Delubrum Reginae: my honest critique

[Luin]

I think the bosses in there were interesting and offered a decent challenge for going in blind, a lot of new mechanics i have not seen in other boss fights resulting in me dieing a lot to find out what their attacks do.

But here is my biggest problem, the unbalance of parties, my group got 1 healer and 7 dps, the poor astro couldn't keep up with the healeing and i had to help out spamming Vitaga, i used uo 75 charges of vitaga to keep the party alive. but another group got 4 healers in their party.
This resulted in a rather frustrating experience as people just died because they got no healing in time.

It would be a lot more enjoyable if parties were balanced as they are in normal alliance raids, 1 Tank, 2 healer, 5 dps.

what if you go in there and don't have a single tank or healer? you are screwed.

DR can be tanked and healed without any tanks or healers. The only issue one might encounter is Cleansing Slash if there are zero healers to Esuna the Doom, but that can be handled by Resistance Medikits or raising the tank and they can Incense the boss.

I've tanked DR on Scholar, Machinist, Samurai, and Dragoon. I've healed it on Bard.

The AST was likely dying to mechanics, because there is very little healing required in this raid - even so, players could have used Autopotions or Resistance Potions to selfheal, because damage is so infrequent.

Additionally, if players are so fearful of actually using the lost action system as intended, then they can reform parties inside of DR to address role imbalance. The parties in this example could have swapped the DPS and healers.

not a single tank in the entire raid, people left.

Somebody could have used Incense, Deep Platebearer, and Font of Power/Manawall, and tanked.

The tools are there, people refuse to use them. This is not the game's fault.

I wanna see a group tank it with Essence of the Veteran/Platebearer and Lost Incense.

The biggest issue is aggro. I opened with Recite+Indom tanking on SCH, and I still think strong burst like Irregular WAR could rip hate.