Back before the snap, I soloed 95% of my game play. I was attacked regularly by the folks that thought teaming was the only way to play this MMO. I was attacked heavily by the team-only crowd when I mentioned how ridiculous Khels were at launch with their massive -damres while solo BS. I was attacked rabidly when I brought up how unfair the incarnate progression was for soloists when it was introduced.
And now, when I'm PLing in a way I never did before the snap, I find myself on the side of those being attacked for enjoying the game a different way... again.
It's fucking stupid. Is everyone in this thread doing that? No. Absolutely not. There are some trying to simply state that they'd like to play the old way, back when there were no IOs, back when the game was harder. I get it. I get it fully.
But that game doesn't exist anymore. You can certainly find like-minded individuals and you can all choose to run with nothing but SOs and no incarnates and have the tank herd and the defender heal and the blaster dish out DPS.
And you can do so without whining on the forums when you can't find enough like-minded individuals and you can do it without calls for even more nerfs to AE rewards and you can do it without the snide, sideways insults that those of us who now PL don't know how to play the game.