Quote Originally Posted by Chasingstars View Post
To level an alt class it needs to be 71 min. So if you start fresh with anything, you can't touch bozja with that class until you reach the min level for it. Once inside, you would want to get earrings from it (if you don't have the preorder from shadowbringers) otherwise its a slower leveling pace. And the fastest way to do that is bring at least a level 71 tank with an essence of the irregular, a lost reflect, and taking off all your gear so you deal more reflected damage back at sprites.

Which to get the Lost Reflects and Essence of the Irregulars requires farming mobs. Once you turned in 1000 appraised items you get the earrings that makes leveling 10% faster while also stocking up your Lost Cache with potions, phoenix downs, lost reflects, auto items (reraise/potion/ether).

And your encouraged to farm items instead of doing CE (including Castrum) anyway if you want things like Essence of the Ordained (or Profane), Lost Death, Lost Focus, Lost Slash, etc. Which if doing a bunch of prep work sounds familiar to Eureka, its not too far off.

As for the Castrum itself, most of the difficulty behind castrum is figuring out who goes top or bottom, then who goes where to free the 6 prisoners, then figuring out who is the 8-man party that goes fight the mini-boss. Its about as hard as normal Alexander otherwise, well except for Refurbisher honestly from the Alexander raid as if you don't have everyone understanding how to handle the Full-Metal Faust, then prepare for many wipes.
And? Wanna level a Sub 71 class? Go to HoH. Oh wait, that starts at 61, but you seem to be okay with that. Trying to level lower than 61? Go to PoTD. I don't have the earrings and I've been able to level several classes in there very casually from 71 to 80 while having a semi social life (thanks Covid) and working full time.

And all the stuff you mention after that is just bonus stuff added onto the alt job leveling experience. You know, the thing people use Deep Dungeons for. Leveling Alt Jobs. How dare SE give us more things to do to level rather than copying and pasting the same deep dungeon a third time. Shame on them. Shame.

If you want a copy and paste deep dungeon, then whatever. However defending a copy and paste dungeon by complaining about FATE farming, Lost Action Cheesing, and a 24/48 Man Raid is some real big brain 5head thinking.