To OP, alliance raids are not to be confused with wow raids or anything else of that matter. Lab, Sycrus tower and world of darkness are pretty faceroll. tech if you went after the 3.0 relic weapon you would of had to unlock them anyways. Half the time when i queue alliance raids these three come up all the damm time. That is the major con having to do these thing for that queue. When i get lucky i get void ark series or ivalice.

Yes with these three you normally don't have to worry about mech most of the time.