TUrn 4 raid composition question

[Tyrial]

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.

[NoahG]

Your composition is fine for T4, you'll have to adjust the strategy a bit from what you usually see in videos but it's perfectly doable. My usual party composition is PLD x 2, WHM, SCH, BRD x 2, MNK, BLM which is almost identical to yours and we have no issues clearing T4. Well actually we make our OT go WAR instead of PLD as we found it to be easier that way but we can do it with PLD x 2 as well so i'd say you are fine, you just need to get in and start practicing until you beat it.