Bozja feedback thread

[mangelinabrolee]

So far i'm loving the Bozja but there's a few issues I got with it.

1. No punishment for users signing up for Castrum and then leaving it after it started before even pulling the first boss. I've had 4 instances of this happening to me today alone.
2. The "Duels" seem overtuned. I've watched around 20 of them and not a single person got the monster below around 80% and were all one kit K.O.ed by the mob.

The Duel is optional and is for an achievement. It is meant to be extremely challenging and its cool seeing the guides on what actions you should bring with you.

with the castrum part that sucks. how full was the instance? I have had it where only like 15 of us go in to castrum so we just backed out and didn't take the mettle loss we knew we would get.

[Wyssahtyn]

Castrum needs to be actually queueable via DF or something so that we the players can actually guarantee a full instance for it. Spent all day just trying to get a run done and there were only two occasions wherein Castrum had enough people in it to actually attempt the first boss (only to disband after one pull because the time it takes to get all the stragglers partied up, mechanics explained, and everyone properly set up between top and bottom only leaves enough time for one pull when you only have like 24-ish random people of varying jobs). Every other attempt I had just did not have enough people join, whether it be because the other rank 10+ didn't care to queue for it or because yet again it ended up popping while everyone was tied up with a prior CE.

[Musashidon]

my thing is why is everyting pretty much 48 people when they limited the instance to 72? like if 2 48 CE spawn then one is failing for one of two reasons not everyone is participating and two 60% of the instance went to the first one so the second fight is 12 people.

[Gojin]

I think they already mentioned that you wouldn't be able to progress the weapon unless you finished the story in Bozja so the people who are neglecting to do so are going to be in for a rude awakening when 5.45 drops.

They probably wont even be subbed by then , they got their glow weapon and that's all most care about. See ya in expansion mot much matters til then. But if male viera isn't coming I'm not buying.

[Raist79]

WoL... Primal Slayer. God Slayer. Dies to one hit mechanics from random schlubs in duels. Everyone is Zenos level now.

Thats said, Bozja is better designed than Eureka, but it's also more lonely, imo, as I said in another thread. Groups don't form as often. A lot of times I can't get one or find people to invite outside of engagements. People don't interact as much. You call out a star mob and you're lucky to have 2-3 other people show up.

I feel like it gained a lot, but lost something in the process. The community. Now its all "Is Louhi (Castrum) up?" 24-7.

I feel the content was made to have us party up like we had to back on 11 to get anything worth while done. This game and the people who play it are alot different then what I'm used to on 11. There you were with your end game LS to do content and got used to one anothers strengths and weakness. But you could also count on others to help that were on the same quest etc.

14 is a whole 'nother world. It feels singular but in an MMO setting. Outside of a few FC, ls, statics and if you are lucky people you can rely on there is no community in this game. I'd say within a month two at max the area will be a ghost town until the next wave of people who want to clear it comes along. Get what ya can while ya can should be the motto of 14.

[Ryaz]

I've cleared Castrum twice this morning, did bottom first time and top the second. Its actually not really that bad. I can't seem to get any good dps essences, so I've been using Banner of Sacrifice with Essence of the Beast, which nullifies the hp drain. Gives me a pretty damaging opener.

I have zero interest in the dueling mechanic. Need Manawall for everything, need to be completely perfect with no real way to learn the fight without being selected, which is rare in itself. If you you do prove yourself worthy to get in, the chances of actually do so are slim.


It is grind as all hell, though. You need dedicated cluster farming groups, chest drop rates are terrible when you get fireworks 90% of the time. Its Eureka all over again in that regard. It wouldn't be as bad if the Resistance Weapons weren't more easily gotten outside of Bozja.

[Driavna]

I've cleared Castrum twice this morning, did bottom first time and top the second. Its actually not really that bad. I can't seem to get any good dps essences, so I've been using Banner of Sacrifice with Essence of the Beast, which nullifies the hp drain. Gives me a pretty damaging opener.

I have zero interest in the dueling mechanic. Need Manawall for everything, need to be completely perfect with no real way to learn the fight without being selected, which is rare in itself. If you you do prove yourself worthy to get in, the chances of actually do so are slim.


It is grind as all hell, though. You need dedicated cluster farming groups, chest drop rates are terrible when you get fireworks 90% of the time. Its Eureka all over again in that regard. It wouldn't be as bad if the Resistance Weapons weren't more easily gotten outside of Bozja.

Most of the stuff coming from lockboxes can be acquired via the market board. In my server, Gabriel mount is less than 2 million for example.

[Ryaz]

Yeah, I'm broke now. Down to 500k. Lol. Spent too much on housing stuff and glass. Need to get to farming/crafting to build my gil stash back up.

[RareItems]

It's a fun content, it has everything for casuals and extreme raiders. o: I hope SE keeps making more of these. My only complaint is maybe they should had made the HW fates drop the fragments at 50% chance and Bozja Skirmishes/Critical Engagements at 100% chance at getting a random fragment. It's been a long time since i actually logged in FFXIV and not get bored within 5 minutes lol.

[Koroem]

Anyone have a list of field note locations?