Castrum, Delubrum, and Dalraida Trust?

I been in Bozja, throwing myself at the Castrum for 15+ hours and yet to complete "The Lady of Blades" quest chain. It's getting so bad that people are starting to recognize me at this point...Which is embarrassing.

I know people are busy with an expansion and stuff but The Front and Zadnor is full of players but no one joins or no one knows the mechanics. I love Hrothgar Lore and playing Hrothgar so I want to complete this quest chain so much, but the content is impossible...

Could it be possible to instance off Castrum and Dalraida while making a trust version of the three? Just make the Trust Avatars a bunch of Bozjan Soldiers or heck, the Gunnhildr blades for the Castrum! It's a great story and a quest worth experiencing but all the hard work that the writers and developers put into is lost cause doing the castrum is impossible. Seriously I been throwing my corpse at Castrum for the past 15 hours and yet to complete it once.

I will say this, I know how to do the Castrum, I done it hundreds of times and did the relic quest chain on three different characters. So I know how to beat the Castrum, Delubrum, and Dalraida.

Update: It's the 24 hour mark, (I slept don't worry.) and still yet to complete. I lost almost half my mettle (84k/157k) at this point but I am not giving up. Not much else I can do if I want to complete the Lady of Blades.

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Originally Posted by Bavyska

I been in Bozja, throwing myself at the Castrum for 15+ hours and yet to complete "The Lady of Blades" quest chain. It's getting so bad that people are starting to recognize me at this point...Which is embarrassing.

I know people are busy with an expansion and stuff but The Front and Zadnor is full of players but no one joins or no one knows the mechanics. I love Hrothgar Lore and playing Hrothgar so I want to complete this quest chain so much, but the content is impossible...

Could it be possible to instance off Castrum and Dalraida while making a trust version of the three? Just make the Trust Avatars a bunch of Bozjan Soldiers or heck, the Gunnhildr blades for the Castrum! It's a great story and a quest worth experiencing but all the hard work that the writers and developers put into is lost cause doing the castrum is impossible. Seriously I been throwing my corpse at Castrum for the past 15 hours and yet to complete it once.

I will say this, I know how to do the Castrum, I done it hundreds of times and did the relic quest chain on three different characters. So I know how to beat the Castrum, Delubrum, and Dalraida.

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I have someone whos trying to complete this for the questline and to unlock the other things needed for the relic. Its currently basically impossible without either your FC or a willing group to complete Castrum. And even if you get a willing group most people willing to do it wont know the mechanics and will wipe before it can be completed. consistently we get to the final boss but thats normally where the run fails and normally its with 20 people 48 is what it was designed for the Echo doesnt solve the issue. Honestly to fix this they need to take castrum and make it an alliance raid of 24 that has match making and is in the roulettes. Because no one will ever be able to get thier relic finished now if they are new even if just for glam. And its a real shame. Either that or just make it so when you hit higher level in bozja the quest gets skipped and the new one is available.

Something does need to be done though Im glad I have my relic completed but Its wrong that this content kind of alienates the new people wanting to do it.

This is also currently an issue with Eureka's relic grind its not tied to a quest but its getting people to do stuff that is basically impossible without premade groups.

I was rank 24 before EW and now that I hit rank 25 thanks to the huge Z3 groups I could finally do Dal. Problem now is no one is doing DAL, and it's impossible solo. I get some things should be "a memento of the time" and not given away for free, but it's locking out story content which doesn't feel right. Would be nice to have Trust functionality for abandoned content, or put it in the Roulette system; it's already level synced anyway. Aside from helping the player I also feel bad that all the hard work the Devs put in will just rot away.

Ok what I think would help is an adventurer in need bonus which is visible from the duty finder, even if you can't enter directly from there. On a daily reset you get a nice reward from certain field ops / CEs, and the roulette page tracks if this reward has been claimed since everyone looks there. Ultimately the system to enter Eureka and Bozja areas should be changed so that it's possible to enter directly from the Duty Finder.

The CE system would be difficult to rework, but I think in the future they should not create any new raids within field ops instances. The raids should always be external and use existing systems like the Duty Finder and options to commend and kick and join in progress. You should also be made to select some essence / logos actions in content where they are available, which means adding some free baseline options that are not limited in quantity so nobody is running empty.

Are you really saying you can't do this with 5 or 6 people? Last time I did Castrum there was only 6 of us. We cleared it no problem. The dungeon scales with how many people are in it and tbh we found it easier with fewer people than a full alliance.

It really sucks, i wanted so eagerly to get my Augmented Law's/Blade's weapons but now it's impossible to even do 1 Delubrum, and Castrum has like 3/4
Every queue ends up being 2-4 people including me

I don't expect a carry but i also know i'm not fully capable to handle all of this
It's not gonna be possible to duo unless you're a master and if you're a master at it already you probably don't need it anymore

''Then git gud''
It IS something i'd like to do, with i need enough practice but for that i need more than 1 run, videos can get me so far

People who have done it in Shadowbringers probably have experience done this like 100 times already, but me and others we've only cleared either 1-3 or none at all
and the only way to queue is manually queing specifically for it
It should definitely be put into the alliance roulette, if people have it unlocked, im sure they already have some essences in their inventory (to unlock it being at that part of the side-quest)

and maybe have another alternative way to get the items for the Relic, nothing easy, but perhaps being bought with other resources , maybe a rare drop from essences or a reward with nuts/bicolor gemstones (since they're now available in Endwalker outside of Novrant?)

They really need to increase the EXP Cas, DR, and Dal give to make them worth it compared to the fates in the zone that people just mindlessly grind out. It would be nice to use the bozjan clusters/coins on relic items at this point since they don't have many other uses really.

I just queued for DR, and when the max queue time hit, my total "raid" was me (whm) and a bard.

It's nuts to me that SE put in a max queue time but not a min party size... and I understand that many folks are either done with DR or dont' care about it anymore.

For those of us that do care, adding a trust option would be very welcome. And people clearing this content for the first time are now blocked from doing it at all unless they can round up a full party of people who know it well and hope for a clear...

I have done DR three times now since Endwalker hit.

Group of 3: GNB:WAR:RDM - Took forever. We struggled with the DPS check on the four knights. Eventually cleared but I lost of lot of mettle on the last boss since I only had so many cleanse potions.

Group of 4: WHM:SCH:RDM: DRK - All but me were new. I would have dropped otherwise, but wanted to get a clear for them. We eventually made it through.

Group of 5: GNB:RDM:WHM:RPR - Actually went smooth and with echo was about as fast as a regular DF run before.

My conclusion is that POTD is probably your best bet if you can do it for Timeworn Artifacts, or possibly DR through party finder.