Bozja feedback thread

[Berteaux_Braumegain]

Can we buff the drop rate on Field Notes, please? I can live with getting 5 billion Magicked Prisms, but I feel like I'll see the heat death of the universe before I get Dyunbu to drop her notes.

Poor thing gets no love

They're just wandering around Bozja minding their own business :'(

I need to colour my chocobo red now

But the Red Chocobo jumps into a fight between the Resistance and Daguza (I think) specifically to attack you both.

[Tridus]

It's actually unbelievable how bad the duel system is. Taking 1v1 content like that and making it hyper limited is just asking for toxicity, and I know I've already seen my share of it. Just let everyone who earns a chance at it take the chance at it instead of giving players things to be mad at each other about.

This. I'm honestly afraid to even register for one at this point, because having never done one, I'll get my butt handed to me. I need to experience a fight to get it figured out, no amount of guides in the world will get it done by themselves. That means I'm going to fail with almost total certainty.

With all the people in there actively trying to do them who have already progressed some and how few opportunities there are, using one when I know I'm going to fail it the first time just feels like a waste. Not to mention how angry the other people are going to get.

[Phileas]

Im finding it super difficult to rank up when im under rank 8....

I am late to the bozjan party and i was in a capped instance where the lowest rank was 11...

How on earth can you gain mettle without the ability to solo skirmishes.

I gave up after my third fruitless try to rank up. This is very frustrating

[Tridus]

This need a priority fix. I'm on Elemental with a few friends and I constantly see about 25% to 50% of the instance sitting in base, doing absolutely nothing, and waiting for certain CEs to spawn. I also see people constantly join the instances and immediately shout these lines into chat:

"How long until Castrum is up?"
"When was the last time Gabriel/Lyon/Pyro occurred?"
"Is there any cluster farm parties?"

They will immediately leave if it just occurred, they'll sit in base if it's been a while since the occurrence, or (especially in the matter of the last case) a case of both if people refuse to answer or give them an answer they don't like.

This is literally a repeat of Eureka and it causes skirmishes (or FATEs) to have too much HP for the people remaining trying to clear them out. (Not including the people trying to kill certain mobs to spawn either Gabriel/Lyon/Pyro skirmishes or cluster farm.) This "AFK leech" issue from Eureka respawned itself into Bozjan Southern Front and there's no active work arounds for it. SE needs to implement a similar anti-AFK measure into Bozja as they did for the Ishgard Restoration area, since that addressed quite a bit of the hoarding issues in there.

Another issue they need to address is the constant instance hopping people are doing to fish for a fresh spawn of 1v1 or Castrum. Start putting queue penalties on people who are exploiting this feature for whatever reason they're doing it. (I've seen some do it for the achievement, while others do it to troll.) People need to be motivated to do this content or otherwise, people will use this an excuse to leech off of other's progress by constantly switching instances.

Can you blame people for that? Players figure out pretty quickly what works to get things done. Castrum won't respawn once it's been cleared, so if you are trying to farm coins for the armor or just need to do Castrum for the story, staying in a place where it's been done or is going is a complete waste of time. Blocking instance hopping with that design would make this just miserable for people.

Cluster farming is... I mean, from r1 to r11 I got 19 clusters. Around 40 minutes in a cluster farm party got me well over 100. Fragments work a similar way. The core problem here is that the rewards are heavily siloed between activities (Clusters on mob X, fragments on mob Y, memories in HW fates). Once you care about something more than mettle, CEs are not that rewarding. Why would you expect people to spend time doing something that doesn't net them any rewards when they could be doing something else that does?

[Reinha]

How on earth can you gain mettle without the ability to solo skirmishes.

Sometimes it's best to just afk and wait for Critical engagements. Especially when your party members are higher level and doing skirmishes in the last area, or when skirmishes die so fast that you are just running around the map and never reach any of them.

You will also gain mettle if a skirmish fails so you can kill a couple of easy rank I enemies in a monster-type skirmish when it's safe to do so.

Hang in there, it definitely gets easier after rank 8.

Edit. You can also buy some low level fragments from the MB if you haven't gotten many so far. They really help with survival and dps.

[Malakii]

Can you blame people for that? Players figure out pretty quickly what works to get things done. Castrum won't respawn once it's been cleared, so if you are trying to farm coins for the armor or just need to do Castrum for the story, staying in a place where it's been done or is going is a complete waste of time. Blocking instance hopping with that design would make this just miserable for people.

Castrum respawns an hour after is been cleared or fresh instance. It keeps respawning. I have done two castrum's in the same instance.

[Gemina]

Im finding it super difficult to rank up when im under rank 8....

I am late to the bozjan party and i was in a capped instance where the lowest rank was 11...

How on earth can you gain mettle without the ability to solo skirmishes.

I gave up after my third fruitless try to rank up. This is very frustrating

You are correct, it is pointless to try to get anything done in Bozja solo. Getting to rank 8 was difficult already on day 2, and since HW FATES have a 100% drop rate, not many players will remain in the lower section of Bozja to farm those particular memories if they are after the relic specifically. The first 10 ranks are also loaded with cutscenes, along with lower rank can prevent other members in your party from participating in CEs. In short, it sucks to get to rank 8, but once you do then the entire area opens up, and the only other thing you are excluded from at that point is Castrum at rank 10 with the exception of fragment appraisals that are locked behind the higher ranks.

Even after getting to rank 8 and 10, you have to contend with a increasingly larger gap to get promoted to the next rank, and the increased loss to mettle if you are KOd. There are particular encounters you might want to avoid if you are concerned with losing too much mettle as a result of being incapacitated multiple times throughout the instance.

In your position, what I would do is hangout at camp and wait for a CE to pop up, join it and announce your are looking for a party, or start inviting those who are (might be easier to just say you're looking tbh). If there are other people in the group around your rank, they will likely be thinking the same thing you are, and will want to remain with those players to help get things done. The higher ranks will just...leave. Especially if Castrum is about to pop, or a CE is up they can't join because of the lower level players in the group.

In any case if you find yourself with a group of players around your rank, try to stick it out with them. I am actually really surprised players aren't selling their help to get players up in rank. The lower portion of Bozja is actually a great place to farm clusters.

[RicaRuin]

Castrum respawns an hour after is been cleared or fresh instance. It keeps respawning. I have done two castrum's in the same instance.

However, it doesn't seem to respawn when it failed. Joined an instance where Castrum spawned but was abandoned fifteen minutes ago, did some skirmishes and CR to pass time.

For the next 100 minutes, Castrum did not respawn, but there were a lot of 10+.

[KageTokage]

Castrum doesn't spawn once an instance is "dead" and no longer accepting new players, so if you know it's been a hour since the last castrum and/or no new players have joined for that long, it's time to pack up and find a new instance.

[Rae88]

However, it doesn't seem to respawn when it failed. Joined an instance where Castrum spawned but was abandoned fifteen minutes ago, did some skirmishes and CR to pass time.

For the next 100 minutes, Castrum did not respawn, but there were a lot of 10+.

It does

Was in an instance yesterday when Castrum failed due to not enough people entering. Instance started and everyone just left. An hour after it closed Castrum popped again

If your instance is locked though, Castrum will no longer spawn