Bozja feedback thread

[Soupa]

The one thing I really enjoy and hate is that there is 0 reason for people to do this content if they just want relic meaning that people who don’t want to do it won’t bother coming in but on the flip side that also means alot of my friends won’t be joining me in Bozja. Maybe it’s for the better, I remember a whole lot of complaining in Eureka shout chats. Also good job on literally gating Sections of the map behind resistance rank, never understood why level 1’s would roll up to Pazuzu just to get immediately offed or try to climb pagos mountain just for Holy Cow, only to die halfway up and beg for raises. It means you’re forced to at least understand the content before you can progress to the later areas. Really enjoying the presentation, story, and setting over Eureka. My absolute favorite thing is the addition of useful NPCs, the other blades are wonderful additions to the content, they AOE, they fight, they comment on the state of the battle, have unique moves, they feel alive. Clever FATE flavor text tells the enemy combatants stories As well as field notes and we see some them multiple times as we progress. Critical Engagements are fun and open world mobs have uses.

This is a true Horizontal Progression experience. Can’t wait to finish it and see what Baldession Arsenal 2.0 looks like.

[Derio]

Overall I was very impressed with the Bozja, however the relic grind should be on equal footing for both inside and out. It makes no sense that a lvl 50+ fate in the HW areas give guaranteed memory fragments while in Bozja there is a 1/5 chance of getting one. If anything it should be the other way around. Really miss the Eureka mount speed though, mounts in Bozja feel very slow as if you are walking.

[Shougun]

I whole heartedly disagree, I really don't care that Bozja has other stuff. Eureka did too, and amazingly everything there still gave you progression towards your relic. Bozja is the main content, everything in Bozja is literally based around the relics, their lore, their everything. The zone is there because of the relics. And you're saying the people who refuse to do the main content, should be rewarded for refusing to do it? And the people who do choose to do it should be punished just because it has lock boxes and bozjan clusters that give you more stuff. Lock boxes btw which are also wicked RNG that 9/10 give you absolute garbage. That's your stance? That would be like them giving people an alternative way of getting things for PVP lets say, and making the non pvp way 10x easier. It makes literally 0 sense. I've done Zodiac, I've done Anima, and I did Eureka. And I'm all for giving people a seperate option, but that option shouldn't be superior or better in any way. They made the content for the relic, if you refuse to do it then thats on you. But again, I also don't think the FATE grinding should go back to Atma farming. If you get gold on a FATE outside, you get one. If you get gold on a fate inside you should get one. Thinking thats unreasonable blows my mind.

Not sure how you can't find any sense in the logical argument of the math side of it. If you've got two activities one does two things one does one thing it is natural that there is some sort of difference in them. In every game ever there is an intent to balance activities and their rewards. If you've two levers and they both give the same z reward but one gives the x reward then naturally you'll do the one that gives you both. Now I know you've the added argument on how easy FATEs are and how bad the balance is on the Bozja lever, and I've even agreed the balance is off- but I'm bewildered that you can't fathom a situation where you'd want to make the lever that provides less diversity provides more on what it does actually do.

"But BOZJA IS THE CONTENT". I hear you, but the devs purposefully made an out for players - so you're not arguing with me you're arguing with the devs. Bozja and relic are not bound together like Eureka was. You may not like it, but that is the state of the matter.

Therefore it doesn't make sense to make one lever terrible and another lever superior because in the eyes of SE, at least so I'm arguing, both are very valid levers. Again already agreed Bozja's lever could use some buffs, but there is absolutely logic and reason to that the relic FATE lever is not worse than the Bozja one. Because again, SE determined you don't have to greatly invest into Bozja in order to progress your relic (at least so far). The FATE isn't some charity at this time, it's an entirely valid progression (and Bozja is more like the charity . . . lol, it provides other bonuses but it's way too weak on the relic side for the balance to make sense, once it gets a bit of a buff though I think it would be an entirely fair and balanced relationship).

