What about the WHM/PLD?
They're slower to kill. PLDs are good at wasting peoples time, as are WHMs. They can survive for quite a while even when being jumped, so in my opinion, its more effective to go after basically any of the others, unless of course, you spot one of them getting ready to do their LB or whatever skill to protect the DRK. If you can catch them before they pop that off, then go for it.

Why does all of this still not work sometimes?
A lot of you are poor sports. You start raging, you can't take it, you cry in the chat about how it's too hard and you can't do anything. You see people giving suggestions and instead of adding onto that, you take it personally. Get upset, start hallucinating that the person is picking on you. None of you are that important. Teams talking amongst teach other is very important, its called strategizing. Work together, figure it out. Don't verbally attack/bash each other. Don't throw a tantrum. Work together.

I've seen people say updates before a skill goes off, but instead of coming together and following up with each other all using your most powerful skills at once, someone starts crying that the updates are annoying, or how THEY used their skill (alone with no warning to anyone else) but no one else did. Of course we didnt, we can't see that you did. That's why you type it. You communicate. Let your team know, so they can work with you. Stop being so sensitive. Communicate. Don't get so frustrated that you start reading everyone's words in anger. Lot of time, people are trying to be helpful to one another. Don't assume that everyone is angrily shouting things at you.

Premades are never good. It's not skill, it's communication. The only thing they have is teamwork. That's why you lose, and they win. They communicate, you don't. If you remove a meta? They'll come up with a new one next week. Because all it takes is working together and synchronizing attacks. This isnt Secure anymore, where you get cheated because youre knocked off the cliff. This is just 4 people who know how to type "im gonna do x"/"ok im going to do y" and that's why youre sprawled out on the floor, red in the face, with the lowest score out of like 72 people as a dps.

There is nothing wrong with the current meta. but there is everything wrong with manys mindsets and inability to control their tempers long enough to stop the most obvious attack patterns known to man. Never have I ever played an MMO's PvP that was as transparent as XIV's. You can hear attacks before they go off. You can hear a SAM getting ready to kill you. You can see when a DRK is beginning the pull animation. To not be able to fend off a premade, is to not be able to look at your screen for more than 2 minutes at a time. Either queue in with the actual desire to work together and play, or queue with your bedtime gummies already taken and go to bed mid-match because you might as well at that point.