Hotfixes

Is this the hotfix to make castrum more attractive? Are there any info what changes they do in hotfixes?

Well, Castrum now blows the rest of the battlefront out of the water reward wise as you get 100 coins per run and five loathsome memories vs. 26 coins and one memory.

Both the relic and augment grind will go much faster now.

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...1028269ebd5a96

Castrum Rewards Mettle Now?
Yes Please!

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

Well, Castrum now blows the rest of the battlefront out of the water reward wise as you get 100 coins per run and five loathsome memories vs. 26 coins and one memory.

Both the relic and augment grind will go much faster now.

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Now we just gotta see how much the drop rate for the Memories increased for the optional FATE grinding step (I'd rather do that than spam Alliance Raids).
100 Coins is pretty nice, though...

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Originally Posted by Zanarkand-Ronso

https://na.finalfantasyxiv.com/lodes...1028269ebd5a96

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Omg yes please!!!
I'm so glad this will be applied!!!

See ya' people in BSF!! <3

Castrum can be used to level classes now as well.

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Originally Posted by KageTokage

you get 100 coins per run

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It says a "maximum" of 100 coins, not guaranteed, but then I gather that 26 wasn't guaranteed before either? I only did it once.

thanks for the answers :)

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Originally Posted by Iscah

It says a "maximum" of 100 coins, not guaranteed, but then I gather that 26 wasn't guaranteed before either? I only did it once.

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I think thats partially factored in how many prisoners you saved after you storm the Castrum before the 2nd Boss

I still see nothing that makes me want to run Castrum again to be honest.

Hopefully other people feel differently so more people can get their clears now though.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

It says a "maximum" of 100 coins, not guaranteed, but then I gather that 26 wasn't guaranteed before either? I only did it once.

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To get the max amount of coins you need to successfully rescue all prisoners. (at least that's what I've been told, only did Castrum 3 times and never grinded for coins)

Likewise, these rewards are not what "sub casual" players like myself were looking for.
Coins, don't really care for 'em since Tomestone gear is 10x simplier to get.
Mettle? Not aiming for Savage so unless it's like 50k Mettle, not worth the stress/repairs.

Make it a separate queue like Delubrum is, and thus have autogroup set up.
If you're not going to set role requirements, at least have a lost actions cache in front of the instance. Yes, Lost Actions help, unfortunately the "tank" Lost Actions are a pain to get (Rank S mobs, grind random mobs endlessly for clusters, or spend gil on the MB and hope the appraisal gets you the Incense Lost Action since it shares the same "token" with 6 other actions).

Could say "This content isn't for players like you". Which is true. But still is the gateway to stage 4 of the relic weapon. So still probably want some folks like myself to repeat it.

I hope they'll look at turning Castrum into a proper queue in the long term, and this is just an interim quick fix that doesn't need work beyond tweaking some numbers.

Disappointed they didn't ease things for the timeworn artifacts, it is by far and away the worst of any relic grinds. 15 DR runs is heavily draining, and a random chance in PotD isn't any better.

You get a box per prisoner saved for after the element boss.

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Originally Posted by Ash_

Disappointed they didn't ease things for the timeworn artifacts, it is by far and away the worst of any relic grinds. 15 DR runs is heavily draining, and a random chance in PotD isn't any better.

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I've been pretty lucky with PotD drops for these, I'm at 11/15 from 2 DR runs and maybe 20-ish PoTD 51-60 runs. But random is still random so you could go 10 runs and not get anything I suppose.

I'd much rather be doing DR than PotD but I think people are running it so often one after the other (someone in my last group mentioned they were on their 65th run) that their Lost Actions are drying up fast, so even on a perfect run with no wipes and minimal deaths it takes a long time to complete now.

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Originally Posted by Ash_

Disappointed they didn't ease things for the timeworn artifacts, it is by far and away the worst of any relic grinds. 15 DR runs is heavily draining, and a random chance in PotD isn't any better.

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It's too early for that and earning a relic should involve some work. My biggest problem is the second step and ST for that matter. Getting 15 in zone of the loathsome seems pretty easy and in zone is where you should be able to get those. The other memories for the 36 remains to be seen relative as to the drop rate from CE's.

I was hoping we'd see an increase in the drop rate for yellow/blue/red/green but the patch notes seem indicate that isn't the case.

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Originally Posted by Ash_

Disappointed they didn't ease things for the timeworn artifacts, it is by far and away the worst of any relic grinds. 15 DR runs is heavily draining, and a random chance in PotD isn't any better.

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Ugh, you are NOT kidding! I currently have 8 and I am just SICK of it! I tried to do two a day and it's just too much with each run taking 45 min to a hour. I cut back to one a day to make it more bearable.

At least mettle is very easy to get back at level 15 from dying too much. Reading the patch notes, I was actually surprised they upped the drop rate in the zone more. Farming for mettle, I was getting a ton of drops from the fights before the patch, far more than when I did it to grind to 15 months ago. I guess it will be even more now. LOL

New rewards will certainly help, for now, but this is no where near future proofed enough. Think once new bozja zone drops in 5.55 we'll probably see the issue come up again.

How much exactly was the drop rate increased for vexatious and haunting memories from FATEs? 1%? Did 3 and still got nothing. -_-

EXP is a good addition, more people will be using Bozja to bridge the 71-80 gap, particularly in the future and Castrum not giving exp was definitely one reason it was ignored. Hopefully the exp is worth the time spent compared to just doing Skirmishes.

100 Coins isn't bad either.

I'm more disappointed to see no changes to fragment drops and no further uses for silver coins. We're just going to see less and less Essence and Action use in DR farm as players exhaust their supply and can't be bothered farming more.

50 Revelation tomes for Castrum if you're an 80. CE's drop 10 and Skirmishes 1 still.

Well they SOMEWHAT fixed the Castrum issue. I feel like they will do fixes in segments like how they tried to fix Pagos.
Anynow know the actual drop rate on the memories now? Even if it's not 100% for CEs in Bozja I will probably use it for the relics instead of all the CE runs...
It's a start, I think they still need to address some things still but they made some good changes.

I don't know if it's true given I don't have an R15 that isn't capped but was told by a friend that you get 81K mettle and 30k at R10. Can anyone confirm? Pretty awesome for people progging Savage given they lose a tons of mettle doing it.

It's a good start at least. Seems like they still want to pile people into old raids though.

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Originally Posted by Vahlnir

It's a good start at least. Seems like they still want to pile people into old raids though.

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I'm a bit disappointed that you can't get the RAB/VOID memories in zone. No clue really why they didn't at least make those a drop as well in zone.

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Originally Posted by Iscah

It says a "maximum" of 100 coins, not guaranteed, but then I gather that 26 wasn't guaranteed before either? I only did it once.

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50 from the last chest.