I wasn't quite caught up on HW content to do Bismarck EX or Ravana EX when they first came out. I did them for the first time at a much higher ilevel than intended. You still can't unsync them, but higher gear has made them laughably easy even for a casual like me. But by your gauge, even though I've put in time to learn the mechanics and spent numerous hours farming, I don't deserve the bird I got. Nor do the dozens of people I've created bird farms to help because we didn't do it when it was bleeding edge.