Is progressive content or the community to blame for player skill gap?

[thegreatonemal]

Problem. New players running dungeons with veterans are dragged through at speed by players who despite level/ilvl sync are still way more powerful than what the dungeon is balanced for. So, actually, new players may not see all the mechanics that they need to, and certainly have less experience of dodging them than they should.

To add onto that while yes people should avoid aoes its no big deal in dungeons if you do get hit by them you don't die and you hardly take any damage so people get used to the idea that its no big deal. then they step in an ex primal or savage and stand in an aoe and die instantly or wipe the raid.