My humble opinion on Nexon's path.

i think in this case, it depends on what average player is. I just forged a 181 no EE axe. albeit empress weapons are expensive(the only input i put into the weapon), i spent 0 nx scrolling it(shield wards for free, event shop scrolls using coins, event and free clean slates) and was mainly due to the influx of nexon goodness events that just happened in the previous patch. To play the devils advocate, i'd like to argue that bossess in general aren't designed to be soloed. it just happens that people can. an average player shouldn't be trying to solo bossess. a group of average players however should have a much better chance. I mean that's how bossing originally intended to work, full 18/30 man parties trying to take a boss down. Defining average and defining what an average player can do is relative to whos speaking.

heck since i haven't bothered to scroll the rest of empress set with my chaos scrolls of goodness, I actually still use my level 40 4% armor, and im level 195.

You are correct in that the average is not easily defined, but let me tell you this though, a group of people with fully scrolled gear will not even dent the high end bosses. Without heavy use of potential (and the cubing that entails) it will not happen.