Wondering what to do, honestly...

[Travel]

That's previous expansion content.
Between expansions the damage gap is massive, if you get a group and get in unsynch, it will be very, very easy.
Boss could get killed in 2-3 minutes based on the content and the group, healing won't be a problem.

Huh. Wasn't actually expecting that; I figured that Eden would still be considered one of the harder raids. Good to know; I was planning on running Reaper for that one, though I'm still going to be grabbing the best gear I can get for the job before jumping in.

That, and I hope I can find a group for running the raid; last I checked - which was actually quite a while go, admittedly - you couldn't matchmake for Savage content through the Duty Finder, and none of my friends play FFXIV these days, so I'll try and see who I can find. It'll be a while before I can run the raid regardless, so I'm not too worried right now.

[CKNovel]

My main point is theirs not been a massive shift in recent balance in 6.2 It's more Visible with the new DPS check, the job balance hasn't always been perfect from expansion launch, you only see more of a outcry now because it's more of a hot topic, Its never been "great", it's just been "decent" at best in terms of balance, All jobs can still clear that is my main point, no one really is being forced off a job unless it was week 1/2 p8s pre-dps check nerf.

People are generally being very vocal about it and acting as if it's something recent but theirs always been a differences in jobs that are pretty big making one generally the "weakest" in it's category, the ranged tax is somewhat too high ect, the fact is you still can clear with any job so the balance isn't super broken, but could use some work.

This is well said, if the DPS check wasn't that tight, less jobs would have been locked out of PF.
Not even MCH.

Before 6.2, the mentality was "You can clear with all jobs but some will be harder to clear with".
After 6.2 barely anything changed except the new mentality: "You can clear with all jobs but some will give you a very bad time.

Huh. Wasn't actually expecting that; I figured that Eden would still be considered one of the harder raids. Good to know; I was planning on running Reaper for that one, though I'm still going to be grabbing the best gear I can get for the job before jumping in.

It's still harder than most MSQ instance but not harder than the story trial for example.
If you go in Synchronized then yes it's going to be hard. But since your objective is the cosmetic, you don't have to do it the hard way.

Simply put, you go into a hard boss battle but you're overleveled and overgeared.