No, there is no lack of opportunities, what there is, is a lack of an environment that makes newbies want to say its their first shroud (or other raid etc). The reason WHY this environment is as it is, is because of the way these people have been pushed around, kicked from groups, told they are gimp, etc. For every vet we can name who helps people out on a daily basis (I group with quite a few myself), there are likely 10 others who push people around about build choices (no khopesh?, youre gimp bro!!!). /Join LFM "hey guys where is this quest exactly?" /kick.
You and I didnt go through this because when we were new, everyone else was new and learning as well. There was no core group of high end veteran players to teach us or push us around. We had to learn together. There were no self entitled people asking us why the hell we didnt know the quest. There were other people equally as new as us with as many completions as us learning the same raid at the same time. There were no threads on the forums ranting about these noobs not understanding that we were zerging the quest each week. This didnt happen, period.
You and I werent run through the same ringer the noobies of today are, period. We had it harder as far as the actual gameplay was concerned with no casual difficulty, perminent stat debuffs and curses, and less high end gear, but we have it alot easier as far as personal environment is concerned. We didnt have to deal with being interviewed about every gear slot MyDDO shows before getting into a raid. We didnt have to link boss beaters, or meet other rediculous expectations people have for LFMs. Generally speaking, we didnt have to deal with the negative personal environment alot of new players are pushed into these days, especially after MOD 9. How many times were you /kicked back in the day when you joined a quest and asked how to get there?
So yeah, back in the day we walked up hill both ways in 10 feet of snow, but people were alot cooler with eachother because they too had to do the same. You want noobies to ask questions, show that they want to learn, ad reveal they arent fully knowledgable about the quest? We need to cultivate an environment that makes them want to do this. Or not, and just drop a mass bears and a mass bulls during buffing, which will likely show you how many noobies you have in your raid who aint speaking up.