Quote Originally Posted by Vhailor View Post

That is horrible, horrible game design, no matter how you slice it. The primary difficulty in an MMO in the year 2014 should always come from the fight itself - not from gathering people to do said fight.
For some reason you think the difficulty of the fight and gathering the players are not related. The more difficult the fight the harder it's going to be to gather players that can beat it.

This is a multiplayer game and in a multiplayer game is the performance of the whole team that matters and not just your performance and no it is not horrible, horrible design. It's exactly how a multiplayer game should work.