Yeah, if you want to do it this week, I’d say try to get it done early. I played this afternoon and there were tons of people doing EP. I found an instance with other 4 other random players pretty quickly. We made it to level 3 and then two people joined my fire team and we got to level 4 a few times.
I think I was geared up to power level maybe 352-353, had to have that specific weapon equipped because I was also doing the sleeper quest.
At this point, 3-4 players around 350-360 should be able to get through round 1 without much trouble, and round 2 actually seemed easier than round 1 to me. Round 3 felt like a definite step up though.
Its actually pretty fun if you get a group of decent people together. I mean we had no hope of getting to level 6 or 7 but eventually it should be doable. In the meantime 5-6 players with swords playing whack a mole smashing the knights as they appear is pretty funny.
Apparently the reward for this week is just the masterwork version of the scout rifle from last week so that may or may not help with your desire to die. But I guess it seems like the end of the quest is probably the new exotic Polaris lance scout so I suppose i’d do it sooner or later no matter what.
Also apparently you can do the nascent Dawn quests all the way through to the current one in the same week. So for example, if you never finished step 1/5, you can do it, step 2 and step 3 all this week. So it will still be available next week and beyond and won’t prevent you from doing step 4 next week if you don’t do it now.