And that my friend is why *good players* and *good friends* are the key caveats to making groups.
If you have a developed a good network of friends that are willing to go play dungeon content in unorthodox group combos and not a full group the game is fun and the bar moves just fine.
Of course people want easymode groups with slowed mobs and mez and want to fill them instead of limiting them to 4 or 5 to maximize XP. This is part of the P99 Bluebie Broscience (coining that term officially right now) that continues to propagate and will only get worse as the server grows. Believe it or not there are a few of us on this server who like to get together and crush dungeon content with odd class combos and get plenty of XP and drops. There is a reason excellent players are the vast minority on this server.
And you are absolutely right that without AOE mez and CH people on this server wipe. Believe it or not a Wizard can do a lot to keep a group alive and keep the XP bar moving.
There's nothing slower than being dead and not moving the XP bar at all. This lack of damage and lack of XP bar movement (as I have also mentioned a million times) is never factored into these absurd DPS calculations and spreadsheets that people love to create that are passed off as worthy of publication in a scientific journal but are really just incredibly basic arithmetic and pseudo-science.
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