Bozja feedback thread

[ADVSS]

1. Castrum doesn't offer mettle, so your better off farming mettle outside the castrum unless you need it for the questline.
2. Castrum offers augmentations, but they are a low drop chance and are only for giving you haste (in bozja) and no other upgrade to your gear.
3. Castrum offers coins for gear and augments, but the small amount of coins you get are better off spent on getting regular gear pieces for each set (Aiming/Striking/Fending/etc) unless your really serious about saving the 500 or 900 needed for augments.
4. Castrum offers fragments, but most of the time for people new to it, you got unusuable items in your inventory until you raise your rank after the first go. And to raise your rank you need more mettle which means avoiding Castrum till your rank is higher.
5. Castrum offers fun fights, but if you don't know the mechanics and/or don't use an essence, your gonna be lying on the floor for a good portion of the fight. And each death costs you mettle.
6. Castrum offers 5 non-fragment non-coin rewards. Which are a minion, field notes, and 3 orchestrion rolls. But once you get those (or buy them) there is less incentive to keep doing the castrum.
7. The field notes especially, as that is akin to only 1 lockbox on subsequent times you get it which is half the reward for successfully completing a normal Critical Engagement but for more time instead. Which the 'Kill It with Fire', is one of the easiest CEs of Bozja has the potential to offer mettle, 2 lockboxes, and field notes which can be turned into a 3rd lock box for a fraction of the time.

So lets say you don't care about augments. What is the most promising reason to do Castrum after the minion, the regular bozja gear (from coins), the field notes, and the three orchestrion rolls? A title called Siege Liege. But that title comes after running it 50 times.

And to get to the point to do the Castrum requires sinking a fairly good chunk of time and effort into reaching rank 10 if you are starting fresh.

Maybe if the castrum offered mettle and lockboxes as a CE there would be more of an incentive to bother doing it. As Otherwise it seems like a bad time sink.

Best layman's answer on the entire issue at hand. I dont want to touch Castrum till 15, and even then theres a chance I could go into exp debt as people have coined it. Solo duels should just allow people to continue for the time limit, if nothing else. Sword of the Souths, shouldnt get priority rather be a last resort if too many noobs fail the instance within 30 seconds of it beginning. The fights may be scripted or difficuly, but hands on experience would change that altogether. Lets be honest about Castrum, its main rewards outside of story completion, is the initial gear itself. And upgrades if you're lucky. If you're rich you can just buy the upgrades. Sounds like castrum for the inital gear, and cluster farming until you're sicki is the proper way to do this content.

[KageTokage]

I've already seen some people with the Sword of the South title winning the duel queue, then either never entering or just killing themselves as soon as the duel starts, so I'm really hoping SE fixes things sooner then later...though I'll probably be finished with the ordeal by the time that happens.

I also really do not think the baited AoEs in the Red Choctober CE should apply vuln stacks because depending on how they're positioned, it can become literally impossible to avoid getting hit. I've seen the entire left/right safe zone during the line AoEs + exaflares get covered due to the meteors being spaced out just right, and the two tiny corner safe zones during Chocometeor Stream can also become completely covered by AoEs if people decide to linger there in advance. It's a rather stark contrast to the other two CEs where the behavior of other players has little to no bearing on how easily the mechanics can be avoided due to the arenas being much larger.

[Pyroboros]

Bozja was cool and Fun until i was ready to try the Duels.
I can no longer count how often i meet the requerments and then not got selected.
i had only gotten once into Gabriel.
This is contened some ppl will never even have a chance to try.

an example:
If 10k Player at a SucssesRate of 20% there will be on average 1 Player needing over 41 trys. 5000 will need less than 4 trys 2000 of them get it first try. The other 5000 Player will need more than 4 trys.

It makes me Player are not able to do contend not because they not meet the requrement but by simply having bad luck.

I needed 15 trys to get my first attempt at Gabriel. and since then i tryed to win the contend lottery 21 times and had no luck.

