It’s absolutely an issue with casual gearing at the moment.
There is a discussion going on over on the following thread about it if you are interested in putting across your views.
There is a Blue post in it so it is potentially being heard.
It’s good to have people’s views from different angles contributing to it.
As to Blockade OP. How are you getting by with it? My guild was in a similar position just the other week.
We finally got Blockade down this past Monday and then extended our raid lock so that we could down Jaina on this Thursday (we didn’t need the gear so why go through the whole raid again lol) and move onto Heroic.
We found Jaina much easier to deal after a brief understanding of the mechanics (and realising where the ice wall is lul) was only 3-4 tries.
I think one of the things that helped us with Blockade was not worrying too much about the boss, or at least not trying to rush it.
It’s almost entirely a mechanics fight, especially in the last phase. As long as you get the adds down you don’t really have to worry about an “enrage”. So we just spent more time focusing the adds and making sure he didn’t get charged up.
Worked well enough to get him down, we just have to work on splitting between boss and adds in a more efficient manner now and hopefully it will be a cinch.