Castrum is dead. Please do something, Squenix

[Ultimatecalibur]

Good god I hope not. Added bolds/underlines for emphasis. I can barely stand getting to rank 15 as it is. I mean I did Castrum quite a while ago for the first time and I was a much lower rank than my current (13).

There are a fair amount of things they can do to make Ranking up faster.

I would not be surprised if 5.4 or 5.45 added weekly Challenge logs that rewarded Mettle for killing 30/60 4th Legion enemies, 30/60 Wild Life, 10/20 Sprites and 20/40 Ashkin and clearing Castrum 1 and 5 times each week.

The next zone will more than likely unlock at Rank 11, have higher tier rewards for Skirmishes and CEs, Rank 20 will complete the zone's story plus unlock the Raids and Rank 25 will be the new cap.

[SnowVix]

Especially women like myself. I do not get on voice with people I don't know and I know many other women who won't as well due to the harassment we've gotten over the years.

double that for trans & nonbinary folks. i get on voice with randos and it's guaranteed misgendering for however long the content takes

And you shouldn't be able to hold more than 6 required for the quest at one time.

this is a terrible idea and you should feel ashamed for suggesting it

[Infindox]

How do you think Rival Wings still keeps going? Discord Communities. They literally are driving that content. Otherwise, SE would see that entire piece of content become flat dead and nobody would ever do it again. The fact they're trying to distance Discord Communities away from the game and label it as a 3rd Party is concerning. If anything, XIV should see to work with the Discord Community since Discord's practically the best currently when it comes to communication software built for gaming.

I don't want to speak for anyone else but I hate having content that you have to join a server for outside of the game just to get in. Sure, I used it to get a HoH top floor clear when that was new and I've done raids with it. But with things like BA and Castrum it makes it extremely annoying.

[TheMightyMollusk]

The problem with that is that those fragments are only really useful for one-on-one duels (which have a pile of RNG in the way of even getting in) or the Castrum itself. They're not really necessary for just running around killing mobs.

[Endeleon]

SE absolutely needs to add in rewards. I was in a instance where both times Castrum showed up, everyone was like "Not worth it" and all the people who hadnt done it were SOL. It was the same in the next instance. There needs to be more rewards, immediately. Hotfix immediately.

[Deceptus]

SE absolutely needs to add in rewards. I was in a instance where both times Castrum showed up, everyone was like "Not worth it" and all the people who hadnt done it were SOL. It was the same in the next instance. There needs to be more rewards, immediately. Hotfix immediately.

And it's not even hard to do.

1) Add Mettle to boss kills. A LOT of mettle. Castrum should be the best place to level 10-15

2) Add some sort of 'New player" bonus.

3) Add more coins so it's worth it.

[Random0]

• Have clusters and memories drop from kills inside Castrum, same rate as mobs outside in relation to their rankings (Bosses being equivalent to Star rank mobs).
• Completing the raid gives the same High Mettle buff as being near a successful Duel to help people recover any mettle loss.
• Gain additional temporary (30 min) buff to cluster/memory/fragment drop rate outside of Castrum for successfully clearing the raid.
• Increase field notes/augmentation drop rate from personal spoils. Maybe toss in some lockboxes too.
• IVth Legion Glamour items.

[Ahnthistik]

Adding experience to each fight would be a first step to make people come back to this. At least it would be a nice incitive and alternative to farm exp and coins!

[Deceptus]

Just left Bozja.

60 person instance out of a max of 72, so you can't say there weren't people there.

4 people queued up for Castrum on it's first round, 14 for the open invitation.

Everyone left once the instance started. Your system is broken FFXIV developers. Fix it.

[Lufir]

Add 20+ lockboxes for Castrum clear, easy fix.