Bozja feedback thread

[Snowborn]

On the new comment I've been wondering and hoping it's something big and unique, perhaps challenging to introduce, that is coming either to this 5.0 series or in the 6.0 set. Of course Covid didn't help anything, but it does feel like they might be developing something to reveal from their sleeve soon-ish.


Maybe. . . ?

Wishful thinking... Player farms we were promised almost two years ago still don't exist. The "crafting endgame" of Ishgardian restoration is just a collectible grind for hairstyles we would've gotten for free years ago and glams. And Bojza is just a fate waiting room with short, simplified trials using mechanics mostly pulled from of alliance raids that's even simpler than Eureka. This expac has had a great story, but the gameplay has been overpromised and underdelivered.

[ElazulHP]

Really all I want from inside Bozja is to see the story, max out the Mettle, get the minion, the mounts, and the hair. Then I'm out even if the relic isn't finished at which point I'll just grind for the stuff outside Bozja.

[Pepsi_Plunge]

The new content sadly enforce bad behaviour. Instead of going to rezz a guy, they just kick them out of to group so they can go for the engagements.

[Duskane]

I hate whoever thought the female midlander bard with the awful voice that spam lb3 was a good idea.

this oh my god just delete her

[Duskane]

The new content sadly enforce bad behaviour. Instead of going to rezz a guy, they just kick them out of to group so they can go for the engagements.

it doesn't enforce it people are just dicks i died like 5 times (got a bit overconfident with the A ranks) and still got raises with engagements up.

[Granyala]

-1 person in cutscene means no going to engagements for the other members of party, I feel the person doing story is already having to decide what they pick and it shouldn't impact others going for these.

Incorrect. I had engagement duty invites while my party members had the cutscene symbol over their heads.

My main criticism would be the visuals of the place. Dear God that map is ugly and depressing. Mud everywhere.
I know they went for a WW1 vibe but give us a little variety at least.

[Endeleon]

I'm absolutely loving Bozja. The engagements and duels are so cool. I am really excited to get to the dungeon.

[Theodric]

I'd appreciate a way to increase the speed of our mount. We can already do it in regular outdoor zones but it feels sluggish to have a mount in Bozja when the zone is so large, flying is forbidden and our mount speed is set to default.

[Gemina]

I never did 3.0 Diadem, or Eureka, so this was entirely new to me. Considering I got booted out of there twice because I wasn't even paying attention to the timer (once during a cutscene, another during an engagement), I would say that I was immediately hooked. I caught some faint elements of XI in there such as having to be careful not to aggro mobs, especially if engaged with one, which gave an element of danger that I sure some players welcome a great deal.

Another element was getting to rank 5. I'm wandering around in the first portion of the map and it started out ok. Then I quickly wondered where in the hell every one was at. This reminded me big time of starting out in XI and needing to get to a certain level before you can start grouping with people. It's the same in XIV as well, but how it transitioned mirrored XI big time. Once getting rank 5 and accessing the next portion, the ranks were coming faster than I can could do the quests because I quickly realized how much faster you get stuff done in a group, and didn't want to leave to do the quests.

Turns out no one cares, and I saw peeps in the party were doing the quests anyway, so I said screw it and started doing them. These back and forth travels really brought an element of realism to the Bozja Front. Our role there is vastly important, and you really feel like you're depended upon and needed in multiple places at once: You're on way back and see one player struggling to beat their mob, and you hop off your mount to help them out. Four of your party members just entered a FATE, another needs a raise off in nowheresville, you just got recruited for one of the special ones, and you're also needed back at camp, and I haven't even hit rank 10 yet. Effin AWESOME!

I had a great time my first night. Died a lot and learned much in the process. Some deep dungeon elements in there too, which brought a tear to me eye. I loved playing around with all the items.That speed boost one is some serious super mario star level of speed man. I was running into AoEs, not out of them.

Witnessed a 1/1 while in there. Some cheered. Others were saying things like, "I give 'em 7 seconds."
He lasted 8

[Alleo]

I guess its a bit better than Eureka (but that is a low bar for me) but still not something I can see myself doing for long. Thankfully we are able to get the relic weapons outside of it so this makes it 100% better than Eureka. Not having to go to the critical fates is a nice bonus too and using mounts from the start.

I do find the zones to look much better in Eureka, there is nothing in Bozja that really catches my eyes. The idea with gathering the data is quite nice.

All in all its okay but nothing really outstanding. Its still just fates in a new zone but with other names. I guess any sort of open world battle content will be like that...

Might give it a few more tries but overall I think I get the rest of the stuff from HW fates.


Edit:
I really wish we got another Palace of the death instead of this.