The issue is your frame of reference is not to what they were doing and so you're having trouble seeing why they did what they did, you're framing that Bozja must be the best way to level relic (in all steps, I'm assuming this is going to flip flop over time) - this is largely based off your personal desires and Eureka. SE clearly doesn't agree at this time. The relationship Eureka and relic had is no longer as strong with Bozja, and that was by intention. Now Relic is Relic which may utalize many different systems for progression, the reward for doing Bozja can be relic but is not limited / exclusive to it. This doesn't mean you're wrong if you don't like what SE intended but that you say there is no logic to attempt to balance the reward and rates out is wrong. It's pretty clear that they entirely and full heartedly intended relic to not need a tight relationship with Bozja grinding, and they've done so, and they've said so- there is absolutely sense in suggestion that the option of just FATEs would have a benefit over the option of lock boxes + FATES. Mathematically in terms of calculating reward, it has pure sense to ensure each option is balanced.

Only getting one reward but faster is fair in comparison to getting two rewards and one of them being exclusive to that content, assuming they buff Bozja's drop rate a bit (as again I'm not defending how low it is, but that there is a superiority to FATEs as it is the one and only thing you really get from doing that.. makes absolute sense). If they disrupted this relationship such that FATEs had a lower or equal efficacy to Bozja meanwhile Bozja also comes with special rewards then it would be obvious that the secondary option was a charity / half hearted imbalanced option because they want to force you to do a specific content. Again your frame of reference is you must be doing Bozja for relic as the best option (including lock boxes makes it the best if they're equal), SE is of the mind that you can absolutely do relic without too much effort in Bozja and have balanced it as such. When you shift your frame to the intention, likely, of their goal the logical is incredibly sound (once you buff Bozja a bit), and if you don't want to shift your frame because you hate it that's fine, there are things I dislike in this game too, but the logic of why there is a difference in this situation exists and is very easy to follow so long as you accept they've no intention to force Bozja or even offer 'half options'.

Lever A gives you 1 apple.
Lever B gives you 1 apple and 2 lemons.

Not balanced. This is what you're saying Bozja has to be otherwise there is "no logic". Even though it's clear SE has come with the intention of not binding relic that tightly to Bozja unlike what they did with Eureka.

Lever A gives you 2 apples.
Lever B gives you 1 apple and 2 lemons.

Depending on value of the lemon this can be a very fair trade. If you've played any board game ever you'll be familiar with this relationship. Now you may prefer the lever be a concession rather than an earnest option (first example is a concession, is not balanced), but the logic is absolutely there to argue for the second example (trade offs).

[OvernightSiren]

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Using your apples metaphor, I get what you're saying, but the current implementation is more like:

Lever 1 (Bozja): 1 Apple (which you need to progress your relic and is the main reason for this piece of gameplay), 1 Lemon (a chance for a mount that you can buy on the market since it's not market prohibited), 1 Orange (level 71-80 exp)

Lever 2 (HW Fates): 50 Apples, 1 Cherry (level 50-80 exp, though not as much as the orange from lever 1)

[Shougun]

They should at least be on par, and if there's going to be a disparity between the two it shouldn't be quite this severe.

I did Bozja for 2-3 hours last night and got 5 memories. I did HW fates today and got the remaining 55 in 2 hours, tops.

The disparity is so large that there's functionally no reason to do Bozja for the relic. And as someone like myself, who already has all the battle jobs at 80, that leaves little else to be gained from Bozja. Sure, there are mounts and minions but that's about it--and those aren't even market prohibited so I could literally buy the Gabriel mount on my server right now for just 3 million gil, and I'm sure it'll only get cheaper as the days progress.

So for me, and a lot of other players who already have all their jobs leveled, why should I even bother with new content when they've made it so much easier to do it by easier means?

I would not mind if it was on par, honestly I was shocked it was even considered a good option lol. However, that it was such a good option made me think that it was entirely intentional decision based on the fact there was value already in doing Bozja. Like if I gave you two choices- do fates in Bozja and two goodies or do FATEs not in Bozja and get only one goody..? Seems kind of silly. They're both FATEs and one clearly would give you way more value.

