Castrum is dead. Please do something, Squenix

[Waterscape]

Being casual don't mean you have to be bad at the game just stop . People in castrum can't even avoid basic aoe give me a break.

[Shinklet]

I can bang out my 50 runs in a week because I can use discord to queue 2 parties of not even competent people, just people who are willing to listen to voice calls and get them into the same instance and easily divide them up to get through the gate fight and even rescue all 6 prisoners easily.

It's such a low level of competency that the average player doesn't meet. The mechanics themselves are normal tier difficulty, but good luck finding someone that'll step up as a leader and take the time to organise it for you.

You can argue it's square's fault for fostering and catering to a pretty lazy playerbase but my only critique is that they made castrum easier than BA because other players struggled.

[LaylaTsarra]

You can argue it's square's fault for fostering and catering to a pretty lazy playerbase but my only critique is that they made castrum easier than BA because other players struggled.

I'm sure discord is an option. It worked real well for BA BUT 3rd party services shouldn't be the mech by which people queue for a clear content. This I do believe was an attempt to make queuing for the content in game but they screwed it up big time by messing up the incentives for doing the duty. One of the biggest complaints about Eureka and BA was that it wasn't really doable in game and needed discord to accomplish it.

Right now Casturm is failing big time and personally I'm surprised it's taking SE so long to hotfix it. I'm sitting right now in Borza on Crystal DC with 2 people queued for Castrum at 2:30 minutes left to join.

[Shinklet]

I'm sure discord is an option. It worked real well for BA BUT 3rd party services shouldn't be the mech by which people queue for a clear content. This I do believe was an attempt to make queuing for the content in game but they screwed it up big time by messing up the incentives for doing the duty. One of the biggest complaints about Eureka and BA was that it wasn't really doable in game and needed discord to accomplish it.

Right now Casturm is failing big time and personally I'm surprised it's taking SE so long to hotfix it. I'm sitting right now in Borza on Crystal DC with 2 people queued for Castrum at 2:30 minutes left to join.

Nah, hard disagree, big group content has always required voice coms or an external factor in some shape or form, in every mmo ever. There's a wow guild of people who are literally deaf and they're all on discord even still.

The main mechanic is co-ordination and it's the easiest one.

[LaylaTsarra]

Nah, hard disagree,

You're welcome to disagree but I'm not convinced. It's not something that should be required sorry. BA is was necessary but this is certainly more than doable if they didn't screw up the rewards structure. A hotfix is incoming and you're more than welcome to push discord, I used it significantly for BA, but it isn't necessary here or should be necessary for this content.

I've got 6 toons who cleared Castrum with it before the hotfix (probably close to 16 clears given some have cleared it 4 times) without using discord and there isn't one that could have cleared BA without discord and I have 8 toons with marbles.

[Shinklet]

. It's not something that should be required sorry. BA is was necessary but this is certainly more than doable if they didn't screw up the rewards structure. A hotfix is incoming and you're more than welcome to push discord, I used it significantly for BA, but it isn't necessary here or should be necessary for this content.

I've got 6 toons who cleared Castrum with it before the hotfix (probably close to 16 clears given some have cleared it 4 times) without using discord and there isn't one that could have cleared BA without discord and I have 8 toons with marbles.

Tell that to JP who farmed BA without discord and good luck pugging castrum, assuming enough people join to begin with xd

[LaylaTsarra]

Tell that to JP who farmed BA without discord and good luck pugging castrum, assuming enough people join to begin with xd

Were taking North America and Eu... lol. You work for discord is that it. Please stop. How many BA clears are there in NA without BA I'm waiting. And Castrum will be fine once they fix the rewards structure it was fine before the hotfix.

[Shinklet]

Were taking North America and Eu... lol. You work for discord is that it. Please stop. How many BA clears are there in NA I'm waiting.

It's okay if you're embarrassed about struggling with normal and 24 man tier difficulty fights, no need to let the forums know about it, I can give you a link to the na castrum server if you'd like

[LaylaTsarra]

It's okay if you're embarrassed about struggling with normal and 24 man tier difficulty fights, no need to let the forums know about it, I can give you a link to the na castrum server if you'd like

I'm not embarrassed in the least except for you and the silly responses you're making about clearing BA without discord and I don't need the Castrum discord to clear the content tyvm. I have confidence another hotfix is coming soon to fix the reward structure.

[Lunalepsy]

Do you still have to go through those insufferable cutscenes? Yes? Ok. Next!