Lucky Bancho and NA raiding problems.

[Kazrah]

But skill among players tends to be equal, period. They would have the same percentage of bad players and poor dps as us. Otherwise the game would be a LOT harder in general to match the skill of the JP playerbase, but SE has put it on a constant trend downwards. I think it really is just desire or incentives/expectations.

It's not individual player skill though, and looking at that completely misses the point. It's the ability to work as a team that JP groups have as an advantage due to the nature of raiding requiring teamwork to function.