lol, yea, you are making them do it right.  Most of the people who play this game are still noobs.  I've seen people with 5 60's act retarded in an instance.  People don't know how to focus fire, they pull aggro, they start dps before the tank has aggro, etc.  You just have to know who to run with.  I wouldn't worry to much about gear atm, think of what you are runnin now as brd and lbrs, no one really gives a shit about those, regardless of how good the gear is.  It is gonna be the same as before, and its all gonna happen at 70.  If you have bad pieces, try to upgrade them to make life easier on yourself, but I would do it solely on boe's.  I ganked a trio of allies yesterday, (all at full health and mana), sapped the pallie, blinded the warrior, kiled the mage, got the warrior, and nuked the pallie with cooldowns. :P