Quote Originally Posted by dimsumdarren View Post
oh and another question....the knight reflects magic, so no magic dps on that, i get that. But the soldier with the physical stoneskin...can physical dps still attack it? just does reduced damage? and after stoneskin goes down? I watched a few videos where soldier was being dps-d by both magic and physical
The Soldier will drop the stoneskin after around 6k damage. Until that point no phys damage will be done to him.

As for raid comp, it all comes down to how well your members play together and how well they play their class. My group recently lost our BRD so rather than try and replace him by having another member bring their under geared BRD and make some other rotations, we just went without one. Ended up doing Turn 4 with PLD, PLD, MNK, BLM, BLM, BLM, SCH, WHM and it went smooth as silk.