Simply put: when I go into DR, I am prepared. I have a deep essence of the skirmisher ready; I always have my lost offensive abilities so I can drop the occasional 100k+ swing on the boss. I had a really hard time learning the instance the first 2-3 goes, but I always had my kit squared away.

I don't blame people for dying during DR - it's a very, very unforgiving raid when it comes to mistakes, and not recognizing patterns. But I am so, SO tired of seeing 75 or 80 or even 90-minute clears of the place because three quarters of the raid couldn't be chuffed to either farm essences, or spend a few hundred thousand gil on the market board to buy them.

And, honestly, seeing as the situation is not improving, and understanding that human nature (either a combination of inexperience or laziness) is not going to change, I'd like SE to never burden us with the 'borrowed power' of essences again. Don't balance PUGed content around relying on people to be responsible - don't do it. It's one thing to ask a coordinated group of folks in a FC-run dungeon to be accountable - if they aren't, the people in charge will sort things out to their liking. But to create a raid where you're asking a bunch of strangers to be answerable to others? Well, it doesn't work. And, in my experience - barring the occasional (glorious) 30-minute clear of DR - it doesn't work most of the time.

I'm not chain-running DR anymore; I have my first weapon, and I'm just doing a clear a day for emotions and artifacts. But my GOD is it a chore. And it shouldn't be, because when everything is working right, that place is damned fun.