone farms a zone. Only one player in a zone, 8 players in a game. So there isn't any interaction. It feels exactly like playing Offline in P8, but this time the better zones are taken by the host or the players who use the shards (

Travincal,

Chaos Sanctuary, etc.).

Of course I can still speak with other players, but there are games where half the team is staying in town afk, for the Chronicle progression.

Wouldn't Offline be better, since you can farm all the good zones yourself?

For a multitude of reasons, online > offline.

For reasons of "more gains" however, "solo P8" > P1.

Since both continue to hold true, you will regularly see players soloing stuff in full games online for farming purposes, with no intention of switching to offline play instead.

It used to be split MF runs or someone soloing CS or

Key bosses in

Baal runs. Then it became folks soloing the current TZ in

Baal runs. And now it turned into split shard runs.

The point is simply to "try to simulate /players 8" for those activities that just make more sense with it (i.e. farming + lvling). But since for many that's not all they do, it doesn't mean they want to or should switch to offline play instead.
If we ever get online /p8, doubtful as it is, those runs would largely fall away and the games left in the lobby (apart from trade games, naturally) would mostly be actual cooperative activities. Would be better for everyone imo though I won't hold my breath for it.

The most important thing for online play is interaction with others.

More gain p8 vs offline is not hold.
Offline, you can create anything you want.

But yeah, feel wealthy and trade activity is main theme in late game. To play that , you have to be online.

Otherwise, in offline, you can have super new jewel, super Enigma, super torch and on struck 100% chance 50 lv

Frost Nova. Those dont fit balance . (Some may say no such thing/balance in rotw, but even it is very bad, still bad boundary ) And if you modify, your game will 3x stronger than online play and the game will end in 10 mins, that you will feel nothing else to play.