Requiring Castrum Litore completion for the next Bozja area is a bad decision.

[Deceptus]

Next to no one is currently running it and you are going to have many players essentially gated out of the next stage due to this requirement.

There have been numerous ideas on how to make this better but the problem is still having to find at minimum 24 people who want to do the content and right now that's simply not happening.

[Reap00]

Next to no one is currently running it and you are going to have many players essentially gated out of the next stage due to this requirement.

There have been numerous ideas on how to make this better but the problem is still having to find at minimum 24 people who want to do the content and right now that's simply not happening.

As the next content gets closer I guarantee you that place will fill to the brim. Patience.

[RyuDragnier]

People are now going to start running it so they can get to the next step. Because you're going to have to do it to not only continue the story, but also get the next relic weapon step. I won't be surprised if said step requires runs of both Castrums in order to keep them alive.

[Kewitt]

Cheer the community will have to come together to get things done. OMG, what an idea.
Glad I got it done when it was new content. Also, expect a nerf to it once the new zones hits.
There is discord who plan daily runs reach out to one and join up.

[MPK]

Maybe square will realize how this content doesn't work in NA once they see the clear numbers.

Just imagine what will happen once this content is dead next expansion. At least eureka is still clearable even today.

[LaylaTsarra]

Maybe wait for 5.4 to see what the hotfix is in the patch notes which is most likely coming before the doom and gloom? I'd be very surprised not to see anything in the patch notes.

[HyperiusUltima]

Typically they've failed in Bozja's content - but a lot of the onus is on how they've balanced the relic grind. If they didn't put a 100% rate on the memories for Heavensward FATEs(which, honestly, I'd prefer we had moved that 100% to Bozja instead), then we would never have had this issue. Right now, it's bad and they need to fix it big time if they ever want Bozja to be good - and I doubt they ever will because they have a bad natural tendency to bend head over heels for the lower, lower end of the player-base. I don't mind it, but it is extremely lacking with how they did relic here - as for the third and fourth step, I'll be interested to see what we get since that's where we get to customize substats(pray to god it's not F-ing Pyros Stat Grinding).

[ElazulHP]

TBH I feel that this kind of thing should be in the Duty Finder and not time-gated inside an instance for content that is essentially already dead.

[Kaurhz]

Typically they've failed in Bozja's content - but a lot of the onus is on how they've balanced the relic grind. If they didn't put a 100% rate on the memories for Heavensward FATEs(which, honestly, I'd prefer we had moved that 100% to Bozja instead), then we would never have had this issue. Right now, it's bad and they need to fix it big time if they ever want Bozja to be good - and I doubt they ever will because they have a bad natural tendency to bend head over heels for the lower, lower end of the player-base. I don't mind it, but it is extremely lacking with how they did relic here - as for the third and fourth step, I'll be interested to see what we get since that's where we get to customize substats(pray to god it's not F-ing Pyros Stat Grinding).

Honestly, I think the partially wanted Bozja to try and act as independent as possible, as opposed to being largely dependent on the progression of doing relics, probably in fear of people seeing it as being way too similar to Eureka (barring the leveling experience you can get). If they were to make it better to get forgotten memories inside of Bozja then the discussion on the Official Forums would be "Well done Square, you didn't learn your lesson, Bozja is just the exact same as Eureka" - Grinding endless FATEs inside of an instance because people will only ever take the optimal route for getting their items, of course, provided it doesn't coincide with another goal. I don't think it's bad they've tried to make Bozja as independent as possible, but the rewards for doing Castrum itself aren't as good as they should be, and Castrum would have been much better not being locked inside of an instance, but rather on the Duty Finder itself as the above post says.

[Listrella]

well the castrum is part of the story so it makes sense you have to complete it to move onto the next area, that said this is going to be a problem going forward when new players want to try this content after the playerbase has moved on.