Addressing Concerns:

When I have suggested this on other forums before, one counter argument was that it could be gamed. Say if a player just wanted to be carried and joins up with three friends so that his three friends can quickly get more rewards. This is a possibility certainly, but it would still mean the run would take longer than if all 4-8 players would play at a higher skill level. So for example, say you could do an EX run in 21 minutes if all 4 players do their part, so everyone gets 80 Lore and 50 Scripture. But if they do a carry run and these runs take 35 minutes instead, three players might get up to 100 Lore and 62 Scripture (one player getting nothing).

So tomes per minute works out to:

3.8 Lore vs 2.85 Lore
2.3 Scripture vs 1.77 Scripture

So the incentive would still be there to do the runs quickly with full effort versus slowly carrying one player.

(cont.)