Had a good run of hosting Standard; got 5 wins a row without anyone <4k joining, and even got some 8k and 9k folks.
Last 2 times did kill the boss without breaking their hands though...
now to do 121 blazions and get the heck to sleep before the reset tempts me... I couldn't sleep last night as is so staying up for the raid as a result didn't help, hah
(EDIT: well, that's a second Pele and enough orbs to get Cel her buff skill; should maybe upgrade Pele and put her on Verica now...?)
Thanks for the helpful replies.
I have one more very important tip that I saw this morning, and it helped a lot just now, that I forgot to tell you because I wasn't doing it enough myself before that...
Using skills gets you some invulnerability, and that applies for your entire team. If you try to keep a skill on hand, you can time it (which isn't that hard, at least on Standard) to protect everyone during, say the boss's big yellow circle spin attack; this will make things much much easier for you by making you have to care less about how the AI is doing. And it's annoying to try to get out of those to begin with, so it's helpful for your own HP too. You build skills really fast when you're going all out on the boss; thanks to that and dodging their attacks I had like a 50-60 combo going at points.
(Note that this does not apply for purple attacks! You need to physically be out of the way to not be hurt during those.)
That being said, still keep an eye on your healer at times. There was a time tonight where I noticed Orsem had about half health; popped over to Verica and the AI was sitting on both healing skills full for some unknown reason...