I didnt complain about groups escaping me, to be honest, whenever I went after some, like mazlare, rakk, and the other blade that was together on eastern road, I expected to die. Too many people that play like you heh. Is it unfair that I can do this? No. Because they have the ability to do the same, they just, like you, dont even try.
Does it truly make any sense to you, that you have to pile five and six people together, just to kill one? Does that make any sense at all to you?

And no, being able to fight together in groups relies heavily on a healer kind, or personal ability of each involved. You mentioned yourself, your personal ability is minimal, and I did say before, much the ability of your groups was the healer or others.

You wrote: I can put time into finding haste and aura potions, or I can put time into helping a like-minded healer gain ranks, or a like-minded necromancer gather his quest items. I prefer the latter and it has its advantages and disadvantages(Ideally I'd have the time for both).

-- Yes, put it into imperial politics. You can either be used, and willingly, to be a puppet to them, literally, have a low status in your sect or be anathema(which even as khalizad, when empire was on the downside, I made one anathema for doing just as you were), or show off that you can handle your own, be able to manipulate them with your ability, knowledge, and political ability and make something of your char. (ideally you would like both. As far as the empire is concerned, I would definately take the latter)