Why?

[Lilseph]

the entire system is pretty lame for a solo player...telll me how i can tank ixion literally from 100%, to 0% and still get bronze? im literally contributing by tanking the thing and making sure everyone else survives.

not mad about it, but if u tank the fight from start to finish...you should be garuenteed full credit ._.

I like to think about it as if it was a bar you fill. If you have several parties of several people, they are filling their party bars incredibly fast and they will most likely gold (Heals, DPS, tanks spamming aggro moves). If you don't, you'll fill that bar extremely slow. That's contribution. Party vs Solo. The party's contribution is counted as one, whereas solo does the same but it's only you. It's logical.

FATEs like that scale really high so your contribution, even if you tanked the whole thing, is nothing compared to what a full party or light party can do.

Really guys, is not that hard to ask for a party invite or create a party yourself. You'll see a lot of "inv pls" messages. Invite them, get stuff done, thank them for joining and disband.