Bozja is extremely disappointing (especially the 5.45 update)

[Xaphire]

Some people legitimately enjoy Eureka and have been actively enjoying Bozja. I had a lot of fun with Bozja and the Castrum instance. It was fun going in with a group of 8 and managing to more or less save 4/6 of the prisoners with our 8 players while getting the masses to go do the other two.

I'm looking forward to seeing the new stuff whenever I get home from work and can actually play for a bit.

Just because you don't like something doesn't mean there aren't people who do enjoy it.

[Raltar]

We were in there for 2 hours. Even without the dying we'd have shaved off about half an hour, tops. Yeah, it's new and people still have to learn, but having 6(or was it 7?) full-fledged, mechanics heavy, big HP pool bosses one after the other gets really tiring after a while. If you get a low-damage party through RNG that's only going to make it take even longer (since the game doesn't care about proper party balance)

My party was literally 3 tanks and 5 DPS, and we had 1 healer in both other parties. It was silly.

The reason it was fun was because it was my first time, everything's new, and we had a few good laughs. Beyond that it's an insufferably long crawl with rewards that are barely worth running it for. It's like running an undersized Castrum; sure, it's doable, and maybe even fun if it's your first time, but it's going to take about half an hour longer than it has any right to and really drag near the end.

The mechanics introduced in it are cool, but legit, I'd rather have had just a second raid storyline rather than having to go through Bozja for these fights. It feels like it would've benefitted from that a lot more, especially with how these fights are actually designed (LOOKIN' AT YOU HOT/COLD)

Sounds like you were in a worse group than mine(and I considered the group I was with pretty bad) but we still finished in 30 minutes.

[Ammokkx]

Sounds like you were in a worse group than mine(and I considered the group I was with pretty bad) but we still finished in 30 minutes.

Depends entirely on the whim of the RNG, I s'pose. It felt like there just wasn't any DPS being pumped out despite the party being full of them.

Still, the amount of fights you have to push through is slightly ridiculous to me. They're also not very interesting outside the last two. Heck, I actually really like the final fight of the duty, but I don't want to run through all the other stuff again in order to get to it.

[Steviejd]

Some people legitimately enjoy Eureka and have been actively enjoying Bozja. I had a lot of fun with Bozja and the Castrum instance. It was fun going in with a group of 8 and managing to more or less save 4/6 of the prisoners with our 8 players while getting the masses to go do the other two.

I'm looking forward to seeing the new stuff whenever I get home from work and can actually play for a bit.

Just because you don't like something doesn't mean there aren't people who do enjoy it.

Exactly this. I understand if you don't like the content, it must be frustrating. But the devs can't please everyone all of the time and there is such a variety of content to do anyway that the game caters to more types of players than any other mmo imo.

And to the person who has said that YoshiP has too big of an ego...oh dear.

[Theodric]

Personally I think that one of the biggest issues with the game these days is that content is designed to either be extremely simple and bite sized or very grindy and tedious. Rarely is there any middle ground.

Let's not forget, Diadem was relaunched not once, not twice but three times - and even then, I'd say it's pretty subjective as to whether or not the third iteration got it right or not.

[Krojack]

So you've beaten savage? /doubt.

What does savage have to do with any of this?

[Rymi64]

But by far the worst thing to happen to Bozja is today. Maybe it was already explicitly mentioned, but I truly believed we were getting a new large-scale instanced zone today and I was very optimistic that it would fix my grievances with the Southern Front, but no. We got a 24-man instanced raid and that's it? And a 48-man savage version?

This is completely uninspired and, frankly, disappointing content.

The new zone is 5.55 not 5.45.

[Steviejd]

Personally I think that one of the biggest issues with the game these days is that content is designed to either be extremely simple and bite sized or very grindy and tedious. Rarely is there any middle ground.

It's subjective. To me Bozja is the middle ground. it's not simple and bite sized, there is some depth to it but it's not as grindy as relics have been before in 14 and certainly not as grindy as relics in FFXI, which I have a few of. I did like Eureka too, especially after a few tweaks, so maybe I am in the minority.

What does savage have to do with any of this?

It's Bozja content?

[TaleraRistain]

Exactly this. I understand if you don't like the content, it must be frustrating. But the devs can't please everyone all of the time and there is such a variety of content to do anyway that the game caters to more types of players than any other mmo imo.

And to the person who has said that YoshiP has too big of an ego...oh dear.

Maybe not an ego but he definitely has a deaf ear. People were screaming on the forums left and right that they hated being forced into Eureka for relics. And Yoshi is over there like "la de da, I don't hear anything". They persist with this arrogant idea that they can force people into this content by locking something highly desirable to an instance with a limited shelf life instead of giving us options like with previous relics.

[Greyhawk]

Maybe not an ego but he definitely has a deaf ear. People were screaming on the forums left and right that they hated being forced into Eureka for relics. And Yoshi is over there like "la de da, I don't hear anything". They persist with this arrogant idea that they can force people into this content by locking something highly desirable to an instance with a limited shelf life instead of giving us options like with previous relics.

If its not coming from JP, they hear nothing from NA/EU. That's absurdly proven time and again.