Quote Originally Posted by ADarklore View Post
I certainly HOPE SE doesn't listen to the OP and continues with their plans. Not everyone wants 'group play' and the addition of solo content is an awesome thing for a HUGE number of players. Furthermore, there is still coming a 'group play' new job with 5.0... so for players like me it's great to see SE adding something for the solo players, which many people don't seem to realize are a HUGE population in this game... and thankfully SE is finally seeing the reality of this.
You realise nobody is arguing for the removal of the Masked Carnivale, right? It would definitely be possible for a class to have two different skillsets, a balanced one for group content and an unbalanced one for fun (After all, EVERY class already has two sets of actions, because of PvP)

Bards do not get locked out of raids despite having Perform, so why would BLU be locked?

Also, except for the Masked Carnivale, all other "solo content" that BLU will supposedly bring is already in the game. Nothing prevents you from playing any class in the open world, or solo old dungeons. Hell, some classes will probably do it better than BLU.

On top of that, one of the best pieces of solo content in the game is PotD/HoH. And BLU is locked out of both of those.