Bozjan 5.45 - My opinion

[Packetdancer]

The problem with cll is the way you enter it, not necessarily the rewards. Rewards would be nice, but requiring two layers of rng (pop inside bozja + enough players in that specific instance of bozja) won’t be fixed until it is possible to queue into the place in gangos.

They could boost the rewards, but you’d still be beholden to the number of players with the time to run it in your instance. This is assuming you entered the instance when castrum hadn’t just popped, as well.

This, so much. As I've said elsewhere, I think they could alleviate a lot of the frustration by making three simple changes:

1. Either CLL and DR should award mettle for clearing the various bosses, or they should do away with mettle loss in those instances.

Either is fine, but having an instance with a punishment on failure and no significant award for success (other than "I cleared it and can continue with the story") disincentivizes people to go back and run it again (and thus help more people clear it). And I say this as someone who actually enjoys Castrum.

2. CLL's rewards should be upped/altered.

At the very least, increase the drop rate for the gear upgrades. The initial Bozjan gear is no longer the current 'tier' of Bozjan equipment, having been supplanted by Law's Order. In any other place in this game where we shifted tiers within content, the previous tier would've been made more accessible. (Crystarium gear, for instance, is a lot more easily obtained now than it was when it was the top tomestone gear.)

This seems doubly important for Bozja, given that the augmented Bozjan gear is literally one of the augment materials for the Law's Order gear. Increasing the drop rate of the previous tier's augment tokens would both encourage folks to run CLL for that gear, and to run DR for the Law's Order augment materials. I know a lot of people who aren't going to run DR to try to augment the Law's Order gear not because they don't want the augmented versions, but because they look at needing to augment the Bozjan gear first and look at Castrum's drop rates and the convoluted way to queue in (see next point) and go "yeah, no."

3. WHO IN THE FLAMING HECK THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD QUEUE METHOD FOR CASTRUM?

This is the big one. Even if you do the previous things to incentivize people running Castrum, the queue method is so counter-productive. You can only queue in every hour -- moreover, every hour offset by some effectively-random amount, based on whenever that particular Bozjan Southern Front instance was spawned -- and you are reliant on people in your specific instance of Bozja to queue in as well.

Even if you have 70 people wanting to run CLL at a given moment, and even if by some quirk every Bozjan Southern Front instance was aligned on when Castrum would pop, if those 70 people were scattered across 6 different instances, you could easily have none of those CLL pops have enough people to be viable.

Clearly they know this was a mistake, because Delubrum Reginae has a sane queue method (an NPC who functionally works like the Duty Finder). Castrum should be retrofitted to work the same way, and they should do that yesterday, if not sooner.

Yes, I'm sure that Castrum is harder to put in the normal duty instancing system because it appears to be implemented as just teleporting people to another part of an existing instance tucked away off the map so as to run a FATE with an extremely large radius. Hence why /shout still reaches people outside of Castrum. But I imagine that is not an insurmountable engineering challenge. I have no doubt it would be a hassle and a headache to refactor Castrum in that manner so that it functioned as a separate instance, I grant, but sometimes refactoring your code/redesigning your product/whatever is necessary to have it function effectively and I would argue that this is 100% most definitely one of those cases.

[TaleraRistain]

See Packet, I think you may have to split group 3 in two. Just because it takes that group a longer time to get the weapon, doesn't mean they won't use it. And there is usually plenty of time between steps for patches and the final step and the next expansion where that group could work for that over time and be ready for expansion release, using the weapon at each step. Especially if they didn't worry about their tome weapon as they went along. So I wouldn't dismiss them as just the glamour players. 2 and 3 are the two different paces that you can approach the content at but they often end up equalized by the end. 2 just gets it sooner so they gain the maximum benefit over that time from having each step completely quickly. And not forgetting that they gradually make steps easier over time.

I was ironically both sides of 2 on my animas. I went out hardcore for the first 3 or 4 and then dropped back to just finishing the rest on a daily more meandering schedule. But it was a good 5 months or so wasn't it? I'm pretty sure the meandering ones were all done by Stormblood release. Unless someone in 3 is starting right at that last patch, they could probably have caught up.

[SamSmoot]

First of all, I want to say that what is going to follow is my impression and my thouthgs regarding new patch and the "new" Bozjan content.
I want to quote one of the best senteces I've ever heard in videogames: "Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is? Insanity is doing the exact... same fcking thing over and over and over again..."
This sounds like Bozjan, like Eureka, like every grinds.

Bozja sent me back to WoW, where I did the Shadowlands content (one character, no alts). Came back here, did the new story (1 day), then found I could farm the memories for my weapon upgrade by doing old FATES, which took a couple days. Now, I log in, look at my character for a few seconds, and log off.

Starting to do stuff around the house instead..

[Vahlnir]

Bozja sent me back to WoW, where I did the Shadowlands content (one character, no alts). Came back here, did the new story (1 day), then found I could farm the memories for my weapon upgrade by doing old FATES, which took a couple days. Now, I log in, look at my character for a few seconds, and log off.

Starting to do stuff around the house instead..

Kinda funny, really. I saw WoW's Shadowlands for what it was and it sent me straight to Bozja. lol

[Colt47]

That judge armor isn't even worth the pain. I mean crap I'd rather pug savage than do Castrum or the new raid they came out with.

[Vahlnir]

That judge armor isn't even worth the pain. I mean crap I'd rather pug savage than do Castrum or the new raid they came out with.

I'll get it all through the weekly, but I'm not that worried about it. It's neat, but there are other sets I like better.

[Asaeampan]

¨Could they at least not had removed the Crystal Tower Raids form the equation, it is overplayed already by people lvling and wanting to skip anything that can get a little bit difficult to the masses ( with exception of WOD )

BLOODY THIS, if you run alliance roulette you're going to get crystal tower in some form, this just makes it all the worse.