tl;dr If you're struggling to find the gear you need in the raid try doing only hard mode.
What is the best loot you've received from a single raid? On the advice of a friend I recently stopped doing normal and then hard. Skipping straight to hard mode gets you drops for both normal and hard at the same time. I know a lot of people are already aware of this but I'm hoping it is helpful to some who aren't. I also know that statistically speaking you should be less likely to get the items you're chasing because the loot table is bigger in hard mode (more items available to drop). Despite this fact it seems to work in my favour, and has done for others I've recommended it to.
Anyway my best was:
Boots
Chest
Gloves
Helm
Fatebringer
Timepiece
Aspect of Glass
Fight the RnG!
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2 visions of confluence Hardlight Praedyth's Revenge