With new Savage raid how much will party composition matter?

[Rbstr]

It does matter: You hurt your LB generation a lot by doubling up on a class.
Outside of that it's not particularly important.
There are some synergies that make certain combinations more worthwhile. RDM's embolden buffs physical damage, so it has a higher impact with 2-melee comps. A DRK/PLD tank set would really appreciate a SAM or NIN for the slashing debuff. It's not something to worry about too much.

My static has been running melee/bard/2 caster and will probably keep doing so. We don't usually have trouble with DPS checks but we're also not typically pushing early clears.

[LineageRazor]

While I can't speak to O2S-O4S, O1S seems as though it's going to be pretty darned lenient when it comes to party composition. My casual group, who normally take weeks to clear ANY stage of a raid, brought O1S down to 30% health on our first evening of practice, and that was with two DRG in the party, underpar gear, and numerous deaths cutting into our DPS. With practice and a bit higher ilvl gear, even we should be able to farm this tier in short order.

[Tankstuff]

party comp doesnt matter, havin competent players who all know how to maximize their dps is what matters. I pugged 1 and 2 so far and killed both as enrage was going off. Would have been much easier if I wasnt doubling my co tanks dps, (i hate pug paladins, they have no idea how to leave shield oath or optimize their dps) if the healers did more than 1k dmg, and half the dps couldnt break 3.5k. Please just learn to optimize your rotations and go in with the best gear available to you.

[Cetonis]

For the first couple weeks, O3S' enrage might be tight enough for triple-melee to be a legitimate point of concern. Leave-the-boss moments are unusually frequent in that fight; it's possible that ranged jobs will fare better numerically when we start getting some data en masse. So for those first couple clears an extra melee may actually cause some added difficulty.

On O1S and O2S I wouldn't worry at all, haven't seen much of O4S yet. And the O3S thing should become moot in a couple weeks with a little gear and cleaner farm runs.

[Atmora]

For the first couple weeks, O3S' enrage might be tight enough for triple-melee to be a legitimate point of concern. Leave-the-boss moments are unusually frequent in that fight; it's possible that ranged jobs will fare better numerically when we start getting some data en masse. So for those first couple clears an extra melee may actually cause some added difficulty.

On O1S and O2S I wouldn't worry at all, haven't seen much of O4S yet. And the O3S thing should become moot in a couple weeks with a little gear and cleaner farm runs.

Pretty much this, LB concerns for week 1 double class will only matter in 1 and 2 if your group is REALLY bad, then once people get geared it will be the same for 3.

[xNewbx]

I thought BLM would be bad, but I've already seen a video of one clearing O3S at nearly 4.8k dps. I believe one of the first 4 O4S clear groups had a BLM as well.

I think ranged DPS in general are doing very well in this raid teir.

I would say as long as you don't stack multiple of the same class throughout your group comp you should be fine.

[ThirdChild_ZKI]

If you all play your jobs well and play well together, it doesn't matter.

Can't a master craftsman still perform quality work whether he has brand new tools or weathered ones?