I agree with you about the disparity, I don't think it should be that large either.

Using your apples metaphor, I get what you're saying, but the current implementation is more like:

Lever 1 (Bozja): 1 Apple (which you need to progress your relic and is the main reason for this piece of gameplay), 1 Lemon (a chance for a mount that you can buy on the market since it's not market prohibited), 1 Orange (level 71-80 exp)

Lever 2 (HW Fates): 50 Apples, 1 Cherry (level 50-80 exp, though not as much as the orange from lever 1)

I agree that there is something off in the balance (I technically say that too in the other post ), I was just trying to explain that there is absolutely a situation where a lever that gives only one thing could and entirely logically give more of that 'one' thing that the lever that gives two things.

If we keep using the lever analogy lol:

Lever Bozja: 8 Apples 1 lemon

Lever HW FATEs: 9 or 10 Apples 0 lemons

I don't think such a situation would be unreasonable, given that HW FATEs are largely useless unless you reaaaaallly want to level your job that way (honestly just caused me shivers though lol, Bozja exp is way better exp than normal FATEs ).

It wouldn't be awful if they were equal, it would mean however unequivocally the only reason to do HW FATEs is because you dislike Bozja and that it wasn't balanced for anything other than a concession for "not liking Bozja". That I don't think it's illogical to have made it not be a concession but fairly balanced (which I think we both agree right now the balance is off, but if HW ends with 8.5 9 apples and Bozja 8 apples I don't think it's entirely illogical so long as you accept that SE isn't making Bozja a strong requirement and would like to give people multiple valid, non-concession, options).

+1 and we definitely agree at least on 98% of what's going on (maybe 100%, I definitely think Bozja needs to be far more closer to HW FATEs I just don't think it 'has' to turn HW FATEs into a concession choice, just make them better balanced levers).

[SieyaM]

I still haven't been able to play Bozja yet, I was going to last night but ended up not having time. It is sounding like people who are able to get into the Critical engagements are having a good time and people who maybe are not quite as lucky and get much fewer or even in some cases none are having trouble seeing any real value in Bozja. Now my personal concern is that I will not be able to rank up in the zone, because I hear that the skirmishes are being completed much too quickly for new players in the instance to get to them and there is no other way of earning rank.

[SamSmoot]

I still haven't been able to play Bozja yet, I was going to last night but ended up not having time. It is sounding like people who are able to get into the Critical engagements are having a good time and people who maybe are not quite as lucky and get much fewer or even in some cases none are having trouble seeing any real value in Bozja. Now my personal concern is that I will not be able to rank up in the zone, because I hear that the skirmishes are being completed much too quickly for new players in the instance to get to them and there is no other way of earning rank.

I can't get into the critical engagements because they're all calling for level 10 and above, and I'm only at 5, so all I do is ride around looking for skirmishes that have other players engaged, and jump into the fight, and for that, I might get a memory token after doing about 10 of them.. I just can't bring myself to log in for this, so I haven't played most of this week.

[Silica-chan]

I can't get into the critical engagements because they're all calling for level 10 and above, and I'm only at 5, so all I do is ride around looking for skirmishes that have other players engaged, and jump into the fight, and for that, I might get a memory token after doing about 10 of them.. I just can't bring myself to log in for this, so I haven't played most of this week.

I haven't joined a single group since I started doing it (currently lv9) and completed quite a few of the CEs. Outside of Red Chocobo most of them are not to bad once you figured out the attack patterns. (just make sure to have a healing action if your not playing a Healer)
You can also just group up with other solo/light party players once you got into the CE, I see plenty of "lfg" in say chat once you enter the arena.

The Lv10+ People are probably just trying to form a party in preparation for the Castrum CE so I wouldn't really worry about those.

[Pepsi_Plunge]

I can't get into the critical engagements because they're all calling for level 10 and above

The only CE with level 10 is Castrum. Just join whatever CE is popping up for you and once you are in ask in say/tell for an invite. Beside Castrum, usually parties for the CEs are formed in the CE itself.