Quote Originally Posted by KageTokage View Post
I think the main intent of having a pre-requisite for queueing for the solo fights was to thin out the amount of competition.

Not to mention people who can't dodge the mechanics in the prior CEs likely don't have the consistency and/or awareness to beat said solo fights anyways. Not getting hit is much more important then putting out maximum DPS there as basically all avoidable damage will instakill if you're not using manaward or a death prevention cooldown (Though I'm pretty sure even those don't work on everything).

The DPS check is very lenient if you're using offensive lost actions as they're tuned around the fact that melee are going to have be peeling off the boss to perform mechanics on a regular basis. It does also mean that ranged DPS have a huge advantage over the other jobs, though.
i don't think it's bad there's a prerequisite, but i think it's bad when you can quite literally luck into it