Progression locks are bad

[MrCookTM]

Gotta agree with Mr Cook that finding a group is the most important thing.

That thing however is not so trivial for T5 and T9.
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.

I can absolutely see your point. Though just having the kill is what maybe gets you into a group, it's not neccesserily what makes you stay there. One prime example is that we recently kicked a dragoon that we ran with out of our group after a handful of raid nights, because he did terrible dps in fcob and failed easy mechanics repeatedly. We then asked him to join us in a T9 to help a FC friend out for the kill, but he 'didn't feel comfortable with the fight'... One can only imagine, what the reason was (prolly bought the kill).

Anyway. Doing these fights, T5, all of scob including T9, ex-primals etc. basically all execution-heavy, non locked out content repeatedly together with your FC/LS/Friendslist will put you on notice IF you're a decent player and will lead to a place in a static eventually, one that you will not lose immediately after because you learned how to play your job in stressful content and became a capable player. Not needing to do any of this stuff in order to have access to fcob won't lead ppl anywhere but frustration because 'omfgshitneedzanerf' pugs wipe to T10 enrage with the boss still having 15% hp (happened to my gf about a week ago ^^) because 123ing 350+ dps (more isn't needed) while executing mechanics apparently is quite the task.