So your guild has progressed to the high end game content, but you need gear from the lower instances to be viable in them... what do you do?

How did you handle the difficult times where you wanted to straight-out progress, but people needed gear from farm status instances? Did you require going to these instances, much to the disgruntlement of many of the old school, 8/8 t2 or more crowd? Or did you have to cater to those who had majority opinion, and only accept the most geared applicants?