Chimera and Hydra out of duty finder is a bad idea

[Zetor]

I have spent basically all of my weekend gaming time (about 12 hours) trying to get into a Chimera group this weekend, and have nothing to show for it except for my first AK run (that went pretty smoothly, actually... no drops, though). This is as a WHM with almost full WP (warlock's) armor, half DL - half crafted jewelry, GC weapon and WP shield.

Here is how it went down:
- pug attempt #0: had 5 people in group when the power in my house went out for 30 mins (sigh). When I logged back on, the group has dissolved. Not sure if they ever got enough people to try, even.
- pug attempts #1 and #2: trying to get people to do Chimera on Faerie during weekend early afternoon (Euro time) doesn't work, apparently. Most people we got was 4 after about 45 mins; tried again an hour or so later, same results. Groups dissolved.
- pug #1: After about an hour of group building (and some amusing banter), ended up with 1 paladin, 1 dragoon, no other reliable stun/silence, 3 healers (all whm, so no shields to protect us from 1-shots). ~4 wipes until people learned where to stand to avoid dragon's voice as well as the two conal AOEs, and 3-4 more wipes to ram's keeper combined with paralyze orb exploding in the clump as well as missed stuns on ram's voice (instant party wipe). Tank had to go, couldn't find another tank, group dissolved except for me and two DPS.
- pug attempt #3: we tried for 45 mins to get people, but nobody was interested. Ran AK instead (with a DF tank), got back and started looking for people again. About 30 mins and we got a full group - 2 bards, 1 tank (paladin).
- pug #2: First try went almost flawlessly (we were all at range this time, ate a few dragon voices, but recovered from them without major issues), got Chimera to 10% or so, then wiped to a non-interrupted ram's voice. Looked like we were going to get it done on second try -- except the monk went afk for 15+ mins and people were getting antsy. We just tried without the monk, wiped to ram's voice again. Removed monk, tried to find another DPS to fill the group, got NO bites (including people asking their FCs). Saw that there were 3 other Chimera groups asking for more people (specifically bards and paladins). Group dissolved again, everyone tried to get in the other groups.
- pug attempts #4 - infinity: I tried to get into those other groups. No luck, they were all looking for tanks (paladins especially), bards, and 'dps' in roughly that order. Looking at shout spam, there were at least 2 other healers spamming without luck, as well as one of the DPS I grouped with earlier (in pug #1/#2 and the AK run inbetween). I logged off for the night after one hour of this.

I'm obviously doing something wrong, but right now, I have this overwhelming urge to not bother.