From my experience starting this tier, the point is to torture yourself for hours every week in the PF in order to have a small chance at getting a dyeable skin or mount that you want. Literally spent 90 min in a p2s weekly clear party last night that didn't manage to clear. So now I get to spread the despair to a second day this week.

At this point I truly hope I don't like any of the gear in the next raid tier, because raids in this game are a miserable f'ing experience all around. After trying to do Ex3 with my FC last week and only seeing Phase 2 once I am really grateful that I don't like any of the weapon skins and will not be doing that again.

Raiding current tier in FF14 if you or anyone else makes a mistake = "Boom! The End. Start again."