And it gets even worse as ppl try to lure u in aoes. I never get an Party inv whitout asking for it exept in the ones were u can get the Duel from. Never fall for this again.

And i don't even blame the ppl for not play fair. It is SEs fault putting an Unfair Mechanik in the Game. If its unfair in its nature ppl will react and be also unfair.

And for those stating Ramdomness is always fair. Bullshit
Sure RNG is fair.
But U can not exclude some ppl from Content just by Random Chance and say it fair cause the excluded ppl were chosen Randomly. It unfair even exclude ppl in the first place.

[Deceptus]

After a short session yesterday to get my rank 10, I had 11 lockboxes.

9 of them gave Indigo Stars.

I hate that system with the passion of a thousand burning suns. It's just insulting at this point.

[Raikai]

After a short session yesterday to get my rank 10, I had 11 lockboxes.

9 of them gave Indigo Stars.

I hate that system with the passion of a thousand burning suns. It's just insulting at this point.

I feel that... I would rather have lockboxes be rarer, but had a guaranteed decent reward in it.

But even at that, I managed to make a small fortune selling 6 of the 7 Gabriel mounts I could find in them, and I didn't actively farm those lockboxes, but yeah... getting so many indigo stars is horrible.

[Fawkes]

After a short session yesterday to get my rank 10, I had 11 lockboxes.

9 of them gave Indigo Stars.

I hate that system with the passion of a thousand burning suns. It's just insulting at this point.

This is one of the reasons I think Anemos was the best Eureka. They showered you in boxes, so even though the droprate was bad you never felt like it was impossible to get the mount from it because you could easily try 100 more times.

[TalithaSolarien]

After the last hotfix changes I can safely say that Castrum currently is dead content. Nobody is trying to do it anymore as Skimishes and CE's will give you coins. The only reason to do it would be for either the memory collectables and the augmentation. Few care about the first and the second has such a low drop rate that it essentially non-existant (30 run, 1 augmentation for a 20 min content that only spawns every 1 hour is not attractive). Add the fact that it neither awards XP nor mettle I can see why this not attractive anymore.
Being in a full instance and only 20 people register of which only 8 show up is pretty frustrating.

They need to fix this quickly or Castrum will die off fast.

[rxantos]

Just as predicted. It was fun for a small amount of time while people went in droves. Just as Eureka.
And just as Eureka. It stopped being fun when people stopped going in droves. It was the people and the chaos and not the content that made it fun. Story wise it was boring. Then again we where spoiled by Shadowbringers.

IMO it was a mistake to give the mounts on coffers. Or being able to sell them. Those should have been exclusives to people that actually won the duels.
The duels themselves should be personal duties for anyone to try on their own time. There is no reason to make them public, except perhaps narcissism.

I did like the concept of having everyone at the same item level. Enough to want it for duties. As a healer I do see tanks going underequiped on duties and this would solve it.

I also liked the concept of having 2 abilities from another class. Including old abilities no longer on characters. Give them a 30 minutes timeout before being reused and allow them on any duty. Maybe require learning the job of the ability before using it while doing another job.

[Jekyll]

Having recently obtained the Sword of the South title, I do believe the Duel system requires some additional review and/or enhancements. I can't presume to know better than the developers; however, I would recommend some sort of additional qualifiers to enter the Duels. Examples could be rank, key lost action availability, or potentially even a way to purchase a one-time use "Duel Priority" with clusters.

Separate and apart from Duels, it does appear (anecdotally) that Castrum has seen decreased participation since the Skirmish/CE coin rewards were introduced.

[Novae]

Now that I'm done with leveling and the Guardian Angel title, I have 0 incentive to go back to Bozja. Not even for my relics, which is a shame really. I don't understand why the best way to get a lvl 80 weapon is to farm outdated and boring content in level 50-60 zones. What's next? Grinding CT roulette forever to get the 3rd step of our relic done? And for the 4th step, Sastasha? Leves?
Why being punished over people who don't want to participate in current content? Give me something to do in Bozja, not in Heavensward !