Bozja feedback thread

[Nightshade]

As of someone who has yet to enter a single duel despite having qualified more than 30 times at minimum (I really stopped counting by that time), I feel like this is a very frustrating part of the system. There is many factors that really hurt it. I'm going to list them before talking about what could be done to rectify the issue.

1. Each duel requires a specific CE to spawn. Said CE requires a specific Skirmish to be completed. Those 3 Skirmishes happen roughly once every hour (just like Castrum). For each CE, only a single person will be allowed to take on the duel. This means everyone else has to wait another hour for another chance at a specific duel.
2. Continuing from point 1, being eligible for the duel is a challenge to begin with. Some might fluke their way in (I did once or twice in the early days) the CE fight but most of the time, you need a near perfect comprehension of the CE's "disqualifying attacks" to be able to work around and meet the requirements. It's already challenging (although not hard once you get it) as it is, but then you add in the human factor in which can get ugly (Healers abusing Rescue yet again, people holding off heals until people are no longer qualified, prioritizing dodging over killing the target, etc.).
Those do not happen all the time, but they do happen. Why people go to that extent? Because there can only be one and the lower the competition, the higher your chances of getting in. You don't get More Qualified by doing better.
3. You're qualified to try. You still have the worst aspect to deal with: the lottery pick. Either RNG is on your side or all your efforts have been flushed down. it doesn't matter what the odds are. 1 out of 12? 1 out of 4? Unless you're the ONLY one who qualified, there is a chance that you will STILL be left behind to watch.
4. Finally, this final factor, in itself, shouldn't be much of a big deal. However, BECAUSE it exists, the first 3 factors become even more frustrating. I'm talking about the unability to win the duels unless you come prepared and aware of each fight. Biggest exammple is every single duel, with small exceptions if you happen to be some specific tanks, requires Lost Manawall. If you're not a PLD and you do not have Manawall, you are doomed at arrival on all 3 duels. Here's the problem: there are people who wins the duel lottery and has NO idea what they have to do for the fight. They don't come prepared. They are doomed to lose. Those who didn't get picked and were prepared to fight for real gets to watch outside to see the last hour wasted in 30 seconds before the battle starts. I'm all for people to be allowed to fight content blind, but when doing so actually hurts other players, not because you "screwed up" their run but because they are not even allowed to do their run because you got picked instead. So when someone do get inside and they are already a lost cause, it is just soul crushing.

Solutions in the next post.

[Vickii]

This is a sad reality for a lot of content in FFXIV. If you are not around at release chances are you either can't experience it or will be way harder to find parties for it.

I don’t actually think the game is too bad for this really. The sync system and the roulettes allow you to do most content. The only things I’ve had trouble with retroactively are:

- Coils (you can solo/get a small group in PF, but not ideal way to experience it)
- Eureka (not enough people doing it to get the experience though you can grind it)
- Castrum (same)
- Current expansion extreme trials/savage raids that are not the current one (if there are any PF’s they are all requiring you to have completed the duty as they just want to farm it. No one wants to progress Titania extreme for example)
- PVP that is not daily battlefront
- The BLU mage raiding stuff

But other than that you can pretty much Unsync PF any content in the game.

[technole]

The relic will tie into the next Bozja installment, but they should have done the last one with this instance because honestly who in the heck wants to snooze through old HW FATEs and dungeons, versus bozja Skirmishes. I was able to get a few weapons solely because of Bozja, and you didn't even have to do any dungeons for the last step because those things dropped with Skirmishes too. You built Castrum priority with CEs an Skirmishes, which in-turn drop the fragments. It was a win-win, and they should have exclusively tied it to that. Not content that is 4 years old, they gotta stop doing that.

Every MMO has a shelf life on content, just that Bozja dropped at the opportune time where there was no other high-end, or savage end-game content. So everyone was in Bozja and Castrum. Now everyone is doing emerald and savage, because that's current content.

Some life will be back when they add the next Bozja levels, raid, and savage mode, which is going to be delicious.

[Xiomara]

It's just so odd that we were incentivized to not do Bozja if we wanted our relic. Just do 60 HW fates and 5 HW dungeons and boom, 1x relic. The whole system should be the opposite. A Skirmish should have been a guaranteed memory, a CE should be two memories and then Castrum should have been 5 of the each type, except the bitter memories, which it should drop 2. Adjust the bitter memory stage so it takes 8 memories instead of 5, and then it's 4 Castrum runs = 1 Relic. This would have encouraged participation far more.

Then once 6.0 rolls around, you patch in the ability to gain memories via HW fates as Bozja will naturally see a lower participation rate. Makes relic hunters happy as it's easier for them to get the relics in later expansions as well.