Quote Originally Posted by Daeriion_Aeradiir View Post
https://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/...812-06-2020%29

They put up official digest translations of their liveletters in a very official manner. Even in this digest, they reference this:

"The normal version of Delubrum Reginae will be required to complete story quests, and is similar to alliance raids in terms of difficulty."
"Players can upgrade their weapon after completing all 5.45 quests."

Considering the liveletter talks about new story quests in Bozja....it's impossible to interpret it any other way.

Even beyond that, the reddit discord has extremely powerful translators that not only do live translating, but also go back and solidify the translations later to clear up any doubt. bozja's story being required to progress the relic has been telegraphed for literal months now, both in an official and non-official manner. Anyone needing to have information cleared up has both an official source and non-official source both saying the same thing in 95% of cases.
That only mentions the story, though. That doesn't say anything about the story being required for resistance weapons, like where you linked. The first quest we get outside that zone. That's the problem I think. I definitely saw a lot of confusion where people asked "Is the Bozja story going to be required now?" and similar. The second sentence could be interpreted that you could get your upgrades in Bozja once you finished that story and you wouldn't see them there until you did if you got them in Bozja.

I think if they had used the terminology from your other posts ""Your resistance weapon can be upgrade in 5.45, but you need to finish the story including Delubrum Reginae normal" then that would have cleared up a lot of confusion. People would still be angry, but not feel they hadn't been informed properly on top of the change.