Stop Gating Behind Older, Less Popular Questlines and Raids

Now, as long as they don't lock anything behind *BOZJA* (or Eureka) ... we good.

Bozja has multiple instances of this. If you unlock it and start completing the story, you're going to have trouble getting enough players to run Castrum in the Southern Front. Then after that Delubrum is another gate where no one plays it anymore and it's rare to get enough players to attempt it. After that there's also Dalriada. SE definitely needs to go back and touch up the entire Bozja section since there's rarely enough players who are around to complete some of these for newbies just trying to catch up.

The story for the Ivalice raids was alright I thought, the weakest of the Raids so far story-wise but it was OK. I really loved the actual Raids itself though and the environments. That was wonderful. Anyway I actually like how FF14 does kinda really try and get you to do its story content. Its rather refreshing for a MMO to do that. Plus whilst I may not be the AR’s biggest fan story wise, it does connect and help enhance the Bozja stuff which has one of my favourites stories in the game. I think perhaps SE should look at perhaps easing the Raid a little, now its no longer run for gear or gameplay and just the story/progression.

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Originally Posted by Jennah

Now, as long as they don't lock anything behind *BOZJA* (or Eureka) ... we good.

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Can you imagine if the next Matsuno project will require you to do the Ivalice raid on top of Bozja?

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Originally Posted by Padudu

I cannot wait for the day they rework the Crystal Tower raids so people finally have to pay attention to mechanics lol

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That would be easy to do by syncing it to minimum item level.

The Bozja story content is a narrative sequel to the Ivalice raids, so it makes perfect sense that the latter would be required first; I don’t see why this is a major problem.

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Originally Posted by shadowclasper

No, I really do not like this idea, like, at all. Please, keep story gating content. Maybe streamline some of it, but never fall into WoW's habit of just letting people skip the story because then the story won't ever truly matter.

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I agree with you, but on OCE you can't even do the raid at all not even a first time. I waited once for 3 hours and it never qued. Hopefully the server will fill up so we can get past this road block

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Originally Posted by sagacious

I agree with you, but on OCE you can't even do the raid at all not even a first time. I waited once for 3 hours and it never qued. Hopefully the server will fill up so we can get past this road block

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I think I actually did get into the Ivalice raids via DF on my Sophia alt after a fair bit of waiting, but in any case the main way of getting through them is the PF. There are very regular parties for all three raids, sometimes Mhach as well. I'm not up to NieR but I assume there will be parties gathering for that too.

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Originally Posted by SherlottaEryut

It's a fun raid, and by far my favourite in all of XIV. As someone already suggested, maybe try out tanking and healing? The que times are significantly shorter so it's not as much of a wait.

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Minor correction: alliance raids are the one area where tanks don't get queue privilege (and where DPS have a comparatively faster queue -- at least by DPS definitions of "faster"). A given alliance raid needs 24 people to pop: 15 DPS, 6 healers, and only 3 tanks.

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Originally Posted by myahele

Can you imagine if the next Matsuno project will require you to do the Ivalice raid on top of Bozja?

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I hope Matsuno will never get another project. Cold reception of Bozja might ensure this. I don't care about XII in my XIV.

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Originally Posted by Azuri

I hope Matsuno will never get another project. Cold reception of Bozja might ensure this. I don't care about XII in my XIV.

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But I want to go to Dalmasca! The tiny glimpse we got during one cutscene in the Bozja storyline only served to whet my appetite to actually go there!

More seriously, I actually do know a lot of folks who liked Bozja; being content with it, they didn't bother to post in the threads where people were complaining about Bozja. I get the impression that Bozja's reception wasn't as cold in the playerbase overall as some threads would suggest. (Which is always the case with a feature; the folks who are content with it are less likely to post than the ones who have complaints.)

However, the fact that we're seeing so many references to Corvos in the MSQ in general makes me think that any exploratory zone we get this expansion is likely to be Corvos, not Dalmasca. So I suspect those of us who do want to continue the Resistance storyline in Dalmasca and Bozja will be waiting at least an expansion for any opportunity to do so. (But hey, going to Corvos would also be great. Just please let me see the Anchorite if we do go there; I have lore theories about that thing.)

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Originally Posted by Packetdancer

But I want to go to Dalmasca! The tiny glimpse we got during one cutscene in the Bozja storyline only served to whet my appetite to actually go there!

More seriously, I actually do know a lot of folks who liked Bozja; being content with it, they didn't bother to post in the threads where people were complaining about Bozja. I get the impression that Bozja's reception wasn't as cold in the playerbase overall as some threads would suggest. (Which is always the case with a feature; the folks who are content with it are less likely to post than the ones who have complaints.)

However, the fact that we're seeing so many references to Corvos in the MSQ in general makes me think that any exploratory zone we get this expansion is likely to be Corvos, not Dalmasca. So I suspect those of us who do want to continue the Resistance storyline in Dalmasca and Bozja will be waiting at least an expansion for any opportunity to do so. (But hey, going to Corvos would also be great. Just please let me see the Anchorite if we do go there; I have lore theories about that thing.)

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It was cold enough that Matsuno himself admitted that there are no plans for continuation. I enjoyed the gameplay. The story was entirely forgettable.