Delubrum Reginae is dead.

[HisShadowX]

The devs thought Bozja instances (Castrum, DR and Dalriada) might receive BA popularity during live and post EW launch, but the reality was always obvious.
I don't understand why they pushed it outside the duty finder. It could easily have its own roulette that keeps the content active.

Because FF11 people like going shouting for a party lol This is the way FF11 people like it taking hours to do anything. This is why no one is there.

[Kranel_San]

The people who want to relics for glam purposes are already doing it/done with it, and there really isn't much to do in there other than farming the loot crates, which don't have much of note in them that you can't RNG from the GC loot boxes(I got the mount that normally comes from the Hydatos bunny boxes from the GC box a couple months ago myself, so less reason to do bunnies really).

Gil and exp and maybe tomestones (Poetics) go a long way.
Speaking from experience. Why do you think some high lvl players do Prae on a daily basis to this day?

[Rein_eon_Osborne]

The devs thought Bozja instances (Castrum, DR and Dalriada) might receive BA popularity during live and post EW launch, but the reality was always obvious.
I don't understand why they pushed it outside the duty finder. It could easily have its own roulette that keeps the content active.

At least in Aether, BA runs are still happening at daily basis. Once or twice at minimum. That raid alone has a decent, handsome reward that incentivize replays unlike the likes of CLL, DRn, DRs and Dalriada.

[Avatre]

Gil and exp and maybe tomestones (Poetics) go a long way.
Speaking from experience. Why do you think some high lvl players do Prae on a daily basis to this day?

Speaking from experience, if it weren't for the moogle tome event going on right now, a fair amount of those people running Prae wouldn't be in there. Especially those who have nothing left to level. The added incentive for them to run it is, in fact, the moogle tomes.

I personally never touch MSQ roulette once everything is leveled, and by the time 6.1 comes around, I should be done leveling the last few jobs I have to level, so if it weren't being changed at that time, I wouldn't be entering it unless there is another moogle tome event.

So, the EXP you get from Bozja will be flat for those people, most things they can get, currently at least, with Poetics will be useless to them as they likely don't have much need for those low ilevels to desynth, and as for gil....well, that is barely needed for most things, and wouldn't likely incentivize the people who would go in there enough to actually go for it. If they added outside EXP to Eureka, maybe it would incentivize some people for their level 70s, but not enough to bring a large group.

They need to really add more to those places to draw people back into them.

[Faafetai]

Me and my partner are going to attempt to duo this due to being able to, it may require tricky boosts to damage or certain essences but if it as anything near the castrum level of difficulty it should be doable with an 8 man team or even 4 unsure about duo but do wish to try. The fact I can be gunbreaker and get a damage boost and have a heal or rez just makes bozja amazing to me.

I just got to this part of the game late of course because I tend to go through the game at a slower pace to experience pretty much all of the content and take frequent breaks from different things in the game to do other things. I know there were a few party finders up for this, but do still wish to try and see if its doable. It is probably the same with Eureka I would imagine and also hope that wont be too hard to experience. I know much of the community goes through phases similar to other games were many will get excited and wish to go back to doing content many would consider old or outdated because they were fun.

I know personally when I seen someone in chat mention they wished to run the castrum lacus litore. I would join when I was there so they had an extra person because I wanted to learn the fights better and the layout of the place. It was also a test of if the players inside could do it. That first fight with the two bosses if your team was full of spuds you would not be stuck there the whole duty and be booted out.

My first few runs were very enjoyable, one of the however was full of this weird clicky group that refused to communicate or party up because me and a bunny boi were not in their friend group. So we went up top and kicked booty while their 6 stack went down stairs. We kept them informed of the percent of the boss and told them they needed to be killed near the same time. They didn't speak at all and killed the boss without saying anything. They wondered what happened when we enraged because we had ours at 10% and they had killed theres already 3 minutes ago and said nothing. After it reset they all left without saying a word. Oh I almost forgot you need to know about having at least the starter essence dps boost I feel if you wish to do it which you can get from killing the mudpuppies amongst other things, so if you enter with a group who doesn't care to use them well that is on them. I feel you do need those in order to progress with a under manned party most likely this way for Delubrum Reginae.

[VerdeLuck]

There are Discords for Eureka and Bozja based content, I know Crystal do DRN fairly regular.

Those discords fall outside of TOS, so you're pretty much at the mercy of their own moderation and rules. It would be better if outside groups like that weren't needed to complete content that's not considered high end content.

[Jennah]

Eureka and Bozja were a mistake.

[gotaname1]

Eureka and Bozja were a mistake.

i disagree with a little nuance: the way they were implemented was a mistake because of the lackluster accessibility, ironically requiring third party tools to stay alive.

[Daeriion_Aeradiir]

The issue is not survival, nothing kills you but you just don't have the damage to finish the raid before it times out, half a dozen is probably the minimum sensible number of players. I tried it with 2 people and while my gunbreaker could tank indefinitely we just couldn't kill stuff fast enough.

Except Delubrum Reginae has been 2-manned in less than an hour, including with deaths from some messed up stack markers killing the SGE (Not even the fastest they could go, since the RPR was missing 3 damage valor stacks):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjTSrEg-coA

And by a WAR solo in 2.5hrs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sq1qxViEQ1I

I've even 3-manned it with a friend and one brand new rank 11 friend who was dead half the time to help them get their clear, though it took us a bit closer to 1 hour & 20 minutes. Pure Essences + valor stacks + using banners/fonts/super skills like blood rage Makes low man DR clears pretty easy, if not just time/gil consuming.

Don't get me wrong though, I do believe DR could stand to have the strength of its echo increased, but low man DR runs are far from impossible currently, and can easily be sub-1hr if people juice up on essences & actions and are half decent at their job rotation.

That all being said, as others have mentioned in the topic, queue around primetime of your server's region, or go to PF, be patient and grab an 8-man party to queue with are your current best options. Or if you're just farming timeworn relics, you can try your luck in Palace of the Dead.

[Deveryn]

DR isn't quite dead, but it may take some time to queue, especially with things like tome events and people doing reclears. It's far better now with fewer people being required to run it.

i disagree with a little nuance: the way they were implemented was a mistake because of the lackluster accessibility, ironically requiring third party tools to stay alive.

These third party tools have been in use for years and have been a requirement since before XIV.

Accessibility isn't great for eureka, but they've taken steps to make things easier in bozja and will likely take the lessons learned into the next battlefield.