I never understand why people brag about how they can wipe the floor with you one on one, and at the same time get pissed off that you won't fight them one on one. Do they expect you to just come get your ass kicked over and over?

-- No, I do expect you to, however, learn, grow, explore.

Is there some moral superiority to being powerful independent rather than powerful through teamwork?

-- The beaches of normandy. America and the allied forces had numbers, and believe me, numbers enough that the death toll was the worst in history. America and its allies had the manpower to yes, eventually win, and weaponry that the enemy forces had as of yet seen.
As said, yeah, america and the allied armies won through nothing but manpower, but tell me, was america or its allied counterparts proud of that vicory in any manner? Was it even a real victory?
All it is, is sad.

I like fighting with big armies. It takes a whole different kind of skill than one on one. 5 on 5 is much more fun than 1 on 1 for me. It always nice to have character who can handle 3 or 4 other opponents, but its also fun to play a character who is generally the underdog, but through chosing when to fight and when not to and cultivating important allies generally wins fights.

-- It doesnt realy take a different kind of skill at all.

A lot of people think ganging=bad. Ganging is coded in the mud. Its part of the strategy. Its fun. It takes team work. If you are in the army or whatever, you should know this.

-- I am in the army, and in afghanistan at the moment. A great amount of our training is squad level and less sized forces against greater. Do you know why? The bigger, the easier to spot, the more one grenade can take out. The army trains for war with gourilla tactics, call it standard army training, and insult what the taliban are doing. Heh, while I think that funny, its true. While it does not condone, and even does train, in such things as a squad sized elements to properly engage an entrenched machine gunner, etc through teamwork, it is enforced that you travel in lesser numbers than greater.

And I don't remember there ever being a time without gangs, since the purge.

-- I dont remember a time without gangs period myself.

But with the way classes can work together right now, its pretty cool. Drox was weak one on one, though he still managed to kill sometimes. But he could handle 5(and sometimes kill) or more with one good ally.

-- Actually that one good ally, for you, would have to be a healer with black aura. And to put it more truthfully, it isnt your skill that allows you kill multiple foes with him, its the healers. All you have to do is rescue him if necessary, or flurry away, disarm, or drive an invoker with the legacy, etc. The healer does the work of keeping you alive, and him, protected, cursing the opponents at the best time, etc.

Not every role is about courage and honor. So your flames just tell me I did good

-- No, but in counterpoint, there should be no role that says, "If I log on, and I have little to no aid, I am going to log off, or as for an empirial blade, more importantly, I will show the strength and might of the blade, as being the best sect, by cowering in fear before near everyone and everything, log out as soon as anything shows its head, and fight and pretend I am great when I have others to help me.