So how do these players find the other players that they depend on, so they just wake up one day and find themselves in a skilled static or fc? Isn't it personal effort to network and socialise with the right players, to build a reputation as a player they can also depend on, a reputation that depends on your individual ability? This is a social game with teamwork, so building the right team is also a element of skill you shouldn't neglect.

This is what is wrong with the op, there is no attempt to bring something to the table. He is asking skilled people to come to him, so he had everything to gain but the rest have nothing. No skilled group picks up members like that, it is called asking for a carry. It is bringing nothing to the table, there is no give or take which is essential to a team, there is just give to me for ethical reasons. If you want to learn, you should expect other people who want to learn, and build a group together. The skilled groups have been there and done that, unless you want to dispute the countless hours raiding FCs put into progression.

This is why people say "I did it and you should too". If they are good they were never carried, and if they were at the cutting edge of progression they even did it without guides