I'm having the same problems the OP wrote about so there must be something else about this mission. I've tried this mission several times and while I complete the others like a breeze, this one keeps failing.

Don't worry. EA is a money-making company, they'll force Bioware do what Blizzard did with WoW, despite what some (very little actually) people say against it. So you'll soon see an LFG tool, macros, addons, and so on...

You're sweet. You remind me so many people in WoW who kept raging about "casuals" getting epic items. You know how many times I've read the phrase: "You casuals will never get epic items, get over it". And now the game is for casuals. They made 10 man raids with the same loot as 25 (40 man raids don't even exist anymore). And casuals can get their juicy epic with little effort. Has the game suffered because of this? Not at all, they had thousand more subscribers... Rant all you want, they're going to put an LFD tool in the game with autogroup and teleporting and probably it will be cross-server. And you know why? Because once you open the pandora's vase you can't close it again. The MMO market is going forward, while people like you walk backward. The majority of players doesn't have time to spam the chat, and after the third time they do that they quit the game. And EA doesn't like that If Bioware wants to make this game successful (and they do) they'll put into it all the nice things Blizzard put into WoW. And there is nothing you can do about it. Beside, people like you will keep playing the game despite that. It's there already and it's useless.