All Bozja content should be easy and the raids should be a roulette w/ big rewards.

[xbahax92]

It should be easy, though. It's the raids that die in a week, and the reason is the difficulty and excessive punishments for failure. FATES and CE's haven't had any real participation issues because people actually enjoy them.

It doesn't matter how good you are at this game, there's NOTHING you can do as 1 person in a group of 24 to make a run succeed. Challenging content is for statics, guilds and SOLO instances. It doesn't belong in Bozja and it is exactly what's killing Bozja.

In that case any new raid should be nerfed after day one, because people dont know mechanics yet. DR is on the same level as NieR raids. The only thing that seems unattractive is the mettle loss, which is... totally fine. You dont need mettle, your rank doesnt go lower. The only thing you'd need mettle is unlocking savage, which casuals wont do anyway.
Along with the Gabriel mount, new hairstyle, chocobo barding, etc as a RNG reward in DR + the weekly quest (gold coin) for the Judges glam; I doubt it will die anytime soon.
As Derio said, main concern should be the reward system.

[Goji1639]

In that case any new raid should be nerfed after day one, because people dont know mechanics yet. DR is on the same level as NieR raids. The only thing that seems unattractive is the mettle loss, which is... totally fine. You dont need mettle, your rank doesnt go lower. The only thing you'd need mettle is unlocking savage, which casuals wont do anyway.
Along with the Gabriel mount, new hairstyle, chocobo barding, etc as a RNG reward in DR + the weekly quest (gold coin) for the Judges glam; I doubt it will die anytime soon.
As Derio said, main concern should be the reward system.

People will care about the mettle loss until we know for sure that there aren't going to be any new resistance ranks or mettle requirements before Bozja and the relic end.

Getting rid of the punishments, improving the rewards and throwing both raids into a convenient roulette could save this. As it stands right now it's far less enticing and far more inconvenient than Alliance roulettes, which are the reason why most raids don't die almost immediately. DR will die just as fast as Castrum did; maybe faster because of the difficulty spike.

You've got that entirely mixed up.

Castrum is reasonably easy and there's no real punishment to the casual player. FATE's and CE's have higher participation rates because they're simply more rewarding for the time invested. If you're in Bozja for exp for an alt class and/or some relic Memories on the side Castrum is a waste of time for you.

I'd be running lots of Bozja raids if they were actually rewarding. Enix really overestimated how much people would care about the gear.

Castrum has the same excessive mettle punishments, which hurt casual players far more than hardcore ones. Given the time investment and punishments for failure the rewards would have to be absolutely phenomenal for most people to care.

I think simply making it less inconvenient and punishing is a more realistic goal than significant rewards being introduced.