You wait 1 hour, Castrum pops up, Not enough join cause its worthless, Repeat

I dont even care about the rewards.
Castrum was fun enough that I wanna run it more. Especially since it's got a lotta different paths it looks fun to replay.
Yet... I've only been able to get into it once.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

The only thing I can really suggest is keep trying. I got lucky eventually. Just need to be in the right place and time. I think the accessibility was a step in the right direction in ways that BA was not, but there needs to be more incentives for veteran players to run the instance.

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Oh I will ! Better get that quest done and get those glamour !
I'm not the type of person who give up that easily (I do get frustrated tho). ^^'

But yeah, I agree. It should be more attractive to veteran players to run it, a bit like roulettes are, if I were to pick an example. So it helps both sides, veterans and new players.

I'm guessing they think the deep essences are incentive enough somehow, but nah, not really.

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Originally Posted by Vyrerus

I'm guessing they think the deep essences are incentive enough somehow, but nah, not really.

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See this is their exact line of thinking. It's not enough SE. Stop making this content difficult to run because no one has the motivation.

Personally don't care about the almost-guaranteed mettle loss
don't care about the lack of exp
don't care that the coins are basically "better" to farm from skirmishes.

I do care that I get field notes which I can convert to violet starboxes. Would rather not get anything at all then yet another albeleo notes. Why are violet stars basically in the loot table for castrum?

Castrum is as difficult as any normal alliance raid.
You just need to communicate to split the joining player 50/50 for the first boss.

But they should really increase the reward for a story relevant dungeon.

Your best chance to get into castrum is with a discord group.
On light we got one who does some organized runs.

Out of my last 12 castrum attempts 0 have made it past the first boss and less than 10 people join it.

This is incredibly frustrating. Squareenix please.

The only change they made to castrum was guarenteeing a memory drop from it. Something that old raids get you must faster and you don't have to wait an hour in queue for. This is ridiculous.

Got a bit of a miracle clear with 28 just a bit ago. Wiped several times -- that's an expensive Mettle fight. Given the necessity, though...

I got a lucky run with 32 people on Friday, spent rest of weekend just trying to max out lvl in there ha shave seen less than 15 queue up since...