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    KageTokage's Avatar
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    Alijana Tumet
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    I think there's been about five incidents now where Castrum decided to pop right after most of the instance queued into a different CE.

    There seriously needs to be an extension on how much time you're permitted to register, because one minute is absurdly short compared to how much time you get to prepare for the Balsesion Arsenal.
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    Player Seraphor's Avatar
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    Seraphor Vhinasch
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    Quote Originally Posted by KageTokage View Post
    I think there's been about five incidents now where Castrum decided to pop right after most of the instance queued into a different CE.

    There seriously needs to be an extension on how much time you're permitted to register, because one minute is absurdly short compared to how much time you get to prepare for the Balsesion Arsenal.
    This always happens from what I've seen.
    CE's seem to spawn in certain intervals, which almost always end up lining up with the Castrum pop.

    Castrum always triggers after exactly 1 hour into an instance. The countdown starts at 180 minutes, so Castrum will trigger at 120m left on the timer.
    Don't register for any CE's after about 128m. And if it's Choctober, just forget it. That always seems to pop around 130-125 and you will definitely not have enough time to do both.
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    Raegen Beaumont
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    Spriggan
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    they really need to do something about Castrum. it's required to finish the story part, so I should at least be able to do it. So far all I joined were ended cause not even 3 parties where present cause of people signed up for another CE. and apparently it's not even that easy So I don't expect to clear it first try
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    Eugene Tracewood
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    I actually enjoy Bozja. It's great move to combine 71-80 leveling, and Eureka like design for relics and such.

    Aside from sharing the sentiment on Castrum, I feel that Bozja clusters should drop from Fates and battlefields too. After a time, cluster farming parties will be less and less as I've been finding.
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    Alysdair Stormbreaker
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    I'm enjoying it, but I do think finishing Castrum should reward a decent chunk of Mettle - at least enough to cover a few wipes. Seems strange assaulting the enemy's stronghold doesn't help you with being raised through the ranks?
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    Edwin Li
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    Quote Originally Posted by Calixis View Post
    I'm enjoying it, but I do think finishing Castrum should reward a decent chunk of Mettle - at least enough to cover a few wipes. Seems strange assaulting the enemy's stronghold doesn't help you with being raised through the ranks?
    Considering this is their main goal and biggest operation they built every action done in the front to reach, Castrum should have the largest amount of Mettle reward in the entire Map with every boss and/or phase of Castrum rewarding a certain amount of Mettle with the final boss providing the largest Mettle reward.
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    Absenthine Starfrost
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    Quote Originally Posted by Deceptus View Post
    It literally is currently.
    Not even close. It's so bizarrely fast and easy it suprised me.
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    Deceptus Keelon
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    Quote Originally Posted by Infindox View Post
    Not even close. It's so bizarrely fast and easy it suprised me.
    For maybe 1 relic but for 17? You're doing 1020 FATES. That's the definition of a grind.
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    Veteran healers don't care if we need to heal, but right now we don't. We want interesting things to do during the downtime other than a 30s dot and a single filler spell that hasn't changed from lvl 4 to lvl 90.
    Dead DPS do no DPS. Raised DPS do 25/50% lower DPS. Do the mechanics and don't stand in bad stuff.
    Other games expect basic competence, FFXIV is pleasantly surprised by it. Other games have toxic elitism. FFXIV has toxic casualism.[/LIST]

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    Was in an instance last night for cluster farming and none of us were interested in doing Castrum if it popped because we had already cleared. When it did pop, there was quite a few people excited, but they didn't get enough to join. Because most of us were there the full instance time, this happened twice, because quite a few were there for just farming or were not rank 10 and couldn't anyway. Seemed like some people got burned in the same way from another instance as well.
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    Light Khah
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    Moogle
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    Arcanist Lv 91
    Quote Originally Posted by Infindox View Post
    Was in an instance last night for cluster farming and none of us were interested in doing Castrum if it popped because we had already cleared. When it did pop, there was quite a few people excited, but they didn't get enough to join. Because most of us were there the full instance time, this happened twice, because quite a few were there for just farming or were not rank 10 and couldn't anyway. Seemed like some people got burned in the same way from another instance as well.
    Yeah I did castrum a second time (since I saw that over 40 people had already registered..and it was such a smooth run) but afterwards I felt like it was not worth it. I did not get the missing information on that beastmaster and barely any mettle. I also dont need the armor..so for me I have no reason right now to even try it. In that time I could have farmed more of the other stuff. They really should give it some incentive if they make it mandatory for later relic steps..

    Quote Originally Posted by Azper View Post
    I think it's great in the sense that I literally don't even have to set foot in it to get my relics. I hated Eureka with a burning passion, so thank you SE for saving me the headache this round.

    Out of curiosity, I did go in just to check it out. It's basically Eureka reskinned in mud. Glad I'm not missing anything.

    See you in 5.4!
    Sadly some already said that there might have been some information that you would need to have finished Bozja to do the next step..I still hope that this is not true because then it would still be completely mandatory for at least one relic..
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    Last edited by Alleo; 10-18-2020 at 08:16 PM.

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