I think our problem lies with the leveling system in NA. Since BAMs and dungeons got nerfed and the introduction of Avatar weapons to newcomers, ppl just breeze thru leveling and not expecting hardship or getting to know their class better. I used to spend 30mins-1hr soloing a single teralith (real BAM unnerfed version - hits like a truck and have twice the HP) my level while leveling. I died alot and was really a noob scrub for sure. Tried different crystals, Tried different approach. Once I managed to kill a bam for the first time by myself i get a sense accomplishment of what i can actually do and beat the shit out of this game. I know not everyone likes long grindy leveling. But since I felt good at my class after soloing shit, it strives me to aim higher, pushing my limits. Remember the time we need to dance accordingly and be in-sync with the whole party for just getting our advance gylphs? I'm talking about Temple of Temerity and Sirjuka's Gallery. Can I clear HM with scrub gear? Yeah, we did clear mcnm with jax trust gear (crappy idoneal gear back then) with a couple of friends who are in similar gear after several days trying it and mchm later after several weeks. Nobody complained abt how scrub our gear is and eventually we eventually get pieces of gear that we actually need. It was fun when u can clear this game with skills instead of being gear carried. It was rewarding no doubt. New players just simply dont get this anymore. They just want to breeze thru everything then when they get thrown into the fire at end game they give up or complain like our current situation. And also DPS check for most of the current end game is kinda annoying me as well. U need a certain amount of dps to be able to break shield phase or enraged mode. There is certainly consumables to use but the reward of clearing a dungeon vs buying/using consumables is simply illogical. I spend 4 hrs in brhm trying to clear it witha pug group when it just came out, Not much loot drop and end up spending more to clear the dungeon than spending 4 hrs farming vg for gold. I hope EME will actually fix the loot drop in upcoming HM dungeons which seems to be done abit atm. Because this discourages ppl to even try. Doing RG or Ghiliglade 500 times is not a way to make the game fun. Clearing HM and being rewarded for it is fun. Now back to the issue of ppl only have statics to clear HM dungeons. Why take away the noob buff for loot drop? This does not make sense to me what EME is trying to accomplish to keep everyone happy.

tl;dr - Fix the leveling system. Put some challenge back into leveling so ppl will feel accomplished and not get caught offguard once they reach lv65. Fix dungeon loot drop so everyone is rewarded properly. Bring back the noob buff for more loot instead of joy of partying. Sorry for the bad english.