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    znushu's Avatar
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    Vylesha Eumoilhar
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    Blue Mage Lv 70
    So far i'm loving the Bozja but there's a few issues I got with it.
    1. No punishment for users signing up for Castrum and then leaving it after it started before even pulling the first boss. I've had 4 instances of this happening to me today alone.
    2. The "Duels" seem overtuned. I've watched around 20 of them and not a single person got the monster below around 80% and were all one kit K.O.ed by the mob.
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    Last edited by znushu; 10-17-2020 at 11:36 AM.

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    Alijana Tumet
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    Cactuar
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    Ninja Lv 100
    Quote Originally Posted by znushu View Post
    So far i'm loving the Bozja but there's a few issues I got with it.
    1. No punishment for users signing up for Castrum and then leaving it after it started before even pulling the first boss. I've had 4 instances of this happening to me today alone.
    2. The "Duels" seem overtuned. I've watched around 20 of them and not a single person got the monster below around 80% and were all one kit K.O.ed by the mob.
    People generally bail from Castrum because they think there isn't people to finish it. At absolute minimum you'd probably need two parties of eight players as the first and third boss require two teams to be fighting separate battles but it would be rough and you'd get less rewards overall as the more soldiers you save before the second boss the more rewards you get; except you need six groups to split up and handle that efficiently as you're on a timer the moment the branching paths open up.

    As far as the solo fights go, considering how much rewards you get for actually beating one of them (99 lockboxes and a ridiculous amount of mettle on top of a zone-wide 50% mettle increase for 30 minutes) them being difficult is justified. It's mostly a matter of consistency because their mechanics start repeating after about only three minutes of combat and you have about nine minutes to kill each boss before they wipe you. My only beef with it is that it's exceedingly difficult for the people who are actually serious about beating the fights to get a shot at them with how many randoms are attempting them just for kicks without knowing what they're getting themselves into.
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    Last edited by KageTokage; 10-17-2020 at 12:23 PM.

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    Vylesha Eumoilhar
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    Quote Originally Posted by KageTokage View Post
    People generally bail from Castrum because they think there isn't people to finish it. At absolute minimum you'd probably need two parties of eight players as the first and third boss require two teams to be fighting separate battles but it would be rough.
    I've had 6 people leave at the same time just after it started without a boss getting pulled in an instance where the boss wasn't even pulled yet and the number of users reached 28 players and the only thing said in said instance was "lfg" and "which group is going top/bottom" an such. This is then followed by 3 or so players following them and the rest just tumbles down from there. So while i have also seen what you said, where there just simply isn't enough in the instance. What i'm referring to is when there is enough players but a number of users just ditch the instance before the boss is pulled. Making me think this is more of a matter of users trolling other users trying to do castrum, which is valid considering this is becoming more of an issue with less players doing it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zanfire View Post
    The thing is 1.0 where it ended was headed in a great direction imo....

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    Mangelina Brolee
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    Dragoon Lv 90
    Quote Originally Posted by znushu View Post
    So far i'm loving the Bozja but there's a few issues I got with it.
    1. No punishment for users signing up for Castrum and then leaving it after it started before even pulling the first boss. I've had 4 instances of this happening to me today alone.
    2. The "Duels" seem overtuned. I've watched around 20 of them and not a single person got the monster below around 80% and were all one kit K.O.ed by the mob.
    The Duel is optional and is for an achievement. It is meant to be extremely challenging and its cool seeing the guides on what actions you should bring with you.

    with the castrum part that sucks. how full was the instance? I have had it where only like 15 of us go in to castrum so we just backed out and didn't take the mettle loss we knew we would get.
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