I am a firm believer in Stone Sky and Sea being a good addition to the game, but Square has left it to founder. Now as many of you forumgoers know, a large problem with the playerbase are players just not outputting enough DPS to pass simple mechanics, making fights much harder than they should be. My proposal is as follows:

Before you can queue for a bit of hard content IE Nidhogg, or Alexander you must first beat the SSS dummy of the equivalent duty. Only after destroying the proper dummy with the duty actually unlock for you. I feel that this would force some less knowledgeable players to step back and reevaluate whether or not they can actually contribute a sizable enough amount to the party, and see if it's actually "that damn bard holding the party back" Note that this would only be for "difficult" content, dungeons and 24 mans would not be needed as they are meant to be less rotation based. After that entire Nidhogg storymode show, I feel like we could really use a sort of proving grounds that people must use to actually PROVE themselves