Seriously... I don't want to keep hauling ass through these dungeons, barely understanding what's going on and feeling awkward when I try to watch cut scenes. The people doing dailys don't want to take it slow, so new guy #500 they're forced to group with can really take in the experience. I'll be grouping and socializing eventually, but for this content they don't want to play with me and I don't want to play with them. Why the hell are we doing this?

It's not in any way difficult to add a couple generic AI's to these instances that auto-follow you. Over-level them a bit so the content is doable, and voila. I've never in the past played an MMO that forced this, and it's absolutely terrible.