Progression locks are bad

[KarstenS]

You can find 10 statics to join for FCOB with any role any day of the week, but the difficulty of finding these groups for the older content is often underestimated by players who got the kill while it was current tier.

You should also think in the view of the groups that are advertising lfm for final coil.

What do they expect? People that have beaten the earlier content and know how to play their class nearly at optimum and, very important, how to play in a group.

If the gates T5 and 9 would be removed, these groups would get flooded by requests of people in full poetics gear, max 150 dps and absolutely no clue about how to coil or how to play in a group. That is not what these groups are looking for.

It sounds elitist. But when you really think about it, removing that gates would destroy more groups, than it would help to form them.

As I know from many groups that were looking for new players for final coil, they are mostly willing to help people through t5 and t9, if they are good and show the needed effort to learn these things.