There are reasons why paladins at least can wade into groups like that. Most of what I saw, was my enemies fighting like idiots. I wish I could sugar coat it, but that's the gist of it. There were several folks that just reamed me one on one, with little effort. One example I think you're speaking of, is the imperial log on dio's with Forsk? Dorn ran into the same thing, and I'll explain right now why Forsk came out on top. You don't just keep bashing someone in a champion's stand.

I cannot count the number of fights I would have lost with Dorn, if folks would have just used their warrior skills. Between offensive communes, high power warrior attacks, and offensive bard songs, no one should come out unscathed. Actually people should rarely live when facing that. But instead you have three or four people going bash bash bash bash. I don't care how big the damn group is, if you fight stupid, you deserve to get beat even if you are in a group.