WARNING: mild spoilers about dungeon content included

So I had a face-palm moment last night. I had just reached the Stone Vigil dungeon (lv.42) for the first time and there were two people, a PLD and a MNK, waiting at the entrance. They invited me, a WHM, to the party, and after recruiting a DRG we headed in. The tank gave me a friendly FYI up front, "I'm sorry Johannes, these dragons hit like trucks." So I prepared the best I could and we engaged the first mobs, with a full wipe to start things off. Not a great start, but we eventually got the place wired, and made it to the first boss. First try: full wipe at 90%. Second try: we got the hang of dodging the eye-blasts and fire breath, but wiped at about 40%. So we began reviewing our strategy before the third attempt:

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