Please make Boja Castrum a direct queue from Duty Finder

[Hyperia]

I have found that it is very hard to find a Boja Castrum run that is up within my playtime (2 hours on NA prime time) and its even harder to get a clear. Please put the Castrum in the Duty Finder so its possible to get a run in within a limited playtime and with 48 players to have a good chance of a clear.

[Catwho]

I've joined a Discord group that has planned out runs. So far it's been a nightmare. The run organizers are doing the best they can with a bad system, but here's how my experience tonight went:

- 4 parties, led by people who have cleared who volunteered to run it
- Password protected parties to keep non Discord members out
- Still fills up in 5 seconds because people are so hungry for clears and want a competent group (yay I finally got in one)
- have to keep jumping from instance to instance until they find one that has LL in a reasonable amount of time
- have to leave and requeue a bunch of times until everyone is in the same place
- this whole process takes an hour and a half to two hours, so if you missed the earlier time, better plan to stay up late for another one

The final point wouldn't be that big a deal; I ran Dynamis in the old days of XI and I'm used to 3 hour long raids. But even Dynamis's reserved instance systems with the hourglasses ensured everyone who needed to get in could get in (up to 64 people. Heck, I maintained a second sub to pass out hourglasses to my members who were late.)

[LaylaTsarra]

They've announced a hotfix for Castrum. Not sure when it's coming but it shouldn't be too long. They will adjust the rewards significantly I suspect and Castrum will probably fill regularly. We're going to have to wait to see what exactly they have in mind.

[Ariel_Valmont]

I've joined a Discord group that has planned out runs. So far it's been a nightmare. The run organizers are doing the best they can with a bad system, but here's how my experience tonight went:

- 4 parties, led by people who have cleared who volunteered to run it
- Password protected parties to keep non Discord members out
- Still fills up in 5 seconds because people are so hungry for clears and want a competent group (yay I finally got in one)
- have to keep jumping from instance to instance until they find one that has LL in a reasonable amount of time
- have to leave and requeue a bunch of times until everyone is in the same place
- this whole process takes an hour and a half to two hours, so if you missed the earlier time, better plan to stay up late for another one

The final point wouldn't be that big a deal; I ran Dynamis in the old days of XI and I'm used to 3 hour long raids. But even Dynamis's reserved instance systems with the hourglasses ensured everyone who needed to get in could get in (up to 64 people. Heck, I maintained a second sub to pass out hourglasses to my members who were late.)

Gating your runs behind discord would lead one to believe it has the opposite effect of getting more people to run castrum, you don’t need it to clear it.

[Hyperia]

They've announced a hotfix for Castrum. Not sure when it's coming but it shouldn't be too long. They will adjust the rewards significantly I suspect and Castrum will probably fill regularly. We're going to have to wait to see what exactly they have in mind.

They could add 450 Revelation tomes and I am not sure if they can get enough to do it. Time and time again I have tried and its always the same, not enough, wipe, mettel loss, rinse and repeat. This is feeling like it will be the first relic I have failed to complete since relics were released at the beginning. If they want more to do this, they need to look at the penalties. One wipe and its all over, try again the next time you can get 23 people to do it? Sigh... How did they not see this being a total disaster?

[KDSilver]

I've joined a Discord group that has planned out runs. So far it's been a nightmare. The run organizers are doing the best they can with a bad system, but here's how my experience tonight went:

- 4 parties, led by people who have cleared who volunteered to run it
- Password protected parties to keep non Discord members out
- Still fills up in 5 seconds because people are so hungry for clears and want a competent group (yay I finally got in one)
- have to keep jumping from instance to instance until they find one that has LL in a reasonable amount of time
- have to leave and requeue a bunch of times until everyone is in the same place
- this whole process takes an hour and a half to two hours, so if you missed the earlier time, better plan to stay up late for another one

The final point wouldn't be that big a deal; I ran Dynamis in the old days of XI and I'm used to 3 hour long raids. But even Dynamis's reserved instance systems with the hourglasses ensured everyone who needed to get in could get in (up to 64 people. Heck, I maintained a second sub to pass out hourglasses to my members who were late.)

We shouldn't have to join discord to run the current popular content to do basic clear for a relic weapon.
It should just play by itself.
I hope dev will adjust it with all these problem in mind

[Krotoan]

+1 for this and hoping whatever the "hotfix" they have planned is smarter than adding a couple rewards.

Going on 6 attempts, never above 17 people in the queue for it.

[Vercinotrix]

Same here. It's actually beyond awful being late to this.

[Jandor]

You should at least be able to queue from gangos, like delubrum, a daily quest for a bunch of mettle and XP would be nice too.

Hell, if they want to play it a bit conservatively, even a weekly quest that gives a bunch of XP and mettle would do. I'd at least queue for it once a week if it essentially functioned like a bonus leveling roulette.

[TalithaSolarien]

The hotfix will only add more rewards and this will change nothing. The whole system is broken by design (something SE noticed themself by changing that for DR). Unless they add a group finder and relent on the "2-pulls or you are out" for each boss nothing will change. This is content that ages incredibly bad, even by FF standards.