Castrum is dead. Please do something, Squenix

[Shofie]

If they just made Castrum give EXP people would still eagerly be doing it.

As it stands, if you die (and you probably will at least once or twice) you lose mettle, and running the entirety of Castrum doesn't award any mettle in kind, so I see a lot of people just not wanting to do it because of that. Just give a nice mettle bonus at the end, and boom, it'd help a lot.

[SnowVix]

Especially women like myself. I do not get on voice with people I don't know and I know many other women who won't as well due to the harassment we've gotten over the years.

double that for trans & nonbinary folks. i get on voice with randos and it's guaranteed misgendering for however long the content takes

And you shouldn't be able to hold more than 6 required for the quest at one time.

this is a terrible idea and you should feel ashamed for suggesting it

[Gobio]

Completely untrue. I raided in huge 70+ people raids plenty back in the 90s in EverQuest without any voice communication at all. We communicated in game. Wanna use voice in Savage with a set group who know each other, fine, but it's ridiculous to expect that people are randomly going to get in voice chat for what is purported to be content aimed at casuals. Especially women like myself. I do not get on voice with people I don't know and I know many other women who won't as well due to the harassment we've gotten over the years.

I quit just after plane of power, which was a full on raid expansion. I ran 5 clerics (all the retired ex-guild members) on 5 computer. All i did in all of those raids is
1 - have cleric follow main
2 - find a corner, all face wall
3 - wait until tank pull count down
4 - press 1 on each keyboard, 1 second part for every 10 second.
(repeat for 30 minutes)

of course you don't need a discord for that!

[LalafellDown]

I ran it 6 times already in 2 days. I noticed that there is a castrum queue right after we finished castrum. No one joined that one because the main group just did one. People run castrum every other one.

[TaleraRistain]

I quit just after plane of power, which was a full on raid expansion. I ran 5 clerics (all the retired ex-guild members) on 5 computer. All i did in all of those raids is
1 - have cleric follow main
2 - find a corner, all face wall
3 - wait until tank pull count down
4 - press 1 on each keyboard, 1 second part for every 10 second.
(repeat for 30 minutes)

of course you don't need a discord for that!

I was an enchanter. We had class specific-chats set up to coordinate our mezzes and charms, clerics had theirs to coordinate chain heals, etc. The main raid chat had instructions going out constantly from our raid leader. And we had our group chats for further coordination. And we would shoot the shit in zone chat or shout.

I had a face a wall a lot but that's because the lag was atrocious if you didn't, not because we weren't engaging. Not sure how you raided without communicating with your fellows. And it was a lot more engaging that sitting and listening to call outs.

[Iscah]

I quit just after plane of power, which was a full on raid expansion. I ran 5 clerics (all the retired ex-guild members) on 5 computer. [...]
of course you don't need a discord for that!

Well no, if you are controlling all five characters then there's not much need for "the player of each character" to use Discord to communicate with the others.

[Kienkarajo]

I just came back to the game after a 3-month break and started Bozjan this weekend, today I got to rank 10 and then I joined my first Castrum instance. Only 8 people joined, we didn't even try to run it and everybody left after 5 minutes, how am I supposed to clear this content if nobody wants to do it? Yesterday, when I was LVL 9 I saw in the chat two failed attempts to gather people for it so I came here to the forums to see what is happening and I found this thread. Not getting too many hopes about clearing this after reading, I don't understand what Square was thinking.

[AajaRyskaris]

Something does need to be fixed. I’m tired of people leaving too

[Curisu]

Castrum needs more and better rewards.
Like meddle and more of these coins.

I've done it a few times in week 1, 2 but it gets boring really fast.

[SturmChurro]

It seems this will be a problem. This is the last bit of catch up I need to do after resubscribing. I grinded out level 10 in a couple days, but it seems to pop incredibly slowly, and if it does it doesn't fill. If it gets a sufficient amount.. people leave, because there are too many of us new players. Quite annoying. Hopefully I can get this done tonight, or this weekend. Seems like pretty bad design for this story mission. You either do it early patch, or you never do it. For that matter, Borzja in it's entirety is bad design, honestly sucks, but that is another matter entirely.