Labelmaker

99% of the people don't like the new patch?

And you tell others not to post based on too little evidence? Pot, meet kettle.

The ONLY reason all the forums and blogs are full of one-sided arguing and whining is because the huge amount of people who don't care, or actually like the new patch are busy playing the game.

That and forums are for whining in general, so it can't really be avoided.

"Can't solo anything anymore...."

Seriously?! I can't even imagine a build that couldn't solo something without some seriously poor playing behind it.

My total support character with only the most basic offensive powers can still take down a Master Villain. It's much more difficult than before, sure, but before was just stupidly easy. Now villains are actually villains, and henchmen are still insanely easy to defeat, like they're supposed to be.

If you're having problems, maybe you need to invest in some CC, defense, or support abilities. Being all offense is fine and dandy, but just because you can solo all the way up doesn't mean that if you min/max it will be easy. Specializations are generally for group play.

For the record, I have 3 characters, one is near total support, one is a pet maniac, and one is pretty much sticking to Darkness. None of these are considered in any way powerful, and my main (the pet master) is possibly one of the more broken, with the non-scaling drone heals and insanely stupid pet AI.

I have no problems with killing things or completing quests solo with any character, my main is in the 20s atm.

Quit whining and learn to play video games. Maybe start with mario or something. CO is not hard, it is just less easy now.