It might be just me, but it seems like the Raid damage in Dalriada has remained pretty consistent even with the mettle bonuses or maybe I'm blind, I just don't feel like any of us have gotten stronger.

Or maybe I need to wait till everyone is at least Mettle 10/10/10, right now I'm Valor 7 with all the lost actions I need to use as a Melee DPS, the highest damage I ever managed to pull off was 130k+ (Dragoon buffs for the win! + Duelist + Honored Sacrifice + Font of Power) in DR and I imagine it will go slightly higher when I reach Valor 10 but yet no matter how much I try to pull my weight that it still doesn't make a difference if nobody else is trying to put in that effort.

There was only one DR I did notice it went faster than usual, but just once.