Quote Originally Posted by Sforze View Post
Warzones can be pretty, look at these not currently active areas where WWI +WWII battles were fought.
Bozja is not meant to be pretty. It's an active warzone where high explosives akin to nukes have gone off. Look at the way the buildings are melted just past the Rank 5 aethereyte. It's supposed to be gritty, that's their aim. If they'd wanted to do beautiful high fantasy warzone, then they could have, but they're sticking with more brutal visuals for a reason.

The map is relatively small because the rate at which Skirmishes and CEs spawn is very fast when there are a lot of active participants in the zone. You literally won't be able to keep up with all of them, but you don't need to worry about keeping up with all of them, because the rewards across them are mostly universal. Once you know which ones are tied to CEs that are tied to duels, you can focus on those in particular to try and get into the duels. The CE fights and the duel fights are highly engaging because they are deadly, so it's not a snorefest either.

They reuse enemies everywhere in this game. Eureka used and reused enemies across every single zone, and only introduced a few new monsters here and there. Bozja has introduced the fox liger, among other things, and has introduced some palette swapped raid bosses as CE bosses ( The Patriot).

As for the insane tedium/grind/wait for the haste gear... it's really no different than having the completely randomized ultra rare drops from Eureka. None of them were required to clear even the Baldesion Arsenal. Never needed the 6th or 7th magicite stuff neither. It was all just bonus stuff, so if this is your favorite content ever, you can have the statistical edge on everyone else for your time investment.

The other stuff you label as odd choices has to do with Bozja's theme over other stuff. Its theme is war and military service. The threat of constant mettle loss is to make you want to improve and not die. Even then, it's not much of a loss for a single death. You can't rank down.

I don't think it's perfect. The joke that skirmishes are just another Fates rehash is spot on, but I view Bozja as leaps and bounds beyond Eureka in terms of engagement and fun. And I liked Eureka too. Enough to do it all the way to Hydatos on three separate characters. The gameplay for Bozja is much improved over it, particularly Lost actions vs. Mnemes. I love being able to sport around 3 or 4 phoenix downs on top of my buff/extra actions buttons. I love that I don't have to go back to the base camp to rearrange them for use every single time either.

I give Bozja an A-. B+ at worst. 87/100 easy The only things really holding it back are things like... taking 200k damage from a single DOT tic in a duel. I think that's a little much personally, but it may be rank dependent.