I'm actually really glad that the normal raids are increasing in difficulty. I don't think that they should be so hard that casual players are SOL in terms of completing them and thus are locked out of the story they offer. Yet striking a balance between 'hey, you're 80 now and should at least know how to dodge and/or pay attention' doesn't seem a step too far.

With that said however I'm never doing E7N as anything but RDM, much like I refused to do E4N as anything but that class. Glad though I am for the increased difficulty it pays to have a rezzbot for when things go pear shaped.