Quote Originally Posted by Khatovar View Post
A solo player can make friends. A solo player can hire people crossfaction via server boards. A solo player can suck it up and just buy what is on their home auction house. A solo player can earn it by grouping/raiding/farming. I've done all these things as a solo player and it didn't kill me. This is sort of like arguing that non-raiders should just be able to buy top tier raid items out of the Blizzard store just because they can't be arsed to join a raid.
You can also be ripped off trying to find someone to help. It's a pain in the ass to ask a friend to run to a neutral AH- especially the amount of times you'd need to ask them to make a difference. My servers horde economy is totalled... It is impossible to buy what you need to level profs much less get any gear. The methods you describe doing it solo are too big a pain and would cost way way too much.