because it's so easy to be a 31 these days, I can see why someone would want at least 31's in the party believe it or not, the biggest choke point is still Confluxes - a lot of teams of random players are STILL struggling at Confluxes and many still fall apart at them I still haven't done Relic at Templar, my internet connection varied and I get kicked a lot (Road Runner from Time Warner, it's not me, it's Bungie servers) - but I can do Relic otherwise if there's no one else - I'd just hate to get disconnected while holding it not a lot of people can do Relic at Gatekeeper and not a lot of people can Solo the gates - I can solo either hate as any character - now I main 3 Hunters so I have to be a bit careful, but I've been in a few parties where we survived by having only 3 people stay alive at the Gatekeeper lastly, a lot of people still don't call out if they know how to use a Relic, or which planet they are on, or bring in crappy I leveled weapons - I've seen people use Thorn and Last Word during Oracles at Atheon ... I'd think someone that's a 31 have done a few Raids and being on par with enemies will at least get them a chance to survive a sniper shot during the raid, vs insta-death as a lower level character and don't get me wrong, I've been the only guy that died with their 32 at Atheon or Gatekeeper while the rest of the team carried on and killed the boss with that said, I don't care what level you are as long as you know what needs to be done