What would it take for you to like field content it you don’t currently like it?

[Supersnow845]

Now to anyone who has been on the forums for a remote amount of time knows I’m probably field content’s biggest defender but I know that it can be a divisive topic with some people who genuinely don’t like it.

So I want to ask, for the people who don’t like field content or don’t like parts but like other parts what do they need to do to it to make you want to play it?

I ask this because I’ve recently returned to doing a lot of Bozja after mostly doing eureka as a side money hustle for most of EW and I’ve been looking at parts of it that I had mostly been ignoring up till then and I kinda realised that I feel like Bozja fixes most of the problems people quote for field content

1) the lost action system carry’s over (though essences don’t) and is deep and complex with many interesting actions and alot of eurekas crap cut out (haymaker anyone)
2) there is a lot of ways to do things in Bozja that help you progress, reflecting sprites for rare essences, deathing star mobs, using OP logos action combos to Zerg down large mob packs
3) the fact that skirmishes don’t spawn CE’s means that you are encouraged to both do skirmishes as well as engage in the systems in 2 to better spawn CE’s
4) CE’s are full blown alliance raid boss level designs and there is over 30 of them across the two zones unlike eureka’s rather lacklustre NM’s
5) there is 4 large scale alliance style raids within Bozja that are all unique and well designed with unique mechanics (the prisoners in CLL, the paired hallways in dal, twice come ruin in DRN) and three of them are alliance raid level so it doesn’t run into eurekas problem of the only large scale raid being extreme level
6) bozja’s 4 grindiest titles: emblazoned (10/10/10), delubrum delver (5 clears of DRS), gunhildr’s blade (all 6 duels) and the 50 field notes mount are all totally optional ways you can increase the amount of time you spend in the zone without negatively affecting anyone who would rather leave after they clear dalriada and leave the story
7) duels form the best example of solo extreme content in the game

If Bozja didn’t fix what you didn’t like about eureka then what do you still want improved that could realistically implemented (IE like not saying “put field content in the overworld”)

[FenyxRising]

The only reason I did field content is because of:

Duels
DR and DRS
BA
CLL and Dalriada
Relics
Fun action system (especially pre-nerf ShB Blood Rage WAR)

And these are fun enough that I actually got all ShB relics.

If they want to make field content better they need to make the open world contain more than boring zergfest FATEs (or even worse, just mobs), it's really that simple.

Come to think of it modern FF14 combat is so bad and so boring and so braindead the next field content open world should not use FF14 combat, for example Ocean Exploration with ship combat. So the open world is ship combat but then the islands contain large-scale raids using the usual FF14 combat.

[NailBach]

don't get me wrong, i do my fair share of bozja, but the color scheme man, that color scheme. brown in more brown is just aweful. I get that it's a battlefield but i can't spend more than 30 minutes there.

[Supersnow845]

don't get me wrong, i do my fair share of bozja, but the color scheme man, that color scheme. brown in more brown is just aweful. I get that it's a battlefield but i can't spend more than 30 minutes there.

That’s a totally fair criticism, eureka runs laps around Bozja in terms of area design (anemos is still probably the single best designed “area” in the entire game)

If Bozja wasn’t brown brown and brown (except Zadnor zone 2 for some reason) would you like it more

[Avatre]

don't get me wrong, i do my fair share of bozja, but the color scheme man, that color scheme. brown in more brown is just aweful. I get that it's a battlefield but i can't spend more than 30 minutes there.

That’s a totally fair criticism, eureka runs laps around Bozja in terms of area design (anemos is still probably the single best designed “area” in the entire game)

If Bozja wasn’t brown brown and brown (except Zadnor zone 2 for some reason) would you like it more

The reason for the colour scheme is it's a war torn landscape. Devastated by bombardments, explosions, unchecked fires...there wouldn't be much except shades of brown/black/grey.

[Supersnow845]

The reason for the colour scheme is it's a war torn landscape. Devastated by bombardments, explosions, unchecked fires...there wouldn't be much except shades of brown/black/grey.

I don’t disagree it’s thematically appropriate but you have to take into consideration people have to want to be in the zone as well

[OgruMogru]

That’s a totally fair criticism, eureka runs laps around Bozja in terms of area design (anemos is still probably the single best designed “area” in the entire game)

If Bozja wasn’t brown brown and brown (except Zadnor zone 2 for some reason) would you like it more

This was my issue with Bozja too. Contextually and thematically I get it but it's just so drab and uninteresting. I'm also not a fan of Matsuno's writing personally, which I also find a bit joyless [I'm sorry I know that's not a popular opinion and I totally concede that it's a "me" issue not a Matsuno issue] so it was a double whammy for me.

[Saraide]

I would like bozja more if the lost actions were one time unlocks and didnt have to be aquired over and over again.

[Avatre]

I would like bozja more if the lost actions were one time unlocks and didnt have to be aquired over and over again.

This I can agree with. The false-longevity by forcing farming doesn't help it since a lot of people get bored, or don't feel the actions are worth it(which resulted in the hour+ DR runs due to over half the people not using any of them).

[Supersnow845]

This I can agree with. The false-longevity by forcing farming doesn't help it since a lot of people get bored, or don't feel the actions are worth it(which resulted in the hour+ DR runs due to over half the people not using any of them).

Except they provided some of the most powerful essences in supremely basic ways

Like if you can’t figure out a flat 80% damage buff for the entire instance is worth 5 minutes of killing plant mobs outside of the home base what can square really do to incentivise anything at all