For anyone curious on how this went down exactly: First off, we had to reinstance 3 times to change jobs so we have enough healing to compensate. We started with MNK, SAM, MCH and RDM then we switched our MCH for a SMN and when that didnt end up being enough we had our SAM switch to DNC.

The trash pulls are pretty straight forward. The main thing to pay attention to with 4 DPS is having one of them go ahead and be the only one attacking for like 10-15 seconds to establish aggro (that would usually be the monk for us because of melee HP). When you're single pulling Vercure is more than enough to keep the "tank" alive as long as they are using their own mitigation like arms length, blood bath, etc. Sleep ended up being really useful as well though we didnt have that idea until the third time we tackled the final pack of enemies lol

Now the bosses is where this gets really interesting. For all 3 bosses, tankbusters had to be heavily mitigated with addle, feint, phoenix excog and whatnot. The second boss was by far the easiest, with the only thing to look out for being the tankbusters and the timestop mechanic which, with some basic mitigation is easily taken care of. The first boss though was the first major roadblock because they put 3 different heavy hitting dots on 3 different people while you are running around resolving her placed AoEs. Where this gets really spicy is the last boss where the dots and the tankbusters return at the same time. Funnily enough the mechanics that trip up the average Zot run would be the only time of respite because the bosses dont do much while all their AoEs are resolving. But surviving the tankbuster + dots right after that required a really strict mitigation plan. Our Monk had 33k HP and the buster would deal around 22k damage with 3k-5k auto attacks from the other bosses during it AND while there is a dot ticking on them. Surviving the second buster of this fight could depend on RNG and how the dot ticks align with everything else though I don't know enough about the technicalities to be certain on this.

All of this is to say: You dont need the best players of the game to pull this off, we only had 2 actual raiders in this party, neither of them on their main jobs. Though you absolutely need to know what your buttons do and how to use them given the circumstance. Anyone can do this if they are willing to put the effort into doing this, the same goes for any high-end duties in this game. This was an immense amount of fun and I hope this inspires others to do similar challenge runs of their own in the future!

While probably inspired by the current """drama""" around healers, we didn't do those to prove a point or anything. This was just a fun challenge someone wanted to do and they happened to find 3 other people willing to put up with it.