Castrum is fun, but it takes an hour to spawn and we need to farm it 100 times...

[Shinklet]

From what we've found on the Chaos discord.

Castrum spawns 100% of the time when you have a party or parties of rank 10s and it spawns after an hour of the instance being open.

Castrum also rewards a 'maximum' of 26 coins per run. With a minimum of 20 for a full clear.

If you want full haste gear farmed ready for 48 man savage in 5.4, You need 2600+ coins.

You're looking at over 100 runs, (assuming you get unlucky with the 3% drop rate augments in Castrum bosses).

I love a grind, I come from older mmos, but this is a little tedious. It took me 5 hours today, to get 76 medals. Not including the fact I was not selected for an instance.

It would not be so bad if Castrum spawned after 15 minutes. Please Square?

I like this content, I love Eureka, love BA and I'm looking forward to day 1 progging savage when that's out.

But please, make the grind a grind, just not something so achingly tedious please. It genuinely is normal tier difficulty and can be brute forced with rez mages, so I don't see why it's walled behind an hour long timer. Please square.

[Krotoan]

Maybe they're hoping to stretch this one out?

[Theodric]

There's a Chaos Discord, eh? I'd appreciate a link!

[VirusOnline]

Maybe they're hoping to stretch this one out?

SE: Y e s.

[Callinon]

Maybe they're hoping to stretch this one out?

Probably. They probably intend this to be something you're doing for the rest of the expansion. But even if that's the case, seeing a grind like that in front of you is pretty disheartening, especially when most of what gates you off from it is waiting out a clock.

[ElazulHP]

Yeah, i'm just going to pretend that content doesn't exist and ignore it. That is waaaaaay too much effort for the reward.

[kuma_aus]

If you want full haste gear farmed ready for 48 man savage in 5.4, You need 2600+ coins.

You're looking at over 100 runs, (assuming you get unlucky with the 3% drop rate augments in Castrum bosses).

You can skip the coin req and get the upgrade material items from chests after the second boss if you saved enough prisoners. The drop rate isn't that low as well. Quite a few people have upgrade materials already and it's only day 2.

[Infindox]

I like Bozja and I would like to do Castrum but yet again it feels like another piece of content that forces you to be on a third party source just to get a group. Hoping to see it become more pug-able over the weekend, maybe?

[Shinklet]

You can skip the coin req and get the upgrade material items from chests after the second boss if you saved enough prisoners. The drop rate isn't that low as well. Quite a few people have upgrade materials already and it's only day 2.

I know "It's just rng" but I have had 3 runs where less than 3 people got augments, despite getting 6 prisoners.

[ElciaDeiLinus]

The point of these areas is to give hardcore grind loving players something closer to FFXI- if you can get 25ish per hour and only need 2500ish, that's a mere 100 hour grind for a full set of bis.

If this were old school it'd take that long to get a single item.