Bozja is extremely disappointing (especially the 5.45 update)

[Deceptus]

It's amazing to me how the FFXIV developers made this new content for relic (Bozja).

And then proceeded to make the most efficient way to obtain said relic OUTSIDE the brand new content they designed. Content that is 5-6 years old at this point or more.

Who signed off on that terrible decision? Who actually thought that was a good idea?

[Seraphor]

It's amazing to me how the FFXIV developers made this new content for relic (Bozja).

And then proceeded to make the most efficient way to obtain said relic OUTSIDE the brand new content they designed. Content that is 5-6 years old at this point or more.

Who signed off on that terrible decision? Who actually thought that was a good idea?

They apparently though the new armour was enough of an incentive to run Castrum, and that because you were getting coins as well as a chance at memories, because you're getting all of the different types of reward from Bozja, than none of them on their own had to be the most efficient method.
100% chance of X outside of Bozja, versus 50% chance of X and 50% chance of Y inside Bozja.

Good news is they did the final stage of the current relic right, Delubrum Reginae is probably the most reliable and quickest way to get the timeworn artifacts, and the act of running it multiple times requires you to go back into Bozja to regain mettle and lost actions. Plus there should be a hotfix to increase the rewards from Castrum sometime soon.

[Avatre]

Good news is they did the final stage of the current relic right, Delubrum Reginae is probably the most reliable and quickest way to get the timeworn artifacts, and the act of running it multiple times requires you to go back into Bozja to regain mettle and lost actions. Plus there should be a hotfix to increase the rewards from Castrum sometime soon.

Definitely faster to do Delubrum rather than PoTD(at least if you go solo...) I tried that method, and got 1 of the artifacts going from 51-100, but the time between floor sets took much too long. At one point I waited almost 30min to get into there, I think the shortest wait was 5min, with the average being 15...at peak times too. And you only have a chance of them, which is probably the usual 5-10% chance of getting one. Sure, you could get lucky and get one every floor...but how many horseshoes do you have to be sitting on for that to happen?

As for Castrum...definitely looking forward to what they do in the hotfix Monday night. I just wish that some of the actions(particularly the essence of the skirmisher) would drop more often from the fragments. In 85 fragments, I got 8 of them...guess I won't be going as my main through there much more, but rather as a tank/healer.

[xbahax92]

As for Castrum...definitely looking forward to what they do in the hotfix Monday night. I just wish that some of the actions(particularly the essence of the skirmisher) would drop more often from the fragments. In 85 fragments, I got 8 of them...guess I won't be going as my main through there much more, but rather as a tank/healer.

Im really annoyed how badly they designed castrum. Its super unfun doing that raid with less than 24 ppl and still not being synced down to the actual participants. Bosses have the same HP, the adds that spawn are at maximum appearance. The AoE's that appear are still strong as heck. Im looking forward to that hotfix too but, seriously. It took them how many expansions now to figure out such content? Diadem? Eureka? Baldesion?

[Jennah]

Judging from the Live Letter, SE is well aware that the number of people with i500 relics who have 0 mettle is *huge*; as well as the number of people who never completed Castrum Lucus Litore.

It looks like they're going to stick to their guns for the rest of Shadowbringers and keep the relic bound up with Bozja, as well as have no other content to release for 5.55.
But hopefully they have learned for Endwalker.

Don't tie the relic to this nonsense! Don't spend so many development resources on this nonsense! Don't make this nonsense the only content for months on either side! Don't tie major bits of story to this nonsense! Seriously consider never making one of these again!

[Colt47]

I'm still going to say original Diadem was worse than Bazja. At least people are complaining about Bazja, no one even talked much about original Diadem.

[Hyperia]

But hopefully they have learned for Endwalker.

Oh you sweet summer child...

[KageTokage]

They really dropped the ball with savage Delubrum because there's even less reason to repeat it after a clear then there is Castrum.

Unless you actually care about getting the augmented law's order armor, there's virtually no reason to go back in there.

Even the Baldesion Arsenal comparatively had more reason to go back because the elemental bonus on the upgrades from there was much more potent then the tiny haste buff the Bozja upgrades offer.

[Vahlnir]

They really dropped the ball with savage Delubrum because there's even less reason to it that after a clear then there is Castrum.

Unless you actually care about getting the augmented law's order armor, there's virtually no reason to go back in there.

I rarely see groups forming for it, either. And when a group is recruiting no one really joins. If more people were active I might consider giving it a go. But as things currently stand...hard pass. On the plus side, potential Castrum fixes are possibly on the way, so hopefully I'll have more of a reason to run that.

[LaylaTsarra]

I rarely see groups forming for it, either. And when a group is recruiting no one really joins. If more people were active I might consider giving it a go. But as things currently stand...hard pass. On the plus side, potential Castrum fixes are possibly on the way, so hopefully I'll have more of a reason to run that.

i would go with discord it's what I'm planning for a clear hopefully. I'm not in a rush though so we'll see how that goes but I suspect it'll be a bit like BA with people using that venue as opposed to trying to do it in party finder.