Going to stop reading my own thread (once again) because people have started what I consider the "trolling". Seems that the XI official forum crowd rub off into this forum as well..

In summary - Regardless what classes are alive or KO at the end of the fight - if a primal or instanced boss is dead, and one or more players are still standing, all members who participated in the event should still be able to claim their reward. Everyone participated and I am sure played their part in the entire fight until the end otherwise you just won't defeat the boss. Under this circumstance, the current system does not allow for this slight mess-up. Believe me I will always be carrying a GC item with me from now on, although I can't say the same for everyone else in this game, so I believe that either the time should be increased to 10 minutes (to allow for raise cooldown) or all players in the instance should be given a raise (as is already in place for final AF quests).